Sweet Seventeen

Here is the card I made for  my granddaughter. For the background I used Woodware   Graffiti stamped with versafine and embossed. Using distress inks I watercoloured the background and the words. I drew some 17s  in the odd spaces. For the topper I used another Woodware stamp  Just for u. I coloured the letters  in to match the background. Drew some squiggly lines round the outside, some dots around the letters. Mounted on black card.        

Rotten year so far.

This year didn't get off to a very good start as my elder brother was ill for the whole of January. I cannot ever remember him being that bad before. The worse I'd seen him was when he had food poisoning. He was poorly for three days, if he gets a cold he shrugs it off in a few days. Never has a flu jab, never goes to doctors and this time he couldn't have got to the doctors if he tried. Well pleased he has fully recovered, back to eating and his old self. Then on 20th February my other son-in-law died from brain cancer, just like my other son-in-law who died last September.
Yesterday this was how my son ended up, in the trauma unit at St. Marys, Paddington after a three car rta. Phillip being in the middle got the worst of it ending side on down a ditch. Air bags didn't explode so hit his head on side window. Thank God no broken bones. Severe concussion, badly shaken up and in terrible pain from all the jarring. Phillip hates hospital after bad experiences when younger and wanted to come home. Once his memory returned and his ops were ok he was allowed home with instructions to rest both body and mind. They said his brain had been badly shaken and needed rest, no computers,etc. Car write off! - company car. Thank goodness he has a lovely wife who will ensure he does just that! Love you both.

Two for one

I made these two cards using a Magnolia die - rocking horse. I first cut the image out from white card. For the first card I cut a heart from the centre then using a Crafts 2 embossing folder of baby feet ran half of the card through the Cuttlebug. I selected a nice dark pink paper with stars on from my stash which I stuck to the inside of the card. I slightly distressed the image with Spun Sugar distress ink and affixed to the centre of the aperture.
For the second card I used the 'waste' after cutting the horse and mounted it onto plain pink card which I then cut out using a 'blossom' shape nestie. I lightly distressed with spun sugar and stuck the tiny hearts, eye and the centre of bottom of the rocker. Again I picked paper from my stash to mount it on. I haven't put any sentiment on either as they can be used for new baby or for my gt. Granddaughters first birthday.