normal service is resumed...

Good morning everyone I hope your all well and having a good week...well when I say normal service I mean theres no hop today so I can have a good chinwag with you all...brilliant news my lovely Dad has a date for his second eye operation isnt that fantastic, its the 1st August and he cant wait...his 80 year mot is going brilliantly isnt it lol...oooohhh I got a lovely suprise on Monday a dozen red roses from my wonderful Phil...why?...'just because' he says...all together now aaaaaaawwwwwww what a wee darling he is isnt he...my Dad is off on his travels again on Monday, I booked his flight yesterday he wukk be away for a couple of weeks again, I love to see him head off, its good for him to do it dont you think, you never know what lifes holds in store for you so go for while you can my lovely Dad...right now onto my card for today well it should have been on yesterday but I didnt want it getting lost before the hop card...its for our new challenge at Crafts and Me challenge...this weeks challenge is Birthdays which is quite an easy one I think as we all need birthday cards dont we...I chose to use the Frenchie Friends Michelle & JoJo digi from Crafts and Me for my card, shes a fab image isnt she, I love her bike...I coloured her with distress inks and used a half page of a Basicgrey Max and Whiskers paper called Clarence, I love the stripes and colours for her, I think it gives her a real french feel...I finished with some lace, a chocolate brown satin bow and a metal flower from Prima...I then added my Birthday girl sentiment using a glittery alphabet sheet for the large one and peel off (yes I know would you believe peel offs lol) for the small one...the lush sketch is from Papertake Weekly challenge but I turned it on its side, Im also entering it for the Paper Makeup stamps challenge and the Try it on Tuesday challenge...Phils off today so we are heading out to lunch and I might even drag him round estate agents (I hear can hear him groan already poor thing lol)...whatever your up to today I hope you dont have flooding like we have here to spoil it, I will be back tomorrow at 9am for our final blog hop day
Mina xxx

distress ink colours used
skin - antique linen, frayed burlap, tattered rose
hair - frayed burlap
bike - crushed olive
hat and outfit - tumbled glass, scattered straw, wild honey
everything else - barn door, crushed olive, scattered straw
dog - pumice stone