80th Birthday Card and Box

Good morning to all my lovely followers and  friends and  a special welcome this cold January morning to my two new followers Murielle and  Kate. I'm so  glad you are following my Blog and  I hope you visit often and enjoy my posts.
My card today is a commission I have just made for one of my friends. Her Aunt is 80 very soon and asked for a special card for her. I decided to use dies on this card rather than my normal painted image so the main focus of my card is Spellbinder Opulent Oval dies..

Card and  Box Recipe

8x8 card Craftwork cards

White card Tim Holtz

Peach card my stash

Pearl flower trim The Hobby House

Spellbinder Opulent Oval die

Scalloped lace Whitby Crafts

Resin frame Melissa Francis petite frames Live and  Love Crafts

Pearl Hearts Dawn to Dusk Crafts at Ross Papercraft show

Flowers Wild Orchid Crafts and my stash

Sentiments on die made on my computer

80 in resin frame from a Pion Cut out sheet

Box Stella Crafts

I apologies now for the photos its been so dark here and the colours look like they aren't all the same but in fact they are .

This will be my last post for a little while. I'm going away on Monday on a five week holiday to New Zealand and the Cook Islands its a holiday of a lifetime and one from our retirement bucket list of things to do. We are looking forward to some warmer weather but not the long flight .

I've got some posts scheduled for when I'm away and will try to keep up with all your gorgeous blogs if I can . . I'm just finishing all the packing a huge task for 5 weeks. 

I hope you all keep well and warm while I'm away and also have a great weekend. 

Thank you all so much for all the great comments on my Snowman card you are all so kind.Hugs Carole x