Making a card midweek, whatever next?!

I have managed to make a card, and its not the weekend! Yey! Admittedly I did start by stamping and colouring the image on Sunday afternoon, but I have at last managed to fit in some crafting into an evening. I really must do this more often.....

I hope you like my creation for today - I decided to work backwards. Instead of stamping and image and colouring it and then trying to find papers to match, I picked my papers first and coloured the image to match the papers. Genius! Why didn't I think of it before? Doh!

Lovely to have some nice weather!

We've had some glorious weather here in South Wales this,weekend (OK just Saturday really but every nice day is a bonus!) We took my 5 year old son round Cwmbran Boating Lake on his new Spider-Man bike that he got for his birthday. We also let him try out the newly refurbished play area there, although centrepiece already been vandalised and made unusable by some mindless thug.

Went for a walk along the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal then on Sunday morning, (again with bike). Saw beautiful family of mummy and daddy ducks with six tiny babies!

Came home to cook roast chicken dinner with six veggies, ironing and somewhere in amongst doing all this I have made the card below. Only a quickie, I needed something I could use as a Sympathy card for a friend. It is entirely stash raided- I hope you like it?

Busy day!

I have at last managed to finish this card that I started about a week ago. I have decided to also finish off the inside of the card, instead of leaving it blank like I normally do.

I have used a free stamp that I had with a recent magazine, coloured with Promarkers, card and papers from stash, along with the brads, sparkles, peel off and flower etc.

I have already taken my five year old son to swimming lessons this morning, been to the garden centre to buy a rose for a dear friend's birthday, come back and prepared chicken roast dinner which is in the oven, and I have my same five year old's party at a soft play centre nearby at 2.30pm. My one year old is currently playing in her bouncer and my husband is sprawled on the floor reading the paper - alright for some!

This week I have also been organising my ribbon stash, I have cut card from various waste boxes, covered them in blue paper, made two holes with eyelets and mounted them onto rings. Hope you like. Maybe I can use more ribbon in my creations now that I will be able to find what I am looking for!

Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone! Hope you have all had a lovely break from work etc. I've been away for Easter at the Parents-In-Law in Lincolnshire so I haven't had chance to make any cards, but we got back yesterday evening, so after the usual housework duties today, I've had a chance to make this card for my dear friend's 60th which is coming up in a few weeks. It's always a dilemma how to mount Pergamano, hope you like what I've done with this one.