Monday 21 August 2017

Birthday Kiss

Couldn't believe my eyes on Thursday when I went into a local shop to see all the summer things being move off the shelves and lots & lots of gift sets taking their place.  I said to the assistant, "Please tell me this isn't the Christmas stock coming in already." to which she replied "Sorry, but it is!" For goodness sake the kids just started back at school the previous day & we haven't even had Hallowe'en yet!  I totally hate this horrible over commercialisation of Christmas. 

Rant over!

Yesterday was hubby's birthday which meant lunch at the local Chinese buffet restaurant - my downfall is finishing off with my favourite Chinese toffee apples and toffee bananas.  Weigh in this morning showed a pound on & I had been so close to getting my next sticker last time.  Oh well, back to keeping notes of everything to pass my lips so it doesn't go on my hips!


As I had been making cards for hubby's birthday (one was a commission from our son) I thought I should try this week's Freshly Made Sketches Challenge



I've purchased a few unbranded dies lately, one of which was rather a large pair of puckered lips so as this kind of, sort of, reminded me of the back of an envelope I though SWALK!


I had already cut out the lips in a glitter card to check out how good they were at cutting out (some branded dies have had problems cutting out using this card) but it cut cleanly first time and was added to my stash.  I decided to keep it black and white to set off the hot pink lips.




When I saw this in close up it reminded me a little of the opening credits to "The Rocky Horror Picture Show".  Maybe should have made the lips bright red instead of hot pink!








2 comments:

  1. What a fun card! Love those big sparkly lips!!! Great sentiment too! I agree, Christmas hits the stores far too early! I can't buy snowsuits in July or August!!! Thanks for joining us this week at Freshly Made Sketches!

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  2. I LOVE this! Those lips and the texture they have are amazing! Thanks for joining us at FMS this week!

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