A Charming Fishing Birthday Card

Good afternoon to all of you out there in blog land

 Whilst my DH has been at his fishing match today, I have been out in the sun all day, weeding, moving bits around and pressure washing the driveway and sitting area, with the help of my son.  I am hoping that my lovely pink skin, will transform into a wondrous tan over night and that by morning I will no longer look like a milk bottle.  With this in mind shortly I will be ironing the tailored short ready to show off the new tanned legs.  The alternative will be back to the suit to hide the pins.

This is  a card that I started last night, as the heat registered  30 degrees in the shade today, now and again I popped up to my aptly named "Beach Hut" and did a few little bits to it - helping me cool down.

This card is for my son's birthday again as before he is into his fishing.  Last night he took his girlfriend for her first fishing experience (she quite liked it and got a bit of colour herself).

I decided to go with a stamp I got last year a Penny Black one, so leaned towards the Penny Black Saturday Challenge which is this week "Lots of Dots", The image plate has thousands of little dots, I thank Marianne and Lynsey my WW teamies, for this really clever effect and I am very impressed with how it turned out.  The papers or two of them also contain dots.

I followed the Pixie Cottage Challenge Sketch for this one and decided to use my new poinsettia nestie (thanks again to Marianne) love it.  I used three strips of very slim ribbon and platted a section to be different in some way.

I also followed the colours of the Play Date Cafe one of my very favorite challenge sites and as we tend to stick to boys colours for boys  cards, I decided to have a change.

Following on from a comment from the very nice Katie I have also entered this card into and become a follower of Cooking it up With Katie the challenge here is 3 colours of a charming man, that is 3 papers, a charm and for a man (thank you Katie)

So here is the card I made for him

I think the silver fish charm for him was better than the love heart that is on the stamp.  I didn't have any bigger lemon yellow ribbon so decided to make a larger one, but when the three were just stripes it did not look right so I platted a section to add a bit more interest.  I love the sentiment from another new set I got with lots of fishing buddies on from Simon Says Stamp.  

A close up of the flowers and the little fishy again

Flowers from Running with Scissors (as always see the link above for where I shop).

A close up of the image coloured in copics.

This is such an adorable stamp from Penny Black.

Well must go and have a bath and cool down, then I need to start on the ironing.  Hoping you all had a beautiful and enjoyable day too.

Thank you for all your recent lovely comments, which I always read and appreciate.

Hugs Kate xx