Pretty Flowers.....

Here's another Memory Box card, I used the birdcage and a new fuchsia die. It's really pretty and has nice tendrils, so it was perfect to wind around the birdcage. I cut them in white as usual, and coloured with Promarkers. I cut a bunch, and layered three blossoms onto each stem, so they are very dimensional. The background was done with a Martha round the page punch, and the shaped base card and sentiment is by Craftwork Cards

Since I last wrote, I have nearly drowned, and been eaten alive by mosquitoes!  We took our friends for a canoe trip on the river. I was in a kayak with my friend Anne. So we paddled around a bend to find three canoes abreast, and in trying to avoid them, crashed into the bank. We pushed hard with our paddles to get the boat off again, and it flipped. We were deposited unceremoniously into deep water, came up gasping and both went down again.......to join the rest of the contents of the kayak; towels, flip flops, sun cream all at the bottom. The guys in the three canoes came to help us and dived for the towels etc. So there we were, sodden, shocked and by this time hysterical, especially when a very nice man came paddling back upstream, against the current yelling that he had found a sandal - shame it wasn't one of ours! The rest of the trip was a nightmare, we had lost the bug spray, so we were attacked by mozzies as we sat there dripping and defenceless. To cap it all, one of the bites on my leg has got infected. Please remind me of this if I ever talk about going on the river again, try to persuade me to take up knitting instead........