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Grandson's birthday mid February.  We bought him a red guitar for Christmas so this stamp (and the inspiration) came from LOTV.  Bought several stamps from them recently - so more cards will be arriving here for a little while yet.

The photographs don't show the backing too well but it is guitar music distressed with 'old paper' ink and then sprayed with Perfect Pearls 'sunflower sparkle' I also dabbed the sparkle onto the music book the little boy is playing from.

Variations of an earlier card

Still using my free stamp - love it.

 and more cards - glad I don't send one to every relative I have - I would never come up for air!!

Hannah's Star Book

Finished - I hope she thinks it is special enough!

To encourage her back to England soon the luggage label says 'Chicago to Manchester England'

A few of the tags

Happy Birthday Hannah xx

Birthday invitations

As you can see I have a big birthday coming up - here are the invites I made - sorry I forgot to let you see them.

That's another free stamp used

I am getting carried away - another wrapping paper done - nothing very intricate but I think it will qualify as crafting!!

 

Guess who's been reading the January Craft Stamper magazine?

Me ................... for one of my brothers-in-law (card, tag and book mark)

 and then the wrapping paper to match - great fun and I do like the results

Thank you Craft Stamper - - a great stamp.

I have a few male birthdays coming along - I think I may have to go into mass production ...

Hannah's birthday

Yes - it is finished but I am sleeping on it in any bright ideas come my way - hopefully pictures tomorrow or over the weekend - hope it's worth the wait!!

Hannah's birthday

My granddaughter Hannah lives in Wisconsin and when she was over for a visit last October - she asked me if I would make her a special birthday card.  She tells me it is her golden birthday - as she will be nine on the 9th of February!  Never heard of it myself but hey how could I say no.

I am making her a star book (thanks Dyan for the lesson) - it is a mish mash with no particular theme.  I will take photographs in a couple of days when hopefully it will be finished.  Yes I do finish things sometimes.

A couple of things from before Christmas

I did both these at Art From The Heart with Dyan - had a great time as usual.  Once again these are awaiting completion but I thought I would take some photographs anyway.

 These two are a Christmas mini album

I love this Wizard of Oz Starbook - the papers are divine - I am so looking forward to finishing it.

New regime - work in progress

Here are a few of the projects I am working on - as you can see they all need further work.

I can't quite decide if this is finished or not - not probably.

I love the colours of the bottom one . . . . . . we will have to see what evolves!

The Start of my new regime - I hope.

I am trying very hard to make more time for crafting this year.  So here is the first of several projects I have done already.  It's only small but still it's a start - just hope I can continue as productively.