I received this gorgeous belated birthday card from Sally. Purple is one of my favourite colours and I love how she's used the eyelet border punch at the bottom of the image (from Echoes of Kindness, which is a level 2 hostess set). Very elegant. Thanks so much Sally!
I've got another big spate of birthdays coming up! Have had a few this past week and have more to come in the next few weeks. They are mostly friends but it was my sister's special day on the 25th Jan (hi Tania). Here's one of the cards I made using the Happy Moments stamp set from SAB with all the flowers drenched in dazzling diamonds glitter.. This set is certainly getting a work out!
Once again, I've used the kaleidescope designer series paper with pink passion and tempting turquoise cardstock and the coordinating 1/4" turquoise grosgrain ribbon. Bright and vibrant colours.
It was my birthday yesterday and I had a really lovely day!! Thanks to my family and friends I was very spoilt and I also received lots of lovely messages from people all over New Zealand and the world (what would we do without facebook or the internet?? Oooh, doesn't bear thinking about, does it!).
I received an adorable card from my fabulous upline Karen and just had to share it with you. She's used the 'On Your Birthday' greetings set, which I haven't got, but the more I see it ~ the more I want it. I love the way she's inked the words in different colours. Karen also bought me a lotto ticket so we're sharing the winnings of that... It wasn't the big one, but $78 is nothing to be scoffed at ~ and it'll go towards some more goodies..
This isn't stamping related but I just had to share this with you...
The male member of our family (Oscar, our Shitzu/Pekinese ball of fluff) has had the sulks with me big time!! I had him neutered last week and boy, have I been in the bad books!! He really made me suffer and is only now (5 days later) back to his normal happy self. He's absolutely adorable and I'd held off having him desexed because I thought I'd be inundated with demands to breed from him. Well, that didn't happen ~ and he was starting to get a tad stroppy with my younger daughter (she's 13 and has been known to get in his face sometimes..) and I was told that this would help curb his attitude. So, anyway I wasn't rapt with the idea, but the nurse reassured me that I was doing the right thing because it also minimises the risk of prostate cancer. I was already upset and then afterwards he made me feel like a the biggest meanest mother in the whole world...
Thank goodness he's finally snapped out of it and my happy little chappy is back in full swing with his tail wagging and getting under my feet once again. I wouldn't have it any other way!! Here's a little side profile photo of him on Christmas day...
Have a happy day everyone!
I had a lovely Stamp-a-Stack class yesterday making up a set of 5 cards using the Fun & Fast notes stamp set. The hedgehog card (which was one of the favourites) was inspired by the very talented Paula a while ago - the only difference being that I used the Baja Breeze designer series paper.
Here's another from the stack using the little bird and the delicious Kaleidescope designer series paper. Because I've double mounted my stamps there was a choice of greetings to use. For my card, I only wanted to use part of the greeting so only inked up the "thanks" bit with a Stampin' marker.
I hope you've all had a great weekend and to those of you from the Auckland area ~ yay, we've got another day off tomorrow :) Enjoy!!
