Wonderful to catch up!

I have had a lovely weekend. Alex seems to be sleeping better so he has been happier and well behaved all weekend and a lot of fun to spend time with.  We went to the park yesterday where he played very nicely with some other boys, and enjoyed taking this flower down the slide (he didn't pick it, it had been picked by someone else and then dropped), and then today I went to Coventry to see one of my best friends, Abby.  While Alex played with Owain, and enjoyed every minute of it, Abby and I sat and talked and talked and talked, putting the world to rights.  It was so wonderful and we were so busy chatting that I completely forgot to get the camera out until we were about to go, by which stage it was too late!  

Crafting wise I managed to make my DT challenge for Quirky Crafts.  This week it was Lyn's turn to set the challenge and it was a lovely sketch. As the whole idea of the Quirky Crafts challenge site is that we accept any form of artwork, not just cards, I decided to make a scrapbook layout.  I was given an image of a tea pot from our sponsor, Stitchy Bear digital stamps, so based my design around that, deciding to make a scrapbook page of my addiction to tea!  The journalling reads 'Definition: one who consumes 8-10 large mugs of tea a day i.e. ME!'. The layout also fits with the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday 'stitching', the DCM 'create your own embellishment' 

- in my case a shrink plastic teacup hanging by its handle on the ribbon, and the Scrap and Stamp 'about you' challenge (this really is who I am and a typical photo of what I am up to a lot of the day so I think it counts!).

I am also loving the challenges over at less is more as they really take me outside my comfort zone and I am learning loads.  It isn't always easy to receive negative feedback on my cards, but provided it is done gently I will learn from it.  That said, sometimes I am limited by my supplies.  Take this card for example...the challenge this week is 'over the edge'. It has to be a single layer card, with the image going off the edge of the card.  Well I used  a mixture of stamps and inks I had available but I think that the fern fronds should be a brighter green (which means a new ink pad) and/or with a thicker leaf pattern to match with the thicker writing and butterfly stamps (which means a new stamp!)...see what I mean!  That said I am still entering this card into the Less is More challenge, knowing full well I will get some criticism of it.  I am also entering it into the Delightful challenge 'butterflies' challenge.

This is another attempt at the Less is More theme which is more masculine in feel using Crafty individuals tree and bird stamps and Penny Black sentiment.  This also fits with the 'tree' theme from crazy 4 challenges. That is all from me for now.  I hope you all have a great week.
Love,
Caro
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