I'm back!...

Sheesh where did September go?  Well, I suppose I spent most of it on holiday and I must admit I had an absolutely wonderful in time in the Dominican Republic - sigh - so missing the sunshine and palm trees.  The rest of the month was taken up with washing, packing and work and it just flew by.  Thank goodness my super buddy Max was able to keep Bah! Humbug! running single handed.  I owe her big time!

Anyway, I'm back now and ready to be challenged by our weekly Christmas theme at Humbug Hall.  This week sees us thinking about the 'Navity'.  My card uses an image from a sheet I printed years ago when I was on the Design Team at Ooh la la Creations.  See if you keep your print outs long enough they do eventually get used!  The card I made at that time using the largest image on the sheet can be seen here.  For my new card I used one of the smaller images and matted it on to an embossed layer made using the Swiss Dots folder.  To get the size I had to feed the card through the machine 4 times -eeeeeeeeek!  The sentiment was printed on to one of the scraps of green card left over using my Xyron Design Runner.

Do pop over to Bah! Humbug! to both join in and check out the fabulous work by my team mates.

My card is also for the challenges at...

• Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
• The Sisterhood of Crafters - Love that silhouette
• Celebrate the Occasion - any occasion - must use ribbon
• Shopping our Stash Weekly - Black and White plus one other colour.

Have a great weekend everyone.  I'm going to be making some Halloween cards with the ladies at work using some fabulous plastic skeletons I found at Poundland - so cool and 24 in the pack so quite a bargain.  Fingers crossed that the idea I have for using them works - if it does watch this space.

Ann xxx

Bah! Blast from the Past Humbug!...

Card making - Crafting - what's that?  Where are days going and why am I meeting myself coming back all the time?  I really don't know and as to the silly person who decided to rearrange all her craft stuff (yet again) and now can't get it all back in the cupboards or find her desk I really don't know what to say about her.

I guess by now you will have sussed why I've decided to display a 'Blast from the Past' for this week's challenge at Bah! Humbug! I'm showing two cards made some time ago, but ones which I really both enjoyed making at the time and also still like, because let's face sometimes when we look at things made a while ago they don't look too good.

Our theme this week at Bah! Humbug! is 'TEXT'. I love playing with text especially when you can use the 'o' in words to create a shaker/apperture effect as in my first 'Blast from the Past' card.

On my second card I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder on thick vellum to create a frame for the text.  I haven't used that folder for ages - must use it soon.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone and do pop over to Bah! Humbug! to see what my talented buddies have been up to.

Ann xxx

Italy MIni Album...

Just finished this mini album for my friend Anne, who I went on holiday with earlier this month.  I used one of the brilliant sketches at Sassy Lil' Sketches as the basis for the front cover.  It's only a small album - just big enough to take 6" x 4" photos matted and layered on to designer paper, but I think she will love it.  Well I hope so anyway.

Here's a peak of the inside which I've kept really simple - well it had to be I've been at work most of the time since last Thursday.

All the papers I've used are by Kanban and I've kept to the monochromatic colour scheme.

I'm also very proud to say that thanks to Jules at Always with a heart I'm really trying to use 'snippets' left from other projects.  I do tend to be quite a wasteful crafter and although I don't throw the snippets away - they go to a good home (the ladies I work with at Mencap) I really should use more up myself.  So check out my frame and butterfly cut from this small left over piece of black glitter card...

Think using it definitely qualifies me for this week's Crafty Snippet Challenge.  

Hope everyone is having a great weekend and special wishes for my friend Max and her daughter who are over in Ireland.  Check out why HERE - wow how cool is that?
PS:  The 'T' in 'ITALY' has been suitably told off and is now standing up straight.