About time too!

It's been far too long since I managed to do a blog post. Thanks to 6 weeks down with germs in the end, I lost the end of February and all of March to any useful activity really. I feel like I am playing catch up on all fronts, not least the vegetable garden. Family commitments have also been quite challenging recently and I seem to have got very little paper crafting done, although crochet and even some knitting has continued.

I thought I would share a few projects that haven't been aired here before. I plan to make batch cards, but rarely do. A while back I bought one of the texture plates designed for use with UTEE etc. I decided to have a go stamping with it. At first my less than perfect impression put me off, but then I decided it was actually perfectly fine for using and the following set of cards was the result.

I inked the plate with some of my underused rainbow ink pads and rather like the colour gradation.

Here is a closer image of one.

The shell is a Hero Arts stamp, not sure where the sentiment is from. I combined with various die cuts and matting using card from my scrap box.

Here is a birthday card I made my Mum. This one uses a Sue Wilson pansy die and a Honey Doo sentiment stamp.

I have been spending a lot of time in the garden and greenhouse getting veg plants started. 6 varieties of tomato started life like this far too late.

These plants are now quite a lot bigger and planted out in our polytunnel.

I just about managed my annual pilgrimage to the craft show at Ally Pally in April. I must confess it was touch and go up until a couple of days before as I was still feeling so ropey, but a long term plan to meet up with my special crafty friend Judith, made me determined to get there! Here is a pic of my shopping from the day. Needless to say, much of it untouched as yet!

 

Finally a couple of sky pics I captured, these are back from April. A stormy one as we were crossing the water. 

 

A beautiful sunrise when we got up very early one morning to listen to the dawn chorus that was really spectacular that day. This is a pic of the track up to our house and the sky that day was a real bonus.

I have more to update, but I will try and do another post before too long.

Thanks to any one popping in, who has not given up hope of ever seeing a post from me again!

Elaine x