Four legged friends

Good morning blogland,

Feels very strange to be back here again so quickly with another Passion for Markers challenge DT card but that's how it's worked out - after the excitement of the special anniversary last week it's back to regular broadcasts now!

So this week the theme for the challenge is '4 legged friends' (basically anything featuring an animal) chosen by the lovely Marlene and sponsored by Polkadoodles.  As always, as we are a challenge for those using markers, you must use your markers somewhere on your project (it doesn't have to be a card) and also follow the theme of the challenge to be in with a chance of winning the prize.

This is the card I made:

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

Polkadoodles - Surprise Cake - Horace & Boo

coloured with my Copics

Rubber stamp:

Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips: Birthday

Dies:

Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips: Well Rounded

Pretty Pink Posh - Eyelet Borders

un-branded stitched rectangles

Paper:

First Edition - Let's Celebrate

Anything else:

linen look light card

self-adhesive pearls

And that's mostly it folks.  Other than to say in real-time (at 9am when this is scheduled to publish) TTT will be taking her driving test.  Fingers will be crossed, finger-nails bitten to the base and pacing will have been taking place!

That really is it.

See you soon,

Sarah

Hello, 2025!

Good morning blogland,

Here I am and here we are - first post of 2025! I hope everyone had as good a Christmas and New Year as was possible.  Ours never really changes it's always very quiet - for both occasions - and (let's be honest here!) a tad boring. Not religious, don't do late nights and just us three for family - so hey, what'd I expect!

Still that can all be put behind us now and we move on, and in the moving on here's my first Design Team card of this year! We kick off 2025 with a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar Challenge with a theme of 'Add a die cut', no sponsor for this one but there is a prize on offer.

Now I do love my dies and I might have just a few, so this one is right up my street and I didn't stop at one die cut, oh no - you've got loads!

Supplies used:

Rubber stamp:

Time for Tea - Let's Party

coloured with my Copics

Dies:

Creative Craft Products - A2 Essentials Landscape Card Die set

Time for Tea - Smile Inverted Scallop Frame set

Time for Tea - Hey Hello Hi Sentiment Die set

Anything else:

white gel pen

blue striped blue light-weight card

I realise it's probably a little odd to pair that sentiment with that image and even I had a different sentiment to begin with, but I saw that 'hello' and thought 'oooh, I like that!' and went with it!  

Aaand that's about it for my first post of 2025 - I look forward to posting many more times over the next year!

See you soon,

Sarah

What's your animal?

Hello blogland,

Looks like I'm having a better run of luck with scheduled posts at the minute - so let's hope this keeps that run of luck!

It's Saturday, and time for another challenge over at Sweet Stampin' and this fortnight the challenge theme is 'Animals' - so something stamped and animals in your project somewhere.

This is my card:

Supplies Used:

Stamps:

Time for Tea - Sundae Sweeties

coloured with my Copics

taylored expressions - simple strips: Background

Dies:

taylored expressions - simple strips: well rounded

Stencil:

Honey Doo Craft

Anything else:

Distress Ink

flat backed gems

Not the best picture ever - I really struggled to get the stencilled background to show in the photo.  The stencilling is quite soft and it did not want to show up in the pictures!

Anyways pop over to the challenge, my Teamies have made some wonderful cards!

Am off for a bit of retail therapy this weekend - it's a Craftarama at Lincoln Showground, so guess where I'll be on Sunday!

See you soon,

Sarah