Good morning

 Rain again here today but the garden is loving it, I am not to happy as my roses have just flowered again and it is spoiling them !

My card for today is for my neighbours who celebrate their Diamond Wedding tomorrow. 60 years is a wonderful achievement, I wonder how many of today's couples will make that instead of throwing in the towel and moving on to the next one lol.....( I have no room to talk but did not re-marry)

The dies are paper boutique and I used a blue pearl card matting with pale blue for dies. The 'diamonds' flowers and sentiment are from stash. 

I am just going to make a sherry trifle for them as they are having a little party buffet tomorrow for friends and relations. 

I shall miss dipping into the Olympics when it finishes, we have done so well in the medal tables with lots of the athletes coming from the North West around me. Congratulations to them all, what dedication.

Hugs Tilly x

What a hot week at last ..............

Friday at Crafty Catz challenge is here again, what a lot of wonderful sunshine we have seen......I hope you have managed to enjoy some of it. We have another of your faves this week...... chosen by our leader Carol.......it's anything goes!!
We are sponsored this week by Marianne creatables


 and also Creative classrooms

My Creative Classroom is an online arts and crafts learning center. Our interactive and in-depth courses are instructor led and filled with wonderful projects and techniques to help you get the most out of your supplies.  

Our Spring 2014 Semester is well under way and will offer over 100 courses. Along with our Traditional Instructor-led Workshop Classes we have also added Self-Paced Workshops. We've also recently added more classes to our Library, which offers retired classes at 40%-50% off regular price.

Come join us on our blog, My Creative Life 2014, which will issue challenges to help us use all of our supplies this year. Along with that is the companion course with the same title, which is FREE to our newsletter subscribers. Come join in on the fun and test drive MCC.

We are excited to be sponsoring Crafty Catz. You can view our entire class list on our website at My Creative Classroom. You can also view classes on our Facebook Page too! One lucky winner will receive a free seat to a Workshop class of their choice.....Good Luck!

prize....We will offer a free set to any one of our online classes. The student has up to one year to claim their prize.

and lastly by

DIGI STAMPS 4 JOY

BLURB

South African crafters are new to the digital stamping world, with the first South African online digital image store launched in 2010 – Digistamps4Joy (or DS4J)http://www.digistamps4joy.co.za/eshop/. In May 2012, Margy Kieser took over ownership of DS4J, and there are now two South African artists who contribute to the more than 500 images available. Margy has taken the store to new heights and the store now stocks digis that are cute, whimsical, artistic, sometimes serious, and sometimes humorous. In addition, one of our own South African rubber stamp companies granted us permission for one range of rubber stamps to be converted into digistamp images. The store has PAYPAL, PAYFAST (South African) and EFT (South African) facilities. Digistamps4Joy offers a monthly freebie on the first Friday of every month, and holds regular bi-weekly card challenges that draw entries from many international card makers.

PRIZE  5 DIGI IMAGES OF WINNERS CHOICE

I made this diamond wedding criss cross card for my neighbour who asked for a special card.She loved it and so did the recipients.

The papers are First edition Daydream, they are embossed and shiny in real life.

The ribbon is from Mei Flower, lace from Crafty ribbons, flowers and gems a mixture from stash. I made the stick-pin with beads.

It is sewn on my machine all around the edges

On the back of the large green card is a heart edged with lime green ink and sentiment free from the internet.

Because of the flowers, I made a box for it so they would not get squashed!

I am entering the following challenges;

Crafty ribbons -------------------anything goes

Delightful challenges ---------------add ribbon

My heart pieces --------------------wedding or anniversary



It has been a lovely week.
On Monday we had a strawberry 'afternoon tea' at the sewing club and we all had to take china cups, saucers and plates
On Tuesday,  my grandsons girlfriend graduated from Uni and has a job to go to in September and then my daughter-in-laws dog in Darwin Oz had 10 healthy puppies, 4 boys and 6 girls, what a handful for their Mum !!
Thank you for your visit and have a good week

Hugs Tilly x