my little boy is off

to Germany with the School.  This is the first time he has been abroad without family and is a little bit apprehensive.  Soooo I made him a keepsake (memory) book to take with him.

I have put in some private messages, one for each night, and left lots of space for him to put momentos, such as tickets, sweet wrappers etc to remember his trip.  Then of course there are the photo mats, onto which he can mount his favourite snaps when he gets back.

I have used the fantastic Portebello road papers by Papermania for this.  The tags are again from some jeans.  I used a martha steward punch.  The embellishments are all from my stash, they include a bluebird, a memories zip pull, and of course the Union Flag.

 Front

 Side

inside

inside

inside

inside

I hope he likes it.

Hugs

Wings ............ where will they take you ??

Hi guys,

Wow, what a hectic week, apart from my normal blog posts for both the Cutie Pie challenge and Anything Goes challenge, there has been loads going on.

The Jubilee celebrations in the village last Monday were amazing and the local bands were brilliant.  I met some fantastic people who live in the village and had a brilliant day.  Congratulations to the committee who organised it.  It was fantastic.  

As I said I met lots of new people last week and thought I would just do this little extra post tonight to show you a card I made yesterday.  I was inspired by a close friend and made this.......

The image has been in my stash for some time now, and although I loved it never could think of exactly how to use it............  but for this card it was absolutely perfect.  I teamed it with Wellington, and sport orientated papers and some union flag ribbon and decorative rivets.

I have matted and layered this easel card and included a secret pocket with a matching tag inside.

 front

from above

 tag

 closed view

Crafty hugs for now