Great Family BBQ..

Yesterday hubby and I traveled up to Bedford to my sisters' for a BBQ to celebrate my brother in law's birthday.  The journey was a bit of a nightmare. We wanted to do it so that we avoided the M25 & M1 so we went across country which was fine but a lot of the roads were 40 - 50mph. I had worked out the route via google but it didn't account for diversions that we came across, so it took us a bit longer than anticipated but never mind we got there in the end. 

When we arrived, my brother was there whom  hadn't seen in over 13 years so it was lovely to see him and his wife. All the nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews were there and we had a great time. Here are a few photos form the afternoon. 

My sister Sue and the 'birthday boy' Ron. 

A selfie with my sister Mandy who lives up in Yorkshire.

A picture with all the girls - my sisters, nieces and great nieces.

Hubby with Nikkis' (one of my nieces) dog Pedro. He was such a cutie.

Was going to be a selfie with my nieces but the sisters & birthday boy wanted to join in :-) 

My sister Sue, my brother Chris, his wife Sue, me and Mandy my other sister.

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Teenagers Card

Spoiling you today :-), second  post today. I'm just showing off as I have spent time in my craft room the last couple of days. 

Card I have to show you today is based on a  card that I originally did at Clair's workshop about a 18 months ago. 

Using cardboard letters and numbers that I had in my stash, Triangle bits and round bits cut from card, carpet gripper tape added then all covered in silver plumbing tape. 

Embossing tool round the cardboard pieces to make the stand out and the rubbed with alcohol inks. Had a bit of disaster with the inks as I haven't used them in ages and I had a leakage and lost a couple of bottles, but luckily I had enough for what I wanted. 

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Tuesday Morning Sketches #362

It has gone very dark outside at the moment and I think it may begin to rain soon. I may have another afternoon in my craft room which would be nice.

The card I have to show you today is another of the male birthday cards I had to do. I followed the sketch over on Tuesday Morning Sketches. 

Here is the sketch.

Here is my card

For the card I used Hunkydory's Hobbies & Pastimes - Around the Track and How's That. Everything used on the card was from the pack apart from the gold mirri card and the card blank.

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Sketch Saturday - Challenge #422

During August I have 8 male family birthdays and as you know we all love doing men's cards. So this is what I have been doing over the last couple of days - yes I have actually had time spent on my craft room :-) - The card today I have to show you is one of the one's I have made. 

I have followed a sketch over on Sketch Saturday - challenge #422 here.

Here is the sketch.

Here is my card. I have made the card using Hunkydory's 'It's a Man's World - Lets Take A Ride'. The image has been decoupaged, gold mirri card has been added and some gems and a greeting.

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Thursday's Workshop Card....

....was all about the fish! Great workshop last week with Clair  Lots of fun. Bit of inking, stamping using a kit from Stampin Up that I wouldn't normally like but doing this card has put it on my wish list!

The background was inked, the sand was done using a die and inked. The fidhes were stamped out, coloured and then cut. 

Makes a great 'man' card.

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Lovely Day At Drusillas

Today seems to be the last day of the summer here according to the weather forecast so we made the most of it and took my grandsons to Drusillas. If you follow my posts you will know that I used to take Leon there every week until he started school full time. This was the first time we have been in a couple of months and it was Ollie's first time. They both enjoyed it and were very good. Some friends whom we met there, were amazed at how Ollie can crawl so far, :-). They are both growing up so quickly.

I do have a card to show you. A quick one that was made using a Hunkydory kit. It is for my brother in law. I chose this image as we are all attending a family BBQ on Sunday at his place and he is doing the cooking.

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Still Playing Catch up....

Right I have just returned from a lovely couple of days up near Tamworth at Thomasland with Leon. We were worried that he was getting too old for Thomas but he still loves him and got very excited when we told him that we were going. We had a bit of a nightmare journey up there Thursday afternoon/evening. SAT NAV said 3.5hrs, It took us just under 6 to get there. Leon was so good. Portable DVD's are such a godsend. I will post some pictures when I have them sorted. 

Now a catch up!! Last Sunday, my friend and I went to see Ton Jones at the Sussex Cricket Ground. The tickets were an early birthday pressie from my hubby. The show was FABULOUS!! Tom was amazing and has still got it. The voice is still as powerful as ever. He sung a lot of his old songs including my favourites Delilah and You Can Keep your Hat On. :-). We had great seats and the weather was beautiful.

A fab evening, fab show and fab company!!

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