New challenge

 We are now onto Challenge 6, can you believe it's 6 months since we started?  The theme this month is Christmas In October and is sponsored by Bridlington Stationers who is non other than Darren, the hubby of our very talented Nicola and here's what they are about

"Bridlington Stationers is owned by Darren Saul. Established in 1986, Bridlington Stationers Limited is a company brimming with experience. We are a customer focused business supplies company delivering over 30,000 products available on a next day delivery basis on a local and national scale.

Our commitment to personal and friendly service ensures a high level of continuity. We are here to advise, recommend and supply the office products that you need to assist in the smooth running of your business. Our aim is to save you money, save you time and give you the opportunity to buy all your office needs from under one roof."

Oh, I almost forgot, the prize for October is a pack of Promarkers.

Now for my card using my favouritest stamps :)
                                               
The stamp is from the Merry Little Christmas stamp set by Clearly Besotted Stamps, the papers are from a freebie My Mind's Eye pad which came with a magazine last year (I think), the poinsettia is a Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 2PK - Flower, Mini Daisy with gold gems in the centre and everything else is from my stash.

Thanks for dropping by and good luck with our new challenge. :)

Kathy's Waffle

Week 2. I tried a different shape as the centre piece of my DT card for Kathy's Waffle Sketch File this week but you can stick to the circle is you want. As long as we can see the sketch it's up to you how you use it :)

I made this for my Son in law's birthday on Sunday. The paper across the middle is by My Mind's Eye but I'm not sure about the rest as they were all pieces from my off cut box. The image was a freebie from somewhere but I can't remember where and I can't find it in my documents either so I don't know where it's from.

Don't forget to point us in the direction of your work so we can come and have a look.
Take care, back soon xx

Sunny Saturday

I can never think of a catchy title when writing a blog post. I look at other blogs and wonder why I can't come up with anything funny, maybe one day LOL

My card today was totally out of my comfort zone but I got the skater stamp free on the front of a mag, I think it was Papercraft Essentials, but as soon as I saw it I saw three of them skating on a pond.

I stamped the skater on the left then the middle one, I then made a mask and used it on the middle skater when I stamped the third one so it looked as though he was in front of the second......does that sound English? The skaters were coloured with Promarkers (I did try Spectrum Noirs but one of them 'blobbed' on my image and I had to throw my piece away and start again). I stamped onto Blink of an Eye by MME, a piece of Prima Botanical paper and a piece of Snowed in Winter papers by MME and used the cut outs to paper piece a couple of the skaters. Everything else was cut out with Cuttlebug dies and set onto mirror card and glitter card.

I hope you like it.

A couple of weeks ago hubby went to buy me some baubles so I could make some beaded bauble covers for my craft fayre and saw these

I think they are just fab and they definitely appealed to my sense of humour lol

I shall be adding my card to the a Card a Day blog and Facebook page. 

So now I've done some ironing, I've got my blog up to date and I have my new Kanban kit sat on the floor staring up at me longingly, asking me to open it but I need to upload a load of stuff I've got for sale.....what shall I do?

Back soon, have a nice weekend. x

Happy Tuesday

The sun is shining and my to do list is shortening :) It has, however taken me all day to add some jewellery to my Facebook page, upload my first bits for sale on my blog selling page and make my card for the Penny Black @ Allsorts challenge and the Penny Black Saturday challenge which this month is a sketch (which I flipped onto it's side to make my card :)).

                                         

I haven't done either of these challenges for a while but as I said a few posts ago, I've given myself a kick up the bum and am trying to get back in line with my challenges again as I've always enjoyed doing them. 

This is another one that I will be adding to Di's Snippet challenge as the papers came out of my C*******s box (which came down off the top of the book case the other day!) The big piece of pale blue is from a My Mind's Eye Christmas range from a couple of years ago. Note to self...it's ok saying I'm going to add my cards to Di's challenge but I must actually remember to add them to Mr Linky lol

Do you like my big sparkly snowflake die cut? They might appear loads this year. I've had the Marianne Designs snowflake dies for at least a year but this year I was messing with a pack of pastel glitter card and cut a few in different colours....they are lovely.

Thanks for looking :)

Playing catchup!

Is the story of my life lol. One of these days I will either meet myself coming back or there will be a day when I have no work to do or orders to fullfill (Heaven forbid) My diary for this week so far reads as follows:

Sunday    Wedding fayre

Monday   Hubby's birthday

Tuesday   Bridal exhibition at Harrogate (buying not exhibiting)

Wednesday  My baby girl turns 18 and we somehow have approximately 50 people coming to a bbq

Thursday  Wedding order and photos for my web site

Friday cards for shop

Saturday cards for shop

Sunday   accounts

not bad eh?!?

So the week I went on holiday the following were delivered

Materials include papers by Pink Petticoat, Craftwork Cards, My Mind's Eye, assorted die cuts, oddments of ribbon and gem from my stock box.

Back to the ironing board for a little while. Thanks for looking and I will see you tomorrow evening.

Allsorts challenge

Another challenge with a recipe this week is the Allsorts Challenge blog Now I used to avoid this sort of challenge and just stick to sketches but now I quite enjoy them, I also don't mind making cards for males either but I know there are quite a few people out there who hate it. This is the brief

"This week we have a recipe challenge for you but with a twist - and the twist is it's

A RECIPE FOR THE BOYS

so we would like to see your projects for a male using the following

1 design paper

2 punches or dies

3 buttons"

 and here is what I came up with

The papers and die cuts are all from My Mind's Eye, image is by Karen's Doodles and the sentiment is from Craftwork Cards.


Allsorts also have a DT call which ends tomorrow at 6 pm so I thought I might have a try!

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2011/06/dt-call-at-allsorts.html

and my card

Thanks for looking and good luck if you apply :)

All work and no play......

but the card rack is actually starting to fill up :) I'm still using the off cuts mountain and it doesn't seem to be going down but I'm sure it will if I keep fighting it.

So this week (apart from DT cards, 2 seating plans and a fascinator) I have made

 Image - Papermania stamped with sepia ink, papers from the paper mountain and the sentiment is from Craftwork Cards

 Image, coloured with Promarkers is from Bugaboo Stamps the offcuts of card are from my drawer.

 Image and flourish paper from Pink Petticoat spotty paper is by My Mind's Eye and the sentiment was made using the workdesk on the Craft The Year Away cd by Funky Hand

 I can't remember where the image is from but I think it might be Woodware, paper is Basic Grey and the sentiment is from Craftwork Cards

Image from Cuddly Buddly coloured with Promarkers, paper is from Stampin Up and the lace and gems are from my craft box.

 The cute golfer is another digital image from Bugaboo stamps, and the papers are again from my drawer.

 Bible - Sizzix, border - Martha Stewart, frame - Nesties, ribbon and charm from my craft box

 Papers - Bugaboo Stamps coloured with Promarkers, papers - Pink Petticoat, sentiment - pc generated

 Image - DigiStamp Boutique paper - Stampin Up, everything else from my craft stash

 Image - DigiStamp Boutique, not sure about the paper, the charm and ribbon are from my craft box

 paper - My Mind's Eye, sentiment - Craftwork Cards

 Images as before

 Images - Pink Petticoat, flowers - Prima

Me to You Bear - Papermania, white lace - Creative Treasures

Well, I think that's enough for anyone for one evening.
Back soon :) xx

Kathy's Sketch File

It's the beginning of the month which means it's time to share Kathy's new sketch

 Image and papers - Lili of the Valley

Snowflakes - Marianne Designs
Sentiment and base card - Craftwork Cards
H2Os
Sakura stardust pen
Ribbon and pearls from my stock

Image - Lili of the Valley
Promarkers
Papers - My Minds Eye
Sentiments - Craftwork Cards and Pink Petticoat
Prima flowers and brads etc from stock

We hope you will give out new sketch a try and share your work with us. Don't forget to tell us where you are so can come and have a look.

Thanks for looking :)

Gone green

well, not literally but the challenge for this week on the Passion For Promarkers challenge blog is to use green as the predominant colour.

I think I can safely say that my card is predominantly green :) The image is from Pink Petticoat coloured with Promarkers, pink card blank is from Craftwork Cards, papers are a free My Mind's Eye set from Cardmaking and Papercraft, flowers are Prima, brads from Woodware, sentiment is from Papermania and the ribbon is from my stash.


Take care and tfl

Sketch challenge

This is another of Dawn's brilliant sketches over on the ICS blog this week

I turned the sketch upside down as it suited my image better. I can't remember where the image came from...I have tried searching for it to no avail! It was, however, coloured with Promarkers. Papers are by My Mind's Eye and were a freebie on the front of Cardmaking and Papercraft this month, the page frill was punched from a left over piece of one of the Crate Papers using Martha Stewart's Doily punch, everything else is from my stash.

Why not hop over and see what the other DT members are offering this week, then you can join us :)

Tfl

Passion for...

 Promarkers and Mrs B's sketches :))

So, the challenge on the PfP blog this week is “in the garden - i.e. things you may see in the garden - flowers, vegetables or even a garden shed, it’s entirely up to you, as long as you colour your image with promarkers you will be in with a chance of winning our prize."

Kathy's sketch for April looks like this

Materials : image - Fred She Said freebie coloured with Promarkers, paper - Bloom and Grow, My Mind's Eye,

rub on sentiment - MSE, Gems - Papermania, grosgrain ribbon - Ribbon Oasis

TFL

Quite contrary!

Challenge time at ICSketches again and the sponsor this week is Polka Doodles who have donated a fantastic prize of a Paper Boutique cd

So onto sketch #58

Papers - Quite Contrary by My Mind's Eye

Sentiment - Hero Arts

Butterfly

Flowers - Prima

Gems - Papermania

tfl

CbC 3

And we're off :) The next challenge I've entered is a sketch from Sue on Crafts by Carolyn. Sue has organised all the fab challenges for us and we have prizes......lots of prizes :) Come and take a look, we don't bite lol
This is Sue's sketch

 

 

And this is my take on it. I've wanted to scrap this photo for ages because I just love it. It is one of the few 'decent' ones where she isn't posing lol
Papers are from MME again, flowers are Prima and other bits are from my stash.
BFN

Crafts By Carolyn

The forum on the CbC web site is celebrating it's eighth birthday this month and Sue has orgnised a massive challenge which will run all week. We would love it if you could join in the fun with us (and we are a very friendly bunch)  :)
I've started with a scrap challenge. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not.....scrapping is not something that comes naturally to me even though I do enjoy it.

Papers are Pink Petticoat, card is Papermania and Coredinations, flowers are Prima, ribbon from Ribbon Oasis and everything else from my stash.

TFL

Sketch Saturday

Two quick cards and another challenge ticked off, this time it's Sketch Saturday. The second card doesn't match the sketch perfectly but I liked the layout!

Materials: paper - Crate (can't remember which one), image - Digi Stamp Boutique, gingham ribbon - Ribbon Oasis,

MS punch, (you can't hear this cos I'm whispering) greeting - black peel off!

Materials: papers - Love in bloom, My Mind's Eye, image - Digi Stamp Boutique, sentiment done on the lap top 

and button and cord from my stash

Thanks for looking, back later.

Two challenges...

..one card. I'm entering this card into the Sketch Saturday challenge (which is a sketch) and the Passion For Promarkers challenge (and the colours this week are cool aqua and cocoa)

Materials: paper - Wild Asparagus (My Mind's Eye), image - Flowers Sugar Nellie coloured with Promarkers, 

flowers - Prima and everything else from stash

I've just noticed that Sugar Nellie is sponsoring the PfP challenge......I really must start reading properly!

I'm now going to make a cup of coffee and make my hats etc.

Back soon.