Good Monday Morning Ladies,
I hope that you all had a lovely weekend and that you are rested and ready to start a new week 😀
We had a lovely relaxing Sunday, well I certainly did, I think Paul did some work down the allotment area, so I think he wasn't as chilled as I was, although he ended the afternoon falling asleep while reading his book on the deck 😴
A very true reminder, it may seem like you are ready to get back to normal activities, (speaking from experience) however a day or two later you become very aware that you didn't give yourself long enough to recover. Your body can do amazing things, if you take time to heal, be it physically or mentally xxx
Today I am sharing a Clean & Simple style that I made yesterday, using an oval stripe die and a couple of tiny Dragonflies.
This is the old bit of background made using the faux batik technique, basically tissue paper, screwed up and adhered to a piece of card. I have run this one an embossing folder for a bit more texture. I did add some gilding wax to highlight the texture.
I used the oval die to create that aperture in the centre of the card, positioned the coloured card behind the aperture and adhered to the base card, I added foam pads under that top layer and positioned it over that background. I die cut the two dragonflies out of the same background and positioned them opposite each other. The sentiment die embosses the 'Happy Birthday ' into the card that you used for the background. I finished the sentiment strip with a little die cut bow, topped it with a tiny silver gem.
I hope that you all have a lovely Monday,
Love and hugs to all,
A lovely CAS card and yes we need to let ourselves heal and not rush things
ReplyDeleteOff to Craftea this morning and our lady from the Ukraine will be there collecting our donations She lets us know how things are where her family live
Take care everyone xx
Hi, another sunny day, I think it’s the last for a few days.
ReplyDeleteLove your clean and simple card, those tiny dragonflies are perfect.
The reminder is very true, speaking from experience.
Have a good day all. Lilian
Hi Sandra and all looking in.
ReplyDeleteLovely tags and Christmas card from Karen and Sonia yesterday. Love your makes as well my lovely xx
The views are gorgeous. Was the pick your own any good? Millets is literally 2 minutes up the road but so expensive and commercial theses days so we very rarely buy the fruit or veg. Glad you and Soph had a good time though xx
Busy day Saturday as we had to take my auntie to A& E as she fell on Friday and needed to have an X-ray. She got away with only a tiny fracture in her left hand which just needs two fingers taping together for a while. My uncle has dementia so was very confused at why we were in the hospital. I stayed with my auntie and Chris took him to the cafe for a drink and biscuit and distracted him by getting him to talk about the years he worked in GWR, where the outlet village is now.
I had a bad day yesterday but today is better.
Enjoy the sun again everyone. Take care. Love Sue xx
I love clean and simple and this card certainly is just that it’s beautiful. The reminder is good for all of us healing does take time and a lot of patience and and if we remember that we will all be okay.
ReplyDeletePleased you had a relaxing Sunday and Paul of course XXX
Sending my love and best wishes to everyone take care ladies.
Love Brenda XXX
Hi everyone
ReplyDeleteLovely CAS card. Love the paper you have used.
I've did a bit of tyding up in the craft room and then sat down to make a card. Don't think is for Sunday so will have a go another day. I did get plenty of paper cuts tho 🤭
Good daily reminder. I never going to be rid of my fibromyalgia but if I could get my other pains in check, it would be nice 🙂
Hope you all had a good day or felt better anyhow from yesterday. Hugs, Maria xx