OK, so another one of those cards

Good evening blogland

I'm nipping in here before the end of the month to share my All Dressed Up FaceBook group challenge inspiration card.

This month the theme is 'Seasons Greetings', so it's time to dig out the Seasonal images and do Christmas far too early in the year! Still it's not too bad this time, even though I'm not keen on the whole season, I quite like this card. I like the image and my colour scheme - going monochrome is one of my favourite ways to colour.

There's a load of fabulous inspiration from the other Facebook Teamies, if you Facebook why not head over and pop in an entry.  You've still got a week to go till the end of the month and the challenge closes.

And here's the card:

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

All Dressed Up - All Dressed Up for Christmas

coloured with my Copics

Dies used:

Un-branded stitched rectangle dies

Anything else:

Bakers Twine

star embellishment

Hope everyone is doing well - we've just got back from TTT's schools' 6th Form Open Evening. Can't believe she's doing GCSE's next year and thinking about A Levels already!  Still no idea what she wants to do for a career though. I'm not surprised - who really knows what they want to do for their life at 15 years of age!

It's getting a bit late so I'm heading off now, got dishes to do and a bed calling!

Sarah 

Challenge/s:

Lots of birthday wishes

Morning blogland,

Time for a new challenge over at Sweet Stampin' and this fortnight it's a theme of Birthdays! The reason for this theme? It's because Sweet Stampin' Challenge is 13 years old today! 

Makes me feel old - I remember joining the team first time round when TTT was SWMbO and to explain to anyone who is wondering what nonsense I'm spouting these are my names for my daughter.  She's currently known as 'The Terrible Teen' (TTT) but when I was first blogging was a small child who liked to get her own way hence 'She Who Must be Obeyed'(SWMbO). My goodness where does the time go!

Anyways, onto the official stuff - you can enter any craft project you like into the challenge, it doesn't have to be a card, but as we are a stamping challenge, there does need to be some element of stamping on your project. We don't mind if rubber or digital, that's up to you!

I make mostly birthday cards and haven't blogged many of them recently so had a lot to choose from. I couldn't pick from a couple of favourites, so I gave the choice of which to choose to Susan of Team Susan and she said - use both! So here are both.

Card one:

Card Two:

Supplies used:

Card one:

Digital stamp:

Saturated Canary - Be You

coloured with my Copics

Rubber stamps:

Time for Tea Designs - Bold Sentiments

taylored expressions - Think Happy Thoughts

Whimsy Stamps - You're my Always

Dies:

un-branded stitched rectangle and alphabet sets

Card two:

Digital stamp:

Saturated Canary - Cupcake Cutie

coloured with my Copics

Rubber stamp:

taylored expressions - Simple Strips: Birthday

Dies:

un-branded stitched rectangles

taylored expressions - Simple Strips: Well Rounded

LaLa Land Crafts Dies - Heart Banner

It would be lovely if you could find time to pop on over to the blog and join in - 13 years and still alive in Blogworld I think is a good achievement! You'll also see the fabulous array of cards my Teamies have made, and they are fabulous - Teamies and cards both!!

Hope to see you again soon,

Sarah

Challenges:

Card One:

Krafty Chicks Challenge - #638: CaS

Polkadoodles - Wk 46: Anything Goes

Happy Little Stampers - Anything Goes with Dies (November)

Card Two:

Gem of a Craft Challenge - Wk 24: Anything Goes

Seize the Birthday - #251 : Many of Something (Cupcakes)

Acorn Fairy

Good morning blogworld

I'm here with a card using one of the images from this month's new release from All Dressed Up Stamps. As part of the Facebook inspiration team I get to see these images a little early, but more importantly I get to have a play with one of them and this is the card I made from the image I got to colour in.

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

All Dressed Up - Acorn Fairy

coloured with my Copics

Rubber sentiment stamp:

Altenew - Inked Lotus

Patterned Paper:

First Edition - New Leaf

Dies:

Creative Expressions - Double Stitched Squares

Pretty Pink Posh - Eyelet Borders

Anything else:

Flatbacked adhesive pearls

There are some super cute images in this month's release and, if you do 'do' Facebook, I heartly encourage you to go take a look. You can find the wonderful cards and projects my Teamies have made over on the Facebook group.

I think that's all for now folks - I do have some interesting life stories to share but that will be at another time on another post!

See y'all soon,

Sarah

Challenge/s:

Passion for Markers: Week 666 - Make it Digital - main image is a digi stamp. (I have to say I thought it was a little dodgy me finding time to join in with challenges again on week 666! I do hope it's not a bad omen!!! ;-) )

Krafty Chicks Challenge: #636 Week 1 - Stamp Act

Crafty Catz: #613 - Anything Goes (optional twists - 3 or more layers)

My kind of person

Good evening blogland,

This is my second DT post today and this time I'm back with a card for the new month and new challenge that started over at Crafty Calendar Challenge.  This month our theme is a very simple 'Anything Goes', our sponsor is Mirtillamente and we were given the choice of a digi to use.

I liked the look of this steampunk girl and thought she'd be great fun to colour - so here I am with the card I made!

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

Mirtillamente - So'Getta steampunk gears

coloured with my Copics

Rubber stamp:

taylored expression - Simple Strips: Friendship

Dies:

un-branded rectangle stitched dies

taylored expression - Simple Strips: asymmetric 

Anything else:

Lawn Fawn - Brick Stencil

blending brush

Distress Ink

extremely odd paper 'dots'

I do hope you can pop over and join in - Anything Goes is a really inclusive theme and we really do accept any sort of craft project!

That's me done for today, ever the eternal optimist I'm still hoping that life and this artistic slump I'm in will ease up on me soon and I will start blogging and card making again regularly. I'm still colouring, when I get time, I just seem to be stuck with what to do with the images. Maybe a little internet shopping might give me some inspiration for the craft block, but don't know what to do about life!

So, cheerio for now and hope to see you soon,

Sarah

Gratitude

Good morning blogland,

It's not only Saturday morning, but also the first Saturday of the month and so time for a couple of DT cards.

I'll start with the new challenge over at Sweet Stampin' Challenge where this fortnight the challenge theme is 'Attitude of Gratitude' - which basically means we'd like to see anything that expresses thanks or gratitude, this can include Thanksgiving cards for our friends across the pond. 

I have to say that while I like all the individual elements on this card, I'm not overly happy how it all came together. I was going to make another card but ran out of time, so this one it is!

Supplies used:

Stamps:

Stamping Bella - Bundle Girl with snowdrops

Taylored Expressions - Big Thanks

random flourish stamp

Dies:

Pretty Pink Posh - Scallop Borders 1

Sunny Studio - stitched circles

Stencils and ink:

Pretty Pink Posh - Layered Hearts

Memento - Dew Drop

I do hope you have time to pop over to the challenge blog and take a look at the much better cards my Teamies made, possibly even pop your own creation in! Just remember we are a stamping challenge, so some stamping (digital or rubber) needs to be used in your entry. Look forward to seeing you there.

In the meantime I'm going to finish off the second card that I started, which was meant to replace this one, during the week and share that, don't know if that's a threat or a promise there!

See you shortly for my other DT card.

Sarah

Hello there

Good morning blogland

I'm here this morning with my DT inspiration card for this week's challenge over at Colour Crazy Craft Challenge - as always the theme is Anything Goes but please remember we are a colouring challenge so your entry needs to have some form of hand colouring on it somewhere.  We do not accept pre-coloured images.

Our sponsor this time is All Dressed Up Stamps and the DT were very kindly allowed to use a couple of very cute, as always, images for the challenge.  This is the one I picked and the card I made with it.  

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

All Dressed Up - Little Treasure

coloured with my Copics

Rubber stamp:

Neat & Tangled - Hello there

Dies:

un-branded rectangle stitched die set

Pretty Pink Posh - Eyelet borders and Hello Friend script

Anything else:

Some ages old brads

Yellow dotty card

I had thought this image / card could be either a new baby card (where you don't previously know the gender) or a 'hello friend' type thing - but at the end of the day the image is just super cute and I loved colouring it!

I do hope you get time to pop over to the challenge and see the wonderful cards my Teamies have created and maybe pop in one of your own while your there - as long as it's got some colouring on it, you're in!

Be back soon,

Sarah

Challenge /s: