Rosie Dee's reveal

Hi, I can't believe it's reveal time already. I was a very bad blogger last week as time just got the better of me. I've got quite a bit of wedding work in at the mo which has to take precedence over everything else. This weekend saw the wedding of a friend of mine and I was decorating the venue for the happy couple...it was a case of out early on Saturday, we stayed over on Saturday evening, got back yesterday and straight into work as I had a couple coming to collect the last of their order and it wasn't quite finished. I just dumped my boxes and now have them all to sort and put away :)

So onto the challenge... the subject is Think Spring
I had a commissioned exploding box to make for an 80th birthday so decided to use the challenge to make it as the remit was daffodils, blue and not fussy.

I hope you like it, my customer certainly did :)
You still have time to join in with the challenge and if you do, don't forget to tell us so we can take a peek at your work.
tfl

Rosie-Dee's

It's that time again....it doesn't seem two minutes since the last challenge yet it has been a fortnight! It's Brenda's turn this month to set the challenges and she has chosen "Think Spring" as her theme (and I am sat in the most brilliant sunshine while I'm writing this). The challenge this week is sponsored by Sir Stampalot.

Now for a sneaky peek at my project (I can't call it a card cos it isn't :)) which was commissioned for a lady's 80th birthday on Wednesday. She shares my birthday but she is ever so slightly older than me lol

So.....why not hop over to RosieDee's and take a look at the fabulous DT cards....and maybe join in and play with us :)

I'll be back later with some more of Carolyn's challenges

TFL

Rosie D's

New challenge is up and it's definitely worth popping over for a look! We are sponsored this week by 

and we would love to see your cards for the men in your life. As Rosie says on the blog "they always get a bum deal on the craft front!" lol
Here's a sneaky peek of my card

 

and you can see the rest of my card and those of my talented fellow (should that say lady?) DT mates.  So what are you waiting for....make your project, leave us a message and we can come and have a nosey :)

Rosie Dee's

Don't forget to hop over to the Rosie Dee challenge blog and join in with another of Rosie's sketch challenges and to take a look at all the delicious DT cards

Rosie Dee's

Last night saw the release of the new challenge on Rosie Dee's Challenge blog where we have been given another one of Rosie's brilliant sketches. We have been sponsored this time by

where there are some fab digi doodles.

I rotated the sketch for my card and used Love in Bloom paper from My Minds Eye, image from Delicious Doodles coloured with Promarkers, Prima flowers, Crate rub on, ribbon and dewdrops are from my stash. Why not take a look at the DT cards and have a go yourself as you stand to win the same set of images we used.

The good news is....

that I made the Design Team over on  RosieDee's challenge blog and am one very happy little bunny :) The challenge this fortnight is a sketch and we have been sponsored this time by Instyle Stamps who have sponsored the Design Team with two images to play with and are offering our winner 4 images of their choice from their shop. Here is a sneaky of my card

so why not hop over to Rosie's and take a look at the fab challenge and the wonderful DT cards. We would love to see what you come up with so leave us a comment and we can drop by to see you :)

Bed time now, bfn

DT call

Rosie has put out a call for a new DT member for the RosieDee challenge blog and as well as the new year card below

I altered a box, to match my storage baskets, to use as a rack for storing my Card Candy. So we went from this

to this

and this is my (very messy) ribbon basket

 

The gingham paper was downloaded from The Activity Village and everything else, including the glass jars and Prima Flowers are from my stash.

tfl

Sneaky peek

Here is the sneaky peek of my DT card for the new challenge at Rosie Dee's The challenge for this week is to incorporate stars and stripes into your project.

Why don't you take a hop over to Rosie Dee's and take a look at the fab projects the rest of the team have made, hopefully they will inspire you enough to join us! Don't forget to post a link to your work so we can come over and have a look.

It's show time!

Saturday is reveal day for our RD challenge cards and this week's challenge has been "This months theme of SHAPES continues with a recipe. So, we'd like to see 2 squares and a rectangle on your project this week please" so here is mine
I made it for DD's 16th birthday last Monday and it was well received :) Don't forget to hop over to Rosie Dee's tomorrow evening when the new challenge is posted. We would love it if you could join in with us and play.

Late again!

Oh dear, I'll be getting my bum smacked!!
This is a sneaky peek of my dt card for the new challenge on Rosie Dee's blog. If you fancy saving my bacon please go over and join in :)) (or at least go and see what the other super talented dt members have come up with for the new challenge!)

TFL

Rosie Dee's

Challenge last week was to follow a sketch and this is the DT card I made

Materials: image and paper - Pink Petticoat, ProMarkers, MS punch, Diamond Glaze, flat back SA pearls.

Don't forget to check the blog tomorrow evening for the new challenge.
BFN

Rosie-Dee's

Well, I'm back and rested after two "glorious" weeks in Cornwall (even though I had to take some work with me!). DD took a friend with her and they got on brilliantly (I was a bit worried as they are both 15 and argue lol) and my parents came too. The apartment was fab, the location is fab, the whole county is fab but the weather wasn't.........it doesn't bother me though, I just love being in Cornwall. I went house hunting again and found a fab bungalow right on the beach, with a one bedroom holiday let loft conversion but at £350,000 it's a bit outside my budget as I haven't got a house to sell. We don't want to get rid of ours as the kids won't have anywhere to live if they didn't want to move. I will keep doing the lottery and I won't give up on my dream of living in Cornwall (I just wish I could move it on a bit!)

Anyway, I ran out of time before I left so didn't have enough time to figure out how to schedule my RD work so am having to show it all now along with this week's sneaky peek. (sorry girls) I did get it all done up to date though.

This month's theme has been holidays and the theme for my first piece of work was beach

Week 48 was Sun

Last week's challenge was Sea

and this week's challenge is...........ha ha, you have to wait till tomorrow to find out but here's my sneaky peek to be going on with :))

I've used an assortment of papers (which have all come from my scrap box) and images coloured with ProMarkers. Everyting else is from my stash.

Thanks for looking.

RD Peek

I can't believe it's already a week since I blogged. I have been really busy but never gave it a thought even though I managed to incorporate another couple of challenges into my work. I've just seemed to have gone from one job to anotherwith no time in between. I still have some commissions to do before I go away on Thursday plus some dt work which I will schedule for when I'm away just incase there isn't a broadband connection is darkest Cornwall LOL Here is the card I made for last week's challenge over at Rosie-Dee's The challenges this month are all based around holidays and the month started off with a sketch.

Papers - My Mind's Eye
Image and sentiment - Rubbadubadoo (many moons ago) coloured with ProMarkers
Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis

and now for my sneaky peek for this week's challenge

Please hop over at about 6 oclock to see the new challenge and the big reveal. The DT will have worked their little socks off creating something to wow you so we would love it if you could show us your support and join in too :)

TFL

DT card and

.......a sneaky peek :)

First is my card for last week's challenge which finished off the 'occasions' month. The challenge this time was to make a sympathy card. Not something we like making but something I suppose we must all have to make at some point. I've had to make eight personal ones this year, not something I want to repeat in a hurry! :(

Paper - one of the BG pads (Boxer, I think)
Sentiment - internet
Swirl - QK Rev die
Flowers - Prima
Flat backed SA pearls - stash

Now for my sneaky peek for the challenge this week

Don't forget to pop over to the Rosie-Dee's challenge blog at about 6 pm to see what the new challenge is and how the DT have interpreted it. We look forward to you joining in with us :)

BFN

Rosie-Dee's

Here is my DT baby card from last week.

Sizzix clothing
Qk Rev swirls
Nesties circles
Charm - Crafts By Carolyn
Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis

This week Deanne says "We are still on our Occasions theme and this week we are setting the very hard task of creating a sympathy/thinking of you creation. I say hard task as well it can be one of the hardest cards we ever have to make".

This is the fourth sympathy card I've made this week as we had Cec's funeral on Tuesday and I made one each for his three kids. It's just a sneaky peek for now, if you want to see the fab DT cards in full you'll have to hop on over to Rosie-Dee's blog and take a look (and hopefully join in too :)).

Rosie-Dee's

Last weeks challenge revealed. The theme was weddings and I had made an album which had been commissioned so my sneaky was a double page from said album.


Papers and images - Pink Petticoat Hearts and 'Love' - Sizzix Ribbons - Ribbon Oasis Now for the new challenge which this week is 'Baby' I had a commissioned card to make, perfect, two birds one stone :) and here's my little peek!

Can you tell what it is yet? LOL No? then pop on over to Rosie-Dee's and have a look at all the DT work. We'd love to have you on board this week.

TFL

Rosie-Dee's

Crikey it's week two already of our stint on the DT at Rosie-Dee's and the theme this week is Wedding. Why not hop over and have a look at the wonderful work produced by my Team Mates :) Here's my sneaky for this week

and my card from last week (which I showed last week as I got all muddled up LOL) I think I've got the hang of it now :)Paper - Stampin Up!
Butterfly - Sizzix (cut from blue glitter card)
Ribbon and ric rac - Ribbon Oasis
Beads - from my stash

Please come over and play this week, we look forward to seeing your work :)

Rosie-Dee's

Challenge #42 is the first challenge which the design team have taken part in and we are all a bit giddy about it. I feel really chuffed to have been chosen :)

The challenge this week is a sketch from Rosie (which I flipped round)
I had my paper on the table last night after making another card and just fell in love with this colour combination. Paper - Stampin Up Blue card from stash Ribbon and ric rac - Ribbon Oasis Butterfly - Sizzix Beads and bits from stash

We would love to see your take on the sketch so please hop over and join us and see all the DT work in one place for the first time :)

PS This is the pink card I showed on the other sneak peek.........I made it last week and decided this morning that I didn't like it so made this one LOL

TFL

Ps The post probably doesn't make sense any more but I will explain on Saturday *oops!*

Sneaky peek #1

Check out the new challenge this evening on Rosie-Dee's as it's the first one showing the work of the new DT.

I have two 'peeks' as I made two cards but I'm not sure yet which one will be used :)

Please excuse my blurry image, I got too close with the camera and then the sodding batteries ran out so I couldn't take another pic!! LOL

Look forward to seeing you there :)

Rosie-Dee's

challenge this week, in the last of the colour combo month, is to make a card, scrapbook page, altered item or whatever you like but it must be black and white. I chose to make a card as I have three birthdays to make for this week.

paper and Page Frills - Doodlebug
image and sentiment - Debbi Moore
gems - Anita's
butterfly - Martha Stewart
everything else from my stash.

We had a fab weekend weather wise, with yesterday being the better of the two days........it was a scorcher. I sat in the garden and worked. DH decided that he wanted a work place like mine! Their office doesn't have opening windows so the air con is on all the time, the windows are tinted so they never know what the weather is like till they go outside and the coffee machine has been broken all week! Oh, the joys of working from home :)

I had yet another busy week last week. I still have wedding orders coming in and got an email from Debbi's office to see if I could make some Christmas samples ready for the show on Ideal World next week. I really struggle with Christmas before I've been on holiday in August :) but I did manage to get them posted on Friday morning. I then had to strip off my desk and clean it as I had green glitter everywhere LOL!

Must get back to work now as I have 50 invitations to try and get done today. I've also made my DT card for next Sunday so I may be back later with a sneaky peek! Please try to join us for the Sunday challenges.

Take care and tfl. x