CD Sunday Plus Challenge - #74

I have a special card to share for this challenge.  During this month my beloved Granddaughter - Ellie - celebrated her 18th birthday.  Ellie was named after my own mother - Eleanor.

It certainly doesn't feel like 18 years ago that we welcomed her into the world - but it was.

This is the card I made especially for her:

This was created using a Card Hut CD -  'In the Doghouse'.  The poem was written by the CD artist Mark Bardsley, and is in his illustrated book 'Dogs' of which I have a signed copy. 

Ellie has a wonderful Cockerpoo named Alfie.  Here he is sitting on the arm of my sofa.  He was waiting for Chris to come home and here he could see out of the window.:

Alfie comes to stay with us occasionally.  He adores my son Chris and will follow him everywhere.  They look like a comedy duo as Alfie is barely 18" tall and Chris is 6' 2".

Ellie didn't have a big celebration because of Covid but we did have a family tea and get together and Grandma was asked to make a couple of cakes. 

Here is one of the cakes - I was asked to make two and they were exactly the same.

All this happened last Tuesday and we did have a lovely time - as special as it could have been.

I have been told since that both the cakes have been consumed and not a crumb left.   Alfie, I am told, was not pleased.

Carol

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CD Sunday Plus - Challenge #73 - hosted by Margaret - 'Anything Goes' (as long as Rule 3 has been obeyed)

 This is the card I have made for Challenge #73:

I went to La Pashe again for the image for this card.    From 'The Best of La Pashe - 2012' - Disc 2 -  Decoupage plus -  'On Manoeuvres'.  The tank and soldiers are decoupaged. The cacti  were found on the internet - downloaded and cut out and attached with sticky pads.  The two background mats were die cut using Carnation Crafts 'Shabby' dies.

This is for my son-in-law who has a birthday in November. He has many hobbies and is a very talented builder of models.  All working ones - like helicopters that fly and tanks that manoeuvre.

I just now have to find out - via my daughter - what little something he needs for the next model.

I look forward to visiting the entries to the new challenge.  In the meantime please be careful out there.

Carol xx

Christmas is coming.

 There isn't much serious crafting I can do at the moment with my right wrist in a splint but I have been able to do some very gentle craft work for a little while with the splint off.  Only in little spurts - I promise.

A while ago I bought some kits to make tiny Angel and glass bauble hanging ornaments to make up.  I went a bit mad with the Angel kits and bought 5 kits (10 in each) in Poppy, Ivy, Honeysuckle, Heather and Harebell.

The Angels came from here  and the glass baubles came from Amazon.

Then on Amazon I found some small Pre-lit little trees to use as table centres or coffee table displays.  So I bought some of those to display my new Angels and baubles.  Here is a photo of the first one I have made.  Still to be played with a bit more.

The little trees are beautifully made and as I have so many Angels and baubles I have bought several and intend to give them as Christmas gifts.  I even found Christmas Ted  to be in the photo.

Carol

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