Galaxy Greetings

Evening All,

I like to give everyone at work a card on their birthday, and we seem to have rather a lot of male birthdays over the next couple of months.

I usually just search through my drawer for something suitable, but as there are so many all very close together I decided that I would make a batch of them that were all very similar.

I found some 12x12 sheets of card in my stash and trimmed a couple of them into squares using a Clarity die.

I mounted each panel onto a square white card, and added my favourite Birthday die cut and some stamped sentiments.

Two sheets of galaxy background paper made eight cards, so that's all the birthdays covered for the next couple of months.

I just need to pop them in to work now so that all the staff get the chance to sign them before they are given out on the appropriate day.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Kimx

Good News and Bad News

Evening All,

Well there is good news and bad news on the wrist front. The good news is that it's not broken just bruised internally. The bad news is that I have the starts of arthritis in the joints in my hand. Oh the joys of getting older lol.

On the bright side, although I am still not able to lift anything very much at the moment, the virtual exercises that I have been sent recommend practicing hand movements such as 'Doing Crafts'. I am officially allowed to make my cards!!!!!

This is actually one made last year, but as it uses Distress Oxides which we will be playing with in class next time I figured that it would be a good one to share.

The panel on the card was created using Distress Oxide inks and watercolour cardstock which was then run through an embossing machine inside an embossing folder.

I also ran a sanding block over the embossing to highlight the images.

The large Birthday die is one of my all time favourites from Sheena. I stacked it and added a stamped sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Kimx