It was my DS2's birthday this week. He is a very talented musician and, when I saw the card tha Lisa had made on Craft Journal with the guitar template, I knew this was the card I would make for him. 
This week it's Rhi here to dare you and I'm on a recycling mission. I dare you to look again at the plastic packaging around you and transform it into a brand new card. It could be food packaging, craft packaging or just something plastic that's destined for the bin or recycling. Trim it, die cut it, alcohol ink it, crop-o-dile it, give it a new lease of life then share it via your blog for us all to see. Happy Recycling!I used the black plastic base of a box of cherry tomatoes, punched out circles with my Cuttlebug and them used the little embossing folders with the flowers on. I cut round the flowers and stuck them onto punched gold card flowers. I've had the paper for ages, got it off Ebay and the ribbon was recycled off a box of something (can't remember what) at Christmas. A little bit of doodling round the flowers and gold pen on the edges.
I based the card on the Card sketch that Rosie put up on Bubblyfunk Forum
Rosemary is my favourite herb. I found these crackers in the supermarket tonight, I had to had to have it!
These are my Art Journal Cards for this week. Over on Bubblyfunk Forum, some of us have been following Emily Falconbridge's Prompts - I know we are a whole year late, but that takes the pressure off a bit. Some crafters are following the list by the weeks, others are choosing whatever takes their fancy. I'm following the list and I'm at number 6 - Shoes, they always tell a story.
Slight cheat here, as I didn't take this, but my DS2 did. He is the talented artist who is concentrating on his music just now, which is great, but I think he has an artistic eye and I love this picture. This is the cottage at the top of our road which is now a semi-ruin and covered in ivy.
The Monochrome LO challenge on Just Bex Forum gave me the chance to play with the new 'Babs Dreaming' kit I bought from Digiscrap Girls.
Isn't that just a gorgeous sunset? It did look like this in the sky, but I had to enhance the contrast (I am learning something over on the Toggers Forum!) to get the pic to look like the real thing IYSWIM.
Here is my tree in the sunset too. It is a litle out of focus, but it was getting dark and the little Nikon Coolpix L2 is not only a compact so even on the sunset setting it wasn't really getting enough light. Not enough time to scrap them tonight, but you may see them again.
Over at the Just Bex Forum, they are having a BIG CHALLENGE weekend. Well it's Sunday night and, although you can post your stuff all week, I am feeling a bit guilty for not joining in after all the effort the girls have gone to to set these challenges. So I've had a go at the LO challenge - digifiied it and it will double up for my Tree Journal. 
I didn't want to blog this until I knew that it had arrived safely. It nearly didn't as some 'b' had slit open the envelope to see if there was a gift card in the envelope - they must have been v. disappointed to see that it was only a pic of William! Anyway, they stapled it back together again right through the card! The reason I know all this is that this card was sent from William (my friend's West Highland Terrier) to Maisy, a little girlie Westie and pet of Rosie (Freycob), and Rosie told me what had happened.
Here are some of our new calves. They arrived last night just before six o'clock, there are 17 of them and they are Belgian Blue cross bullocks. We buy them in already reared, so we don't have to feed them milk, they are on to concentrate and hay right from the start. It is really hard to take photos of them as they are very nosey and come right up to you.
Remember you can only bid for these items on Bubblyfunk forum.
Some of you may know that I have a bit of an obsession with my friend's dog, William. He is a very photogenic pup, when you can get him to stay still! I took a lot of pictures on Monday, but only two of them actually contained more than a tail or a blurred white object moving off camera. This was the best and is William looking wistful, pining for love perhaps? Ha ha ha, not likely. I've printed this off and put it on a card for my friend, I'll give her it tomorrow.
It was quite nice this afternoon, so I went up the field to see if the primroses had come out. They used to be pure yellow, but must have become cross polintated with cultivated primulas so now we have colour. They are just peeping through and quite early really.
These are some of the fabulous freebies being given away by the Collaboration Girls. Nicole Seitler at Sugarplum Paperie has links to all the Girls who are part of the collaboration to give away love-related digi-papers and elements. I don't have a lot of 'lovey' pictures so I thought that my pink hat might be the link for this picture, taken on the River Tule in a part of California that is not often seen. It was a very hot day and we had been walking for about 2 hours before we reached this shady spot by the waterfall. 
Another digi-scrapped LO from me. This one is using the free kit you get when from Digital Craft Cottage when you have made 10 posts on the Forum. The photograph is from Cambria, California where we visited our friends last summer. It wasn't stormy, but it wasn't particularly warm on the pacific coast, even in June!
You're not getting a picture of any bottoms on my blog! You'll have to look at the HS:MS site to see what I mean, anyway I thought an unmade bed conjured up just about enough lust to be going on with - lusting after my bed all the time :-)
