Hello Autumn

Hasn't the weather changed this week; I didn’t realise how nice and warm it has been until I went to work without a coat and was cold, so its off with the lightweight summer jackets and on with the winter coats and scarf brrr…although I do like the autumn, I love the amazing colours that nature brings us as the trees and plants get ready for the winter ahead. My daughter is safely back in Canterbury for Uni and settling in to her new accommodation for her final year. She is working during ‘freshers fortnight’ as a volunteer and doing her training this week with the others, it sounds like a lots of fun as well as some hard work, I’m sure it will be a great experience for her and she will look back on with some fun memories, I hope she enjoys it. I will keep track on her Facebook

I’ve did slighter better on the card making front this week. I have completed my first Saturated Canary card using Fancy, I love her hair, and I think she is very beautiful. I downloaded the freebies when they where available some time ago and have had several attempts at colouring them so far but not liked the results, I didn’t do them justice, Krista is a very talented artist indeed and her blog is great… I look forward to each post to see what amazing artwork she has created, her sense of humour and caring nature makes her blog a pleasure to read. I think her work is absolutely stunning, this is the first time that I have actually liked my colouring enough to make a card, the hair needs more work and my shading needs a lot more practice but overall I like it. Again I’ve went for my favourite colour … blue and this time I've teamed it with yellow and a touch of gold, I think it will make a great birthday card, I’m not sure who for yet maybe one of my nieces which is coming up soon. Its off to my sister in laws 50^th party this weekend so not at home again, looking forward to a ‘weekend off’ although it will be nice catching up with everyone as we don’t meet often living so far away from each other.

a special birthday wish

I used the following materials:

·                     White scalloped card

·                     Yellow and cream card stock for layering

·                     Blue patterned paper -Papermania A4 capsule collection -Aqua

·                     Yellow patterned paper -vintage florals  (magazine freebie)

·                     Saturated Canary- Fancy - using Promarkers and  hair- Pearls and Stickles

·                     Yellow and gold Punched Flowers -with pearls and  card stock as above and 

       gold wrapping paper!

From Stash-

·                     Tiny Yellow mulberry flowers

·                     Sentiment  – coloured promarkers

·                     Gold pin 

·                     Yellow satin ribbon and bow

·                     Various pearls

·                     Punched butterfly coloured with promarker and decorated with Stickles

·                     Die cut flourish coloured with promarker to co-ordinate with card 

I would like to take part in the following challenges this week 

Saturated Canary Challenge #26 -B is for favourite colour -blue, bows and butterflies

Digi Doodle Shop-Final Challenge-Anything Goes

Paper Pretties PWC223 Punches

The Paper Shelter- Challenge#81- Punch It

Love to Create-challenge #32- Shows Us Your Ribbonl

Ruby’s Rainbow challenge#37-bingo-Pearls Flowers Ribbon

Make it Monday #106- Always Anything Goes

Paper Pretties Challenge-PPMC56 -Create a Birthday Card

Challenges 4 Everybody- Challenge#2-Anything Goes

The Squirrel and the Fox –Challenge #26-Anything Goes

Flutterby Wednesday - Challenge #205-Butterfly and your favourite colour- Blue