Goodbye 2023.....

 Hello 2024!

Good afternoon blogland,

I know I'm probably posting this to a completely empty space while you are all off out celebrating the incipient arrival of 2024.  We, however in Chez Sarah, are very boring at New Year (well to be fair we are boring most of the year - so New Year makes no difference!) and treat it as just another day in the life of Sarah and family.

So I'm here to catch up with my final card of the year - it's my All Dressed Up Facebook Challenge inspiration.  Probably you're all too busy celebrating New Year to squeeze in a card in the final hours of the challenge, but I felt like waffling so here I am!  I wonder if it's getting old that starts you sitting down and thinking??!!

Supplies used:

Digital Stamp:

All Dressed Up - Christmas Post

coloured with my Copics

Dies used:

unbranded stitched rectangle set

Creative Obsessions - Sue Wilson: Festive Collection

Embossing folder:

Do-crafts - Snowflakes

Anything else:

sparkle card

red cardstock

Funny isn't it - who celebrates what?  Growing up my family (parents and older sister) went all out on Christmas and almost totally ignored New Year.  On my moving out and in with boyfriend who later became1st hubby it all changed to Christmas bleugh, but New Year - whey-hey!!  Then again he was Scottish and Hogmanay meant a lot to him!Then fast forward to single again and meeting current other half - he (and his family) it was both Christmas and New Year that were celebrated equally.  

Now, another considerable amount of time has gone, we went through Christmas being important for TTT when she was little and New Year was bleugh.  Now both holidays are rather bleugh if you ask me! I'm not Grinch-y or anti-fun at New Year - they just seem to pass by in a weeks' worth of sleeping in and not doing much.  

Whereas me - I'd like to be out doing something!  One of these years I'm going to try being on holiday over the Christmas / New Year period - see if that is what does it for me!  I'd love to see New York at Christmas and New Year - it always looks fabulous in films and on TV!

Anyhooo, there you go that's my little meander of the mind done.

I hope that 2023 closes well for everyone and for those of you to whom 2023 was the year from Hell best wishes and sincere hopes that 2024 is better.

Happy New Year!

Sarah

Little bit of news for you

Good evening blogland,

I'm to share two things this evening, one is my (very late) DT card for All Dressed Up new release for December.  For this piece of news here's my card:

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

All Dressed Up - Penguin Fun

coloured with my Copics

Dies used:

Pretty Pink Posh - Scallop Borders 1

unb-branded stitched rectangles

Anything else:

very old pre-printed sentiment from Craftwork Cards

piece of glitter card

Such a cute image and great fun to colour!

Second piece of news is in the New Year I will be joining the DT at Passion for Markers!  I've been playing along with their challenges for many, many years - even before I had my break from crafting - right back to when they were Passion for ProMarkers.  There that is showing my age! So you can guess how pleased and honoured I was to be invited onto the Team.

I only hope I can do their challenges justice - I certainly will enjoy getting my markers out and colouring, as I'm sure you will have read me blathering on about I love colouring!!

Anyways, I will be back before the end of the month with my DT Facebook Challenge Inspiration for All Dressed Up, but for now I'm off as it's TTT's last day at 6th Form for this Term tomorrow and she's already loading the car with presents for friends!!

See you laters,

Sarah

That's it for this year...

 Good morning bloggers

Not 'that's it' for blogging (well probably not anyway!) but that's it for challenges over at Sweet Stampin' Challenges for this year - this is the last one of 2023.

We're seeing out this year on a Christmas themed challenge and will be back in January 2024 - my goodness where did this year go? I certainly don't know what happened to it!

As you can see it's a totally appropriate challenge for December as we are looking for all your stamped Christmas cards - I can see this being a busy one!

Here's mine:

Supplies used:

Rubber stamp:

Stamping Bella - Penguins bearing gifts

coloured with my Copics

Dies:

Un-branded DL sized stitched rectangle set

My Favorite Things - Inside & Out stitched circles

Picket Fence Studios - 'Merry Christmas' Word Topper Die

Anything else:

Docrafts embossing folder - snowflake

red card

sparkle card.

If you fancy a quick pop over to the blog you will see a wonderful array of Christmas loveliness and we are looking forward to seeing all your entries.

See you soon,

Sarah

A late, late, birthday!

 Good evening blogland,

This post should have been up last week - I thought I'd scheduled it, haven't been back to check until yesterday and realised it never appeared.  I don't know what I've done, but here I am to fix it.

Good morning blogland,

It's Saturday and so it's time for a new challenge over at Sweet Stampin' Challenge and it's a special one - we are celebrating 14 years, yes count them 14!, of challenges!  I 've been around for a lot of them, although with a very large break in the middle and it seems so weird sometimes that the blog is actually 2 years younger than my TTT.  I've made so many of her younger birthday cards and then used them for challenges!!

Anyways, enough reminiscing from me - on with the challenge.  In honour of our birthday the theme this fortnight is 'Birthdays'.  This is my card, and, quelle surprise, I was running out of time to make something new so this is one from the vaults.  Made but never shared.

Supplies used:

Rubber stamp:

The Greeting Farm: Miss Anya - Ian (I think it's 'My Guy' but I'll check.  It's so old though that I doubt it's available anywhere)

Patterned Paper:

Anything else:

A very old pre-printed foiled sentiment

Right that's me off to work out what I've used on this card. I'll be back!

See you soon,

Sarah

Challenge/s:

It's starting to look a lot like.....

Challenge time!

Hello blogland,

I won't bang on about how I'm not blogging at the minute - that's for another time and another post - this one is going to be all business as it's a new month (December. eeek!) and so time for a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar Challenge.

This month the theme is 'Christmas Themed' and we are sponsored by the wonderful All Dressed Up Stamps, with a lovely prize on offer for our lucky winner.

The Design Team were given super cute digis to use and this is the card I made with my choice:

Supplies Used:

Digital Stamp:

All Dressed Up - Christmas Penguins

coloured with my Copics

Dies:

Creative Expressions - Noble Collection: Double Stitched Squares

Paper:

First Edition Papers - Artic Wonder

Anything else:

red ribbon

random embellishments from my stash!

I hope you get a chance to pop over to the challenge blog and take a look at my Teamies work, it's fantastic you know! Then, while you're there, why not pop in an entry yourself, there's a lovely prize to be won.

I'm off now,

Sarah