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Good morning blogland,

It's the 9th of January 2024 and my first blog post in my new Design Team job at Passion for Markers! 

I've been playing along for years and it was such an ego boost to be asked to join the Team on a blog for crafters who love to use their markers.  So without any further ado here's the theme for this week: 'Use a stencil' the sponsor is Di's Digi Stamps and the prize a £6.00 voucher. 

Voila, my card:

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

From an etsy shop which no longer exists

image coloured with my Copics

Rubber stamp:

Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips: Birthday

Dies:

Creative Craft Products - DL Card Builder Set

Stencil:

Creative Expressions - DL stencil: Bunting

Anything else:

Distress Inks

black card for mount

random tiny hearts, discard from a hole punch

So that's my first post as a DT, please pop over to the challenge and take a look at my new Teamies creations - they are fab. I'm also looking forward to wandering around all your blogs and taking peak at your entries!

See you soon,

Sarah

Aud Sentiments Challenge blog: #309 - Make your own background and/or Birthday  + a sentiment

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends: #221 - Anything Goes

We Love Stamping: January 24 - Something New - the DL dies and the bunting stencil are both new

The Paper Players: PP671- Cheer to the Years (birthday)

Doodle, doodle, doodle

 Good morning blogland,

This is the first of two posts for today -  a couple of DT cards have collided - so I'm not going to do a lot of waffle, mostly because I don't have enough for two posts!

First challenge of the day.  It's Team Wends turn over at Sweet Stampin' Challenge - and this fortnight the theme is 'Doodling'.  Now, as I'm sure you know, Sweet Stampin' is primarily a 'for fun' stamping challenge, we don't mind what project you enter - it just has to have stamping (digital or rubber) on it and follow the theme.

This is mine:

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

AlexShopsArt - this was an Etsy digi stamp store that shut some time ago

coloured with my Copics

Rubber stamps:

My Favorite Things - Hey

Neat and Tangled - Hello there

Dies:

Un-branded stitched rectangle

Anything else:

Copic fine liner for the doodling and drawing the wall

Have to admit to almost forgetting the theme of this challenge - I spent so long looking at the image and wondering how I'd made a cat look more like a dog or cow, that the doodling was marginally overlooked!

Please pop over to the challenge and take a peek at my Teamies work - their doodling is much better than mine! Why not pop in a card while you're there, it's fun!

See you very shortly,

Sarah

I'm a bus!

Morning Blogland,

Just in case anyone really thinks I'm a bus - it's the 'you wait for ages for one bus and then three turn up at once' saying I'm using here in relation to this being my third post in as many days.  I don't really think I'm a bus!!

I wasn't going to post again today - that was being saved for tomorrow to get back into Mon, Weds, Fri routine - but, again, I saw a challenge I wanted to join in with is closing in a few hours so I've got to get my skates on!

Maybe it's because I've lost a week what with it being half-term, but my goodness for me October has flown past. Having November here tomorrow has thrown me completely and am astounded December and therefore Christmas isn't too far off. Cue panic about Christmas presents!

No more chatter - card:

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

Alex Shops Art (etsy seller)

coloured with Copics

Dies:

Pretty Pink Posh - Hey Friend (new stash!)

Pretty Pink Posh - Scallop Borders 1

Anything else:

Anna Marie Designs - striped card

Craft UK Ltd - White linen card

Black card

What I did:

Sized and printed the digital stamp on Copic friendly paper, coloured in and fussy cut out.

Trimmed a piece of striped card to fit the bottom of the card blank.

Trimmed and die-cut a piece of linen card to fit the top, stuck them together and then stuck them to the card blank.

Die-cut the sentiment out of black card and stuck that to the top of the linen card.

Popped the image on 3d foam and mounted onto the linen / striped card.

et voila, job done!

Well I think I've talked myself out over the last three days, so I'm disappearing off now. Going to wait and see if the wild weather we are having right now goes before I'm due to be vaguely supervising TTT on her Trick or Treat outing this evening.

Signing off,

Sarah 

Challenge / s:

The Cutie Pie Challenge Blog: #164 Theme - down on the farm

Crafty Catz: Challenge #570 - Anything Goes

Polkadoodles Craft Challenge: Wk 44 - Anything Goes

Colour Crazy Craft Challenge: Week 43 - Anything Goes

Krafty Chicks Challenge: KCC #583 - All Occasions

Not quite Monday, nor Wednesday either

Or morning, come to that! So not quite routine yet, but getting there.

Good afternoon blogworld,

As you can see school went back - yay - but not on Monday - boo - that was reserved for the new Year 7s. Poor things didn't get an Induction day, while they were still Year 6s, due to Covid-19 restrictions. This meant that only Yrs 7, 8 and 6th Formers went back on Monday to allow the little 'uns to have some time being shown about by the older lot before the rest of the school swamped them! Not that it's a big school - there are around 500 and something pupils - but a lot of the Primaries around here are small so, to some children, it will seem very daunting.  I know it did for TTT - who is now in Yr 10!

Thinking about TTT back in school I have to re-assure myself I'm not a bad mother for being pleased about it. I'd always said if I had kids I wouldn't be the one celebrating schools' return - but here I am! To be fair she does enjoy school and, as we are just us three, doesn't get to see many people during the holidays. So for her going back to school means seeing her wider circle of friends not just that I get my 'me' time and routines back. So I know I'm not a terrible mother as happy daughter = happy mother!

And, waffle over! Onto card:

I have no reason at all to make this card, it was done purely to start joining in again with challenges after struggling to find the time during the Summer holiday.

Here you go:

Supplies used:

Digital stamps:

Image:

AlexShopsArt :The image doesn't have a name that I can find, but is under Owls and Birds

(I added a link as it was a new Etsy shop to me and I do like to pass on buying opportunities!)

Coloured with Copics

Sentiment:

LoTV: Everything Gets Better

Rubber stamp:

Kanban: Urban Belles - Birthday

I used a small 'Birthday Girl' sentiment from the set

This is what I did:

Imported the digi stamp and sentiment into a Word document to re-size them for the square card blank.

Added a double frame with the shapes options in Word and printed onto Copic friendly paper.

Coloured in the image and added the small rubber stamp under the larger digital sentiment stamp.

Cut to size, popped onto some 3d foam squares, mounted the panel onto the card blank.

et viola, job done!

Not the most elaborate of cards, but a good start back with the Copics after neglecting them recently.

So I hope everyone else in blogland is as good as they can be and are happy being creative - I know I am!

Signing off,

Sarah

Challenge / s:

As You Like It: Favourite Wild Animal (&why) - Well I don't really have a favourite wild animal but we are very lucky to see owls where we live.  They aren't regular visitors but regular occasional ones and I do love seeing them swooping along the hedgerows - such elegant creatures.

Crafty Catz Challenge: #562 - Anything Goes (with option for a Child)

Cute Card Thursday: Challenge 692 - Anything Goes

Seize the Birthday: #222 - Use Pastel Colours