More children!

Good morning blogland,

Did you notice Tuesday has rolled around again - and as it's been two weeks since the last time I was moaning about Tuesdays rolling around that means it's time for a new challenge over at Passion for Markers.  There's a difference though, this week it's my pick for the challenge!

Our lovely sponsor this week is All Dressed Up Stamps, with a great prize, and my pick for the challenge theme is 'For a child'.  Not the most adventurous pick I know - but ADU have the cutest stamps and I thought they go well on children's cards. The only other rules to follow are: use your markers and have fun!

I know I waffled on last time I did a 'for a child' challenge about tending to make boys cards - so I bucked the trend! I've deliberately chosen a sweet girlie image and the card is squarely aimed at little girls.  Not that I know any little girls to give the card to anymore - I only know moody, stroppy, argumentative teenaged girls :-)

My card:

 Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

All Dressed Up - Birthday Girl

coloured, as always (do I even need to say anymore?) with my Copics

Rubber stamps:

Catherine Pooler - All Around Wishes Sentiments

Woodware - Celebrating You

Dies:

Whimsy Stamps - Special Word Die

Pretty Posh Pink - Scallop Borders 1

un-branded stitched rectangle die set

Papers:

First Edition - Let's Celebrate

Anything else:

Mixture of flat backed glitter gems

Anything else to add?   Oh, yes - I flipped the digi, normally she's facing the other way but I felt it worked better for my layout to have her facing this way.

On a personal note, our trip round the local-ish Uni's continuing we made it to Loughborough last weekend but hopefully that's it for now.  TTT's not keen on going further afield to study and so we've covered the nearest Uni's to us, now it's time to sit / compare / contrast and think for a bit.

And that is it folks - until next time.

Sarah

Hello - again!

Morning blogland,

Just a flyer of a post.  I realised last night that I've not posted the September New Release for All Dressed Up yet! Ooops! 

So this image was released on the 7th and is called Autumn Fairy - how appropriate - and this is the card I made:

 Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

All Dressed Up - Autumn Fairy

coloured with my Copics

Dies:

Creative Expressions - Noble Collection: double stitched squares

Time for Tea Designs - Hey Hello Hi sentiment die set

Paper:

My Mind's Eye - On the Bright Side

Anything else:

Copic fineliner for doodling

And that's about it folks - I'm off to work in a little bit. The extension is still being worked on, the tiling is starting to look very good and I'll show progress pictures another day.  TTT is out at School (she was feeling under the weather earlier this week and stayed home) and him indoors is being, well 'im indoors!

Hope everyone is well.

Sarah

Chldren!

Good morning blogland

My goodness here's another Saturday come around - seriously this year I've no idea where it's gone!

As it is another Saturday, it's time for a new challenge over at Sweet Stampin' and this fortnight the theme is 'For a child'.  Nice and easy, eh! So all we need to see are those stamped whatevers - digital, rubber, sentiment, image - on your project and you good to go!  As always, this is a 'for fun' challenge, so no prizes, but then who makes cards (or whatevers) for prizes?

I've no idea why, but when I see a 'for a child' challenge, unless I'm working with a specific image or am told it's for a girl, I tend to go for boy's cards.  It's pointless, I've no boy child to make a card for (hmmm nor even any girls now) but still I do those boys cards!

Having said that - here is my card for this challenge:

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

Pollycraft - and as the brand no longer exists all I'll say is I used my Copics to colour the image

Rubber stamps:

taylored expressions - 'It's your day' (for the 'wish big')

a very old rubber set for 'boy' - I think it was Do-craft but I chucked the packaging years ago!

Dies:

un-branded DL (or slimline) stitched die

Julie Hickey - Birthday Profile Die set

That's about it folks - still busy here.  TTT is off to Skeg-vegas this evening with one of her friends to see Blood Brothers.  They studied the play as part of their GCSE English Lit, and were interested to see the actual play performed.

Other than that what's going on in our lives?  The extension - oooh now that is exciting the bathroom fitters are coming on Monday to do the en-suite shower-room.  I'll share pictures when they are done.  I'm still working and TTT is now over half-way through her A-levels.  Universities are still high on the list.  We've done Open Days for two at Lincoln (Uni of Lincoln and BGU), we've also done York and are doing Loughborough next weekend.  Then we pause and collate.

Hope everyone out in blogland is well, and now I'm off.

See you later.

Sarah

'Tis 'not' the night before Christmas

Morning blogland

Hmmm, so this is my post for the new challenge over at Passion for Markers and, the theme this week has been picked by the lovely Sue.  Sue, as you may have guessed, went for 'Christmas' as her theme  and we are sponsored by Dies to Die For, with a fab prize of a £15.00 voucher for the lucky winner.

I'm sure for all you crafters out there who make loads of Christmas cards, and make them early, this is going to be a fabulous challenge.  However, I'm not one of those and so this is the only Christmas card you're going to see on my blog for a loooong time! So enjoy!

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

brought from an Etsy shop called zekesami and the image itself is 'Tania'

coloured with my Copics

(I do love a good poke around in Etsy shops!)

Dies:

un-branded stitched rectangle set

Creative Expressions - Stylish Script: Christmas Wishes

Anything else:

flat backed gems

And that's it folks.  Other than to say I obviously did something weird with the girls face, if I colour her again I think I'd create a full nose, not just a shadow of a one.

On a personal note we are still currently driving around at weekends looking at possible Universities for when TTT finishes 6th Form next year.  She doesn't want to go too far so we are sticking to within a 2 or 3 hours drive, but it still means we can cover a lot of ground! I'm starting to loose track of which Universities are which and so far none seem to stick out for her! Hey ho - I'm sure we'll get there in the end.

See you all soon,

Sarah