Hellooo! Is there anybody there???

 If there isn't I'll just talk to myself...it's so long since I posted that I've probably forgotten how! It's been a difficult year but there's reason to think that Life is settling down now - not that it has changed very much, but I'm learning to live with the current state of affairs.

Very few cards have been produced in the past few months but I'm posting them all in one go and hope it will be a fresh start from now on. This was made for my daughter Claire's birthday in July, another of the beaded initials by Emmy which I love stitching. The 'Celebrate' at the bottom is  by Stampin' Up!.

I've been planning to make a card like this ever since I bought the dies for the window and cat about a year ago, but this is the first time I've done it - sadly, it's a Get Well card for our 100 year old friend Mary, who had a fall last week and is in hospital nursing a cracked rib and cracked hip. The embossing folder is 'Tied together' by Couture Creations, and I first cut the window aperture  in a piece of cream pearlised card before embossing. Then I cut the window again in white, fitted it into the hole and held it in place with sticky tape. A piece of acetate. made the 'glass' and I mounted the whole on a darker cream card with foam tape so it gave depth to the garden picture which was cut from a magazine. I wished after it was completed that I'd cut the cat from black velvet paper, but that will be something for next time....

My sister's birthday is also in July and I used my brand new Anna Griffin embossing folder 'Rosa' for the background. The stamp is by Woodware, coloured with Promarkers, and the birthday greeting by JustRite. The green strip was an afterthought which fortunately slipped under the circle without too much trouble and I think it finished it off very well.

I do have another card but need to invert the photo so will save it for another post - it's to be used as an Awful Warning rather than a Good Example so best dealt with separately I think!