Bah Humbug Challenge 27 - Meeces

This week's challenge over at Humbug Towers is Meeces!!!   Hmmmmmmmm.......... I've just realised the one thing I don't have are any Christmas Mice stamps or digis so - what to do?  I hunted around my digi images and came across this cute image of mice taking tea and eating biscuits.  It was entirely the wrong colour for a Christmas card so took it into MCS to play around with it   I then went into Word and created the sentiment using text boxes.  Both the image and sentiment have been die cut using nesties.  I decided to make a twisted easel card.  The backing papers were from my stash left over from my recent penguin card.  I ran a piece of ribbon through and under the sentiment and used the extra for an embellishment.

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Definitely a man's card!!!

It's my nephew-in-law's (does that make sense......... my husband's nephew!) birthday soon - he lives in Sydney, Australia and it's been a while since we've seen him.  He is absolutely besotted by any kind of sport; especially cricket but we shouldn't really mention that at the moment!!!!  lol

So I decided to use My Craft Studio "The Finishing Line" to create this card.  As with most of the cards made with MCS you simply print out the elements you want and mat and layer as required, which is what I've done.  The sentiment has been printed out onto a hazy image of the front racer on the circuit but I totally forgot to add my words when I was in the MCS programme........ so I printed out the sentiment onto some copy paper to make sure it was the correct size/orientation and then used some repositionable glue tape to attach the oval over the sentiment on the copy paper and then sent it through the printer again.  This is a trick I use quite frequently and it works a treat if you want to print onto ribbon.  All I've added is some mirri card and black brads.

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Christmas Stocking...........

This weeks challenge over at Bah Humbug is Christmas Stockings which may or may not be a coincidence as for my spot prize I received some Christmas die cuts (with Christmas stockings included) and some huge gems plus a lovely handmade card - whose a lucky girl then?  lol

I just had to use some of my spot prize for this card.  I started off with an A5 red card which I put through my Big Shot in a Papermania embossing folder so the left hand side of the card got embossed.  I added a piece of My Mind's Eye card to the right hand side and added some red and white ribbon.  I embossed some gold mirri using the same embossing folder and used a Martha Steward corner punch.  A piece of red foiled holly card was put across the middle of the mirri card and three of the Christmas stockings added using foam pads.  I tied three ribbons to top the stockings.  The sentiment is from a Papermania clear stamp set (Silent Night) and to finish off I used some of the smaller gems that I received in my spot prize.

Thanks again to Irene, Ann and Max over at Bah Humbug for all these great challenges and for my goodie parcle.

New babies card

My brilliant friends Barbara and Pete have just become first time grandparents - TWICE - within the space of a couple of weeks with their daughter and daughter-in-law giving birth to baby boys. It doesn't seem that long ago that Barbara and I started (age 5) at our primary school.................. scary eh?

This card was made using an image from My Craft Studio Enchanted Romance CD which was cut out using my nesties labels die and inked around the edge. It was mounted onto blue mirri, white card and a patterned paper made by tiling the main image. All these were put through my Big Shot using Swiss Dots embossing folder. Stickles glue and some gems were added to the main image with a collection of flowers at the bottom left of the card and two brads made using a miniature photo of each of the babies and inserting them into a Papermania brad making kit.

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65th Word Album

Well, we seem to have an awful lot of 65th birthdays this year - of course these are all much older friends!!!!! lol

On the 25th it is our friend Steve's 65th. He and Linda moved over to Kuala Lumpur nearly two years ago now - a bit like a gap year (or two) and we really miss them, although they have been back a couple of times and we have managed to catch up with them.

Steve is cricket mad (or should I just say mad????) so I have made him a 65th word album with cricket as the main theme. I downloaded some photos of various cricket matches and tiled them into background paper using My Craft Studio facilities. I had various embellishments which were added and I used my Bind-it-all to put it together. I also managed to get a silver charm (on the front page) of stumps, cricket bat and ball, so hopefully that is something he can put on his keyring after his birthday. I added metallic letters to the wire comb spelling out his name.

It's been posted early because of the strikes over here so hope it arrives in good time for him.

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