Sweet Sketch Wednesday Sketch #169

  

 " Let's Go Fishing "

Good morning everyone, I've woken up this morning to a wonderful sunny day, a little bit brisk this morning but the sky is blue and the sun is shinning.  

Well my eldest son Liam turned 13 on Monday now I have a """"TEENAGER""""

on my hands.

It's Sweet Sketch Wednesday today and we have 4 new surprises for you.

Prunus campanulata 'Superba' 

We have about 6 of this particular trees at our home and this is one in full bloom and our biggest, as soon as it's in bloom one of our native birds the Tui pictured here below flock to this tree because of the nectar.  On Sunday I counted 25 birds in the one tree and the nectar is like a drug to these birds and they get rather tipsy and really funny after over -indulging.

The Tui a Native Bird

Our Feature this week is on Prunus campanulata 'Superba' is commonly known as The Tui Tree, due to the fact that the birds absolutely love the nectar. Tuis are a wonderful addition to a garden - especially for native bird lovers - so planting the species that they can feed on is the way to attract them on site. Countrywide, these wonderful trees are already in bloom, bringing a burst of pinkness to the wintry landscape.

When the Superba is in bloom the Tuis tend to congregate in the trees in large numbers and there is often a lot of squabbling and bickering that goes on as they jockey for position to get the best of the nectar. They tend to over-indulge in the abundance of the sweetness and can get quite tipsy. They stagger around, never quite finishing their songs, losing the plot, hanging drunkenly from one foot, and frequently falling right out of the trees! 

Tuis are usually such dignified and somewhat shy birds, preferring privacy to public displays of drunken behaviour. As they fall out of the trees when they are in their cups, they lie about looking a bit embarrassed and much the worse for wear!

These Tui's get rather loud while I'm trying to concentrate typing my blog in the office I look straight out the window at them.  

If they were Breathalyzed they would be done for Drunken Flying.

Congratulations to our winner and our top 3 cards this week, great work ladies.

  I would like to welcome Sally, Helen and Joanna our 3 new Design Team Diva's congratulations and welcome to our wonderful team and they'll be featuring their cards on

 Sketch #170.

Also a big congratulations to Jeannie she is now working behind the scenes with Judi as one of our coordinators.

Our Sketch this week is 

Sketch #169

Here are my cards using our new Sponsor 

Milk Coffee

This image is 'Let's Go Fishing'

As I said we have a new Sponsor this week which is Milk Coffee and Esmeralda and Nathaza our the amazing designers behind these wonderful images.

A Little Bit About Milk Coffee

Milk Coffee is a digital image shop specialized in cute and girly images.There are 2 people behind this shop, Esmeralda and Nathaza. We are best buddies from our childhood with a common thing that we love so much: drawing. What we try to do is drawing various styles that suits different kind of tastes, so a lot of people with different style can still play along with our image for their cards.

Right now we have 8 talented DT ladies who always help us to have fun together with our weekly challenge at our challenge blog here. Also we have monthly colour challenge at our main blog. You can check it here. It's very nice to see a lot of people join and have fun at our challenge.

In the future we still want to make more cute images that is loved and used happily by many people.

Milk Coffee are offering our lucky winner:

Prize:  3 Free digis from Milk ‘n Coffee Shop

If you haven't already visited Milk 'Coffee Shop here are the links you'll just love their images just like I do.

http://www.milkcoffee.etsy.com/

http://milkcoffeestamps.blogspot.com/

http://milkcoffeechallenge.blogspot.com/

Don't forget to drop by the rest of the Sweet Sketch Wednesday design team check our their wonderful creations this week made especially for you and show them a little love as they  love receiving comments just like you.


Challenges:
Corrosive Challenge #156 Cute as a Button
Make It Mondays Challenge #104 With Cupcake Cards and Crafts

Card Ingredients:

1. Base: White SU

2. Coloured Card: Chocolate Kaiser Card, Orange and Green Bazzill

3. Design Papers: The Great Out Doors "Gone Fishing" by Three Bugs In A Rug

4. Image: Let's Go Fishing by Milk Coffee

5. Colour Medium: Copics, Black Embossing Pen, Silver Gel Pen

6. Tools: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities Rectangle, Pop Dots, Glue Dots, Tacky Glue

7. Embellishments: I made this card second I found this paper and ribbon and loved it so much that  I had to make a second card.  The silver mesh is to represent a fishing net with my
fish button.

 Card Ingredients #2

I tried to keep this card more natural with the out doors.

 1. Base: White SU

2. Coloured Card: Kraft Card and Green handmade paper.

3. Design Papers: Fish it's quite old and can't remember.

4. Image: Let's Go Fishing by Milk Coffee

5. Colour Medium: Copics, Black Embossing Pen, Gold Gel Pen

6. Tools: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities Rectangle Deckled, Pop Dots, Glue Dots, Tacky Glue

 7. Embellishments: Brass fishing connections not sure what they are, and two silver charms, twine and wax coated thread.

Rather than using paper behind my image I used Hessian with a green wax thread, threaded through it.

 Here's my fish charm it's not a pretty fish but found it hard to find a fish charm.

Take care everyone wishing you a wonderful week and have fun crafting.

Hugs