A little flowery today

 Morning blogland,

Well technically it's evening because I'm typing this on Friday evening to schedule it for Saturday when the challenge actually starts because I don't think I'm going to see much of my computer this weekend!

So reason for card first, then reason for no computer.  Reason for card - it's time for a new challenge over at Sweet Stampin' and this fortnight Team Wends has the theme of 'Flowers'.  As always this is a 'for fun' challenge and the only rules are to stamp (digital or rubber) somewhere on your creation, follow the theme and have fun!

Now I'm not really a flowers sort of person - real or stamped - I don't know what it is when I stamp flower images they just generally look 'meah' to me and other people's flowers always look so elegant.  I always wonder why I can't achieve that - maybe I need to practice!

Anyways, here the card:

Supplies Used:

Rubber stamps:

My Favorite Things - Peony Perfection

coloured with Copics

taylored expressions - Simple Strips: Friendship

Dies:

un-branded stitched rectangle die set

taylored expressions - Simple Strips: asymetrical

Anything else:

grey card for the frame

gel pens to make the spotted background (which I'm not sure you can really see anyway!)

Now for the reason I'm going to be nowhere near the computer this weekend - TTT turns 17 today - Saturday 22nd! Can hardly believe I'm the mother of a 17 year old - it makes me feel even older than when I was the mother of a one year old, or a 7 year old or a 10 year old, or even when she became a teenager!  We've a lot packed into the birthday weekend - which is why no computer time.  She's got a friend staying over from Sat morning into Sunday evening and we are: on the birthday itself going bowling; to an escape room and having home-made pizza then spending all of Sunday at Alton Towers - phew!

So here's hoping everyone else has a great weekend and, if you have time, stick in a card for the challenge - it's fun and my Teamies have made some great examples of floral cards, so much better than mine!

See you later,

Sarah

Birthday Girls - terribly belated!

 OK - so, once again a post has not published when I wanted it to.  So apologies to all my Teamies at Sweet Stampin for this post being a week late.

Morning Blogland,

It's Saturday and time for a new challenge over at Sweet Stampin' this fortnight we'd like to see all those cards for the 'Birthday Girls' in your lives.  As always, this is a 'just for fun' challenge so there are no sponsors but there a couple of rules.  First rule being follow the theme and second there must be some stamping (digital or rubber) on your project somewhere.

Here's my card:

Supplies Used:

Rubber stamp:

My Favorite Things - ALM - Big Birthday Wishes

coloured with my Copics

Dies:

Creative Craft Products - A2 Landscape Card Die Set

MFT - A2 Stitch Rectangle STAX set

Paper:

First Edition - New Bloom

Anything else:

Distress Inks

Gel pens

I don't think there's anything on this card (other than the die used to make the card base) that's under 15 years old!  I'm still trying to use old stamps - which in this case had never been inked - and they really do feel like they sit on the smaller sized card bases.

So that's it folks, hope you get a chance to pop over to the blog to see my Teamies wonderful creations and to enter yourself.

See you soon,

Sarah

Not Friday?

 Good morning blogland,

Well my plan of posting on Friday evening didn't happen, did it! So here we are back to mornings (but not that early!) and it's Saturday!

I think this card maybe a complete first for me - I can't remember ever making a CAS coloured with Copics only flowers image card before.  I'm very much a character (and more often a cute character) than a floral colouring person. 

I keep telling myself it's good to try new things, that I'm not having an angst ridden, mid-life, crisis of  'just what is my style' moment! I wonder if I will ever settle into a particular 'style' that someone can point at and say, oh yes that's a 'These I Made' card'!! 😀

Anyhooo, card:

Supples used:

Rubber stamps:

Flowers: My Favorite Things - Corner Blooms

coloured with Copics

Sentiment: Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips : Birthday

Corners: Now I think those are a Lili of the Valley stamp set, but I'm not sure as they are very old and I've lost the packaging. So don't take my word for that!

Dies:

Creative Expressions - Noble Collection: Double Stitched Squares

Taylored Expression - Simple Strips : Well Rounded

Anything else:

Copic Fine liner

What I did:

Cut a square of Copic friendly paper with the square die.

Stamped (twice) the Corner Blooms and coloured them in with my Copics.

Stamped the decorative corners in the corners and then drew lines with a fine-liner to make a border,

Took a stamped and cut sentiment added some 3d foam to it and popped it on the image.

Glued the whole lot to a top folded 5x5 square card.

et, voila - job done!

I think I've probably waffled on enough at the beginning of the post, so I'm wandering off now.  Got a day's worth of washing and cleaning to get on with! Oh, and some encouraging 'do your homework, now!" to be done as TTT is off for a postponed days ice-skating trip with a friend tomorrow.

See you soon,

Signing off,

Sarah

Challenge / s:

Passion for Markers - Week 612 - use red

Colour Crazy Craft Challenge: Week 40 - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz: Challenge #567 - Anything Goes (optional twist - Girly)

Krafty Chicks Challenge: Challenge #580 Week 1 (Stamp Act)