Oh Dear! what a bloomin day. My poor Dad.

The day started well and I got to work without any problems. There was no milk so no morning cuppa.

Then my mobile rang & it was a call from my husband (Chris) to tell me my Dad had fallen and they had to call for an ambulance. I was so wound up I actually got to the hospital before the Ambulance and as Mam is disabled she was left at home worrying.

The upshot of all of this is my poor Dad has broken his hip and is expected to go to theatre this evening. I have to try to get to work tomorrow so Natalie (daughter) is going to stay overnight at my Mams to look after her but she also has to leave early in the morning to go to college, so, not sure about tomorrow.

I left the hospital around 3 ish and i have to say my Dad is looking very poorly. We have to ring before visiting tonight as he may not be up to visitors.

Below is a Picture of me and my Dad last year at Botton Village.

Christening Card

I wanted to make a card with the true meaning of a Christening and not a cutie card which is what you see mostly of these days, I think it is really important to remember why we have our children Christened and when my niece contacted me asking if I could make her one as they were God Parents I thought (hoped) that this would fit the bill.

Finished card 15 x 15cm

Stamps - PTI Everyday Blessings

Snowflake - Copper Magic

I found the Metal Magic sheet in my craft stash and thought a snowflake in it would be lovely, it is a pure copper sheet, I used the Cuttlebug snowflake die and cut the shape and embossed it then the fun part, the snowflake started as a true copper colour and then I used my heat gun on it untill it started to change colour, it now has reds and purple colour ways running through it.

If you click the image it will enlarge it so you can see the beauty of the copper.

I stamped the background snowflake and the joy stamps and embossed with Blonde Moments powder.

Finished card 15x15cm

Sweet Pea Take Three - Floral Craft

This is the next flower that I've created from the Sweet Pea punch, I used the side wings of the punch for this flower I'm going to say it's a wild rose but flower experts feel free to correct me, I just know that I was very pleased with the results.

I am beginning to enjoy making new flowers from punches as I'm one of those people that once I've cracked what I'm doing I move on and very rarely re-use the punch so this is opening up many more possibilities.

The centre circle was an idea from Amazing Paper Grace who has a video tutorial here

Using the same coner punch (corner adorna) I punched through the top of the card and tied a matching ribbon.

Sweet Pea Take Two - Floral Craft

I decided to play with the sweet Pea Punch again as I like value for money and thought it was a shame just to make 1 flower from 1 punch so I came up with 2 different flowers this is the first one, it is very similar to a pansy I'll try to get the other flower posted tomorrow