House of Cards April Challenge. . . . . . .

Good morning my little paddling chums and Happy April Fools Day. Hope all is well with you and yours.

Hello too to new visitors who have kindly left comments.

I'm here with a DT card as today is the start of April's challenge at House of Cards and the theme is . . . . . . . . 

                                                 Add a butterfly &/or colour challenge

Hope you can pop and have a look at my team mates creations and also why not join in?

Well, I decided to go down just the butterfly route as you know I don't do bright colours. . . . . . . . yes, I can hear you all howling with laughter hahaha!!

The butterflies are actually set into apertures created by cutting the SB Elizabeth Border Strip outer edge from the top layer but the way the shadows fall from the lighting, it gives the illusion that they are mounted on toppers, particularly on the snap below. . . . . . . .

Ingredients

White card (Lime Tree)

Plum card (Lidl)

Sue Wilson Cygnus Gemini die

SB Elizabeth Border Strip

SB Jewel Flowers and Flourishes (butterflies only)

Woodware sentiment stamp

Mei Flower gold teeny bling

Victorian Velvet and Aged Mahogany DI

On the above photo, you can see the apertures.

I hope that you like my interpretation of the theme and that you can come and join in with the challenge.

I must apologise for being behind with my visits to those of you with blogs. Jeepers, this work mularky plays havoc with your blog life!!! I will endeavour to catch up during today.

Thank you all for your best wishes for my new job. As I am training, its 2 full weeks of 8.45 to 17.45 (thankfully, I have a day off today!!!) before I start my part time hours. I'm shattered already and we're only half way through week one lol!!!

Mr D's snorty sniffles have been disturbing my sleep too, which doesn't help but a least I haven't developed anything more than a sniff myself and he is feeling better. . . . . . . . . I think he had a touch of flu, as some of you thought, too and he thanks you all for your kind concern (I think he felt quite touched by your lovely comments). Wendy, I think he may be a bit hormonal too. . . well, he did want bling on his card lol!!!

Well, time to keep an eye on the weather as I have washing out and I know rain is to come at some point.

Have a good day folks and will see you tomorrow (hopefully) for the next MAWTT challenge. . . . . . see, I'm like buses, not one for ages then 2 in a row lol!!!

TTFN

Ang x

Ps. . . . .yes Jackie, whooda thought Ferrari on the top step of the podum. I bet the beautiful Fernando thinks he had another knock on his head about 8 months ago now lol!!! . . . . . apologies non F1 fans.

House of Cards March Challenge. . . . . . . .Use Enamel Dots

Good morning everyone. Hope all is good with you and yours.

Thank you so much for all of your positive comments on my last post. In fairness, it was only one person who caused the rota issues at work and the store manager was very sad about me leaving. I was going to go for a meal with a colleague tomorrow evening but word spread and now there's going to be 9 of us!!!. . . . .What it is to be popular hahaha!!!

I must also thank Nancy and Maureen for becoming followers. You ladies have kindly been leaving comments and now are paddling officially lol!!! It also goes to prove you don't need to be called Janice to join in the fun hahaha!!!

Now, today's card is my DT offering for House of Cards March Challenge which is . . . . . .Use enamel dots.

This is the third card in my trio on a theme. The first was here using just a border strip and the second here was using just the flowers. Today, we have a combination of the two.

I didn't actually have any enamel dots as they are not normally things I use so I had a shufty (a Midlands term for look lol!!!) at work and came across these in the sale bin. . . . . 

They don't look much like the conventional ones but it says "Enamel Dots" on the packet and they were only 50p! 

Ingredients

White card

Purple and lilac PMD card

SB Elizabeth Border Strip

Cheery Lynn Sweet Christine (this does cut 5 flowers at a time for those of you thinking it took me ages to do the flowers)

HC Delicate Asters (for foliage)

SB Foliage

Docrafts Enamel dots

Aly's Inky Fingers sentiment

Distress inks

Memento Dew Drop ink in Grape Jelly

Purple markers

White gel pen

Pearls

I kinda did the flowers in a Sweet William vein again but with different foliage to the last one.

This will be given to one of my friends for their birthday.

I hope that you can pop along to House of Cards and join in the challenge.

Had a splendid day at CE Towers with John on Thursday. I was on beverage duties but did get to assist now and again and watch the maestro at work.

I went with the idea of buying a die, maybe 2 but ended up coming away with 2 Gemini dies, 2 A4 embossing folders, a Heartfelt Creations stamp and 3 Stamps to Die For!!!

John had to drag me away from the papers.

That reminds me, I think it was Maureen who asked who John was? He is the extremely talented John Lockwood of John Next Door Blog (click here) (and now Creative Expressions and Create and Craft)

Some of you asked which charity I was going to be working for. Now some employers are a bit funny about what gets put on "social media" so for now, I shall just say its a well known children's charity.

Well, that's me today. Be good and thank you so much for your company.

TTFN

Ang x