Christmas cards for a good cause

There are quite a few philanthropic activities over the year at the company I work for. My favourite good cause to support is a children's home. They host a Christmas market each year for which I have normally made cards to sell. This year there are some more colleagues who want to help, so we currently spend 1-2 lunch breaks per week making cards for the market and for sale to our colleagues in favour of the children's home.

The ones for the market will all have a French greeting, and for the preordered cards we consider our colleagues' language preferences.

Here's our first lot:

Some more layouts

I have completed the 24 layouts before Christmas challenge :-) In an attempt to decrease my stash of supplies I added a little extra challenge to include at least one supply that is over a year old. Admittedly I am not going to run out of supplies any time soon, so there was no considerable decrease, but at least I have completed this mini-challenge as well. Some girls included a "no shopping" mini challenge, but since I have subscribed to a kit this was out of the question for me, plus I needed a new album, as I was running out of space to file the layouts.

Here are some of the layouts. The first one is about pistachio cream, which tastes a bit like an even better version of Nutella (chocolate cream) but looks a bit like its extraterrestrial version:

I have no idea why I always prefer limited edition perfumes and shower gels. In most cases I don't even notice that there are limited until I want to buy more but can't because the product is no longer available. In this case my clever friend included a bottle of my current favourite shower gel in my birthday present, so I can continue my iced strawberry dream for another 500 ml. This layout is actually the result of coincidence - I only thought about it when I wanted to throw the empty bottle away:

And here's my confession of being a Downton Abbey addict:

Most other layouts for the challenge include photos of friends and family, which I do not want to share on the blog - sorry about that.

Autumn beauties

At the moment there is challenge on my favourite forum to complete 24 layouts before 24 December. This my 11th layout for this challenge and includes supplies from two lines I like a lot these days - "Shimelle" and "Notes & Things".

Luckily I managed to take these photos on 1 November - the mushrooms were broken off a day later: