Soooo, a month today will be Christmas Day, how did it come around so fast?    This year has positively whizzed by.  I have been busy making a few Christmas cards, both to sell and to send out myself.  I thought today I would post up photos of a few examples of the cards I have been making.

 I love this stamp, such a shame that it was discontinued by Stampin' Up, but they have got another one for this year which is similar though, so all is not lost.

 I have been making cards using fabric too, I cut out the picture, then glue it to some felt, use pinking shears to pretty up the edges and voila :)

 Here is another using the lovely gingerbread man stamp set again, I do like the cute little guy :)

This Christmas tree stamp is from the same set as the gingerbread man, and also has a corresponding framelit, which would save lots of time cutting them out (which I can attest to as I haven't got the framelits as yet).

I hope these have inspired you to get making your Christmas cards, if you fancy the stamp set, Scentsational Season, then please feel free to contact me to place an order.

Afternoon all, having a quick sit down before heading off out again.  This morning we took our aunt out for breakie and a look round the shops.  She's housebound and we like to take her out at least once a week to get her some fresh air and change of scenery.  It is horrid, cold and blowy today though so she didn't enjoy it as much as usual.  I am thinking I may have to make her a blanket to cover her when she's in the wheelchair to keep her warm in the winter months.

Last night I had a play with my new stamp sets and here is a card I made with one of them:

I love the bird, he is so gorgeous and sits very well on this tree stamp, switched sideways to make a branch instead.  I am loving my new punches too, the oval and scallop oval, which makes mounting sentiments so much easier (and prettier too, I think).

Well, as much as I would love to be making more cards this afternoon, we are off out again in a while to meet with friends down the beach, although looking out the window, I am thinking, hmmmm, might get a bit blown away lol  We are hardy home educators though, out in all weathers and dash it all, we can always come home, dry off and warm ourselves up by the radiator :D

So, off I go, have a good rest of the day everyone and I will speak to you soon,

Morning lovely people :)  I'm sat here (not so) patiently waiting for my Stampin' Up! shipment to arrive, and hoping that it comes before we have to leave at midday to get to Guildford.  Fingers are tightly crossed.  I can't wait for the lovely new stamps to be within my grasp and will certainly be dedicating this evening to having a play with them, and making a few cards.  This time around I ordered a few punches too, including their scallop edge punch, which I have been coveting for a while now.  I mistakenly bought one that wasn't Stampin' Up! and it wouldn't even punch through card!  Which I thought was rather rubbish, but SU punches aren't like that, they are rather good.

I am telling myself that refreshing the tracking page on the UPS website will not make it come any sooner, but who am I kidding?!

Here is an example of current SU products:

I love these gingerbread men, they are quite gorgeous, and the fab thing is, the stamp set they are from, Scentsational Season, has a corresponding Framelit set, Holiday Collection.  So no fiddly cutting around the stamped images :)  And, if both are bought together you save 15% of the total cost.  These can be found in SU's Autumn/Winter Catalogue, along with lots of other yummy goodies :)  Feel free to email me if you get an overwhelming urge to order something :D

Right, I'm off to get the boy up and ready to go, so will speak to you very soon