My 2013 Christmas Card - Maya The Chocolate Nosed Reindeer

Here it is..........

..........my 2013 Christmas card starring Maya. It may not be a stamping masterpiece but they were all made with love.

I took the photo way back in January when we had snow. I'd struggled to get last year's cards done and I thought it would a handy back-up plan in case the same thing happened again. I was right, it was! 

We've taken so many photos like this that we now have it down to a fine art - Hubby holds the treat and I snap away, quickly! These antlers are quite good though as they are actually for dogs and have an elasticated band to keep them on. They were bought in the Accessorize sale. I bought a little elf hat style one in Strikes Garden Centre for this year so maybe I should get some photos taken ready for next year's card!

I printed a load of the photos out and matted them onto brown card to match Maya. I then went through my scrapbook papers picking out all of the Christmassy red and green ones to give the background some variation. Then it was just a case of sticking them all together and stamping the greeting. So I suppose there was some stamping involved........

I hope they made people smile.

Lynne

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Maya the Easter Bunny Scrapbook Page

I always know that every single one of my cards probably won't get shown but it's hard not to be disappointed when your favourite doesn't. It probably isn't the most inspiring technically........

........but who can resist a cute doggy photo? I may be biased, but I think Maya looks so cute in her bunny ears!

I took the photo last Easter as I had some gorgeous K&Company Easter papers that I wanted to use.  I haven't actually finished that page yet (it's sat in my Work in Progress box) but when I saw the Clarity Easter Egg stamps I knew I could do something similar with those.

I stamped the eggs onto some of the K&Company papers and coloured the details in with my ProMarkers. The grass is cut on my Cameo. The Chocolate Easter Bunny text is done on my computer.

You can probably guess that Maya is actually looking up at Hubby holding a bribe treat, but I like the way it now looks like she is staring at her name.

It is just a bit of fun but it shows you how versatile Clarity stamps are, how good Maya can be (if there's something in it for her!), and possibly how bonkers I am!

Stamps Used

Blossom Egg

Leaf Egg

MAYA stamped using the Letter Box Set

Now for some more cuteness.

Here's the reason that I waited until today to do this post - I was in Sainsbury's a couple of weeks ago when I saw some Red Nose Day Deely Boppers (who else remembers then from the eighties?). I think a nose would have been pushing it a bit far but how could I resist those?

As today is Red Nose Day I thought I'd share this photo too. You can probably see that we're getting better at taking them; Hubby was holding the bribe treat right above the lens this time so she's actually looking at the camera! I wonder what I will find for her to wear next? 

Happy Red Nose Day. 

Lynne and Maya

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