Daughters card

Hi all, I`m back from my bank holiday break, well rested and raring to go. While I was away I made this card for my eldest daughters birthday which is on thursday. She loves poppy`s and the colour red so I`m hoping she likes this card. The poppy`s are a digi stamp from stamping sketchers which I coloured with marvy brush pens. I added some black glitter to the centres to make them pop. The background is done with the cuttlebug swirls and I added some black pearls for effect.

No card again I`m afraid. We have a caravan near York which we get away to whenever we can but usually bank holidays are a no no.They get booked up months in advance so we don`t even bother trying. Anyway, we mentioned it last time we were there and lo and behold... they had a cancellation. So I`m off on my jollies tomorrow til monday. Gonna do nothing but sit on my backside read and make cards.
See you all soon. Have a great bank holiday weekend

In one of my older posts I told you that I had given up my job. Well I thought I`d try to explain my reasons for this, partly because, although I`d given it a lot of thought, I feel a teeny bit guilty.
My Mum was diagnosed with alzhiemers disease 9 years ago and just over a year ago my Dad had to admit defeat and place her in a home.Although Mum is now at the stage where she doesn`t know who she is let alone us, we still visit her regularly. This means that my Dad is on his own now and to be honest he`s doing a sterling job of keeping the house clean and feeding himself. I thought it would be nice to have more time to spend with both of them while I still can.
I also have 3 grandchildren, Ruby, the youngest is just turned a year and I want to spend time with them too. They`re not children long enough as it is. My eldest grandaughter Charlotte is 13 going on 25 already and Nathan my beautiful grandson is growing up fast.
I have a couple of medical issues that are certainly not serious but can be quite painful sometimes ( actually I think I`m going bad from the neck down) and some of them I can`t even pronounce let alone spell.And, normal people get tennis elbow so how on earth did I manage to get GOLFERS ELBOW???
Any way in short I`ve only been left work for 5 weeks and already I don`t know how I found the time to go to work in the first place.
Right I`ve got that off my chest... still feel guilty though!!!

Wedding cake

I made this wedding cake from a set of templates I bought on e bay. The lace is from arty farty and the roses are from a local haberdashery store ( you don`t get many of those any more ). I think my photography skills need some practice but they are improving slightly lol

Another thank you card

My second card is for one of the staff at work. She kindly bought me a bottle of wine and some choccy`s (they know me soooo well). This one I chalked the background paper with blending chalks and inked a HeidiSwappe damask stamp with clear embossing ink and clear embossing powder. I quite like the way its come out. I then added some flowers from my craft box and a sentiment off the computer.

Thank You card. A couple of weeks ago I left my Job. It wasnt a high flying type of job or anything and to be honest the only thing I`ll miss are the girls I worked with and our tea breaks lol.
The girls had a collection for me and instead of getting me a pressy, they gave me the money to spend on crafty goodies. I got straight on the computer and ordered myself a cuttlebug machine.
This is the card I made to thank them all.
The main panel is cuttlebugs birds and swirls and the flower is `fred she said` dahlia. The sentiment I did on the computer.