This weeks page is about gifts: we had to include our best and worst gift and also a piece of packaging or card or label etc.
For my best gift I chose cuttings and plants for pals and family to start our own garden off.  When I go around the garden now I am always reminded of each person, so much so that the plant’s name has changed to the friend’s name ie Cathy’s plant instead of saxifraga trifurcata.  For my worst gift I chose a sack of tulip bulbs that a friend gave us,which I have to say was extremely good of them, but we had spent ages digging the same ones out of our garden.  Not really a bad gift but the timing was just bad.  The following year my husband gave me terracotta tub full of exactly the same tulip bulbs too!!  The dragonfly is my piece cut from a recycled card – I think it had been a gift token card but I can’t remember now as I had only saved the picture side of the card.
I am not very happy with this page as it didn’t quite come out as I wanted.  The white pen soaked up the red ink and turned pink even though I had dried the ink first.

Inks/paint:  Stampin up Soft suede and Ruby red ink pads, Ballet pin, Spa blue and white acrylic paint, Distress crackle paint Frayed burlap
Card:  patterned paper from Anna Griffin, Grunge board letters,
Stamps:  Hero arts Single brush stroke, Studio G Alphabet, Dovecraft Fantasy Emblems
Other:  white gel pen, Distress stickles, cut out foiled dragonfly (added pink tinge to wings with a copic pen), brown glitter pen