Cards!

Here are a few of my recent cards.

Jolee from The Octopode Factory...

Stuart the Giraffe, also from The Octopode Factory - love the words which come with him!

I've just discovered Dillybeans - fab images!

That's it for the minute - short but sweet ;)

Hopefully I can show a few more postcards this weekend and I'm hoping to finish my March calendar page too...we'll see!

Also - if you're wanting to get a head start on your Christmas cards then check out Catherine's Christmas blog. She's running a Christmas card swap in April - you send off four identical cards and get four different cards in return for your Christmas box - a fab idea!

Postcard Challenge - Switzerland

Yes, I'm behind again in Darcy's Postcard Challenge - I blame Switzerland! I could NOT decide what to do for my postcard...I really didn't want to do mountains! Hubby pointed out that CERN is in Switzerland and said to Google image LHC collisions. Lots of pretty pictures turned up and I decided that's what I was doing, but, I just wasn't feeling it.

So...then I Googled Swiss artists and who did I find? HR Giger. I LOVE the Alien films so knew this had to be the right path. However, not being an amazing artist I couldn't draw the image I wanted (here) though I did try...so went with an Alien silhouette instead. Now, just to catch up with the next three countries!

An Award!

Ooh, I've been given the Leibster blog award by my lovely Circle Journal friend Catherine.

Thank you Catherine - especially for your lovely comments!

There are some conditions that come with the award...

1. Thank your Liebster Blog Award presenter on your blog - done.

2. Link back to the blogger who presented the award to you - done.
3. Copy and paste the blog award on your blog - done.

4. Present the Liebster Blog Award to 5 blogs of 200 followers or less who you feel deserve to be noticed  - see below.

5. Let them know they have been chosen by leaving a comment at their blog - yep, will do!

So...I am awarding...

First of all, Trisha (my mam!) - she doesn't blog often but she has a knack of finding lovely images for colouring.

Next, the lovely Bethan - Bethan makes some beautiful cards but also dabbles in other crafts and has made some lovely cakes too!

And, the lovely Jackie - one of my fellow Circle Journal ladies, Jackie does some gorgeous work, some of which I happen to be the proud owner of! But Jackie - you need to blog more often!

Lea - another Circle Journal lady who is relatively new to crafting and has started to blog her efforts - go and show her some love!

And last, but by no means least, Jayne - who also needs to blog more! Jayne has done the She Art class which I'm currently doing and has produced some lovely pieces.

Right, off to notify the winners!

Postcard Challenge - All Caught Up

I'm up to date! I haven't been able to link up my postcards in time for the last few weeks so if you'd like to see those cards then here are China, France and Belgium.

So here are my postcards for Wales and Cuba...

Wales first...I found an artist called Amanda Hone, I liked the style of her art and she has handily done a canvas based on Portmeirion. We visited Portmeirion a few years ago and I knew as soon as Wales was announced that I wanted to use it as the inspiration for my postcard. I realised as I was doing the postcard though that it's very similar to my Brazil postcard!

And next we have Cuba - my friend visited Cuba last year so I borrowed one of her photos from Facebook :) I turned the photo to black and white then coloured the car with ProMarkers. Quite simple really.

If you've not come here as part of the Postcard Challenge then check out Darcy's blog to see what it's all about.

Circle Journal update

I've had a few days off this week and as I've had the house to myself I've been able to do a bit of crafting. I've been working on the next journal in our Circle Journal and it reminded me that I've not blogged the last few that I've done.

Here is Lea's (she's just started up her blog so go take a look here). Her favourite film is Dirty Dancing so you can see where I went!

And the tag...

And here is Janey's journal. Her favourite song is Wind Beneath My Wings as it means a lot to her.

And her tag...

I'm working on Lynn's at the moment and I'm really pleased with how it's going. I should get it finished this weekend and I'll actually be able to post it on to Catherine in time, most unlike me!