To update this blog goes onto my 'to do' list every day, but it somehow always ends up bottom of the list as more important stuff seems to overtake it. I thought I should try and get in another post before a new month starts and that will take the grand total of my posts in 2009 to the grand total of three, haha. Nevermind.
Fiskars asked if I would do a couple of simple Easter cards, using Fiskars tools, and the emphasis on simple. I'm not sure I can do simple and its harder than it seems really as simple to one may not be simple to another but I think these two cards should be easy enough to follow should anyone want to!
Here are the cards:
Easter egg....
Hoppy Easter bunny....
They are made using only Fiskars tools and stamps and you can see the full instructions {here} and {here}
Cam spent the first half of the week on an adventure trip in Wales with school. He came home on Wednesday evening and was a little subdued - trying to get any info about the trip out of him was really like trying to get blood out of a stone. Then he spent Thursday and Friday feeling poorly with what the Doctor called a 'viral infection'. He seems OK now though so thats a relief.
He bought back a load of wet and muddy washing so I have been really grateful that the weather has been OK this week and I've been able to actually hang it on the washing line and it be dry by the end of the day. Seems ages since I've been able to do that! Getting fed up of drying washing on radiators - just not the same as coming in off the line smelling all fresh and airy.
The colours of this layout seems spring-like to me too. The photo was taken in the summer last year, on one of the very few sunny days that we had, and the lovely greens and lemons were just right for an outdoors pic. Papers and embellishments are Crate Paper - Lemon Grass and the tree trunk is a Hambly rub-on. There is lots of sewing, lots of doodling and rub-ons (love rub-ons)......
Now I haven't got the tidiest handwriting in the world and there are many that certainly wouldn't plaster it on a layout (Darren thinks my handwriting is quite unreadable!) but I thought hey-ho, its me and I want my children to be reminded of this little quirky bit of me when they flick through the layouts - so long as they can read it! it really isn't as bad as Darren says, is it?
Anyways, I have some design work to do for Charmed Cards, for Bubbly Scrumptious and for Fiskars so I had best get to it! Just time for a cuppa though - I am sure that was top of my 'to-do' list, haha.....x
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