First Quarter

Wow can you believe it is already that time 
of the year again - The First Quarter...

January and February was just mainly Birthday's.
Pictures below sorry I couldn't get them to go in order.. 

Januray - Made this especially for a friends

 son who is a Formula One fan.

Januray - These came as a kit with a magazine

 I bought a while back. So one afternoon after work 

I sat down with a cuppa and made these up! 

January - Made especially for my brothers Birthday. Who is also a formula one fan as much as a minion fan!

January -- Made especially for friends daughter, who loves animals.. I thought she might like the girly colours and owls.. Which she did!!

 

March -- I made this one especially for my Great-Aunt's Birthday.. She makes beautiful patchwork quilts..

 

February - Found this one out from my stash of my cards I made last year.. I sent this to a friend of my family.

March --  Found this one out also from my stash for a close friend of the family...

March -- Right at the beginning of March was another friend of the family birthday. So in February I made this one especially for him. I used neutral colours and a nature feel to the card. The guy I made this for loves the outdoors....

 

The card above I made for a penpal in February I was writing too! 

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First Quarter

I know so far this year I have not wrote much about what I have been upto, with making cards and that...  Its mainly due to work and family life!

So I am planning to update every three months of the year. To show what I have been doing!

Januray

First month of the year Januray is time for most people to wind down after Christmas.. For me it's time to pack away my Christmas crafts, and its time to think about the year ahead! 

January, is also a month of Birthday's. 

I made this cute little cat theme card for a friends little girl... She loves all things to do with animals.. So I knew this was purrfect!

Also in January is my brothers birthday and a friend of his.. So I made two of the card above!

February

In February is my two aunts Birthdays... Odd thing about them two is that they share the same day. But as a few years difference between them. Plus they both love the Art Deco style cards I do...I know these to look alike.  But........ I kind of get away with it (okay now I won't as my aunts read this damn!) as one live in Canada and the other one in England!

March

At the start of March I always some how think its a month of no birthday or anniversarys... Then the second week it hits me, its one of my aunts birthday and a friend of mine...

Has you can tell I made some more of the card above.. This one I sent to one of my others aunts that lives up north!

This cute one above with the teddy bear on was the one I sent to my friend down in Devon!

I hope you all enjoyed reading my First Quarter of the year! Please let me know what you think via comment or either a TWEET or Facebook...

Aunt's Birthday Card

At the end of February I started to plan and work out my Aunty's Birthday card.  I wanted to do a art deco style card, but at the time I could not find what I was looking for.  Until I went to Readicut, I found what I was looking for!  I made my order every think was going to plan til I had an email to say sorry we are having trouble with your order.  Later I found out they had trouble with getting stock, I ended up cancelling my order.  So back to square one I was - until I bought my fave magazine Lets Make cards . After reading the magazine cover to cover and writing down some webby sites to check out.

Working my down the list of webby site I made I came across one, that saved the day for me.  I joined and made an order up, about two days later the parcel came.... I was and still are thrilled to bits with the items I bought...  After making a cuppa tea I sat down and set to work on my Aunty's Birthday card..

I should say at this point that I could not find any art deco stuff.  I just hope she loves it still!

Anyway I got out my pastel cards plus envelopes and picked out pink. Has this is my aunts fave colour, then I pushed out the layers of the topper and the pink and black pieces to the boarded.  I then got out my double sided sticky pads, to help layer up the piece's of the topper...  Once I had finished that I then cut the pink strip along the bottom to size.  Then I stuck the topper on and the pink strip with the black one on top.  I knew I had some paper flowers so I got out a pink plus purple one and stuck them on with a pink gem stone that my aunty had bought me a while back. The last item I popped on the card was 'Happy Birthday' Not sure if you can see it very well as it is on the black strip!

Please find below picture!

I have to say I love this card, just got to work on my unlce's birthday card now! I will keep you all posted...

P.s: Please let me know what you think?