An Awful Welcome Home!

Hello my friends!  First I what to thank all of you who visited my blog and commented these past weeks, even though you knew I wouldn't be able to return the favour!  You are so very, very sweet!

I have no card today, as we only arrived home yesterday and we have so much to do . . . I will explain!

We arrived home after a two hour drive at 03:30 in the morning, opened the front door and encountered a stomach wrenching smell, the whole house smelled like a rubbish tip of rotting, putrefying food . . . we had had a power cut eleven days ago and our two freezers had defrosted and all the food had rotted . . . meat, vegetables, ice cream had all turned to liquid and filled the house with a wonderful smell to greet us!  So, we had to clear that all up before we could get some sleep!  We managed to crawl into bed at 05:30 as the sun was coming up - well, it was daylight, there was no sun, only rain!

We have had to get a load of food now, as we have nothing left to eat, so I will leave you gentle readers, with a few video clips and a couple of pictures that we took whilst away (they aren't wonderful, as I have had no time to edit and they were only shot on my old phone).

Here they are, such as they are!

 

Thank you so much for your visit today and especially if you have left a comment.  You are all appreciated more than you know!

If you have a question, please be sure I have a way to contact you so I can answer, as a lot of you are 'no-reply' bloggers, so I am unable to reply via e-mail.

And Now For Something Different!

Hola lovely peeps!  Another scheduled post here.  This is a design I have had in mind for a while now, and decided to actually give it a try.  It is a water-coloured panel that I cut up into three varying sized sections, laid them down as I wanted the arrangement to be, stamped the image - which is from Concord & 9th - and coloured it with one of the colours from the background and a green marker for the stem.

Next, I adhered the panels to a white card base and stamped the sentiment in the space I left for it.  Then I finished with some punched out hearts, some Wink Of Stella and some Glossy Accents, topped with a short spritz of home made shimmer.

I'm not sure if I like it or not . . . Hmmm?  On reflection, I think next time I will stamp the image on the base card as well, so the image is complete, but leaving the base image uncoloured and just colour the top one.  What do you think?

Thank you so much for your visit today and especially if you have left a comment.  You are all appreciated more than you know! 

If you have a question, please be sure I have a way to contact you so I can answer, as a lot of you are 'no-reply' bloggers, so I am unable to reply via e-mail.

Thank you so much for your visit today and especially if you have left a comment.  You are all appreciated more than you know! If you have a question, please be sure I have a way to contact you so I can answer, as a lot of you are 'no-reply' bloggers, so I am unable to reply via e-mail.

Yet Another From My Favourite Suite

Hi my lovelies!  I hope you are all having a good day/week!  I am hoping that I am sunning myself in the warm sunshine and sipping a tall, cold, glass of Tinto Verano (summer wine), it's a drink made with red wine and loads of lemonade and it is very refreshing!

This is another card made with the Stampin' Up, 'Eastern Palace' suite of products, that you will know, I have completely fallen in love with.

I am keeping all the cards made with this suite together, to see just how many I can get out of it.  The only thing that I will be using that is not included in the suite, is some sentiments, from a variety other sets, as there are only a few with this stamp set, and there will be dozens of cards made!  There are only so many, 'hello', 'just a note' and 'it's a beautiful life', cards that is needed, eh?

I left the sentiment off of this one, I will stamp that when I know what I will use it for.  Here it is.

Thank you so much for your visit today and especially if you have left a comment.  You are all appreciated more than you know!   I hope to visit you all on my return!

If you have a question, please be sure I have a way to contact you so I can answer, as a lot of you are 'no-reply' bloggers, so I am unable to reply via e-mail.