Double trouble!

Another two in one challenge which I almost uploaded yesterday by mistake........I got the image onto my post then realised and deleted it :) I used Jane's sketch from the Secret Crafter's challenge and the colour combination of Ruby and Gold is from the Passion for ProMarkers blog.


I think the patterned paper is by Papermania but I'm not 100% sure.
Image was in my prize from the lovely Jo coloured with ProMarkers
Ric rac is from Ribbon Oasis
Sentiment si from Craftwork Cards
My jewels and gems are Card Candy, also from Craftwork Cards (and you can see my top reflected in them :))

Late again!

........with the challenge from Papertake Weekly (so what's new, I hear you cry LOL) Well anyway, it's done now. I was also having a mooch around whilst waiting for the mojo to kick in (I think it is going into holiday mode, but it's way too early :)) and I came across the Dutch Dare challenge blog which I had seen on a couple of blogs but never thought to investigate! They have a great sketch this week so I decided to use it with the Papertake challenge of "My Favourite Things" My absolute favouritist thing(s) at the moment are the new Bloom and Grow papers from My Minds Eye.......I just lurve them :)

Papers Bloom and Grow
Flowers cut from one of the sheets in the B&G pack
Orange card - Doodlebug
Brad - stash
Gems - Papermania
Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

TFL

Sketch Saturday

Sketch #59Papers - My Mind's Eye
Image - Digi Stamp Boutique coloured with Promarkers
Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis
Flowers - Prima
Brad - stash

:)

CPS

I've never seen the Card Positional System blog before and picked the following sketch up on someone's blog (but can't remember which one.) I shall, however, be visiting again.......the sketches are lovely and the DT cards are just fab!

Lilac card - stash
Patterned paper - magazine freebie
Image - Sketching Stamper - coloured with Promarkers and Glamour Dust
Flowers - Prima and Papermania
Ribbon and brad - stash

Inspirational Card Sketches

Dawn comes up with some lovely sketches but I must admit that they sometimes scare the life out of me LOL and this sketch was one of the scarey ones. When I first looked at it there appeared to be too much to put on my card but this is what the DT projects are for and they are fab and true to the blog title......thank you girls :)

Image - Scuba Josh
Bubbles stamp - DewDrop Craftz
Papers - World paper mountain!
Sentiment - Craftwork Cards
Fish - Cuttlebug

Thanks

Mojo Monday

Another great sketch and a slightly smaller pile on my desk :)
Papers used - K & Co and Sassafras
Image - Sketching Stamper's Digi Stamps coloured with Promarkers
Sentiment circle - Patti Picklicious
Flower - Prima
Everything else from stash

Friday Sketchers

I have a pile of images (some stamped and some downloads) on my desk and decided that, along with my paper mountain, so have decided that, before I print anything else I will use them up! So all my cards today have used bits from various pots on my desk. I was pleased when I saw this sketch as I felt it suited my little astronaut down to the ground :)

Image - Spaceman Josh from Digi Stamp Boutique coloured with ProMarkers
Paper - DCWV
Sentiment is pc generated.

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 :)

Win $1,000 at TheCuttlebugSpot.com!

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Passion for

ProMarkers (why do I keep wanting to call them Pro Plus?!?) LOL I am really enjoying these challenges and I think my colouring is definitely getting a bit a better :) I'm not sure my bank manager is liking them much though.........I have 50 pens now and still haven't got all the colours I need for the future challenges!

Anyhow this week the colours were cornflower blue and cocoa with the added twist of a sketch.


Image - Skateboarding Ian (Greeting Farm) coloured with ProMarkers (from Jo's blog candy)
Blue paper - K & Co Mat Stack
Blue spotty paper - magazine freebie
Sentiment - Craftwork Cards
Ric rac and buttons from stash

TFL xx

C

Wedding jewellery

Well after one of the crappiest of weeks again I thought I would lift the spirit of things by searching out some of the many projects I have undertaken and not got round to blogging. Whilst I was sorting out my desk top and clearing away some files I came across the following picture. Now I thought I had added this a while ago, before the wedding actually, but then I realised that I couldn't have done as I didn't finish it till about 2am on the morning of the wedding!! LOL


My dress and fascinator were black and ivory so I used AB crystal, jet black and silk Swarovski crystals to make myself a matching set of necklace, bracelet and earrings. I don't know if you can make it out, but there is a little butterfly in the centre of each earring (see close up). The beads were threaded onto silver tiger tail and I used sterling silver findings. The clasp on the necklace is a Swarovski rose clasp and it is just gorgeous.

I was really pleased with the way they turned out :)

So sad

We had another death in the family this morning. For those who visit my blog regularly, you will probably remember that we lost a treasured Aunt just before Christmas (amongst others :(). Well last night I had a phone call to say that her husband was in hospital drifting in and out of a coma. He was taken in with pneumonia and septicaemia and they found a large tumour in his stomach. He was taken off all his medication apart from morphine but he knew he was leaving us. He told his DiL the other day that Florence (his wife) had gone to make him a cup of tea and that although he was going to take it from her, he wasn't going to bring it back.........how sad is that. I've always believed that it is possible to die from a broken heart and this proves it to me all the more.

Rest easy now Cec and look after each other. We love and miss you both. xx

Great idea - Blog candy

I can't believe it's 2 years since Sue started her blog.....it certainly doesn't seem that long :) I can't remember when I started mine, I must go back to the beginning of my blog and have a look. I know I started it then dropped off, then restarted!

Sue says
"Can you believe that I’ll have been blogging for 2 years on the 17th July?
No?....Nor can I but it’s true! Right then, to be in the random draw which will take place on the 17th July you will need to leave me a comment on this post but it’s not quite that straight forward. You’re going to have to do a bit of work to join in with this. You’ll have noticed that my Blog Title is '99 Things' So to celebrate my blogaversary I’ve put some Candy together.
What follows is a list of 99 things that you may or may not have done and I thought it would be fun to see what you've all done.

So here’s the list. My ‘Haves’ are in Blue

1. Started your own blog

2. Slept under the stars

3. Played in a band

4. Visited Hawaii

5. Watched a meteor shower

6. Given more than you can afford to charity

7. Been to Disneyland/world/Disneyland Paris (All three on more than one occasion)

8. Climbed a mountain (it was only a little mountain but I thought it was huuuuuuuge .......Ben Nevis!)

9. Held a praying mantis

10. Sang a solo

11. Bungee jumped

12. Visited Paris

13. Watched a lightning storm at sea

14. Taught yourself an art from scratch

15. Adopted a child

16. Had food poisoning

17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty (Stopped at the bottom of it in a boat in March:))

18. Grown your own vegetables

19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France

20. Slept on an overnight train (when I was 14)

21. Had a pillow fight

22. Hitch hiked

23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill

24. Made a Snow Angel (snowman!)

25. Held a lamb

26. Gone skinny dipping

27. Run a Marathon

28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice

29. Seen a total eclipse

30. Watched a sunrise or sunset

31. Stood in the rim of the Grand Canyon

32. Been on a cruise ( mini cruises to Bruges, Hamburg and Amsterdam)

33. Seen Niagara Falls in person

34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors

35. Seen an erupting volcano in person. (I have photos of Mt St Helen taken from the plain as we returned from our holiday)

36. Taught yourself a new language

37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied

38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person

39. Gone rock climbing

40. Seen Michelangelo’s David

41. Sung karaoke (I think alcohol may have been involved :))

42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt

43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant

44. Visited Africa

45. Walked on a beach by moonlight

46. Been transported in an ambulance

47. Had your portrait painted (drawn in pencils, does that count?)

48. Gone deep sea fishing

49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person

50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris (I lived in Paris as a child but never went up the Eiffel Tower)

51. Gone scuba diving or snorkelling

52. Kissed in the rain

53. Played in the mud

54. Gone to a drive-in theatre

55. Been in a movie

56. Visited the Great Wall of China

57. Started a business

58. Taken a martial arts class

59. Visited Russia

60. Served at a soup kitchen

61. Sold Cookies for charity

62. Gone whale watching

63. Been given flowers for no reason (almost every week )

64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma (I can't as I have thyroid trouble)

65. Gone sky diving

66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp

67. Bounced a check

68. Flown in a helicopter

69. Saved a favourite childhood toy

70. Visited Buckingham Palace

71. Eaten Caviar

72. Pieced a quilt or blanket (for a project with little ones when I worked in Primary Ed)

73. Stood in Times Square

74. Toured the Everglades

75. Been fired from a job

76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London

77. Broken a bone

78. Been on a speeding motorcycle (only once!)

79. Been to the top of the Empire State Building (erm, I stood at the bottom and looked up a few times LOL)

80. Published a book

81. Visited the Vatican

82. Bought a brand new car

83. Walked in Jerusalem

84. Had your picture in the newspaper (When some friends got married)

85. Read the entire Bible

86. Visited the White House

87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating

88. Had chickenpox

89. Saved someone’s life

90. Sat on a jury

91. Met someone famous (John Parr, Billy Bremner, Peter Powell, DLT, Philip Schofield, Emperor Rosco, Simon Bates, Debbi Moore :))

92. Joined a book club

93. Lost a loved one (this morning :()

94. Had a baby

95. Seen the Alamo in person

96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake

97. Been involved in a law suit (does divorce count?)

98. Owned a cell phone

99. Been stung by a bee (and a wasp)

44 out of 99 (pah.....not done much have I!)

Now lets see what you've done!

List your answers on your blog and then link back to Sue so that she can come over and see.

Debbi Moore

I've just realised that I haven't posted my latest samples for Debbi! Making Christmas cards in June is quite difficult when the sun is shining but at least I didn't have to make them last week when it was swelteringly hot. I don't usually think about the 'C' word till we have been on holiday in August and even then I struggle LOL.
All of the backing papers, images, alphabets and sentiments are from Debbi's Christmas Dreams cd, the other bits and bobs are from my stash. I also used a couple of stamps from the Christmas 2 set and Metal Magic (which I was scared to death of at first, but absolutely love it now :))

Debbi will be on Create and Craft (I think) next Tuesday 14th so if you get the chance to watch, you might just see one of my cards :)

tfl

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!*

DewDrop Craftz

Have you checked out the new challenge on the DewDrop Craftz blog yet? Sarah has set a colour challenge using this fab picture (courtesy of Martha Stewart)

Isn't that just the most beautiful shade of blue?

The image is a new release from the DewDrop shop and will be available very soon. The stamp is made using another of Sally-Ann Hancock's sketches and I've coloured her with ProMarkers.
Paper - Stampin Up
Flowers - Prima
Sentiment - Craftwork Cards
Ric rac, ribbon and brad from stash

TFL

La Pashe

I'm not really into decoupage but I do like the sheets by Jak Heath. DH's uncle was 80 last weekend and I wanted to make him a card which was a bit special. He loves his garden but I've used everything else I have to do with gardening on previous cards, then I remembered I had these sheets. Once I had it cut out and made up I started my seach for a wood grained paper which I eventually found (but can't remember where from. Any how, DH rang him last Saturday and all he kept saying was that I was really clever, he had never seen a card like it before and was so chuffed with it he had shown it to everyone who had been round :)
I can't and won't take the full credit for the card as, if it wasn't for this very talented lady, Jak Heath, it would never have materialised......thanks Jak!

The bits and pieces hanging on the front of the shed are stamped images from a set I won a few years ago, I think they are by One Four Zero. The seed packet is a button and the brads are from my stash.

Can you tell I'm avoiding work? LOL I must get my bits finished though as I have another job to do this week that I'm really looking forward to :)

Take care, bfn

2 sketches

4 U sketches are just fab and although I've been using the sketches over the last few weeks, I haven't had the chance to upload them until now.

I had to wait to add my last card for the 2 Sketches as I used last weeks sketch for my DewDrop DT card :)



Images - Pink Petticoat
Card Candy - Craftwork Cards
Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis
Papers - K & Co, Pink Petticoat, Papermania and I think the swirl paper is 3 Bugs
Flowers - Prima
Everything else from stash

Inspirational Card Sketches

week #23. I needed to make a wedding card as part of the album order I'm working on at the moment and this sketch was perfect. The third part of the order was a money wallet which can be seen in the picture with the card. My brief for the whole order is baby pink, ivory and sparkly butterflies!
Printed paper - Pink Petticoat
Butterflies - Sizzix and Quickutz
Gems - Papermania
Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis
Rub on sentiment - MSE

I hope you like them, thanks for looking :)