Chocolate......my ultimate comfort food - hot chocolate in a hug mug from Max Brenner, hazelnut Lindt balls, chocolate covered raspberries, Freddo frogs, chocolate coated turkish delight, my Grandmother's biscuits with a chocolate drop on the top, home made chocolate mousse............
...but the one with the least calories is the Opus Gluei Chocolate Challenge, so I made these ATCs in a flash (and it helped that I had an empty chocolate wrapper to use too). Mmm... hazelnut chocolate....
...and to think when I found this "chocolate" brad I wondered how I'd ever find a use for it!
Any day now it will be Valentines Day and that's an excuse to spoil someone special in your life, or maybe someone you would like to have in your life........or just an excuse to go all out with hearts and flowers because you can.
I made three ATCs for the latest Opus Gluei challenge, following the instructions to use a minimal palette of red, pink and white. It might have been easier to use them all in one card, but I like ATCs, so any excuse to make a few at a time is a good excuse.........
I used a collection of papers from the cupboard............ pearls, ribbon, glittery bits, brads and even some chain and a bead.
Happy Valentine's Day.
Long ago, in a land far away, a dear friend celebrated a significant birthday. The presents were assembled, wrapped, annotated..... all it needed was the card to be finished. Then life stepped in and anything on paper that wasn't a school report or a budget spreadsheet went to the bottom of the pile. And the pile grew....and grew....and grew.
Okay, enough excuses. I lost the plot (Plot? What plot? What was the book again?), so finally here is the card, and the apology is heart-felt. She knows who she is, so the rest of my readers will just have to wonder...........
I saw this idea for a card like a pin-board somewhere when I was surfing. It has fine gold-edged ribbon criss-crossing a sheet of pretty blue and yellow nameless paper from Riot. There's a matching yellow mat to back it before being mounted on white CS. The various flowers are Kaiser and so are the brads. The birthday stamp was a present from friends across the sea and its embossed on yellow ink with iridescent powder.
I know your birthday was a happy one.......
