Oriental

The word spread that there were some oriental embossing folders being released at CHA for the Cuttlebug machine and having seen them on a site I realised I needed them! but rather than wait for them to arrive in the UK I ordered an 'Asian Bundle',as they are called from the US via E bay, they arrived this week and are really lovely so I'm just starting to play. Viv had ordered them just before me and hers haven't arrived as yet so she is a slightly unhappy bunny. This card is my first made using a couple of the folders.

121 ATC swaps

Two lovely ATCs to show you today, a beautiful embroidered one from Angelique in France and an embellished and embroidered one from Muriel in Scotland - these will look good in my fabric atc collection.

So Embarrased or 'you have to laugh (I think!)'

Yes I know you have seen this birthday card before but the story is - When I opened a large brown envelope this morning and found this card my mind went - well I don't know as I had sent the card early in january to my friend's husband and here it was back again,( he didn't like it, I thought, because it's black ) there was a card with it thanking me for the 'reusable' birthday card??? I opened it and all was clear as was the insert - not a word had I written inside it. They said they had a good laugh especially as the next card he opened said 'get well soon', the explanation for that was the senders were snowed in and couldn't get to the shops so they struggled to the post box with the only card they had in the house!

Not a lot

Not a lot to show today as have had a lazy week end, just making the odd birthday card altho I am pleased that over the last few days I have done some housekeeping on the pc and sorted out and tidied up my picture folders. My intention is to make three fabric postcards this week.

Pyramage

I'm back to making cards for Viv's Breast cancer charity, I realise that I never asked her if she wanted help in getting a card stash together, but I enjoy making the cards and hopefully they boost her pot of cash. These newest cards are made using my Cuttlebug with Nestabilities cutting the pyramage layers out from images taken from a CD, perhaps not everyones cup of tea but hopefully someone will like them, one of the cards has stitching on and yes it was done using my little red machine.

New 'Toy'

Other than having just finished a set of four postcards I'm being rather unproductive at the moment but I do have a new 'toy', as from yesterday a mini Janome sewing machine that weighs just 5lbs, a friend had bought one and brought it to show me, they are availible on E Bay from a firm that - would you believe - is on the small industrial estate close to where we live so off I went to get one, they are on sale in a well known department store for rather more than I paid. I know I don't NEED it but it will be good for sewing paper as I'm always ruining needles in my main machine and the other thing is it will be great in the caravan, so here it is unvieled................ just have to find a place for it in the craft room - perhaps knock a wall out???
The other thing of note this week is that my Canadian Cousin Sandi is visiting CHA this week and also taking lots of workshops there - even had the nerve to post a pic of herself and Tim Holtz on her blog!!! just hope she brings loads of goodies when she comes in April.

More 'January is'

I received these 'January is' post cards today, one from Canada and one from the US, the sweet paper card is homegrown and indicates that January is for using up leftovers. The Owl in a tree quilted postcard came from Holland in a Swap Bot exchange.