Spring has sprung!

Spring is most definitely here; despite thick fog yesterday morning the afternoon cleared up to brilliant sunshine so we headed to the park with Katie and Sheila where the kids spent a happy time racing across the playing field and swinging.

Today we spent a happy morning in the garden, playing with water and sand,

and then spent ages watching this ladybird crawl around the grass.

In the afternoon we went to Millhouses park where Alex was dressed as a pirate

and spent a happy time on the boating lake, before buying a fishing net and catching frogs and toads. Sadly the light was too bright for the camera to cope with!

Crafting wise, it is time for another Quirky Crafts challenge which is a sketch set by Lyn (pop over to the blog to see the sketch).  We have a cool sponsor this time, Bugaboo, who kindly gave us some images to work with.  I chose Edward Elephant Present so that I could make Alex's birthday card.  I used Nana's kids papers, some big brads, and three tiny buttons to make this.  The image was coloured using promarker pens, and decoupaged on Edward, his little bird friend and the red ballon to make the image pop a bit.  I am therefore also entering this card into Kaboodle Doodles 'How cute is that?', Penny's challenge '3 buttons, 2 designer papers, 1 ribbon', Simon says stamp 'Bingo' (Brads, ticket/tag, Ribbon/twine' and DCM 'box of tricks' (this image features a box so I hope it counts!).

I cannot let a weekend go by without joining in with Less is More.  This time the challenge was to combine three of their past challenges.  I chose week 2: Flower or tree, Week 6: off the edge, Week 7: masculine, and week 50: birds. The stamps are all from Crafty Individuals and were my valentines day present from Tim - he knows me very well! I am also entering this into Crazy4challenges 'owls or birds' (sorry, my owl stamp has mysteriously disappeared!) and  Pile it on 'for a man' (this is for my Dad who is a keen bird watcher). That is all from me for now.  Have a great week everyone.
Love,
Caro
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