Deconstructed Sketch 101

Kia ora from the good ship Koru.

I have made todays card using  the deconstructed-sketch-no-101 it's been far too windy for any of my usual copic colored and paper pieced images so instead I used a topper for the first time ever. Any hoo here is the card.

Supply list:

Cardstock - Bazzill 

DP and Topper - Wellington

Ink - Memento, tuxedo black

Dies – My Favorite Things Fishtail Tags Layers, Spell Binders, Nesting Rectangles. 

Heart Punch, brand unknown.

Thanks for looking in.

Keep Well. 

Too Much Wind

Kia ora, it's been much too windy and therefore too rock and rolly on the boat be able to craft with any  accuracy at all for 5 days now, so, I'd thought I'd show you an image I have ready to turn into a card when it gets calm enough again to card make.

Details will follow once I have turned this cute couple into a card.

Keep Well ...

Lili of The Valley Monthly Challenge #2

It's Kia ora from a very choppy marina in Cherbourg today. It was a rainy day yesterday so I made another card to enter the challenge. And there's not a chance to craft today because the boat is rocking and rolling all over the place so I thought I might as well take the opportunity to write up the blog.  Although the weather is making the wifi connection more intermittent than usual I shall persevere and hope I can up load to the challenge today, if not then it'll be tomorrow. Not that you'll know but I will lols.

So you can fin the challenge as usual Here. And the challenge is Boy Oh Boy!

I have left this card as an open card so it's for a non specific event, but it is meant to be for a male. So here's my card....

And now for a bit of a close up, I used the omit technique when using the die around the image so that the the guitar and music would hang out of the frame. 

This image reminds me of my Son, not that he had either brown hair or a dog (he longed for a dog) but because he learnt to play the piano at school and taught himself to play the guitar. He's now a mean as guitar player and plays in a New Zealand band called Rules of Addiction 

Enough chit chat here's my "supply" list for this card..

Card stock - Bazzill and Neenah

Paper - Little ones collection (Deja Views)

Stamps - Playing Guitar (Lili of the Valley) 

Ink - Memento, tuxedo black 

Dies – Spell Binders, Nesting Rectangles

Copic Markers:

Skin - E21, E50, E51

Hair - E55, E57, E59

Shading - W1, W3, W5, C1, C3, C5, C7

Dog – E55, E57, E59

Anyhoo time to go and get some lunch.

Thanks for popping by

Keep well. 

Lili of the Valley May Challenge

It's a big Hi from me sat aboard the good yacht Koru in the harbor at Cherbourg. I'll let you in on a little secret here.... some days it's really hard to come up with a good copic colored image when the boat is being rocked by strong winds, anyhoo. This is my card for the May challenge over at Lili of the Valley called  Boy Oh Boy!  
You can find the challenge HERE 

Supply list:

Cardstock - Bazzill and Neenah

Paper - Wellington

Stamps - Rugby Mad (Lili of the Valley) Sentiment ?

Ink - Memento, tuxedo black and rich cocoa, Ranger, broken china.

Dies – My Favorite Things, Labels 2; Spell Binders, Nesting Rectangles

Copic Markers:

Skin - E21, E50, E51

Hair - E55, E57, E59

Clothes - W1, W3, W5, B 24, B39, B26, C1, C3, C5, C7

Grass – YG 91, YG95, YG97

I hope you like it.

Ta ta for now

Keep Well.

It's been a while.

You bet it has. It's not that I haven't made any cards, I have, it's just that I haven't felt that inclined to blog about it. But I really should start again because I'm thinking of joining in a few card sketch challenges at some point in the not to distant future and they usually want you to link the card to your blog. So I really need to get my blog mojo up and running again.

So here's a card...

The teddy bear and the sentiment are MFT stamps, I think the bell is an Inkadinkado stamp (or not as the case may be). The card is Kraft card stock 6x6. I don't know what the DP is because I haven't got all the front covers to my 6x6 DP pads anymore. I lost a lot in the move onto the boat.  I used my usual spellbinders dies. And the inks were momento tuxedo black and broken china distress ink. I used copic pens to color the bear and paper pieced the bear's clothes, ribbon and holly leaves. 

I expect that this one will go to my Granddaughter for Christmas because she loves her bear bear. 

Keep well until next post

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The big 50

Tomorrow I will be 50 and to celebrate this momentous occasion I have decided that I will try to make the next year a year of 50 firsts. So 50 things I have never experienced before, it's like a bucket list but it won't be 50 things on a list, it will be 50 things that are new to me. So if I come across the opportunity to try something new I will grab it with both hands. 


I have already experienced a lot of new things over the last 2 years and I've realized that I haven't really bothered to mark it down as an event. Such as, living in LA and Houston, visiting Dubai and staying on a game reserve in Kenya for 5 weeks. Joining running and cycling clubs, doing volunteer work, running mountain trails, crafting, attending special functions, trying new foods and meeting new people. I mean, I have blogged about them and posted photos of them but not really recognized that it was anything different from the run of the mill things we do in life. 


Today for example, I am sat on a yacht in Dockyards Bermuda while a storm is blowing around me and I'm writing my blog about doing or recognizing new things. I am about to go and grab a coffee at the pharmacy before going to the museum where I am doing some research work as a volunteer, I am handling some old documents and pouring over the script whilst digging out the details. I have to handle them with gloves and not force anything straight whilst propping up the delicate bits and then try and read and make sense of what is written before making notes about it. It's slow going but I'm really enjoying it. 


Enough for now, I need that coffee.....


Take Care


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What to do?

It's been over a month since I last blogged about anything. Since my last post I have been to New Zealand to visit family and take part in an off road marathon called the Motatapu, I will post the obligatory race photo on my next post (once I have purchased one, lols) and I have moved from Texas. So where do you live now I can hear you ask, well, I (we) will soon be living on our yacht once all the painting has been finished that is. The yacht is at the moment on a hard standing in the British Virgin Islands. I haven't as yet been able to do any crafting or much of anything as I'm unable to get at my supplies that are tucked away on the yacht. Hopefully by the middle of next month we'll be more settled and able to get on with life. As it stands right at the moment we are in a bit of a holding pattern, we are waiting for work to be finished on the yacht, then we're waiting for a time slot to launch the yacht and then we're waiting to get our cat out of the cattery back in Texas and over to the BVIs. Then we can sling our hook as the saying goes and get on with our plans.

We have two great family sayings and they are, "hurry up and wait" and "the only thing constant is change", these two sayings pretty much sum up the whole of my married life and my Scrubby will totally understand what I'm saying even if no-one else does. Oh my, I have an insider joke, I never thought I would get to the point in my life where me and Scrubby would have an insider joke, lols. It'll be 27 years married this April I can't believe that either, where did the years go?  And talking of going, I have to go now because I am running out of battery power and I'm not on shore power here so I'm charging my computer battery from boat batteries, that's just one of the joys of living  on board a yacht.

Keep well

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