25 to be celebrated

Hello to all my fun pals and hope you are all well and sending special hugs to anyone not feeling up to par. Thank you for your comments which I enjoyed reading very much. I have been reliably informed that 25 is the new special birthday to celebrate, well I was happy to babysit the little fellow as my daughter got taken out to dinner and a bit of a relax. It is the first time she has left him so a new experience for all. So that is number 2 past the 25 post and daughter number 3 will follow suit next year and have those years just flown by. 
Our motorhome is back home finally, a big delay as the Italians sent the wrong part and it should have come from Germany in the first place. If we ever buy another vehicle it will be the most common make in the country.
I have managed to move the array of things stored in the house back into it so I can now enter my craft space without a hard hat. No excuse not to tidy up in here now, but I am not going to do the vital stats thingy, lol.  I managed to get my first set of cards for this year to the charity shop yesterday, got to put inserts in the next lot and they will follow, the lady in the shop was very enthusiastic about them which made me happy. 
My daughter hates fuzzy or large cards so this card is simple with three die cuts layered using Die-versions solo sentiment Happy Birthday which found it's way into my shopping basket and I think will get a lot of use. Also the Accent IT - Labels & Tags.

Hugs to all, Flora

Barking

Hello to all my friendly pals and Thank You for liking my wishing card. Hope you are all well. My neck is still twinging but I can look about now, just not up and down. It is a bit of a disadvantage at 5 foot 2 inches not to be able to look up of course.
As you all know my attention span is ....... so I cannot find this blog again but it gave me a real giggle. Someone had posted their vital statistics at the side of their blog. It consisted of 

• Number of stamps owned
• Number of stamps used
• Number of dies owned
• Number of dies used
• etc, etc

This appealed to my newly formed OCD tendencies but perhaps not to my sensible side. I could buy new items if I set my optimum usage percentage very low, lol .

OK I know I'm barking so here goes my last 2 doggie cards. The labrador die was a bargain but I realised after I had bought it that I have never seen a labrador standing still. 

Paper  and card - card blank is a 6 inch square , 

backing paper from my scrap box,

 Dies used :- Popystamps labrador ,

Spellbinders Tile Works.

Paper  and card - card blank is a 6 inch square , 

backing paper from old stash,

 Dies used :- Die-namics Chicken Wire ,

Spellbinders Labels 23 and

Wooden  Scottie dog.

Hugs to all, Flora.

Wishing Well

Thank you all for your happy comments, they have relaxed me totally. I have found something worse than driving on the M5 - yes, driving on the M6. These narrowed lanes and contraflows with huge trucks made me tense so in stepped my cervical spondylosis big time. I really hate being such a wimp where my driving is concerned and only managed a third of the distance. 
I also cannot believe that we were stationary on four different motorways on the return journey. I wonder how people cope with travelling on a daily basis these days. It is just as well my works put me out to grass some time ago, good job I'm not a horse of course with all my ailments. 
Now that I have put my little world to rights I shall pop my wee card on here but before that I will share a smile. I have been creating cards with manly colours and was surprised when hubby came to select a card to send, he chose my "too bright" card, lol. Here is today's play hopefully not too dull.

Paper  and card - card blank is a 6 inch square , 

backing paper from a pad with a lost cover, and a bit of mirror card,

 Dies used :- Cheery Lynn  kitten from Kitty Kitty Meow Meow ,

Spellbinders Labels 21 and

Tattered Lace Wishing well.

Hugs to all, Flora

more clean crafting

Hello to my wonderful crafty pals. Hope you are all well today. Thank You for your "timely" comments which I enjoyed reading. My desk space is still down to a 6x6 space and you will know I am in trouble when I start showing 5x5 cards. 
Again that naughty peel off box has been out this time for some cars. As I had a left over stray car you get two cards today. The second one is as uncluttered as I can get. 
I spent time today catching up with putting some more photos of our build on my renovation page, all fun and games trying to get more than one photo in a row, then when you look at the page the layout is different. Oh! well. 
Without further ado here comes the racing team.

Paper  and card - card blank is a 6 inch square , 

backing paper from Anna Marie crafts,

the cars are peel-offs backed with bits of scrap,

 Dies used :- Dienamics Chevron Stripes and Accent-it - Labels and Tabs.

Paper  and card - card blank is a 6 inch square , 

backing paper from Anna Marie crafts,

the leftover car is a peel-offs backed with a bit of scrap,

 Dies used :- Tattered Lace Alphabet Bunting.

Hugs to all, Flora

Clock change day

Just popped  in to say that you are the best pals anyone could have. Thank You for your comments. I am not going to waffle today  and I am not even going to compete with time. Happy memories and enjoyment to all on this Mother's day. Hugs to all, Flora.

Paper  and card - card blank is a 6 inch square , 

backing paper from a candy gift,

 Dies used :- Dienamics Fishtail Flag Stax ,

Spellbinders Labels 23 (leftover) and

Wooden Grandfather Clock.

too simple, too bright

Well here we are and boy did it rain so hard yesterday, good in that I managed to relax wandering around blogland. Had a quick trip out with daughter and grandson, loved having him to push instead of waddling on my crutches, the heavens absolutely opened as he was being put in the car.  I enjoyed reading all your comments very much, so pleased with your visits. Absentminded goldfish brain was also in gear so sorry if I missed anyone.
Unfortunately my relaxed demeanor did not convey itself into my cards and I am not happy with either of these hence my title. Pay attention Flora when ordering dies, as this hummingbird, which I have turned into a too bright kingfisher is about 10 times bigger than I expected it to be, duh. Must try him with shrink plastic. Please feel free to add advice or just have a giggle at these attempts, sunglasses might also help for the second one, lol. 

Paper  and card - card blank is a 6 inch square , 

backing paper from Almanac Collection,

 Dies used :- Memory Box Resting Birds ,

Poppystamps Madison Park Bench and

Magnolia Doohickeys Talk Bubble.

Paper  and card - card blank is a 6 inch square , 

backing paper from Papermania,

 Dies used :- Memory Box Loom Circle ,

Spellbinders Square swatches and

Cheery Lynn Hummingbird and

the splash is from an old dolphin die cutter.

Hugs to all.

Same Background

Hello to my wonderful crafty pals, so pleased you liked my frolicking cats. Had a bit of my brick background left so had to have a play. I am very pleased that my blog has returned to having english instructions of it's own accord, they were a bit difficult to follow in portugese (I have enough trouble with english, lol). 
Our motorhome has a bit of a continuing saga attached at the moment, it went in for MOT and passed but then while still at the garage the doorlock failed and a replacement seems to be as rare as hen's teeth so we haven't had it back. We may be travelling in my little IQ when we go back to Liverpool next week, unfortunately to attend another funeral as my hubby's aunt passed away. She did not want to linger so we are pleased for her. I cannot believe how busy this year has been so far. We will hopefully have the rafters and joists in place on our roof before we set off, rain and hail permitting. I still think I am missing out on global warming.  
My card is for a dog lover this time and uses one of my oldest "dog" dies. I have also used a free sample die-cut, Die-versions solo sentiment Happy Birthday. Oh dear so many temptations, another one for the wish list, lol.

 Hugs to all. Flora