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 !