Hospital, Birthdays and……Crafting!

This week has been a rough one in the Heslop house – both our sons and my husband were ill with a rotavirus since Monday night, requiring round-the-clock nursing, and even resulting in an ambulance ride to hospital for Ollie (3), on Wednesday night (James’s 5th birthday!).

Everyone was so ill, we cancelled James’s birthday party (which was supposed to have been yesterday). Thank goodness I didn’t get sick, as all three boys really did need looking after (especially the little ones), and there was plenty of washing to do (I did 5 loads on Tuesday alone!)……. but I sure missed my stamping!

SO…… I got a reprieve last night from all the laundry, and closed myself in my craft room for a couple of hours. I was motivated by two things – Just Add Ink’s first colour challenge, and by Tracey Old’s latest UStamp project (I’m a bit of a fan of Tracey’s work – she makes beautiful things, and she’s a Kiwi to boot!).

Here is the first card I made, to fulfill both categories. The colours required for the Just Add Ink challenge were these:

And because I liked Tracey’s style of card so much, I made another, using Elegant Eggplant, Lavender Lace and Basic Grey.

The first one is for a client of Nigel’s, who gave the boys some gorgeous clothes for Christmas. And the second one is for one of his colleagues at work, who just got engaged – congrats, Carrie!

And I’ll leave you with one last picture – the cake I made James yesterday, to his specifications. Thankfully my son has simple tastes – a cake decorator I am not! But he was thrilled – and that’s all that matters.

Happy stamping! 🙂