WHERE DID MY POST GO??

Well I don't know what happened but somehow I lost the post I did a few hours for today!! I have no idea where it went so it looks like I have to do it all over again!
I just about managed to get the 3 cards I made from Liz's parcel finished and on here in time, it being the last day of June and tomorrow I can peep into Julys parcels ........... if I have time!!
So here is what I have made so far, I have 1 more in mind yet but not sure exactly what bits I want to use on it, ..........................

I haven't decided whether to put a greeting on this one or not yet,

Sorry about this one being blurred, because those cute little Santa hats stick out it wouldn't scan properly and because I don't have a camera at the moment I had to just do the best I could ........ which wasn't very good at all !!!!!!

I also made 1 more card this month, the picture came from an earlier parcel of Pat's, the glitter strips were also from Pat, the backing paper I'm not sure of ......... it's my age you know, I just can't remember everything!! The idea for the layout of the card definitely came from Liz ........... it's her favourite layout, LOL.

Well it was time to open my June crafting parcels .............. the theme this month (chosen by yours truly) was "Christmas ......with a difference!". I have nothing against traditional Christmas cards at all, in fact I like them, but I started thinking and realised that not everyone i send cards to at Christmas is into the "traditional" sort, nor are they all religious, so i decided I needed to do some slightly "different" type cards, rather than the more normal "red/green, santa, snowman, holly" type.
I could hear Liz gasp and see Pat sink into her chair in despair but i showed no mercy and held to my choice!!! I had a look at both parcels and was pleased with what i saw. I have a couple of ideas for when I start on Liz's but yesterday I decided to go with Pats parcel first.
Liz joined me for a fun days crafting and between us we had everything we could want .............. except inspiration!!! Liz forgot hers and I've lost mine!! However after a day struggling ............. there were several long silences (almost unheard of before, LOL) while we both sat and looked at all the lovely bits we had and tried desperately to think what to do with them ..................... i finall managed to make 3 cards, all of which I am pleased with, so in the end it was another succesfull day's work!!

A fun card this with "comic" Santa, red & green yes but not quite "traditional"

I loved both this backing paper & the picture as soon as opened my parcel and saw them.

I have to admit I wasn't at all sure about this image to begin with. I had actually put this paper aside to use with a couple of other bits from the parcel but somehow ended up making this card ........ which I like!

After being reminded by Pat that one of my May cards was supposed to be an easel card I swiftly grabbed my parcel of bits to see what I had left!! Finally I came up with this one ................. making a grand total of 8 ..... yes eight!! ....... cards from Pat's May parcel .............

As usual I'm not happy with my colouring at all but it looked a bit better after I cut the picture down

I also made 3 other cards from my own bits this month, 2 more for my Christmas stash and 1 birthday that I don't really need, LOL, but it just came together as I was sorting through some bits ...........

Well it was time to move on to Liz's nautical parcel this week .............. I managed to make 5 cards, yes Pat one is an easel card but I need Liz to take a pic for me when she comes over (pretty please Liz).
So here are the other 4 ......................

This is my favourite one

This one I used some of my own paper for the background

This one I'm not sure about!!

Like this one

May and time to open a new parcel ............ it was Pat's choice this month and she chose "Nautical" ......... so I thought I'd open her parcel first. Lots of lovely bits & pieces fell out when I did ..... papers, ribbons, stamped images, etc.,......... the only thing missing was inspiration!!
I spread the bits out beside my computer and, inbetween answering e-mails and playing facebook games, I kept looking at them. It took a while but eventually I had one card worked out, ..... from there things seemed to fall into place and (over a couple of days) I found I had made 7 (yes seven!!) cards,.......... not bad for someone with no inspiration, LOL.
So here are 6 of them (I'll show the other one later on!) ............

On this one I added strips of my own paper at the sides, I tried one that Pat had enclosed but it wasn't quite right.

I again added my own backing paper to this one, I didn't like the plain card behind it but wanted something that was very light.

The blue strips are mine on this one. I love the little wooden boat Pat sent.

I didn't think I'd use this paper yet as it just didn't say "Nautical" to me ............ the bird didn't either really .......... but the 2 seemed to go together nicely. I love the paper even if I don't like green, LOL

This one is all from Pat ............ most of it from the parcel and the gold trim & greeting she had sent me before.

This one again I wasn't sure I'd use, but in the end I like what I did ............. I'm even happy with my colouring of the bird!!

A few days ago I was sorting out some bits & pieces (trying to bring some sort of order to my stash once again!!!) and found several bits I felt I wanted to use ........... so sorting & tidying my stash was once again put aside as I dragged bits & pieces from here & there and (so far, I have more bits I want to use) made these 3 cards ...............