Tired weekend!

I know this week was only a 4 day week for us all, but it seems to have left us exhausted.  Alex is extremely tired as a result of another bad cough, and I haven't been sleeping at all well, so we decided to have a very gentle weekend. Yesterday we went out to friends in the afternoon,which Alex loved, but we spent today playing at home, mostly with the quarry set and lego. 

He is getting better at building lego and with some help on how to interpret the instructions, built his first model by himself; this little speedboat. We went out to the park this afternoon and got completely blown to bits!

As a result of the gentle weekend, I have had time to craft including this very purple card for the Less is More 'mostly purple' challenge....I have to say, my heart sank when I read this challenge as I am NOT a purple girl!  However, I did not want to wimp out so here is my attempt... a card for a friend who has recently lost her Mum.  The card was made using purple co-redinations card, purple distress ink for the panel, imperial purple and olympia green versafine ink on the Penny Black iris stamp, and the sentiment was printed using word. I am also entering this into The Pixie Cottage 'monochrome', Flutterby Wednesday 'open' and Pixie Dust 'monochrome' challenges.

I am determined to catch up a bit with my scrapbooking and so made this layout of my extremely cute nephew following this weeks Sketchy Thursday sketch. This layout mostly used scraps of various papers (sorry i don't know which ones), my new buttons, new prima flowers and new little monster. I am therefore entering this into Crazy4challenges, Delicious Doodles, CCT, Simon says stamp, and Fresh Brewed 'use something new' challenges.

Finally I made another layout using entirely scraps of papers (Dovecraft and Doodlebug I think!) and so am entering this into Aud Sentiments 'use scraps' challenge. That is all from me for now.  I hope that you all have a nice week ahead.
Love,
Caro
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