And finally....

For my little run of cards

Good evening blogland

I'm writing this post much later than I was expecting - been an upside down sort of day.  TTT got her Covid booster at school during last week and, as happened last time, she has now got cold symptoms and didn't feel well enough to go to school today.  As part of feeling unwell she also slept very poorly - so guess who was up at 2.30am getting her an Ibuprofen and glass of milk and then who couldn't get back to sleep properly themselves.  Oh yes, that would be me!

Of course that meant I slept in (as did she) and so today was very lazy day.  I didn't even get to my gym this morning - very bad! That's something, as well as colouring, that soothes the soul. Anyways, she's much better this evening and tomorrow is another day which will, hopefully, be back to normal.

Now onto final card of this little flurry:

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

SheepSki Designs - Goth Girl (image number - 167)

coloured with my Copics

Rubber stamp:

Taylored Expresssion - Simple Strips : Birthday

Dies:

Taylored Expression - Simple Strips : Well Rounded

Un-branded rectangle stitched die set

un-branded stitched tag set

Anything else?

Glitz paper pack - Pretty in Pink

I don't know what they are called (or where I got them as they are so old!) some moulded paper dots

black card

white gel pen

What I did:

Re-sized, printed then coloured in the digital stamp with my Copics and fussy cut out.

Used the rectangle stitched die set to cut base black matt and base patterned paper, then glued them together and to the card base.

Used the tag dies to cut a black matt and piece of patterned paper, glued them together and them as the next layer.

Cut more patterned paper and black card, layered it up and glued that as the next layer.

Realised the edges of that layer were hanging off the card and chopped them off!

Added the 3d paper dots and sentiment on 3d foam as the next layer.

Finally popped the image onto 3d foam and she went on the very top layer.

et voila, job done!

So today, other than feeling tired, I've been mostly looking at what is worn in Iceland on a walking holiday in September.  TTT is going on a school expedition for her Geography GCSE in September and I'm researching it!  Mostly I was wishing I could go as I'd love to see the Northern Lights!  But this is more of a fact finding exercise to see what a teenager who reckons she doesn't feel the cold can get away with wearing as an absolute minimum of layers. On-going project!!

Signing off now,

See you soon,

Sarah

Challenge/s:

Fab'n'Funky Challenges: Challenge #543 - 2 or more patterned papers

The Paper Players: PPP576 - Tic-Tac-Toe (mine is a diagonal line : die-cut - flower - birthday  (assuming flower is ok on the paper)).

Crafty Catz: challenge #580 - Anything Goes (optional twist - flowers). I did attempt the twist - flowers on the patterned papers.

So sparkly!

Good morning, again, blogland,

I'm back, as promised!

This time I'm here because there is a new challenge for Team Wends over at Sweet Stampin' today.  The theme is 'Mardis Gras', so along with some stamping (as we are a stamping challenge) we'd like to see your sparkly, glittery, shiny makes please!

It has to be said this theme rather stumped me, as know nothing about Mardis Gras other than it's in New Orleans! After Googling Mardis Gras and having Venetian masks come up a lot, I thought I'd try and find something to do with Venetian masks - well that drew a big blank! Then I had a dig through my digis and stamps and found this image in my very old rubber stamps. I thought she looked like she might well join in a parade and that I could sparkle the image up a bit.

This is what I ended up making:

2nd picture - trying to show you the glitter:

The papers are lovely and glittery in real-life as well but it really hasn't shown up in the photos - although I think the glitter on her feathers seems to be there.

Supplies used:

Rubber stamps:

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - Vivienne

coloured with my Copics

Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips : Well Rounded

Dies:

Creative Expressions - Noble Collection : Double stitched squares

My Favorite Things - Stitched rectangle stax

Poppy Stamps - Scalloped Stitch Frames

Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips : Well rounded

Anything else?

First Edition Paper - New Bloom

Hobby House - Rhinestones

Martha Stewart - Essential colours glitter set

What I did

Stamped the image onto Copic friendly paper and fussy cut her out.

Then added glue to her headpiece and shook glitter over it.

Die cut out a piece of linen card with the MFT die, then a piece of cream card with the Poppy Stamps frames die.

Stamped and die-cut out the sentiment.

Used the Creative Expressions die to cut out a piece of patterned paper and stuck it to the 5x5 card blank.

Trimmed a panel from a different piece of patterned paper from the pack and glued it to the already glued down paper.

Glued the linen card rectangle to these papers and then attached the image with 3d foam.

Took the double stitched frame, popped it onto 3d foam and stuck it to the linen rectangle.

Also popped the sentiment onto 3d foam and stuck it onto the patterned paper and stitched frame.

Finally added some rhinestones to the corner of the linen card.

Phew!

et voila, job done!

Right well, I think I'm probably all done for today - other than to say, why not pop over to Sweet Stampin' and have a look at the wonderful cards my Teamies have created and then link up your own creation - it'll be fun!

See you sooner than you'd think,

Signing off,

Sarah

Challenge /s:

Gem of a Craft Challenge: Challenge 3 - Anything Goes

Polkadoodles Craft Challenge: Week 5 - Anything Goes

Cardz 4 Galz: #165 - Make it Sparkle

Dad Dancing

Good morning blogland,

As promised (or threatened?) I'm back again super quick!

This post is to let you all know there's a new challenge over starting today at Colour Crazy Craft Challenge - as always the theme is Anything Goes.  Please remember though, as it's a colouring challenge, we only accept anything that has some hand colouring part to it.

This week the challenge is sponsored by Doctor Digi, who very kindly allowed us to pick an image to use.  I was very happy to be able to use Dad Dancing and isn't it a brilliant image! The Best Dad in the World in our house doesn't dance - but I'm sure if he did he'd do something like this and TTT would be doing exactly the same thing, though, probably with added rolling eyes! And you've got to use a sarcastic tone in your internal voice when you read the sentiment - TTT would certainly be doing that!

This is my make:

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

Doctor Digi - Dad Dancing

coloured with Copics

Rubber stamp:

Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips: Birthday

Dies:

Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips: Well rounded

Un-branded stitched die rectangles

Anything else?

Computer generated sentiment (DAD The Man, The Myth, The Legend.)

Striped card

What I did:

Re-sized the digi and created a sentiment above it with Word then printed out, on Copic friendly paper, and coloured in the image.

Die-cut out the coloured image and striped card with co-ordinating dies from the set.

Glued the striped card to the card blank, then glued the coloured image to the striped card.

Finally added 3d foam to the die-cut sentiment and attached that to the coloured image.

et voila, job done!

Would love if you could find time to pop over to the challenge and join in - I love looking at other peoples cards and my Teamies have created some great inspiration to kick off the creative juices!

Right I'm off now and will be back tomorrow!

See you soon,

Signing off,

Sarah

Challenge/s:

Krafty Chicks Challenge: #596 - All Occasions

Cardz 4 Guyz: #288 - Something beginning with 'P' - mine is Polo shirt (or even, more cheekily Proper Embarrassment!)

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge: C#174 Anything Goes