My Beijing Adventure...

I am in Beijing until the end of November...you can follow my Beijing adventure FunInBeijing.com I will start posting back to this blog after I return :)

Look what I did!

This is my first Digital page! I am SO excited that I managed to do it!!! I did it through Photoshop Elements. My lovely friend Rebecca sent me a link through YOU TUBE which was a tutorial and I couldn't have done it without that! The paper etc. for this page was FREE from Shabby Princess I downloaded them ALL!! I was trying to figure out if I could get clever enough to do this while I am in Beijing. I have a LOT to learn but I am so happy that I have finally finished a page!

STORE CLOSED UNTIL JANUARY 09

Just a little reminder that my store will now be closed until January 09. We leave for Beijing at the end of August but I needed to make sure that all of my orders (especially my overseas ones) were all completed and items arrived safely :)

I have started to get ready for my trip. I have about 5 boxes of Fiber 1 cereal and I have 120 bars of Cadbury's fudge hahaha! I can live on just those if I need to ;)

I am chatting with a lady called Kristen who has been in Beijing for a while now and is staying in the same building that we will be in and she is helping me out, telling me places I can go and things I can do. She has also put me a little package together of pain medications for my kids & wet wipes, vitamins etc. She is SO nice. She is even on the hunt for my Fiber 1 over there. LOVE her! Here is a link to her blog - hey mine will look like hers soon! Maybe not so many words though, I'm not too good at blogging...I'm still quite new at it all.

Make sure you keep coming back and checking in on us :)

NEW LIZZIE ANNE SETS IN STORE NOW!!!

Oh my! What a beautiful sight it is!!!! I now have all of Lizzie Anne's new sets in store. I WANT THEM ALL!!!! What talented designers they are. This is just a sneek peek! Make sure you check them out!

Summer Madness!

It seems I am finding it hard to find time to play with my stamps lately - what with my girls home from school. I actually made this one ON my birthday but just haven't found the time to put it on my blog! I am trying to still get my head around the fact that I will be moving to Beijing for 3 months!

I have decided however that I will be closing my EBay store on Tuesday 1st August so that I have time to send the last packages out (make sure they arrive internationally too) and sort out my taxes as we get back in December and less than 2 weeks later we fly to Florida to play at Disney World with family (meeting us from the UK). So I will not be opening my store again until January 1st. It seems SO far away! WOW! Anyway, make sure you get your orders in before then :)

AND THE WINNER IS........

.......PatsyB, (number picked at random.org) here is what she wrote...

Love your blog!! My best birthday ever was the year my son graduated from The Citadel Military College. I was so proud and what I thought was a party for his graduation actually turned into a surprise party for me! I also got new wood floors for my house! Does it get any better??

It seems things DO just get better ;)

CONGRATULATIONS! Send me your address and I will get your prize to you :D

Thank you to everyone, it was really nice reading about all your favourite birthdays. I too would LOVE a surprise birthday party one year - not had one yet!
Don't forget, there is more blog candy to be won, click on the Lizzie Anne Celebration link on the left and see who's blogs are taking part.
Thank you again for stopping by!

Lizzie Anne Celebrations!

It's my turn to share the joy!!! Oh and what Joy it is! Lizzie Anne has SO much going on in celebration of their 2nd birthday! Make sure you click on the link on the left (which takes you to their schedule :)

Today you get the chance to win some much loved BLOG CANDY from the one and only Lizzie Anne Designs themselves. All you need to do is leave a comment on my blog and you are entered to win...as it was my birthday yesterday I would love to know what you best birthday present ever was/is. Mine was my 30th (NOT that long ago ;)) when my husband made me a scrapbook titled 'Things I will do when I am 30' he wanted me to do things I hadn't done before so he had booked me tickets to go and see the Corrs at a local winery, a football match between Chelsea & Man United (no David Beckham but there was a streaker on the pitch!) and that year we also went to Paris. I was able to document it all in my lovely scrapbook. Make sure you leave your comment before midnight tonight to secure your entry :D Good luck everyone and thank you for stopping by!

My Green Tu-Tu

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIZZIE ANNE DESIGNS!!! Of course this is their beautiful Ballerina. Doesn't she look FABULOUS in her sparkly green tu-tu? I'm so excited about the flowers on this card. Bo Bunny have come out with a new line of co-ordinating flowers/buttons/brads. I already stock the flowers and brads in my store and the buttons are on their way ;) They are packaged in very cute tins with magnets on the bottom for easy storage - PERFECT! The cardstock is Cosmo Cricket :D I hope you are all having a splendid Monday! Don't forget to click on the Lizzie Anne Celebration link on the left and join in the fun! Thanks for stopping by!

Welcome Little One

Just another little card that I whipped together :) Make sure you keep checking my blog. Lizzie Anne Designs will be celebrating their 2nd Birthday in July and have lots of exciting things going on. Their design team (including me!) are a huge part of it too. So stay posted!!!

Simple Ballerina

She is such a beautiful ballerina (By Lizzie Anne of course :D) The background swirl is from the fabulous So Swirly set. Simple and elegant! I hope everyone is having a nice weekend - we have glorious sunshine (it's in the 90's) it's perfect!

Baby bib!

Oh my! This turned out better than expected! My VERY VERY good friend Tanya is having a baby shower this Thursday and I was inspired by Lizzie who was inspired by Lauren. Instead of a baby onesie I thought I would try a dress with a bib! I used my cuttlebug for the swirls and the buttons are all from the Making Memories embellishment jar. The image is from Lizzie Anne's L'Amour set, the ribbon is one of my collections which I sell in my store :) I'm just so excited at how it turned out :D Now I MUST go and lay with my girls. They have been hovering over me all morning waiting for me to finish this card before I take them to the park :)

Beijing here we come!

It's official. On September 1st 2008 we will be going to Beijing for 3 months!!! My husband works for Microsoft and they need him out there for a few months to help set up a new group and we are able to go with him! I am half excited and half scared to death! I've never lived anywhere that didn't speak English. We are currently looking into schools for the girls and also apartments. Even more fabulous than all of this is that my Mother-in-law Elva will be coming to visit for a couple of weeks...THAT I am excited about :D she's used to travelling. I'm not!

Because of this I will be closing my online Ebay store from mid August until January 1st 2009...the reason for December is becasue we get back from Beijing and 2 weeks later we fly to Walt Disney World (opposite corner of America to us!) for a family get together with Elva ;) and also Deb, Rob and Lauren (my beautiful neice). We did this trip 3 years ago in May and had the time of our lives so the only way to top it was to do the same again but at Christmas! We are REALLY looking forward to this trip. So you see I have to close my store. But I will be ready to re-open 1st Jan :)

My biggest fear about going to Beijing is needing more immunizations! :( Keep your fingers crossed for me!

I hope everyone had a lovely Fathers Day - we went on a lovely bike ride. It's a beautiful sunny day here today in Duvall (and about time too!)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIZZIE!

CONGRATULATIONS 'Letters from Lizzie' on your one year BLOG Anniversary!!! WOOOO HOOOOO! And to top that she has Blog candy ;) - YUMMY! Yes I made this card especially for her, she is such an inspiration to me and I know she LOVES cupcakes so there just HAD to be one on the card tee hee! Don't you just LOVE that adornit ribbon!!! And of course I have my sparkle back! Almost everything on this card sparkles as I used my glittery Copic markers to colour it in :) I hope everybody had a fabulous weekend - I did although now I am getting a cold - my daughter Lynzee just loves to share her germs!

Pow of RED!

Yes I used my Copics! I'm so in love with those! I also used my Adornit ribbons aren't they scrummy! Black and red are so powerful! I just love how this turned out! Well I got all of my scrapbooks done for my daughters school, I was able to tidy up my family room - it no longer looks like a craft store exploded in there! Hahahaha! They turned out cute. There are only about 6 boys albums left to do but I am hoping that some other Mum's do those as I'm not very good with boy things - I'm a girly girl through and through :) I told the teacher that if she didn't mind girly boy albums that I would do them...tee hee! I did do 5 and was as masculine as I could be but of course flowers still made their way in there...along with a few sparkles of course ;)

Oooooh Copics are FUN!

So I played with my new Copics yesterday and had a LOT of fun! This is Lizzie Anne Designs Fun to be Floral set and I coloured in part of the flower and then glitzed it with the Copic Clear sparkle pen! It looks gorgeous! This is my sister Paula on her wedding day - my sister Lynn took this photo, she definitely captured a moment :) Paula has been on my mind a lot lately, she's not well and has just had a major operation which was very successful thankfully! Paula I love you squillions! Get well soon!

COPICS ARE HERE!

I have been waiting FOREVER for these to arrive! I have a few sets in my store :) I'm going to have SO much fun with these, maybe it will give me my card making mojo back! I remember playing with these at CHA and oh boy they are good. Especially the Sparkle Pens, made with tiny particles of glass no less! The clear Sparkle pen is the best! It's really clear - not silvery like most and you won't believe how sparkly! Right, off to make a card, see you later :D

It's all about the bling!

It's baa-aack! Yes because I have tried a few cards with no bling and no girlyness I went a little bit mad with this one!!! Hahaha! This is Lizzie Anne's Fun to be floral set and I also used Cosmo Cricket paper and Adornit Ribbon and of course I used a punch! The giga circle. All of these items can be found in my store :) Oh the tag was made with a Spellbinders die. I used it on my Cuttlebug and it worked great! It's feels so good to get back to using the sparklies again, I'm just not cut out for 'simple'.

Maggie & Evie

I just have to post a little something more about these 2 little girls. I promise I will post another card soon :) I had such a lovely time in Montana visiting Carrie & Joe and their 2 beautiful little baby girls. It's amazing to see such little babies and knowing all that is being done to help them grow...just amazing. I can't wrap my mind around it! This is Carrie with Maggie 13 days old. Please feel free to visit their website MayDayGirls I wish we lived closer :(

More trees :)

So I have a confession, as you may have noticed my blogs are few and far between - I'm finding it hard to get back into routine since my Mum left. This weekend we are going to Montana to see friends of ours that had Twin baby girls 15 weeks early! They are both under 2lbs but are little fighters. Please have them in your prayers. Their names are Evelyn Mae and Margaret Ann.
This card was hard for me...do you notice anything missing...yep, bling! Oh my that was so difficult to stop without putting on my sparkles. I don't think I will be able to do that again! Well I hope everyone has a lovely weekend, we are supposed to get a heatwave YAY! Unfortunately we will be in a car for 8 hours tomorrow though! Should be a pretty drive through the mountains though.

Back to normality

Well my Mum went home and all the Shopping Malls within a 30 mile radius are weeping ;) We are very sad that she had to go home. It felt very quiet and lonely this morning without her once the girls had gone to school. My car is in the garage not knowing why it isn't driving to a Mall today!!! Hahahaha! it's back to normality now.

In the Treetops

I made this card at my Girly Scrapbook Retreat last weekend! We had a LOT of fun. I got 36 pages and 3 cards made!!! AND I used all of my old stuff - nothing new! I'm such a good girl. My Mum is still here, we have been to see the tulips and that was beautiful. She leaves on Wednesday evening - it will be said to see her go. I have really enjoyed shopping with her, honestly we have been shopping almost EVERY day! My feet have not had time to touch the floor! Anyway, hope you are having a nice weekend. We have rain :(

My Mum LOVES JCPenny!!

My Mum arrived Monday night and we have already had 2 full days of shopping at JC Penny - 2 different ones at that! This is a photo of me carrying all of the items we wanted to try on. My Mum has just had an operation on her foot so I was getting a very good workout! I have been having a lot of fun shopping :) I apologize for the lack of cards on my blog lately, I just can't find the time!!! Having too much fun with my Mum. I will be popping in every now and then and maybe a card will be made but no promises. My Mum has flown all the way from the UK (5,000 miles) and so I want to spend all of my time with her. I'm sure you understand ;)

Kitchen - Phase 2

TA-DAAAA!

This is why I haven't been blogging lately - LOTS of very late nights refacing my kitchen. I am SO happy with it. We got the door from Reface Depot online they sell the same door that Home Depot do but for a fraction of the price. As you can see we started with the countertops (shown in the before photo on the right)

Let me know what you think :)

Lizzie Anne Design Challenge #22

I have been wanting to use this cupcake since I got it! This is for the Lizzie Anne Design challenge this week. The twist was to add some circles. This card was a challenge for me, I had to tell myself to stop - don't add anything else. I pat myself on the back for that but I am itching to add something - I don't know what but something! I'm not good at clean and simple - I need BLING! Hahahaha! i bet it has some added before this day ends :D

...and the winners are...

Julie a. & Sandyh50 WOOO HOOOO! You are the winners of my blog candy this month CONGRATULATIONS!
Thank you to everyone who took part - it was cool to find out that there are so many other Lizzie Anne fans out there. I am completely hooked (if you haven't already realized that is!!!)

I need both you ladies to contact me with your addresses so that I can get these goodies in the post to you ASAP!

HAPPY MONDAY EVERYONE! Only 7 days until my Mum gets here!!!

BLOG CANDY TIME!

IT'S BLOG CANDY TIME {scream!}

I am SO excited about this one I'm not just giving it away once...I'm giving it TWICE!!! That's right - there will be TWO drawings! (oh my I sound like one of those BUT WAIT commercials!!! hahaha!) So make sure you tell all your friends!

All you need to do is tell me which Lizzie Anne set is your favourite :) This 'Fun to be Floral' is actually one of my favourites - nice thick lines for glittering ;) My ultimate favourite though is So Swirly - SO versatile.

My drawings will be Next Monday morning so make sure you check back to see if you have won!

GOOD LUCK!

Lizzie Anne Design Challenge #21

Stamps: Lizzie Anne Blissful Blossoms & Celebrations Sayings

Cardstock: Patterned paper is from the Cosmo Cricket Honey Pie 8x8 paper stack

Ink: SU Bravo Burgundy & Always Artichoke

The Ribbon is May Arts (I think) & I used the Marvy Extra Jumbo scallop oval

I colored in using watercolor pencils

This is for the Lizzie Anne weekly challenge. I love how they give you a layout and a twist! This weeks twist was to use flowers - I know how we are ALL longing for spring to arrive! Lets at least hope that the weather is nice next week for Spring break!!

For Brooklynn

Stamps: Lizzie Anne High Hellos

Cardstock: Bazzill Bling & SU Eggplant Envy (I think!)

Ink: SU Eggplant Envy & Basic Black. SU Markers - Yoyo Yellow & Only Orange

Tools & Embellishments: Scalloped corner adorner, deckled scissors & corner flower punch. For the sparkles I used a quickie glue pen & SU Dazzling diamonds (these are still my favourite sparkles!

This card was made for Brooklynn, she's 8 - well she's really 2 as she was born on Feb 29th! She was Baptised yesterday and we were honored to be invited to share in her special day, she LOVES yellow so it HAD to have yellow!

Well we had 4 inches of snow last night!!! My poor daffodils are buried :( My girls have been having a lot of fun with the snow - VERY exciting! They made a Kitty, a Dog, a Rabbit, a person and a bird! All out of snow - how very clever! We took a photo but you can't really make them out which is a shame because they worked so hard on them :)

In the Treetop

Stamps: Lizzie Anne Designs In the Treetop

Cardstock: Bazzill Bling & SU Whisper White

Ink: SU So Saffron & Always Artichoke

Tools & Embellishments: Cuttlebug D'Vine Swirl, Marvy Giga Scallop Rectangle & Adornit Swirly Ribbon

I had a lot of fun making this card. I decided I would dust off my cuttlebug and actually use it hahaha! I have only 2 emboss folders, this swirly one and then a snowflake one! I really must invest in a few more ;) The Ribbon takes center stage here, I absolutely LOVE this ribbon, Creative Impressions have a few different colours too. I'm off to get my taxes sent off (finally!) it's at times like this that I wish we lived in England and to top that it's SNOWING!! Quite heavily too!

Spellbinders Nestabilities!!!

I am SOOOOOO excited, a bunch of my Nestabilities came so they are now in my store :) This picture shows what the dies can do - as well as die cutting you can emboss with them and stencil with them too!!! I still have a few of them on back order - all the new long rectangles and the new tags but I do have some of the classics! Now I need to figure out how to use them with my cuttlebug - hmmm, this is going to be fun! I will post another card later today...I have to do a few household chores first and then my mind will be free to be creative. Right now all I can think about is all the ironing I have to do!!!

Fairy Wishes

Stamps: Lizzie Anne High Hellos & Fairy

Cardstock: (Scraps)

Ribbon: Adorn it

Tools & Embellishments: Me & My Big Ideas self Adhesive Rhinestones, Icicle Stickles, Fiskars hand held flower punch & Flowers are from the Noteworthy Embellishment jar

I love love love these self adhesive Rhinestones! I can't seem to make a card these days without them! I have had another busy busy day! I need a vacation to look forward to! My Mum gets here on the 14th April so we are all counting down to that :) My little girls are excited to see their Nanna.

I GOT AN AWARD!!!!!

It's my very first one and it was given by the FABULOUS Dawn at Buggin' around she so nice and her creations are gorgeous!
It's the Arte Y Pico award! I am completely thrilled! Apparently the "Arte Y Pico" (Art & More) is given to bloggers who share their art and creativity making their contribution to the blogger world. My turn to pass it on :) I choose Carol at Crazy for Crafting and I have just realized it's her Birthday today so Happy Birthday to you :D, I also pick Dawny P at Pink Piggy , Dawn at All Pink Girl , I would also like to give it to Tricia at Letters from Lizzie (she is a very busy lady) at lastly I would like to send it back to Dawn at Buggin' around (linky above)...she inspires me too :D (It didn't say I couldn't do that in the rules ;) ) I've just realized how many Dawn's inspire me!!!
Here are the rules:

1) You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also contributes to the blogging community, no matter what language.

2) Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.

3) Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself.

4) Award-winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of "Arte y Pico" blog , so everyone will know the origin of this award.

5) To show these rules.

Updated Kitchen! (Phase one)

We have been SO busy this weekend. We had new Quartz countertops fitted on Friday (Yay no more grubby tile grout to scrub with a toothbrush!) and so Saturday I spent 12+ hours painting the kitchen, hallway and nook. 12 hours!!! There was a LOT of edging! John (my clever husband) was the Gas Man...a plumber...and a tiler!!! among other professions! A very productive day. The next step will be refacing the cabinets. We found a fabulous direct buy website which only costs a fraction of the price that you would buy it from Lowes or Home depot for the exact same product :D Now I have chairs to fit together...I promise I will make a card today and post it by this evening. Right now I need to help at my daughters school...if I don't mark the Math homework then nobody will!!!! Hahahaha!

Sharing the Lizzie Love! 20% off entire line!!!

This card has been made using Lizzie Anne's High Hellos set. The Rhinestones are Me & My Big Ideas. Unfortunately I can't remember where I got the patterned paper! I have decided to have a bit of a Spring Fling and those who love Lizzie Anne stamps are going to benefit from it - yes I have ALL my Lizzie Anne stamps on sale for the very first time for (drum role please) a massive 20% off!!! This is only for a limited time so make the most of it ladies :) I don't plan on having them on sale again until maybe next year. HAPPY SHOPPING!

(((SCREAM)))

It arrived!!! It finally arrived!!! My Cosmo Cricket order from CHA! Ooooooohh it's all just so lovely and scrumptious! I've made sure that my prices are very competitive so check out what I have in stock. Here's a sneak peak at a little bit of what I have...

The COGSMO collection is SO CUTE! The Paper Crafting Kits are BRILLIANT! Can you tell how excited I am - I'm about to burst!!!

A very happy Wednesday to everyone :D

Lizzie Anne Design Challenge

You can find the Lizzie Anne Design Challenger here. The challenge was to keep it green in honour of St. Patrick's Day :) The BEST thing about this card...I used all scraps! What a good girl I am :) HAPPY St. PATRICK'S DAY TO EVERYONE!!!

Busy SHOPPING!

Stamps: Lizzie Anne Designs High Hellos

Cardstock: SU Eggplant Envy (yes it's the old stuff!), Bazzill Bling & Gypsy by Basic Grey

Ink/Markers: SU Markers & Brilliance Graphite Black ink

Embellishments: Diamond Stickles & butterfly punch

So I actually made this card on Monday but for the rest of Monday I Spring Cleaned the downstairs of my house - SO - to congratulate myself I have been shopping since :) Tuesday I bought myself a beautiful springy dress (Spring WILL arrive soon!) and also found the PERFECT pair of capris, it's so hard to find the perfect pair...now I wish I had bought two!!! Anyway today my very good friend (she's like a sister to me) Tanya invited me to go to Costco with her. So 2 days of shopping! My kind of life! I still have SUCH a big to-do list, it's so long it's off putting! I'm taking babysteps...it's the one great thing I learned from FLYlady. Oh and the 10 minute dash is a LIFESAVER! My kids love it when I set the timer and tell them we only have 10 minutes to tidy their playroon and bedroon AND it actually works and instead of them dawdling it motivates them to speed up. More time for playing :D It's a WIN WIN.

Lizzie Anne Design Challenge

Stamps: Lizzie Anne Design's Once Upon a Time and Dreaming of Dots

Cardstock: All SU Blues

Inks: SU Blues

Embellishments: Creative Impressions Ribbon, Waterfall Stickles & Making Memories Embellishment Jar Button

Tools: Super Jumbo Circle Punch & Mega Scallop Circle Punch

I AM LOVING THIS RIBBON! Okay calm down and breathe...1...2...3...I'm okay now! This is for the Lizzie Anne Design challenge this week. The fabulous Joslyn gave us the layout and the twist was that you had to stick with the same colour family - harder than I thought it would be! Haha! I decided to make another dragon card (my second) as my daughter Lynzee is MAD about them and it was about time I made her another one for her shrine!

Adornit Ribbons! YUMMY!

Ta daa! This is my GORGEOUS Adornit Ribbons! I can't wait to use some of it! This is a little more pricey than my other ribbons - almost double the price but I still wanted to keep the price down so they are on sale for $4.99 for 4 Yards! BARGAIN! You can find them here. I think I will work on the Lizzie Anne Design Challenge tomorrow morning, I'm a little tired right now - could do with an early night!

Thanks for stopping by :D

High Hellos

Stamps: Lizzie Anne Design's High Hellos

Cardstock: Red with Pink envelope set, Orange from 6x6 Basic Grey Gypsy paper pack, SU whisper white and Basic Black

Inks: Brilliance Graphite Black & SU Watercolor Pencils

Ribbon: Creative Impressions red with white dots and edge.

Punches: Uchida Extra Jumbo Scallop Oval & SU Rectangle hand held punch

Embellishments: Me & My Big Ideas Rhinestones red, pink & orange

I am like a child is a sweet shop! I am surrounded by SO much beautiful ribbon! I just HAD to start using some. I love this red with white dots, so eye-popping! I had a lot of fun yesterday putting together ribbon collections you MUST check them out. I also have some Adorn it ribbon that I am hoping to get in my store later today! This ribbon is SO gorgeous! I just ran out of the Cropper Hopper Ribbon Cards to store them on so I need to pop out and buy a few more :)

Ribbon heaven!

I am on cloud 9 right now...I am drowning in BEAUTIFUL ribbons! I bought far too many from CHA (I just couldn't stop myself!) and now I am creating samplers to sell in my eBay store :) This is the first one that I have put together. It is ribbon by Alexx Kesh & Co. Daisy ribbon, Herringbone ribbon and poco-dot Satin ribbon stored on a hangable ribbon card. All are SO beautiful!!! I will be adding a ribbon section to my store so you can easily find all these luscious goodies.

For my Beautiful niece Emma...

I wanted to create something really special for my lovely Niece Emma. I am a terrible Aunty and forgot her Birthday! I love how this card turned out. All these buttons are from the Making Memories Noteworthy jar and then I also used a swirl from Lizzie Anne's So Swirly set. I'm feeling much better today - still got a bit of a thick head and a delicate stomach but I did manage to get some housework done which must mean I am feeling better. Chloe is also doing great. She went back to school today - boy I wish I could bounce back as fast as she did! Thank you everyone for your kind wishes :)

For my Princess

Stamps: Lizzie Anne Once Upon a Time, So Swirly & Simply Sentiments sets

Cardstock: SU Pixie Pink, Green Galore & Whisper White

Ink: SU Black & Real Red, Pixie Pink Markers & Versamark

Embellishments: Pearl Emboss powder, Doodlebug Paper Ribbon & M&MBI Icons (gems)

Well I prayed that it wouldn't happen but alas it did, my little Princess caught my Flu! We get VERY worried when she gets even a cold because she has had febrile seizures a LOT. She had a temp of 104 this morning and no seizure YAY! My little Princess is becoming very strong. I'm so proud of her. She loved having ice cream for breakfast :D. Anyway this card was made for her with her 2 favourite colours - bright pink and bright green. GET WELL SOON CHLOE!