I sat down and I was observing the pattern in the paper to plan my next move...Voila! I saw a turtle shell and a football ball.

Honey Bee does not have any football themed stamp. I know I could make the idea work somehow but  I decided to leave it to the side.

When I'm making a card I also feel I need to think about its possible meaning  and actually one of the main football teams here in Scotland  is the Celtic and they do have a "green uniform"  but I really didn't want to marry with any particular football team as here in the UK football is a serious matter and I'm not crazy about football anyway...

So  I preferred the turtle idea..... then I thought of making a "Happy Belated (Belatte) Birthday card"  and it will make all the sense if I added the turtle as the turtle are slow and they are also "green", I started working on it ...

I took pictures with my mobile phone of two attempts to build a " belated (belatte) birthday sentiment" but sadly it didn't work.


I sent the pictures above to my very best British friends and they told me that I might need to explain the meaning of those sentiments ... Noooo!!!! what I will do now...

I understand that "latte" won't be understood as "late" but as "lot" .... Arggg!!! English  is not my first language so who am I to try to play with words?

So I had to rethink what to do and  I decided to stamp a  more traditional "coffee lovers sentiment"  and I defo kept the turtle because is super cute. Issue solved!

 I coloured  the little turtle with Zigs and I added Nuvo Crustal glaze and Nuvo green Crystal drops.