Thank you thank you thank you x

Wow what amazing cards, comments, emails, texts and presents you sent me for my birthday on Friday. And what supportive comments you left for my fist design team piece I shared for Country View. Thank you all so much. They really warmed my heart.

I had a wonderful birthday lunch with my Hb. We went to Rules in London. It is the oldest restaurant in the city and has been open for over 200 years. It is such an amazing place and I will share a whole post with photos soon. Just for today I wanted to share a couple of photos from my special day.

Here are some of my cards and my Hb even made me one with a photo of my from when we first met in 1979! I'm eating an ice cream at London Zoo.

He also bought me this brilliant travel set.

 Some of my other pressies

 and meet my newest garden pig. Isn't he fab.....my daughter bought him for me

My Hb took this happy photo of me in Rules with my pudding, the staff even brought me out ice cream with a candle to blow.

My challenge piece today sums up my spring birthday mood......these really are the Moments and it's time to party.

I made a version of this for one of my Tim tags last year. This one is for sale in my Etsy shop here

It's got lots of details including some faux stitching. The large stamps are Visible Image, the tag stamps are Lili of the Valley.

Here are some close ups, I used Spring themed distress inks and also distressed all my edges for a very vintage but spring feel.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Simon Says stamp Work it Wednesdays 1/3  pastel colours

The artistic stamper 1/3  all things distress

Card mania 1/5  spring

Noor anything goes

Simon says stamp 3/3 Wednesday anything goes

Mixed media world vintage

Crafting from the heart 3/3 anything goes

Creative Inspirations 2/3 anything goes

Pixie's snippets playgound #223 I used tiny snippets of card for my tags.

Penny Black and More 1/3 Birthdays

OK it's time for me to party party...I'm off out to my birthday lunch with the family and then back for cake and a party tea...the sun is shining and it's going to hit 18c today...woop woop. Spring has really arrived and it will be cake in the garden and guess what...my hubbie has made it for me again this year.

I'll share some photos soon.

There is one more final huge thank you....do you remember that I asked you to vote for my Lavinia stamps Art journal pages on Facebook? If not take a quick peek here. Well yesterday  afternoon I found out that your votes got me into the Top 20.

Their design team then chose the overall winner.......and guess what....it was me!! Have a look at the link here. Wow what an amazing weekend for me. Thanks so much for voting for me on Facebook. I can't wait to get my prize of £40 of Lavinia stamps.

Thanks again for all your wonderful support of my creative journey and a very warm welcome to my newest followers.

Must dash, as my tag says, "Today's the day to party".

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x