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May Bank Holiday

Saturday

had the pleasure of being at work, its always such a priviliege to get up early on Saturday, the evening was planned though, Avatar on DVD, chilli con carne and a bottle of wine, except for eldest child wanted dropping at party, that started at 9pm, was it unreasonable to refuse, considering "drinking and driving" is against the law and Avatar is 3 hours long.  Compromised on dropping him off at 7.30 at a friends, that was an hour round trip though, was he grateful, I dont think so.  Avatar was great and so was the chilli, couldnt have watched it in pictures though, as cant sit still that long.

Sunday

having a great lie in, until eldest rang and woke us all up asking to be picked up from friends as needed to get home and get changed for football, which we would also have the pleasure of taking him too, grrrrrr kids who'd have em.  Apart from that chilled out did some crafting, some tidying just general lazy day.

Monday

great lie in, due to fact up till 2am with toothache, then more tablets needed 6ish so i could get some more sleep, went for a walk in the woods to see the bluebells with OH, took some silly photos of each other, I tried smooching with my eyes to the camera and finding the light a la America's next top model, needless to say wont be putting them up for public consideration, dont wanna make you all jealous, NOT, LOL, here are some of my nature photos for you instead, check out the bluebell's finding the light, LOL.

Hope you all had relaxing and crafty weekends, hate to tell you, back to work tomoz, boo hoo.

Journal Pages 2 & 3

what can I say, started off with DI and torn book pages, then totally covered that up with CH paints, bit of pattern paper, lots of stamping some glimmer mists, sakura pens and some transfers and it's finished.  Not at all what I had planned, but I think I like the result.

Had a great weekend, hope you all did too.

SDDC Challenge 5

Over at Stampotique their challenge is to do a girly girl card, so here is my effort, using of course a stampotique stamp for the main images.

Birthday cards

had to make two male cards for this week, got this dreamweavers stencil last week at Ally Pally with male cards in mind.  Proceeded to spend every evening this week trying to get it to work.  First of all my embossing paste kept going under the stencil, (ideas on how to stop that would be wlecome), then used glitter which was too chunky and obscured all the detail, then tried adding perfect pearls whilst paste was still wet, not a good effect and nearly ruined my brush, LOL.  Then decided to just use mica paint through the stencil, would have looked great if it hadnt bled again, grrrrrrrr.  So ended up brushing it out and then had the idea to use black marker pen to outline stencil onto brushed background, used some sakura pens to block in and voila,it worked.  Hope my male rellies appreciate the effort I made. LOL

Close ups for those that want to look closer