A Saturday post

Well, life here has settled down again - and things are quiet! However John did go out with the mooring barge this morning to check the chain on our mooring, as we rent it to another boatman. We have been having occasions of quite wild weather here - just like everywhere else - and last month we had a fierce wind storm. John tells me the chain had to be almost completely replaced this morning!  Thank goodness it held during the storm or one small yacht would have been washed ashore!

Early in May it will be Mother's Day here in Australia - but my mother passed away a long time ago now, and my dearly loved MIL passed away last year, so I have no-one to make a card for this year! I still
made one though.

I die-cut a doily; added a wooden bird cage and bird; and a spray of flowers

Layered all this onto a square paper doily an some hand made paper - my paper doily had been sprayed with gold mist and the die cut one I cut from some lovely gold holographic paper. So was the word. It was all heaped onto a pearlised square commercial blank, and I then stamped the tag with SU Crisp Canteloupe ink and using a WMS - EggstraSpecial, and smudged the tag with TH Antique Linen ink. 

Inside says "For my MUM with all my love"

I will enter this in the following challenges:

A Creative Romance: Spring flowers

Jellypark Challenge: Mother's Day

4Crafty Girls: Anything Goes

IBS: Colour Challenge 80 

Oh, and I have to share this too:

for this card!

It was for the Crafting with Dragonflies Blog Hop!