Dino Saw................

Back again

Found a bit of time to do another card tonight and went from complete girly pinks to male neutrals not that you should really stereotype colours I know quite a few men that wear pink (shirts!).

The house renovations are moving along nicely and we now have the new roof going on the old house and the new extension. Inside the rewire is complete and all the plastering is well underway so now I get all the nice tasks of picking light fittings and bathroom tiles etc.

Anyway the card tonight is once again covering  a number of really fabulous challenges:

Fridays Sketchers - Sketch
Colour Create - Khaki/Aqua/Brown/Cream with an additional requirement of circles (oops missed this one!!)
Secret crafter - metal
Stampin for the weekend - A card for a male

This image is one from Woodware and has been coloured with distress inks onto suede paper which gives a very lovely texture. The papers are from an old pad had from BG and all the colours really suit masculine cards. I embossed a piece of scrap card to look like metal and added some ribbon from Stamping Up  and a little metal charm to finish it off.

Thanks for looking

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Friendship

Hi Everyone

Last card for this week as I am finding it too hard to craft when back from work as I am having to spend over 4 hours each day commuting which is a bit of a killer. the building work is coming along. I now have a couple of walls missing, the new extension walls are now built and the first fix new electrics have been done in the old house. Not bad for one week!

So anyway back to today's card. This is another male card (I'm getting there!) and uses some old BG Design papers I have had for ages. I have also managed to fit it into three challenges:

Fridays sketchers - Sketch
Penny Black - Punches
Secret Crafter - Friendship

I thought this stamp really fitted the bill especially the accompanying sentiment.I coloured it with copics, but managed to avoid my customary stickles frenzy! However I couldn't leave it too plain so out came the MS punch!

Recipe: Stamp: Flyaway from Penny Black coloured with copics.Papers: Basic grey from my stash, and Bazzill in red and blue.. Ribbon from stash.

As always thanks for looking

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Spots and dots, Buttons and bows

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Still cold and trying to snow at every opportunity, but at least the ground is too wet for it to stick! I got fed up of all the dull weather and treated myself to some flowers so now the house is full of tulips, daffodils and Hyacinths. Spring is here according to my house!!
Tonights card is another multi challenge for:

Truely Scrumptious - Sketch
Cute Card Thursday - Spots and Dots
Lily of the Valley - Valentines
Secret Crafter - Monochrome and white

This card uses another of my recently acquired new stamps from LOTV and is aptly called Rosie Posy. I have coloured her with Copics and added some stickles for good measure. The button is another one from my grandmothers button box. Apologies for the washed out photo, my camera doesn't seem to like night time photography! or is that a bad crafter blames her tools.............

Recipe: Stamps: LOTV - Rosie Posy, Sentiment from Magnolia. Papers: My Minds Eye - Be loved Beautiful Branches double sided paper. Flower, Ribbon and cord from stash

Thanks for looking

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Hugs Cuddles & Kisses

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Back again this time with my proper posting!

My card today is another valentine's card, but I have managed to use one of my new LOTV stamps. This one is called bunny in love and although it is not one from the latest release I have been coverting it for a while.

I managed to tweak everything again so I could get this into 4 challenges:

Cupcake challenge - Four legged and furry

Papertake weekly - Sketch

Colour Create - Soft Pink, Soft Blue, White & Silver

Secret Crafter - Hearts

I am just loving this paper from Imaginisce. Its really good for romantic cards and the colours are bright and modern.

Recipe: Stamps: LOTV - Bunny. in Love, Sentiment - do-crafts. Papers: Imaginisce Perfectly Posh Paper - Painted Stripes, Bazzill bling - Sugar daddy. Nesties Scalloped and plain large circles, ribbon from stash & oodles of stardust stickles

Thanks for looking
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Blooming Gorgeous

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Boy I've been so busy this week and although I have made some cards I haven't had time to post them! I've missed a few fantastic challenges as well ho hum!.

Todays card covers a massive four challenges to make up for my absence :

Just Magnolia - Fabulous Sketch
Secret Crafter - Colour Challenge
Totally Gorjuss - Dimension
Cute Card Thursday - Blooming Gorgeous

So I used this very cute Charlston Tilda from my winter Magnolia pack. She just looks like she is on her way out to paint the town red! However instead of red I took a rest from Valentines pink and red and used these very delish BG Wisteria papers, which I really have not used enough. I have double mounted her and embossed the paper to provide plenty of dimension and of course applied plenty of stickles to basically everything!

Recipe: Stamps: Magnolia - Charlston Tilda. Papers: Basic Grey - Wisteria. & coordinations  - eggplant. Cuttlebug Embossing Folder - Daisy Pattern. Martha Stewart Lever Deep Edge Punch - Garden Trellis. Sentiment from craftwork cards. Ribbon and flowers from stash plus loads of Star Dust Stickles

Thanks for looking
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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

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Sara xx

It started as one!

Back for my last post. Originally I intended to do a very quick challenge using the sketch at A Spoonful of Sugar and to ink up the 'Spooky' stamp set I had from Penny Black to fulfil the Halloween brief at Penny Black Saturday & to all intents and purposes it was, as it only took 20 minutes to make........


However, when I came to post the card I found that I was able to enter quite a few more challenges as follows:
Creative Inspirations - challenge 32 - Halloween
Stamping for the Weekend - Challenge 21 - Halloween
Secret Crafter - challenge 55 - Orange & one other colour (in my case black)
Stamptacular Sunday - Challenge 30 - Its Fall y'all (using traditional fall colours)
Hurrah - makes my life so much easier...
Here is a close up...

Recipe: 199/365 Stamps:Penny Black clear stamp set - Spooky coloured with Copics. Paper: Basic Grey - Indian Summer (quite apt given this weeks weather forecast !) Orange Bazzill Bling, Black Coordinations card. Cuttlebug Embossing Folder - Skeleton Scroll & Pumpkin Harvest. Bit of stickles on the hat!
That really is me finished for today so thanks for looking
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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

Have a hoot

Hi all

This week I am up at my parents in the north of England, which is great as I always get spoiled rotten and as my mum is a fellow crafter I get to spend quite a bit of crafting and not worrying about chores...........

So today I am have been busy making Xmas cards (which I will put up on a slide show at the end of the week) and made a card for my brother for his birthday next month which just so happens to have a flying owl (ABC challenge), makes reference to family (Creative Inspirations), includes autumn colours (Secret Crafter) and uses a sketch (Just Magnolia). Phew I believe that covers 4 challenges.....

I had received these stamps in my order from the new Magnolia spooky range, but as we don't really celebrate Halloween I wanted to make a card that used the stamps a bit differently and men's cards are always a tough one for me.

So without further ado.....

Recipe: 184/365
Stamps: Magnolia - So Spooky; spooky moon and tree branch, flying owl. Kelly Panacci - Twit Twoo. Papers My minds eye - Andrea Victoria; Golden Beads & Sizzix little sizzles card stock neutrals. Embossed with Cuttlebug- Forest Branches. E line by Prima. Peel off from stash. Coloured with distressed inks.
OMG look at the time I must fly (LOL)
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Sarax