Perhaps I could manage more than once a month?

Well here I am more than a month later. But I am going to have lots of things to show.
The first thing I am going to show is a Christmas in July card. This was for the July card exchange at Craft Crossing here in Gonzales Texas.

 Out of this idea I made 30 Christmas cards that I will be mailing to family at the end of November and they look like this:

This card is a folded card and will open and allow the reciving party to display the card sitting on a shelf. I always display the cards I receive at Christmas and so many of them just sort of sink in the middle and make a C shape on the shelf. So I end up having a shelf of cup shaped cards that you can's see anthing but the edges on.

And then in August we had a "male" themed birthday card. Less frilly yes? Hum... more masculine!!!! And I thought what can be more masculine than diamond plate steel?  My grandson John actually thought up the diamond plate steel look. John is 10 and he learned to like card making this past June after taking a class at Craft Crossing.  I took the diamond plate steel look and made the birthday card shown next.

The bottem lable says " the Squirrels at it before I could give it to you"

and the inside has a place for a gift card. After all the squirrels at the gift!
The Squirrel was colored with Copic Markers. Isn't he the cutest thing? I think I should have drawn the branch out to the edge of the picture.


In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.             John 1:1