Happy Birthday Dad

 It's my Dad's birthday today... 88 years young!  He is incredible.   Still very active. 

Used more of Uniquely Creative digi images - mainly from the Father's Day images.   Cut out some tags, added a  Best Dad Ever circle and a matted birthday sentiment.   A few little kraft dots to finish.

Happy Birthday Archie....

 Easter Sunday was also Archie's 9th birthday.   Boy where have the years gone!

This year the family are away camping in the Far North of Western Australia... so I had to send his card early.  

Archie loves playing Mario Cart on his Switch so I decided on a Mario card for his card. 

And he was very happy to get it...

And here are few pictures of their outback adventures 

These are in the Karijini National Park where they did lots of hiking and took some amazing pictures 

We have also had a bit of an adventure too..... a road trip to Wellington (about 8 hrs south of Auckland)   Drove down on Thursday and back on Monday.  Stayed with my Dad and did some visiting of people and places from when we lived there.   

Happy Birthday Dad

 Today is my Dad's 87th birthday.   He was a young dad - only 20 when I was born....so I'm very lucky to still have him my life. 

Here's the card I made and sent to him. 

I made myself a little stencil to do some colour blocking using Altenew inks and then over stamped with Stampin' Up Wetlands stamp set.  Part of the sentiment is from the same set and the DAD is from a Newton's Nook set.  A CAS card.  

Happy Birthday Dad 💖

A little Tiddly Ink digi

My next door neighbour's little girl is turning 5 this week.  She is a little cutie.... looks just like Little Orphan Annie... curly red hair.  I've made her a little card.  It was inspired by a card made by Joy (here) She used a Tiddly Ink rubber stamp and I remembered that I had the digi version. 

I printed out Emma and coloured her with Copics and then fussy cut her.  I then found a sheet of PP that was full of Happy Birthdays.  It is just gorgeous paper made by Creativ and it made the perfect foil for my little focal image.  No need for anything else other than the filigree corner cut with a La La Land die.  

I'm entering this into Simon Says Stamps ~Anything goes challenge.  

I did manage a few more cards over the weekend... some for DT work and other's for fun.  You can see them over on my Flickr group  if you are interested.  I will hopefully show then here over the next little while.  I'll be back tomorrow with my final card for Die Cut Divas... a thank you for Dreamweavers for their fabulous sponsorship.  

 

Pretty girl for Mo's challenge

Over at Mo's Digital challenge, there is a call for a Guest DT member.  The challenge is Happy Birthday.  I have a number of Mo's images as I just adore her delightful drawings.

 

This little one is "Bubble Girl"  I had her coloured up for quite a while, and finally got around to making her into a card.  I used a Spellbinders die to cut it out and layered onto some PP from a Docraft's pack.   The sentiment is from a Penny Black set. 

Not a lot of cards made this week as I've been working on an Explosion Box for a friend who is turning   next month.  This is the first time I've ever made one of these... time consuming to say the least.  Lots of cutting of card and papers.  And finding the right sentiment stamps and embellishments.  Hoping to get some cards done this weekend... and maybe even rising early Sunday to take part in Hero Arts Scramble.  

Happy Birthday Kieran

13th November 1988.... the day my baby boy was born........ so today he is 23.  Where does the time go?  It only seems like yesterday and he was being born.  There's a bit of a story to his birth.   Due to previous complications it was decided that I would be induced.  So I headed off to hospital on Thurs 10th to have the induction first thing 11th Nov.   Well, the morning arrived and I lay in my hospital bed waiting for the doctors....and waiting, and waiting.... finally they came round and said that Delivery suite was busy so I was to go home and come back for an induction on Monday morning.  Oh well, I thought.... just as well MIL was planning to stay a few days.   So Sunday morning, I'm having a nice rest in bed when the phone goes at around 9.00am.... "Mrs Turley, it's Delivery suite here, we're not busy today, how would you like to have your baby today?"  Yelled out to hubby who was just about to start mowing the lawns.  To this day, he says, if he's started mowing he'd have said WE ARE TOO BUSY!  So off we went, induction done and labouring started.  My Dad was in Wellington (where we lived at the time) so he came over after his conference finished at lunch time.... he had a flight back south later in the day.  Once he left, the nurse broke my waters and at 6.00 Kieran James Turley made his way into the world.  I had to ring my Mum and tell her that when she picked up Dad, tell him his Grandson came 30 mins after he left.  We did have a little scare as he got a temperature as he was being born and they raced him off to the neo-natal unit... all 8lbs of him... in with a set of 4lb twins... he looked a monster.  Still a day or so later, all was back to normal. 

And now here he is....

This morning, his Dad and I went out to breakfast with him to celebrate. Here are my two boys...



I made a card for him relating to his work.... he's a builder.

Used an image from Mo Manning ~ perfect for him.  A nice CAS card... no fuss, just right for my boy.

I had a really neat day yesterday at Stamp Group.... will share more later in the week.... but getting home at 6.45pm and not finding that hubby had got anything organised for dinner... was feeling a bit hard done by.... till he said " I think we should go out for dinner..." which we did... to my favourite restaurant.... a local eatery called Zavito.  It's about 1/2 km from home and I really enjoy the atmosphere and the food.   So a great weekend all round.

Thanks for sharing this  mostly non-crafting post with me.

Cheers

Dawn 

Elegance in Black and White

The 21st we went to in the weekend, had a 1920-30's theme and Josephine, the birthday girl, looked lovely in an old cream suit.  I decided to make an elegant and simple card to celebrate.

My daughter had given me all the scraps from her wedding invitations.... long strips of the brocade patterned paper and the metallic papers in blacks and greys.  Plus some black and white patterned fabric.  I stuck the fabric to some card and cut out the flower petals from a Tim Holtz die.  Added the Prima flower and pearl to make my own embellishment.  Layered the rest of the card and stamped the sentiment from Stamp-it and added the 21 cut from a CB alpha die.   I finished with the little silver oval ( a left over piece from cutting out a bird cage die) and added the pearls to it.  All in all, I felt the card meet my expectations.

I would also like to thank everyone for their concerns and thoughts via emails, comments, Tweets and Facebook.  Here in Auckland we are very safe and sound, but in Christchurch things are very grim.  The death toll is rising and there are still many people with no where to sleep again tonight.   One sees devastating earthquakes on the TV in other parts of the world, but when it is in your own backyard ( so to speak) it hits home a bit.  Here in Auckland we live amongst 49 volcanoes.... none active at present... but it makes you think a bit.  I'm going to be getting a survival kit set up now.

Thanks for stopping by.

Birthday card and an Angel.

My friend's birthday was today (21st) and I decided it was time to make a birthday card for a change!

Recently I won some lovely The Greeting Farm stamps on Kelly's blog so I decided to ink up this little lady and this is what came about.

I stamped Anya onto some watercolour paper and coloured her in with Distress inks.  I added some stickles and Glossy Accents and then die cut her out and matted onto some green PP.  The PP I used for the background is from Rosie's Studio.  I randomly coloured in some of the daisies with Peeled Paint ink, added some cream lace and a couple of paper flowers.  The base is kraft from Stampin' Up!

My angel came about after some surfing the net a few weeks ago and finding this tutorial on Paper Angels.  I didn't have some of the items.... namely an ornament for the head, but did have some polystyrene balls that I painted white.  I still have to work out how to put the halo on.... but meanwhile it is sitting in my lounge.

Tonight is another very muggy night.... all the doors and windows open but still way too hot and I have to make some little cards for my work colleagues to go with the home-made chocolates I have made for them.  Plus I have a couple of candles I want to make for a gift as well.... so onwards..... till next time, take care

One of those days....

when what you have in your mind just does not come out on the paper..... that's what I had yesterday.  I suddenly realised I need to get cards made for my great nephews who are turning 4 next Thursday.... in Australia so I had to get them into the post today.... as Monday is a public holiday here in NZ.

I had an idea to use some dinosaur themed paper and stamps.... stopped off at my LSS and picked up some paper and a couple of little stamps by Imaginisce ... what I got wasn't at all how I thought it would turn out.... but I really didn't have time to do anything else.

I cut out the boys names with my CB and used my Xyron sticker maker to adhere them to the card.  I edged the names with white gel pen and some stickles.  I stamped the images and coloured and added to the cards.   Still I'm sure 4 years old will enjoy them.    So Hunter and Zade..... have a happy birthday next week.  The cards got into the post today.

I had the day at home today, doing a big spring clean of the kitchen and bathrooms..... so the next 3 days are ALL MINE!!!!  Tomorrow though, a spring clean in the craft room ( again... I am so messy and untidy I have to do this very regularly!!!!)   Once that's done it off to visit a friend in the afternoon.... and to admire her lovely cards in person!!!!   Hubby has plans to waterblast the drive and deck, so that will keep him busy all day... but by the end the place will be looking really good.

Enjoy your weekend people and thanks for stopping by....

Play Date Cafe Challenge #40 - Take Two

I really like the colour challenge that Play Date Cafe have this week. Black and White are so good together and then that touch of Green.  I was chuffed to see that Hero Arts Twitter'ed yesterdays card.  It is nice to be recognised...
Anyway I still have a couple of ideas with this colour scheme and this was one of them

I started by stamping the Hero Arts Dots and Flowers background stamp onto white card and layering onto black.  Next I stamped the Star in versamark and embossed with a dark green powder.  I used square nestibilities to cut out the white and black card and rounded the corners.  Both the star and the sentiment are from a set by Rosie's Studio.  Added a couple of gems at each end.  Another one I'm also entering into Moxie Fab World - this time Clean and Graphic

Am pleased the weekend is here now... being sick has made this a bit of a funny week and I can do with the weekend just to get back on my feet.

Appreciate all the lovely comments people make and thanks for taking the time to visit me.