7 weeks so far............and still going

Friday 18th February
Although it is only Friday my weekend starts here -  I took some of my holiday allowance to add onto this weekend.  Tomorrow we are going out together for a meal to celebrate my nephew's 21st birthday.  




This week's Bah! Humbug! challenge will definitely take some thinking about.  
Use a CD/DVD 
I can see that I will have to spend quite a bit of time thinking about that one. I will think about it while I am loading the dishwasher, whilst I am vacuuming, and this afternoon whilst I am at the hairdressers getting red stripes put in my hair.  I thought that entering Christmas card challenges would be an easy way of getting my cards done at a nice easy pace throughout the year instead of a mad rush in December trying to catch the last posting dates.  How wrong I was - I've had to root through old and forgotten papers and boxes of embellishments, use things that I have never tried before, use things that I have tried and decided I couldn't use and goodness knows what else I will have to do.


Hopefully I will be back later.............possibly with a card for this week's challenge........watch this space




Monday 21st February


I had a busy weekend with family visiting and a 21st celebration. On Saturday we had a lovely meal & then we spent the evening just talking and playing charades.  So not much time for cardmaking.
On Sunday I helped my niece to make a double twisted easel card ( I will look for instructions or a picture of one to show what I mean)  Then I sat and thought about my challenge cards for this week - & I haven't come up with anything yet.   Time is running out....this could be the first week that I fail to get something made (even the cards that I really disliked were eventually made into something I could live with ~ although there are another couple of candidates for staying in the tin unless there is an emergency Christmas card needed)




Wednesday 23rd February


I have to admit defeat..............I can't come up with a card for this week's Bah! Humbug! challenge.  I'm not into altered art, so wasn't thinking along the lines of using a CD - I was toying with the idea of making a card to hold a CD.  But I have had no ideas at all..........a couple of the things I tried failed miserably.  I thought of combining a couple of challenges - Die cut Dreams and  ABC Christmas Challenge but still found no inspiration.  I looked for a digi image that I could use - one with as little colouring as possible.  I found a nice circle sentiment, which I then tried to cut out (my nesties being scalloped circles didn't look right at all)  but then I ruined them by inking them with versamark and brushing pink cosmic shimmer mica on. 


Hopefully I will be able to make a better attempt at next week's challenge.