In general today he has been a lot happier and we have managed to have a nice time playing at home with his monsters and then out to the indoor play area which was lovely.
Crafting wise I managed to finish off a layout I started on Friday evening, of a steam train ride on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. The layout follows this weeks Sketchy Thursday sketch, the scrap and stamp theme of 'love is in the air' (I absolutely love steam) and also fits with a line from one of the songs from this weeks Scrap it with a song 'can't get enough'. The journalling reads 'My special treat for our holiday was a ride First Class on a steam train on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. Everyone else enjoyed it too, but as a complete steam lover I couldn't get enough. It was wonderful!'.
This is the third week of the wonderful challenge blog, Less is More, by Chrissie and Mandy and they challenged us to do a Spring themed card. I used my nestabilities to cut the card shape, a Spring word stamp by Stamps Away stamped repeatedly in green, a needle to pierce around the edge of the embossing and a little snow drop stamp which I coloured with green promarkers and cut and embossed with nestabilities and mounted on pale green card. As a result this card fits with the crazy4challenges 'die cuts', OCC 'repeated word stamp', All sorts 'inspired by nature' and Speedy the cats friends 'Black, white and one other plus piercing' challenges. This is a completely new experiment for me so I would love to know what you think.
I also made a quick and simple card using cuttlebug embossing folders, brayered background and a crafty individuals stamp. This fits with the Pixie cottage embossing challenge.
Finally I made some Oriental ATCs for a swap that Spyder (Lyn) is holding on the CM&PC forum. Two of these are for the swap and one is a thank you for Lyn. I took the inspiration for the colours and flowers from this weeks Cupcake inspirations as the cake in the picture looks slightly oriental in influence with the shape and colour of the flowers and the cake itself is blue. That is all from me for now. Have a good week everyone.Love,
Caro
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37 comments:
It's a pretty CAS Spring card Caro! Thanks so much for joining in our challenge once more, we hope to see you again next week.
Chrissie
"Less is More"
Gosh you've been so busy. I do like your Less is More card - the shape is lovely and I like the fresh green colour. Such a pretty flower too!
I love the repeat stamping on your Spring card
All of your work is lovely...really love the Spring card....love the shape...and the piercing looks awesome!
I love your Layout! Thanks for participating at Scrap it with a Song with it.
Hugs, tita
What a lovely CAS design! Thanks for 'Getting Wordy!' with Our Creative Corner this week!
Wow- that first card is gorgeous! Perfect piercing!
Thanks for playing along with Speedy's Friends!
P.S. the other two cards are lovely, as well.
My goodness, you've been busy making lovely cards! Great work on the Getting Wordy challenge. I like all the white space on that card and how your sentiment really jumps out. So happy you joined in the fun with us this week at Our Creative Corner.
Wow, you've been quite busy. I love all of your projects, and especially the Oriental ATC's. So glad you joined us for this weeks CIC!
Wonderful projects! Love that you pulled the Asian flair from the cake for the ATCs! Thanks for playing along at Cupcake Inspirations this week!
Beautiful cards
Thanks for joining my nature challenge at ALLSORTS this week, Good Luck
Hugz Fleur xXx
Blimey you have been busy! LOVE the ATCs
These are lovely cards. I particularly like the snowdrop card and the repeat stamping of the word spring is really effective.
oh this is just gorouges,love the colurs beautiful detail on this too bless you for playing at the pixie cottage this week,hugs cheryl xxxxx
Like the shaped CAS card! Thanks for playing with Speedy's Friends!
Caro thanks so much for playing along this week & I love your layout! how fun that would of been!! :D
I love that little snowdrop, so cute.
Gina x
Lovely Spring card!
Wonderful cards, nice embossing on the second one. Thank you for joining us at The Pixie Cottage this week.
Hugs
Suzi x
Your designs and work are all so very lovely! I really like your second card.
Cute Creations!
Thanks for playing in The Pixie Cottage this week :)
Yours cards are gorgeous!! Beautiful photo's!!
Thanks for sharing it with us, Speedy's Friends!!
Beautiful work - your spring card is so fresh and lovely! Thanks so much for playing along with the OCC!
great use of the inpsiration photo, I find ATC's difficult but it looks like you are very comfortable with them.
thanks for playing with us at Cupcake Inspirations.
Gorgeous spring card, I like the repetition of the sentiment, it works so well.
Your photos are ADORABLE!!! And I always loveeeeeeeeeee seeing your lo's and cards! They are all GORGEOUS! Thanks sooooooooooooo much for playing along with Sketchy Thursdays! :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)
Wonderful projets, they all look great. Thank you for joining The Pixie Cottage Challenge.
Hugs,
Nanda
Lovely card.
Lynne xxx
great page! thanks for joining us this week at Scrap it with a Song!
Hi Caro! Awesome pics and great creations too!
Chk out this post!
http://creationsbykw.blogspot.com/2011/02/magical-blog-award.html
awesomely vibrant colors! thank you for sharing at the pixie cottage!
Beautiful stamping work! Great take on the sketch!
Thanks so much for playing along with Sketchy Thursdays!
Very pretty, love how you used the bracket! Thanks for joining the fun at Sketchy Thursdays this week, come play again!!
Beautiful fresh image for spring. Love your use of text don the side of the card x
Wow, so many great projects! Love them all! Thank you for playing along with Cupcake Inspirations this week!
what a wonderful body of work....thanks so much for playing with Speedy's Friends
I love your CAS card for our challenge @ OCC. I love the simplicity and sheer elegance of your card. Thank you for playing, and I hope that we see more of your work!
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