70th Birthday Card

I had a card to make for our neighbour's 70th birthday, they have been neighbours here for about 30 years so are almost family. I used one of the images I got from Joanne (Angelnorth) in the rubber stamped image swap on Bubbly Funk Forum. Nick is a keen gardener and I wanted to use something plant like. The 'leafy' ribbon thing came with one of the BF kits. I know that the sentiment is slightly squint, that stripey paper really put me off! In the end I decided to leave it - well it is hand made lol.

Mother of the American Navy

I thought I'd share this silly LO with you. Over on Digital Craft Cottage there are celebrations going on for 4th July, one of the challenges was to make a layout with yourself featuring as a figure from American history. We had been to visit John Paul Jones birthplace, which is only about 20 miles from where I live, when my visitors were here, so I just had to be JPJ. Kit is Lisa's Independence Day and Patriot Alpha both for Digital Craft Cottage.

Here's the card I made for Steven's girlfriend's 21st Birthday. It has been a fairly low key kind of birthday because they were moving into their new house on her birthday, I think there may be more celebrations this weekend.
Papers are Daisy Bucket Designs: Charming Claire, Delightfully Delia and Enchanting Emery; jewelled brads by Dovecraft, fabric flowers from Lakeland.

I've won an award!!

I've received this lovely award twice! Hazel (Craftyhazelnut) and Joanne (Angelnorth) both nominated me for the award, I have to say it is an honour to have received this award from such talented crafters, thank you.

The rules of this are:

1.the winner can put the logo on their website/blog

2. put in a link to the person who gave you the award.

3.send the award to at least 7 other blogs that inspire you with their layout-creations-themes

4.put a link to these sites on your blog

5. notify the people you nominate for the award.

Now a lot of the people I would have nominated have already have been sent this award by Hazel and Joanne, so I am digging deep into my favourite blogs and sending it to the following inspirational bloggers:

Carol Clasper (A stitch in time)

Priss

Trish Bee

Rosie

Traci

Carolyn

Anice (Funky Hand)

Flowers at Threave

This is the start of my digi-scrapping of my holiday, these flowers were growing in the greenhouses at Threave Gardens. The kit is Patience by Laura Boetta at Digital Craft Cottage.

Edinburgh Castle

We were in Edinburgh yesterday, the weather was a bit blustery, but we were lucky and avoided any heavy showers. We took the Edinburgh Open Top Tour Bus which takes you all round the city and explains the history of the old town and the new town, well worth it if you ever visit Edinburgh. Later we visited the castle and saw Scotland's 'Honours' or Crown Jewels.

Glenkiln Reservoir & Threave Gardens

Glenkiln Reservoir near Shawhead, Dumfries. The weather was a bit unsettled, but created some great atmospheric clouds. Around this reservoir there are several bronze sculptures by Henry Moore and others, the route is not marked and some of them require considerable hiking to reach them.

Above is a statue of John the Baptist by Rodin.

The King and Queen by Henry Moore was inspired by the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

After visiting the sculptures we moved on to Threave Gardens in Castle Douglas. This is a beautiful garden where the National Trust for Scotland train their gardeners.

These beautiful plants were in the green house at Threave.

This is Threave House, it wasn't open on a Monday, so we didn't see around it.