These boots are made for walking

2 cards for a male in the family who's keen on the odd stroll '& son' followed my lead - he'll soon learn that's not necessarily a good idea!

I was hoping to use up some old OS maps that I bought at the car boot ale as background paper but realised soon after opening that they had all been marked so I downloaded a local map online and printed it out. The boots are clip art from MS office online.

I'm a little disappointed with mine mostly becaue I'd thought about it a bit too much and knew exactly how I wanted it to look but then circumstances conspired against me. In particular, in my head, my string was a bit thicker - it looks a bit weedy.

Never mind, it's the thought that counts!

Catty birthday card

I'm not a fan of cats myself (they make me sneeze!) but my friend is so I thought she'd like this card.

I love the big spots on this paper and although the tag and strip didn't some from the same place (it was actually from that sole craft magazine that I bought) it matches perfectly. The cat embellishment was left over from another project.

MSE Water Challenge Card

This is my entry for the MSE 'Water' challenge. It's a bit of a cheat really as it resuses an embelishment from one of the cards I got on my birthday last year but I figured that would fit in with the MSE ethos!

More Birthday cards

Made a few more cards for the box at work from scraps of paper I had hanging around. The black and pink one was made using a DCWV card blank I bought when they were on special offer a while back, a little tag with a brad and a strip from some 3 bugs in a rug paper I bought during my Easter weekend stash splurge.

I literally made the other 2 from scraps of paper and they should look like birthday cakes. I made the pink one first and then had a go at the second to see if I could make it work with more masculine colours. I think I nearly did it but it will have to do!

First day at new school

It was my sons first day at a new school today so I made him this as a good luck card (then in the excitement forgot to give it to him this morning!) He's got it now though and is pleased with it.

Very hard to take a pic because it uses holographic paper but you should get the idea. I got the crest from a 'sample' of wallpaper border form the owls shop. The only thing I'm not happy with is that the glue that I used to stick the stripes on has made the card bow a bit so if I was selling it or sending it in the post I'd probably put inside a heavy book for a while to flatten it out first.

Engagement Card using glass templates. Thanks Marg!

I posted an engagement card that I made for a work colleague a few weeks ago - well this is the card I was planning to make but just couldn't find a champagne glass template anywhere.

Marg from the MSE forum very kindly sent me some word art style images (now why didn't I think of that - genius!) and I used one of them as a template.

I doing to place it in the card box at work. I wanted to make it though as a thanks to Marg and because I never like to let a card beat me!

First attempt at a trifold card

Believe it or not this was going to be a dinosaur card! I cut the first 1/3 of the card into the shape of a 4 and then handmade some backing paper by writing on green card with a feint white marker and stuck that on the 2nd 1/3 with a few embellishments.