Greeting Card Planner

I decided to make a Greeting Card Planner as a Month-by-Month Guide to Birthdays, Special Occasions, notable dates and holidays. Feel free to let me know if I left anything out. I hope to make a book for each family with every ones birthdays, wedding anniversaries and so on in. I think this will be a great way of bringing the family closer even though we live all over the world.

Over the next few days I will be adding interesting things like Birthstones. flower as well as Anniversary gift suggestion for each year both traditional and modern. I will also add Flowers and their meanings, so come back and have a look.

Special Thanks to Kim MacFarlane

This is a special thank you to Kim Macfarlane for the cute personalised Teddie animation. Go have a look at all the freebies on her site and while you are there why not visit the shop for Card Making and Scrapbooking goodies or maybe invest in a cute stamp or two.

Punch Size Comparison

Not sure what size punch is you have, have a look here.

At last Some Michael Strong Cards

Here is 3 of the cards I made using the Michael Strong Rubber stamps some time ago, pls excuse the quality if the Photo's as I had to scan them.

First ATC swop received

Thank you Mary for my lovely ATC's, your next one will be on its way soon.

Newest Goodies

These stamps are from Micheal Strong. I like his stamps as they are very versatile and are made of good quality natural red rubber. They come mounted on foam mount already the the packaging are brilliant to store your stamps on. They ship worldwide and I think the stamps are well priced, so go have a look for yourselfs.
Here is the Cloisonné Pot and to find other wasy to use it look here.

Here is the Cloisonné Vase and to find other wasy to use it look here.

Last but not the least here is the Cloisonné Mosaic Frame. You can get some ideas of how to use it from here.

You can also watch video's using these stamps here.
As my camera is currently unavailable I will try and scan the cards I have made but I am not sure how will it will work as they are pretty 3d.

Some Cards I made using Craft CD's

 
 


These cards was made using some Crafts CD's by Carol Ann from CarolAnn Studio. I love her cd's as they are so easy to use and the possiblities are also endless.

Surgery and no crafting

I will not be able to make any cards for a while as I am having Carpal Tunnel Surgery to my Right hand.
For more info on the contition follow this link.
I will use the time to go through my files and upload some of my older cards onto the blog, so do come and have a look from time to time.

Simply Punch Class

I have joined Heathers Simply Punch class after seeing some of her punch creations on YouTube. Have a look for youself here:
Simply Punches
20 Days (March 1 to March20)
1 punched creation per day
20 videos
20 PDFs (a typed version that you can print on making each punched creation)
20 photos
for only $20!!!!

Have a look at the videos below to see how good she is.

Hey Chickie
Giraffe
Froggy
Mr Frog
Bat
Wags the Dog
Rudoplh the Red Nose Reindeer
Santa
Mr Claus
Mr Hoppy Frog Super Cool
Penguin
French
Hens
Calling Birds
Golden Ring
Nest and Egg
Swan
Cow this is so cute
Dancing Lady
Little Boy
Drums
Monkey
She also have PDF files for some of the above on her website: http://stampwithheather.typepad.com

Special thanks to TandaStamps

Here is a link to TandaStamps the company that made the Book Stamps for me. The quality of their Clear stamps are excellent and their customer service is even better.

Anyone interested in good quality custom stamps should definately contact them, but why not go over there now for some inspirations and also look at some of their other goodies. TandaStamps the best manufacturers of rubber & clear polymer stamps and stockists of a wide range of art & craft supplies

Thank you Tanya, Andrew and Alex you did a great job.

Fun ATC's

Here is some fun ATC I made.



Froggy have found a new home and will be appearing here soon. Mary will be trading him for one she made herself.

More Stampin Up Cards

Stamper's Ten Challenge

I belong to a Stampin Up Group Called Stamper's Ten and our Demonstrator Joanne is Brilliant. With our goodies from our January Order she also included a Challenge kit. This is what I Made with my Kit.

Graphicus Stamps

I have also found some stamps I bought about 2 years ago but never used so I decided to make something straight away. These stamps are available at Graphicus. The Papers are from K & Company and I used my Fiskars Circle Template and Shapecutter Plus to cut the Windows. I used Twinkling H2O's to colour the stamps.

Quality of the photo's

Sorry that the photo's of my cards are not very good, it would appear that not only has my Scanner let me down but now my digital camera is also acting up. This will have to do for now and hopefully I can the my other half to sort out the scanner over the weekend.

Custom Stamps From TandaStamps

Here are the custom stamps I had made by Tanda Stamps, with photos of the finished cards.

Cuddly Buddly Cards

Here is some of the cards I have made using stamps from Cuddly Buddly. I found their stamps to be really cute and also good quality. The stamps are made from natural red rubber, mounted on eezi mount foam and give a very clear impression everytime.

Damn Software

Sorry that i have not added any new photo's yet. I had to redo the whole PC after the Christmas Presents as they all needed Vista to work and now I am having problems with the Twain Driver for my Scanner and the Camera is also acting up. The hubby promisted to look at it Tomorrow but his Tomorrow and the real thing is worlds apart. Any way this has not stoppped me from creating though, need to get the rest of my cards for the Marie Currie Campaign done and will them be taking up some challenges and also start some ATC swops.

Marie Curie Create a Card for Cancer Care campaign 2009

Just a Quick update on my challenge to myself. I decided that I needed to create and donate 200 cards this year, on Monday me and David went to drop off the first 127 at our Eastbourne branch (54 Terminus Road, Eastbourne). So if you are in the area feel free to go have a look and maybe donate some yourself. I am currently working on the rest and will be posting photo's of these shortly.

For more details about how you can get involved in the Create a Card for Cancer Care campaign 2009 visit www.create-a-card-for-cancer-care.org

Clear Polymer Bookcard Stamps

Here is a sample of a A6 bookcard I made with the custom clear stamps I ordered from Tanda Stamps I can not believe the quality.

Still have to make a ATC size one. But can not stop playing with the bigger one.