It's all about the birthday

 Good morning blogland,

It's that time of the year - no not 'that' time of the year just yet- it's Birthday Time! Sweet Stampin' challenge is celebrating their birthday and I believe it's quite a big one!

So to celebrate both Teams were invited to join in with the celebrations and this is the card I made for the occasion. As always the challenge is a 'for fun' only one so no prizes on offer - other than earning yourself a Top 3 badge of course - but there are a couple of simple rules.  You must a stamp somewhere on your entry and you must follow the theme of the challenge and, of course, the unspoken rule - have fun!

Supplies used:

Rubber stamp:

Whimsy Stamps / Time for Tea stamps: Ruffles

coloured with my Copics

taylored expressions : Simple Strips - Birthday

Dies:

Creative Craft Products : A2 Landscape Card die set

Time for Tea Dies : Smile Inverted Scallop Die set

Julie Hickey : Birthday profile die set

taylored expressions: Simple Strips - well rounded

Papers:

BoBunny - Isabella

and some random striped paper

Anything else:

sequins for the shaker element

And that's about it.

It's hard to comprehend sometimes just how many years I've been making cards (ok with a bit of a significant break) but at times like this it's brought home to you.  I can remember making cards and invitations for TTT's various birthdays over the years and using them as my DT card for Sweet Stampin' and now Sweet Stampin' is celebrating a big birthday and TTT has flown the nest and living in Lincoln.  How time flies - next thing you know I'll be heading for retirement (ha - I wish!!!).

See you soon,

Sarah

Clean lines

 Good morning blogland,

With apologies for being a little tardy - hairdressers this morning put the blogpost straight out of my head - here I am with my post for this week's challenge over at Passion for Markers.

It's actually my turn to host this week and the theme I've chosen is 'Clean and Simple (CaS)' I know that makes a few people tremble but I have to say CaS - or a variation which I like to think of as a clean lines design - is one of my favourite styles.  So let's get to it!

Our sponsor this week is the wonderful Polkadoodles who are offering one lucky winner a lovely prize and who have allowed the DT their pick of an image to use.  Please do remember, when making your entry, that this is a markers challenge - so you must use your markers, any brand but there must be colouring in there somewhere - and you do have to follow my theme.

Here's my contribution:

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

Polkadoodles - Cat Naps - Honeypie

coloured with my Copics

Rubber stamp:

taylored expressions - Simple Strips: Background

Dies:

taylored expressions - Simple Strips: well rounded

Whimsy Stamps - Connected Rectangle

Anything else:

Creative Expressions Stencil - Scattered Hearts

Polkadoodles - Stencil Butter Frosting: Sugared Pink

And that really is it folks - I wonder if the purists in the CaS world would probably say this is too busy to be properly Clean and Simple, but hey it's my challenge so I get to make the rules this time! ;-)

Looking forward to looking around every-ones blogs for their take on my theme, so see you soon.

Sarah

It's all Halloween-y right now

 Morning blogland,

I feel like I've done more Halloween cards this year than I normally do and here's another one to join the happy crew!

With it being Tuesday it's time for a new challenge over at Passion for Markers and, as you might have guessed, the theme chosen by our Teamie Sue is 'Halloween' and we are sponsored by All Dressed Up Stamps with a prize for one lucky winner.

Here's my card, made with an All Dressed Up digi image:

Supplies used:

Digi stamp:

All Dressed Up Stamps - Witch Hat

coloured with my Copics

The sentiment is also a digi stamp - it's from a set of sentiments I brought last year from an Etsy seller and I have enough to last me forever!

Paper:

echo park - Chillingsworth Manor

Dies:

un-named set of dies for the card base and matting

Spellbinders : Nestabilities - Labels eleven for the sentiment

That's about it folks - please pop along and join in at Passion for Markers, will be lovely to see you!  Just please remember it is a markers challenge, so you do have to use markers (any brand) and follow the theme,

See you all sooon,

Sarah