Take the Coastal Path Less Travelled

 Morning all. We have a lovely summery theme for you today over at Make My Monday.  Think 'Boardwalk/Coastal Path', so anything seaside.  Ice creams, beach volleyball, sandcastles etc.  I like my coastal walks to be a little more peaceful these days.  Just walking barefoot in the sea along the beach would be wonderful.  That's what I imagined doing when I chose my image.  

I thought it might make a nice 'thank you for watering my plants/feeding my cat' kind of card so that's what I've gone for.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

Vincent

 Morning all.  Sorry this is a bit late.  My week has been upside down and I don't know what day it is.

Over at Cardz4galz  we would like 'blue skies' on your projects please.  A little while ago someone sent me a slide show showing Van Gough's paintings set to Don McClean's Vincent.  The words and the pictures put together made so much sense and made the pictures so much more appealing to me.  I wish I still had the slide show.  When I found some clip art on Etsy in the same style as Van Gough's Starry Night I thought it would be perfect for this.

The pictures are by 2artprints and I thought they would be lovely behind this new die from Kokorosa.

Only one day late, I also have a card for The Alphabet Challenge.  We are up to 'H for Horticulture'.  A perfect opportunity to use another of the sweet gardening image from Whimsyclipgarden.

I'm not sure how much gardening he's doing but he looks happy enough.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

Simply Angelic

 Morning all.  How is it the 1st of August already.  It'll be Christmas before you know it.  Quite apt then that we have another Sparkles Christmas Challenge where we are looking for 'CAS Christmas' projects please.

Last year a friend was bemoaning the fact that religious imagery on Christmas cards was very hard to find these days.  Since then, and as a committed Christian, I've been looking for Christian images to use this year. I don't send many Christmas cards.  I only send to family and close friends and thought it would be good to send these types of cards to my Church family and other Christian friends.  I picked up some cute Nativity images from Dotwit on Etsy and I've used this sweet little angel for my card.

I'm not really very good with CAS cards.  They take me longer to do than fussy ones.  I am, however, quite chuffed with this one.  I used this image as I'd already got it printed and cut out but I think I could make a set of these with other images from the download.

Please pop over and show us your CAS.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

Mr and Mrs

 Afternoon all.  I apologise for missing a couple of DT posts recently.  I had several migraines on consecutive days and was pretty much useless until I had fully recovered.  I'm back on it today with a card for the 'Wedding/Love' challenge over at Make My Monday.  I have a simple card with pretty papers and a couple of hearts I had in my project tub.  I keep odds and ends that I've cut out of scraps when I'm cutting other things on my Grand Caliber. I figure I may as well get as much cut with one pass and keep the extras in a tub to be used at some point in the future.

Not bad for a bunch of scraps really.

Please pop over and join in the fun.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

Summertime fun

 Morning all.  We have a new theme over at Cardz4guyz today.  Let's have some 'summertime fun'.  I've used a very old sheet from Gordon Fraser over at Crafts-u-print.  Isn't it fun.

He reminds me a little bit of the guy that keeps losing his ice cream in Lilo and Stitch.

Please join in the fun.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

Kool for Kidz

 I almost forgot it was the 15th today and that would never do.  15th is  Sparkles Monthly Challenge day and this month I have chosen 'a kids card' as my theme.  Once again I've used some fabulous clip art from Dotwit on Etsy.  I've chosen the Football collection for my card.

I am obsessed with her images and this set has both male and female images which will come in handy when my great niece has a birthday as she's a cracking little player.

Please pop over and join in the fun.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

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