Cat Rains

 This was the first of the free online classes recently, Catherine Rains has been doing collage work for years. 

Seems like I don’t have many dark papers!

I’m just going to apologise…

 I’m sorry to say that I have been absent, time has once more been slipping through my fingers in the most rapid fashion!

Not too much been going on in the craft world other than that I have been having a huge clear out, mostly of the clear stamps - there was a lot that I had never used but they were from a magazine subscription so I thought that maybe one day… yes, well, that one day is probably not going to happen so I have a box of them to donate!  

I have been doing the Full Deck challenge #4 but not on cards but rather in a small journal 

Napkin, book page, coral colour, zigzag, tree

Flowers, napkin, tab, metallic, purple 

Purple, spots, text, weaving, flowers, pink 

Pink, postage stamps, green, circles, words 

Red, coffee, hearts, B&W, 1 bright colour, stencil 

Text, yellow, buttons, 

Botanicals, fabric, label, black mark making 

And then I decided that I needed to do some birthday cards as quite a few people are hitting a big 0 this year so I have 50 for a friend who’s birthday is the day after mine, 60 for a girlfriend who we are going to Malta with, 70 for another friend and 80 for Bill’s ex wife- yes, we’re friends!

I have also been doing a “scrap a day “ of 1” squares or circles from random magazines and papers 

Otherwise I have been busy in the garden lifting plants that I want to keep before the professionals come in and remove 2 flowerbeds that are full of couch grass. Membrane is going down and some gravel ( known as chuckies locally!) I shall be putting some pots in there to make my life easier rather than spending all my time weeding.