Golf Thank You

My husband was invited to a "Men's Invitational" golf match on Saturday by a friend at another club and asked me to make a thank you card. I used the Cuddly Buddly Country Gents Golfer as the main element and the Freebie trophy from the same site that I coloured silver/grey and threaded on ribbon through the handles. The golfer is stuck on with foam pads and stands proud of the card but you can't see this in my photo. It probably doesn't look like it but it took me a couple of hours to make this card, although I was trying to make dinner at the same time. Not one of my better efforts but it'll do.

Ribbons, luverly ribbons.

Every time I go out to the shops I invariably come home with a yard or two of ribbon. I have started to haunt the haberdashery (notions) departments of shops with looking for something new and different to feed my craving. In the scale of things it isn't a bad addiction to have, it's cheap and it doesn't harm anyone and I know that other people have far more than me (It has never got to the stage where I have had to buy a spool - I think once you've got to this stage you need to start a 10 step programme ) The way I store it looks a bit messy but I quite like it like this because then you can dig down into the depths and discover something you have forgotten about. Even as I was writing this I remembered that I had bought some ribbon with Elephants embroidered on it and it wasn't in the box so I couldn't rest until I had found it.

Christmas ATC's

I have made ten little ATC's all the same as this adorned with a Christmas Pudding. As before I am going to put them onto small (A6) cards as toppers. You can see the scale of them as this one is leaning up against my mouse. I toyed with the idea of adding a little bit of ribbon to it (I love ribbon) but decided in the end that "Less is More"

Fathers Day Card

I still have a couple of cards sent to me that I need to put up but here is one made by me at last :) As Fathers Day is coming up on Sunday I made this for my daughter to give my husband. I really feel that the sentiment should have been a bit lower down but I made a bit of a hash of the scalloped edging so had to cover up the mistake with something. There are lots of tutorials telling you how to make the little origami shirt out there on the web but this is the one I used which has lots of photos and makes it really easy to follow. The papers are Basic Grey Blush 6 x 6

Rose Card by Linda

This fabulous card was given to me by Linda, a friend I made through a card making forum and who subsequently turned out to live about a mile away from me :) I love it, it is so elegant and simple and looks sensational. I wanted to take a second photo to show how the gold card twinkles in the light, it's very subtle but when you see it it makes quite an impact, but it's difficult to get a picture that does it justice. In another forum I visit when someone copies someone elses idea for a card they call it CASE-ing (Copy And Selectively Edit ) I am soooo going to CASE this idea (Doesn't it sound nicer than pinch?)

Computer drawn Card from Toni

Toni sent me the lovliest card adorned with her own computer drawn graphics, I love it, the figure has that Bella/Lola-Rose feel to it with the match-stick arms. The supercute thing is that as the card was a thank you note for sending Toni a copy of "Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death" the figure (Toni) is holding a copy of that exact book. Great attention to detail Toni :)

I have some more hand crafted cards that I have received from Pam, Sadie and Linda but I am in such disarray (no change there then) I need to find them and photograph them. I hope to do this over the next couple of days.