Oops, guess I've ....

.... been having too many lovely days!!  Haven't had time to craft, it's been nicely busy around here. 

We went camping with the Mini Club last weekend, the weather forecast was pretty bad, but luckily, it didn't turn out so bad after all.  We got the tents up in the dry on Friday, some rain and wind on Friday night but nobody's tent leaked!  Saturday was dry, some heavy rain at about 2am, and then Sunday was a lovely day. 

I keep meaning to take a picture of just how much stuff you can pack into a Mini (or two, as we took two cars).  We had five people, two tents, airbeds, bedrolls, lots of sleeping bags, picnic table, fold up chairs for five people, stove, eating and cooking utensils, food, five pairs of wellies, coats and raingear, plus clothes and other assorted camping gear.  A miracle of organisation!

I made this card for the family of an Mini friend who died recently.  He was in his mid 80s, an absolute gentleman, who had restored a beautiful 1960s Mini and drove it like a rally car!  I've stamped a Mini on the inside of the card, but here's the outside:

I used a sketch from a few week's ago from Deconstructing sketches, and I'm also entering this into the following challenges: Crafty Creations ("Shabby Chic"), Papertake Weekly ("Flower Power") and Craft your Passion ("Summer Flowers").

Here's a little close-up of the image - I distress inked the background watercolour paper first and splattered water on it, then dried it.  Then I heat-embossed the image with clear e.p. and added some more distress ink on the sides and edge.

Recipe:

Papers: Basic Grey "Hipster" and "Wisteria"

Stamp: Hero Arts "Dandelion"

Other: Distress inks, ribbon from stash, hairy string, Basic Grey button

Thanks for looking!