Rosie-Dee's black and white and bunnies too.

This is the last week of normal challenging on ~{Rosie-Dee's}~ before I become a proper DT member for 3 months. This week it's to make something black and white. I've opted for the quick card option as I'm just back home after the wedding and really should have been putting things away instead of crafting.

I seem to be obsessed with circles at the mo. This is all DiW's fault for showing me the fab circle cutting gizmo at the retreat that I just had to buy.


I think the paper is American crafts, but to tell you for definate would involve getting up off the sofa and that is just not happening. The rest is bazzill card and pebbles inc rub-on greeting.

I had to show this photo of the bunnies chilling on Sunday. They still crack me up.

Claire and Steve's Wedding

On Saturday I went to my cousin Claire's Wedding. It was a brilliant day, even though it was so very hot. Here's a few of my fave photos from the day. You're lucky as I took rather a lot, but will spare you most!

Claire met Steve while she was working in New Zealand and now lives there, but came 'home' for her wedding.

My uncle David, Claire's dad, has a share of an old London bus so this was decorated and we all left the hotel they were staying at and took the trip to Marylebone Registry Office.


This is Claire and her sister, Lucy, on the journey. Steve sat upstairs.


Here's the happy couple leaving the Registry Office. I love this photo as it has really happy faces, a beautiful building and steps and a load of confetti, just as a wedding should be.



This photo has Ann and David, Claire's parents and Steve's lovely mum Colleen and her partner, whose name I have to confess to have forgotten so big apologies there. Steve's dad was unable to make the wedding.


After the ceremony, we all got back on the bus and it took us to the Thames, where we had the reception on a boat. This has to be one of the best places to hold the reception. There were storms by this time and we had great views of it, while having a giggle with family we hadn't seen for ages. This is Andy and Lucy larking about (Lucy did a lot of larking that night).


We sat at tables for the meal and I was sat with Nicole, Steve's sister and we got on really well. She's a real laugh as you can see here. Lucy and Nicole have the same shoe size so they swapped


Of course, I can't do a blog post of an evening out without a mention of the food. Mmmm it was scrummy from the Pimms and canapes when we first went on board right down to the wedding cake that was chocolate. Double mmmmmm. You can see the ~{Wedding Adornment}~ I made using the Wedding Kit for Bubbly Scrumptious. Click on the link if you want to see how.


It turns out that Claire has a very similar taste in music to me so, after a bit of chair dancing, I even got up to have a proper boogie - I haven't done that for years! I was completely outshone by Rach and Lucy who had the energy of youth on their side. Lucy didn't stop dancing all evening!


I really enjoyed going out somewhere and spending time gossiping with Lynne somewhere different from home. We all wore a piece of nan's jewellery that we had inherited so we took her with us. I've got a big beaded necklace that I wore as a bracelet and a ring. It turned out that Nicole was also wearing a necklace that had been her nan's too.

Finally, here's a couple of sights along the river.



It was so different to any other wedding I've been to and I have to say it's up there with Lynne and Andy's as my favourites. I really don't mind feeling so pants for a while after having so much fun, so thanks to Claire and Steve for inviting us to share their special day with them.

DCM - Make a Child Smile.

This week's ~{DCM}~ is to Make a Child Smile, by making a card for a child from a website called ~{PostPals}~. This is a site that encourages people to send mail to children with long-term or terminal illnesses to cheer them up.

I fancied making a monster card so had a trawl through and I chose Ethan who has cystic fibrosis. When I looked for his age, I noticed it's his 8th birthday today!! So Happy Birthday Ethan!!


I've used BG Lime Rickey and bazzill card and drew and cut the monster by hand (did I tell you I failed art O level? Ha ha). I'm still at Lynne's and haven't got any alphabet stamps or letters so had to do the Boo by hand.

I've used a sketch by ~{I{heart}to stamp}~, even though I haven't stamped anything on it as my monster stamps are at home too.

Lucy was very interested in why I was sending a card to someone I didn't know and has decided she wants to do the same. If she makes a card, I shall blog it after the weekend as we have a wedding to go to tomorrow!

Thanks for stopping by.

Kaz xx

Kathy's Sketch

I've been feeling quite creative this week, so have made another card. I'm like buses I guess! I've used the most recent sketch on ~{Kathy's Sketchfile}~. And because Kathy made me buy the MME Pretty Please papers, I've used those too.


I tweaked the sketch a little bit, just to be awkward.

I'm now off for a snooze as I went to Lucy's school music concert last night. She, of course, was fab on her steel drums. There were others too who were natural musicians and sadly, some who played the right notes, but just not in the right order!! That's what you get with junior schools, but I really enjoyed myself and the kids did too, which is the important thing.

Thanks for looking.

Kaz xx

Pink and Limes

Seeing as I made the design team on ~{Rosie-Dee's}~ and next week will be the first official post, I thought I ought to get practising, so I've done this week's challenge to use pink and lime colours.

It also helped that I got the lovely MME Pretty Please papers through too. I blame ~{Kathy}~ for using them on her blog and making me buy them!

DT result

Yay and whooo!! I got in the DT on ~{Rosie-Dee's Challenge Blog}~.

Father's Day Pressie

Back in the beginning of May, ~{Leigh}~ showed us how to make an accordian book at the retreat. I did the book itself while I was there and it's taken all of this time to finally get round to finishing it.

If I'd really tried, I'm sure I could have made it all in a day, but I kept putting it off. I had no excuse today though as it had to get finished as I may be being taken to Ikea tomorrow. I haven't been for a couple of years and its overdue.

Anyhoo I'm waffling (I can't help it, I'm excited about Ikea), so here's the cover:


I've filled the inside with father quotes and some photos of the family:


Thanks for stopping by.

Kaz xxx