Do you remember those...

...lazy, hazy days of Summer.

You know...the ones when you were a child and the most important things in your life were being able to play out in the garden, sit on the grass making daisy chains, checking to see if your best friend liked butter by holding a buttercup under their chin and listening out for the tinkling of your favourite ice-cream van.

With the very dull, wet Winter we have been experiencing in the UK those days seem so very long ago and you start to imagine whether they ever existed - luckily (or not, as the case may be) most of us have photos that our parents took to prove that they did...

I remember pretty Spring flowers bursting in the flower beds followed by the crowded shows of all the Summer colours.

If you feel the need for some of that colour in your lives at the moment, hop on over to the Nicecrane Design site as Ignacio has added some wonderful new design sheets to his collection.

 

From beautiful coloured studies like this...

....Flowers from Vintage books...

 ...Flowers from Vintage books II - to glorious coloured images like this...



...Henderson's Giant Flowers...

...and Henderson's Giant Flowers II - all the sheets are full of glorious coloured images for you to use in your card making and crafting.
However, Ignacio doesn't just provide beautiful pre-coloured images - he has a fabulous selection of digi-stamp images that you can colour yourselves...

...Our Village...

...but best of all...

..."Dandelion Clocks", a set that contains this adorable little chap...

 ...oh how he reminded me of those sunny days when we would pick the dandelion clocks and blow them so that we could watch the 'fairies' float off on the breeze...my granddad would get so cross if we did it in his garden - we didn't realise that we were spreading the dandelions and this would cause him more work trying to keep the lawn weed-free **chuckle**.
I thought this little chap was perfect to decorate this journal...

 ...so keeping it simple, I die-cut the image using a Spellbinders scalloped oval and inked the edge with Vintage paper Distress ink...

,,,this image is a lovely reminder of times past so I thought it went well with the time themed covering of the journal.

You really must hop over to the Nicecrane blog because the other DT members have been far more industrious that I have and there are some wonderful things to see..........................................