CD Sunday Plus - Challenge #100 - hosted by me.

 I hope this won't be too boring but I have chosen  a second of the stitched 12 Days of Christmas to show you.  But I promise not to re post the links etc that I included last time.

Here is just one more (and final) one of this set of makes:

This particular line from the song is my favourite of the twelve.  Just something about the design and colours I think.

I do have to mention that the pattern comes from PinBroidery which is part of Form-a-Lines and Stitching Cards.com. (links in side panel).

So there will be no 12 Days of Christmas again next year.  I have bought many new dies and  appropriate papers during the last few months but haven't managed to use them yet so hopefully there will be some something different for next year. 

I am taking the opportunity of this posting to show you some new Christmas patterns from Stitching Cards. They are a little whimsical and I have made them for friends and family.

I have now finished all my Christmas cards, so that just leaves me  to wish you all, a very Happy, Safe and Warm Christmas.

Hugs

Carol

xx

CD Sunday Plus Challenge #99 - hosted by Jocelyn

 Here is my DT offering for this Challenge:

 As you can see this is the 'Three French Hens' from the Christmas song 'The Twelve days of Christmas'.

I love this song and it is, in fact, my favourite Christmas song.   I think I have stitched the complete set of 12 at least 4 times and I love doing them.  I just have to make sure that I send them to different people each time.

The pattern comes from PinBroidery which is part of Form-a-Lines and Stitching Cards.com. The link is on the right under 'Some Great Sites'.

 I have a beautiful version of the song for you to listen to.  Just highlight and 'Open link':

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-cjK3f87jI 

And here is a link to Wikipedia where you will find the fascinating history of the song:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Days_of_Christmas_(song)

I am looking forward to visiting you all -  and please leave a comment here as you pass by - if you so wish.

Take care of yourselves.

Carol

xx

CD Sunday Plus - Challenge #98 - hosted by Margaret

 

 My last Halloween card for this year - but one of my favourites.  It really does look spooky.  The spooks remind me of  dementors  from  the  Harry Potter stories/films.  I am a big Harry Potter fan and have all the films and the complete set of story CDs read by Stephen Fry. 

Yet another download for the background but I think a really great one.  The spooks are from Jan Mayhew's folder - Haunted.  SPOOKY is a die cut and 'Tis Halloween' is from my graphics programme. The  Font is called Chiller. The borders are also done using my graphics programme.

 Keep well and try to keep dry.

Hugs

Carol  xx

 

CD Sunday Plus - Challenge #97 - hosted by Jo

 When this is published we will still have two days left of the Halloween season so I have a Halloween card for you.  Here it is:

I think I have said before that as a family we never really took part in any Halloween activities but now I do really enjoy creating cards for Halloween. It is just so much fun playing with  all these spooky things and then sending a card off to someone just because. I belong to a little Facebook group and this year I sent off 13 (a good number !!)

The basic card is  an internet download.  The digital images of the ghosts, pumpkin and broom are from Kate Hadfield's - Oogly Boogly folder.  I am a real fan of Kate's work. The images in many of her folders are for the young and very young, but not all, and I always manage to find what I want and need.

So this card found a home and is not lurking in my go to box, and I have returned to Christmas card making.

On a different subject - and keeping all fingers and toes crossed - I have a consultation with my hand surgeon on November 1st.  Not long now.

Take care

Carol

xx

P.S.

Thank you everyone for your good wishes about my hand.  I saw the Consultant yesterday and it turns out not to be anything to do with the Carpal Tunnel op.  I have trigger finger in two fingers. This was probably masked by the Carpal Tunnel.  I will be having treatment for them.  Injections!!  Whoopee.

 My left hand has healed itself so no more ops for Carpal Tunnel needed.

xx

Apples and Lemons

 I have made two more of the stitched cards using the adapted Stitching Cards pattern.  I have enjoyed making these but now I must start again on Christmas cards.

Here are the two cards.  I think it is something about the shape of the jar which I find pleasing.  The second card is my favourite.

For those who need to know I used mainly Gutermann threads.  

Stay well and take care.

Carol

xx

CD Sunday Plus - Challenge #96 - hosted by Pamela

 For my team sample this time I am showing some ATCs that I  made for a Facebook group I belong to -  ATC Swap UK.  The theme for the month of October was Harvest Festival.    Here are mine.

No:83

I found the background frame on MCS and then filled them in with digital images from a Kate Hadfield folder - Pick of the Patch.

I am still enjoying the world of digital crafting and I think it is going to be a godsend to me as physical problems make other kinds of crafting more difficult.  The op on my hand has not been the total success I would have wished for and the surgeon herself is now not well and my follow up appointments are getting further apart.  As well as the dreadful state the NHS is in, with waiting lists getting longer and longer, hand surgeons - in particular - are thin on the ground. It is a very very specialist field - a problem.

But I am still managing to do stitching though  and some die-cutting, so all is not lost. 

Stay well and safe.

Carol

xx

Christmas stitched card.

  

  I designed this card by using a combination of designs by David of Stitching Cards. All the items are from Stitching Card patterns except for the use of the word Mincemeat and the sentiment - Christmas Greetings. I have always liked the patterns for the jars of Jam and Honey that are on the site and wanted to use a jar of mincemeat to be used as a Christmas card.   David has seen this and has approved my use and design of the card as long as the copyright remains with his companies which of course - it does.

I loved doing it and am so pleased that David likes it.

Carol

xx

CD Sunday Plus - Challenge #95 - hosted by myself (Carol)

 I don't think that most of us are really feeling much like crafting at the moment.  I think we are still really mindful of the fact we have just lost our Queen and now we are being hit by huge energy bills.  My direct debits have been increased almost threefold so my crafting purchases are going to take a hit.

On a brighter note here is my card for this challenge which was made a while ago when times were more cheerful:

Digital card made using images from The Card Hut CD - Mark Bardsley's Country Show, and my graphics programme - ACDSee.. I enjoy creating cards using The Card Hut CD's.  I think I have one for the next challenge already lined up.

Hopefully better times are coming.  In the meantime hugs to all, and .......keep crafting!!

Carol xx

CD Sunday Plus - Challenge #94 - hosted by Jocelyn

At such a sad time I felt a deep need to display a favourite photograph that I have saved of HM Queen Elizabeth 11.

I saw it on the BBC News page that opens up whenever I switch on my computer.  It was taken during an amusing incident at a ceremony when the Queen and Prince Philip were surrounded by a swarm of bees where he had to stand still - at attention.

The smile and the twinkle in her eyes is what I will remember about our Queen.

Now -  here below -  is the card I made for this challenge.  Nothing royal but then I couldn't know what was in the wind.

This was made using Serif Craft Artist 2.  The CD is called Waterworld and was by Daisy Trail.  Full of super images and I have used it a few times.

In sorrow.

Carol

xx

A little keepsake

I have felt so sad the last few days.  It is so difficult to come to terms with the death of our Sovereign.

I have always felt a special bond as our birthdays were on the same day.  My mother used to tell me that the guns being fired as a birthday salute in Hyde Park were for my birthday.  I believed her for a while.

Whilst I have been sitting watching the TV coverage of the services and parades I decided to try some more stitching.  It is more exercise for my hand and the sort of crafting you can do whilst watching the 'box'.  I found a great new pattern on the Stitching Cards site and here is my interpretation.  I added the dates as they were not part of the pattern.

HM Queen Elizabeth 11

I had to photograph this without the glass.  I will put that back in and then keep this close by as a momento.

Carol   xx

CD Sunday Plus Challenge #93 - hosted by Margaret

 

I had some fun making this one.  It all comes in digital downloads from Polkadoodles.  They sent me an email offering a 40% discount - so how could I refuse.  It would have been rude.

The pink lidded eyes I have had stored in a little embellishment box for a while.  You just know you are going to need them one day.

This is the set that I bought - 'Happy Cactus' - together with some sayings and beautiful backgrounds.

This was a quick decision make and add to my CD Sunday makes. The UKSN group I belong to had sent me my 'name' for the Care For Kindness list for September and I desperately wanted to play with the new purchase - so -  what I had planned for this CD Sunday will now be my card for next time.  I think I understand it!

I don't think this will be the last of my Happy Cactuses.  (even though Grammarly has underlined Cactuses - it is correct).

Hugs

Carol

xx

CD Sunday Plus - Challenge # 92 - hosted by Jo

 

For this creation I used Serif Craft Artist 2 - 'Country day Out' by Victoria Nelson.  I used my  graphics programme for the internal striped borders and Carnation Craft dies for the green and white mats.

The image and background were all from the 'Country Day Out'.  There is so much to choose from in this folder that I intend to revisit for more inspiration.

This card has been sent to my cousin Ian who lives in France. It is his birthday next week.  I thought the scene has a distinct continental look. I have spent quite a few short breaks with Ian in the days I was traveling, and always enjoyed those times.

If nothing else, having hand problems for most of this year, has opened up a new world of digital crafting.  I knew vaguely about it but was so concentrating on parchment craft, stitching and decoupage that it was passing me by.  After all there are only so many hours in a day.

I am enjoying 'going digital' and do not intend to forget it when I can get back to the more physical crafting.

I look forward to your visits and will avidly read any comments you care to make.

Stay safe.

Carol

xx

Crafters in the 'pink'

 

I made this card to send as a 'Card For Kindness' to another member of the UKSN.  Each month - those of us who have joined this little section of our club - are sent a name of the person we are to make for and to send a card. So this month my card goes to Valerie and I hope she likes it.  I enjoyed making it using a new digital purchase from here.

The background I used actually came from a La Pashe CD and the borders were made with my graphics programme.

Carol

xx

I am joining in:

Creations In Pink Challenge # 48 ~ Anything Goes in MAINLY PINK

CD Sunday Plus - Challenge #91 - hosted by Pamela

 I have been dying for Challenge #91 to come up on the schedule because of the card I had chosen for it.  We have a very strict rule at CD Sunday that the card we show must not have been seen before on the web.  We can have given it to someone else e.g a birthday card - but we must not have posted it ourselves or entered it anywhere else that may show it publicly before the challenge date.  The same rule applies to our challengers.

Anyway all that being said you would think this card is fabulous or wonderful and ask what am I making a fuss about. But no -  it is just one of the digital ones I  made and I loved it and quite frankly wanted to share with you.

I had made the card - which let's face it isn't at all complicated but I wracked my brains to find the perfect caption.  All sorts sprang to mind until the speech bubble idea came and then suddenly I knew what to put in it.

The image comes from a Card Hut CD - Mark Bardsley's Country Show. This CD is one of many from The Card Hut - each with their own graphics programme. Such fun to use.

I have made several of this type of card and plan to show them in future challenges. It is funny how circumstances can send one off in a different direction and introduce something new. Exciting.

Hugs

Carol xx

ATC Swap UK

 Here is a catch up of the last few entries to this monthly swap:

No:75

  

No: 76

No: 77

No: 78

No: 79

No: 81

Now these are up to date.  We haven't been told yet what is the theme for August.  I hope to try and make some a little more 3D.

CD Sunday Plus - Challenge #90 - hosted by moi

 

This is from the Docraft Digital Designer - Tulip and Friends folder - Pampered Pets.  The words and the borders are from my graphics programme.  Some gems have been added to the cats collar and dingle dangle and to the dogs coat.

 You will begin to think that I am obsessed with above source and folders but I must admit to liking all the contents and have used many of them.  Whilst my hand was at its worst and I was just using digital images  - Docraft Digital Designer, Serif and MCS proved to be a godsend.

I will have used all that I made quite soon and have already started some decoupage and stitching.  When will I try some parchment? - I don't know yet.

Back to the card.  I just loved these two sweet animals.  I don't have cats and don't want one but they are very very cute and a lot of my friends have them - and my daughter has two.  I love dogs and have always had them until I could no longer go walkies. A girlfriend of mine has this sort of dog. A Scottie? I think. Anyway these two sweeties were separate images and I put them to together to make the topper.

I hope all are well and are enjoying the slightly cooler weather.  I look forward to visiting your blogs and choosing my Top 3.

Hugs - Carol xx

CD Sunday Plus - Challenge #89 - hosted by Jocelyn

 This is from the Hot Diggity Dog folder again - in Tulip and Friends from the Docraft Digital designer.

I have added the extra cupcakes and the rabbit from The Card Hut CDs.  The words come from Beccy's Place and the blue borders from my graphics programme.  A real mixture of sources.

This looks like the scene of a super little picnic but... I hope those aren't wasps flying around after the sweet treats.  I hate wasps with a passion and have the scars to prove it.

I hope all are well and that the promised heat wave isn't too serious.  My plants are looking a little sad already.

I have managed some more stitching cards and a little 3D decoupage.  The 'girls' (my three crafting friends) are coming for one of their Sunday eat,chat and craft days at the end of the  month - hopefully - and I am planning that I will try some die-cutting with them.  The first since a while before the op. 

I look forward to lots of visiting and if you feel like dropping in to see me you will be very welcome.

Hugs

Carol

xx

Christmas 2022 - Burst of Berries

 This is my first stitched card attempted since my operation.  I just wanted to see if I could manage with a fine needle and thread - and I couldn't be more pleased.

My last stitched card was managed about a year ago.  Towards the end of the year and up until just now stitching had been impossible.

I chose a Christmas stitch pattern from here and re pricked the already done holes to make them easier for the needle and thread.  Unusually, I did the stitching before I chose a focal image, and this made it difficult to choose one to match the theme and threads.  I have a whole box full of ready made 3D die cut images to choose from and couldn't find one I liked.  Instead I went to my album of already cut Christmas die-cuts and chose the Carnation Craft 'Burst of Berries' which I trimmed into a bouquet and added a bow.

I haven't tried getting out the die-cutting machine and plates yet to see if I can manage the weight and actions needed - but this is now high up on my to do list.  

All I need now is for the operation on my left wrist to be done and crafting life will be back to normal.

Carol xx

CD Sunday Plus - Challenge #88 - hosted by Margaret

 On the day I am typing this we have a beautiful clear sky, lots of sunshine and a very light breeze.  Perfect for the subject of my design card:

I love all things about Hot Air Balloons and I would love to go up in one.  I love those beautiful paintings you see of many of them up in the sky. All various  sizes showing how near or far away they are.  I even have some jigsaws showing a sky crammed full of multi-coloured ones.  Some just striped and others as advertisements. Here are some ATCs I made some time ago show a couple as Minions:

One of the best places to see them in this country in all their majesty is at the Bristol Balloon Festival.

Anyway that is enough of me going on and on.   I made a couple of little matching calendar cards to go with the main card. All came from one of The Card Hut CDs. 

 

I have chosen to give this card to a friend whose birthday is later in the year so I will just include the 2023 calendar for her to pop into her purse.

 Here is a jigsaw of mine that was framed and hung.

Hugs

Carol

xx

CD Sunday Plus - Challenge #87 - hosted by Jo

A card for the 'Go to' box.  Sadly we still need a few of these but thankfully not as many now, as were needed in the previous two years.

This is from one of the Tatty Ted CDs using the Docraft Digital Designer programme.   To the topper from the disc, showing Ted in bed with flowers and the envelope,  I added the biscuits, the corner embellishments, the pink pencil and all the words.  The border was added using my graphics programme.

Another digital card that I enjoyed making.

Whilst I have been reduced to making digital cards I have had another problem - not being able to write inside the cards I make - or in fact even sign them.  I can now write but surprisingly my handwriting is now rubbish and difficult!!   I have come up with a solution.  Not mind blowing or earth shattering but useful.

I have bought a pack of Avery Address labels - J8166.  They are 6 on a sheet and perfect for a verse or a greeting together with your name.  These seem the perfect size for sticking on to the inside right sheet of the card. Here is a sample - perfect for the above card:

Sending you love

and best wishes

for a very speedy

recovery.

 With hugs

Carol xxx

 You can obviously space this out as you wish and choose any font but this is the one I chose and can print it out any time.  Just an idea.

On the subject of  'Wellness', I hope that all are well.  Please do take care.

I will be choosing my Top 3 during the next couple of weeks so I look forward to revisiting all the entries to #86

Hugs

Carol xx

The Queen's Platinum Jubilee Card Challenge - with UKSN

Although the UKSN is 90% about stamping and mixed media they do allow any kind of medium for their ATC section of the club and they have -  graciously -  allowed me to continue to use digital images whilst my hand is healing so that I could enter this challenge.  I had all sorts of ideas buzzing in my head and this is what I produced:

I loved creating this card.  The background of Buckingham Palace was a copyright free image from the net.  'Her Majesty' is a wonderful first layer decoupage image from a La Pashe CD.  This is the first piece of fine cutting I have managed since my op so I am so pleased.  The union flag numbers, bunting, corgis, guards and the princes all come from a digital download purchase from Kate Hadfield.

I am secretly pleased with it (perhaps not so secretly now) and I hope you like it too.

Hugs

Carol

xx

CD Sunday Plus - Challenge #86 - hosted by moi

It should have been my turn to host the last challenge but Pamela kindly stepped in for me whilst I was recovering from the surgery to my hand.  All is well and I am back on duty.

Here is my card for this challenge:

I used one of the Card Hut CDs -  Mark Bardsleys Country Show -  and my graphics programme to add the words and the borders.

Those of our challengers who are not in the UK may not know about a TV series we had about a famous vet named James Herriot . I watched every episode of all the series and loved them all. I found this image in the ready to print section on the CD and I just had to add the reference to James Herriot.

Hopefully I will be able to physically create cards soon rather than just digitally. I am just being wary until the dissolvable stitches have all dissolved. At the moment I can use double sided tape and wield a pair of scissors but I haven't yet had the courage to get out the die-cutting machine etc. Lifting things are a no no apparently.

By the way the beautiful card that Pamela made for this current challenge is her birthday card to me.  It is truly beautiful.

I hope to be able to return to commenting on your challenge entries and I look forward to see in them all.

Hugs

Carol

xx

Jigsaws

Any one who has followed my blog for a while will know that I love doing jigsaw puzzles - when time allows.

It would appear from this posting here that it is not uncommon for me to resort to jigsawing when everything else comes to a halt.  And the previous posting to that tells me that is was 5 years ago that I first started to have treatment for the Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

I  managed to finish this one yesterday:

Harry Potter and friends. 1000 pieces

I had done the edges before the op but did the rest in the last week after the bandages came off.  A wonderful puzzle. I can recommend it. (Amazon).

Now the next one is ready to start:   Woodland Seasons - by Gibsons

This has 2000 pieces.  I have the edge pieces separated and plan to do one Season at a time.

When you have been instructed to take things easy - not to rush about lifting anything heavy (not even a kettle) - and only essential housework?  - this is the next best thing.  I am keeping my mind busy and improving my left hand dexterity.  That is my excuse.

So off to get started.

Hugs

Carol

xx

CD Sunday Plus - Challenge # 85 - hosted by Pamela

 More digital from me - but I am having fun.  Physical crafting is almost impossible still so I am really enjoying playing with a different style of crafting.  What I am doing is very simplified but fun.  I will know in a couple of weeks how my op has gone and how much movement and sensitivity I have regained.  Then I can play with all those new dies I have bought.

Here is my card for this challenge, and, I think a new favourite:

A mixture of downloads including a Card Hut CD - 'Pets in a mess' for Hamish the dog and the rabbit he is chasing and the sitting up cat on the windowsill. 

I added the writing on the blind and the borders with my graphics programme.  I am sorry about the colour quality. It is much better in real life.  I used glossy card for the topper and I don't think my scanner was impressed.

I think this will be for my daughter for her birthday in July.

All being well I will be having my op on Tuesday and be on my way to some die cutting craft at long last.

Hugs

Carol xx

P.S.

I have had my op and as far as I can tell it all went well. Thankfully not as much pain as I expected.  All done under local in the operating theatre.  I can only commend and applaud the wonderful service and treatment I received from all the medical and other staff.  After the NHS almost being on their knees I think it is great the way they are.  I just have to heal properly from this op  - which  takes a while - then have the left hand done and all will be well again.

xx

CD Sunday Plus - Challenge # 84 hosted by Jocelyn

Another Docraft Digital Designer creation from me for this challenge.  More from the  Hot Diggity folder on the Tulip and Friends CD.  I must admit that I find almost all the images etc on the Docraft Designer brilliant.  They seem to fit most occasions and are all beautifully drawn.

Here is the one I have chosen for this challenge:

I just love the expressions on the dogs faces as they look at the frog invasion.

Remembering some previous cards I have posted I seem to have a thing for green camper vans and surf boards.  I have only just noticed!  I wonder if Aimeslee notices.

Everything comes from the CD apart from the tri-coloured border which was made using my ACDSee graphics programme.

I knew that there had been a Hot Diggity song way back.  Yes I am just old enough to remember it -  so here it is.

A cheerful song to reflect my mood as at last I have received a date for my first Carpal Tunnel op - May 17th.  I know it isn't going to be very pleasant but it has to be done and the sooner the better.

Please enjoy the music and perhaps leave a comment on your way past.

Hugs

Carol

xx

A card that has travelled 4,896 miles...

 This super card arrived in time for my birthday all the way from Texas;

This was made by Aimeslee.  A new friend I have made through the wonderful place that is CD Sunday Plus.

We first got chatting because Aimeslee loved one of my DT cards in particular.  I had made several using the same image slightly differently.  I found I still had the original and sent it to her for her birthday - which she didn't have technically as it is 29th February.  This is the one I sent.  I know you have all seen it before:

Apparently the sand and the surfing brought back memories.

Aimeslee has made such a fantastic card for me.  There is much royalty for the Queen, having the same birthday as me, and sense of the UK and the States all mixed up together.

We have started to chat about ourselves and things British and American and I am thoroughly  enjoying it and long may it last. 

Thank you for my card Aimeslee.  If you would like to see more of the card and  Aimeslee see here.

Hugs

Carol

xx

CD Sunday Plus - Challenge #83 - hosted by Margaret

It isn't often that our challenge lands on Easter Sunday but this year it has, so may I wish you all a very Happy Easter. 

I was named Carol because I was born at Easter.  Easter hymns and Christmas songs are both known as Carols.  Pity I can't sing - in tune.

I haven't got an Easter card to show you - I have a Birthday card.  I am still restricted to making digitally based cards but although it is turning out to be more fun than I thought it would I will be glad when the pain goes. Other complications have appeared and I am having another consultation on the 28th.

This card started out as an ATC.  I love making ATCs and belong to ATC swapping groups and have done so for years.

This is the ATC I made with Serif Craft Artist 2. This was made for a series just called Fairies in March 2017.

I went back to the original work on Serif and removed the fairy, added back the tissue like label,  butterflies and added the words and borders.  The ATC was decoupaged but I can't do that at the moment.

That was fun altering something that I had made all those years ago.

I will see you all again on May 1st.  By that time I will be a year older - and just maybe - wiser.

And in the meantime here is a copy of an Easter decoupaged ATC from  that same year 2017

Hugs

Carol xx

Memories

 As a family- many years ago now - we managed to take our three children to Kenya for a wonderful 3 week holiday. The eldest was about 16 and the youngest - my daughter - 10.  I particularly remember the trip because it was in April just before my birthday - about now.

We had a fabulous time.  We were lucky that it was during a period of stability in Kenya.  It wasn't too long after our trip there that sadly there were more troubles.

One of the things that I especially remember was the guy in charge of the hotel pool - which was positioned  between the cottages and the main hotel.  We had to pass the pool on the way to breakfast and the 'pool man' wouldn't let the children pass him until they had greeted him properly and respectfully in Swahili.  The kids were great and joined in the fun with good heart.

This digital picture I have had fun making just reminds me of some of those days. 

The background image is one that I found somewhere and the giraffes are wonderful digital images from Beccy's Place.  Now 'Machweo' is Swahili for Sunset.  If you go onto Google it even tells you exactly how to pronounce it.

I think I might give this to my son Chris for his birthday in July.  It will stir some memories for him as well.

Hugs

Carol

xx

CD Sunday Plus Challenge - #82 - hosted by Jo

Docraft Digital Designer.    Hot Diggity Dog from Tulip and Friends.

 I am so enjoying my revisits to CD's and graphic programmes to enable me to continue making cards.  Over time I have got so engrossed in exploring die-cuts and cutting machines -  Vignettes and Charismas etc that I had forgotten how I started out crafting.  I did also do a great deal of non die-cut decoupage (and still love it) but that is difficult until my wrists have healed.

 As the pains have eased a little I have been enjoying the 'digital' world but  I really do want to get back to die-cutting, and all that involves.

I look forward to lots of visiting, and I hope - visitors.

Carol

xx

CD Sunday Plus - Challenge #81 - hosted by Pamela

I am still with the digital cards although I am noticing some improvement in my wrist after the jab.  A little less pain and almost no terrible pins and needles.  So hopefully it will continue this way.

I had a lot of fun making this card using one of my favourite characters - Boofle - from Docrafts.

So here he is.

It was fun choosing some favourite poses, changing sizes etc, and then thinking of some appropriate text/sayings.  The border was from my graphics programme.  Everything else was  'Boofle' from Docrafts Digital Designer.

The card was made for the Card For Kindness group on UKSN and is winging its way to its recipient in Australia. I am hoping that by the time this post appears it will have reached Sue.

I will be busy next week choosing my Top 3 for the last challenge and with the improvement hoping to find it all a mite easier.

I have a little story to relate  about my son - true - it happened last week.

I am taking a drug called Gabapentin.  Supposed to help with Carpal Tunnel Pain.  I am on quite a heavy dose and one of the side effects is to make you dizzy and unsteady.  I have been suffering - in spades - as they say, and had a long chat with medics about it and it is being reduced.

That bit is just background.  Yesterday afternoon I went outside the front door to the post box (separate from the house) to see if there was any post and when I bent down I started to lose my balance - big time.  In fact, in my mind's eye, I could see myself hitting the box and ground.  Anyway, I manage to get back up straight and all was well.

Later on, Chris  came home just for a moment and he asked how I was.  I told him about the incident and what I needed was one of those alarm bells you wear round your neck if you do fall.  But I said I couldn't have one of those because I am not on my own.  What I needed was one that just connected to him but such a thing would be impossible.

Ah says he. What you need is a Cow Bell.

I am just about still talking to him.

Hugs to all and please still be careful.

Carol xx

CD Sunday Plus - Challenge #80 - hosted by me (Carol)

 Yes, it is my turn again to host the challenge and choose the Top 3.  I have some treatment starting on Tuesday for the Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and I am hoping it will be taking effect when I have to do some concentrated mouse work when choosing the winners.

In the meantime here is my contribution for #80.  Very simple again - I am afraid - but not long now I hope.

This was a digital download - printed twice - so that I could very carefully cut out the central oval.  This I decoupaged using sticky pads.  I had added 'Margaret' and the borders before I printed it all out.

This card is for a member of a Birthday List to which I belong.

It gets very tiring using the mouse and keyboard so I will just say that I look forward to visiting your blogs and choosing my Top 3.

Hugs

Carol xx