It's all red here

Hello blogland,

I will forgive you for thinking that today is Saturday as I am sharing the card I made for this fortnights challenge over at Sweet Stampin', but, however, it is actually Tuesday - I am just really late with the card.

I've both had a busy week (last week) as it was TTT's 'reading week' and so she was home, plus brought a friend with her for a night. And also, and probably more relevant, totally forgot it was the right Saturday for a new challenge!

So, here I am profusely apologising and saying that the theme this fortnight over at Sweet Stampin' is 'Red' - so along with following the normal rules (that is stamp, and don't backlink) this week we would like to see red somewhere on your project.

This is my card:

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

An Etsy seller called DigitalLenaShop - Birthday Girl

coloured with my Copics

Rubber stamp:

taylored expressions - Simple Strips: Background

Dies:

unbranded stitched rectangles

taylored expressions - Simple Strips: well rounded

Anything else:

Time for Tea : enamel dots

red cardstock for matting

You'd think these sort of 'all I did was colour an image' card would be quick and easy - and sometimes they are - but generally when there's so little on the card I agonise for ages over the placement of every little thing!  This was one of those cards.  I thoroughly enjoyed colouring the image and then faff'd over everything else for absolutely blooming ages!

Anyways, done now and as me mother used to say - 'better late than never'!

See you soon,

Sarah

Challenge/s:

Krafty Chicks Challenge: #845 Birthday

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends: #289 November 1

We Love to Create: Challenge 10 - Anything Goes

Paper, paper, everywhere

 Hello blogland

It's the first Saturday in the month and so time for a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar Challenge and the challenge theme this month is 'Die cuts / paper pieced'.  As always there is a little prize on offer for a randomly chosen winner and a Top 5 spot from the DT for their favourite entries.

It's a very friendly challenge and the rules are very simple - follow the theme and don't backlink.  The only other thing we ask is that you keep to a maximum of 3 entries per person.  That's it - really simple and easy.

Now I, obviously, use dies / die cut pieces all the time - so I decided I'd go old fashioned and do some paper piecing along with using my dies.  It is a challenge, after all! What do you think of the result?

Supplies used:

Rubber stamps:

Time For Tea stamps for Whimsy Stamps: Ponytail

coloured with my Copics and paper pieced

taylored expressions: Simple Strips - Background

Dies:

Creative Expressions: Noble Collection - stitched squares

Spellbinders: A Little Hello

Time For Tea: Rounded Corner Dies

taylored expressions: Simple Strips - well rounded

Patterned Paper:

Basic Grey: Sultry

Anything else:

Distress Ink

Copic fineliner

It's been a long time since I made a card like this - rubber stamps, paper piecing, square card, 6x6 paper pack.  All I needed to add was some flowers and it'd be like I was in a time warp and had been taken back 20 years!

Anyways, a card I enjoyed making and liked when it was finished, which is a rarity for me!  Also I made variations on a theme - so you may well be seeing similar looking cards coming up in the future.

I wasn't sure at the beginning if I had the right idea using the patterned paper on the die-cut sentiment - but in the end I thought it come out quite well.  It also followed both the die-cuts and paper piecing theme.

So there we go, a card I'm pleased with.

My teamies have all made lovely cards as well - you really should go check them out!

I'm also looking forward to going around and seeing all your cards as well.

See you all soon,

Sarah

Challenge/s:

Crafty Catz: #723 - Anything Goes

All About Challenges: #11 - All about Technique (that would be paper piecing, die-cutting, colouring, stamping, you can throw in heat embossing for the sentiment as well)

The Neglected Stuff Challenge: November 2026 - my neglected stuff would be: the stamp that has maybe been used once but I'm not sure (at least 8 years old) and the paper pack (if I remember rightly came out in 2008)

Polkadoodles Cardmaking: Challenge 11 Wk2

All square here

 Morning blogland,

As another Tuesday comes around we have a new challenge over at Passion for Markers, and this week theme is 'Square cards only'.

Our Teamie Marlene chose the theme and the sponsor for this challenge is Colour of Love Digis, who allowed the DT to pick a digi to use - I took advantage of the kind offer and chose a really cute image.

As always, you don't have to make a card to enter the challenge but you do have to follow the theme and the rules - which are use markers and don't backlink - if you want to be in with a chance to win a randomly chosen prize from our sponsor.

So, here's what I made, and to be honest it felt very odd using a square card blank again!  I used to use squares all the time, but in this incarnation as card maker I've moved on to rectangular - this did take a little re-adjustment, but it may have started a little streak!

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

Colour of Love: Lil Bohos - Unicorn Friend

coloured with my Markers (also I added a mouth for the character - I have a 'thing' about mouthless character images!)

Rubber stamp:

taylored expressions: Simple Strips - Friendship 2

Dies:

taylored expressions: Simple Strips - Asymetrical

Pretty Pink Posh - Scallops Two

and a frame from a set that I don't know who made as I brought it second hand

Anything else:

random scraps of patterned paper

ages old pre-made border embelishment

And that's about it folks!

I think this should be a popular challenge, and I look forward to seeing what everyone cooks up!

See you soon,

Sarah

Challenge/s:

Try it on Tuesday: Make it Magical (I hope Unicorns are magical enough for the challenge?)

Krafty Chicks Challenge: #844 - Anything Goes (optional twist 'coffee')

Time Out Challenges: #325 - Friendship

I love ProMarkers and other markers: #618  - Flowers or anything goes - obviously mine is really Anything Goes not flowers

Digi Chooseday: Challenge 11 / Wk 1 - Anything Goes