Monday 21 August 2017

Birthday Kiss

Couldn't believe my eyes on Thursday when I went into a local shop to see all the summer things being move off the shelves and lots & lots of gift sets taking their place.  I said to the assistant, "Please tell me this isn't the Christmas stock coming in already." to which she replied "Sorry, but it is!" For goodness sake the kids just started back at school the previous day & we haven't even had Hallowe'en yet!  I totally hate this horrible over commercialisation of Christmas. 

Rant over!

Yesterday was hubby's birthday which meant lunch at the local Chinese buffet restaurant - my downfall is finishing off with my favourite Chinese toffee apples and toffee bananas.  Weigh in this morning showed a pound on & I had been so close to getting my next sticker last time.  Oh well, back to keeping notes of everything to pass my lips so it doesn't go on my hips!


As I had been making cards for hubby's birthday (one was a commission from our son) I thought I should try this week's Freshly Made Sketches Challenge



I've purchased a few unbranded dies lately, one of which was rather a large pair of puckered lips so as this kind of, sort of, reminded me of the back of an envelope I though SWALK!


I had already cut out the lips in a glitter card to check out how good they were at cutting out (some branded dies have had problems cutting out using this card) but it cut cleanly first time and was added to my stash.  I decided to keep it black and white to set off the hot pink lips.




When I saw this in close up it reminded me a little of the opening credits to "The Rocky Horror Picture Show".  Maybe should have made the lips bright red instead of hot pink!








Monday 14 August 2017

Love It!


Not posted for a few weeks, not that I haven't been making the odd card or two, I just haven't been happy enough with them to post on here.

The schools here go back tomorrow but for the first time since 2004 my boy won't be there, College doesn't start for another couple of weeks.   Exam results came out last week and whilst he wasn't very happy with results for some of his subjects I'm pleased to say that he has a place to study Electrical Engineering at College next month.


So much for summer in this corner of the world - I think we've had more rain than sun. We've not been away anywhere but hubby has still managed to get himself a suntan by sitting out back listening to his CDs

As I mentioned earlier, although I have made some cards I've not been too happy enough to put them in for the Freshly Made Sketches Challenges.




However as this week's sketch is the 300th challenge, I thought I should make an effort to produce something that might fit the brief.

I recently purchased some dies from the Far East and as they arrived this weekend I decided to try and do something with them and this is what I ended up with.  It's  not often I use foiled card or glitter card but I found some as I was sorting out some of my stash.




































 In the end I actually made two cards, this was the first one I made but not sure that it fit the sketch so decided to try again with the foil/glitter card one.