Just a quick note

I am currently without a computer - it finally died. Which means I'm restricted to work time access only. Especially as my broadband contract ends on Saturday and there is going to be a few days where I have no internet access at all. I'm not sure I'll cope.

But if I do, I'll be back in a week or two, with some catch up posts and probably some more cross stitch cards LOL

Cartoon flowers

This is one of my favourite patterns. Very simple, and a chance to use more cartoony colours for my flowers. I can never get my photos to line up next to each other, so unfortunately you've got all three examples on top of each. Sorry about that, let me know if you know how to line em up!

P.S. Two days til my birthday :-)

Christmas Puds

Blimey, November already!?! Where did the year go? Soon be Christmas. No really, it will be. But it's my birthday first (in 4 days, but hey who's counting??), I'm really quite excited because it's going to be my 30th and Steve has quite a present planned for me. I'll fill you in after the event.

Anyway, Christmas card time again. I've actually done about 6 of these little puds but I don't want to bore you with them all. So I just chose a couple. The first is just a simple little pud in an oval aperture inked with brown ink. The second is on slightly bigger aida, but the best bit about the aida is that it has glittery thread weaved through it. I'm down to my last couple of bits of it, and it wasn't cheap, but it's nearly done with *sob*

Seahorse

Happy Halloween people! My husband is a huge grinch when it comes to halloween, so we usually end up going out after work for a drink and then, by the time we get home, all the trick or treaters are tucked up in bed. But this year, with it being a Saturday, he doesn't have that option. So we are going over the road to join in with their festivities when they get back from trick or treating with their 7 year old. Much more fun!

Anyway, back to the crafting. This was a pretty simple pattern, but this aperture is foil lined in blue (if you can tell from the scan) so I wanted to stitch something in blue. So here you go

RSVP

I needed an RSVP card at short notice recently, and realised I just don't have any. So whilst I made oneI decided to make a couple more for the next mad rush

Bizzie Lizzies

I'm back to bore you with more cross stitch cards. I've not had much time to craft recently, everything else just seems to have taken over and I haven't had much time to craft at all. When I have been able to grab 10 minutes or so to sit in my craft room, I've not really had chance to do much more than stick a couple of cross stitch pictures in to apertures, or scan them. So you can see the result over the next couple of weeks whilst I work on doing something that isn't cross stitch (well hopefully anyway!)

This is a bizzie lizzie (as I like to call them) pattern. I've also done another marigold pattern but you don't need repetition do you?

Juggling ted

I love this pic, very colourful and will probably be great for a young boy. I've only done one of this pattern, but I might do another at a later date. And I might outline it next time, maybe.

Quack! Quack!

Check this cute little duck out!

I did two of this pattern, but one has already gone off to the SIL in Malaysia cause she loves ducks.

Plonk card

Right, where was I? Well Cornwall actually. I spent a week in some very remote cottages in North Cornwall with no computers and very little phone reception. Bliss Unfortunately, when I got back to work, my boss and one of my team had worked their notice and my 'team' has dwindled to three. So I'm very busy. But hey ho - the days go quickly LOL

I did a lot of reading, a lot of cooking and eating, and also got steve's scarf finished and did a LOAD of cross stitching. So here is one example of what I did, I actually made three of this pattern - but you don't need to see all three do you? They all look the same apart from one being in a gold aperture card.

I can think of quite a few people to send this to, which is why I stitched so many ;-)

Eek!

I've run out of cards to show, I'm going to have to make some!! I'll be back at the weekend hopefully :-)

Bride and groom wedding card

My next door neighbours got married in New York on 09/09/09. Unfortunately, we weren't able to join them for the wedding, but they are having an American themed wedding party in Ashford tonight. This is there card, except I photographed it before I put the Best Wishes message at the bottom of the stripey paper - sorry about that! The hearts are actually cut outs, with silver mirri card behind them, not the big black holes that the scan makes them look like!!

Red Cherries

A nice simple, easy to do picture here. Not much else to say, it's waiting for it's occasion before the message is added. I think maybe the aperture is too big for the picture, but I don't have too many card blanks left to choose from now :-0

Bright Star

Another bright cheerful card. I forgot to ink the aperture so it will have to be peel offs around this one.

Happy Santa

Eeek! A Christmas card, look away now!! At least I remembered to ink the aperture of this one BEFORE I put the picture in.
I've stitched a couple more Christmas cards recently, I have to take my lenses out a couple of days each month to give my eyes a rest. I need to get them into aperture cards and scanned in. Watch this space.

Colourful flower

Another scraps/ribbon/embellishment combo. I'm going to put a tag on this one I think and print whatever message it requires when the time comes.

Red Heart Square

Another cross stitch card thrown in to the mix. I liked doing this pattern. Easy to do without looking at the pattern IYSWIM. I've bordered the aperture with gold glitter pen, but I don't think it picks up too well on the scan.

Just waiting for a gold peel off now to finish it off/spoil it completely*

*delete according to preference

Pink Wedding Cake

Today is my 5th wedding anniversary. I can't believe the time has gone so quickly, it still feels like yesterday. I'll blog my anniversary card another day as I need to photograph it etc, but for now I'll show you a wedding themed card instead.

This was a good use of a pink wedding bells card blank methinks - the pink design around the outside doesn't pick up too well on the scan unfortunately. I have some other colours of this same card blank so I'm not sure if I will do other cake colours, or just sell the leftover card blanks on eBay

Vertical flowers

I made these two cards based on the bottom sketch here. I liked them at first, but now I'm not too sure if I do or not. I DO like the ribbons though, can't wait to get back to Malaysia for some more

New Home Heart

I'm still putting the cross stitch pics in apertures, but I'll space them out a bit on blogger - wouldn't want to bore you now would I??

Now I thinking I can have a clever play on the aperture here and say 'Hope you love your new home' inside the card. In reality, I stitched it on aida too small to go in a bigger aperture. You'd think I would have learnt by now wouldn't you?? Oh well, I think it works if you don't know LOL

Take a moment to admire this beautiful sight

Loooooook, I organised my ribbonssssss.

After reading the Organised and Inspired Scrapbooker, I realised I was a colour inspired scrapbooker. I then proceeded to organise all my ribbons/embellishments/buttons etc into big cookie jars, one for each colour. But there was so much ribbon in each one that I could never get to anything else. So I used this idea from Di Hickman and made some ribbon holders from some acetate packaging and set to this weekend.

It's so beautiful!

Incidentally, based on the used prices of the Organised and Inspired Scrapbooker book that I have new and pristine sitting on my bookshelf - am I sitting on a small fortune there!?!