Card-making fun.

It's been a while since I have spent time making cards and paper crafting so I decided to start thinking about this year's Christmas cards already! I have put together a few samples of what I might make this year for all of my friends and family so I'm quite excited to get started!

One of my closest friends recently moved into a new house and I was very excited to make her a unique 'new home' card.

I used a plain white, square card and added a border for my picture of a brown and grainy card to give some texture. I then sketched my house design and used a pretty floral paper for the hill and some cut out tree shapes of green paper which I used with foam pads to create some depth in the trees. The clouds and path were created using a small ink pad pen in blue and green. I used some handwriting styled letter stamps for the font with a plain black ink. The dashes around the edge of the picture were added to mimic sewn edges, these were simply drawn on with a black Sharpie marker pen.

I am really pleased with the result and it now takes pride of place on her new fireplace. Hopefully I will find some time for some more card making very soon!

Healthy summer.

Summer is the best time of year to fill up on lots of yummy fruit (and ice cream...), I love summer berries and when I get some chilled time to sit in the sun this is my perfect snack! Strawberries, raspberries and red grapes. 

I picked my first carrot from the garden this week, it's not massive and could maybe have been left a little longer but I impatiently wanted to see how they were coming along and here is the result!

I'm like a proud parent! I'm going to eat it today and hopefully it will have been worth the hard work that has gone into growing it!

I have a few days of crafting and scrapbooking planned for next week, it's been too long! 

Summer is upon us!

It's been a while since my last post, I have been keeping busy with my work as a Library Assistant and have finally finished for the summer.

I'm a big lover of summer sunshine and it has been perfect getting out into the garden over the last few weeks. I am really pleased with the way my lawn has turned out after I dug it up (never again!) and replanted it. It's getting really thick and green! My veggies are coming along well and I thought I would share a fact I learned this week: a courgette and a marrow are THE SAME THING! It just depends when you pick them. Mind=blown.

In other news, I have a new favourite beverage!

My local is always hosting different beers and craft ales and this is one of my favourites! Cherry flavoured beer... Yummy!