Colours of Autumn

As promised in my previous post, here's the reveal of my LO done for Ribbon Mad. It can be seen in their gallery here. Check out the other projects too as they are simply amazing.

I was given the fantastic October 'SPOOKY' kit to work with and this is what I did:

1) I used the orange/black striped ribbon to create a border around the three sides of my photo.

2) By sticking DST to the top of the ladybird ribbon, I was able to pleat it as I stuck it down on the bottom of the photo.

3) I made flowers out of the orange organza and black/orange stitched ribbons, before stitching them together and adding an orange button.

4) I stuck black buttons onto the top corners and inked some *chipboard letters.

* the letters were from my stash, but all other items were from the kit I was given to work with.

all the leaves are brown, and the sky is blue

This is an old post that I realised I had taken off my blog as the LO went for publication in a DOCraft magazine. Well, it's been published now, so I can put the LO back on here.

Here's the original post:

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I felt like doing a LO last night and thought I'd see what the bi-monthly challenge was on DoCraft. It's been a few months since I looked on there and I had a job remembering my password! But, I got there and loved what I read, so gave it a go. Set by greenhaze (Alma), this is what she said:

"The challenge is to use autumn colours brown, red, gold any colours that reflect the season.
Leaves.
A photo of your choice to reflect the season.
And nine or twelve buttons in autumn colours"

So, what did I do?

I definately used autumn colours ~ yellows and browns mainly
Skeleton leaves in brown
4 photos I took last month
9 buttons in shades of brown

Challenge met, here's the LO

Title is from the song California Dreamin' by the Mamas and Papas 1966 and printed onto Safmat. Journalling just tells when and where the photos were taken.

Thanks for looking

Take care

Love and hugs

Change of Season

It's been a fortnight since the last Crafty Muse challenge, so that means it's time for another and this time Sammi said "and seeing as we have just had a change of season (Spring or Autumn depending on which side of the world you live on) then we would like you to make a project based on that theme: 
Change of Season"

Here's my card which uses a download that will be coming out next week as part of another fantastic bundle. Stay tuned to Crafty Muse so you don't miss out. I've watercoloured both the image and the base card, added ribbon, stars and the stamped sentiment.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

Catch Up, But No Craft To Show

Sometimes life is a series of hills and mountains that need climbing. After getting (almost) over my virus, I'm jobless!. I never got the one at Cambridge or one they put me in for at Histon. I got asked if I'd like my CV putting forward for one at Papworth, but I can't get there on the bus and don't have daily access to a car. So, here I am waiting to hear if I can get Job Seeker's Allowance and Housing Benefit again. Until then, I'm living off the money I saved from the work I have done this year! I did have details of a job that; if I got it, would have set me up for the next phase of my life. But, after ringing a mobile several times to be told the inbox was full, I found out that they'd had at least 100 people ring and were ploughing through them before opening it up again, if at all! Until a job comes along and inbetween job hunting, I'm free to talk to and see family and friends, catch up with my friends on forums, blog and blog hop and of course craft!!!

After 2 weeks of being mostly indoors, I've been lucky enough to have 3 days out and about where I've taken some Autumn photos. Don't faint, but I've even managed to update my photo blog with some of them.

I spent 2 days/evenings making some Christmas cards this week. One of my sisters had hoped to have a stall at a local fete. She asked if I'd like her to try and sell some of my cards in return for looking after her children while she did it. Of course I said yes. The chance to have some time with my niece and nephews was enough, but it had the added prospect of maybe making a little money. Unfortunately it never happened, so I'm left with quite a few cards looking for homes. My plan B is to see if David's Dad still wants some cards to sell at his church to raise some funds and split the proceeds. Will be good if he says yes, but I have a plan C which is to keep them and add to them over the year and then have a stall myself somewhere.

That's my catch-up. See you here again soon.

Take care, love and hugs