Gas Street, Birmingham

Here is a new one on me.  Pre-wedding photo shoots.  It seems to be an Asian thing as since this couple were being photographed on the back of Mr David I've seen several other couples being photographed.

More money for the poor photographs anyway.

Here I Cuttlebugged a piece of white card and stuck it onto a pink card blank.  The bear was cut out from a tissue box using an oval Nestability and then stuck onto a red oval using the scalloped Nestability.  To finish off I used three felt flowers.

Gas Street, Birmingham

 Today we went to Crick.  Hired a car and drove there (my nails are just beginning to grow back!)

The dragon head was on a boat built by the Dragon Company.  Didn't notice the tiller pin.

So glad we don't need a new boat.  Don't know where we would start.  We love Mr David so much and the layout fits us perfectly that we would have to have another one built almost exactly the same.

I have made a series of cards from photographs around Gas Street.  This is Cambrian Wharf with the top lock of the Farmers Locks flight on the left.

I matted one whole photograph onto silver card and then stuck it onto a green card base.  The, using the circular Nestabilities I cut out decreasing circles and then layered them up with sticky fixers.

For this card I used the cut out bits so that the circles are holes and get smaller inwards so the top photo is a sort of frame.  Hope that makes sense.  I used a white card blank for this card.

Gas Street, Birmingham

 This morning the Hyatt caught on fire!!!!!  Lots of fire engines.

When I went to check whether I could use the pool this afternoon I was told that it was the sauna that had blown up!!  So no swimming for the foreseeable future.  Hope we get a refund.

Fortunately no-one was in the sauna at the time and no-one in the pool area was injured

This card began with a purple card blank.  I covered part of the front with some stripy paper and then added this little chap holding a bone for his dog.  He and the dog are slightly decopaged and fixed to the card with sticky-fixers.

Gas Street, Birmingham

President and Kildare were due to leave at 8 o'clock so David was ready with his camera.

This card uses a picture of Malcolm on the back of Kildare.  I matted the photo onto silver, red and black card.

I used a white card blank and cut a red card panel which was Cuttlebugged and matted onto more black card, and stuck it to the card front.

I then covered a narrow piece of black card with some red ribbon, sticking the ends to the back.  Then a strip of silver peel-off and two tiny silver brads.  The whole piece was then stuck over the bigger panel.

Gas Street, Birmingham

Coming back from the gym I noticed President and Kildare were in town - on their way to Crick.

One white card blank.
Australian stamp, coloured with watercolour pencils, matted on to black and gold card.

A piece of "camouflage" paper which has been torn.

Gas Street, Birmingham

Mr David in The Times!  Just!  The Home supplement lauding canalside living.  You just get to see the tip of the back of the boat (see tip of arrow).

We were also graced with the presence of the Liverpool football team before they went off to the beaten by Aston Villa this afternoon.

Using up the "free" papers from a card magazine. 

Using a white, square card blank I covered the front with some blue card and the yellow patterned paper.  I made a smaller panel with more blue card and yellow paper and fixed that in the bottom half of the card, wrapping some blue ribbon around it before fixing it down.

The topper was matted onto a scalloped circle, likewise the smaller topper which was stuck down onto a cocktail stick.  A piece of ribbon was threaded through a blue button and tied in a knot and stuck onto the base and the cocktail stick end stuck into the knot before fixing the top down  with a sticky fixer.

Gas Street, Birmingham

A wedding today.  Susan and Mark live on Snark in Sherborne Wharf.  They are both military people.  Susan has just got back from a tour in Afghanistan but Mark has contracted MS and is no longer serving.

They were married in Birmingham Register Office and had their wedding breakfast on one of the many trip boats we have around here.

We all wish them all the best for the future.

One cute horse towing a trip boat in Hungerford.  Matted onto silver and yellow card.

A white card blank, some pearlescent blue paper with scalloped edges and some red ribbon with white flowers on it.  To finish off, three coloured dots to mimic the colours of the decoration on the horse's reins.