Sunday Snippet Card - Let's Bee Friends

Afternoon Everyone,

And happy Sunday to you too.

I have a quick Sunday Snippet Card for Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 123 to share with you today ... the haste is because we are off to the market and car boot sale for a rake about. The topper is another from the recent colouring session.

The cute image is one that came in a free pack in one of the cardmaking magazines bought last year ... coloured with ProMarkers and matted and layered on to scraps of pink and turquoise card.

I used a couple of scraps of leftover patterned paper (another magazine freebie I think) to cover the white card base and added a belly band created from a strips of white and pink card, both with the edges punched - the white with hearts and the pink scalloped - and trimmed with a length of flower printed ribbon.

The silver peel-offs I've used to decorate are from a sheet that is so old I've forgotten the name of the maker. As this is true of almost everything that went into the making of this card I'm claiming the right, as laid down by Jules, to take Sunday off and not to list them at all :)

I hope you've enjoyed the weekend so far. It's the May Day holiday weekend here but the weather hasn't been too good so far ... the sun seems to have gone on holiday too! So instead of sunning ourselves we went out shopping yesterday ... to Dunelm Mill ... just for some thread, that's all, honest! So I really don't know how several lengths of beautiful fabric dropped into my basket, but it did, and being a real softy, I hadn't the heart to do anything but pay for it at the cash desk :) Now, all I need to do is find the time to get the sewing machine out.

And for tomorrow we are planning a visit to Culzean Castle ... I have a notion to visit the walled garden ... looking at someone else's garden will be a welcome change from working in our weed-infested patch - the ground elder is beginning to get the better of me!

So whatever you are doing this weekend have a great time.

Happy crafting,

Friday's Smile - Week 67

Hi Everyone,

After a yet another busy day I'm taking the time now to join in with Annie's Friday Share A Smile post. As usual I've had plenty to make me smile but I've narrowed it down to the following photos.

After his big sister, Rhian, taking a starring role last week it's the turn of my great-grandson, Brodie ... that smile would melt the hardest of hearts :)

 And here's the newest addition to my son's family ... meet Rango, the golden retriever - such a cutey.

And finally, from my daughter ... made me laugh but perhaps it should have made me cry!!!

Thanks Annie for featuring my post from last week ... I'm glad it made you smile too.

I hope you all have a wonderful week that's full of lots more happy moments.

Have you seen the one with the giraffe, the frog and the chicken ...

... if you have, please let me know!

Why? Because this is one of the digi images (a NBUS of course) that was printed off eons ago and even though I have searched through my entire images file on the PC, took me forever too, I have been unable to find it ... therefore cannot attribute it to the creator, and I feel really bad about that :(

It's a really fun image that I thought would be perfect for a little boy's birthday. ProMarkers were used to colour it and, then to make it even more amusing for said little boy, I've added googly eyes - glued down with seriously strong glue - this little one has had a tendency in the past to put things straight into his mouth so I'm taking no chances!

The black card base is covered with Crafts-Too green polka dot patterned paper. The belly-band is just a scrap of forest green card (Papermill Direct) trimmed with an X-Cut scallop border edge punch and decorated with a leftover length of narrow green gingham ribbon ... there was a teeny-weeny bit left, just enough to make a faux bow!

The image is matted on to another scrap of forest green card - love that colour - and decorated in each corner with green card candi - Craftwork Cards Granny Smith selection. The white candi used is also from the same selection.

I'm submitting this card to the two following challenges:
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge for May - Hazel's requirement is always that anything goes as long as the card front is covered with patterned paper.
and, of course, I'm skipping over to Di's at Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 122 - lots of stash used up today including the snippets of forest green cardstock and gingham ribbon.

It's short and sweet today ... lots to do here, lots of crafty projects planned, and lots that won't get done, I'm sure :)

I hope you are having a great day and everything is going well for you ... if it isn't here's a cyber hug if you need it and maybe the day will improve as it goes :)

Happy crafting,