Christmas Wreaths for CCC!

Hello once again to Everyone, hoping today sees you all well and enjoying your weekend.

It's time again for the girls at the Christmas Card Club to show their latest creations, and this time it's our lovely Rita who has chosen the theme and she would like to see Christmas Wreaths and one that I could manage no bother at all as I have quite a few images, so here is the first of them,

All the images and sentiments are from the free stamp sets from a couple of Creative Stamping Magazines and coloured with Zig Water Colour Pens and SN Sparkle Pens/ The paper is from a Papermainia pad of a few years ago, and matted on to CE Graphite card.

Another lovely wreath from the magazine, coloured with Zigs , Papermaina paper again and a few pearls all mounted onto Kraft card.

I hope they'll do Rita, I enjoyed the challenge so thanking you for our choice, as it let me use papers that have been around for yonks and these lovely stamps.

Just want to thank all of you who have visited and left lovely comments, I do appreciate each and everyone of them.

Scheduling this post now for tomorrow Sunday, when you can see what my teamies have made, take care and see you soon,

Prancing Rudolph!

Good Day to Everyone, hope you are well and having a good day.
I've spent a bit of time colouring, so relaxing, and in between washing floors. I've eventually learned to take tasks a bit more slowly, doing a wee bit, then a rest before I carry on with the next. I have to keep reminding myself that there is no need for me to hash and bash to get housework done any longer now I'm retired. That's been a slow process though.

Thank you all so much for the lovely comments on my Wedding set. I wasn't given a remit in any way so just decided to do my own thing.

I wanted to join in with the Rudolph Challenge this month, so here is my card;

I've use this lovely prancing stag from the free stamps from Creative Stamping Magazine, the sentiment and snowflakes from the same set, all embossed with Wow EP in Silver and Gold. On to black card and the base card is silver from Dovecraft. I drew a silver border with a Kuretake pen.

I buy this magazine almost every month.... well depending what the stamps are, and don't get around to using them, and they are really, really good, so I've decided to try and give them an airing.

Nothing much planned for the weekend, food shopping will be the most exciting thing happening I think. What about you, anything planned? Whatever you do, enjoy it and see you for the next CCC cards on Sunday,

I would like to enter my card into;
https://scrapsoflifebyscrappymo.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/april-rudolph-days-challenge.html

The Bride and Groom!

Hello Everyone, it seems an awfully long time since I was last here, how are you all anyway, fine and fit I hope. Though if you're not, sending kind thoughts that you will feel better soon.

A cold dull and wet day here, where oh where did the good weather go??? I think I've come out of my woolie socks to soon.

Our concert went well and everyone enjoyed it, it was a pity though that there wasn't a bigger audience, perhaps it was do to with the concert being on a Sunday, or it might have been the unfamiliar piece of music, we always have a full house which is 850 seats when we sing the Messiah, but we can't keep doing that.  Anyway, that is us finished for the Summer, only the AGM in June, it's good to get a break.

Thank you all so much for the lovely comments on my last card. Today I've got a a wedding card that our friend Dougie asked me to make for him to give to his daughter for her wedding in June. it's a bit photo heavy;

The new Sara Davis Rustic Wedding range came out just at the right time for me and dies and papers are from the range, Wild Orchid flowers, gold pearl hearts and tiny pearls. The background is kraft card embossed and matted on to chocolate Centura Pearl card. I had some gorgeous stick pins that I'd won from Wendy from Spanish Crafter which were just perfect.

Inside of the card with one of the beautiful papers from the paper pad, printed onto velum. Sentiment generated on PC and cut out with a heart die. The Cherish sentiment is from Die'sire.

Of course the card need a box;

The large heart die is from the Rustic range, but the little heart with the sentiment is from The Works. Lace and chiffon ribbon for the bow.

And a bag to put it into;

I used one of the larger bags to take the 8x8 card and decorated it with the same papers and heart die, but this time I used the fabulous tag die from the range.

It's amazing the time all this took, I'm well out of the way of making these sorts of cards and when asked to make it it's got to be just right. Serena doesn't look at my blog, so I'm confident to show it here.

Off now to make Normandy Pork for dinner, that's pork and apples in a casserole, but Delilah has given it a fancy name.

Take care everyone and see you soon,

Star of Bethlehem!

Hello Everyone, I hope you are well and having a good day. Have you all been enjoying the run of lovely sunny warmth that we have been having? It's a bit dull now although it was really lovely early this morning and I had a sit out in the garden with my book and breakfast.

Anyway, it's almost the weekend, they come around far too quickly don't they, I hope you have something good planned. I have the Choral concert on Sunday, and I am so looking forward to the performance, as it's a fabulous piece by Handel... Alexander's Feast and just a little bit different from the usual Handel. it will be interesting to see how it's received by the audience.

Thank you all for the lovely comments on my last card, always appreciated and eagerly read.

My card today is made for the Flower Challenge;

The challenged asked for shaped cards so I've used this lovely SB die to make a circular card. The lovely floral image is Star of Bethlehem from Hobby  Art and coloured with Zig watercolour pens, sparkle and white pens. I splashed some gold watercolours from   Gansi Tambi watercolours over the finished piece.


Well my goodness, the heavens have opened,it's chucking it down outside, so pleased I brought the washing in.

Here's a photo of our concert flyer;

That's all from me just now, have a super weekend, 

I would like to enter my card into;
http://theflowerchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/the-flower-challenge-19-shaped-cards.html

http://bbbchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/challenge-1-matting-and-layering.html

For Beautiful Eyes!

Hello to You All, I hope today finds you happy and well, but if not, lots of kind and healing thoughts are sent to you.

Sunny but awfully windy today, great for the washing going out, but I'm up to date there, thankfully. The weather map is showing some very hot spots over the country, so hope you are in some of them.

Thank you so much for the lovely comments on my last cards, love reading them and appreciate everyone of them. 
A wee update on my GP telephone call of yesterday...... left me furious as it was all about selling me statins as my Cholesterol was higher than what they would like. OK of course it is as everything about my diabetes is out of kilter. I tried to tell him that it was my BG that was the worry, and if I could get some support there, I'm sure I could manage to get it all back into line.  Now years ago I did some research into statins and decided not to take then, well the doctor at that time was trying to put me on them even although my Cholesterol was excellent. apart from the scientific info about them, which included detrimental to BG levels and muscle pain, I also found out that GPs are offered incentives by the pharmaceutical   companies  for every patient they manage to prescribe statins for.

So that was a waste of time as far as I was concerned and just compounds my negative thoughts regarding some GPs. However, seeing the Practice Nurse this morning was different, she could see I was struggling, and has referred me to the Diabetic Clinic at the Hospital where the experts are. I was so relieved as this is what I felt I needed. I felt listened to by the nurse, and she knows that I am able to turn things around with a bit of tweaking, and although Cholesterol is important, it will come down when I'm tweaked.  Thanks for all your well wishes on this.

Now to my card;

I thought this lovely image based on the most wonderful Audrey Hepburn was just perfect for the new challenge at Stamping Sensations "one for the Girls".
It's an image from Stamping Bella and I've coloured it with Procolour Pencils from Derwent, with a bit of Sparkle Pen. The fab sentiment is from the same set.
Background paper is from Crafty Individuals Travels in Italy paper pad, and of course you can see that it's a Venice scene with the gondolas. A bit of ribbon and some gems and that's it.

So, that's me for today, I'm having a relaxing day now that I've got the diabetic review behind me, I must have been worrying a bit in the back of my mind.
Have a lovely day and see you soon, 

I would like to enter my card into the http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/april-challenge.html  

Poinsettias for the CCC!

Hello Everyone, hoping all is well with you and that you are enjoying your weekend.

Can hardly believe that two weeks have gone by and it's time for the Christmas Card Club Girls to share their latest cards.  This time around it's our lovely Mary who has chosen the theme and she would love to see Poinsettias or other Christmas Greenery. There is also the option of Anything Goes if you can't manage the chosen theme.

Poinsettia stamps I do have so that was what I used and I've made two cards;

This lovely image is from Woodware and I've stamped and heat embossed in white on to Kraft card, and coloured with pencils, matted on to black card and then on to a tartan paper from Papermainia. 

Another of my favourite Poinsettia images, this time from Papermainia, bought lots of years ago. I stamped and embossed in gold EP and to a background made with Oxides. I then built up the colour on the leaves with Zig watercolour pens. Heat embossed the sentiment and added  sequins and a few white spots around the image with a white pen.

I love Challenge Mary, so thanks for choosing it.

Thank you all for the lovely comments on my last card, always appreciated. Take care of yourselves and see you soon,

Hedgehog Hugs!

Hello Everyone from a very wet and dull Inverness. I hope you have better weather where you are. Yesterday was glorious warmth and sunshine, what happened? Well it's a day at home for me today.

Thanking all who left lovely comments on my last card and about my health issues, all very much appreciated.  I will be having my telephone appointment on Monday afternoon, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it's only going to about the BG being high and what I'm going to do about it, rather than anything sinister, which I would guess would be an appointment at the surgery with a face to face with the GP rather than a phone appointment. Time will tell.

I have another Spring card to share;

This little Hedgehog is from a Hobbyart stamp set called Hedgehog, and he is coloured with Zig Watercolour pens, which I have to say are fabulous. There are lots of little images in the stamp set which you can see in the picture.
I've also used some of the floral images from Hobbyart's Nature Walk around the aperture of the front of the card, again coloured with the watercolour pens and some Sparkle pen. I've also used Sakura pens on the berries.  I felt the lovely images didn't require anything additional by way of embellishments. I love the sentiment too.

Not much to tell you on this post, getting ready for another weekend, and our only plan is going to see RSC Macbeth at Eden Court theatre on Sunday. Alistair tried to get tickets for the live performance that gets streamed in, but all tickets gone, so it's the encore showing we are going to.
Christopher Ecclestone and Niamh Cusack are in it and I would imagine that they will be playing the title roles, so really looking forward to that.
When we were visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Duck last year and they took us to Stratford upon Avon we were disappointed that the plays didn't meet our schedule, so it's great that we can see it away up here in the North.

I hope you have some lovely plans for the weekend.....mind you even doing nothing can be a brilliant plan, so take care of yourselves and see you on Sunday for the next CCC post,

I would like to enter this card into:

http://www.fashionablestampingchallenges.com/2018/04/08/challenge- 134 Animals

and http://movingalongwiththetimes.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/69-springtime.html