Hi all.  Yes I am still around.  I hope you all had a great New Year.  I spent New Year's eve in Westport with my husband and several friends,  then went off to Nelson for a few days.  Since then I have been enjoying some of our nice weather, although we have had rain and some colder days as well. 

 

Back in to the craft room and I have been busy making birthday cards for January - 3 for January 29th would you believe!

 

The first is for a friend who loves cats and is also a big Crusaders fan - hence the red and black.

 

 

 

The second is for a friend who loves fishing.

 

 

The last card is the one I made for my husband's birthday using a great little stamp I found at Hastings Rubber Stamps of Hurricane aeroplane.  I love how the kraft frame turned out.

 

 

 

 I also found this little video on how to make a bow using your envelope punch board, so had to give it a go.  The example below was the first one I made and I used a square punch on the ribbon tails as I prefer a square cut to the rounded finish you get with the punch board.  I will do a few more photos of this over the weekend to add to this post showing how it was done.

 

 

In the mean time I'm off to cook a bacon and egg pie for tea.  Enjoy your evening.

 

Judith