Christmas in July

Late with this post so no waffle,

Hi all,

It's time for a new challenge over at Sweet Stampin' Challenge and this fortnight the theme is 'Christmas in July'.

As always we are a 'for fun' challenge so there are no prizes, just Top Picks, but to enter you do still have to follow two simple rules. These rules being - please stamp (rubber or digital) somewhere on your project you are entering and follow the theme!

So here's my card:

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

an etsy shop called PoppyLane Digital but they have since closed up and gone

coloured with my Copics

and the sentiment I made in Publisher

Dies:

Creative Expressions - Noble Collection : Double Stitched squares

Creative Expressions - Pearly Snowflake Border

Anything else:

self adhesive pearls

A little bit of honesty here - you may have guessed (or not who knows!) this wasn't made specifically for this challenge.  I don't start Christmas cards early.  This was made for Christmas 2024 for TTT and, for once, it's a card she actually liked!

If there's anyone left out there who is actually reading the stuff I post - I thank you! You've been great to keep coming here when I've not got the time to give back to you at all and please pop on over to the challenge blog where my Teamies have done wonders with the theme.

Sarah

Awww, how cute!

Morning again blogland,

It's another Tuesday so here I am with a new card for a new challenge over at Passion for Markers.  This week our lovely Teamie Lorraine is in charge of the challenge theme and she has picked 'Make it Cute', not a hardship, eh.  

Teamed up with the fabulous sponsorship of Rachelle Anne Miller and RAM Stamps  the theme is a match made in heaven!  As Design Team members were were given an image or two to play with and this is my make from one of those images.

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

RAM Stamps digital image - 'Fairy & Birdy: Leaves'

coloured with my Copics

Rubber stamp:

Whimsy Stamps - Simple Sentiment Strips

Dies:

Creative Craft Products - A2 Essentials: Landscape card die set

Penny Black - hello edger

Anything else:

green cardstock

flat backed gems

sequins

Hope you get a chance to pop over to the challenge and admire the wonderful cards that have been made and even pop your own in when you're there!

See you soon,

Sarah

It's all gone a little flowery!

Hello blogland

So here we are again for another Saturday, I'm finding it hard to believe how quickly this year is passing.  Though to be fair it's been a fairly busy year for us, so maybe it's not so surprising life is spinning by!

Reason for this post is it's time for a new challenge over at Sweet Stampin' Challenge with the challenge this fortnight being 'Flowers / Blooming Beautiful' - so anything that includes flowers, whether that is a single bloom or a whole garden of the things! As always we are a 'for fun' challenge so no prizes, other than the kudos of being a Top Three, and no restrictions on what you can enter - other then there has to be stamping somewhere on your project.

Now, I'm not that big on flowers - can admire them on other peoples cards - but they're not really me. Notwithstanding that - here's my attempts, yes there are two! One is a card I made quite awhile ago (I used it as I thought I was going to run out of time to make a card) and the other I made late at night in a bit of a panic.

Card one:

alternate view:

Supplies used:

Rubber stamps:

Altenew - Inked Lotus

taylored expressions - Big Thanks

Anything else:

Cosmic Shimmer

indentez embossing folder

embossing powder

Card Two:

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

 Alex Syberia - Summer Bouquet

coloured with Distress Ink and Copics

Rubber stamp:

taylored expressions - Simple Strips: Background

Dies:

un-branded stitched rectangle

taylored expressions - Simple Strips: Well Rounded

Anything else:

Distress Inks

Liquid Pearls

And that's me being all flowery, folks!

I'll be back again soon - the Year 11 Prom happened so I have pictures to share of TTT, but until then Cheerio!

Sarah

Challenge/s:

For Card one:

Allsorts Challenge: Week 736 - Enbossing Folders

Simply Clean & Simple: Clean & Simple (first challenge) optional theme.  I hope the card fits the challenge interpretation of CaS - I thought my Card 2 might be too busy? 

The Flower Challenge: #82 CAS - Again I thought Card 2 too busy for the challenge.

For Card two:

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge: Anything Goes with Flowers (optional mood board) #6

Let's Craft and Create: Challenge #197 - Anything Goes + Flowers

Tic Tac Toe Challenge: TTTC216 - Middle Row (Layers / CAS / Stamping)

Pinkly pretty

Afternoon blogland,

Another missed post from me that should have gone up this morning! However, I was busy going from my weights / gym session, to getting ready to taking TTT for her hair appt, to actually going to this hair appt that I didn't get a chance to do the post.

Still better late than never, eh, and I'm here now.

To get on - this post is to let you all know there's a new challenge started today over at Sweet Stampin' Challenge. As always this is a 'just for fun' challenge, lasts for a fortnight and is all about the stamping - be it digital or old fashioned rubber stamp. The challenge theme this time is 'Pretty in Pink'. So anything with pink in it, on it or covered in it!! :-)

Now pink is not my favourite colour (give me blues / purples / greens any day) but I had thought it would be a good opportunity to get one of my 'girlie' stamps out. Well, it ended up not.  This is the card I made:

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

Alex Syberia - Full Bloom

coloured with my Copics

Rubber stamp:

taylored expressions - Simple Strips: Background

Dies:

taylored expressions - Simple Strips: Well Rounded

Creative Expressions - Noble Collection: double stitched squares

Aaaand that's it folks, I'm off again!

See you soon,

Sarah

Challenge/s:

Crafty Catz: #641 Anything Goes (optional use pink and purple). I got half the optional theme - there's pink in there!

Gem of a Craft Challenge: Wk 12 - Anything Goes

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge: Anything Flowers Goes (optional mood board #5)

Creations in Pink: Challenge #58 - Anything Goes - as long as it's pink

Gone floral

Good afternoon blogland

Still living on the edge and blogging at odd times! I'm sure I'll get back to early morning blogging soon, but at the minute it's all over the shop.

No interesting life to waffle on about at the minute - things seem very quiet, ooh except that TTT went back to school, yay! Only one day of disruptions! Also got some things ordered for her GCSE Geography trip to Iceland in September. Pleased about that. 

Now a question for UK people I've finally almost ran out of plain black card - I had a huge pile of A4 card now that's down to a couple of sheets.  Where does everyone buy their plain card (I tend to use either 300 / 340 gsm)? It's probably going to have to be brought on-line as there are no card shops near me, so postage needs to be taken into account.  Hit me with your recommendations!

Oooh and while I'm here, I might as well post the card I made! 😂

For some reason I went floral, not my usual thing at all! Here's the evidence:

Supplies used:

Digital stamp (image):

Alex Syberia Design - Spring Bouquet

coloured with Copics

Rubber stamp (sentiment):

Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips: Birthday

Dies:

Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips: Aysmmetrical

Un-branded rectangle stitched die

What I did:

Printed the digital image onto Copic friendly paper (re-sized to my 5x7 card blank) and printed out.

Coloured the image in with my Copics.

Die-cut out the image with the stitched dies, to create a base and frame.

Glued the inner panel to card blank, added 3d foam to the outer panel lined it up with the base panel and stuck it down.

Added 3d foam to previously stamped and die-cut sentiment and added it to the card over both the raised frame and flat image.

et voila, job done!

 So as I've waffled on (after saying there was nothing to waffle on about) at length above, I'll just say cheerio for now here, and see you later.

Signing off,

Sarah

Passion for Markers: Week 626 - Spring Colours

Crafty Catz: #580 - Anything Goes (optional twist add flowers) This is my second entry as I thought I could do better than flowers on the patterned paper, which was my previous entry! 

Cupcake Inspirations: Inspiration #536 - Pink and Mint.  I'm entering but I'm not sure if my 2nd flowers are more blue than mint.  No worries if I don't qualify for the prize.

Digi Chooseday Craft Challenge: Week 5 - Anything Goes