Bang goes the weekend!

We have had a great weekend! Yesterday we went into the centre of Sheffield where the BBC were holding a Bang Goes the Theory Road show. Alex is a bit too young for the main event, but he loved the interactive bits where he labelled a skeleton,

Blew bubbles onto dry ice and watched them freeze, had his hand hit really hard with a hammer (the rubber protected it),

Jumped a long way and proved that he has the loudest shout of any 5 year old that had been tested.  I have to say that I wasn’t really surprised to hear that, but I was amazed that his shout reached 120 decibels – the same level as a sandblaster and a very loud rock concert!!

Today we went over to my in-laws for a family get together where for once the weather was nice enough to be out in the garden, so there were games of football,

Tag and general fun!

It was my turn to set the challenge over at Quirky Crafts so I chose ‘Masculine with blue and brown’.  We are sponsored this week by paper pretties and so I chose ‘A Beary Good Book’ and made a book mark for Alex with it, as we have started reading longer stories including Roald Dahl, and Horrid Henry.

The sentiments on back and front were also from the same Paper Pretties set, and I used distress inks (tea dye, broken china, faded jeans & vintage photo) for the background, with inkadinkado swirl stamps.  I am also entering this into CCT ‘One for the boys’, and Aud Sentiments ‘Anything goes’.

I also made a card for this weeks Less is More, the theme of which was ‘yellow’…sadly not my favourite colour and so I found this quite difficult.  In the end I settled on a Crafty Individuals stamp which I used three times and coloured yellow with promarkers.  I then stamped the Penny Black ‘Happy Birthday’ sentiment.  I am also entering this card into Penny’s Challenge ‘Happy Birthday’, Simon SaysStamp ‘Happy Birthday’ and Speedy Fox ‘Three of something’ challenges. 
That is all from me for now everyone, enjoy your bank holiday!
Love,
Caro