Taking a break

Those of you who follow my blog will have noticed the lack of posts. Roy, once again deteriorated and had another stay in hospital, this time with sepsis. He’s home now  but not at all well. I’m just waiting for an emergency care package to be put in place, which the hospital should have done . Meanwhile absolutely no time to craft. In fact I haven’t even written the cards that were already made. 

Hopefully I’ll be back sometime next year.

Merry Christmas to you all.

Rudolph Day October

I've just noticed that I published last month's Rudolph Day card as October when it should have been September -  now corrected!

Roy's troubles certainly weren't over last month as he then went on to have 12 days in hospital -  his difficulty walking was apparently caused by cellulitis, but also had to have more blood transfusions as the anaemia kept returning. We're waiting now for the results of another test but at least he's home and enjoying the stair lift! 

So as you can guess I have done very little crafting, fortunately I still had these two cards made in advance. Wonder if I was being psychic?

Another two cards made using up some old decoupage. I've mounted them onto an embossed background which has removed the need for a sentiment. 

 

Challenges:

Rudolph Day

Peace on Earth Challenge

Rudolph Day September

A really quick post from me this month for Rudolph Day.I completely missed last month. Life got really hectic then and hasn't stopped yet. Roy had to have emergency blood and iron transfusions plus lots of investigations to find out why he was so anaemic, then was diagnosed with heart failure because of the anaemia. I've lost count of the number of visits to the hospital and he's not out of the woods yet. He's having difficulty walking anywhere and needs a lot of help, so crfting time is non existent.

Fortunately I had got  ahead of myself so had a card ready for this month, Nothing very difficult just a large and old Kanban topper.

Sing Happy Birthday

It was my son's partner's birthday last month. I wanted to make her a card that was a bit personal and as she is a singer I thought this stamp set from Visisble Image fitted the bill perfectly.

I found a pretty gelliplate background that I had made some time previously and stamped directly on it. I enhanced the colour on the dress with Copics Some black glitter strips round the edge finished it off. I'm pleased to say she loved it!

 

Challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and more.

NBUS

Rudolph Day July

I'm still on my "use up old stuff" mission. This month I've used up some very old decoupage. I'm not sure where it came from, but probably Create and Craft.

 I mounted it onto an embossed panel and then onto red cardstock. As the embossing said Merry Christmas there was no need to find a sentiment.

 

Challenges:

Rudolph Day

Daring Cardmakers

The Holly and Ivy Challenge

52 CC Throwdown

More Lights

I was quite pleased with the card I made for Rudolph Day in my last post, so while I had the dies out I made another. This time with scraps of glitter paper.

 

I definitely think this one is more Christmassy!

Challenges:

Merry Little Christmas Challenge

The Holly and the Ivy Christmas Challenge

Rudolph Day - June 2024

I'm a bit late with my card for this month's Rudolph Day.We've been a bit busy with various medical appointments and the week just seemed to disappear.

Fortunately I had the set of dies sitting on my desk waiting to be used so I didn't have to go rummaging for anything! The dies are from Lawn Fawn and were part of my NBUS stash. The sentiment is one I've had for ages, but the packaging is long gone and I can't remember the make. The lights were all made from snippets.

 

Challenges:

Rudolph Day

NBUS

Snippets Playground

Corp Clegg

Hubby liked his birthday card here so much that I had to make another similar one for an old Army mate!

Once gain I used a 6x6 sheet of paper from my stash for the background. Cpl Clegg was coloured with pencils and fussy cut. The sentiment was stamped in soft suede ink to match the mat.

 

Challenges:

Crafty Catz Challenge - option of masculine.

Allsorts Challenge.

Rudolph Day - May 2024

I've got two very quick and easy cards for this month's Rudolph Day. I had quite a lot of freebie patterned paper in my stash. These two sheets made two easy cards. 

All I had to do was stamp the reindeer and a sentiment then mount the paper onto an A5 card. Some silver glitter strips round the edge finshed them off.

 

Challenges:

Rudolph Day

Rudolph Day April

I'm pleased to say that I have now used up all my old Dufex sheets!

I'm now on a mission to use some of the huge stash of coloured cardstock that I accumulated when I was a Stampin Up person!

 

There's nothing much more I can say about these except the mats and sentiments were cut out of a snippet of red mirri card.