Meadowlark

Yesterday was our annual village fayre. We have quite a large procession of floats from all the village groups, and I was once again on our pre-school float. The theme this year was 'go green' and our float was decorated as a refuse lorry for the recyclable goods. Hope you like the photos. Aimee took part in the local amateur dramatics group and was Maid Marion and the other piccie is of my Mum who took part on the Womens British Legion float and was a brown wheelie bin.

How time flies!!

I can't believe it's been over a month since I last blogged! What have I been up to?

Firstly I had to make all my invites for my forthcoming 40th birthday party. My party is all black and white themed, everything, invites, decorations, clothes and even my cake and I'm really looking forward to it....let's hope life begins at 40.

Our village school had a ladies shopping evening, where I had a card stall which proved quite successful.

Aimee had another trip to A&E with a suspected broken thumb/wrist, but luckily the xray was clear, but resulted in her wearing a splint for a week, which put pay to her continuous handstands and back flips.

The only crafting that myself and Aimee have done, is to decorate a blank 7gypsies folder in preparation for a 'book of me'.

Challenge layout

I've actually done some scrapbooking. This is the layout I have made for Lesley's May challenge on the Craftswap forum. This month's challenge was for:-

One or more outdoor photos

Yellow and green

Some flowers, either as embellishments or the paper

Some ribbon

These photos were taken on a trip to Anglessey Abbey in the Spring, which is a beautiful day out.

Penny Black

At Ally Pally last week, I treated myself to a sheet of clear stamps from Penny Black. They are the first Penny Black stamps I've had and they are so cute. Here are a few of the cards (I've made so many) that I have created using the stamps and my pile of scraps.

This card I copied from this month's Papercraft Inspirations, I'm such a cheat.

Aimee's photo frame

My daughter Aimee decided to do some crafting this week. She first took an old jigsaw piece which she painted with pink acylic paint. Used 2 butterfly peeloffs and coloured them in adding stickles for a bit of sparkle. She then added a photo of herself on her 1st birthday and a letter A, finishing off with a piece of ribbon to hang it.

I think it's a great piece.

MTTC - Denim

The challenge at My time to Craft this week is denim, so I picked this lovely little cowboy stamped and gave him denim jeans and waistcoat.