London Days meets London Fog!

Before I explain the title of today's post I want to share some photos taken yesterday at the opening of our Community Allotment project. As a community we raised money to design and build an allotment in our local park. It was designed by students form the American Intercontinental University in London. The design is based around how agriculture developed years ago along the River Nile.

From the first photo you will see the wooden allotment boxes are built off a wooden aqueduct and water butt in cased in recycled wood. The water rolls down the aqueduct and feeds each box.

We came together yesterday to celebrate the official opening-the Mayor and a number of council and MPs attended. The last photo is of Sarah-our Chair, Claire-our Deputy Chair, and myself-the Treasurer and fundraiser.......we think we are Charlies Angels!!
A fun day. And in the evening Callum and I enjoyed a salad of radishes and spinach that I had grown in our box!!

         



And now-why London days meet London Fog?? Well to be honest it is just because it is the first time I have used my memento ink called 'London Fog', purchased because I loved the name! And as my blog is called London days I thought that was a cool title (OK sad, I know!!)

My card today is a monochromatic black card using memento black tuxedo and London fog inks and both PTI sentiments and the mehndi medallion stamps and matching gems.
It is to go in a box of notelets for my friend's Birthday.

I here is the set of 3 to go in the pack. The same design with different colour combos and sentiments:

I will be entering my London Fog notelet into the monochromatic challenges on the following sites:

Card Crafters Circle.
4 Crafty Chicks.
Crop Stop

Congratulations Tim and Kerry!

On Thursday we went to another wedding. This time our friend Tim was getting married to Kerry. It is the first time I have met Kerry. She is gorgeous, full of life and very loving......a perfect match for Tim. Here they are signing the register:

It rained all day but we had a great time and were so pleased to be part of their very special day.

My card today is for the challenge this week at The Play Date Cafe. I haven't done a colour challenge for a while and decided today was the day to have another go. I went straight to this challenge as I do like the colour combo's they use.  This week the combo is Aquamarine, Poolside and Clay. And here is my card using these colours:

It is my friend's Birthday on Wednesday I wanted to make a set of notelets for her. She has a lot of family and friends abroad so I wanted to make them easy to send in the post. I will be making 2 more with this design but different colours and sentiments. Then I will be making 3 of a different kind (yet to be designed!).
I have used the Mehndi Medallion rubber stamp from PTI with memento potters clay, Bahama blue and tuxedo black inks. I added a couple of gems in matching colours for some bling!!

Enjoy your weekend x

Bold and Bright

Today I wanted to make a card for the sketch challenge on just us girls but, before I got down to it, I decided to check out this week's challenge on runway inspired. Have a look at the inspiration photo......

How cool is this!!  I just love this bold and bright houndstooth pattern and decided I had to combine both challenges to make this card:



 
I loved the card by one of the DT, Jennifer Rzasa (see her card here). I used her idea of colouring part of the pattern in the colours from the photo. I just stuck with the yellow and blue using my promakers and stamped the some pink card stock using 'wild rose' everyday sentiments. Added a couple of gems in keeping with the colour scheme.I mounted it on some card I embossed with this dotty design as I thought this went well with the overall feel of the card.

I loved making this card, it feels kinda of 70s funky to me!

All 'tied' up today!

Happy Tuesday to you.

Today my card has been inspired by a couple of challenges. Firstly, this picture on Virginia's blog:

And the 'trend watch' challenge-prints are charming-at paper smooches sparks. And finally lexis creations challenged us to make a card 'for the man in our lives'

Here is what I came up with:

I used the  paper smooches digi 'tie' image and printed it on brightly coloured patterned paper and just lined them up, like the coloured cellos, added a blue button on top of a yellow button and you have a Birthday card for the 'man in your live'.

Hope the rest of your day goes well x

Bags of fun!

I hope all of you in Britain are enjoying the Jubilee and for those of you who are not on our little Island I hope you are not working too hard!

I have gone for a fun, girly card for the Case Study challenge this week.

I liked the over sized circle on Aga's card this week plus the basic layout so decided to use this as a base to start my own version. I had intended to do a flower card but when going through my stamps I came across this handbag stamp and sentiment from personal impressions (never used before!) As I have a few girly Birthday cards to make I decided to go with this:

I have been admiring the 3 dot pattern that my cousin Lynn stamps on some of her cards and had a go with my own twist of using a gem as my third 'dot'. You can see how Lynn has used her '3 dot' design on her post here. I have used the 'dot' from PTI 'garden of life' stamps.

The result a cute, girly card using a new stamping design and a couple of forgotten new stamps!

Hello Sunshine!

Today it is raining..........not a good sign for our weekend of celebration! But yesterday the 1st June, I realised I hadn't made my 'June' calender topper. Thought it might be bad luck not to get it done so got to work crafting.
I have for a while been admiring the font used on Paper Smooches sentiments and am pleased to say that I have a package coming from across the pond (thanks to coz Lynn) and will have my own set very soon.

But when blog surfing this week I saw Jackie's card for the 'picture perfect' challenge at Paper Smooches Sparks. I loved this cute card and when I checked out the website I noticed you could use some of their freebies to enter the challenge. So, as I await my package of goodies, I used the 'hello sunshine' sentiment, along with the 'smiley sun' for my card.

The inspiration (see photo below) came from the plates on the wall-these are represented by my PTI cloud dies, and the sun. Plus I just loved the bright blue of the piano so I used this as my sky.
A simple but, I think, cute topper for my calender......plus I got to use the font I have been drooling over for a while now!! And hopefully, as done before the sunset on 1st June, no bad luck for me.

And here is the inspiration photo:

Have a fun weekend x

Lets Celebrate the weekend!

We have a weekend of celebrations ahead and my card today reflects how my Family and I will be celebrating!

Not only is it the Queen's Jubilee but my Mum's 70th so it will be a weekend full of celebration and a few glasses of Champagne!!

I was thinking of a suitable card for the 'Jubilee' challenge on a passion for papertrey and then I saw the 'Bling' CAS card challenge on Cas-ual Fridays and just knew the card I wanted to do.

Just indulge me for a few moments whilst I explain the background thinking behind my choice of crafting today.

Firstly on holiday I was thinking about what card I could make for my Uncle Tony's Birthday (not until August but a girl likes to be prepared) and I had come up with the idea of this card.

Secondly when I was chatting with my Mum yesterday she was telling me how my Tony had arrived with quite a few bottles of pink champagne for our weekend of fun-Tony does love his Champagne!

And then this morning I saw the challenge on Cas-ual Fridays and immediately thought of this card.

When I started to make it I felt that I needed to add some texture so decided to use the PTI linen impression plate........and yep, you got it.......It dawned on me that this was the 'Jubilee' card for the challenge on a passion for papertrey especially as this is how we will be spending the Jubilee!!

Funny how it all comes together some days.
So if you are still with me, I hope you like my card and cheers to all this weekend!!

The sentiment is from Ceate with TLC