52 Week Card Challenge and Christmas Crackers -- Weeks 10, 11, and 12

Here I am behind again because of life and sickness. Nothing makes card making harder than coughing every 20 seconds, and blowing my nose in between coughs. I spent most of yesterday doing catch up in both the Card Challenge and the Christmas Crackers. Some of the cards are not the greatest, but I can weed out the not so good ones when the time comes. Don't know how I managed to get The Week 11 card so crooked but I maintain that it is a design element!

I'm not listing the credits for the catch up because they've been mostly listed before for my other cards. I'm using everything in my stash to make as many cards as I can.

Week 10:




Week 11:




Week 12:

MY CHANGING SEASONS

I am participating in Sian's Storytelling Sundays happening the first Sunday of every month. I decided to do a poem for this month because I am so looking forward to spring. I take a walk each morning, and I have asthma so am very conscious of the changing seasons.


In winter, the air is frosty cold on my morning walk.
I watch the children running to their school bus,
And the snow is still white and pure on the ground.

In spring, I wear a raincoat and carry an umbrella on my morning walk.
Anticipating a hot cup of tea while looking through the seed catalogs,
And a robin pulls at a wiggling worm struggling on the ground.

In summer, humidity clings to my lungs while on my morning walk.
A neighbor is cleaning his swimming pool for a party later,
And dandelions are poking their heads up on the ground.

In autumn, the smell of burning leaves permeates my morning walk.
We throw handfuls of colorful leaves at each other,
And the leaves lazily fall from the trees in piles on the ground.

52 Week Christmas Crackers -- Week 9

I'm also using my stash for the Christmas Cracker challenge (and doing pretty good using it up, too!) but no roses or even anything resembling a rose to use for Christmas. So I sort of copied the sample this week.

Credits:
Background paper is from the ME Christmas 6x6 paper pad
Frame is from Jillibean Soup
Star and red bow is from Anna Griffin's 2011 Christmas Collection (I still had lots of stuff left from that collection!)
The verse is printed on Staples Matte Photo Paper Supreme
Font used is Gabriola in 30 pt.

52 Week Card Challenge -- Week 9

I'm working from my stash for this 52 week card challenge, and the challenge this week was to use roses. I had this bit of rose background paper and one tag with a rose on it. So that's what I used.

Credits:
Background Paper by Crate Paper
Striped paper by My Mind's Eye Lost & Found 6x6 paper pad
Tag from Good Things sheet, Webster Picnic Co.
Additional items -- Lace doily and white ribbon