Friday Sketchers ~ Sketch #16

Its Carole's turn this week at Friday Sketches to come up with a sketch. There's another fab prize for one lucky winner. Here's the sketch....

and this is what i did with it...

It's my DH birthday on Tuesday and my Mum asked me to make a card for him from her and my Dad.... so once again I find myself making 3 cards for the same person (although I've only done 2 up to now.... not managed to make one from me yet!) This year I've refused to make a card for the girls, so thats 2 less!

CS ~ Papermill, DP ~ free download from here, image ~ PIF from Kathy, Jellychicks Adventures, coloured with watercolour pencils and H2O's, sentiment ~ PC generated, gems ~ stash, buttons ~ Poppicrafts.

Cute Card Thursday ~ Challenge 24

This weeks challenge is to make a card using BRIGHT COLOURS.

We have 2 gorgeous stamps from Kitty at Spiral Whisper to give to one lucky randomly chosen winner, Count Maxula and Milly Broom Stick.

Its my friends birthday on Monday so I decided to use this challenge to make her a card... but it didn't quite turn out anything like a card so I hope this counts......

Whilst blog hopping I found a tutorial for this technique on Dawny P's blog. You should check it out its so easy ....look even I did one lol! I used my paddling Tilda stamp (or whatever she's called lol not really up on all their names yet!) and coloured her with H2O's and watercolour pencils. The sentiment and verse I printed onto tissue paper by sticking it with double sided tape to a scrap piece of card to get it to go through the printer (although the printer nearly went through the window!) Tissue paper, cellophane and ribbon ~ stash.

Blog candy giveaway!

Juliet has decided to giveaway some fab blog candy just because.... She has some fab cards on her blogspot, check it out!

Debbie is giving away some absolutely gorgeous blog candy to celebrate her 10,000 hits. You only have until Sunday so hurry and go check it out.

A Couple Of Challenge Cards

This morning is the first time I've had chance to craft this week. I didn't get anything done at the weekend, cos Fae roped me into a bit of childminding with her at a wedding on Saturday. We had 8 babies between 5 adults... what a nightmare! The time went quick though lol! So, while Rylee was at nursery this morning, once the mountain of ironing had been done, I set to work on the two cards that I needed to complete the nursery order. The first one is based on sketch #12 at Sketch Saturday....

I love how this card has turned out. CS ~ stash, DP ~ paper leftover from previous cards, ribbon ~ Poppicrafts, image ~ Jo coloured with H2O's, Sakura Stardust and watercolour pencils, sentiment ~ PC generated.

The second card is for Papertake Weekly and again is made using a sketch. This time with another fab sketch from Katharina and is Sketch #9.

CS ~ Papermill, DP ~ leftover paper from previous cards, ribbon ~ Poppicrafts, image ~ another from Jo again coloured with H2O's and watercolour pencils, Glossy Accents on flower, sentiment ~ PC generated.

I'm Selling Stamps!

I am selling some of my least favourite rubber stamps on Ebay. These have been used maybe a handful of times and are in an excellent condition. I have listed these stamps for 7 days, but should anyone like to purchase any of them from me before bidding commences then I will be more than happy to end the auction early.

I have ....

Rubber Romance ~ Sarah With A Rose

Rubber Romance ~ Madame

Rubber Romance ~ Roxy Loves The Sun

Rubber Romance ~ Paige Has A Present

Rubber Romance ~ Girlfriends On A Bench

Rubber Romance ~ Sherri In The Snow

Rubber Romance ~ Nay Loves Chocolate

And lastly this one from Alota Stamps.

I am open to any offers for any or all of these rubber stamps, which are all mounted on Eazi-Mount and although have been used are in fantastic condition. E-mail me with any offers!

Two in One Challenge!

Cute Card Thursday's Challenge 23 is "Soft Furnishings" you can use fabric, ribbon, stitching, buttons etc, anything you can find on the soft furnishings in the home ie curtains, cushions, sofas etc. I better not tell you what my first thoughts were, but it contained naughty words lol! But everything seemed to come together today. The card was made using the Friday Sketchers Sketch No15 by Mumur, which is absolutely fab and another I shall be using again! So here is what I did with it......

Sorry about the photo, but its dark here now. CS ~ Papermill, DP ~ off a disc containing 3000 backing papers from ebay ages ago, probably one of my first buys, leather ~ dont panic, I didn't cut a piece out of the back of my sofa. I got a 5 huge bin liners full of leather off cuts from Freecycle last summer and just stuffed it my loft cos I knew I'd use some of it sometime, the studs are re-upholstery studs from when I re-upholstered a few 3 pieces suites, string ~ off Andy's new jeans he bought today from Primark, flowers ~ cut from leather using Cuttlebug and Hippie Chick Alpha's, small flower centres are brads ~ stash, sentiment is PC generated, image ~ is my new stamp I got today from Dewdrop Craftz (see post below) and is paper pieced and coloured using watercolour pencils, sakura pens and H2O's.

Its DH birthday 26th August and Rylee asked me to make him a card for his Pops. Talking of Rylee I've had him on a strict training regime....I'm trying to teach him how to do the washing....

I don't think he's quite got it yet, but we're working on it lol!

Claudia's Candy!

Claudia has some fab candy on offer to celebrate 20,000 hits. 5 lucky winners will receive a card making kit that Claudia has put together. I'm keeping everything crossed!

Am I Surprised or What?

I arrived home just after lunch today to find that the postman had been, which is a surprise in itself, cos it was only 1.00pm and he has been known to deliver mail to our house at 5.00pm, but anyway! On my mat (which is lie cos I dont have one) I found a brown envelope, which normally isn't good. I couldn't for the life of me think who it was from or what it was. I stood looking at it trying to work it out cos it felt odd .... why dont we just open mail instead of inspecting and trying to guess whats in it?! To my great surprise, when I eventually opened it I found it was a stamp I ordered YESTERDAY at lunchtime from dewdropcraftz. It was the fab stamp that was last weeks Cute Card Thursday prize "Just Like My Daddy" and cos I didn't win it I stropped off to the webshop and bought it. I didn't for the life of me expect it to turn up today though! I had hoped I'd have it before the 26th August cos I wanted to use for Andy's birthday card off Rylee, thought it'd be quite nice. I know it says Daddy but it be Pops lol! What a super fast service! I shall definately be buying from here again!

Sewing a card??!!!

I've seen on a quite a few of your blogs that you do a lot of sewing on your cards, so I thought i might as well give it a go. I have a sewing machine and overlocker from my dressmaking years in my 20's (gosh thats years ago!). Anyway, I got DH to haul the machine out of the cupboard for me and off I went ... nothing to it is there! The hardest part is hefting a heavy machine in and out of a cupboard quietly so not to wake Rylee lol!

I'm really pleased with how this has turned out, I'm gonna look for a smaller machine though, something that I can keep on the table top that doesn't take up too much room. CS ~ Papermill, DP ~ is leftover from 2 previous cards but is originally Raspberry Road Designs, Flower Girl, image is coloured with watercolour pencils and blinged with glamour dust, hearts ~ Morrisons. I made this using the sketch from Carol, as in a previous post.

Steph's Blog Candy Part 2

For those of us who were lucky enough to win Steph's fab blog candy .....I was one! I was one! lol! Now to the 2nd part. Steph asks that we make something using just the bits and bobs in the kit. So here are my cards made using the fab candy.....

I hope these fit the brief ok!

Carol's Fun Sketch #1

Carol has a fab sketch over on her blog and if you take up the challenge and make a card using her sketch your in with a chance to win a little stash package! Here's her sketch...

And this is what I've done with it.....

CS ~ Papermill, DP ~ Leftover Raspberry Road Designs, Flower Girl, image ~ rak from Jo and coloured with watercolour pencils and H2O's, pearls ~ papercellar from Crafts Central, sentiment was part of rak from Jo too!

Papertake Weekly Challenge ~ Button it!

This week's challenge is to use a button or buttons on your project! If you don't have any buttons you could try drawing one freehand, making one with chipboard etc!

I used this challenge to make a card for a friend of mine who I just found out has been in hospital for a couple of days with suspected meningitis. So, I've made a bright cheery card and am in the process of putting together a "Get Well Basket" with tissues, chicken soup, a cup, a tea bag, coffee sachet, horlicks sachet and a cappuccino sachet, orange juice, muffins, a magazine and good old chick flick. If i get chance to take a photo of it before I visit I'll post it on here later. Anyway, back to the card...

CS ~ stash, DP ~ Shabby Princess, ribbon, blooms and buttons ~ stash, image ~ rak from Jo coloured with watercolour pencils. The verse inside says "...you're feeling unwell! So because you're feeling poorly this card is sent to say, hope you're feeling better soon in every single way.

Challenges!

I had more cards to make for Nursery and wanted something easy, so I decided to follow two challenges for inspiration Stamp something's challenge this week is to use pink, green, and blue. You may use any shades of those colors or multiple shades of those colors and then using the fab sketch from Sketch Saturday I set to work....and this is my interpretation of both challenges....

CS ~ Crafts Central, DP ~ Shabby Princess, ribbon and gems ~ stash, image ~ rak from Vicki and coloured with watercolour pencils, liquid pearls used for necklace, glamour dust used to bling 3.

The next cards were made using a sketch from Friday Sketchers and is a creation by Beatrix. I liked this sketch so much that I made 2 cards and will definately be using it again...

CS ~ stash, DP ~ Pink Petticoat, image ~ was from a rak from one of two people, Jo or Carole, which ever one it was, thank you! it was coloured using twinkling H2O's and watercolour pencils, blinged with glamour dust, ribbon, bloom and brad ~stash. All number cut using Cuttlebug, Hippie Chick Alpha's.
CS ~ stash, DP ~ free download, ribbon and button ~ stash, image ~ rak from Vicki and coloured with twinkling H2O's and watercolour pencils, No3 blinged with glitter.

Cute Card Thursday ~ Challenge 22

This week the theme is 'The two of us', use two of something on a card, it could be 2 people, 2 animals or 1 of each. My best friend Vicki asked me to make an anniversary card for her husband. She went through all my stamped images and stamps and chose the ones she wanted me to use and the rest was left up to me. This is what I came up with and it fits really well into this weeks challenge...

CS ~ Papermill & Crafts Central, put through the Cuttlebug embossing folders, ribbon and buttons ~ stash, heart ~ cut using Colluzzle, sentiment ~ pc generated and images ~ coloured with Sakura Stardust pens and watercoloured pencils, blinged with glamour dust and glitter.

Katharina's Blog Candy!

Katharina is celebrating 100,000 hits on her blog and she is giving away the complete Whiff of Joy Guardian Angel Collection (4 stamps) along with hosting a blog candy giveaway on the winners blog which includes another set of Guardian Angel stamps!!!!! Doesn't that sound fab?! I think so and have everything crossed, cos those stamps are just gorgeous and would look lovely in my collection lol!

I've been tagged!!!

I've been tagged by Carol It’s a random tag, and here are the rules!

1. Link to the person who ‘tagged’ you!
2. Post the rules on your blog!
3. List 6 random facts about yourself!
4. Tag 6 people at the end of your post!
5. Let each person know they have been tagged by commenting on their blog!
6. Let the tagger know the entry is posted on your blog!

So here goes.....

1. I have 2 tattoes (that I wish I'd never had done now) .. a fairy and a rosebud.
2. I quit smoking 5 years ago after 20 years of smoking.
3. I have a phobia of anything that has more legs than me and wings! (apart from always ultra's)
4. I have a strange desire to go round a roundabout the wrong way.
5 . I believe as a child I used to fly down the stairs every morning, but no-one else believes me!
6. I want to be a fairy, I very nearly bought a fairy costume the other year but DH laughed at me when I suggested it! But my Dad did give me a wand which I keep by the sofa next to me lol!

So here's my 6 victims lol ...... Jo, Kerry, Vicki, Tracie, Becky and Carole.

Papertake Weekly Challenge ~ Katharina's Sketch #8

This weeks challenge is to make a card using Katharina's sketch #8.I had a girlie night in with 3 of my friends Monday evening and we took a few photos. I wanted the girls to have a copy of the photos so made a folder/card to put them in and what could be better than using this fab sketch for them?
CS ~ Papermill, DP~Flower Girl, Raspberry Road Designs, image ~ paper pieced and coloured with watercoloured pencils and H2O's, blooms and brad ~ stash.

IRL this looks bright yellow! CS ~ stash, DP ~ Pink Petticoat, blooms and brad ~ stash.

CS ~ Papermill, DP ~ Pink Petticoat, blooms and brad ~ stash.

Now all I have to do is decide which one I give to which friend! Think I might just let them pick a colour and take it from there lol!

Friday Sketchers ~ Sketch #13

Kimmie from Canada has made a wonderful sketch for inspiration this week....

This is what I did with it....

I've had this image coloured for a while and just not know what paper to use with it or what to do with it. CS ~ Crafts Central, DP ~ DS George, buttons ~ Poppicrafts, sentiment ~ Dovecraft, image ~ PIF and coloured with my old faithful watercolour pencils, Fluffy Stuff on smoke.

Blog candy giveaway!

There is some fab blog candy at Tanja's to celebrate 5,000 hits.

Janet is also giving away some fab candy, including a Milly & Max stamp to celebrate 15,000 hits and the launch of Milly & Max.

Camilla is giving away some fab Magnolia stamps.

Nursery Cards

I've managed to make a few more cards for the Nursery that Fae works at. They've asked me to make the birthday cards for the children that attend. These 1st birthday cards were made using a sketch from Friday_Sketchers. I used some leftover peices of paper (trying to use some of them up). The Tingla stamp is a new one and I just love her, both images have been coloured using watercolour pencils and blinged with glamour dust. Flowers and gems are from stash. Scalloped square and circles are cut out with my nesties.

More paper leftover from previous projects, image coloured with watercolour pencils and blinged with glamour dust. No1 is glittered. Again used scalloped square nestie, gems from stash.

And yes even more paper scraps and another sketch, I think its a Mojo Monday one but I can't remember! It was last weekend lol! Image ~ coloured with watercolour pencils, CS ~ Crafts Central, buttons ~ Poppicrafts, glamour dust on wings, peel-offs ~stash.