60th Birthday card for Kim

Hi everyone, I woke up Friday morning in a bit of pain and by the end of the day it was full blown. I must have pulled a muscle in my back/shoulder and it has not been much fun at all for the last couple of days. Just getting into bed was not good and trying to find a spot to be comfortable was just not happening. I didn't go to craft on Saturday but we had our friend Kim's 60th birthday party last night. It was an outdoor affair and it got pretty cold!!! Our youngest daughter gave my back and arm a massage a couple of times and said it was quite inflamed. That must have helped quite a bit. I left hubby at the party and Rachel and her boyfriend dropped me home, I took a couple of painkillers and headed off to bed.  I am much better this morning but am still being pretty careful. The drive in to church was a bit painful when hubby braked and also when he took off too. Hopefully it should be better by tomorrow as I have the two grandchildren again
I made Kim a card which I was going to share yesterday but didn't feel up to sitting in front of the computer to post and scan the card.
Here it is.........

Recipe:
SU Early Espresso cardstock for the basecard
SU Crumb cake cardstock
Sentiment, border and image are from Close to My Heart (an e-bay purchase)
60th was diecut with a Sizzix alphabet die
The happy sentiment was part of a stamp from SU Teeny, Tiny Sentiments
SU Crumbcake inkpad
SU Early Espresso inkpad.

I forgot to scan the inside, but kept it plain with just a layer of sponged crumbcake cardstock

I am entering this into the following challenges:
Addicted to Stamps and More! -  CAS challenge #3 ~ Clean and Simple
Crafts and Me - Challenge 105 ~ Anything Goes


Thanks for stopping by,
Take Care and enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Hugs,
Sandy

21st Congratulations

Hello again, glad you popped by to look at today's card.  It's been a reasonable day today and should have been able to get some of the mound of washing out, but I got sidetracked and by the time it popped back into my head, if was too late to hang it out so I washed a couple of loads anyway and it is again hanging on the rack in front of the fire in the family room. We are heading for some cold and wet weather again over the next few days so it looks like there will be washing taking up space for a little while longer.
Hope you are having warmer weather and enjoying it while you can.
I went off to craft this morning as usual and there were actually 4 of us on the table today instead of 2. It was good to catch up with the other 2, a mother and daughter. I went out tonight to a VIP night at a furniture/homeware/giftware shop. There were door prizes, wine, champagne, and appetizers too. I bought a lovely necklace for a friend and another gift for another friend who reads the blog so won't say what it was. I went with a friend, so because it started early we hadn't eaten so we stopped at a little Thai restaurant on the way home for a meal. It was yummy.
I forgot to mention that one of my cards was picked in the Top Picks at the last Come and Get It Challenge ~ May sketch challenge.
Welcome also to a couple of new followers.
Well onto my card for tonight,
My nephew is turning 21 on the 1st of June so I will be able to give this one to him.
I've used SU Early Espresso to make the cardbase, a layer of SU Pacific Point and then this lovely DP from My Mind's Eye - Good Day Sunshine - Hit the Road Paper. I used an octagonal nestie die to cut around the image (a digi from Bugaboo) which was coloured with Copic Markers. I drew around the nestie die and hand cut a matte in Pacific Point and adhered it to the front of the card. The sentiment was a generic rubber stamp I picked up years ago in a cheap shop. The "21" is from Kanban stamps - Retro cars
I also decorated the inside using 2 different sized nestie dies to cut 1 in Early Espresso and the other in white. I used a layer of Pacific Point, a small piece of the DP and then layered the diecuts over the top.
I would like to enter this card into the following challenges"
Cards for Men - challenge 11 ~ male card, must have "congratulations" on the front of the card
Celebrate the Occasion - Challenge #64 ~ Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments Designs- Anything Goes
Well that's it from me tonight, I managed to get to a lot of blogs today to leave comments, if I didn't visit yours, I'm hoping to soon.
Take Care,
Sandy

Front of card

 inside of card

Catching Worms

Welcome again to my blog today, if you are visiting, I hope you have found my blog interesting, to the regular followers, thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments.
I would also like to welcome a couple of new followers, Beth, Rachel and Debeez. Hope you enjoy visiting my blog.
My little granddaughter went home about 1 p.m. today. My DIL and our little grandson came to pick her up. The elder granddaughter was staying with her other Mama and was being picked up after they left here. The little one was full of smiles, he is growing up quickly, 9 months now and crawling around and standing up with the aid of the lounge etc.
When they left, I quickly packed up my Cuttlebug and some dies and embossing folders and a trolley with card and all the other paraphanalia needed for cardmaking and headed for Judy's house. All of the girls finished their boxes after we downloaded the instructions (I left them home!! I've taught the secret box to 3 different lots of ladies) I should have known the measurements off by heart, LOL.
We looked through some beading books to see if there was anything we wanted to make and decided on a project to make in 2 weeks time. Next week Judy is interstate for a wedding? and then back home for one of her daughter's 30th birthdays so no craft next Saturday.
I rushed home stopping on the way back to get a cooked chicken. I quickly broke it up and made a salad platter and my OH and I went out to our daughter's boyfriend's grandma's 80th birthday party (gee that was a mouthful)
We came home late and I got stuck into making a card, I did scan the one I made for her but for some reason it cut off the sides of the card in the pic. I may put it at the end of the post. It was a fairly quick and simple card as I threw it together at the last minute in between peeling and chopping the carrot for the platter.

The base card is made with SU Poppy Parade, the DP is from a 12 x 12 pack by DCWV called: The Sweet Stack. A piece of the Poppy Parade across the middle and then I also used a piece of SU Certainly Celery and then printed this cute image from Phindy's onto white card and coloured with Copic Markers, this whole piece was distressed on the edges and then ink distressed as well. I also ink distressed the basecard edges. I popped the image piece up with foam dots.
I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Freshly Made Sketches #24-A Sketch by Rita Wright

Phindy's Place Challenge - Challenge #95 - Distressing

todays card

this was the card I made for George's Grandma.

It was a black basecard (the scan has cut the edges off!) I used a piece of pink and cut a circle out with a die and then put it through an embossing folder. I stamped the sentiment onto white card and used a scallop punch to cut it. I then adhered it inside the cutout section and added 3 flowers and the number 80 which I cut using an alphabet/number die set.

Well, I hope you are all enjoying your weekends,
Take Care
Sandy