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Thursday, 9 June 2011

Tam's Birthday Card

Good morning!!

Just a quick post as I've got to get moving today :-)

I'm sharing Tam's birthday card, which I have made using the Lime Twist papers and a Kraftin Kimmie Stamp.  The florish is by Autumn Leaves and the sentiment is by LCI



I know it's a design I seem to be attached to, sorry :-( 

I'd like to enter this card into these challenges

Sue xx

Wednesday, 8 June 2011

Scrapbook Sisters Card Challenge 39 - English Country Garden

Hello!  I still can't get over that it is June already, and my resolution to do at least one Christmas card a week has well and truely failed (actually that failed by about the 8th of January!!).  I've got a few done, but nowhere near the stockpile I had intended to have by now :-(

Anyway, Christmas still seems an age away (yeah, right, watch me start to panic when we get to November!!), and we are still early summer here in the UK, so this weeks Scrapbook Sisters Card challenge is 

An English Country Garden


I decided to use some Basic Grey papers and a Bild Malarna stamp for this challenge, and keep it simple, as I think this stamp is lovely and needs little else :-)



And don't forget there is some rather fabby Blog Candy up for grabs at Scrapbook Sisters which you can have a go at winning by clicking here and adding your name to the little blue froggy
The sentiment is from a Woodware set, and I've stamped it on a mini tag.

Looking forward to seeing what you create :-), thanks for stopping by

Sue xx

Eye's Bigger than your belly???

LOL, that's what my Nan used to say to me when I couldn't finish something I'd asked for, and I think this little lady is having the same thought!!


I made this card using some of the My Minds Eye Lime Twist "Happy Go Lucky" papers that I got from Scrapbook Sisters, some pink CS and some ribbon and lace from Ladybug Crafts Ink, I used the sheer ruffle ribbon as I thought it went well with that humongous (sp???) candy floss!!

I used the sketch from the Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge, although cut my image into a rectangle as I don't have an oval die, so hope that is OK :-?


I coloured the Cotton Candy image and then covered the candy floss in glue and covered it with pink flock, and rubbed off anything particularly loose when it was dry - it looks good enough to eat, LOL!

The sentiment is from the It's Only Words 1 set by LCI.

This is quite a simple card for me, but I think it works well!!

Apart from the challenge over at Mo's I'd also like to enter these challenges


Busy day for me today as we are going to the appeal to try to get both kids into the same primary (elementary) school as they have put my youngest in a different school to the one my eldest goes to - how anyone expects me to get two kids to two different schools at the same time and back again at the end of the day is beyond me!  We have got to go before a panel of three people and state our case and the school has got to state why they refused him.  We should know the result in a few days, so keep everything crossed that I keep my nerve and get across everything I need to, and above all else I must not lose my temper or infer that anyone is a blithering idiot :-D
Thanks for stopping by, more tomorrow

Sue xx

Tuesday, 7 June 2011

Totally Ladybug Tuesday - Challenge 31 - Male theme

Good Morning!!!

This week over at Ladybug Crafts Ink Challenge it is the turn of the lovely Pam to set the challenge.  Well I say lovely, but seeing as she has asked us to make


cards and projects, I'm not so sure :-D

Luckily with Fathers Day just around the corner I had no excuse to procrastinate (ooh, look at me and the big words!!) as I have got about 8 to make, and before you think I've got some really odd family set up, no it's just the total needed from my kids to HB, and to their Granddads, and from us to our respective parents... so 8 it is!!  Oh my word, that is quite a lot isn't it, I'd best get cracking on them!!

You don't have to make a fathers day card, any male themed card is just fine!

If you have time why not pay the other Ladybugs a visit, as this week we are welcoming the lovely Julie as a GDT member while Hayley takes a little break.

OK, so enough of the blah blah blah and onto my card

I decided to use Football Jack, just love his little cheeks!!  I have to say my youngest son is starting to look like Jack... I think it's that cheeky boy look!! 



I used some of the new My Mind's Eye - Lime Twist "Out of The Blue", some Dotty Bazzill, and some Blue Ric-Rac.  The sentiment on the front is one of the ones that comes with the Olivia set from the BFF collection, although it's probably best not to let Jack know that they are from a girls set, as I don't think he'd appreciate it, LOL!  I was going to use some of the football die cuts that I cut a few weeks ago, but as I'd done this card as an A6 size, they looked a bit too big, and I found these footballs lurking at the bottom of my embellishment drawer which were a better size



After breaking my Martha Stewart stars punch a while ago I was border less but decided to give welding some stars up in the Cricut design programme thingy a go, and I think it works quite well!!

I went all simple for the inside, leaving enough room for Sam to try and sign it!!




Thanks for popping in, hope you like today's card :-)

Sue xx

P.S.  Please can I enter my card into these challenges

Monday, 6 June 2011

Blog Candy and Minnie Mouse Shoes...

Just a quick post to let you know that Scrapbook Sisters have a blog candy going at the moment,

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Click here to be taken to the post and leave your name with the little blue froggy!!  You've got til the 20th June to get your entry in, no catch, just the girls being lovely :-)

And the Minnie Mouse shoes...




Well I saw these little lovelies and they were a steal (not literally you understand... I did pay for them!!) so I popped them in my basket :-)  I was intending on wearing them today, but the rain put paid to that idea, plus the fact I was intending to wear some white linen trousers and I felt that they wouldn't fare too well in the downpour either, LOL :-)

 More tomorrow

Sue xx

Anyone for Tennis...

A little frenzy about tennis seems to have broken out at my work... watching it, playing it, buying outfits for it, you name it...

I have no intention of getting in on this new office fad, and this is as far as I will go!!  One of the tennis ladies asked me to make a tennis themed card for one of her friends, so I thought all white seemed appropriate!

Now there aren't that many tennis themed images out there, I only found ones by Kenny K and the one I settled on, Tennis Anya, from the Greeting Farm.  I probably could have found others by having a more thorough search, but I wanted to get on with the card!!

Anyway, duely purchased and printed, I got out loads of white CS and got cracking :-)


As ever I find it nearly impossible to take a picture of a white card!!

The layout is from this weeks Sketch Saturday Challenge

There is loads and loads of texture and detail on here, it's just hiding!! So please excuse the additional pics...



Grrr!!, so there's a Cuttlebug Dotty Swiss and a QuickKutz Diamonds embossing folder in there, plus a Tim Holtz "On The Fence" die cut.  I'm looking at it now and wondering if I should have popped a flourish on there somewhere, but hey ho, never mind!!

The sentiment is by PTI and I think the pom pom border is by Bazzill, (but it seems a bit smaller than the other stuff I have got by them so maybe not!!)  I like the look of this stuff as it reminds me of tennis balls, although I suppose to be accurate I should have used the yellow pom-pom!!  I replenished my white ribbon stock the other day so now have a few different widths of the lovely Berrisfords satin ribbon.



Anya was printed onto Neenah CS and coloured with Copics and a touch of stickles to her sun visor (OK, so it's a VERY glittery sun visor!!) and she has been 3D'd on a Nestie, which has in turn been 3D'd onto the card.  The flowers are Wild Orchid and another bunch which I got at Ally Pally

I'd like to enter my card into these challenges please
Sweet Stampin - Playing in the Summer Sun (does this card qualify - I hope so as they stop play when it rains!!)

Thanks for looking!  Back with something BRIGHT tomorrow :-)

Sue xx

Saturday, 4 June 2011

First Christening Card

Good morning!!

Today I am sharing the Christening card I have made for my friend to give to her friend (are you still with me???) for a Christening (obviouly...LOL!!)


I decided to use a variety of punches, dies and embossing folders, but as I was having a mental blank at the time took some inspiration from last months Craft Stamper.  I'm not sure if it has arrived yet as I had to rely on the post office, and I WILL cry if it doesn't get there in time or is damaged!!  I went for the out of the frame technique, but oh my word this is not easy with the lacy circles die!!  I printed the name of the little boy who's christening it is with my PC and the date, then used my PTI stamps to make them into a ticket.  Some assorted ribbon was stitched onto the ribbon bow with a white button, and I got the butterfly die out again and used the smaller in the set along with my trusty Tesco's punch to add some prettiness 

 

As this was a special occasion card, I decided it needed a special box to go with it, so cut one out and set about  complimenting the card.  The picture does not do this justice, but there are more die cuts, punching, embossing and a tulle flower under which is hiding a silver teddy bear charm.

Fingers crossed for this one's safe arrival!!

Thanks for looking, more tomorrow

Sue xx

Friday, 3 June 2011

Pink for Pinky :-)

Good Morning!!  Hope you are enjoying your week :-)  I can't believe we are into June already - where is the year going to!

Anyway, I thought I'd share a card I sent to my blogging buddy Pinky - I was a couple of days late for her birthday, but I hope she lets me off :-)

I thought I'd ink up one of my Gorgeous girls stamps and make her pink!  And I used some papers from one of the Lime Twist pads I got the other day.  Pinky doesn't know how lucky she is for me to have used one of these papers - they are still in the look and stroke stage, LOL!!


The gorgeous ribbon is a wired organza with some pretty stitched detail - it's been in my ribbon stash (yes it's got to the stage where my ribbon collection deserves it's own sub-section) and I tied it in a bow before adding a biggish button.

 

Anyway, that's it from me today - hope you had a great day Pinky :-)  Sorry it was late!

I'd like to enter these challenges


Sue xx

Thursday, 2 June 2011

CAS, really, really, CAS

Good morning!!

OK, deep breath!!  This is so much of a tough challenge for me, cos even my CAS cards have layers of some sort on them, but I've been looking at some of the work my friends Jeannie and Julie have been doing recently, plus other stuff from around blog land I decided to challenge myself and give it a go... and enter the Less Is More - Pick a Square Challenge at the same time

And wadda you know, two cards!!

So I picked a square and made a card with a die cut florish, and die cut and punched butterflies. The butterflies have been inked with a Bundled Sage distress ink pad, and the florish is from a scrap of

Bo Bunny Double Dot CS



The second uses some new Bo Bunny stamps I picked up the other day when I popped into Scrapbook Sisters - honestly I should wear a blindfold to stop myself being naughty as they have some lovely stuff in at the moment :-)

I wanted to send my friend Ali a card, as she had ordered a Christening card from me and I know she stops by my blog every now and then.  We first met when we started primary school when we were 4, so I have known her... OMG 34 years this year!!  That's a long time!!  I think she is as stunned as I am at me being able to create things as we always hid at the back in art classes and she was one of the fellow recipients of a tut from whichever art teacher was trying to teach us.  Maybe with hindsight there was talent there, just the teaching didn't allow it to shine :-)  Anyway, we have been going on for ages about how we need to meet up for lunch and haven't got round to it for one reason or another.  A poor excuse I know, and as I was thumbing through some old pictures the other day I found quite a few of her in my birthday photos... always with a silly face on... LOL!!!  It really doesn't seem like its been 34 years, so this image and the Sandilion sentiment seemed appropriate.  I stamped the sentiment and then masked it to stamp the pocket watch and corner florishes.

I do like the simplicity of these cards as they really make you think about the composition and there isn't much room for error as you can't cover it up!!  Not that I ever have to do a bit of quick thinking to cover up something that hasn't worked as I'd intended, oh no :-D.  I'm not sure anything will prise me away from the more-is-more technique, but it certainly makes a nice change :-)  And it does make for a lovely quick card (think half an hour instead of my usual 2-3 hours!!)

I'd like to enter my cards for


Before I go, I got a mail the other day (OK last week, but time flies when you're having fun huh???) from Jeanie aka The Spotted Chick to say that I was one of the winners from her That's Krafty Thursday Challenge - which makes me a Krafty Chick, with even the badge to prove it, LOL!!  Thank you Jeanie, I was doing the clappy hand dance for ages after reading your email... which got me a few odd looks in the office but hey!!



now if I've worked it out right, I think today will be the start of the next Krafty Thursday, so why not stop on by and share you Krafty creations?

Thanks for looking!  More tomorrow

Sue xx

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Scrapbook Sisters Card Challenge - 38 - It’s a man’s world

Hi, this week at Scrapbook Sisters Card Challenge the theme is

It's a Man's World

I stuggle with mens cards at the best of times so I was delighted with this challenge, lol :-)  However the recent release of car digi's by Gayle seemed the perfect choice, not least because my HB seems to spend more time in the garage working on the mini than he spends inside the house :-D



I used Car Five and some Father and Son papers by Fancy Pants - these ones are Top Pop and the rather bizarrly named Stud Muffin!  (yes, really that's what's called - I had to double check myself... LOL!!).  I got the rather fabby ribbon from Scrapbook Sisters the other day - I think it's May Arts but i could be wrong!!

I haven't used a sentiment yet as I'm not sure if I'm going to use this for a fathers day card, or turn it into a birthday card... choices, choices!!

And I've only just noticed that when I took a picture there is a reflection off the glossy accented bumper, tyre, window and lights of my garden!!  No zooming in please, it needed a good going over when I took this pic :-)  This is what I get when I take my pics during the day, LOL!!


We are still working through the stomach bug in our house - both kids are back to normal but HB woke me at 4am to let me know he now had it... as you can imagine at that time in the morning I was so sympathetic :-D.  Particularly as he then spent the time before I had to get up sighing and fussing, and generally keeping me awake.  I was not impressed!!  Honestly I'd have made a terrible nurse, I just don't do ill people :-)  I'm keeping everything crossed that I have managed to avoid it!!

That's it from me today, looking forward to seeing your male creations!

Sue xx

Tuesday, 31 May 2011

Totally Ladybug Tuesday - Challenge 30 - Make your own embellishments

Good morning!!  This week over at the Ladybug Crafts Ink Challenge itis week it is the turn of the lovely Anita to set the challenge and she would like you to


Now I had all sorts of ideas for this one, involving making charms with Fimo, but sicky kids put paid to that idea and I went for making my own flowers out of the lovely felt Kerry has in her store... I'll park the fimo idea for another time :-)


I used some lovely papers from the "Its All the Little Things" Fancy Pants pad and a sketch from a few weeks back.  And check me out - I paper pieced Shopping Nikki's bags (I never do this, but always admire it on other peoples cards!)  The picture hasn't picked it out at all well but I also felt pieced one of the bags with a scrap of felt left over from the flowers.

I love this Marianne Die, and just added some caramel chalk eye round the edge to blend it in with the papers.  I also stitched round the edges of all the papers with brown machine embroidery floss.  Oooh and the lace is gorgeous on it's own, but this one has a strip of velvet ribbon along the middle, how lush is that!!


In the centre of the flowers are little gems I picked up off the table from a wedding we went to  recently.  Honestly you wouldn't believe the number of children I had to fight off to get them - in the end I popped them in my clutch bag as they were in danger of being snaffled off the table, by a little love while I went to the buffet :-D.  Tusk, kids today :-)

I'm really looking to seeing all the fabulous embellishments you come up with for this challenge - if you have time, why not check out what the rest of the DT have come up with?  Links to all their blogs are on the sidebar

Thanks for looking (and reading... honestly I'm not that horrible to small children!!)

More tomorrow!!

Sue xx

P.S.  Please can I enter these challenges - thank you :-)

Monday, 30 May 2011

CASsy Cutie

Two posts in one day!  Look at me go!!

I decided to make a quick card using the scraps from my earlier card to make another note card for my box - I'm now thinking of making a little box thingy and putting six or so in each one and giving them as gifts at Christmas or whenever!  I might just have enough to go round by then!!

Seeing as I'm missing out on our family day out due to sicky child, I thought I'd make the most of him being quiet and get some crafting done!


I used this weeks Sweet Stop Sketch, just rotated it 90 degrees





I used one of my favourite Kenny K images, and a Whimsy stamp


I really could get into this CAS thing you know :-)

I'd like to enter this card into these challenges

Thanks for stopping by, more tomorrow!!

Sue xx

Just my cup of tea... or hot chocolate :-)

Hi!  I hope you are having better weekend than we are as my eldest got a sicky bug on Friday that left him wiped out most of yesterday as well, just as we thought it would be safe to go out today, the small one started yesterday... ewwww!!!!

Thankfully they aren't too ill too often, so it comes as a nasty surprise to them (and me!) when they are :-(

There does seem to be a nasty bug going around as both my MIL and FIL had it on Saturday night, so spent Sunday laid up in bed recovering... cue horrified look from my HB as it was their Ruby Wedding Anniversary yesterday and when he phoned to wish them a good day only to be told they had spent all of it in bed... it took a few seconds before he realised they were ill and not passing on more information than he wanted to hear... ROFL!!!

Which brings me in a kinda round-a-bout way to todays card, which I made for them.



I used some Bo Bunny papers that have been sitting in my stash for a while and used a Paper Shelter digi, some ribbon and a button.  The sentiment is by Woodware.


I printed a sentiment for the inside off on the computer as I didn't have anything suitable for a ruby wedding, I guess it's not something that is called for much!!

I quite like the combo of red and chocolate with these papers, I know its not that traditional a card for such an occasion but I think they'll approve :-)


I'd like to enter this card for these challenges

Thanks for stopping by, hope you have a great day :-)

Sue xx

Thursday, 26 May 2011

All white, but she's no angel!

Good morning!

Over at the Kenny K Challenge this week is a WOW challenge, and this gave me the perfect excuse to get busy with one of my favourite images and the embossing folders :-)  lol, as if I ever need an excuse!!

Here's what I came up with!


In place of paper I embossed most of the panels, and added a die cut, organza and suede ruffle edge ribbon and lace, and some shiny white drops in two of the corners


I kept the image pretty colour free, just some very pale greys on her hair, and trainers and where I thought the shadow would be.  Oh and colour on her face too, to avoid the Twilight look :-).

I adore this image, but as my title say's she doesn't look particularly angelic!!



I'd also like to enter these challenges


That's it from me today, more tomorrow

Sue xx

Wednesday, 25 May 2011

Scrapbook Sisters Card Challenge 37 - Row, Row, Row, Your Boat

Hi!  Today over at Scrapbook Sisters Card Challenge the theme is

Row, Row, Row, Your Boat

I decided to make a masculine card using a Mo Manning Digi

I kept it simple, cos guys cards never seem to work for me if they are too fussy :-)


The paper is Basic Grey Urban Couture "Loselle", and I teamed this with a cream and mid brown CS.  The saddle stitched ribbon is also from Scrapbook Sisters.

Thanks for stopping by, more tomorrow :-)

Sue xx

Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Totally Ladybug Tuesday - Challenge 29 - Animals

Good morning!

This week over at the Ladybug Crafts Ink Challenge blog (akaTotally Ladybug Tuesday!) it is the turn of the lovely Pinky to set the challenge and she has chosen


I chose to use an animal as the main image, but as long as there is an animal somewhere on your card that's fine :-D


This card is for my Dad, who is 81 today, and he had cats on and off throughout his life, so I think he will appriciate Magnum!! (available here). The sentiment is also by LCI, as is the Meshy ribbon stuff :-)


Papers are by Fancy Pants, and the screw brads are by Woodware.

I'd like to enter my card into these challenges


Thanks for stopping by, I'm looking forward to seeing your creations :-)

Sue xx

Monday, 23 May 2011

Monday, first of a long run of Birthdays

Good morning!  I am NOT happy to be going back to work today, was it just me or was the weekend over FAR too quickly?!

I have a fairly hefty run of birthdays this week, as it's both my Dad's and my SIL's birthday tomorrow and we are going to a wedding on Friday.   I have also been asked to make two Christening cards for one of my friends, a tennis themed birthday card for another and a wedding card for someone else... I can see it's going to be a busy week!

Today I'm sharing the card I made for my SIL 



She has just had a baby so I thought this Kraftin Kimmie image was perfect - although maybe I should have indicated bigger bags under her eyes!!  The papers are Bo Bunny Double Dot and Peacock Lane, and the pleated ribbon is available here


I used the scraps to do the inside


I used the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge Sketch, and I'd also like to enter these challenges


Thanks for stopping by, more tomorrow

Sue xx

Sunday, 22 May 2011

Going Green

Hi, hope you are having a great weekend - my house is buried under the never ending piles of washing!!  It was a lovely day here yesterday, but up here on my hill there was a gentle breeze, so I took the opportunity to wash as many of the big things as I could.  Only trouble is now I have the ironing pile from hell!!

While the washing machine was chugging away I made a card or two and after all the black and white of the last few posts I thought an injection of colour was a good idea :-)


Seems as if I'm hung up on monochrome at the moment, what's that all about!!  Still with this Bugaboo image green was kinda a given :-)

The papers are assorted Bo Bunny as is the ribbon


I used the sketch from Sweet Stampin' Challenge

Please can I also enter

Thanks for stopping by, more tomorrow

Sue xx




Saturday, 21 May 2011

Black and White Christmas

Good Morning!!

Hmmm, I'm not 100% sure that black and white is Christmasy, but hey, rules are meant to be broken!!

Today's card uses Girl with Presents, one of the Gayle Bond digi's available from Scrapbook Sisters

Here's my card


The papers are by Kanban, sentiment by Personal Impressions (I think!) ribbon by Berrisfords, Lacey circle nestie and a Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder


It hasn't picked up AT ALL (!!!) on the photo, but I have added a touch of stickles to the trim of her coat, had, gloves and shoes.  Hmmm - I must take note of what Mary J and Julie have been saying this week about taking photos, this pic DOES NOT do her justice!!  It doesn't help that I never get to take my pics in natural daylight... grrrr!!, and that I still haven't got myself a light box, despite saying I will for ages now...I can't help it, I see nice papers and they win every time :-)

I'd like to enter this card into these challenges please

The Stamp Man - Bingo Recipe (I've used Stitches/Ribbon/Die Cut)
Kaboodle Doodles - Tic-Tac-Toe (Digi-Ribbon-Embossing)

That's it from me today - I promise to really try to post something that isn't black and white tomorrow :-)  In the meantime, have a fabulous weekend, thanks for stopping by

Sue xx

Friday, 20 May 2011

I've gone a bit black and white obsessed!

Good morning!

Goodness knows why but I've gone a bit black and white obsessed after making my DT cards for this weeks Scrapbook Sisters Card Challenge!

So much so that I've got three more to share with you :-), although I'll share two today, cos they are pretty much the same card, just with a different image.  Is that cheating?  If it is sorry!!

Right, first up, one of my much neglegted Gorjuss Girls


The papers are by Theresa Collins but oh my, I'd forgotten until I was colouring her hair, how much I liked her!


The layout is one of my favourites, but my real favourite on this card is the felt on the panel and that I have used to make the flowers - gorgous proper wool felt (you can get it from LCI, here)



I'd like to enter this card for these challenges


My second card uses the Krafin' Kimmie stamp that arrived this week, that I won over at the Kraftin Kimmie challenge






I'd like to enter this card for these challenges

Sorry if I'm being a bit, you know, boring going all black and white- it kinda suits my mood this week :-/

One more to share tomorrow, and then I promise to do something COLOURFUL!!

Unitl then, thanks for stopping by, and have a great day :-)

Sue xx