Three cards

The past three weeks have been very busy and my crafting has been done in odd, snatched moments. I've also done a lot of sorting/tidying in my craft room, having bought a storage unit which fits on top of my desk and now holds my card stock sorted by colour on individual shelves. I bought a unit for just that purpose a year ago but found that because it was it low down in poor light I couldn't see the card; the advantage of the 'Best Craft Storage' system is that all fittings are interchangeable, so having moved the paper shelves to above eye level, and put drawers in the floor unit, it all works perfectly. I've even had enough clear space on my desk top to finish off the three cards shown here!

There isn't much to say about the first two -: more of Emy's lovely beaded alphabet, the first being mounted with the addition of a Martha Stewart 'Punch Around the Page' punch. The turquoise base and the brown mat are both in pearlised card. K is for Karen, our dear ex-DIL, who loves purple.....

This was supposed to be the same as the card shown in my previous post - I knew I had another blue card blank and when I started to make it one evening I was a little surprised that the electric light drained the colour out so much. It was only next day that I found I had mistakenly been working on a dull grey blank instead! Rather than scrap it I covered the snowflake with a previously made poinsettia to brighten it up and added a lot more silver flecks plus the red greeting, I was pleased with the final effect and will no doubt be getting rid of several more subdued blanks in similar fashion.

I have added another post back dated to 31 December to show cards made but not scanned previously. I'm missing about 10 more but some are very similar to others I made last year, and several I cannot borrow back for various reasons so will have to remain unseen. No doubt I shall repeat them at some later date!