A little bit of sparkle

Good evening blogland,

Wandering by with a card made just because I fancied colouring in the image - Ms Mojo was sadly lacking this week so sitting down and colouring anything was a bit of an achievement! 

No particular reason for Ms Mojo going on her jollies, I just didn't feel in the right frame of mind to sit and colour. When that happens I find reminding myself what digis I have sparks a bit of creativity. This was the case today - had a mooch around my digis and plumped for this really cute Mo Manning image and everything flowed from there!

Here's the final creation:

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

Mo's Digital Pencil - Janny Texting

coloured with my Copics

Rubber stamps:

'Birthday' - Taylored Expressions

'Happy' from a very old set that I've no idea who made!

Dies:

un-branded stitched rectangles

Pretty Pink Posh - Eyelet Borders

Anything else:

Striped and dotty paper - Anna Marie Designs

self-adhesive rhinestones

And that's it folks! Got a busy week next week - it was last day of school today leading to half-term holidays next week.  Got lots of things in the diary - not least a trip to the dentist to have a very large filling taken out and new one put in - oh happy days!! At least there's a shopping trip to Lincoln on Friday - now that's better!

Hope everyone is well,

Signing off now,

See you next week,

Sarah

Passion for Markers: Week 642 (special anniversary) - spots and/or stripes.  Congrats as well on your 13th anniversary! My goodness it only seems like yesterday I remember the challenge starting and entering with colouring with my ProMarkers - looong time ago!!

Crafty Catz: Challenge #597 - Anything Goes - Optional Twist - all about the girls

Krafty Chicks Challenge: #613 - All Occasions 

The Paper Shelter: Challenge #513 - Embellishments

Addicted to Stamps and More: Challenge #430 - Die cuts and/or stencils - just die cuts for me!

Cupcake Inspirations: #544 - Stripes

Queen of Hearts

Good morning blogland,

It's Saturday - which means a new challenge over at Sweet Stampin' Challenge, for Team Wends! This time round the challenge theme is Inspired by a Fairy Tale - Fairy Tale Creatures or Characters - as always please note there must be some stamped (digital or rubber) on your project, but your project doesn't have to be a card!

I however did make a card, oh the surprise!, and with a Saturated Canary image called 'Queen of Hearts' then had a mild moment of panic (I'm a proper follower of rules) and suddenly thought is Alice in Wonderland a Fairy Tale or a Modern Classic? Arggh - panic!  In the end I ran out of time to make a different card - and one of my Teamies has made a fab tag from another Queen of Hearts stamp - so peace restored!

Here's what I made - I was going to do something a bit more fancy with patterned paper and layers, but it would appear that's just not me at the minute (or at all?), so it's all relatively Clean and Simple again.

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

Saturated Canary - Queen of Hearts

coloured with my Copics

Rubber stamp:

Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips : Birthday

Dies:

Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips: Asymetrical

Creative Expressions - Noble Collection: Double Stitched Squares

Stencil:

Pretty Pink Posh - Layered Hearts Stencils

Anything else:

Distress Ink

Blending brush

Self-adhesive pearls

Hope you have time to pop over to the challenge and have a look at my Teamies work - amazing as always! 

Have a good weekend,

Signing off now,

see you soon,

Sarah

Challenges:

Passion for Markers: Week 641 - Pearls and/or gems

Krafty Chicks Challenge: Challenge #613 - CAS Week 3

Seize the Birthday: #238 - real or faux stitching.  Mine is faux - the dies used to cut-out the black card and stencilled panel both leave a stitched look.

Unicorn Challenge blog: #76 - Include pearls / bling (Hopefully someone from the DT will see this comment - I've been trying to leave a comment on the blog to say thanks for picking my card as a Top 3 - but my Anti-virus software is blocking me! So saying here - thanks for the Top 3 (5!) Pick and congrats to the other winners as well.

Dream Valley Challenges: Challenge #270 - add embellishments - I don't do a lot of embellishments but there are pearls on my card - hope that's enough!

Sleepy friends

 Good Morning blogland,

I'm here with my DT inspiration for the new challenge starting today over at Colour Crazy Craft Challenge, as always the theme is Anything Goes but as we are a colouring challenge there does have to be some element of hand colouring on your project.

This week's sponsor is Sweet November Stamps, who very kindly allowed the Design Team to use some super cute digis. Have to say, I love Sweet November, the stamps are so versatile - they can be used stand-alone or merged to make wonderful scenes. 

For this card I decided to use two elements from Tree Friend: Sycamore, the bear and the tree - I flipped and merged them in Publisher until I was happy with how they looked then coloured them and created a simple background with my Copics.

A very simple card, but so pretty - I hope you'll agree!

Supplies used:

Digital stamps:

Sweet November Stamps - Tree Friend: Sycamore

my hand drawn background

coloured with Copics

Rubber stamps:

Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips : Friendship

random hot-air balloon

Dies:

un-branded stitched rectangle

Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips : Well Rounded

Copic fineliner to draw the birds

Please pop over to the challenge and see what my Teamies have made - they are fab-u-lus, as usual - and why not join in while you're there! Your make doesn't need to be a card, just colour something and you're away!

Signing off now,

see you later,

Sarah

Challenges:

Digi Choosday: Wk 19 - Anything Goes

Cardz 4 Guyz: #296 - Wildlife

little red wagon: Challenge #654 - With a little help from my Friends

Birthday Boy

Afternoon Blogland

Another lengthy pause between posts, not intentional it's just that I'm struggling at the minute to find the ooomph to blog. Always something else that needs doing, blogging will re-appear high on my to-do list again, it's just low priority right at the minute.

Doesn't mean to say I'm neglecting making cards - that I'm certainly not! Got proof as well in the form of the card I'm posting today.  No reason to make it at all, don't even know any birthday boys, just felt like colouring a Pollycraft image and this one jumped to the front of the pile!

Have to say this card did not end up looking anything like the idea I had at the start! I'm not impressed with the colouring of his face - I was going for the 'he's got a nose/snout' angle, don't think I quite got there though.  Also there wasn't going to be any patterned paper on the card at all and now there's loads, the card was going to be square, then a side fold 5x7, now it's a top fold 5x7.  Hoping I'm not alone in a finished card looking nothing like the start point, or I'll just have to acknowledge what I've always thought - I'm a total weirdo!!!

Here's the card:

Supplies used:

Digital Image:

Pollycraft - Marley's Party

(I don't know if you can get the image anywhere now since Pollycraft no longer exists)

coloured with my Copics

Papers:

BoBunny - Surprise collection

scrap of striped card from Anna Marie Designs

Dies:

Julie Hickey - Birthday

My Favorite Things - A2 Stitched Rectangle STAX

Die-namics - Photo Corners

Anything else:

Basic Gray - dark brown chipboard letters : for 'boy'

black card

white gel pen for highlights on image

3d foam squares (give the image a bit height by popping it on them)

I'm off now - it's Saturday which is pizza day in our house and, as I make the pizza from scratch, I've a fair amount of prepping to do! 

Signing off now,

see you soon,

Sarah

Challenges:

Passion for Markers: Week 640 - for the men/boys

Crafty Catz: #595 - Anything Goes - with optional twist masculine

The Cutie Pie Challenge: #171 - Digi's and Die Cuts

Addicted to Stamps and More: Challenge #429 - Any Occasion

AAA Birthday: Game #37 - Let's Party

A bit Gothic!

 Good morning blogland,

This is a bit of a belated blogland anniversary - it was 13 months ago tomorrow that I re-started crafting and blogging, hasn't time flown by! I'm properly back into the swing of things now and realising that it's the colouring side of card making that I really enjoy.  I'm happy to sit for hours and just colour, but still struggle to do something 'interesting' with the finished coloured image on a card.  Maybe I'll just say that a coloured image and a die or two and not much else is my 'style'!

Properly 'back into carding' includes Stamparama at Harrogate - had fun there!  I'm sure, though, it's waaaay smaller than I remember when we used to go there with TTT (who was then SWMbO) in her buggy - would've been around the early 2010's - but it's still very nice to be able to see crafty stuff in real-life as it were.  One thing that I do like about it now is the wider aisles - I never appreciated being barged into, pushed around and having toes trod on in the old shows! I must've done my passive aggressive 'Don't mind me, I'm just invisible' mutter a million times in those days.

On the recent additions list are the nice little stack of new goodies from Stamparama, enough Copics from Cult Pens (on-line) to almost finish the 'collection' (only some greys to go now) and then a small parcel arrived from CraftStash (I do like the their stamp and die sets).  That'll be me now for some months - probably until my birthday!

Of course, I buy all this and then don't use it! The card I'm sharing today only used some new BV Copic colours - everything else has got to be over 8 years old! Oh, other than the digi and the font for the computer generated sentiment.

But it does illustrate my points above about how I love colouring but fail on interesting card layouts!

May I present the evidence, M'Lud!

Supplies used:

Digital Stamp:

Ching-Chou Kuik - Black Rose

coloured with Copics

Sentiment generated in Word

Dies:

Un-branded stitched rectangle

Anything else:

Home made cloud stencil

Distress Ink and a blending brush

paper 'dots'

There I think that's probably enough waffling on to put anyone off! So I'll say,

Signing off for now,

See you later,

Sarah

Challenges:

Passion for Markers: Week 639 - Flowers (a paltry amount of flowers I know, but then I'm not really a flowery person!)

Fab 'n' Funky Challenges: Challenge #550 - Punk or Goth - See now, I was never into Punk (it was a little early for me!) and I realise this image isn't pure Goth (more Gothic) but I made it for a friend of my daughter's so it needed to be this hair colour, otherwise there would've been a lot more black. If it doesn't meet the rules, don't worry - I know I'm taking a bit of a punt here!

As You Like It Challenge: Favourite Layout and Why - See waffle above! Condensed version - I used to use sketches, a lot, now I favour a lot of colouring and that takes over the style of card.  Hence Favourite Layout - a hand-coloured image, a die to cut the image out, a large sentiment and a little bit of embellishment. And job's a good 'un!

We Love Stamping: May challenge - For a Lady (or Girl)

Happy Little Stampers: May Stencil Challenge

The Fairy and the Unicorn: May Challenge

Digi Doodle Studio Challenge Blog: Challenge #49 - Fantasy / Light and Sprite / Believe in Magic

New challenge!

 Good morning blogland,

I'm here today as it's the first Saturday of the month so there is a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar Challenge! We have a fabulous sponsor in SheepSki Designs, a wonderful prize and a challenge theme of Anything Goes! The Design Team were very generously allowed to pick a digi and this is my make with my choice. 

When browsing the Etsy shop I saw this digi stamp, which sparked an idea and I ran with it, I'm hoping it's worked! I'm pretty sure the original idea behind this image might be a play on words - 'having a bad 'hare' day' - but I saw it and thought of the effort it takes to get ready for a night out. Et voila!

Supplies used:

Digi stamps:

SheepSki Designs - Bad Hare Day

coloured with my Copics

Sentiment is from an Etsy seller of cut files (they are intended for use with digital cutting machines making sayings to put on mugs, T-shirts, notice boards, etc - but I use them as digi stamps).

Everything else:

Die: Unbranded stitched rectangle

Stencil: Lawn Fawn

Bling: An ages old rhinestone embellishment

 Distress Ink - for inking through the stencil

Blending brush

Hope you find time to pop over to the challenge and take a look at my Teamies creations - they are all fabulous! Maybe even find time to join in with us? It's an easy theme this month and a great prize!

Meanwhile, dans la maison de Sarah, TTT and I are off to see the new Dr Strange film this afternoon. In all honesty I think I'm more excited than she is (I am a great Comic / Superhero film enthusiast) but still some nice mother / (moody teenage) daughter bonding time is always a bonus!!!

Signing off now,

See you soon,

Sarah

Challenges:

Crafty Catz: #594 - Anything Goes - optional twist: Hand Coloured Image

Dream Valley Challenges: Challenge #269 - 4 Legged Friends

Critter Crazy Challenge: Challenge #62 - Anything Goes

SheepSki Designs Challenge: Challenge #62 - For the Girlz

A G-llama-rous day!

Good morning blogland,

Apologies for being absent again this week - it's just been one of those weeks that has flown by with not much opportunity for crafting. Hopefully next week will be different!

Today, however, there is a new challenge on the Colour Crazy Craft Challenge blog and I'm joining in with a DT inspiration, even though it's not officially my turn. I had to join in when I saw the super cute images that our wonderful sponsor, All Dressed Up Stamps, were allowing the Design Team to play with - I've never coloured a Llama before!

As always the challenge theme is Anything Goes but please remember that we are a colouring challenge, so there does need to be some hand coloured part of your entry.

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

All Dressed Up Stamps - Llama

coloured with my Copics

Sentiment created in Word

Dies:

Un-branded stitched rectangle die

Pretty Pink Posh - Scalloped Borders One

I did actually use some patterned paper on this card, but it's so hidden it's not even worth mentioning! I tried doing an interesting spaced die-cut thing to create a border - total fail! I don't know where my brain was at but it wasn't working out where to use a die, so the paper got totally hidden. Although I have to say I did actually like the end effect even if it wasn't intentional.

That's it from me today folks,

Signing off,

See you soon.

Sarah

Challenge/s:

All Dressed Up Challenges: #127 April - Anything Goes

Digi Choosday Challenge: Week 17 - Anything Goes

Krafty Chicks Challenge: #610 - Week 1 (Stamp Act)

Cupcake Inspirations: #543 - Mother's Day / Someone Special Feminine