Blog Action Day Oct 15 - 2009

Climate change, it affects us all and will

affect all our children and grandchildren

from here on end.

Will you do something now to change it before its too late?

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Thursday 10 minute card challenge

I've been following Sandi MacIver and Carole'Anne Sluchinski

blogs and they are doing a 10 minute challenge very Thursday.

Well today is Thursday in Australia and a day ahead of

both of them and they didn't start the challenge publicly yet

or invite me but I thought I'd do it anyway hee hee

I decided to take an old favourite and time how long

it took me to make, I am also making this for a swap

so why not use my time wisely and kill 2 birds with one

stamp

hee hee

My ingredients are:

Stamps: Embrace Life, En francais

(see Carole' Anne I picked a French one just for you tee hee)

Gel Pen, Pretty in Pink taffeta ribbon, crimper, Stamp a majig

Cardstock: Rose Red, Whisper White, Pretty in Pink

Inkpad: Rose Red

Ink up En Francais with Rose Red ink

Sorry about the dirty sheet behind

Run through crimper

Line up acetate sheet that has Embrace Life

stamped on it

Line up second image with acetate sheet

Colour flower with gel pen and ...........

............daub edge of all three card stock

Voila my 10 minute card

Here's another one I had made earlier using the

Pretties kit embellishments

Card done in 10 minutes

I even had time to make a cup of tea, well making

this card was on the spur of the moment as you

can see from my desk, I had no time to clean up

and had forgotten I put the kettle on to boil

so halfway through all this the kettle was boiling

like mad and I had to jump over to the kitchen

and brew the tea.

I did not believe that these ladies could

make a card and photo graph it in 10 mins,

well had I not done it myself I now believe its possible.

Here's another titbit

its taken me less than an hour to

make the card

photograph them, even outside,

PSP my watermark on every photo

upload and write this segment up

WOOOHOO

It's so good to not be under stress, I am taking this time before

my surgery to just play and I've created a

storm of cards,

I'll upload more cards I've made soon

Thanks Sandi and Carole'Anne

Last post for awhile

One more post before I go into hospital on Sep 17th to get my right shoulder

rotato cuff repaired and then it will be 2 months of intense

recovery to get back to semi normal again and the use of my ever

dependent right hand. I never realised how useless my left hand

was until I tried not using my right hand with it.

It's role is very much a supporting one.

I am hoping to lose some weight in the process LOL

I can't see myself biting open packets of cup a soup

or I'll be paying lots of HELP ME visits to my neighbours

This last weekend was a very sad one for me,

my neighbours in Sydney were involved in a

tragic car accident and were killed, one

instantly and one a few hours later in hospital,

they left 3 children. They were a lovely couple and will be

missed by all the neighbours.

RIP Nove and Mira

I made this card for their children

Yesterday I found out one of my neighbours' husband

passed away of cancer, he is now at peace

RIP David

The card below is a pop up card I made at MSG

thanks to the tuition of Deidre and her generosity

in sharing her templates with us.

So have a great creating time all of you out there

as soon as I recover I'll get stuck into cardmaking

and as many Christmas cards I can make

I have designs in my head and stamps to go with them

just need a pair of good hands to work with
LOL