Sketch Saturday ~ Cazza's Sketch Challenge #145

This week's Sketch Challenge is being hosted by my teamie Cazza, who has designed a fab sketch for us to use!  

Some of you may have seen this weeks sponsor the amazingly talented Lisa Baker of Lisa B Designs demonstrating at the various craft fairs up and down the UK, she's also a regular in Making Cards magazine.

Here's a little bit about her.....

Hi, My name is Lisa Baker and I have always loved playing around 'making things' from a very early age, one of my favourite programmes was 'Blue Peter' and I used to drive my mum mad with boxes of card, toilet rolls holders, tissue paper etc... Over the years I have tried my hands at sooo many different crafts and have found some pleasure in all, my favourites being jewellery making, silversmithing, teddy bear making and of course becoming totally addicted to paper crafting.

Many years ago I started collecting Artist Mohair Teddy Bears and it wasn't until I bought a teddy bear kit at a bear fair in Holland in 1996 that I had a go at making a teddy bear. I had a lot of fun making it and learnt from it the process of how to make a bear. Now being the typical Gemini that I am was not content with that and decided I would like to make my own teddy bears and critters and started putting pen to paper and designing my own. Hence Huggability Bears was born. www.huggabilitybears.co.uk

I am now a freelance craft designer and demonstrator and run my own classes and because of my love of stamps decided this year to put pen to paper again and recreate some of my bears and critters as stamps to enter the wonderful world of paper crafting. I hope you will like my critters as much as I do and enjoy creating some wonderful projects with them!

Big Hugs

Lisa.B.x

Lisa has very generously donated a prize this week of 4 of her fantastic stamps PLUS a Wild Rose Studio Paper Stack!! 

So here is this weeks Sketch.

and my card

To make this card I used:~

CS ~ Stash

DP's ~ Raspberry Road Designs ~ Butterfly Collection

Image ~ Penny Black Embrace

Sentiment ~ Create with TLC

Flowers, Ribbon & Pearls ~ Stash

Tools ~ Nesties, Cuttlebug, Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch, Pencil Crayons, Sansodor, Blending Stumps

Sunday Sketch & Stamp ~ Challenge #46 Erin's Sketch

This fortnight's challenge is a sketch created by Erin...

And here is what i did with it ...

To make this card I used:~

CS ~ Stash

DP's ~ Summer Driggs

Image ~ Penny Black

Sentiment ~ Create with TLC

Ribbon, Flower & Pearls ~ Stash
Tools ~ Sewing Machine, Nesties, Cuttlebug, Pencil Crayons, Sansodor, Blending Stumps

This is the first of 3 cards that Dad has asked me to make for the hospital staff at Derby Royal in the Radiotherapy Dept.  They have been wonderful, extremely kind and supportive all through the last 5 weeks of treatment and no doubt will continue to be for the next 2 weeks LOL!

Stampin' for the Weekend

This fortnights challenge which ends on the 18th February is ...Valentines Themed. Stampin' for the Weekend would like to see some projects and cards with a theme of valentines day.

Simon Says Stamp are the fabulous sponsors this fortnight!' With over 100,000 items in stock, Simon is proud to offer the best selection of Rubber Stamps, Scrapbooking, Artist Trading Cards, Altered Art, and Paper Crafting Supplies in the world! Again, the lovely Heidi is offering a superb $25 shopping voucher to spend in store with FREE postage!!

CS ~ Stash

DP's ~ Daisie Company ~ Berry Sweet

Image ~ RAK from Linda thanx honey x ~ Penny Black Critter Party

Sentiment ~ PC Generated using 4 my lover font

Flower & Pins ~ TabbyCrafts

Gems ~ Stash

Tools ~ Woodware Grass Punch, Cuttlebug, Cuttlebug Heart Die, Sewing Machine, Pencil Crayons, Gamasol, Blending Stump No.0, Heart Border Punch from HobbyCraft, Sakura Glaze Pen (Black).

Friday Sketchers #76 & Stampin' for the Weekend #22

Aud from Norway is this weeks Friday Sketchers host, and it's her very first time on the FS blog. The sponsor for this weeks challenge is Sassy Studio Designs.

Stampin' for the Weekend have a fantastic challenge entitled "Back to the 80's" intriguing eh?! They'd like to see us use the following Colour Combination on our cards and projects this week!

AND
Use one of the following Song Titles from the 80s for inspiration
Girls on Film - Duran Duran
Dirty Laundry - Don Henley
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper

Obviously, I've chose Dirty Laundry by Don Henley (whoever he is ... i'm an 80's child ... being a teenager during those years and i ain't never heard of that one)

CS ~ Stash
DP's ~ Shabby Princess Splendid Papers
Image ~ RAK from Diane .... mwah honey x
Flowers, Ribbon, Eyelet, Beads, Peel-Offs & Gems ~ Stash
Mesh Stuff ~ My Stampin' for the Weekend Monthly Prize
Tools ~ Sewing Machine, Eyelet Setter, Woodware Leaf Punch, Whisper Strokes, Tombo Blender Pen.

Our gorgeous friend Paula has requested this card for the staff that have looked after her during her stay in Guy's Hospital. Yes folks .... she's been released ... God help us LOL! She asked me to make a couple of cards for her yesterday ... which has since increased to 3 PMSL! I liked the image cos during our phone conversation Paula said she wanted a card that said "Thanks for everything you've done and for your continuing support" what could be better support than a bra?!

Now hopefully Paula will continue to do well as long as she doesn't have or has very few "Peter Pan" moments ... eh Paula?! LOL! I know you'll read this ... so behave yourself or you'll get the lecture, keep doing whatever it is your doing and for God's sake rest ... no decorating that bedroom till next year!!!! Love ya lots like Haribo's LOL!

A Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge #65

The challenge this week is Travel ~ you could use a holiday theme or a form of transport ( Bike ,car, horse,) anything goes.

Well, Ellie's friend Tilda went back off to Tenerife a fortnight ago ... supposedly to work and live ... not sure how long that will last ... perhaps another 2 weeks or so until her money runs out lol! So i made Ellie this card to give her ....

Yes, i know it shouldn't say "Bonjour" but then French never was a strong subject of mine lol! Realised my mistake too late to do anything about it lol!

• CS ~ Stash
• DP's ~ Angelflight Scraps freebie download ~ Beach Papers
• Image ~ RAK from the gorgeous Diane
• Eyelets ~ Stash
• Raffia ~ Poundland
• Sentiment ~ Pink Petticoat Sentiment and Tags
• Tools ~ eyelet setter, Whisper Strokes.