Christmas Card Club - Card 20/2019 - Anything Goes - and Computer Update

Hello and Happy Sunday Everyone

I hope you are having a lovely weekend. Many thanks for taking the time to check out today's post - your visit is much appreciated.

The challenge for today's Christmas Card Club, set by Lorraine, is 'icicles'  but I don't have anything appropriate in my stash, instead I'm going with the usual fallback of 'anything goes'. I've made four cards from the set of foiled Christmas toppers that is a gift with this month's Creative Stamping magazine. 

It took only two sheets of toppers to make these four cards. The only extras needed to make the cards were the white card bases in different shapes and sizes, some scraps of cardstock in shades of blue and light green, and adhesives. 

There's also a Christmas themed stamp set with the magazine. The set of card toppers are only available with the magazine on sale at Tesco.

Some of you may be interested in a follow-up to the computer problems experienced through the week. Short story is that it's gone and I am now getting used to a brand, spanking new HP Slimline 290 tower. 

It's tiny - about a third of the size of the previous one - saving on space yet more powerful. I'm still adding software to get everything back up and running. It takes time but, so far, I love it, and I'm so happy to be able to post again. 

That's it for CCC today but I hope you will pop over to see what my teammates have created for today's theme - many of them with icicles. You'll find a list of their names and links on my right sidebar - as always they are so much more creative than me.

Rudolph Day - September

Hello Everyone

This has to be a super quick post today as the computer is still acting up. It looks like it needs a bit of TLC so will taking it to an IT expert tomorrow in the hope that it's fixable. In the meantime I have this month's Rudolph Day card challenge at ScrappyMo's Scraps of Life to share with you.

Once again, apart from the base, all supplies are from my stash.

Supplies used:
- white 5"x 7" card blank
- cardstock; orange/red satin finish card; snippets of white card for greeting, flowers and leaves
- embossing folder: Sizzix Hero Arts 'Christmas Words
- die: Scandinavian Christmas 'Merry Christmas' wreath from Crafters Companion's Signature Collection
- inks: ColorBox 'Frosty White' & 'Green'; Memento 'Rhubarb Stalk'
- stamps; Christmas Stamps set from PaperCrafter Issue 13
- yellow enamel dots 

Oh dear, the fan is making too much noise so I better not stay on much longer.

Take care and have a great day.

WOYWW 538

Hello Everyone,

It's the last Wednesday of September and so the last What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday for the month too. In just a few days - 28th September - it's my blogaversary. Nine years! Not long after starting this blog I discovered Julia's Stamping Ground and it wasn't long before I plucked up courage and was joining in with her WOYWW. According to my stats it's been 494 Wednesdays. And that has got to be 494 of the best things I could have done because, thanks to WOYWW, I have made so many wonderful friends - everyone of them not afraid to reveal what's on their desks too. So here's, for the 495th time, what's on my desk today.

And after that build up, nothing special. I'm still working on the final pages for my son's 50th year. There's a pile of photos dating back to the 1960s/1970s - a mix of black & white and colour, all measuring approximately 3½" square. It's a difficult size and even if I made lots of double page layouts it could take a long time, not to mention a lot of pages, before they were all scrapped. The answer is, I think, to use Project Life inserts. They take 10 photos on each side - much better. It also means I'm finally going to make a dent in that huge stock of PL cards, in the purple box, that have been, up to now, an unwise investment.

I did make these two pages with a few of the small photos before realising what a long job it would be to scrap them all.

Another consideration was just how bulky the album would be if all the photos were recorded in this way.

It's not exactly a first world problem, trivial really, but a niggle nevertheless. So glad I remembered those PL inserts.

Other things I've been up to this week.

The EM asked it I could make a quick notecard for him.

A few strips of washi tape and a couple of stamps and the job was done.

Oh goodness! Disaster! I took a break and my computer died! So I'm trying to finish this on my phone but find I'm not able to insert photos. Again, not a first world problem but definitely not trivial either as I've lost access to all my files. Help!

Hoping to be back to normal next week.

Edited Note: Manage to get computer working again, but for how long I don't know!