Indigo Mills Kit Competition

Indigo Mills set everyone a very interesting competition. Here's what they said:

"Our competition for you is to show us just how many projects you can create from one collection pack.... using the odd extra embellishment here and there, and of course your basic tool kit, how much can you really get from one kit? (No limit on plain cardstock!!!! It's a necessity and a way of life!)) Lets see just how good the value for money is."

I bought My Mind's Eye Garden Party Kit (£6.65) and wanted to see what I could do with that and minimal items from my stash. Here's what else I used:

Bazzill, SafMat, scrap card for journalling, cream card for the card bases and bookmarks, a little ribbon, a couple of brads, some stickles, a chipboard '2', journalling pens, brush marker, brown ink pad, magnetic sheet and used my Tag-a-Long to cut some letters (although I considered cutting by hand or writing them all). I used nearly all the PPs (have small scraps left now) including the small strips of designs on the cover slip that was in the kit and all the die-cuts. The 'sucking lemons & blowing bubbles' words were cut from the cover slip and scraps of the PP, but I used the reverse sides to get white letters. I even used the bottom strips from the PP as they had a gorgeous brown pattern on them and two of the 'EYE' words from the strips on my 'EYE 2 EYE' LO. Nothing goes to waste around here LOL

Here's what I did with it:

1) Maze Book (3 photos)

2) LO - we love uncle david

3) LO - lasagne

4) LO - sucking lemons and blowing bubbles

5) LO - shopping

6) LO - EYE 2 EYE

7) LO - What a View

8) LO - decisions decisions ...

9) LO - Scotland Lake

10) Card - Thank You

11) Card - Thank You

12) Card - With Love

13) & 14) Bookmarks (2nd photo shows magnetic bookmark opened)

I loved working with it so much that I've bought 2 more kits to take with me when I go to my Mum's to dog-sit in just over a week.

Thanks for looking and getting to the end of this long post

SLYMI week 27

Wow, we're in to the second half of this and I'm still keeping up. Here's my entry for week 27 ~ scrap a happy story.

I've chosen to use photos from a month ago when Jo and I were in Cambridge. Journalling reads "There we were; in the middle of Kings Street Cambridge, waiting to go to the ADC theatre, re-touching our make-up. We'd just been for a meal at the Rainbow Cafe and were having such a laugh. I love times we spend together like this and thanks to photography, have pictures too."

I've used Scrap Sketch's #103 sketch for this LO

Thanks for looking

UKS Weekly Challenge ~ July week 1

Set by The Snippets on UKScrappers, the weekly challenge this week was to:

* Have your title referencing summer ~ fun in the sun (10 points)

** Have a summer theme ~ playing with water bombs (5 points)

*** Use ribbon ~ red stitched ribbon near the bottom (5 points)

**** Use 2 pictures ~ Yep (5 points)

***** Have secret journalling ~ the leaf pulls out to reveal the journalling (5 points)

I've used Scrap Sketch's #107 sketch for this LO

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Blooming Beautiful at Dottie's World

Lou challenged us to create something 'blooming beautiful' on Dottie's World this week and to take inspiration fromm either our own or someone else's garden.

I've used this challenge to make my Mum's retirement card.

I've placed the pre-coloured Holly in the Garden digi-download from Charmed Cards and Craft, onto a photo of daisies from my garden. I faded the photo first, then printed it all onto photo paper. The wording is done using Word's WordArt and has been filled with the original daisy photo before being printed onto SafMat.

Thanks for looking,

Crafty Muse Sketch and Recipie

It's Crafty Muse Fortnight Friday today and that means another challenge for you. We have a sketch combined with a recipie, so nip over there to see what they are.

I've used the sketch on top of a box I've made. The image is one of the new 'sisters and friends' download collections available later today.

It's Nearly Crafty Muse Friday

It's nearly that time again. A fortnight's almost gone since our last challenge on Crafty Muse, but you still have time to do something for it.

Here's a peek at my crafting for the next challenge. Come back and check it out properly on Friday.

UKS Weekly Challenge ~ June week 5

The challenge on UKScrappers this week was set by the Pink Glitter Gals and they challenged us to:

* scrap the preparations or aftermath of a celebration ~ my sister preparing for the nativity at her church

** include pink ~ journalling pen and the blooms

*** minimal journalling ~ I've kept it brief

**** use one of the two sketches provided ~ I used the one done especially for this challenge

Let The Sun Shine! on Dottie's World

'Let the sun shine!' is Lou's challenge on Dottie's World at the moment.

Here's my card.

I've layered 3 images from the Pixie Chicks downloads available exclusively from Charmed, printed them onto photo paper and added a butterfly sticker. The sentiment is also printed onto photo paper.

July ATC Challenge on Scrap Around The Clock

We have another 2 challenges for you on Scrap Around The Clock for July. It was my turn to make an ATC, so here it is:

I've layered 2 of the Pixie Chicks downloads available exclusively from Charmed and printed them onto photo paper.

Hop over to Scrap Around The Clock to find out what the challenges are and then show us what your interpretations are.

Scrapsketch #74

I took these photos a few days apart, but together they show a typical British day. Journalling reads: "Who put the 'Great' into Great British Weather? Sunny one minute and pouring with rain the next. I'll never understand it, but it is good for the plants."

I've used scrapsketch's #74 sketch

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Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo