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With the retirement of Google Reader just hours away, here is a little reminder that in order to keep following your favourite blogs, you may need to change to a different reader.

I have placed icons in the sidebar for the different ways you can follow this blog:

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However, I believe, that if you have joined a blog using Google Friend Connect, then they will still appear in the Reader Section at the bottom of your Blogger Dashboard.

If you still wish to follow my blog, I would love to hear from you which one you have chosen.

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.
Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Happy 80th Birthday Dad!

on 6th June 2013 it was my Dad's 80th Birthday.

We had a family get together on the 15th June, but little did Dad know we had arranged for a surprise visit of some of his oldest friends, some he hadn't seen for a few years.

the invite I put together utilising my newfound skills in Indesign

collection of cards

I made Dad a speaker card - we used to get told off for having our music too loud as we were growing up - he used to say that he could 'see the rooftiles moving with the music'

 

the card

inside

me and my Dad

 

the first surprise!

the surprise gang

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.
Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

UnstampaBelles Baby!

One of our lovely UnstampaBelles Team members has had a baby boy!

Congratulations to Sarah on the birth of baby Elijah!

inside

Items Used

CUP File #105242-28 - Baby Boy Topper

White square card, foam dots - Blue Edge Crafts

Kindy Glitz/Stickles

Cuttlebug - dots embossing folder

Pop on over to the UnstampaBelles blog to see what the rest of the DT have created!

Thank you for visiting my blog - I hope you have a good day.
Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

With Sympathy | Thinking of you

Sadly, I have been in need of two sympathy cards this past week .... both for some very dear school friends :(

My primary school friend Debbie lost her Mother-in-Law just before Mother's Day, and one of my High School friends, Jill, lost her Mum on Tuesday after Mother's Day.

I had been having a tidy up and came across a 6" paper stack that came free with a magazine, and that started me on my colour theme - soft teals and oranges.

I had also just purchased some Just Rite stamps and had a lovely flower that matched the papers beautifully! The flower was stamped on the back of some embossed DP which give just a hint of texture.

Then I came across the most perfect sketch at a CAS #241 - but as I worked with the layout, I decided to make it square

I would like to submit these cards to the following challenges:
CAS #241 - sketch
CAS-Fridays #101 - stamp on DP
CASology #44 - Bloom
JustRite - colour theme: orange, teal and cream/beige

Linking with:
52 Card Pickup 2.21 - HERE

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.
Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

UnstampaBelles Challenge #23 - Easel Card

Challenge #23 for UnstampaBelles is up and running and this month we are to make an easel card.

Our very own Beth is providing the prize this month!
A Stampin' Up prize pack which includes:  a DSP paper pack ‘Be of Good Cheer’; Jewels Basic Pearls; Jewels basic Rhinestones and a pack of Dimensionals.

Please remember .............

Any form of paper creation will be accepted as long as NO STAMPS (Digital or Rubber) have been used.  Due to graphic technology any entry with a graphic image will be subject to the Design Teams' discretion and we will contact you if we feel the entry does not meet the ethos of our challenge blog.

For further information, see our rules here.

The May challenge closes Friday, 31st May 2013 and Winners will be announced Monday, 3rd June 2013 - Remember we are working on Aussie Time.

I needed a card for my Great Nephew, Riley's 3rd Birthday - it took a little while for motivation to hit, but when it did .......... I was on a roll!

I really enjoyed making this card ;-)

I printed this gorgeous image on white cardstock three times, hand cut out and layered various elements, highlighting with Kindy Glitz, gold stickers sentiment and stars have also been used.  I went through my stash and found the most perfect backing papers ;-)  Riley's name I created in Photoshop (using some newfound skills from my TAFE course, and cut out with Spellbinder dies and Cuttlebug.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Cards for Men #9 - Animals (bears are animals, right ;-))
Creative Card Crew - Bling
Our Creative Corner - Anything Goes
abc Challenge - M - Make it sparkle

Please visit the UnstampaBelles blog and see last month's entries and check out the winner.

Looks like the "Anything Goes' challenge was popular - there were 84 entries!  Once again, very difficult for the DT to pick a favourite!

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.
Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.