JustAng's card

This is the card I made for the wonderful JustAng's birthday.

 I "met" JustAng through DoCrafts, she's such a great lady - always willing to help others, design banners (such as the one on my blog) & to share her fab drawings too etc. Thanks Angie

I seem to be using this image a lot recently - probably to make it seem more summery, & as it will be out of season very soon, sorry if you've seen too much of it lately.

I bought some Nellie Snellen dies the other week, so naurally enough, I had to play with them. They are lovely, & cut such a detailed frame.

Kate Knight papers

Tilda - coloured with Promarkers, glazed with Anita's 3D gloss

Ribbon & button from stash

SU Sentiment heat embossed

Small flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts & large ones from stash

Detail of Tilda, frames & flowers.

tfl, & for any comments you may wish to leave

Worry over, so normal crafting can be resumed

I was playing around with my nesties the other day (ok, I confess, I'd just bought a set of inverted scallops), & I cut some shapes out of various colours, then put them together. The colours seemed to lend themselves to me colouring in Tilda in the same bright summery colours. I then decided to keep the background fairly monochromatic, just adding a piece of silver holgram ribbon which I had wanted to use, but hadn't yet found the right project. I thought these flowers by Wild Orchid Crafts were the perfect finishing touch.

Hope you like my card, it's another of those which I have no idea how it will end up when I start it!

Here's a closer view of Tilda

tfl, & for any comments you may care to leave

Missing Updated :-)

We are getting really worried. Our beautiful 2 yr old cat Mia has gone missing.

She hates rain & always comes in at night, so I had a really bad feeling when she didn't come in with that torrential rain last night. I am hoping that she has got herself shut in somewhere. I have registered her as lost with Petlog, delivered flyers to all the houses in the roads surounding us (quite wide radius). Some local shops have put up flyers for us, & the vets too. All we can do now, is to continue to look for her & hope that she comes home very soon. Petlog said that she has not been found yet, & thankfully I have not found her on any verges. Please keep your fingers crossed. The not knowing is awful.

UPDATE

Thank you so much Margaret & Willie. I am SO SO pleased to say that Mia is now home .

So much for putting all those flyers through people's doors, even those living nearby didn't look in their properties for her ( well a few wonderful people did). 20 minutes ago, the lady who lives behind us heard Mia in her garage & rang me.

Poor little thing was petrified, her heart was going like crazy. She has had a good meal, & is now looking to go out (dislikes using a litter tray, & is probably bursting), but we are not letting her out tonight! Even the dog is pleased to see her & we are now playing ball with her, & generally making a fuss of her. Tomorrow, I shall ring Petlog, vets, Police etc.

Thank you so much for your support & encouragement.

Beach days

Well, we've enjoyed 2 days of displays at the air festival, but unfortunately the cloud base was too low today, & most of the display had to be cancelled for safety reasons. We're hoping that the weather will be kind for the last day tomorrow.

Here's a card, which reflects how the great British summer should be like in August!

Whiif of Joy stamp watercoloured with watercolour pencils, then glazed.

DoCrafts papers.

Footprints punch by Dovecraft

Backing card from stash

Here's a closer view of the image.

tfl, & for any comments you may care to leave.

Blog award received

Wow, I was stunned to receive this beautiful award from Vicky today

The only condition of receiving this lovely award is to pass it on to 7 favourite blogs. It was very hard choosing just 7, but here goes ( in no particular order!)

1. Kay (Incy)

2. Angie (justang)

3. Jennie (Jenikay)

4. Messi Jessi

5. Caroljenks

6.Jennifer

7. Aunty Sue

Where's our summer gone?

Ok, please own up if you have it - we want our summer back.

We are going to be spending a few days with guests for the Air Festival, so I shall be making picnics for 9 people most days I think! (better start baking tomorrow) But, so we are not cold & damp (& the air festival has a good display too), we need some good weather back again. Please keep anything & everything crossed.

It seems such a shame that we had such great weather when the children were at school, but now that they're on holiday it's not been that great really. 

Anyway, here is my offering for today.

Tilda watercoloured with pencils, glazed with Anita's 3D gloss

My Mind's Eye papers (& a scrap from stash)

Frames cut with Nesties.

Ribbon from Crafty Ribbons.

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts (coloured wtih Promarkers), & from stash.

tfl, & for any comments you may wish to leave

Wine Labels

I've seen these flower labels on bottles of Blossom Hill wine, & decided that there had to be a use for them, so I carefully peeled it off, put it on some white card & cut it out. I decided to use it on this card which I sent to a DoCrafter (hope she likes it)

Tilda coloured with watercolour pencils, then glazed with Anita's 3D gloss. Backing paper free from magazine, stripy card is DCWV. Ribbon from the Fun in the Sun range from Crafty Ribbons.

tfl & for any comments you may care to leave