Tue 27 Dec 2011
Hi there,
Well this time I have a very good excuse for neglecting my blog, three months ago I became quite unwell with a fever and a temperature of 40.5. I was admitted into hospital through the emergency department and ended up spending a week in hospital with an infection in my leg. After coming out of hospital to recover, I spent 8 weeks unable to walk and the infection got worse.
Finally the worst of it is over and now I am able to walk again but there is still infection in my leg, which obviously is going to take me some time to get over completely.
It is so amazing how something like this can just happen and knock you down completely. I am so glad that I have such an amazing husband that not only helped take care of me, but held our family together as well.
Well enough about me, obviously I haven’t been able to craft alot while I was unwell, but recently as I felt able and we have had so many birthdays lately I got inspired to create some cards and gifts.
This first card is one I made for my brother-inlaws birthday which was back in october, he is in to boating and fishing so I thought this cute stamp from la la land “fisherman Luka” would suit his card well.
I used copic markers to colour luka and the pattern paper is from Kaiser Craft, the punch, brads and birthday stamp are all from Stampin’ Up!.
This next card is for my friend, her birthday was when I was in hospital so she didn’t mind receiving her gift very belated.
For this card I have used Strawberry Tilda, this gorgeous die from die-namics Decorative Oval Doily and this cute strawberry paper which I found in my stash (sorry can’t remember were I got it from). The cardstock and stamp are from Stampin’ Up!.
I also wrapped her gift with some chocolate’s in the strawberry theme, here is photo:
I also made a card for my friends husband, I’m not really happy the way this photo turned out but I will show it anyway.
This set Up Up & Away from Stampin’ Up! is such a great versitle stamp which is great for male cards as I don’t have a lot of stamps that I can use for male cards.
I have themed his gift of chocolates to match the card:
Anyway I think thats all I have for today sorry for such a long winded post, maybe 2012 will be a better year for sharing my creativity.
Untill next time!
Cindy






















