Good News, Good News

Hi bloggers!
It seems ages since I did any blogging - the main reason being that it was my son's 40th birthday on the 15th June and I had been making a special surprise for him.

I gathered together loads of photos and got comments from some of his friends and school friends etc and I made a "This is your life" book. It took an awful lot of work but I was very pleased with it.

The "Good News" I refer to in the title is that I have been for my 6 month check up and everything was fine - thank goodness. I don't go again until December and then it is to Gynaecology Outpatients instead of the Macmillan Unit - so that is quite heartening.

Anyway I have at long last managed to make a card and I have used the sketch from the Pear Tree Designs Challenge.

and here is my card

I am also entering it in

Totally Papercrafts - which is to use Punches or Die Cuts

Stamp Something - which is to use Pretty Papers
and Just Magnolia - which is Paper Piecing.

I think I will be very busy this month making cards for July - I have so many birthday.
It is my Grand-daughter's on the 1st, then she is getting Christened on the 2nd.

I have a 60th on the 3rd and a birthday on the 5th, 6th, 15th and 21st.

I think perhaps I had better crack on now!!!

Enjoy your evening

Something Fruity

Hi there

I hope you have all had a good weekend.

I have not had much time for cardmaking because I am making something special for my Son's 40th Birthday - I can't tell you what yet in case he happens to look at my blog (although I doubt if he will!!)

It is taking up so much of my time because I have had to spend a lot of time looking for photos and scanning them etc.

Anyway I did manage to get round to making a card for the Totally Paper Crafts Challenge - which is "Get Fruity". Now I actually have some cherries in the garden which won't be long before they are ready for picking. But I haven't chosen cherries - I have used my new Magnolia stamp which has strawberries on it - my little Florence loves strawberries.

The paper is Nitwits and the flowers Wild Orchid Crafts.

Thank you for looking

Warren Bunny

What a beautiful day it has been today both weatherwise and because I have seen my eldestgrand-daughter today as well.

We had a lovely day and we went to see my niece and her two boys, who are so adorable.My sister and her husband were there too.

I have made a card for the Sketch Saturday Challenge but I have been so busy on Wednesday and Thursday blitzing my craft room that I just never got round to posting it until today - late as ever!!

Here is the sketch

and here is my card.

Unfortunately I can't say that it is one of my favourites.

The papers are from my new First Edition pad which I got from The Range.

The bunny is from Craftwork Cards and the flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts.

We are going to have a very busy time this month with one thing and another.

We have our rugby presentation night, THE DOME, a weekend at Scarborough for my son's 40th birthday and a meal out for my husband's nephew's 21st birthday - among other bits of things.

Hope you all have a brilliant weekend with lots more sunshine.

Whoops!!

Looks like this time I was too late for the Challenge

Never mind - I never learn do I??

Fussy & Fancy

Just a very quick post I'm afraid today.
I made this card for one of my husband's customers but unfortunately he took the card before I got chance to get a good photo of it. There is a shadow on it because it was taken at night in my room.

It was actually an easel card but I did not photograph the inside.

I thought I would enter it in tomorrow's Penny Black Challenge.

I am off to see my youngest grand-daughter tomorrow so I am looking forward to that - and hopefully I will see both my grand-daughters.

thank you for looking.

Same old Story.......

A very late "Good Evening" - or perhaps I should say "Goodnight"

It's the same old story - always late for a challenge!!

I decided to do the Stamp Something Challenge which was a Beachy theme and I actually found this paper with shells and footprints on so I thought that would be brilliant.

Then I found the kind of sea green paper - ideal.

So I put them together and here is the card.

Unfortunately I was so late finishing it that I have had to take the photo in my room in artificial light so it is not brilliant - but then what's new??

I have used the sketch from the Sketch Saturday Challenge

which was actually quite a nice one to do.

My son has gone to Blackpool tonight and is then flying off to Costa del Sol tomorrow with our rugby lads - volcanic ash permitting!

My husband is on the poker at the moment but I think I have had enough crafting now for tonight - I think I will go in the room and play on my Nintendo DS before beddie byes.

Thank you for all your lovely comments and, of course, for looking.

4 in 1

Hi
Well at least today has been quite a nice day.

We went to the Craft show at Aintree on Sunday and on the motorway there were weather warnings for severe winds on the Monday. Then on the news on Monday a wagon had blown over at Scammonden.

My daughter was going to come up yesterday but did not want to risk it with the wind and there being so many wagons on the A1.

Well I have a card for you which I am entering in (can you guess from the title???) four challenges.

I have used this sketch from Just Magnolia Challenge.

The Papertake Challenge was Pale, Pretty Pastels

The Ribbon Girl challenge was Pinks and Lilacs

and the Creative Card Crew challenge was Anything Goes

So here is my card.

At Aintree I bought some more Decopatch papers and covered some letters for my two granddaughter's room - I will take a photo of them to show you another day. One spells FLO and the other MERI.

I find it very relaxing to do - except when my husband constantly says "just look at this" or "have you seen this" when he is watching the tele and I am watching what I am doing!! Lol!

Thank you for looking - have a good evening.