Cards for the troops...

I've made a couple of new cards, but most of these cards have been taken from my card box. They are all going to be sent to Kirsty Wiseman who is organising a massive appeal for cards to be sent out to our troops. I found out about this from my dear friend, Max, who has also sent a collection of her cards as has another close friend, Irene.

Basically Kirsty wants to send the cards to our troops, currently serving abroad, so that they have something nice to send to their loved ones back home. Hmmmm that's why I made a couple of romantic cards - I'm thinking along the lines of cards for girl friends and wives, but really any kind of cards would be suitable as I'm sure they will need cards for all the members of their families.

If you are visiting my blog and would like to know more about this (and I hope you do cause it's such a worthwhile cause and the more that take part the better) please visit here for details on how to take part. Kirsty writes loads and has masses of photos on too so on following the link you need to scroll down and down and down till you get to the pink writing which explains the whole campaign.

The more people who know about this the better - so please spread the word on your own blog if you can.

Woman...

Another 'anytime' card and one that has been received by my dear friend so I can post it here without spoiling the surprise for her. Twenty one gemstones on this card so you can tell it was for someone important!!!

The wonderful lady image is yet another one from the Art Deco sheet by Frances Naeve at Hearts in Touch. Fabulous images - I really can't understand why it has taken me so long to get round to using them. This one was painted using Derwent Inktense pencil crayons and then matt and layered on to a frame made using my Cricut.

I only have the two cartridges that came with the machine at the moment, but oh there are such wonderful things on them. This frame is the certificate cut at the 4" setting - I can't believe that the machine can cut such intricate detail - it's just amazing.

Friends who read my blog will know that earlier in the week I was struggling as I only had the instruction book in Dutch! Well you will be pleased to know that thanks to my friend Susan I don't need to start learning Dutch!! She sent me the link to the manual available on line at the Cricut Website. Thanks so much Susan - I think I might have struggled to do much more with no proper instructions.

My card is also for Challenge 52 at My Time to Craft which this week has the theme of 'Woman'
and for the challenge at No time to stamp where we are encouraged to use white mats on our cards.

Messy Rabbit Thank You...

This a card I made for a very kind forum friend. I used the new Messy Rabbit CD by Joanna Sheen . This CD is full of the most fantastic cute images of not only Messy Rabbit, but all kinds of other creatures too. All the images have been painted by the extremely talented Linda Hill. Oh how I wish I could paint like her!!

I created the large'Thank you' wording using Serif Home Office and then used small images from the embellishment section of the CD to decorate the words. The animals are decoupaged to make the card 3D. The blue backing paper complete with sweet daffodils is also from the CD.

As my card is full of 'All Creatures Great and Small' hopefully it will also be okay for the challenge at the Tanda Teaser.