A Friend in Need/DT Card

Hello, and welcome!

Yet another grey and very wet day in the good ol' UK....bring on the snow, is what I say.....haaaa!

Another huge THANK YOU from me to all of you who have left messages of sympathy and encouragement, for the tragic loss of my BIL, Kevin.

The last couple of weeks are kind of melded into a horrible mess, and I'm sure it's not over yet....but just to update you........the Coroner has confirmed that Kevin died from a massive bleed from just below his right knee....his legs were always heavily bandaged, because he had trouble with oedema for many years.......somehow his computerised wheelchair had shot forward (it could go at a very fast speed), and his leg hit the nest of glass tables.  Kevin controlled his joystick on the wheelchair with one finger on his right hand that he could still move. 

It was the norm to leave a touch-button telephone on his knee  at all times, so he could reach anyone he needed to.....and the phone was always on speaker, because Kevin couldn't lift it to his ear....he couldn't move his arms at all.......that phone had been found on the floor.

It's assumed that he dropped it....couldn't reach it, so panicked, and tried to get to the phone on the nest of tables........

There was massive trauma to the bone and soft tissue below his knee, and he bled to death...........just thirty two minutes, he's been left alone.........

Roseanne has been issued with an Interim Death Certificate, but there will be an Inquest at some point.....could take months.

We will bury Kevin on Friday........he will be laid to rest on the opposite side of the path to where my Dad rests.

On to today's creation....so sorry they've  been few and far between, lately.........

It's Wednesday, so my turn to produce a Design Team creation for Stretch 'n' Bubbles..............

The image is called A Friend in Need Girl................

How cute are these two ickle guys?

The papers are from the Spiceberry range from Memorybox..........I cut a frame with a Nestie, popped it onto a square doily, added a strip of card from the same paper range, inked......popped on some shiny burgundy ribbon............

as usual, everything coloured up with Promarkers.....love that Pear Green..........and added sparkle with Sakura gel pens.........not showin' up too well, but the snow has glitter on, too.........SNOW.....oooooooo...........

Sparkly SNOW..........siiiiiigh............

I cut out and colored up a freebie circle sentiment, and added a cute button from my stash............

These pretty stars are from my stash, too.....no idea where I got 'em from, but got loads..........haaaaa!

All finished off with some holly leaves from my garden.............NAH!........they are paper ones, with red beads cut from a Christmas garland.....just inked around the edges, and curled 'em up a bit.............done!

I really enjoyed making this card........needed to just sit and forget things for a while.......so glad I have my world of blogging and craft to escape to.......bet you agree, 'cos you are all very intelligent and like-minded people......HAAAAAHAAAAA!!

Challenges:

http://abc-challenge.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://sentimentalsundays.blogspot.com/ Anything goes + sentiment

http://rubysrainbow.blogspot.com/2011/10/rubys-rainbow-ch14.html Cute and cuddly (Penguins are cute n cuddly!)

http://mymumscraftshopchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/10/challenge-27.html Reminds you of a song (You got a friend in me)

http://thepapershelter.blogspot.com/2011/10/challenge-35-we-love-animals.html Animals

http://cutedaisymay.blogspot.com/2011/10/lets-do-christmas.html Lets do Christmas

http://craftybootschallenges.blogspot.com/2011/10/zoo-or-animal-theme.html Zoo/Animal (my ickle penguin)

 

Hugs,

Anne-Marie x