Start of making cards for Aussie troops

                 Well hello to all, 
                  I am a newbie to this so apologise up front for any errors .
           I have been making basic handmade cards now for about 12 years, as 
        well as showing some ladies here at my home  how they can quite easily 
        do it themselves also.
         It is a great social few hours that we spend together and have a few 
         laughs along the way.
          
            Anyway, I have decided now to help a lady called Tracy from near
              Lake Macquarie  to help make cards to send to the Australian troops 
          overseas so they can send a card home to their loved ones back here. 

          it is all voluntary work .

                 
                 So I have started to make my first batch of cards for them, 
                  and will try and show you how I went about it

                             

                      Here is a photo of some of the images I have printed onto  
                      glossy photo card , 
                     these printed images have been purchased from a site called                              'crafts u print' 

                           

                              I have then cut them all to size 

                           

             
                           I then got all my small envelopes out and 
                            have them ready to use 

                       

                     then round cornered all the images that need it, 
                     then got an amount of card stock ready to use and round      
                     cornered some of them as well to match the cards 
                    then got some paper trimmed up ready for the inserts 
                   and round corned them as well
                    stuck these all together and have half the batch done
                    and ready to go 

                    

                  then printed off some more images, 
                and repeated the same process again  

                

                    second lot is now all done as well and ready   

                 

                 all cards have a handmade by Irene  label on the back

                 

       
                     now all cards are ready to pack into there cello bags,
                    but as my plastic bags are for C6 size cards I have to cut

                    them in half
                    so that means one half has to be sealed twice.
                    this is also a photo of my trusty little sealer.

                

 

                    A grand total of 220 cards completed ready to send 

                        Cheers, 

                         From Irene D