On your Retirement

Good evening to all my friends and  followers after a busy week I've finally made sometime to put a post on my blog. We had a good week in the Peak District although the weather wasn't good we did a lot of nice shopping at Chatsworth Christmas Markets and a lot of relaxing but not so much walking as it was very wet in the middle of the week. I'm now back to normality and  I 've been Christmas shopping today I was surprised how busy the shops were but I got some things but will need another one or two trips to finish all the present buying.
Now onto my card its a Retirement card commission I did for a friend just before my holiday she asked for flowers so I used the very pretty LOTV Lilacs stamp. I did make a matching box but silly me forgot to photograph it!!

 

Card Recipe

7x7 Blank Card

Tim Holtz card and  paper distress tool

Pion Paper Studio of Memories Photo Frame and Anemone from Live and Love Crafts

LOTV stamp Lilacs painted with Derwent Inktense pencils

Spellbinder Floral Oval die

Lace from my stash

Lace butterfly by Martha Stewart from Michaels Florida USA

Flowers WOC and my stash

Sentiments LOTV For You Retirement sentiment and Sentiment tags

Sewing Machine and white topstitch thread

Glamour Dust on the Lilac flowers

Metal corner Dawn to Dusk Crafts originally white but tinted with a Copic pen to match

 

 

I thought I'd finish my post with a lovely photo I took of Lathkill Dale it was one of the dryer days and I took it just before the sunset. It is a really beautiful dale.

 

I hope that you all have a great weekend what ever you all have planned. I hope to do some more shopping tomorrow I'm determined not to be last minute shopping this year as we are going to the Wedding on the 22nd December that I have been making the stationery for so that will take out a couple of days leading up to Christmas Eve. Thank you all for the great comments on my recent posts they are all so lovely hugs Carole x