Festive Friday

Good Morning Ladies,

We have an exciting day today, firstly, Paul is coming home!!! (yay)!!! and secondly Becca and Josh get the keys to their New Home, I couldn't be more proud of happy for both of them.  She called me yesterday and said 'Mum I pick the keys up at about 11am, we need to clean all cupboards, carpets etc before I bring my things in, but don't worry I got two pairs of Marigold Gloves!!!  (I'm not sure white what she has in mind)!  I am looking forward to helping her make her first shopping list, filling her cupboards with all the essentials.  She asked me to make her a recipe book containing all of the things I cook and how to make them, which I thought was really sweet. 

I think the independence will do them both good. I will take some photos to hopefully share tomorrow, the one thing that stood out to me about this house was it's name, Paul's father was a 'Para' (that's how he met Paul's mum who was a nurse in the army). After he left the Paras he worked for Customs for many years but taught Survival and Surveillance 'in the field', it earnt him the name 'Digger', so Paul's parents named their house 'Diggers Den' and by bizarre coincidence Becca's new home is called 'Diggers End' ! How bizarre is that?!

Onto today's cards now, the stamp I used for both of these cards is a 'Clarity' stamp, I think it's called 'Snow Scene' but to be honest I couldn't find it online so I'm guessing it's an old discontinued stamp.  It belongs to Pat, she let me have it to play with for a couple of days, this is what I created....

The first card was made by stamping the Clarity Snow scene stamp onto Stampin Up!(SU) Whisper White Card using 'Night of Navy' ink (SU), I then cut my piece of card to size and scored around the stamped Image to make it stand out.  I then took an Inkyliscious 'Happy Christmas ' stamp that has a beautiful scripty Font and stamped onto another piece of Whisper White Card and die cut it with a Stitched Rectangle die.

I then matted it on to a 'Night of navy' Matt and added it to the bottom of my card, under the stamped scene .

I then matted this whole piece onto a Night of Navy matt that was 1/4 inch bigger and then again onto a Whisper White card base. I added a piece of Narrow Navy ribbon across the centre of the card a d then added a bow with a little Snowflake. 

I hope you like it.

The send card was super easy, I stamped the image on to Whisper White Card, I then cut it to fit the image, I then matted this onto 'Night Of Navy' mat and then repeated the matting and layering,  finishing with a Night of Navy card base.

I stamped a little Happy Christmas stamp to the foreground of the image. That was it finished! 

I hope you all have a lovely weekend 

Love and hugs 

Sandra 

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