#81 and the last sketch for August sponsored again by Paper Romance.
There are just a few days left for you to join us on Kathy's Waffle Sketch File before the new sketch comes up for September. Kathy has published some brilliant sketches over the last couple of years and they are all still on the Sketch File blog for you to look at when Mr Mojo goes walkabout!
Take a look at the sketch and we would love it if you had a go with it.
Well peeps, this is the last chance to enter the last challenge on the Rosie D's blog :( and as it's the end of the month on Tuesday, I will pick a winner then and announce it on Wednesday morning.
So what is on offer I hear you ask! Wellllllllll
I am having major issues at the moment trying to comment on peoples blogs and edit my own.....I simply can't do it. I click on the comment links or on the little pencil icon on my blog and nothing happens. I've tried opening them in new windows and in new tabs and zilch! I don't know whether the issue is with Blogger, Firefox or my lap top but I can't seem to do anything except post here and on the challenge blogs I belong to! If anyone has any ideas please then I'm all ears but probably won't be able to do anything as the technical part of the relationship is at work this evening lol
You may have notice if you have read my blog before, that I can't just sit and do nothing. On the rare occasion I watch tv I have to do something else like knit, sew, read the paper etc, otherwise I feel that I'm just wasting my time!! So every time we go away I have to take something to do, I might not always use what I've taken but at least it's there if I want it. I always take books too but only managed 3 and 1/2 this holiday as well as the jewellery. So here goes, most of it was made on my sun lounger by the pool......my new craft studio :))
Here is most of what I made (there were a couple of extra bits, some earrings and an ankle bracelet which I sold before I had the chance to photograph them)
The good news is that I'm back from the beautiful Greek island of Zakynthos and rested (apart from the earthquake on Sunday morning :)) and raring to go (or will be after I've finished wading through the 1469 emails which came while I was away!), the order book is maintaining a happy level and I have a (relatively) tidy craft room lol I managed to get a few bits of jewellery made while I was away and sold a couple of pieces too. I had a perfect work environment.......I made and sold jewellery from my sun lounger at the side of the pool (in between reading the Carole Matthews books I took with me) :) The photos are still on the camera but I will upload them over the next couple of days. The other good news is that all the posts I scheduled are now published on my blog.......I did worry about them and thought I might come home and have not DT work up for the last fortnight lol
on the ICS blog this week is sponsored again by Paper Romance
Challenge # 78
By the time you read this we will be thinking of coming home from the lovely island of Zakynthos (Zante) where we have been for the last two weeks. Thank heavens for scheduling posts (and thanks Rosie for showing me how to do it)
It's my turn to host the second challenge for August and this time I decided that as it is my wonderful hubby's birthday next month we would have "One for the boys" but for the big boys in your life not the small ones as our men often get forgotten in our card making.
The challenge this week on the ICS blog is sponsored by Meljen Designs. Melissa sent us all some images to work with and they are just lovely!
The sketch
Card Sketch #78 and this week we are sponsored by Bunny Zoe's Crafts
It's my turn this month to set the challenges on Rosie D's blog and for my first one I have chosen "More than one fold" however if possible I would like something a bit more challenging than an easel card. I love making them as much as everyone but decided for this challenge I would make a card with six folds!!! so I made a tri shutter card.
I will be offering a couple of prizes this month but will do it at the end the end of the month from a combination of both challenges.
I chose to make a card with six folds.......ok, it sounds great but it isn't, I chose to make a tri shutter card :)
The Sir Stampalot challenge this week want "Bring on the Bling,
at Allsorts challenge #2 are looking for Glitter and Glitz this month and say "We all love our embellies so what better opportunity to pull out all those gems and glitters and get creating."
Gosh, how I haven't burst up to now I really don't know! I got an email from Kathy last Friday inviting me to join her Design Squad for Kathy's Waffle Sketch File and it took me ages to decided whether to take up her kind offer (not!) I've always like Kathy's sketches and have managed to do them all, ok maybe not always in the right month but I have done them nonetheless :)
So here is the fab sketch for August
I was looking for something yesterday when I came across the stamp set I used for the following card. The new challenge blog Oldie But A Goodie reminded me that, although I have had the stamp for about six years, this was probably about the third time I had used it. Of course, when I bought it it was one of those "had to have" purchases ;)
I love working with Dawn's sketches and also love seeing the diversity of the team's work or projects. To say we all work to the same sketch the projects are vastly different. This week we are sponsored again by Paper Romance
There is a new blog starting next month and they are having a DT call at the moment. The challenge is slightly different to others around as "If you like most of us have a stash of old stamp gathering dust, then this is the place to come. There will be a new challenge every other Tuesday and you can combine it with as many other challenges as you like, as long as the main image is stamped and at least 6 months old. You can make anything you like Card, ATC, L/O etc as long as it fits in with the challenge"
This card has been commissioned by one of hubby's collegues for her mum in law and my brief was.......something flowery!! lol but it had to be 8" x 8". My mum bought the House Mouse decoupage sheets ages ago from Create and Craft (I think) and decided to share them with me as there were so many (she bought two packs) Decoupage isn't something I do very often, I used to make loads especially when the Morehead sheets cam out but I don't think I've made a decoupage card for a couple of years now. Now I know why....what possesses the artists to put so many tiny bits on the sheets? It took ages to cut out and I chucked the really tiny bits in the bin lol I still got three good layers on it though and am pleased with the end result.
I haven't taken part in the Daring Carmaker's challenge for a while so thought I would give it a go. This week it is the turn of one of the new girls to set the dare and I will leave it to Nat to introduce it....."For this week's dare, I'm taking inspiration from the Card a Day book by Papercrafts. It's amazing just how many National xyz Days there are out there, some I never knew existed, but with August just around the corner, there are two very worthy celebrations ahead!
