Money Card!

Hello everybody! Joanne here again. Like many teenagers, my 14 year old nephew has asked for money for Christmas to save up and buy the latest computer games. With this in mind I thought I would challenge myself to come up with a card, suitable for a teenage boy, incorporating money in some way. This is what I came up with:

Not very Christmassy, I grant you. But perfect for a skate mad teenage boy, I think!

The card itself is very simple to do. I took a 15cm x 15cm ready made black card blank and onto that attached a 14cm x 14cm piece of Basic Grey Skate Shoppe "Kickflip" patterned paper, having inked all the edges in charcoal chalk ink first.

The actual skull and cross bones were freehand drawn onto white card and cut out. I then crumpled them up and distressed them with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Weathered Wood and again, inked the edges with charcoal chalk ink.

Co-ordinating embroidery floss was used to attach to metal buttons onto the skull and also to tie the £5 notes onto the bones.

The skull and cross bones were then attached to the card and it was done!

This design could obviously be used for a birthday card and I think is more fun than just sticking the money inside the card (plus with the money being actually attached to the card less chance of it getting lost!)

I hope you enjoy this card and I'll see you soon!

Joanne xxx

Christmas Planners

Christmas is less than three months away so we are starting our Christmas posts this month to hopefully have you all organised and ready for Christmas 2007. I started to use my first planner for Christmas 2 years ago, just a covered notebook with lists in, this year I have totally upgraded to an A4 binder with printouts from An Organised Christmas there are loads of different ones to pick and choose from, you just tailor it to your needs. I am also using the Holiday Grand Plan for cleaning Holiday Grand Plan Lists again I have tailored it to fit my home and family. I haven’t got a picture of mine to show you as (the shame of it) I haven’t decorated my binder, but here are some links to some gorgeous ones Holiday Notebook Tours, I found this blog last year while blog hopping, this lady, Kristin, has a wonderful notebook here Artfullyinking Blog and this one I found on Twopeasinabucket . Caz has also done a gorgeous notebook this year, and has decorated it beautifully.

I have also added a Birthday calendar and gift box list to the back of mine as I buy things all year round for Christmas and Birthdays so need to know what is in the box at any time, it does make life that little bit easier. I hope I have inspired you to start a Christmas planner, even if its for next year, have fun and don’t forget to let us have links to any planners you have done Trish xxx