Keeping it in the family

Hello folks, hope you're having a lovely weekend.

Its so nice to see some sunshine. Today is a sad day for me and my family, as its a whole year since my Dad passed away from cancer. I still can't believe that a year has passed by so quickly and I'd like to thank all my friends and family for their ongoing support - you're all wonderful!

With this in mind I was pleased to see a "card for a man or boy challenge" over at Allsorts this week....this card is for my Dad...

This cheeky little chappie reminds me of my Dad quite a bit....althought the image has a lot more hair than Dad had!! Dad was a complete handy man....complete with lots of tools! There wasn't anything he wouldn't try and fix himself!

I've spent this morning with my mum and my sister and her hubby at Wisley Gardens, a beautiful place that we visited with Dad when he was well. We wandered around the gardens and bought lots of plants between us.

After this I've had some time to myself, so I did what makes me happiest....I baked some cupcakes and made some cards!! Here is my next card...

I'm pleased with how this card turned out, the LOVT image is really cute and these papers are lovely new ones that I got free with a magazine. I've added a punched flower and a little glitter. I'd like to enter this card in the following challenge:

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Card for Mum

DYSU - use a flower

Lili's Little Fairies - your favourite craft tool (my flower punch)

Finally I've made a card for the medals and monarchs challenge over at Sir Stampalot this month....

I haven't got any olympic or jubliee inspired craft items in my stash......so I decided to go with the colours of the Union Jack....red, white and blue.....these are  colours we're going to see a lot of this summer!! I also decided to add a cup of tea.....after all...what can be more British than a cup of tea??

Pop by all the blogs mentioned to see all the gorgeous DT cards that have been created for us this week!

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Its a tad bit windy out there!!

Hope you're having a good week and haven't been blown away in all that wind....not sure whats worse really the gusts of winds from today or the heavy rain from earlier in the week!! Both making driving my little car a nightmare!!

Anyway, enough of my weather moaning...it could be a lot worse....time for some crafting instead!! I haven't posted since Monday and so I have some challenges to catch up with! Here is my card for today....I've gone with something a little bit different today:

I love this pretty colour combo, I think it makes a really sweet card. I've used a stamp that I've had for ages but never used....I think it makes a lovely focal point for this card. I've coloured it with my Promarkers and added some die cut flowers in the bottom right hand corner.

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly - that cute sketch

Passion for Promarkers - cut it out (use die cuts)

Simon Says Stamp - anything goes

DYSU - Case the DT - be inspired by the DT creations - I loved the flower image that Ren-Yi used on her card and so decided to use flowers on my card!

Pop by all the blogs to see all the gorgeous DT cards that have been created this week!

By the way....Passion for Promarkers have a mini DT call at the moment...pop by their blog to find out more!

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

For Mum....

Morning All - I slept for England last night! Went to be at a respectable hour and managed to sleep all night! I feel brilliant this morning!! You never realise how much you need to good nights sleep until you get one!!

Anyway, today's card is one I created for this week's Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge (I'm a bit late this week!!). The theme this week is Mother's Day...but it doesn't have to be an actual Mother's Day project - it can be for a mum's birthday or a new mum...anything mum related! You should take a look at the lovely cards the DT came up with - all so gorgeous and diferent...take a peek here!

So....here is my mother project....something that could be given to a mum at anytime really......

As you may know I do enjoy the odd bit of stitching and this sometimes creeps onto my cards. I recently saw some beautiful canvas works that inspired me to create this card. The canvas was white with fabric flowers sewn on - very beautiful and striking and I wondered whether I could create something like it on a smaller scale. Instead of fabric I have worked with paper on my project and I have used a lot more colour than the one I saw, but I think its worked well.

I've used light pink backing paper to start with. I then cut the flower shapes out of patterned paper...I tried lots of different shapes, but think these suited this card best. I hand stitched around the outline of the flowers in a pinky lilac cotton and then hand stitched the green stalks onto some cream handmade paper. The handmade paper was attached onto the pink backing paper, and the flowers were then added - I used 3D sticky pads to give them a lift! Finally I added my sentiment - for mum.

I enjoyed making this card - its great to be inspired by something you see and then be able to create something different. I've shown my mum this card and I know she liked it - so hopefully other mums will too!

Thank you for all the lovely comments you left me for the last card - maybe I didn't need that red border after all!

Right - better get going! Thanks for stopping by!

Wedgie Xxx