Happy Birthday Anita! A card, Cake and the Snow

My lovely friend Anita had a big birthday last week! Here is the card I made for her.

 

This was created with the same Distress Oxide techniques as the card I made for Mother's Day.

I have used dies from Crafter's Companion's Vintage Tea Party collection and watercolour paper. The lettering is also cut from Crafter's Companion dies.  The cherries are shiny thanks to plenty of Glossy Accents and the lettering sparkles due to Crystal Stickles. 

We celebrated Anita's birthday while we were away at Easthampstead Park, enjoying our annual retreat.  

The cake I made survived the journey!

 

  

 Here I am with Anita, Karen and Jackie in the grounds, we went for a walk to take photos in the snow.

Happy birthday Anita.
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Tunstall Forest Canvas

I have recently added to my collection of Suffolk Canvases. Each one is a different place and year.  The canvases are mostly 16x16" and painted with acrylic paint. This canvas shows the photos I took in the Tunstall Forest in the snow back in December. The title is white glittery Thickers letters by American Crafts. The date is made with Basic Grey letter stickers. The white glittery brads are from Doodlebug Design.

Thanks for looking, Lynn x

Tunstall Forest

52 Walks with My Camera 2010 - Week 47

It snowed for a while on Saturday, then stopped, a lot of it melted, the fields and other exposed areas remained white. Each morning we have woken to a another snowfall overnight. Alan and I wrapped up warm and drove into to Tunstall forest to take a walk with our cameras. It's amazing how often the light changed during that short period of time. It wasn't snowing at the time, but much snow was being blown from the trees.
Hope you enjoy these snowy scenes, and thanks for looking.

Log - 52 Walks with My Camera in 2010 so far: 1. Bexleyheath, 2. Woodbridge River Front, 3. Hall Place Greenhouses, 4. Chislehurst, 5. Bluewater, 6. Theatre Land,7. Leeds, 8. Orford, 9. Snape, 10. Chatham,11. Nottingham, 12. Twickenham, 13. Woodbridge. 14. Red House. 15. Debden House. 16. RAF Bentwaters. 17 Friston and Saxmundham. 18. Ufford. 19. Wickham Market. 20. Greenwich Royal Park. 21. Felixstowe. 22. Trafalgar Square to Leicester Square Gardens. 23. Garden. 24. St James' Park. 25. Hall Place Gardens. 26. Moot Hall - Aldeburgh. 27. Shere. 28. Beer. 29. Lyme Regis. 30. Seaton. 31. Butley Priory. 32. Tewin. 33. Southwold Quay. 34. Framlingham Town. 35. Chillisford. 36. Erith Yacht Club. 37. Nottingham - Jubilee Campus. 38. Salford. 29. Bury St..  Edmunds. 40 Spire House. 41. Manchester. 42. Nottingham. 43. Waterloo Station. 44. Felixstowe Ferry. 45. The South Bank. 46. Snape MAltings. 47. Tunstall Forest.

Oh The Weather Outside...

Been such a busy week, working very long days Monday and Tuesday, and on call overnight both nights. Then trying really hard to finish on time today so I could get home in time to help Catherine and her friend prepare for tonight's production of Children of Eden. Alan drove us all to the school in time to watch the performance at 7pm. Here are some still photos taken from the video clips. Catherine played the part of Yonah.

Today's prompt is all about weather at Christmas time. It would be wonderful if it snowed at Christmas, but all to often it is mild and dry. Today it is raining heavily here, as it has been most days for the past week, except yesterday when I had to scrape ice from the car, and it was much colder and brighter. We have had snow this year, back in February, and the children really made the most of it, playing in the garden ans in nearby Shenstone Park and Hall Place.

A layout for today will follow after Saturday's crop, the photos are printed and the papers selected, just need to put it all together. I have been playing with the Christmas cartridge for the Cricit and the snowflake image.

Here is my DLO from 2007: