Another Favourite Challenge Card

Good Morning Ladies,

I used the Paper Boutique 'Springtime Blooms' Paper kit as the base of today's card, I used a sheet of the 8 x 8 pad as the base, I took a piece of paper lace border and threaded the seam binding ribbon through, finishing with a triple bow at the top that is nested into a Spotted Tulle bow, I thought that the spotty tulle went well with the polka dot paper.

I then chose two toppers for a change and mounted them on a piece of lilac card and then onto the Sue Wilson die cut.  The flowers and embellishments I have used have a hints of the same colour blues in the flowers on the toppers in an attempt to tie everything together. I made the little flowers using some white petals that I had in my stash, I also had the blue silk flower with beaded stamens, I just fiddled about and made little flowers with the silk flowers as the centres, I then added some leaves and little white die cut sprigs that I inked with shaded lilac distress ink, which is what a used around the edges of the paper and the toppers.

I ended up making my card in the evening as I got so carried away practising colouring and 'Picot Cutting' my Groovi flowers, as soon as I have finished a card I will share it with you, I am quite excited about it, it's such a relaxing thing to do, I think I lost a good 2 hours colouring and blending yesterday afternoon, the 'Picot cutting' has highlighted how poor my close up eyesight had become, I am struggling to see where to put the darn scissors in, I have a pair of those cheap 'Ready Readers' that I bought some time ago so I might try those, otherwise it will be a magnifying glass I think.

We have a busy couple of days a head, tomorrow we are all travelling down to London, we are taking Sophie to pick up her first car, luckily the man she has bought it from has kindly agreed to meet us at Ikea (near Wembley) as Sophie was terrified about driving through central London on her first solo drive, which I can totally understand, she has been so sensible about finding the right car, paying for full RAC checks etc, the engineer goes out and does a full inspection and road test, which really put our minds at rest, it is so lovely knowing that they are now all fully independent (well, with driving anyway)!

Margaret I was so happy to read that you felt up to making two cards yesterday, that is a huge step forward my lovely, I can't wait to see them, I think about you every day and have everything crossed that they can rebuild you back to the 'Superwoman'' you were before! (only kidding) I think just having some answers and therapy will be a huge step in the right direction, I am always here if you ever want to come and play, if Alan drops you off Paul will happily take you back home, you can reassure 'Pops' that I will take care of you 😜😉XXX

Lilian It was so lovely to hear from you yesterday, I was also pleased to hear that the Paramedic managed to talk to someone to get you off of those useless tablets, fingers crossed you will feel the benefit in the coming days, they do need to get that GP onto your case sharpish though as you can't be left without any medication for your Heart condition, I wonder if it might be worth giving your Consultants secretary a call.  Either way lets hope that you can now get the correct medication, so that you can start feeling like your old self again.

Please don't ever feel the need to apologise for updating us on your condition etc, first and foremost your are dearly loved by all of us and we all WANT to hear from you, just so that we know that you are ok.  I can't wait to see your Watercoloured cards my lovely, I had pretty much guessed that was the medium that you would choose, either that or your stunning Stamperia papers, so maybe you should do 2 challenge cards this week😉😉.  I really miss not having your cards to add to the list on a Sunday, I end up going back to my emails to check about 10 times just to make sure I haven't missed it. 

Thank you so much for keeping us up to date my lovely XXX

Brenda & John I hope that you both had a lovely weekend celebrating your Anniversary with your family XXX

Thats all for today ladies,

Have a lovely day,

Love and HUGE Hugs

Sandra

xxxxxxx