Card Swap 11

Hi everyone.  Well January is over and what a long month it has been.  "Junk Free January" is finally over and I am so proud that I didn't weaken once.  Both Mark and Emily were successful too.  For me, it was more about challenging myself and proving that I actually do have some will-power.  The funny thing is, that now I can actually have some chocolate today, I don't really fancy it - how ironic!

 

Today I am sharing the card I made for Alison, for the January card swap.  I had a lovely email from her, so I know that it went down well.

 

The brief was to make a fancy-fold card.  This isn't really my forte, so I went back to a tried and tested one for me - a concertina card.

 

I cut the card from Basic Black cardstock and used my trusty Simply Scored.  The papers are the very beautiful Sweet Sorbet DSP from the Sale-a-bration promotion.  The flowers are from the new Spring/Summer catalogue and are called Petite Petals.  They are so sweet and there is a matching punch too.

 

To be honest, I'm finding it a bit hard to get my crafting mojo back on track at the moment.  January has been rather a stressful month.  I'm also doing a course for work which runs for 10 weeks and involves weekly homework (information that wasn't forthcoming when I agreed to do it!).  I was supposed to be making cards today, but that hasn't happened either. Oh well, there's always tomorrow!

I hope you are having a good weekend.  Thanks for dropping by.

Take care

Michelle x

Sweet Sorbet 2

Morning!  After a busy start to the day, I thought I would sit down with a cup of coffee and share another thank you card made with the Sweet Sorbet DSP.

 

This time I have used Crisp Cantaloupe as the base card, and teamed it with the dotty paper from the set.  I added a strip of white card with the sentiment stamped on it, and I stamped the petals from another Sale-a-bration set - Petal Parade - onto Crisp Cantaloupe and cut round it.  This was mounted on 3D foam.  A couple of gems completed the card.  Nice and simple :)

 

 

I have to say, I do love these papers.  They are really pretty and fresh. Perfect for post-Christmas cards.

 

Well, that's me for today.  Got to go and make the most of some precious "me" time.

 

Have a good day and take care.

 

Michelle x

Sweet Sorbet 1

 

Well, it's Sunday evening and the holidays are nearly over.  Although both my children go back tomorrow, I still have one more day.  That is not to say it will be a calm lazy day.  Oh no, well certainly not in the morning.  I will still be getting up at 6am to get Emily out of the house by 7.30am (she is starting a new work placement and has to be there earlier than her previous place), and then I'll be whizzing back, traffic permitting, to pick Edward up and drop him at school with his saxophone (couldn't learn a small instrument could he?!).  And no doubt my lovely Chloe will turn her big brown eyes towards the front door, and sigh meaningfully!

 

Hopefully after all that, I may find a little crafting time.  Today, I've done something I'm quite proud off.  Now don't laugh - I've been making Christmas crackers with the new SU envelope punch board!  I really wanted to make some for Christmas presents for my fellow Scrapbaggers, but time ran away with me.  So I decided to get ahead of the game for Christmas 2014.  They are not ready to share, I've only made the basic cracker and covered them with paper, and I'm probably going to leave embellishing them for another time, but the main work is done.  Maybe I'll pop a photo of them on here in the next few days, we'll see.

 

However I do want to share a card with you tonight.  I have used the beautiful Sweet Sorbet DSP from the new SU Sale-a-bration promotion, to create a thank you card.  I love this floral paper, it's definitely one of my favourites from the pack.  I kept the colour scheme to Pool Party, Basic Black and Whisper White.  The sentiment is from Four You, and I just added some grosgrain ribbon and a couple of gems.

 

I hope you like the card.  It was very quick to make and looks quite pretty.

How's it going with any resolutions you have made?  I have not made any as such, although Mark, Emily and I are doing something Emily is calling Junk-Free January!  We have given up puddings, chocolate, fizzy drinks, biscuits, cakes, takeaways etc and we are allowed alcohol only at weekends!  It's very hard :(  The trouble is, we have so much chocolate knocking around.  As some of you know, I work in a school, and the children and parents are very generous.  Therefore I have had to put a huge plastic storage box of lovely goodies away at the back of my under stairs cupboard so that we will not be tempted - I feel like it's calling to me!!  However, I WILL RESIST.

Thanks for dropping by, and as always your comments mean so much to me.  Good luck with your resolutions - I'll keep you posted about JFJ!

Take care

Michelle x