Only 44 days left....

Good evening again, and thank you for popping by to visit my blog.  I've had a nice day today - I felt like I've made a little progress - and I've managed to keep pretty quiet again!  My voice is a lot better now, still croaky, but getting there.  Okay, my ear has gone funny - but hey hoo :)

I decided to do something nice and easy today - still took me almost 2 hours somehow, but I did have a nice time.  I dug out one of my beautiful Graphic 45 pads:

Lush.  I decided to use some of the paper that had already been cut into, together with a square black card

I layered a piece of decorative paper on the bottom of the card, leaving a nice clean border

 

I cut a border from the stripe paper, and then another layer with the more ditsy print paper.  I then cut out some of the sunflowers from the paper again that had been cut into

I added a couple of toppers to my papers, and played around with the layout

Happy with the layout, I decided to add some stitching around the edge of the topper - I first popped holes around the 3 edges of the topper, and then threaded the string through.  As the string is quite firm, I didn't need to use a needle

Now, I checked my layout again, before gluing everything in place

When I glued everything in place, I shaped the sunflowers slightly, as I had cut up into some of the petals to allow more movements.  The sunflowers at the top I shaped so it hugged the top layer.  I made a treble bow ribbon, which I added on top of a ribbon/string knot.  Another little card ready to be given away - not sure when to do the draw actually, I do need to think about this!!  Anyway, for tonight, goodnight, sleeptight.