Moxie Fab - Map to your heart

I've had this map of London in my stash for a while - it's from October Afternoon's "Thrift Shop" 8X8 pad - so, when I saw the new challenge from Moxie Fab, I knew exactly where to go!

I thougth I had this card finished when it looked like this:

but it was obviously missing something - and the challenge at Moxie Fab is called "the map to your heart", so I knew what to add :)

My favourites from 2011

I have read some posts by a few fellow bloggers today who have posted their favourite cards from 2011 - and I thought I'd join in!  My particular faves are the ones in the larger photos :) 

(I was going to make it my top 20, but it ended up my top 30! LOL!)

Dear Blogland...

Dear all,
     I hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas, and a fantastic New Year so far.  I've been absent for a while now - December was filled with much fun and frivolity, but also with an inordinate amount of singing - 16 performances for Crown Entertainment Complex, 3 different community carols concerts (one that got us all drenched with a summer downpour), the Carols by Candlelight at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Christmas Eve (my 22nd consecutive year in the choir), as well as all of the rehearsals that went along with them all!  It gets a bit exhausting, especially with the hot weather!  Then, on Christmas Day, my computer decided to play silly buggers, and refused to connect to our WLAN.   As the guy at work who can fix it was on leave (as many workplaces were) until yesterday, I've been unable to do much at all until today - and voila! Computer is fixed!  (gotta love the computer guy!)
     Anyway, in the last few days, I have been making some cards, but I have decided to try to get a couple of cards published in a magazine this year, so I can't post them here!  However, the online card class "Clean & Simple Cardmaking" by Kristina Werner, Jennifer McGuire and Julie Ebersole (YAY!!!!) begins on Monday next week, so I hope to get really stuck into some serious card making then - especially as, the following week, I will be off for a 4 day masterclass in preparation for "Opera in the Alps" - should be great fun, but no time for cardmaking!
Happy New Year, everyone!
Michelle

Folded christmas tree

When I saw this week's CAS-ual Fridays challenge CFC30, The Paper Players challenge #75 to make a Christmas card with non-holiday colours, and this week's Clean and Simple challenge 169, I thougth I'd try to combine them.  This is what I came up with.

 For the CASual fridays Tic Tac Toe challenge, I went with Polka Dots, Kraft and Orange.  Yes, the panel behind the tree is orange, not red - the photo shows the colour more red than it actually is. 

Happy birthday, Jim

My brother had his birthday celebration last weekend, and, as he is kind of an expert on dinosaurs, I had to use that theme for his card.  Paper from Imaginisce and a stamp from SU made the job easy :)  I put the paper onto an acetate card base, just for something different - I really like using acetate, but this one only has strips at the top and bottom that are transparent.