A Little Bird for Mother's Day

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How has your week started? I must admit that it was hard getting up this morning for work but it was okay when I got there. Lots of people were interested in our holiday and the news of our daughter's engagement.

Well life seems to have been a bit of a whirlwind at the moment. I looked at the calendar to check when Mother's Day falls  (Sunday 6th March)   I was rather shocked how close it is. Also we had a hotel booked when my husband had his accident and it seems we  have rearranged it to the weekend of Mother's Day. We are not going to be popular.

I have made this card for my mum she is not a girlie  type of person so I thought she would like this image of a cute bird with its nest. The image came from an older issue of Making Cards Magazine. 

This sentiment I found in my stash. I will write something a bit more gushing on the inside. 

I cut the image out with one of  Sue Wilson's Double Pierced Squares and I inked through the die before I removed the image. I think the gingham paper was from the same issue of Making Cards Magazine. The other papers were in my stash in fact amongst my snippets. 

This card is quite flat it is going to have to go through the post. We will have to see our mums on a different day. When we changed the hotel we had no idea that Mother's Day falls that weekend.  We can't change is again it was hard last time.

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Delightful Digi's - Beautiful Flowers

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are having a wonderful weekend in spite of the weather (which has just cheered up here). Yesterday we went to London to visit the Aquarium this is where our daughter had chosen to go to celebrate her birthday. We had a lovely meal in Carluccios and then we went round the Aquarium again. We were all so tired when we came home but very happy it was a good day.

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As you know I am now on the Delightful Digi's Design Team and I set myself a little challenge. My Design Team commitments require me to make two projects a month.  I started late in this month but I actually wanted to make two  projects so here is my second this time a card posted just in time for the end of the month.

 I used images, backgrounds and sentiments from the O-Sew-Sweet collection at Delightful Digi's.

The main image is called Pansies I coloured it with my Promarkers I really enjoyed colouring the image. 

The sentiment was also from the O-Sew- Sweet collection  again coloured with Promarkers and mounted onto a Spellbinder die cut. 

I coloured the central flower from another copy of the Pansies image and I coloured to match the main image I also coloured  some leaves they were cut out by hand. 

Here are a few pictures from our day out yesterday. 

We saw lots of fish.

The jellyfish were very pretty.

This is my daughter and her boyfriend they have just bought themselves a nice camera and they were taking it in turns to use it. 

Here is a reminder of my card. The flowery border was cut with a Martha Stewart punch.

There is a Delightful Digi's Facebook group where you can see the makes by the Design Team and post your own makes which we would love to see. 

I would like to join in with the challenge at Challenge Up Your Life.

Have a great week. It is back to work for me half term is over. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie