A floral card for this weeks challenge

 

Good Monday Morning Ladies, 

I hope you all had a good weekend and that you are ready for the week ahead.  We had a lovely relaxing day yesterday,  Paul went out and swept the leaves and little branches from the driveway,  which took quite a while, although he was filling bird feeders and tending to his wormeries!  I stayed inside and did a bit of crafting, I have had these Tracy Evans Vases for a while and wanted to have a play with them, so I had a watch of a few Tracy video's on YouTube and sat and made this card.  I did colour three different flower heads for this card....

Watercolour using Chromatek pens

Polychromo Pencils

Alcohol Pens

I enjoyed colouring them, the quickest to colour wss the Watercolour one, I used my new Chromatek Pens for this.

The second one took the longest as I was blending the two colour reds for ages, so much so that the end of my finger felt bruised for a while after,  I did go over each petal many times.

The 3rd one took a bit longer to blend but I think it ended up a little dark. 

I used the Watercolour one on my card in the end. The card has a simple brayered background, I didn't have the stamp Tracy used so I improvised, then it was a case of decoupaging the flower, adding the vase, stamping and fussy cutting the flower, case and bird took time too, but it's all relaxing, calming jobs, I was listening to Meatloaf in the background, I read that he died after being ao poorly with Covid, I'm guessing he would have had a few underlying health conditions though. I watched a programme about his life, it was quite sad really.    Alcoholic father, he doted on his Mum but she died young, you could see how much having an adoring fan base meant to him.  Hopefully he's at peace now.  

(Well that went off on  tangent)  

I enjoyedy little bit of crafting time anyway,  I then went and sat in kitchen to write todays blog while helping Paul with dinner, not that he needs my help, I think the only thing he doesn't do is make Yorkshire puddings and cook the meat (unless its chicken), he makes the best Roast Potatoes and Cauliflower Cheese, something that I will always make sure I have enough calories for (not helped by the fact that we use Beef Dripping for our Roasted veg etc) but my goodness it's worth the extra calories.

I have tried many low calorie Roast potatoe options in the past, using low calorie spray (which ruins your pans), I tiny amount of oil but add marmite for colour (yuck) we only tried that once!  It wasn't until a year or so back that we made the decision to never bother worrying about the calories on the one dinner that we all look forward to as a family.  I will add that I usually have that many calories left over at the end of the week that it wouldn't matter anyway! 

I hope that you all have an enjoyable day,

Sending Love and hugs to all of you, 

Sandra

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