Mum's Birthday Card

Here's the card I've made for my Mum. The chances of her finding my blog are remote, so I am posting it up here before the event. Her birthday isn't till next week, but we are going to visit on Saturday, out for a meal and staying overnight. DS1 and girlfriend are going to stay here and feed the calves. It is a bit more sparkly than the picture shows, I went over the butterfly bits of the paper with a Sakura glitter pen. The pink irridescent paper at the back I bought when I started crafting, I love it and only use it on special projects. Chipboard letters are Maya Road and the paper I covered them with came as an RAK from Kathy at BubblyFunk. I'll blog the cake I made when I have decorated it.

Tracey's Green and Burgundy Fluffy Felt Bag

Just posting this here so that Tracey can see the felt bag that she commissioned from me. The colours are not completely true, but very close. The bag closes with a magnetic clap.

Another Digi LO

This was a colour challenge on Digiscrapgirls. The colours were two shades of blue, ivory, yellow and a fresh green. I am particularly pleased with this as I managed to incorporate some layer styles, like drop shadows and bevels to give the LO depth. I also recoloured the green elements to make them blue. Kits used are the Digitalscrapgirls March Collaboration Kit, Shabby Princess - Splendid and Digi Nirvana - scalloped frames.

I made two cards and two cakes today as well, a very satisfying and creative day - who cares if it's raining and blowing a gale, I love to get absorbed in making things.

Digi Scrap Template

Here is a digi page I have done for the Digiscrapgirls Template Challenge. The kit I used is a Digiscrapgirls March Collaboration Kit and a little bit of New Life Dreams Dazzling Evening. the photographs I have blogged before, but I like the bluey greens of the ivy and felt the colours in the background paper were ideal to set them off.

Art Journal Card - Inspiration Found

Please excuse the terrible photographs, taken by lamplight. This must have been the quickest Journal card I have done. It's all Rosie's fault - over on Bubblyfunk Forum she showed us what she had bought in Morrisons: a mug, coaster and a little tray set featuring cupcakes. I went to look in my local Morrisons and NO such items were available - but kind Rosie was my 'personal shopper' and got me a set and posted it up to me.

So, I was looking for 'Inspiration Found', the prompt for this weeks card and there it was staring at me from the bin - the packaging from the 'Cupcake' set. I rescued it and cut it up to make my card, it even had a convenient title in a reasonable size.

Mother's Day

I know I am a wee bit early but Mother's Day came early in our house. In a reverse of the normal circumstances, my MIL bought me some flowers on Friday and DS1 gave me some more today as he wont be here tomorrow, so I have a lovely big vase of flowers.

I gave my MIL her card and present tonight as she is going off to early church tomorrow and then on to visit a relative who is in a nursing home. Here is her card:

Is my cat spoiled?

James has taken to coming upstairs to the computer room to join us. He was sitting on the wooden floor in front of the fire, so I gave him a cushion. How gorgeous is he lying there on a silk cushion? The ruined beast that he is!