I seem to be a bit broken!

Normally I love Christmas....I'm usually annoying Joe at the beginning of Christmas asking when we're putting the tree up. I love everything about Christmas - the cheesy music, the tree, all the goodies you can eat, decorating the house and spending time with friends and family. But this year is different....I'm just not feeling it! This really isn't normal for me!

As usual I've been busy making Christmas cards for other people to send, so I decided to spend this morning making all my cards. I've got Christmas music on, there is a huge Christmas tree next to me and I'm surrounded by cards for my work colleagues, friends and family...but still the Christmas spirit seems to be missing!

I've even decided to mass produce my Christmas card this year...something I don't usually like doing! This was me earlier this morning mid-production.....

I've gone with a snowflake theme for my cards this year. My poor colleagues have listened to me moan about the cold and the snow so much recently that I thought a few snowflakes might be funny! I've hand stamped various snowflake images onto white cards using a lovely blue ink. I've also stamped "Merry Christmas" in the corner. Once dry, I then embellished my snowflakes using sparkly stick on jewels and gems from my stash. I've used silvers and blues to add a little sparkle.

Here is the finished card:

This card is for several challenges this week:

Allsorts Challenge - Last minute Christmas

Paper Cutz Challenge - snowflakes or snowmen

ABC Challenge - J is for jewels and gems

I'm about half way adding the gems and sparkle to these cards, I'm hoping by the time I've finished I might be feeling a bit more festive.

Thanks for stopping by today and thank you for all your lovely comments, I really enjoy reading them.

Wedgie xxx

A Blue Birthday!

Evening All....yes, me again...two posts in one day! There's no stopping me!

I got home from work this evening and decided I wanted to do some more challenges....so here I am! My lovely boyfriend has been sick this weekend...I put it down to man flu and he is feeling much better today....but now my throat is starting to feel a bit sore! I really hope I haven't caught man flu...there's nothing worse apparently! Hopefully a nice early night will make me feel better!

So, here is this evenings card:

My camera hasn't done this card any justice really, on here its looking a bit bland, but its quite pretty in real life...honest! So, this card is for three different challenges:

Papertake Weekly - it's recipe time - 3,2,1

ABC Challenge Blog - B is for blue

Paper Cutz Challenge - Anything goes!

Paper Cutz is a new blog that I've discovered, so I thought I'd join in the fun! My recipe for Papertake is three buttons, 2 shiny sticky gems and 1 brad. Papertake wanted our project to be at least 80% blue...I have used a little green and yellow, but apart from that its blue all the way! All three blogs have some gorgeous DT examples for their challenges - take a peek!

Right, I'm heading off now...no more posts today I promise!

Thanks for stopping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Cupcakes!

Morning All....what a lovely Saturday this is! I hope we keep the sunshine for a while!

Well, I'm still at home today, going to see Joe a bit later today and then I'll be back again tomorrow...so lots of time for crafting! Think I might pay a visit to Hobbycraft later today as I haven't been in ages. My knee has improved so much recently, its so nice to be able to drive again! Woo hoo!

This morning I got up, showered and made this cute card:

I'm entering this in several challenges:

Cute Card Thursday - Someone Special!

Papertake Weekly - Shiny, Sparkly, Special!

ABC Challenge - U is for unused.....I've had this stamped image hanging around for ages!

Yes, its another easel card...you're probably bored of looking at them on my blog now! I think I'm going to do a bit of seraching for some other folds I can use. I've combined all my favourite things on this card...its pink and purple, its sparkles with glitter and gems, I got to use some of my stamps and of course its got cupcakes on it! Hee, hee!

I hope you're having a lovely weekend so far, thanks for popping by today and I'll see you soon!

Wedgie xxx

One piece of paper....

....afternoon all...what lovely weather...for ducks! Hope you're keeping warm wherever you are in the world! I'm sat here in my PJs with a mug of steaming hot tea! I HATE the cold!!

I've decided to carry on with the keeping it simple theme for today's card...it's another card challenge entry....this one is for the ABC Challenge Blog. They are now up to the letter O...and this week's challenge is "O is for...one piece of paper". The DT have come up with some lovely designs this week, take a peek here.

My entry is a card that I've been requested to make for a friend - she wanted a green "Thank Ewe" card, so here goes:

I've used a gorgeous green and whte spotty backing paper that I've recently bought as the basis for my card, onto which I've added two different ribbons and three gorgeous buttons. Ok, I know I said I was keeping it simple....but at least I've only used one piece of paper!

The little sheep is from a Crafters Companions decoupage sheet and I love him, I use this image quite a lot. He comes with a little cow friend, a piggie and some ducks!

The final touch was the red glitter glue....I tried to resist honest, but I couldn't help it! I felt that the red picked out the spots on the ribbon and gave a nice finish!

I seem to have used rather a lot of green recently......still it makes a nice change to all that girlie pink and purple!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Wedgie xxx

N is for......

....new stash! Evening all...hope you've all had a lovely Wednesday. My day has been interesting, I've experienced so many moans today from work colleagues...I'm glad to be back at home!

Anyway, I've been experiementing with the word art function in Microsoft word and as a result I have several sentiments to use on my cards that look out of the ordinary and give a slightly different dimension to my cards. It was so simple to do, but as you'll see from these cards its very effective.

To achieve this you need to open word and select the word art option. You then write the sentiment that you require, using the arc shape. Make sure you also choose the font that you want to use. The sentiment will then appear as an arc on the page, but if you double click on the arc you open up a new selection of tools which allow you to mulipulate the words even more. I have changed the angles of my arcs, and changed the colours I used. You need to play about with this function a little bit and I did end up with an upside down sentiment more than once, but I think the effort was worth it!

As a result of my playing and printing I now have a lovely new stash of sentiments to add to my cards! This fits in well with a new challenge that I've found over on a lovely blog called ABC Challenge. They run challenges on a fortnightly basis, challenging crafters to create a card or project based on a theme or technique using the letters of the alphabet in turn. This week its "N is for...new stash!"          The DT have come up with some adorable cards for this challenge, take a peek here.

I think I'll enter the Thinking of You card for this challenge, as not only have I used my new sentiment, the lovely blue ribbon and the backing paper are also new (yes, I've been shopping!!).

Anyway, I'm off to Brownies very shortly....we're planting cress seeds this week...then I'm candle making with the Guides - no rest for the wicked!

Thanks for stopping by,

Wedgie xxx