Something Festive AND Floral fro Friday

Good Morning Ladies,

I thought I would make a card that covered every aspect of a Friday Card, so I went for a 'Festive' and 'Floral' card.

This card started out as a piece of plain Whisper White Paper, I sat scratching my head for a moment and then decided that I wanted to used the 'Sheet Music' Background stamp, stamped in Night of Navy, (I apologise in advance, because I love Navy and White Christmas cards).  I trimmed it down to just slightly bigger than the stamped image, I then took the 'Beautiful Blizzard' Snowflake stamps and stamped snowflakes all around, adding clear embossing powder and heat setting to make them stand out from the background.  I then took a snow stamp and stamped in Versamark adding silver embossing powder.  I then went round and inked the edges, just to finish blend everything together.

With my background complete I moved on to thinking about the decoration.  I thought I would do another Poinsettia, so I die cut the leaves in Silver and Navy and made the poinsettia, placed it in the bottom corner and added some foliage, I used a faceted gem in the centre and coloured it with a silver metallic marker.
The Sentiment is from Snowflake Sentiments, I stamped it in Night of Navy and added a little blue ink around the edges to soften the white.
What do you think?

Wednesday was fairly drama free, which makes a change, it was the first night that everyone was home for dinner so I was preparing a roast, we here going to have slow roasted pork, with apple sauce and roast potatoes etc.  I prepared the meat, I like to take it out of the fridge to come to almost room temperature before I roast it. So I unwrapped it, slashed the skin so that we got so nice crackling, I rub a little oil over the skin and add salt and pepper.  I put it in its tray and set it to rest at the back of the hob.  Matt was watching in the kitchen while entertaining Harley, he enjoys cooking so likes to take it all in. (matt not Harley) lol.  I washed my hands and wiped everything down, made myself a cup of tea and went to craft room to make yesterdays card.  After about an hour I heard the most almighty crash, so I made my way to the kitchen to see Harley tucking in to the 4 kilo piece of pork, roasting pan and all on the floor, how on earth he reached it is beyond me as we have a separate hob and oven, the hob is built into the work top with a good 3 inches front and back, I have a job seeing into the pans at the back. Matt must have gone off somewhere not thinking to shut Harley in the Utility room.  He did offer to go buy another joint but it was too late by this time (and I am super picky about choosing meat)!
So Paul and I ended up having Gammon, Egg and Chips, the girls made themselves some kind of Pasta. Matt ended up going out.
I was boiling under the surface, although I try to keep calm for my own health, but I was so looking forward to a roast dinner.  To make matters worse I ended up cooking to pork for Harley to have with his biscuits over next few days and it smelt delicious!
On a positive note....No frogs or Toads!!

I am hoping that Mr Brown (UPS ) is coming today, which is always exciting!!

Have a lovely Friday ladies,

Love and hugs

Sandra
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