Hi to my fellow crafty buddies -
We crafter's don't need an excuse to rifle through our stash, especially our Docrafts stash but this weekend I had a double excuse to be creative - of course it was Father's Day last Sunday ...... I had another celebration on Wednesday - my lovely Hubby, Dave celebrated his big 66 birthday (would you believe it is the new pension age)! So what should I create - Forever Friends, Tulip, Me to You or something a little more 'lived in' - like Wellington or Hot Diggety Dog - Wellington won on this occasion!
I doubled up and made it into a DVD gift box come 'bow fronted' greeting card (a technique I saw Jo use today on C&C) with Wellington in a definitely, 'Lived in' pose! Just the ticket - I thought! Lots of distressing and Spellbinders - two of my fave techniques! Unfortunately I had made it too secure and he couldn't get into it - well not without some heavy handed scissor action - will have to use normal double sided tape next time not extra strong ..
Next we had Father's Day - our three grandchildren and three 'adopted' grandchildren - who call grandad 'Gramps' - had managed to wish him a 'Happy Day' from 10,000 miles, 256 miles and 30yds in one way or another - but I wanted to do a little extra 'special' something from all of them - so I made a tiny greetings card to go with the gift I had organised!
As you know my love of dogs (I keep harping about them) surface in every blog - well Dave is as potty as I am - so here is the embroidered polo shirt which arrived last Friday - his very own Gramps polo shirt - complete with the obligatory woofer sitting proudly above the wording - and Hot Diggety Dog sitting to one side in a special 'pose' on a pedestal! A simple card wrapped around a button was the key, to go with the snow white shirt!
My sentiments tell you that I'm a great big softy at heart - so on Sunday my little adopted brood presented him with the parcel and he was very touched ....but to all of us he is definitely Top Dog!
So here we are a few days later, putting all of my thoughts to paper, listening to Land of Hope and Glory and The Royal Marines CD feeling very patriotic - and thinking what project to do next! Well it's my Daughter-in-Law, Liz's 40th birthday on the 25th - so I had better get my finger out and make and post that card PDQ .. maybe I'll channel a little of Cool Britannia patriotism into it too!
So TTFN (ta ta for now) ... will catch up with you at the other side of my creative rush to the head ... Luv from Abi and Me ...
Margaret xxx
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