Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Hi everyone I hope you have had a good weekend.  We did seem to miss the worst of the weather, didn't we? Yesterday Bob & I had a rather nice day out meeting up with an old friend.  We met for a meal about mid afternoon & we were still there chatting just after 6:00pm - great time. Today I had one of my "using it up" sessions - I wanted to make some cards & wanted to make them quickly.  I had been asked if I could make some quite simple cards, including some for men.  Looking amongst all the stuff I have I found a decoupage sheet of sportsmen.  Ideal - so that was the direction I went in. Here they are - I made 3; I really have kept them simple.  I found a paper pad that had this green paper in it that was ideal for a grass background.  The cards I used were 5x5 scalloped edge cards which I used tent fold orientation, then cut a piece of green paper for the grass.  I cut near enough to size then torn the top edge rando...

Hello again ladies I've popped back in to show you the quick & easy Christmas cards I made this morning from the decoupage sheets that were on my desk.  I am trying to maintain 2 methods of crafting (not sure methods is the right descriptive word here).  "Use it Up"  - which is to use stuff that I have bought & not got round to using, & to do so as I come across it again.  Then the "Recycle" or "Don't Scrap It" - which is to use scraps & leftover embellishments etc.  The difficulty with that one is each time you make something you inevitably create some more scraps. So I am also trying, where possible, to use the new scraps as soon as possible.  There is work in progress there. Anyway, enough gabbling - here are the cards I had to trim this one a little to fit it on the square card.  The only thing I have done is round the corners of the card.  It will need a little bit of embellishment - but that comes lat...