Karen's Engagement Card

Good Monday Morning Ladies,

Well I am hoping that this is the start of a quieter week for us, no visitors, inspections, lambs etc, so hopefully I can get into my craft room and really start to play with some of my new craft goodies that I have had for a while and not had chance to touch.  It just seems to have been none stop for a few weeks, the most time consuming and exhausting thing was having the lambs, so hopefully after a day to recuperate from the hectic weekend I will be able to summon some kind of crafty inspiration.

Paul's parents are leaving this morning to travel up to Paul's sister for a few days, I think that they had a nice weekend.
We spent yesterday at the Cotswold Wildlife Park, wandering around the beautiful gardens, admiring the animals, we had a nice lunch, the girls were quite excited to see us in their restaurant and were introducing us all to their friends and colleagues.  The highlight of the day for me were the Giraffes and Rhinoceros, it was quite funny to watch the Rhino's keepers trying to encourage them back in to their 'House' for the night, despite them yelling, whistling and banging to attract their attention the rhino's remained oblivious, I have no idea what they use as a last resort as when we left (15 minutes after the rhino house closed) they were still at the far side of the paddock, totally unaware of the time or their keepers desperate attempts to lock them up.  I think that maybe someone should suggest they use food as a bribe to get them in.  I know that Matt just shakes a bucket of feed to get the sheep to cooperate, I think most animals think about the bellies first, including us!!

I am so thankful to Karen who very kindly allowed me to share the Engagement card that she made yesterday for a work colleague as I was going to busy all day (and have been since Thursday) and therefore was unable to get a card made, in fact even if I had sat at my craft desk yesterday I just don't think I could have created anything, I don't think it's just the physical demands of hosting guests all weekend, my stupid anxiety causes stress which leaves you mentally tired too.
Anyway back to Karen's stunning card, I don't think that you can go wrong for any romantic occasion if you used White on White, it works so well on this and any Wedding, Anniversary or Engagement card, with a little hint of Silver/Gold or wedding accent colour.
I will add Karen's fantastic description below....

"The sentiment is printed on that lovely pearl paper from That Crafty Place and cut with Spellbinder Marvellous Squares
The background is cut from same paper with Botanical Swirls and overlapped Toy have to only glue half of first one so that when you go to stick on fourth you can tuck it under first one She’s a work colleague and I think they’ve both been married before
Can you tell I’ve done similar versions as they’re all old dies!"

Thank you so much Karen for helping me out and allowing me to share this stunning Engagement card. XXX

Ladies, I hope that you all have a lovely day however you are spending it,

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra
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