Just Dabbling.

Gosh it's been awhile since I last posted anything. Since my last post I have been back in hospital, and am finally back home again. It's been a rough journey and I am still not 100% well yet. I am feeling exhausted and resting a lot during the day. These are a few very simple cards I had half made weeks ago. The card above was made using stamps and dies (Forever Fern) from Stampin' Up! It's a discontinued set.

These next three cards are stamped using a Stampendous stamp. I water coloured the image, which was very relaxing! If I am going to colour images, I prefer to water colour rather than use pencils etc.

This Christmas card above and below is made using some dies from Kokorosa Studios. The stamp was one I already had. 

Not much for this post as I really am not well and cannot concentrate for long. This is due to the strong medication I need to take right now. I am hoping things improve a lot on the next two weeks, because I am going to a big craft show called SENZ. I used to go to this show every year, but then they moved the venue and I wasn't able to get there. This year (it's held once a year) it's a bit closer, but still a bus, a train, another train, an a final short bus ride to get there. And then I do it all to get back home again! (Yes, I am crazy, I know!) So I need all my energy to get myself to the show. I have had my ticket for the last 8 weeks. I am keeping my fingers crossed that it is a dry sunny day that day, however, it's Winter here and so getting a dry sunny day might be a challenge! Oh well, I will still be going😊.  Anyway, that's all for now, thanks for dropping by, have a SUNSHINE day! Remember to always be your authentic self, and shine bright each and every day.

 

Not Feeling Well.

Just dropping in to let everyone know that I am not well at the moment and have not been able to make any cards or anything. I have a terrible sore throat/head cold/sinus infection. I also have a temperature and am taking Paracetamol every four/five hours to keep my sore throat and temperature at bay.  It is ICY cold here, and next week, all going to plan, I will be having a heat pump installed in my home. This is a very cold damp house in Winter, so it will be nice to have some heat for a change.

These are some of the photos I till while doing the photos for March Cato's advertising earlier in the year. This photo (above and below) is one of the truckers, called Alan.  He kept asking me to take his photo...so I did! I can't remember the other two guys names, but they were all some of the truckers.  

The photo above is some Belladonna flowers (aka Naked Ladies) growing in the garden. Such a pretty pink, although these look almost white. I think these ones had been flowering for awhile.

 

Above is another one of the truckers who wanted his photo taken! They were all really friendly polite guys, and always waved if they saw m out on the street. Even now, 2 1/2 months later, they still wave and honk the horn if they see me! They have moved from my road and are further along another road nearby.

Last but not least is a photo I took of the moon one day. I took this around 11 am in the morning, and I would have thought the moon would have disappeared by that time, but here it is! Thanks for dropping by, have a SUNSHINE day! Remember to always be your authentic self, and shine bright each and every day!

 

Book Marks!

I ad some card scraps sitting on my desk, so decided to make to book marks with them. On the one on the left, I used some LS Mica Infused sprays for the background, and two LS stamps. I used some wool I had for the tassel things. I find the wool at my local Hospice  shop. The second book mark I used LS Metallic Gilding Polish for the background. I coloured some of the (cardboard) cogs with LS Mica Infused Sprays. The metal cogs I left as they were. I die cut the key from some thick card stock, and used some LS Gold Metallic Gilding Polish to colour it.  The die is from Tim Holtz. These were fun to create, if not a little messy! This book mark is very sparkly in real life!

Thanks for dropping by, have a SUNSHINE day! Remember to always be your authentic self, and shine bright each and every day!