Something that brightened my day

Look at what brightened my day this morning!
My beautifully gift wrapped purchase from McCarthy Designs!

Isn't it gorgeous! If you don't know Nellie and her blog then you must go check it out, along with the shop that she and her husband have started selling beautiful cards with their stunning photography on them.
This is the card I chose.

I thought 'The Old Bakery' was very cool seeing as we are Bakers (surname that is, not occupation). The card is signed and dated on the back by Nellie and she attached a beautiful little card - just so sweet!!!

So thank you so much Nellie! You've made my day and I don't want to use the card as it's too special. I think I will have it on display for a while :)

I may not be blogging for the rest of the week so have a lovely week and weekend everyone!

DIY Birthday Card

We had a lovely time yesterday at a friend's daughter's 3rd birthday party.
All the children had a great time on the trampoline and running around the backyard like crazy.

Anyway, I LOVE making cards and so it was a great excuse to get creative. I wanted to match the card to her present which was a talking fairy gadget so I decided to illustrate and paint a woodland mushroom picture with a '3' in it.


I've always got a packet of blank cards and some thick coloured card stock so I drew up the picture and then painted it with my old-school watercolour set and stuck the picture to the blank card using double sided sticky tape and 'Voila!' it even matches the wrapping!