Raise the bar – guest bar tender!

Last week I was lucky enough to be chosen as one of the top 3 cards on the raise the bar challenge and my prize was a guest bar-tender slot for today’s new challenge.  Our theme was “my retreat” and I used my living room as my inspiration.  Basically since we’ve had Sky multi-room put in upstairs my children never watch TV downstairs so I can record and watch whatever I want, whenever I want, without having to fight over the remote – bliss!!  My living room has a red accent wall and cream walls and a red leather settee and light brown units and wood floor – so I used these colours for the basis of my card:

I can also enter my card into the following challenges:

I love promarkers challenge – sketch

A spoonfull of sugar challenge – 3d something (my image and sentiment are both on 3d foam)

Everybody art challenge – song title (mine is pretty woman by Roy Orbison)

Magical crafts challenge – something for the girls

OSAAT challenge – flowers

Stamp, scrap & doodle challenge – girlie project

Creative cottage challenge – circles

Charisma cardz challenge – girly card with flowers

Digi doodle challenge – anything goes

DU2DS challenge – flowers

I hope you all having a good Friday, my day has been emotionally draining.  My father is in hospital having a knee replacement and he went to theatre this morning.  He was fine the first time I popped in to say hello but by visiting time this afternoon he was in tremendous pain and didn’t know what to do with himself.  I actually cried as I left him as I felt so sorry for him.  Hopefully he will be a little better tomorrow and then the hard work starts – getting him back on his feet.  Although I will be back and forth the hospital visiting my father I am so looking forward to this long weekend as work is crazy at the moment.   

Have a wonderful weekend, whatever you are doing.  I hope the weather improves a bit though, it’s horrible here. 

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – Connie & present

Papers: Me & my big ideas – bright co-ordinates pad, kraft card from elzybells, red card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, ek success medium retro flower punch, pearls from Joanna Sheen, circle nesties cut in the CB, pokey tool for the holes, sentiment created on the pc