Shaking all over

 Just a quick post from me as my wrists are bad at the moment. I will have had my first injection by the time this goes live. Wish me luck. Over at Sparkles monthly challenge we are  looking for shaker cards this time.

I love this die set but never used it for a shaker before, What do you think?  I like how it turned out.

Please join in the fun.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

It's definitely not a card

 Morning all.  As it's the start of another week today must be a new Make My Monday Challenge.  It's slightly different this time as we want 'Anything but a Card'.  Ok, the world's your oyster here.  I chose to put my origami skills to the test and created a gift box.

I have a really lovely pad of oriental papers and this fish one made me smile.  It also gave me an opportunity to use my Hero Arts pond die for the fish and the waterlily.  Our waterlily flowered for the first time this year.  It was so pretty.  The ribbon has been in my stash for ages so it was nice to be able to use it.  It's a bit too big to go on a card.

Please join in as I'd love to see what else you can create.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

My Husband's Obsession - Well, One of Them

Have you ever heard it said that boys don't grow up but their toys get more expensive. My husband is a bit like that.  He likes his things to play with - his projects.  One of his 'projects' is the garden pond and the fish to go in it. Which brings me on to this week's challenge at Cardz4guyz.  We would like to see something beginning with F on your project.  His 'fishpond' started out on paper, as most of his projects do.  It didn't look too bad on paper.  He measured it out in the garden.  It didn't look to big when he measured it.  Then he started digging.  Ok, I think that's when it got a little over ambitious.  Apparently, it has to be so deep so the fish can keep warm at the bottom in the winter.  Not quite sure why it had to be about three times the width of the original plan but, by that time, I figured it was best not to ask and let him get on with it.  It's his birthday today so I've made him a fishpond card and here it is.

I used a fabulous die from Hero Arts that I saw once and had to have.  I blended the background and added the panel to the front.  I then cut extra lily pads and waterlilies and inked them up. I added a little orange to my fish and made him shimmer with some spectrum noir sparkle pen.  To be truthful, it's not really much like our pond, either of them.  Oh, didn't I mention.  We got frogs in the pond and frogs and fish don't do well together - especially during the mating season.  So he built a smaller pond in the front garden for the frog.  The frog isn't a bit grateful.  It keeps getting out and walking back to the big pond!

Anyway, over to you.  Let's see your Letter F projects please.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x