Having had my 40th birthday in April, I wanted to keep the cards together - normally I keep favourite's in a box, but this time I wanted to make a little album of them, so I gathered them all up, in odd sizes and then hole punched twice and threaded some gorgeous red ribbon through them. (I received 2 birthday atcs so I stuck a piece of cardboard onto one side of them so I could still read who made them)
If you have clip rings you could use these, but I didn't so used ribbon.

Have now decided to put all my swaps from the card groups that I am in, in their own yearly albums.........

a Fathers day card made using CAP.
 Our furry and feathered babies always send a Father/Mother Days card ( mothers day if he rememebers to get one!!) so this is the one for Andrew.
As a surprise I picked out an old photo of him, his dad (sadly I never got to meet him) and his dog Cindy at (for a guess) Great Yarmouth.
Gosh, when this photo was took I would either have just been born or at least under 2 years of age.

Here come's the Summer......

I planted up 3 hanging baskets with trailing strawberries..... only these 2 so far. One for me and one for Andrew! And delicious they were too. Any one for tennis????

To celebrate the  Diamond Jubilee - I used the DT freebie kit British Street Party, and googled Her Majesty, the Coronation photo is the offical one by Cecil Beaton, top small is a random photo and the bottom small is a photo of The Queen on Sunday attending the Royal Floatilla. We watched the coverage on BBC HD, it was amazing.

For the insert I looked for poems relating to Her Majesty - the one I used is a Haiku by John Tiong Chunghoo.

A digi-birthday card I did last week, the image is from Bibliodyssey

the insert read:

Be Wild and shocking today
A rebel and a bit of a lout
Go on, put your slippers on the wrong feet
And wear your cardigan inside out
Rock on, its your Birthday

verse by Jon Bratton

another cap production, this time for an anniversary.

the image is from the Graphics Fairy, I used a sepia tint then turned down the transparancy. I was going to do the whole card using the same colour hue, but decided it looked like a tea bag explosion, so opted for the startling white lacey feel.

Here's a Birthday card I made in the tradiotional way *shock horror*. Used a Debbi Moore Venetian topper, (not sure about this lady - her bosoms are odd!) some gold bling and peel offs.
I scanned the backing paper onto the computer then used CAP to produce an insert, the verse made me giggle.