Although we are all tired we have had a fairly busy weekend. One of Alex's closest friends from nursery had his 4th birthday party yesterday at an indoor play area near us. The boys had a wonderful time climbing round the indoor play area before sliding down the party slide to the special party room where the food was followed by a mini disco.
Alex loved every minute (apart from one very hard bump to his head) and was so excited and over tired that he found it hard to sleep last night!
Today we went to see my in laws down in Kennilworth. As the sun was shining we let the boys run off some steam in the garden where they sat in the hedges,
and clambered through the trees to their little den, while we sat happily inside drinking tea and chatting. It was lovely to spend some time with the family and to hear everyones news.
Needless to say I haven't had a lot of time for crafting this weekend, although I did make a couple of clean and simple cards. This first one is for the
less is more 'pastel colours' challenge and used a Lavinia flower stamp, which I stamped using versacolour inks, and a Penny Black sentiment stamp. The strip of background paper was free from a magazine. This card also fits with the
Crafty Creations 'feminine birthday in blue and green',
Aud sentiments 'birthday', 'blue and green flowers' from
Cupcake inspirations and
Stampin' for the weekend 'spring' challenges.
I also made a little notelet using a computer based sentiment for the first time...this took me ages to position right, and then I realised that I had been looking at the wrong side of the stamp, so it didn't turn out quite how I planned! I added highlights to the flower and leaves with my sakura stardust pen (not sure how well it shows up in the picture!) and so this fits with this weeks
One Layer Wednesday challenge. That is all from me for now. Have a great week everyone.
Love,
Caro
x
20 comments:
so simmple, yet so elegant - I love them both! Thank you for sharing with us this week at Crafty Creations! bx
I like both of your cards Caro and either would fit our challenge this week at LIM.
In the first one, I feel that the sentiment is a little low, I would have preferred to see it a little closer to the image... which is beautiful!
Thanks for joining us again.
Chrissie
"Less is More"
What a lovely card. Thanks for joining us at Aud Sentiments.
Two very pretty cards.
Anne
Both cards are so pretty!
Love both your pretty cards.
Lovely cards - the less is more one is lush - very simple and elegant
So pretty
Gorgeous cards Caro. x
Hi Carol
Both your cards are lovely, thank you for entering two!
I think the first would have been better without the centre band across
thank you as always
mandi
"Less is More"
I think both your cards are lovely. Jo x
Very pretty! Thanks for playing along at Cupcake Inspirations!
Beautiful, as always! So glad you joined us for another CIC!
Both your cards are really pretty.
Lynne xxx
Very pretty cards Caro... Great colour combination and i agree about the sentiment being too low. Maybe a slightly larger sentiment could work too:-)
Wow - this is elegant! Love the simplicity. Beautiful and thanks for joining us at Crafty Creations this week!
Hugs,
M
theres a little something for you on my blog
Hugs
Judie xx
Simply beautiful! Love both of your cards! Thank you for playing along with Cupcake Inspirations!
Really nice cards! Well done.
Hugs, Sandra
Very pretty cards! Thanks for joining us at Cupcake Inspirations this week!
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