Another Icelandic Poppy!

Good Afternoon Blogging Friends, and I hope your weekend has got off to a great start, whatever you happen to be up to.

Our weather is wonderful, very cold in the morning but getting a bit warmer as the day goes on, but beautifully crisp and sunny.

I'm doing a bit of catching up around the house, easier when my good man is not around.  It's the annual Archaeology week here in Inverness and Alistair is away to a conference, I was going to go too, but it costs £15 now, last year it was free, and I've got to save my pennies for the NEC in November, so I have the day to myself.  We are going to the cinema tonight to see "Sunshine on Leith". We will have a bit to eat out before, so I'm looking forward to  that.

I used to live in Leith with my son Damian when he was little and i don't remember it as being particularly sunny, but there you go.  Leith is in Edinburgh.

My card for you today is one of my Icelandic Poppy thank you cards, you have seen them before, but I've not coloured this one but heat embossed it;

A wee bit blurred, sorry about that.
Poppy image from http://janeysdigidesigns.blogspot.co.uk/
Wow Embossing powders
Core'dination Navy Card
First Edition Neroli Paper
Xcut Circle & Scalloped die
Stamp-it Australia Sentiment 

Now the wee story behind this card is that last week one of my clients who hadn't been in the project since I stared back, arrived in and welcomed with a great big hug, was convinced that I'd left, so much better that the other othe client who thought I was "deed", he then rushed off, came back 20 mins later with a lovely birthday gift, he's been holding on to it since June.  Now as you can imagine, in my line of work we are not really supposed to take gifts, but he had OKed it with the manager since it was a very special birthday.  I was so touched by his thoughfulness, and even his card was one that had a kitten knitting on it, so he had really thought about me.  Now if your wondering what the gift was, well, it's a large bottle of Bombay Sapphire Gin, he really did think about me, said he'd heard me mention a while back that it was a nice gin.  I am very fond of this young man and he is one of my card making pupils, always very enthusiastic about things, but life gets him down at times.  
Anyway, as everyone who gave me presents got a thank you card, I was delighted to make this one for him.

Thank you to everyone who left a comment about Santa Baby, I thought you might like it, I've just to put on my thinking cap for an anniversay one next which is in November.

Have a great day, and see you all soon.