Autumn in Paris.

Julie is my Son Richard's Girlfriend, and I wanted to make a card that tied in with her main present from him, a trip to Paris - lucky girl! I didn't have as much time as I wanted to make this, so it is done in a hurry and maybe not as good as I wanted it to be. The reason for this was that on Thursday my mother in law had a mini stroke, and luckily a concerned relative rang us, and we spent a few hours over at her house finding out what happened, calling the doctor, waiting for the doctor etc. Then we dashed home for a quick and very late lunch while the doctor consulted the practice doctors, before she rang us to say she needed to go to the RUH in Bath for a CT scan.

So we set back off to collect her, after feeding the poor confused dogs, and take her down arriving at 4:30. At 9pm she had undergone examinations, blood tests, ECG, BP checks and was being wheeled off for a chest xray, and still hadn't had the CT scan, and we went home exhausted. 

Yesterday wasn't much better, we spent the morning updating concerned friends and family, getting the shopping that we weren't able to do Thursday done, and after lunch we had to go to MIL's house and find her some clothes and toiletrys, and  a nightdress, and her medication - she was there with nothing at all. Then we went back to the hospital and sat with her for a couple of hours before dashing home for the plumber, and to cook dinner.

Then I made this card very quickly so that Richard could take it with him, and Julie's present is Euros for their trip, I really should have made the card to fit the Euros but when I realised I had started this and was too tired and short of time to change it.

I used a Stampendous Luggage Lables background stamp which has a Paris stamp at the top, stamped with Distress ink in Dusty Concord. I wrapped a piece of black lace round this and adhered it to a blue and white striped card blank, then added butterfly corners (Filigree corners, La La Land die which I won), and an Eiffel tower die cut from silver glitter card with a My Favorite Things Dienamics die. I popped a couple of  mother of pearl heart buttons on, then die cut some Mini Wavy Pennants, also with a Dienamics die, in white and stamped Happy Birthday on them to fly from the top of the tower.

I think I will be safe to post this - I don't want to spoil the surprise.

Happy Birthday Julie!

I found a couple of challenges to enter:

That Craft Place - girls but no pink (Sun)

Vintage Stamping - used purple (3rd Nov)

Double Happiness

Today we went to a wedding, it was a lovely day, the bride was beautiful, the venue was beautiful and the food was amazing. Even the band weren't bad.

I spent the last few days panicking about my outfit as usual, and then taking up hems on some silk trousers that were part of an outfit I already had (after spending an evening trying on clothes in M&S and buying some, I got Shaun to take photos of me in the skirt with different tops then my existing outfit and had to agree the existing one looked the nicest for a wedding, but the trousers were much too long).

Then I remembered the card, I hadn't made one! I was up until 1:30am this morning hemming the trousers and the lining, so I left the card until this morning before I got ready to go! I made a hexagonal shaped card with my Nestabilities dies in gold, added a red plain hexagon, then a teal frame (which looks blue here) and die cut a square then punched it with the Double Happiness punch using gold card. Finally I added two teal butterflies using a La La butterfly corner die that I won - I think it was from Oyster crafts. The glue is still went in the photo, I hope they stayed stuck on the card! I had to change the background in PSE, becuase the card didn't show up with pale gold on a white background!