Mosaic Tiled card.

 I have been a bit unwell over the past week....a bad head cold that has ended up on my chest. I had last Friday and Monday off work, went back on Tuesday and only lasted till lunch time... and been coughing since.  Today I had the day off... my day before the birthday day off!  I had a hair appointment set for midday and then a visit to the optometrist in the afternoon, so decided easier to just take the day off!  My hair appointment got moved 3/4 hr earlier ( suited me better ) so did some shopping and had lunch at the Mall.  Got a new winter vest, a lovely pink sweater and picked up some old magazine freebies that my local stationery store was selling for between $2.99 to $6.99.  Also got my granddaughter's birthday present - ready for the 1st of July.   The trip to the optometrist was a bit expensive as I need to replace my frames and lenses - been 6 years with the same frames and prescription.   A couple of weeks till the new ones will be ready.  

Anyhoo.... Today I am sharing a card I made a while back to send to my friend Suna as part of our NZ swap group.  It was Suna's turn to set the challenge - and she chose "Mosaic card" - you can do this a number of different ways, I chose a tiled mosaic design.   Suna has let me know the card arrived....

I started with a stenciled panel I had made a few weeks ago.  It's an Altenew stencil - Floral Garden.  It was one of Altenew's earliest stencils - I took it and sliced it into 1 1/2" by 1" rectangles and added to a brown card panel.  I added some twine around the panel and then stamped the sentiment from Altenew's Our Friendship Blooms stamp set and cut it with a circle stitched die and a matting circle from a Gina K Master Layouts set.  Added some of my handmade dot embellishments.  

Suna let me know she has sent her card to me over a week ago but it still hasn't arrived.  She also sent me a birthday card that was post 2 days ago, that arrived today.  She lives about a 25k's from me (about a 20 min drive) but sometimes the post takes weeks to get between us.  

It's been a successful week for me with card challenges - won Jen Rzasa's challenge with my no black card (here) and Star on the top of the Tree at Christmas Kickstart Challenge with this one. 

Hopefully I'll get some time to play over the weekend... Going out to dinner tomorrow night with our friends and catching up with the Junior Turley's on Sunday lunch.    Take care all.