100DayProject Day 34

I completed cards 20, 21 and 22 but will only post about card 20 today and will save the other 2 to post later on the weekend.

AECP Card 20 (Clean & Simple Boutique Cards Lesson 6: Envelopes, Packaging and Creating Gifts

Boxes for A2-sized cards

The lesson had a few great ideas for decorating a clear acetate box which I want to try when I have the materials at hand. It also suggests some decorative ways to wrap a stack of cards to give as a gift which I will also eventually try. But for today I opted to make and decorate a box which is my favourite way to give away cards. In addition to sharing my process for creating a box to hold A2-sized cards I’ll share how I create envelopes for A2-sized cards. And then, of course, I had to make a coordinating card to go with the box and envelope I created. I will add the photos for the envelopes and card to this post tomorrow.

Forest on Friday

I slept in since I had stayed up way too late last night so I missed the morning walk with Luna and Roland. Roland came home saying that Luna loved her time in the forest. Plan A had been to go on the road but he reported that the forest was free of snow so they walked there. I was thinking about making my theme for the day Free of Snow Friday, but it actually isn’t free of snow, there’s just a lot of it’s gone on the south-facing side and the rest was frozen but not slippery so easy to navigate. So, my theme for the day is Forest Friday because I really enjoyed my excursion in the forest with Luna around lunch. We took our time and tried to find a few interesting things.

The stream had some very pretty ice formations and while I was admiring them and trying to take a few photos Luna did some stick foraging.

It won’t be long before some fiddleheads appear but for now just the green of last years ferns do a nice job of brightening the forest floor.

It will definitely be quite some time before any mushrooms are popping up from the forest floor but there are always interesting fungi to be found on the sides of trees.

Since I had won a buffalo plaid hat at the Rideau Bonspiel last weekend I was keen to see how well it went with my buffalo plaid cottage jacket. Luna wasn’t keen to be close to me in that attire.