Christmas Flowers for CCC!

Hello Everyone, another two weeks has flown by and here we are again to share our Christmas Card Club  cards. This time our lovely Rachel has chosen the theme and it's Christmas Flowers, lot's of scope there. Here is what I've come up with;

Christmas Roses, and which I discovered comes in all sorts of colours, I had always thought they were just white, so I used colour on mine. Watercolour paints and Sparkle Pens. The sentiment is by Chocolate Baroque, and the lovely little die the sentiment is stamped on to is one I bought in the Works and which cuts out  beautifully even although it was £3 for 4 in the set. The flowers are part of  a fabulous stamp set from Justinklined that I bought a few years ago, and comes with a lovely winter church scene. Embossed card base and a few pearls.

A lovely little stamp from Papermania for this card, again one I bought a few years ago, and this time they are painted with CE Christmas Colours paints which have Mica in them so gives a gorgeous sheen. Papermaina paper in the background ribbon and sequins to finish the job. Hope they will do Rachel, loved the challenge so thank you very much.

The concert I went to last night was just lovely. Held in one of our two Episcopal churches, a very old and very small church, which was all in candlelight and offered a beautiful atmosphere to the whole concert. The choir and in Russian and the piece of music was entirely unaccompanied.  Always very impressive that.

Thank you all so much for your well wishes for our friend Dougie. Alistair finally arrived home later that night as Dougie was being kept in hospital awaiting the results of a scan. Hubby just wanted to see him settled. The scan wasn't good news as indeed there was quite a bit of infection and the need for Dougie's wound to be opened. The big risk is if the infection reaches the metal that is now in his spine.  So we are keeping our fingers crossed that that has not happened.

Your comments about my poppy plaque was really appreciated, so thank you so much for that.
When looking at my blog page yesterday, I discovered that my title was Blue Poppy Plague and not plaque. I wonder if any of you marvellous folk noticed.....but too kind to mention. I did laugh at myself.

Anyway, I'm off to get read for my walk with Milo, Rowan and Damian, amidst the little snow flurries.

I hope you are having a lovely weekend whatever your'e doing,