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 ...............

 

A days crafting with Liz yesterday (Thursday) saw me tackling her April parcel, ........ we're still on the theme of Christmas which means I'm actually getting some cards done before Christmas arrives!!!
We both worked hard and ....... inbetween nattering (of course) ....... we ended up doing 5 cards each! I was pleased with mine, which is a plus as so often I end up not liking what I do a lot!!
Almost everything used came from Lizs parcel except for a few gems ..........

 

Now for Aprils challenge between Liz, Pat & myself the subject was "Christmas Cards" ........... good choice Liz, I need to get some done befor December for a change!!
I opened Pata parcel first and found lots of lovely bits and pieces. I wasn't sure what I was going to do to start off but suddenly things fell into place and I had 5 cards made!!! Liz and I worked very hard that day ..... inbetween nattering of course! The 6th card here uses a picture from Pats parcel but the background paper & other bits were mine ............