Humphrey Card

Hello everyone

Happy New Year to you all.  I hope that this year brings each and every one of you good health and happiness, and whatever else you wish for yourself.  I hope you all had a good Christmas and that not too many of you succumbed to the dreaded sickness bug.  Tom and I had a lovely Christmas, despite the fact that he was working from lunchtime on Christmas Eve until lunchtime on Christmas Day.  I had the most relaxed Christmas for over thirty years, while poor Tom just never stopped as there was still very little I could do one-handed.  I was very pleased with myself though because I managed to stuff the turkey and get it into the oven myself, and also managed to make the bacon rolls - and once Tom had cut up my dinner for me I had little trouble eating it!  Anyway, enough about that and down to business!

This morning I took the bull by the horns and had a scout around in my craft room to see if there was any way I could actually do any crafting.  I came across a set of Humphrey decoupage that I had already printed and cut out before I broke my wrist.  I had even stuck some of the decoupage together so, usimg my guillotine very carefully with my elbow I managed to cut out the base image and also some of the backing papers and turned it all into a card - a very simple card - but a card nonetheless!  Thank goodness for Collal Photo Glue!

  

I didn't have a sentiment for it so took one of the Card Companions sheets into Craft Artist and digitally cropped the sentiment from it, added a blue border and printed it onto Neenah card and then, using my guillotine as before, carefully cut it out and stuck it to the card front with some foam tape. 

I had already decided, when frantically making Christmas card inserts in order to get the cards into the post, that I was going to design the inserts for every card I make at the time I make the card, even if I don't print it and put it into the card until later, so I designed an insert in Craft Artist.  I haven't printed it and put it into the card - I will do this when I know the recipient and that way the text can be personalised accordingly.  Here is a photo of the insert

So I now feel a bit happier as I have missed my crafting dreadfully and have been extremely bored - there is a limit to how much tv I can watch and how many books I can get through.  I even had to stop looking at other blogs and crafting groups because I was getting so frustrated at not being able to do anything myself.  I think I will have to be a bit careful though as I don't want to overdo it and set myself back.

Thank you for visiting my blog.

Catherine x