Olympic Park

Entering (great British weather- 'it's not rain, just mist' was what one of the volunteers told us!  It definitely was RAIN about half and hour later!!):

A marching band!

The aquatics centre (just when we thought we had gone up high enough and couldn't possibly go any further there was another 5 or 6 rounds of stairs!):

Outside of the athletics track (in the relative sunshine):

The Orbit:

 The Royal Barge:

Big screens in the Olympic Park:

Have you got the fever?

I certainly have got Olympic fever!  This is from the Brazil v. Egypt match 26/07/2012 in the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

And these are from the swimming heats this morning:

A once in a lifetime experience that I'm so glad I had.

Funny Christmas

I love this image!  I will enter this card into this weeks Passion  for Promarkers (farm animals), Willow Sketchie (sketch and theme- Christmas) and Waste not Wednesday (all the papers are scraps) challenges.

I'm off in an hour and won't be around for about 2 weeks.  Ten days of Summer School and then I have tickets to watch the swimming at the Olympics.  So it will be a while until I'm back and crafting again.  Enjoy the sunshine- summer is meant to be here in the UK at last!

Not a card

This weeks ABC Christmas challenge is 'n is for not a card'. I have made two gift tags using this super freebie from Digistamp Boutique.  The image was printed multiple times, coloured with PMs and then spray with gold glitter varnish before decoupaging up.  The base card for the tags is actually the card board box Mum's birthday present came in.

I will also enter these into this months CCAYR (Christmas flowers/foliage) and this weeks I love Promarkers (sparkle), Willow Sketchie (Christmas in July) and DigiDoodle Shops Best (anything goes) challenges.

Giraffes

I printed this image ages ago and keep wanting to make a cad with it, but not deciding how best to do it- baby or love/anniversary??  Opted for baby in the end since I was sorting through my stash and starting admiring these papers with the ducks on.  I thought instead of just having them sat there in a packet being admired that they really should have an outing- lol!

I will enter the card into this weeks Sweet Sketch Wednesday (sketch), Waste not Wednesday (both papers and image have been in my stash unused for a long time!), and Digi Doodle Shops Best (anything goes) challenges.

Have I over done it?

Can you guess I'm ever so slightly excited about going to the Olympics?  These are two ATCs along that theme.  The background is the London Underground map.  Hope you like them :-)

Fly a Kite

This is another digi that I bought from Pollycraft before the shop shut and not used yet.  I love the Cuthbert and Kiki range.  Sorry the photo is so bad- the colours are not that muted in reality.  The light must have been worse than I thought when I took the photo :-(

I will enter the card into this weeks Cute Card Thursday (sketch) and Digi doodle Shops Best (summer) challenges and this months Ready Teddy Go (up, up and away) challenge.

Diving!

Continuing my pledge to make a start on Christmas presents, I have made another calendar for 2013 this week.  

I will enter this into this weeks Willow Sketchie challenge (sketch).

Happy Retirement

Dad's cousin emailed me the other day.  I hadn't heard from him for ages, but then that was partly my fault as well. Anyway he has decided to retire- a bit of a quick decision but they offered him a very good package and he would retire in a years time anyway.  So I needed to make a card.  Hope he isn't offended by the image.  I'm sure he won't spend all his time watching TV now, but he can if he wants to- the beauty of retirement being that you can do what you want when you want!

I will enter the card into this weeks Sweet Sketch Wednesday (sketch) and I love Promarkers (circles) challenges.

For You

I bought some Cats Life Press stamps a few weeks ago and thought I got one out yesterday.  This card is a bit of a break from the norm for me.  The papers are Pink Petticoat.  I will enter the card into this weeks MAWTT challenge (make it sentimental).