Here comes the Sunshine

Finally!

Good evening blogland, just a quick flyer to share my All Dressed Up Facebook Group DT inspiration card for July's challenge over in the Facebook Group.

So this is quite a late post for the challenge  - like I said this is a July challenge - but better late then never, I suppose!  You have until the end of this month to join in, the only rules are use an All Dressed Up digi and follow the theme, which this month is 'Seasons'.

I think I must have finally got something right - when I created this Summer card when it was still cold and wet right now Summer has finally arrived!  It's lovely, sunny and warm here in chilly Lincolnshire and I'm loving it!

Here's the card:

Supplies used:

Digital Stamp:

All Dressed Up - Summer Fairy

coloured with my Copics

Rubber stamps:

taylored expressions: Sending Sunshine

taylored expressions: Simple Strips: Friendship

Dies:

un-branded stitched rectangles

taylored expressions: Asymetrical

Anything else:

linen style card

Small update from me - TTT is off on school hols now and on Sunday we take her to London, she's staying there in UCL University Halls whilst doing a two week Psychology Summer School!  She's half way through her 'A' Levels now and it's looking like Psychology is her chosen career.  This two weeks is supposed to show her all the different types of Psychology careers and options and help her decide what aspect of it she wants to go into.  Two weeks without her, not sure if I'm happy or sad - we will find out in due course!

See you later,

Sarah

Tag, you're it!

Good morning blogland,

It's a lovely Saturday morning here in (for once) sunny Lincolnshire, the first day of the summer school holidays, and a new challenge over at Sweet Stampin' .  For the challenge this fortnight we'd like to see your stamping with a theme of 'Tags'.

Now, normally, I would have just added a tag to a card but, in the spirit of trying to stamp un-inked stamps and use smaller stamps, I went for a real, able to use, gift tag! It's ended up, with me doing that, that you've got two for the price of one! 

The logic I was using - if you're going to make a useable tag, then do something a bit more challenging than: stamp, colour, add to card.  So I decided to go with shaker tags and make my own background for the back panel of the shaker 'bit' and I was trying to mist a background over a stencil.  Four attempts later, I had two useable pieces of card. These are how they turned out:

Supplies used:

Stamps:

Time for Tea Designs: Let's Party

coloured with my Copics

Woodware: sentiments (I can't find anything on the packaging other than 'clear stamp set designed by

 Jane Gill')

Dies:

un-branded tag set

Impression Obsessions: Everyday Top Edgers

Stencil:

My Favorite Things: Sunrise Radiating Rays

Anything Else:

Cosmic Shimmer mister

sparkly stuff for the shaker

bit of twine for the tags

And that's it folks - I'm currently suffering with quite a bad head cold and am off to feel sorry for myself.

See you soon,

Sarah

Oh so pretty!

Good morning blogland,

It's a new week and so a new challenge is underway at Passion for Markers.  This week the sponsor is Di's Digi Stamps with a prize for one lucky winner of a £6.00 voucher.

The theme this week is 'Pretty Pastels' and was chosen by my wonderful Teamie  - Lisa.  As always there are only a couple of rules and they are - use your markers and follow the theme!

This is my card:

Supplies Used:

Digital Stamp:

Lili of the Valley - Bobby Socks (which I think is retired now)

coloured with my Copics

Rubber stamp:

Creative Craft Products - Funny Sentiments

Stencil:

Creative Expressions - Scattered Hearts

Dies:

un-branded stitched rectangles set

Anything else:

gems

flat back pearls

blending brush

Distress Inks

That's it about it folks - if we keep going as we are, I'll see you for the next challenge.

Sarah