Coral Thanks

 Hi and welcome to a new challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches.  Our hostess this week is Cecile Ribon and as is typical for Cecile, she has given us a fun and unique sketch to play with.  I went pretty literal to come up with this card.

These Be Bold Bloom flowers and foliage were already in the pack from an earlier crafty session, so this card was pretty quick to put together.  At this point in time, that suits me perfectly because I am having a bit of a creative and inspiration slump at the moment.  Just riding the wave until it passes and hopefully my love of card-making will return.

On top of that, my daughter's 7-month old Spoodle puppy had to have major heart surgery this week to correct a Grade 5/6 heart murmur which would have shortened her life to months rather than years if we didn't get it done.  She had the surgery on Monday this week and is doing really well.  We are so very grateful to our vets who flew in a specialist from the North Island to undertake this very complex surgery.  I've posted a couple of photos below for anyone interested.

Thanks so much for visiting.  The DT have some fabulous cards to inspire you so please check them out.

This photo was when she was taken to the After Hours Vet for overnight care on the day of her surgery.  Obviously she was drugged to the gills, but still looking happy.

Products used:

Stamps:  Elegant Sentiments (Waffle Flower)

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Sage, Pastel Sunrise, Vanilla Cream, Coral Bliss (Altenew)

Cardstock:  White, Peach Bellini, Coral Crush (MFT), Cream (SSS), Ocean Tides (PTI)

Dies:  Be Bold Blooms (Spellbinders), Blueprints 21 (MFT)

Cheers

Karren