Graphicus March Challenge

I love yellow but it is one of the most difficult colours to work with or wear. It so dominates other colours when used in any quantity, but it reminds one of spring, growth and new beginnings - something to cheer us after the winter. I have used a Butterfly Bliss CD backing paper and two of my recent Cuttlebug purchases. Butterflies, flowers and the sight of wild creatures and birds in my garden certainly make me want to sing. I'm not sure that I have done justice to the colour or the challenge - to use yellow and the theme sing.I do seem lacking in inspiration at the moment but managed to use items I have already in my collection.

Elephants never forget

I'm not sure whether I've spoken about the special thing that happened to me last summer...I have been researching my family tree for some years now, slowly but surely, and for most of that time I have been looking for two of my cousins, sons of my Uncle who is now 96. There was a fair chance that they were no longer with us but I had to know. I hade met the two older boys who seemed to me very boisterous as a small child when my grandmother visited their home in Stockton. That is the area I had been searching, to no availe. Last summer before a research trip to my home town in Northumberland, I quizzed my uncle about his wife's family, parents, brothers and sisters and put the information on my family tree on Genes Reuinited, just a week before my holiday. Within a day I had a link and very soon addresses for one of the boys and his daughter. Unfortunately, John, the older brother had died. Anyway, I met my cousin now 71, who had moved to Newcastle, along with his family. They were pleased and surprised to know that my uncle was still alive and wanted to meet him. Our holiday was cut short so we could return three weeks later to reunite father and son. A very happy meeting because they all got along well and the reason for their estrangement wasn't a hinderance. We have kept in touch regularly ever since. But Oh!! to my horror I forgot my cousin's birthday yesterday, the first chance I have ever had to send him a card!
Above is the card I made for him this morning.

Todays project

Bad news

Another opportunity to create a card. Sad to say it's because a friend had a heart attack at the weekend. Still, I want her to know I'm thinking of her. So I could send the message quickly, the card is another version of the rose fan, but in her favourite colours, russets and green. Get well soon Wendy!

Tag book and alpaca

Well, we're off to eat at my friend's and this morning I finished a box to put the tag book in.
Yesterday afternoon, at Weaver's Guild meeting, I learned a lot about alpaca and will now set about spinning the fleece I have been given.

I'm Sparkling today

I've just finished an eight page tag book for a friend and my joggers are shining with many sparkling colours - I'm so messy! She is still depressed after having a fire in her new house last year. It was caused by sun on the magnifying side of her mirror in the bedroom. We're off to eat at her's on Sunday and not being good at selecting wine to take to others I'm hoping the book will last a little longer than wine would.
This project has given me the perfect opportunity to try out colour combinations that I would otherwise stay clear of. My friend is creative and likes pink. Pink and lime green feature on a number of the pages along with my favourites, butterflies.

Quickie Card

I went to visit a friend today and forgot that her birthday is on Sunday, even though it is in my diary.Thinking about setting up the guild exhibition in the library seems to be taking all my mental resources at the moment.
Hence, I came home and made this card using 'Peacock Summer Party', a CD which I've not used as much as I thought I would, up till now. The peacocks at the zoo are beginning to show their finery, so I suppose the card can be considered seasonal.
I printed the background straight onto the card and the picture on photo card. The border is from a pack of coloured peeloffs. I cut round the shape of the border and glittered onto a strip of doubled sided tape on the edge of the insert.
The card is actually more mauve (my friend's favourite colour) than it looks.