WOO HOO for me....

OH yes !! I have *****FINISHED***** my christmas cards....phew !! pressure off.
I have made 100 cards this year.....I feel better for having done them in batches of 10
I felt it was not such a task.....
I chose a design made it, if I liked it then I made another 9 easy peasy lemon squeezy.....

I made 3 different ones for my bestest stamping buddies, so I cant show those, I also made a little giftie for each of them which is really really cute. I will show those closer to christmas.....did you know its only 56 sleeps till santa ?????????

We havent done much stamping or making cards together this year as each of us for one reason or another had other things going on in our lives so hopefully next year we will be able to get together more and do what we love best...

STAMPING AND CHATTING AND STAMPING SOME MORE !!!

Bye for now
Hugs
Janette x

Another few cards for halloween.

A few more cards made.....its a shame we dont make more of halloween in this country as I would have liked to have made a few more so that I could say I used ALL my halloween stamps but I did use ALL the sets I have LOL......

Bye for now

Janette x

More Halloweenie cards

Hi All,

Tese are some of the halloween cards I promised from the last post but I have been sorting out my PC....removing old one and sorting the laptop for the desk...took longer than I thought LOL....

I had fun making these this year and was determined to make them using my stock that I have accumulated...you know how it is !!

Bye for now

Janette x

Spooky

These are 2 cards that I made for a halloween swap on a group I belong to.

I have some more to upload tomorrow, I made 14 this year and used a selection of all the halloween

stamps and accessories that I have.

I was determined to make use of my halloween stash as I am fed up of having all this stuff and just not using it for one reason or another....

Hugs

Janette x

Another Autumn card

This is the other card made for the swap......

These colours are not my faves, but I actually quite enjoyed the making of them.

Its good to step outside your comfort zone every now and then isnt it ??????

Bye for now

Janette

Friend card

This card was made for an Autumn Colours swap on a Yahoo group that I belong to.

Its very vanilla, choc chip and more mustard.

The DP I think was called Apple Cider.

I still need to do some organising of my files on the laptop as its arranged differently to my PC.....took me a while to find where this card was LOL !!

Bye for now

Janette x

Missing

Hi Everyone,

I know I have been missing for a LONGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG while......

I had probs with PC, couldnt get onto blogger and when I could I couldnt post, then I was poorly for a few weeks.
Thought the PC was sorted loaded lots of cards to show, was going to start a new blog, then the PC wouldnt open up ANYTHING......managed to transfer lots onto flash stick pics and documents etc etc....

Got a new laptop now, so have been busy sorting that out and trasferring all the info...luckily I think I have everything but what a slow process as I could only have the old PC on for about 5-10 mins before it started making noises and lots of pop-ups etc etc....no evidence of any bugs that we could detect with the programmes we ran......

Anyhow, back in PC land :)
Will post a card once I can find it on this laptop, its vista premium which is a little different to windows 98 and XP

Hey ho
Janette

One stamp set, one colour choice 3 cards

I decided to use Blue Bayou CS with whisper white CS and some blue bayou print paper.

I chose garden Silhouette stamp set and wanted to make 3 cards using these.

This is what I made.....

what do you think ??

Bye for now

Janette

Tag xmas card

This one didnt turn out as intended, I wanted to make 3 layers of tag effect but my punches were not big enough and I only had 1 large sizzix scallop tag, I thought I had a set of 3...so there you go.I used the SU oval punch to fold over the top and attached a brad.I used a the dot stamp from polka dots set for the top of this card.

I promise to *try* and use a different set over the weekend LOL....

Bye for now

Janette

Christmas tree again....

Sorry still used this christmas tree stamp...I do like it... :)

This time I used rose red, summer sun and garden green.Rose red DP and happy thoughts set for the inside of the scallop circle.

I inked the stamp with the same coloured markers. This card will be for my friend who likes *other* colours for christmas !!

I used the SU crosshatch stamp for the top part of the card. I like using these background stamps as they just give a little *bit* of something to an otherwise plain card.

Bye for now

Janette

More Christmas Cards.....

Are you bored yet ??? of all these christmas cards....another 10 done and marked off the list....these cards use SU sidekick sayings stamp.

I used real Red, Old Olive,River Rock and very Vanilla CS and dashing DP.

Hmmm what set shall I use next ???

Bye for now

Janette

Dear Friend card

I thought I would make a quick card to see how easy it was to use the nestie dies as I had stored them.....easy peasy card and easy to get dies !!

I made holes along the bottom intending to have 3 black brads in both places but I punched them too close together and 3 just didnt fit LOL...so I left the middle one blank as I couldnt think of anything else to do with it ??????

anyone have any ideas ????

Bye for now

Janette

My nestability storage

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to sort out my nestability dies into some sort of order.I did have them in a CD thin box but everytime I opened it they fell out LOL.

I used a piece of MDF 3mm so that it would slide down by my SU stamp storage unit.I attached 4 strips of self adhesive magnetic tape and voila all done and SO much better. I just pull out the MDF when I want to use s die and off we go.Hopefully I can now use them a lot more :)

Bye for now

Janette

Another christmas card stack

Hi Everyone,

Well another 10 cards off the christmas list.

I used real red, old olive and choc chip...not your usual christmas colours but I quite like it :)

I used the large crosshatch background stamp in real red to give some texture to the main card.

I did a stay put knot in choc chip ( I am loving these ) then a column of old olive layered up with choc chip then the scallop toppers I had made earlier this month...I was going to use 3 but it was a bit much so I did 2 and then stamped very merry words in choc chip on old olive and punched out with an oval punch and voila....I made 10 so am getting through my christmas cards quite nicely.......

Bye for now

Janette x

Friends BD card

This card also uses black !! old olive and ruby red.Another CB folder...swiss dots...live the dream SU set, scallop border punch black brads and black and white polka dot ribbon.

I popped up the flower heads on 3D foam pads.

These colours are perfect for my friend, they are not my favourite but I do have to say that I do like the card :)

Bye for now

Janette

Another Male BD card

This one is black, turq and whisper white.

I used the CB birthday folder and Just B stamp set.

I love the clean lines of this card

Bye for now

Janette

Masculine birthday card

Hi Everyone,

I made this card yesterday as I needed a male BD card.

The colours I used were black, choc chip and river rock.

The rushes were a stamp I have never used and the birthday words are SU sincere salutations.

The jumbo eyelets are from SU and I used the mosaic cuttlebug folder.

Bye for now

Janette

Jenny's Saturday Sketch.

This is the sketch that Jenny posted yesterday...I thought I would have a play, the following 2 posts are what I made using this layout.

Have fun

Bye for now

Janette x

Another take on the sketch

This one uses Night of Navy and Bashful Blue

My take on Saturday Sketch

Jenny posted a sketch yesterday on her blog so I thought I would have a play.

I used Choc Chip and tempting turquoise.

Bye for now

Janette