Gamer!

Good evening blogland,

A very quick post here, again to share a card to join in with a challenge - I really ought to get myself more organised so I'm not limboing under the finish post of challenges all the time!

Fairly excited here for Sunday - I'm off to Harrogate Stamperama! Bit of a long drive, takes 2 1/2 hours to get there, but it's worth it! Anyone else going? 

Here's the last minute entry to challenge card - just a random, coloured for fun image made into a card.

Stamps used:

Digital stamp:

Saturated Canary - Gamer

coloured with my Copics

Rubber stamp: 

Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips: Man, Myth, Legend

Dies:

My Favorite Things - Skinny Strips

Sunny Studios - Stitched Circles

Patterned Paper:

echo park - A Boy's Life

Anything else?

Blue paper twine

And that's it folks, till next time! 

Signing off,

Sarah

Challenge/s:

Crafty Catz: #592 - Anything Goes / option add ribbon/twine, paper twine for me.

Passion for Markers: Week 638 - Favourite Colours.  Well I do seem to be leaning into shades of green, blue and a bit of red at the minute. Maybe it's because I find those the easiest Copics to work with! (Ha, and for once it's not PfMs that I'm linking up with at the last minute!)

Addicted to Stamps and More!: #428 - Birthdays

Make My Monday Challenge: #173 - Happy Birthday

Ouch!

Good Morning Blogland

`Here I am with all systems go and normality restored, which will last until the next school holidays when life will be up in the air again! De ja vu anyone?

Anyways, lets leave the griping behind and talk cards! I made this over the weekend to join in with Passion for Markers - had withdrawal symptoms last week as I ran out of time to enter.  So I had to get back on track this week!

Y'know, I only realised after colouring the majority of the image that the poor kid in this stamp is having his toe snapped at by a crab! Previous to this realisation I had the sentiment all lined up and then had a moment of panic, wondering if the sentiment actually suits the image. This resulted in me rummaging through all the sentiments I have, not finding anything I thought would be appropriate and going back to Plan A after all!  Does anyone else feel they don't have enough sentiments, or is it just me! 

Card for you:

Supplies Used:

Digital Stamp:

Polkadoodles - Rocco Surf's Up

coloured with my Copics

Rubber Stamp:

Whimsy Stamps - Simple Sentiment Strips

Dies:

Creative Expressions - Sue Noble Collection: Double Stitched Squares

Pretty Pink Posh - Scallop Borders 2

Whimsy Stamps - Smile 

Papers:

echo park - Splash

It was going to be a completely flat card (no 3d foam anywhere) but that just felt so odd for this type of card, in the end I 3d'd the sentiment by cutting and stacking it with random white card.  Much better!

And so I'm off now for a busy day of housework and exercise! Oh the joys!

Signing off,

See you soon,

Sarah

Challenge/s:

Passion for Markers: Week 637 - In or on the sea

Gem of A Craft Challenge: Wk 9 - Anything Goes

Polkadoodles Craft Challenge: Wk 17 - Anything Goes

Digi Choosday Craft Challenge: Week 16 - Anything Goes

Rainbows and Rainy Days

Good morning blogland

Today I'm here with my DT card for the new challenge over at Sweet Stampin' where the theme is 'Rainbows and Rainy Days - Welcome Spring'. Your project doesn't need to be a card it can be anything you like, as long as there is some stamping in there somewhere (digital or rubber).  For this challenge, I went with the Rainy Days part of the challenge as the main focus and Rainbows in the sentiment. 

I'm quite happy how this one turned out in the end but had a couple of 'damn' moments on the way! One moment was the dreaded Copic blob on my colouring, I'm pretty sure I've managed to work it out but I know it's there. Second moment was when I realised there are same Copic colours in both her hair and coat, and I lost some of the definition of the hair where it lays over her coat.  I should've done the coat and skirt the other way around, I think!

Supplies used:

Digital Stamp:

Saturated Canary - Umbrellaclosed

coloured with my Copics

Sentiment:

A quote found on the internet

Dies:

Unbranded stitched rectangles

Anything else:

Striped card

Rhinestones

There, that's my project, why not pop over to the Blog now and see the cards my Teamies have made - they are fabulous one and all! 

Signing off now and see you soon, 

Sarah

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Rain or Shine

Digi Choosday: Wk 15 - Anything Goes

Try it on Tuesday: I Can Hear Music - Song title 'Raindrops Keep Failing on My Head'

Inspiration Station: #38 - April Showers - colours and Season 

Stamping Sensations: April - "I Love..." Stamping and colouring - currently my favourite digi stamps to use are Saturated Canary, as they challenge me to improve my colouring.

We Love Stamping: April challenge - Favourite Stamp - at the moment my favourite stamps come from Saturated Canary, couldn't pick a favourite from them, love them all!

Daffodils and a hedgehog!

Good Morning Blogland

I'm here with my DT inspiration for the new challenge starting today at Colour Crazy Craft Challenge, as always the theme is Anything Goes, but there has to be some hand coloured element on your entry.  Your entry doesn't have to be a card, that's just my go to, but something on it does need to be hand coloured.

This week we are sponsored by the wonderful Lee Holland Art, and the Design Team were very kindly allowed a stamp or two to play with.  This is my card using this super sweet image - Hedgehog with Daffodils.

Supplies used:

Digital Stamp:

Lee Holland Art - Hedgehog with Daffodils

coloured with my Copics

Rubber stamp:

tyalored expressions - Big Thanks

Dies:

unbranded stitched rectangles

Memory Box - thank you

I do hope you find time to pop over to the challenge and see the gorgeous creations my Teamies have made.  Maybe they might inspire you to join in as well!

Thanks for popping by and I'll be back soon,

Sarah

Challenges:

As You Like it Challenge: Favourite: Floral or Cute - Pretty sure you can tell from all my posts - Cute! Not always creatures, more often people, but definitely cute over floral any day. I have been known to colour flowers, it's just not my thing - so I always return to cute.

Fab 'n' Funky Challenges: Challenge #549 - Feature a Creature

Time Out Challenges: Challenge 212 - Spring

Use Your Stuff: #446 Spring/Easter - New digi, but everything else is from my 'stuff'

Unicorn Challenge: Challenge #75 - Include an Animal

Di's Digi Challenge: Welcome Spring

Back to my desk

Good morning blogland,

I'm back! As always school holidays throw my routines up in the air and it takes a couple of days to recover them. I'm getting there now.

Hope everyone had a good break (and Easter if that's your thing), we went on mini break to London - to see another musical, 'Wicked' this time  and do the touristy thing of wandering around.  I do like my musicals, TTT and hubby just really get dragged along with! Although TTT appreciated the trip as we went back to Camden Lock and back to the shops that sell Manga / Anime books, collectibles and Japanese food that she likes.

I am sorry I've not been visiting anyone's blogs - keeping up with my DT commenting was about as much as I could manage. Will rectify that from now.

So cards - all I've managed to make are essentials, no playing for fun! Birthday card I'm sharing today was for a friend of TTT's. Hard to believe all these 'little children' most of whom I've known since they were babies are starting to turn 15, GCSE's next year as well - time has really flown by!

 Supplies used

Digital Stamp:

Saturated Canary - Coffee Needed

coloured with my Copics

Rubber Stamp:

Catherine Pooler - Happy Birthday Many Ways

Dies:

Unbranded stitched rectangles

Catherine Pooler - 'bestie'

Anything else?

Black card

HobbyHouse - self-adhesive rhinestone

Mei Flower - pearl heart

Now I'm off to take a look and comment on all the cards I've missed in Blogland over the Easter break.

Signing off,

See you soon,

Sarah

Challenge/s:

Krafty Chicks Challenge: Challenge #608 - CAS

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends: #180 - Anything Goes

Happy Little Stampers: April Anything Goes with Dies Challenge

Seize the Birthday: #236 - Birthday (option Spring)

Aud Sentiment Challenge: #293 - Use a Birthday Sentiment

Teenagers!

Good evening blogland,

So who can guess what's happened in our household the last week?  Yep, that's it - School Holidays! One week in and one week to go.  As always the first thing to be dropped at these times is my crafting, so no blogging either.

Still I did make two cards as it was TTTs boyfriend's (still can't believe that is a thing) birthday end of last week. One card was rejected - I got his hair colour wrong - and had to be made again, this one was accepted no problems, as 'it's not too obvious you got his hair colour wrong again'!

Accepted card:

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

Mo's Digital Pencil - Aiden

coloured with my Copics

Rubber stamp (sentiment)

taylored expressions - Birthday

Dies:

Die-namics - Stitched rectangle STAX

taylored expressions - Aysmmetrical

Paper:

Basic Grey - archaic

Anything else:

indentz embossing folder

Basic Grey - chipboard numbers

That's about it folks, hopefully I'll manage to post before another week has gone by - but you never know when it's school holidays!

Signing off now,

see you soon,

Sarah 

Challenge/s:

Fab 'n' Funky Challenges: #548 masculine

Crafty Catz: #590 -  Anything Goes

As You Like It Challenge: To Recycle or Buy New - Hmmm well now, I used to keep loads of 'bits' to use on my cards - bits of ribbon off of clothes, bits of packaging, bits of other cards -  soo many 'bits'! Then chucked them all when I realised I'd kept most of them for over 10 years and not used them! However I don't buy much new either (other than digis and dies) and I do use lots of scraps - paper and card.  So what am I? I'm not sure - not really a recycler nor a big buyer of new.  Maybe I tip towards buy new - but I think there must be a new word out there for me! Scrooge-er??!

Dream Valley Challenges: #267 Anything Goes

Krafty Chicks Challenge: #606 - Week 1, Stamp Act

Intergalatic Starjumper!

 Good morning blogland

As it's the first Saturday of the month, I'm here with a new challenge for you from Crafty Calendar Challenge and our theme this month is Anything But Square.  This month we are sponsored by Oddball Art, who very kindly allowed the DT to choose some images from the shop.

I found this an interesting one, considering that one of my most used card blanks is a 6x6" square! I could've gone for my second most used card blank of a 5x7" top fold rectangle, but decided (in a moment of inspiration that I later regretted) to push the boat out and use a round card blank!

This my card:

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

Oddball Art - Starla Jones - the 3rd Intergalatic Star Jumper

coloured with my Copics

Rubber stamp:

Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips: Friendship

Dies:

Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips: Asymmetrical

Spellbinders - Grand Nestabilities - Scalloped Circles

Anything else:

White gel pen

Stickles glitter glue

The circle card base idea went slightly wrong, as when I made the base I ended up with the fold in the wrong place and everything went off-kilter, I really do need some large plain circle dies if I'm going to attempt this again!  TTT wandered in as I was cursing the world, said it's not wrong it's 'quirky' - so let's say that was my original intention, shall we and close that chapter of this make!

You really should pop over to the challenge blog - my Teamies absolutely smashed this challenge (their cards aren't 'quirky!) and made much better shaped cards than I have! I'm also looking forward to seeing all the entries as I can only imagine there will be some brilliant takes on this theme!

Signing off now,

See you later,

Sarah

Challenge/s:

Polkadoodles Craft Challenge: WK 13 - Anything Goes

The Fairy and The Unicorn Challenge: April 2022 - Anything Goes

Krafty Chicks Challenge: #605 Week 5 ATG

Creative Fingers Challenge Blog: #228 - Anything Goes