Another Happy Birthday

Morning blogland,

It's almost unbelievable how quickly the weeks come and go - it's been two weeks and we are here on this chilly Saturday with a new challenge over at Sweet Stampin'.  This time the theme is For the kids - as always please remember we are a stamping challenge, so there does need to be some stamping on your project (whether digital or rubber).

I'm always two steps behind at the minute, so this is a card from the vault.  I made this one awhile ago for one of TTT's friends and it never got blogged. You might notice I've got more sophisticated with my 'staging' of photos - tho not by much it has to be said!! :-)

Supplies used:

Rubber stamp:

The Greeting Farm - Miss Anya Lounge

Digital stamps:

The Greeting Farm - Birthday Party

all coloured with my Copics

Dies:

Double stitched square set

And that's about it folks, hope your weekends go well and hopefully I will stop finding myself going and instead find some time to craft and blog soon!

Please do pop over to the blog if you get a chance - my Teamies cards are absolutely fantastic!

Sarah

Challenges:

Now with sentiment

Good morning blogland,

I've had to slightly amend this post - I thought it was scheduled for Saturday, but didn't go live / post / appear - whatever you call it - and I've no idea why! So here I am hopefully better late than never!

There's a new challenge starting today (actually Saturday 7th Jan) over at Crafty Calendar Challenge first one of the New Year! I'll assume you are here following the challenge and wish you a very Happy New Year, even though rather belated!

So this month we are sponsored by the wonderful SheepSki Designs, I have to admit I have quite a few of these images - they are great for detailed colouring, my 'thing' when it comes to card making! The theme of the challenge is 'Add a sentiment', which I hope is self-explanatory. My sentiment is 'birthday'.

And here's the card:

Supplies used:

Digital image:

SheepSki Designs - Taking Pics

coloured with my Copics

Digital sentiment:

Lili of the Valley - Grunge Stamp Sentiments

Anything else:

Square double stitched die

I really do think these images lend themselves so well to being the focal point of the card and I just love them!

Please pop over to the challenge and have a look at my Teamies work - it's lovely - and then join in while you're there, you never know you might win!!

I'll finish with adding in apologies again for the delayed post - I really do need to find time at the weekends to check the gremlins haven't got into the system! Or, which is more likely, I selected the right day for a scheduled post to publish!!!

See you soon,

Sarah

Challenges:

Anything new

Happy New Year blogland!

I'm back after taking a deliberate Christmas / New Year break from blogging with my card for the first challenge of the new year over at Sweet Stampin' - it's not my Teams challenge, but I'm sure I joined in last year and thought why not make a new habit! So the theme this fortnight is simply New - which can be Happy New Year, new home, new baby, new job. new stash, the range is really quite wide!

I went with new stash (plus new habit!) as it's hubby's birthday on 29th December so I always get a new digi for his card.  This year it was a new digi and new stencil. Here's the card I made:

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

Mo's Digital Pencil - yeehaw

coloured with my Copics

Sentiment:

Mo's Digital Pencil - Flippin Fairy

Dies:

un-branded stitched rectangle

Pretty Pink Posh - Scallop borders

Anything else:

Julie Hickey stencil - 'birthday'

blending brush

Distress Ink

Glitter

I know the image and sentiment might not look like they go together, but for me they work! I knew hubby wouldn't be keen on the image (he's trying very hard not to notice his age!) and I thought he'd probably appreciate the idea that he can stay awake and plot revenge on me for this card. :-)

Hope everyone had a good Christmas and New Year - not much to say about ours as it's just us three in our little family so it's always quiet.

Look forward to seeing your entries to the challenge and see you again soon,

Sarah

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