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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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