The Craft Table

Summer must be nearly over and Autumn is approaching so I thought I would dig out some autumn papers and have some fun.  While hunting through my stash I found some Hunkydory cards and toppers which seemed just right for my 'creation'.
I love making easel cards so decided that was what I would do.  Here is the result

Well I have not done much crafting in the last few days as my M.E. is making me very tired and my concentration is pretty awful too.  However I did make a card last night as it is for a 1st birthday on Saturday and I think it is quite sweet.  Didn't think I could face stamping and colouring so opted instead to use a CD and tweek it a bit.  I used the serephina cd and then took it into a graphics programme, made it bigger to fit my 8"x8" card and tweeked the colours slightly, and decoupaged the front.  I added a ribbon to the front and put a lovely verse inside which I took from the cd also although I retyped it and changed the word 'baby' to' Miya' which is the little girls name.
Here it is:

Why is it, when you are in a hurry to make a card, you can never find anything appropriate even though you have enough stash to open a shop!!
Daughter in law calls me on Thursday night to ask me to babysit on Friday night as they were going out.  She then said that she would be over earlyish to pick Owen (my gorgeous 4 year old grandson)  up on the Saturday as he was going to a birthday party for her friends little girl.  No problem I said, as she then asked if I would make the birthday card.
I am off work at the moment due to ill health so I thought that I had all Friday to make the card so I wouldn't have to rush.  So Friday afternoon I decided to start and began looking through my stash for something to use for the 1st birthday card.  Could I find anything..... could I heck.
Now I am not really a digital crafter, even though I know computers inside out, but I really don't particularly enjoy the cutting out.  I have slight dexterity problems so spending too long cutting out small pieces of decoupage is not my favourite pastime.  However I ended up using the seraphina CD.  I duly printed out the pages and began cutting but had to stop to collect Owen from Childminder.
Friday night saw me completing the cutting and making the card, with a 4 year old wanting to help, picking at and poking everything on the table.  
I have put the finished card below for you to see.