Friday, 4 January 2013

Its already the 4th January !   Back to work for me next week.  I managed to make a few more batches of cards and need to start packing them.  I don't really have much time during the school term to make cards, so during holiday time, I try to catch up with a few new ones.

Here are some pink ones.  

 I really enjoyed making these !

Now for the packing !

Gardening update !

It was a beautiful day today, and we decided to do some gardening.   There were lots of daisy bushes to cut, and a few long branches which had to be trimmed.  I am always careful when cutting as there are many little creatures around.

And look what I found today !   Can you see him ?
Wait... I have another photo !

I was really thrilled to see the chameleon as we have not seen them for ages.   Last year we had a pair of shrikes (or butcher birds as we also call them) that had a nest and two babies.  I am sure that they found all these chameleons as they had two hungry mouths to feed.  But amazingly, today I found one !
Isn't he just beautiful ?

Happy New Year : 2013

Happy New Year to those that are reading my blog.   I am very new to this and am still learning.
Its very windy here in Cape Town today again.
After breakfast with my hubby, Bill, I made another batch of cards.  This time I found some lovely free printables on sweetlysweet.blogspot.com.   Thanks !   I printed out the lovely green polka dot paper and the round circles.

I cut up the paper and punched the circles with this nice punch I found - it was rather expensive, but it makes such a difference to the look of the cards.   The next photo shows you how I assemble the cards with the paper that I have cut.

Now comes the job of glueing it all onto the cards.  And of course my favourite part is putting some embelishments on the cards.  Sometimes I make a whole batch of cards and then lay them out and go through my boxes of embelishments and choose ones to match the cards.  As I mostly give my cards away as gifts, I am always on the lookout for sales and if there are ones that are not too expensive but will make the card look special.

I would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year.  May this 2013 be all you wish for.  Exciting, full of promise and may all your wishes come true !