You wait for ages then 3 come at once...

Well my good intentions to blog more often were set at naught by a combination of events, triggered by the death of my laptop! A new laptop was the first step on the road to recovery, but a forced change from Windows XP to Windows 7 and the loss of most of my files from 2011 onwards has left me with another steep learning curve to conquer, coupled with new problems discovered this evening related to uploading photos from camera to computer. I hope I have managed to save the pics I took of 3 cards I made this month so here goes...

 This was for our exDDIL,  a 3D decoupage motif on a die cut background by Marianne Dies.

 Back to the stitched and beaded initials by Emilie's Designs that I did such a lot last year. The colours have not reproduced well - they were turquoise, coffee and apricot.The letter has got a little lost: it's T for Teresa.

Our neighbour's elder girl was 8 last week: I don't make many cards for children and was stuck for something suitable until I remembered the Art Impressions rubber stamps I bought years ago called Fronts 'n' Backs. A pair of stamps, one being the full length back view and the other the front view of just head and shoulders, coloured and cut out then stuck together and mounted carefully to look over the fence. The top picture  shows the card closed and the lower one, open.  I chalked round the words to add a bit of interest; if I had had more time I could have added some stamped flowers or a cat to the garden. I really enjoyed fiddling with these and plan to use the other stamps I have of children dressed for snow to make a few Christmas cards,


Next time I hope I will have the cards edited properly with less background and definitely the right way up!