Candy Canes.......

 Its a glorious sunny Sunday here in North Yorkshire....Rich has gone off car booting and I am gearing up to sit and watch the French open for the next 2 weeks!

I have been having another play with my stamping up set Banners for Christmas...and making a  CAS card that is fairly flat for posting....the background is embossed with Sue Wilsons falling snow ...and then lots and lots of glitter....

I hope you are all well and enjoying this lovely weather.

Christmas card!

 I have actually made a Christmas card this week...and its white and silver....

as usual a difficult one to tale a photo of  because of the mirri....all sorts of dies used...Sue Wilson...John next door...crafters companion and tattered lace...

I hope you are all keeping well out in blogland...its been so wet and cold here I haven't been out of the house yet this week....

Animal magic

I have been playing with my scan and cut again ....making the images 175% to make really big cards....almost A4....

 the image is from the carnation crafts USB character and charm...I printed off 3 images at 175% along with a base mat at the same percentage cut them out and decoupaged up the fox image....oh it was so much fun and so satisfying....

I have been missing all last week as my husbands computer started to fail and we had a mad rush on to buy a new one and get it all loaded back up before the old one finally died....he has a master track list that he has been keeping of all his record collection for the last 35 years so if we lost that well I don't know what we would have done...I backed it all up onto discs just in case....it has taken me 3 days solid to transfer all his stuff across....and lots of sleepless nights...

I hope you are all keeping well out in blog land things are slowly beginning to get a new normal...

thanks for popping by today.

Christmas card club challenge 11....Winter scene

 this weeks challenge is set by Christine....

I was a bit stuck for this one till I remembered that Pauline...(crafting with cotnob ) had reminded me of some lovely images on an old cd ...the best of La Pashe 2012 when she made some gorgeous cards...so I got it out and cut the images and decoupage out on my scan and cut...oh I have had fun...I was almost giving up on being able to use these cds as I can no longer do fussy cutting with my arthritis but now my machine does it for me...

Please pop round to see the glorious cards made by the rest of the girls the links tot heir blogs are on my side bar 

Thanks for popping by today and take care 

farm yard scene.....for a birthday

my hermes man asked me to make a card for his dad who is a retired farmer a bit of a challenge but hey ho rummage through the dies and see what we can find....

the dies are all from carnation crafts....and by all accounts his father loved it and Rob my hermes man did too...especially the red tractor....

I hope you are keeping safe and well...we are taking care again as we have the new variant of  covid in York so its a bit scary...even though we have had both jabs.

Thanks for popping by today.

finding dies....

 having a rummage a round in my dies and found this little lantern die ....

its a Marianne designs die...LR0669....and just perfect for a LOTV image....I made a card shape on my scan and cut...and the embellishments come with the lantern die...sweet I thought....

I have been very naughty and bought myself a new scan and cut as my old one is 7 years old now and the screen is beginning to play up...my how they have got better these machines...I use mine every day even if only to cut card shapes or mats but this new SDX1200 is amazing....

I hope you are keeping safe and well and thanks for popping by my blog today.

using an old embossing folder....

 just wanted to have a play today so I looked at some of my embossing folders and made this....

its a lovely crafters companion embossing folder and a penny black sentiment....matted onto gold mirri job done....

I hope you are keeping well out in blog land and thank you for popping by my blog today....

Christmas card club challenge 10...Ice skates or Winter Sports

 this week challenge has been set by Gwen....

I have used an old Paper Boutique Christmas doily and an image from the Gnomes collection...lots of glitter...doesn't he look happy skating along!

Please pop round the other girls blogs and see their lovely creations...the links are on my side bar

thanks for popping by today and stay safe....

Christmas Robin....

 I decided to play with my scan and cut this weekend and used my carnation crafts USB...

this was fun to make...lots of layers and glossy accents....

I hope you are enjoying your crafting this weekend...thanks for popping by and stay safe....