Forever Friends

 Today, over at Cardz4galz we are celebrating 'Friends and Friendship'  which I thing is a lovely theme.  I'm blessed to have some wonderful friends and my very best friend is my wonderful husband.  As soon as we moved onto the marina God blessed me with a new best friend, Ellen.  She has been amazing in her support and we've had such fabulous laughs.  There will, no doubt, be more laughs tomorrow when we are out Bra shopping!  Here's my card for this challenge.

Please pop over and join in the fun.  Let's celebrate your friends too.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

Merry Monochrome

 Morning all.  It's the first of July so it's Sparkles Christmas Challenge.  Get your Christmas in July cards started as you mean to go on.  We are wanting 'Monochrome Christmas' projects please.

I'm really struggling with my camera at the moment.  The white panel is debossed with a Christmas tree embossing folder.  I've decorated it with gold gems and matched it with a gold patterned paper.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

A perfect blend

 Afternoon all.  Sorry I've missed a couple of posts.  I've been doing some extra hours and the boat has been too hot to cope with.  I'm back today with the 'blend two or three colours' theme over at Make My Monday.  It's not something I do often as I'm not very good at it but I've blended blue and yellow (making a nice green where they cross) through a stencil.

I'm quite happy with how it turned out.  It's still not my style but I'm pleased it doesn't look a complete mess.

Please pop over and join the fun.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

The advantages of living on a boat - I don't have to do the garden!

 Morning all.  It's my theme over at Cardz4guyz and I've chosen 'Gardens/Gardening'.  We had a lovely garden when I lived in a house but, I have to say, it's not a skill that I have.  Shrubs!  Shrubs are good.  You just stick them in and leave them to it.  I'm lucky I don't need to worry about it anymore.  There is no lawn to mow when you live on a boat.  Having said that, Howard, our neighbour, has so many plants on his roof.  It's stunning to look at.  He used to teach horticulture and he has a passion for succulents.  He doesn't drive so, every now and again, one of us on the pontoon will nip him out to a garden centre just to see how happy it makes him.

Here's my tribute to Howard.

I hope you will all pop over with your gardening cards so that I have something to comment on.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

Oops, I forgot to Sparkle

 I don't know if I'm coming or going.  I totally got yesterday's date wrong and forgot Sparkles Monthly Challenge.  We are looking of 'masculine' projects please.  Come back later for the Cardz4guyz post and you could get two for one.

I have some papers and ephemera from Mintay so I used these and grunged it up a bit with my distress tool.

Please pop over and join the fun.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

Full of (stencilled) Beans

 Morning all. Not sure where the weeks are going but I know they are going fast.  It's rolled around to another Make My Monday Challenge and it doesn't seem two minutes since the last one.  This time we are looking for 'stencilling' on your projects please.  I used a fun stencil I've had for ages from Funky Fossil.

I stencilled a darker roast bean at the bottom and got lighter as I went up.  I then added my panel with some coffee themed die cuts.

Please nip over and join in the fun.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

A Seaside Card at the Double

 Sorry this is late, I've had a bad week.  Firstly, we have the new theme of 'Seaside/Coast' over at Cardz4galz.  I've used some more Dotwit clipart for this one.  I am slightly obsessed with her images over on Etsy.

Isn't she cute.

Next we have 'D for Double' over at The Alphabet Challenge.  I've used another two Dotwit images.  These two came from the Poppy set.

I'm hoping to be more organised next week.  Wish me luck.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x