Inspirational Card Sketches #23

Well, you've had your sneaky of this weeks Inspirational Card Sketch #23 so here for your pleasure (or pain!) is the whole card.

What d'ya think?



Materials:
White 5 1/4" square card.
Lime paper: 3 Bugs in a Rug (reverse)
Pink scalloped card is velvet cardstock cut with my Fiskars Clouds scissors.
Image was from a stamp swap and coloured with my new toys... PROMARKERS!!!
Ribbon from a gift bag.
Gems: Patti's Pretties.
Buttons: Stash.
Stamp: Adornit.
Inkpad: Stazon.

Wedding Anniversary

I'm having a bit of a catch up as I've not done any proper posting for a few days. All the new stuff had been scheduled as I knew I'd be really busy this past week & weekend.

Anyhoo.... Will and I celebrated our 21st Wedding Anniversary on Thursday. 21 years married!!! Can you believe it, I must have been all of 7 when I walked down the aisle by my estimate (I wish, HAHA!) We celebrated being together as a couple for 25 years in April of this year.

We've grown up together, become parents together and (hopefully) will grow old together too.

I luvs him ya know! Except that the git wrote my anniversary card all in French and made me translate it if I wanted to know what it all meant! What an old romantic!
x

Rosie-Dee's Challenges - No.42

It's a new month, therefore it's a new theme over on Rosie-Dee's. Not only that but our FANTASTIC Design Team join us for the very first time! We are in awe of their talent and thank the 8 of them for wanting to join us.

We also see our very first ever Guest Designer for the month of July. Lots of you will know her work, but to see exactly WHO it is, you'll have to pop over and see this talented lady's work for yourself!

The challenge over on Rosie-Dee's this week was to use the colours of Black & White. I had a wedding card to do and thought that this would be an unusual colour combo to use.


Materials:
White A5 card.
Black card: The Works.
White fineline pen: Sakura.
Fine black pen: Stabilo.
White/black flocked sticky backed plastic: Fablon.
Ribbon: Ribbon Mad.
Butterfly: Die cut on the Craft Robo.
Flowers: Prima.
Brad: Stash.

Can you help please...?

This post will remain at the top of my blog until 4th July. Please scroll down to see new posts. Thank you.

I am a member of the Danesholme Junior School Parents Association in Corby. We are holding our first ever Summer Fayre on Saturday 4th July in order to raise funds for the school.

What I'd like to ask all those lovely crafters out there is for a little help please. Can you donate any cards or gifts that we could sell to raise those much needed funds?

I'm running a craft stall and also a 'make and take' stall for the children to have a go at crafting their own cards, so anything such as peel offs and basic crafting items like embellishments that you no longer use/need would be VERY MUCH APPRECIATED.

Please Email Me for further information or for my address to send your kind donations to.

Thank you so much for your time taken to read my message and thank you to those who help out.

X

HUGE thanks go to Karen and Nicki for their kind and extremely generous donations of the following:

Karen:


Nicki:

Look what we grew...

We've taken a bit of mum and dad's garden over for a veggie plot so that we can eat the fruits (well, ok, the veggies) of our labour. It's not a huge plot in the scheme of the size of mum and dad's garden and how much dad grew when we were kids, but it'll provide enough food for mum and dad and us to enjoy.

Mum and dad were away at the weekend, so I went down to do some weeding and to liberate some veggies for dinner and came back with these...




There were more than 3 pea pods, honest! But I LOVE raw peas straight from the pod so I snaffled them ;-)

Not only did I come home with loads of taters, I got carrots, peas, radishes and 2 HUGE courgettes too! (these'll be used in some yummy roast veggies this week). AND... I boiled some fresh beetroot that I pulled. These are now sitting in vinegar pickling away! Can't wait!

We had the veg with a cabbage that dad cut for me in the week. Home grown, organic and wonderfully tasty! Can't beat it!

Ooh, do you like my arty piccies btw? HAHA