A digi from Dora and a walk in the woods

A couple of years ago Dora drew this digi (Flower 7) from one of my photos, after a walk to look at the bluebells in Ploughman's Wood.  We had a lovely walk there again on Friday and so I thought I would use this digi for my DT card for her this month. I printed the digi onto Kraft and coloured it with my Arteza pencils. I'm quite happy with how it turned out. I teamed it up with some crafty individuals paper and then stencilled the base card with distress inks through a Bee Crafty D'inkable. The sentiment is from Hobby Art, and I added a few drops of liquid pearls. You can find Dora's digis here.

Here are a few of the photos I took in Ploughman's Wood on Friday, featuring the beautiful Wood Anemones, including a few pink ones. 

And of course a few bluebells too...

Beautiful nature, beautiful weather and the signs of spring definitely put a spring in my step! 

Thanks for looking! 

A Walk in the Woods

 Grab yourself a cuppa and a chair. This is a picture heavy post!
This afternoon Meg, Steve and I went for a wander around Ploughman's Wood, a small but beautiful local nature reserve about ten minutes drive away from home. I took my camera (okay, I have hardly put it down since I got it!) and took quite a few photos!

 We went to see the bluebells, which were beautiful

 as were the wood anemones...

 There was also a lot of greater stitchwort and the hawthorn was just coming out too.

 In the woods the lesser celandines were like little stars shining.

We also heard lots of skylarks, saw yellowhammers,

 several large bumble bees

 and some tiny spiders. This last photo was taken by Megan and she managed to capture the webspinning in progress.

It was such a lovely afternoon, and we will definitely be going for a stroll around there again soon.Thanks for looking and I hope you enjoyed the photos.

A Bluebell Walk

On Sunday we went for a stroll around Bunny Old Wood, famous for it's bluebells in Nottinghamshire. Here are a few photos, some by me and some by Meg.

As well as bluebells there were lots more wild flowers.

 Red Campion,

 Greater Stitchwort

and Arum Lilies.

The hawthorn hedges were dripping with blossom too. Thanks for looking!

A great weekend

Yesterday we had a lovely walk with my dad, through woodland and alongside fields not far from my childhood home. It was warm and sunny and the bluebells were coming out almost as we watched. The blackthorn was beautiful too...

Although, I think this photo of Meg's captures it's splendour far more than mine does!

Today my beautiful daughter celebrated her 14th birthday, so I made her birthday cake - a giant strawberry cupcake!

 

I will share a photo of her card when I have taken a decent photo of it.Thanks for looking!