Say it with Flowers

Hi Everyone

Very quick post as I couldn't resist making a card tonight as there were some fantastic challenges around.
LOTV -Sketch
Cute Card Thursday -Someone special
Just Magnolia - One for the Girls
Basic Grey - Punch it
A Spoonful of Sugar -Cute & Girly
Papertake weekly - Say it with Flowers
Penny Black - Flowers

Phew told you I was inspired!!!

I just love this new Tilda and I know I went a little mad with the flowers, which I also glimmer misted but ho hum they are very cute that way.

Recipe: Stamps: Sentiments x2 penny Black Salutations, Midsummer Tilda from magnolia. Papers:  Basic Grey - Sugared. Martha Stewart Lever Border Punch - Lace Doily. Flowers fromWild Orchid. Card Candy from Craftwork Cards. Ribbon from stash & stickles all over!

Thanks for looking

Hugs

Back Again!!

Hi Everyone

Back again with my second post of the day so this will be very quick. This card is for the challenges on Whiff of Joy, which is this lovely sketch and there is a photo inspiration over on Basic Grey from which I used the colours.

I have used the very cute Melinda with Bouquet and coloured her with copics (I'm still on limited supplies!). I have used a selection of papers from a BG Granola pad for all the layers and the flowers.

Recipe: Stamps Whiff of Joy - Melinda with Bouquet, General sentiments. Papers: Basic Grey - Granola. Nesties - Flower creations. Brown Tulle from stash.

Phew all finished! Tomorrow I will be winding my way down the M6 & M40 back to Surrey. It sure was nice to spend some time with my parents as when you are working these trips are hard to organise. I also managed to get my crafty Mojo back and made quite a few cards between all the shopping!

So up the hill to Bedfordshire for me

Thanks for looking

Hugs

Sparkle, Glitz & Bling

Hi all

Gosh when is this windy weather going to cease. Its been blowing all the leaves from my Magnolia tree into my neighbours garden and I keep getting these dirty looks thrown at me when I leave the house (although I do offer to help!). How embarrassing!! Thankfully there are hardly any leaves left on the tree so my troubles will be over soon.

I made a bit of a whoopsie yesterday and forgot to to post my card so now I have missed the challenge I will post later in the week Oops!

Today my card followed the lovely sketch over at Friday sketchers, but also covers the challenges on Totally Gorjuss to use any girlie image, Creative Inspirations to Sparkle, Just Magnolia to use masking, a little bit of BG paper for the Basic Grey 'Glitz and Bling' challenge and finally Papertake Weekly to create use your favourite Christmas stamps

Recipe:  227/365 Stamps - Magnolia - Wrapped Tilda & Snowy circle coloured with Copics and the bow is watercoloured with Jellyroll pens. Papers Basic Grey - Snowbank, Sei -winter Song, Flocked snowflake vellum. Sentiment and Card candy -craftwork cards. Tulle and pins from stash. Plus loads of stickles !!

 Thanks for looking

Hugs

Sara xx

Totally Gorjuss - 3

Back again!! Give the weather was so bad this afternoon I thought I would make another card and go for something really rich. I picked this fabulous flocked striped paper aas my starting point. Next it had to be the Totally Gorjuss 'bling' challenge and I thought I would have go at one of the very popular Easel cards that was on Secret Crafter and the papers I used qualified it for the Basic Grey challenge.

I'm still on the Christmas card treadmill, but with papers as gorgeous as these it makes life so easy. The bling is all over the card a little OTT, but thats me!! LOL. The stickles has been out again on the flowers, papers, charm and the image plus the pearls and card candy add another dimension. The photos don't really do the papers and colours justice, but ho hum I know!

The easel card was actually very easy to make. I went back to the trusty 6x6 size which made it a real sinch  when cut from 12 x 12 cardstock.

The close up, which shows off the lovely message on the Bobunny papers and the cut little snow flake charm .

Recipe 216/365 Stamps: Gorjuss Girl - A little birdy told me coloured with Copics Papers: Basic Grey -  Eskimo Kisses, 7 Gypsies - Savannah Flock paper Stripe, BoBunny - 12" Believe Cutout. Card candy - craftwork cards. Punch - Martha Stewart - Branch. Flowers - Poinsettia by Prima. Brads, pearls, spacers and charm from stash.

Thanks for looking

Hugs

Sara xx

Challenge weekend

Hi all
Very busy day today in my new life as a lady of leisure.......
I went down to Crafts U love this morning to participate in their make and take. I had been invited by a couple of crafty friends a few times, but not been able to fit it in. Well I didn't have that excuse any more so off I drove. It was a lovely day and the trip is pretty much all country lanes so a pleasure in itself. As I arrived I met Fizz & Jill (one arriving & one leaving) and had a fab time meeting some lovely ladies.

This afternoon I had a couple of friends over for coffee and then this evening found time to craft and enter some of this weekends challenges.

My first card was for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge, which was a sweet sketch by Nat. I don't have many long vertical stamps so decided to rotate the sketch around to accommodate a old long horizontal Penny Black stamp. This also meant I could enter this into the challenge over at Secret Crafter, which was to dig deep and use an old stamp.

Recipe 191/365 Stamps - Snowman border, Snowflakes.. Papers: Pebbles - snow fun flakes & Kars X-mas collection. White card embossed using a Cuttlebug folder - snowflakes. All coloured in copics.

The next card was made using another old penny black stamp, but this time I used a sketch from Sketch Saturday and by using some of the BG Eskimo kisses paper managed to qualify for the Basic Grey Challenge which was a colour combo of Blue, Green & red.

Recipe: 192/365 Stamp -Penny Black - Snowy & Hedgey, Sentiment from Inkadinkado coloured in copics. Papers from Basic Grey - Eskimo Kisses. Punches - Martha Stewart. Red Pearls from Queen & co
Phew I'm pooped now and need to get my beauty sleep as I am off to the Glitter Pot tomorrow for the day.
Bye
Saraxx

Stampin for the weekend - 20

Evening all

What a lovely day its been today after all of the rain earlier this week. I managed to get out into the garden and do some of the chores that had been piling up literally!

My reward for all that hard work was an afternoon of crafting Yeah! I actually have a few birthday cards to make and to start with I needed a 21st card for my very sweet hairdresser & neighbour Emma. She loves purple so that was one easy decision & the stamp I have been saving up especially for her as the three girls look just like her and her two BF. She is quite a classy sort of girl for her age and so I used the lovely simple sketch on Stampin' for the weekend.




Recipe: 190/365 Stamp: Rubber Romance. Paper - Basic Grey - Eva. Coloured in Copics & the glasses have some glossy accents
Back later with another card... Have to dash now & make dinner.......
Saraxx

Five for a Friday

Evening all

Well what a busy bunny I've been today. Not content with my multi challenge cards to date I have three cards tonight which cover 5 challenges..... How greedy is that? To be honest I am still at my parents so there is not much else to do and there were some great sketches that I really wanted to do despite my lack of stash and all my papers to hand. They are not my best attempts, but I am putting it down to the fact that I have only one small bag of crafty stuff rather than a whole room of things to draw inspiration from .................LOL. The first challenge was for the Basic Grey challenge. It was a bit tricky as I only had one pad with me, the Eskimo kisses.

Recipe: 185/365

Only two tiny stamps both from the Dashing Reindeer set from Woodware. Papers: Basic Grey - Eskimo Kisses. Mulberry Street Flowers from Petaloo, Candy dots by Pebbles & card candy by craft work cards.

The second card was for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge, but used the Simon says stamp sketch. I had to go out and buy the ribbon today & the buttons are from my Grandmothers old button tin, which has now found its way into my craft bag.... whoops. She was always thrifty and cut all the buttons off worn out clothes and put them in an old baby milk tin which has a best before date of 1st may 1950!

Recipe: 186/365

Stamps; Christmas Critters - Penny Black; Christmas Characters - Inkadinkado. Papers; Pebbles - Snow fun flakes, Sizzix card stock brights & vellum from Stash. Nestabilities - Blossom & Create a flake 1. Coloured with distressed inks plus stickles everywhere!

And at last here is my final card, which is for the Lily of the Valley challenge using the lovely sketch from Sketch Saturday. I really had a tough time with this card as I struggled firstly to cut into this gorgeous paper, but secondly trying to match my limited supply of red and green Inks and papers... Mum to the rescue with some ribbon and some snowflakes.....

Recipe: 187/365 Stamps: Christmas Bunnies - Stocking from Lily of the Valley coloured using distressed inks. Papers Making Memories - Icon stripe Mistletoe, Ruby Bazzill & Bazzill Dotted Swiss Card - Clover Leaf. Sentiment from Craftwork cards. Embossed using Cuttlebug Embossing Folder - Holly With Berries & candy cane stripe. Ribbon and snowflakes from my mums stash (thanks!). Finished off with some star dust stickles.

I think these new stamps from Lily of the Valley are just so cute & the great news is
they are bringing out some more in two weeks at the NEC.

Well its off to bed now to conserve my strength for a fun packed day of shopping. Samuel Taylor have their 60th Birthday celebration demos this weekend so we are off to Embsay tomorrow and it would be just so rude not to drop into the Stampman on the way back, especially when we can have a fab lunch in Skipton.

Catch you later

Sara xx