Very British Candy!

I wasn't sure what to call this post as this weeks challenge over at Less is More is to use the colours of your Nations flag, I've gone with the red and white of the St George's day flag and made a Christmas card!
Red and white just says Christmas to me, so I've used one of my older Sizzix dies to make these candy canes .....

..... I've cut 3 white and 3 red canes so I could layer the colours and then added dimension using promarkers and a white gel pen.
I was so pleased to find a matching ribbon, I think it's a recycled loop of ribbon from an item of clothing, and I used my bow maker to get three bows from it which I would never have done tying it by hand!
I may be back in the week with a red,white and blue design .... I mainly craft at night in the hols and ran out of time yesterday evening!

I'm also entering this card into this weeks Simon says Stamp challenge which is Christmas in August.

So Hannah went off to camp yesterday and the house is very quiet without her. I wont hear much from her as you don't tend to ring home when your 17 !!! but she'll be back Friday, so not quite a full week but long enough to have a bag full of dirty clothes and a need for a proper bed! James will enjoy the dirty washing at the end of the week ..... he just lives to put the washing on, it's one of his obsessions to watch the clothes tumbling round ....... shame he's not interested in the ironing!!!

That's all for today, we have a day trip planned for tomorrow so lets hope the rain holds off as we are going to the coast!

Thanks for calling by today X