I spent half the day yesterday Christmas shopping and hoping to find some boxed Christmas cards to send out. Unfortunately, both were a bust. I cannot for the life of me find any cards that I like which, I suppose, is somewhat ironic. People ask me if I make all the cards I sent out at Christmas. As much as I would love that, I send about 50 so there's no way I would have time to make all those.

This project uses BoBunny paper as a background, Martha Stewart glitter, Prima flowers, Melissa Frances rub-on, a couple of stick-on pearl brads, ribbon and lace. I need to get back to my Christmas projects but yesterday sort of soured me on the whole thing. As much as I love Christmas preparations, I get bummed when I can't find what I'm looking for. I guess that's why I do so much shopping on the Internet - much less legwork!

A busy weekend

Days off always seem to be so busy but particularly the weekends seeing as the masses are also off. Add in lots of snow and it seems like I get nothing done.

Sadly, another Canadian soldier was killed this past week in Afghanistan. There is a ceremony we have here in Canada each time a soldier is killed where he is flown into Trenton, Ontario then brought by motorcade to Toronto along a portion of Highway 401 which has been renamed the "Highway of Heroes". People line up for miles over top bridges and along the sides of the road to honour the soldier and his family as they pass by. A group of us from work try to make it to as many of these ceremonies as we can where we proudly stand along the police officers as they salute the casket. It's quite moving and certainly the least we can do. So, that's what I did yesterday. I keep hoping it will be the last one but, unfortunately, we all know there will be more.

This is a card I made with some HOTP papers for a guy at work who is quite ill. The stars are from a Christmas card I received and I added some fibres and eyelets to finish it off. I must get my new sewing machine out one of these days to try it out!

Get Better Soon

Another day and once again it is raining. I did see the sun for about 10 minutes and had to rush out to see what it was. I made this card for a guy at work who broke both his arms....get well soon seems to be an understatement but the sentiment is there. I used some "My Mind's Eye" paper on the top and bottom and some "Cosmo Cricket" paper for the middle sections. The tag and brads are from K&Company and the buttons from Basic Grey. Some days I seem to get stuck with design block so I always revert back to what has worked in the past. Maybe it's the rain clouding my brain. Time to do some chores - thanks again for looking.

Trying to be unique

I try to be as unique as possible when making cards although I'm sure techniques and ideas I see in magazines and websites rub off and roll over into my designs - live and learn, right? This card was made for an older lady who was under the weather - I thought it was bright and cheery. The flowers were done with Cricut and the paper is baby paper from K&Company but works perfectly with this design.