Sunday 23 September 2012

Lovely time.

It has been a great weekend, despite the mixed weather.  Yesterday started with Alex's street dance lesson followed by shopping, and then in the afternoon we went to Chatsworth Farm and adventure playground, making the most of the brilliant sunshine.
Alex had a great time on the playground, climbing round the fort, then playing with the water and sand.  Today we had a lovely church service (wonderful worship and great message) followed by family lunch before heading out to an indoor playarea to let Alex let off some steam.
I have even had some time for crafting which is just as well as it is time for another Quirky challenge!  Cazzy set the challenge this time which was 'monsters'. We have two sponsors this week, Dustin and Bugaboo.  I was given two stamps from Bugaboo to use and so combined them into one card for a little boy.  I coloured both images with promarkers and then cut out the second image (and the lone balloon from the first image) and decoupaged them with sticky pads. I used Nana's kids papers for the striped background and then embellished with gold peel offs.  I am therefore going to enter this card into Delicious Doodles 'use metal' and All sorts 'inspired by a song' (what's that coming over the hill? is it a monster?).
I also made this card for Less is More's challenge (choose any 3 of their past challenges: #41:leaves, #15:embossing, #6:off the edge) and will also be entering it into Simon Says stamp 'embossing' (one of the leaves is embossed), Penny's challenge 'shaped card', CCT 'different shape', DCM 'thank you'. That is all from me for now.  Have a great week everyone.
Love,
Caro
x

18 comments:

Mandy said...

Gorgeous picture of Alex Caro.
Gorgeous cards too, I love the leaves across your CAS card, such beautiful colours and the embossed leaf looks fab.
Thanks for joining us at Simon Says Stamp
hugs Mandy xx

Chrissie said...

Great leafy card Caro.
Looks like you had fun at Chatsworth.
Thanks so much
Chrissie
Less is More

Jan said...

Gorgeous cards.
I have blog candy to share xx Jan
http://janlovetocraft.blogspot.co.uk/

Mandi said...

Lovely card Caro
I wen to Chatsworth house years ago, what a beautiful place

Thank you
mandi
LIM

brenda said...

Two great cards Caro, I especially like the autumn leaves one with suitable colours.

A great take on the theme, thanks so much for joining us at Allsorts this week.

B x

Paula Whittaker said...

lovely cards

Heather said...

A gorgeous CAS card Caro, your stamping and embossing with those beautiful leaves are wonderful!!!

hugs
Heatther xx
Thanks so much for joining us with Simon Says Stamp challenge.

Kathy Norman said...

Love, love your thanks you card with the beautiful leaves!

Craftnut said...

Hi Caro. Thanks for sharing your lovely work with us at allsorts this week. Tracy x

Carole said...

Absolutely stunning, great texture and design.

Caz said...

This is lovely...Thank you for sharing with us at Penny's Paper-Crafty and good luck.

Caz xx PPC DT

GinaA said...

Great foliage, lovely autumn colour.

heidy said...

Your card is gorgeous,love the fall colours!!
Thanks for joining us at CCT this week!
Hugs Heidy

sally said...

Gorgeous card.

Sally

Sharon (glitterangel) said...

Love that birthday card, it's so sweet, and I love the Autumn feel to your thank you card. Thanks for joining in with the Daring Cardmakers this week x

Croms' Cubby Hole said...

What super cards! That little monster with his balloons is so cute. Thank you for sharing this with us at Delicious Doodles this week

Pat K said...

Wonderful monster birthday card - perfect for a 6 yr old.

Thanks for joining us at Delicious Doodles. xx

Crafty Moni said...

Cute cards! I love the colors of the leaf card:)

Peace, Love, & Cricut Hugs!
Monica L.