Me at 40

I went to a crop in April and this was the class we took. I had the opportunity to use Bazzil InStitches for the first time too.

Thanks Steph.

Thanks for looking

Love, Sarah C xx

CANDY

Just reminding everyone that I'm celebrating my forthcoming birthday by giving away blog candy to one of you. All you have to do is leave a comment on the post pinned to the top of my blog with the word CANDY. You can enter up to once a day until June 10th when the 40th comment with CANDY at the beginning will win a box of goodies containing:

Prima and Other Flowers

Buttons

Ribbons and Lace

Basic Grey, Imaginisce and Pink Martini Rub-Ons

Pink Pig Mini-Book

Prima 6x6 Paintables

Rusty Pickle You've Been Framed Chipboard Accents

{brackets and photo corners}

Patterned Paper

Bazzill

Good luck

Love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Written In The Stars

I saw a competition on PageMaps blog with a sketch and thought I'd quite like a go at it although I had no plans to submit my entry to try and win. So, what were the rules? They gave you a sketch designed for an 8 1/2 x 11 LO and asked you to convert it to a 12x12 LO, use at least one photo, a title, some journalling and products that were still widely available. Also the winning entry was going to be published in May/June so they wanted LOs suitable for that time of year.

Here's the sketch and my LO

For some reason, I always spell LeAnn wrong and add an 'e' to the end! Photo is of an ex-housemate of mine (Cecelia). The journalling speaks for itself I think.

I used:

Buttercream Bazzill,

3 Bugs in a Rug (seeing stars)

Dress It Up buttons (I've Got Rythm)

Dovecraft Metallics A brads

SafMat

Ric-Rak - widely available
Journalling stamp - any journalling stamp with lines will do for this as I had to print it several times to get enough lines. Not sure the one I used is still available.

Brush Markers - also widely available - mine were free with a mail order craft club.

This was also done for the challenge on Scrummy Stash Cafe blog which was to scrap your favourite band/artist/song.

Thanks for looking

Take care

Love and hugs

Shell's Challenge

Over on 3C's, it was Shell's turn to set the sketch challenge. LO, card and ATC using the sketch and any extras she decided to set. Here's the sketch and what she said.

Layout - For the LO, I want you all to use just 1 piece of cardstock and 2 pieces of patterned paper, nothing else, no stickers, rub ons, ribbon, flowers etc.......everything you use on the LO has to be made using the c/s or pp or both, so any flowers, lettering, fake ribbons, etc must be made from the c/s /pp.

A challenge and a half I thought, but I gave it a go and with one sheet of Bazzill, 2 sheets of Basic Grey, a black Stazon ink pad and a journalling pen, here's what I came up with:

Card- Christmas is coming so for the card I would like you to make a christmas card, you can use anything you like, the more the better, but I would like sparkle, sparkle and more sparkle, glitter, sequins, the more the better.

Here we go then. I used to hate glitter, but thanks to Stickles I'm converted and the whole tree has been coloured in using stickles and gems. Dome sticker says "We wish you a merry Christmas"

ATC - Again anything goes for this, it can be any theme you like and you can use whatever you like. But I would like to see a hidden element on the ATC, something that makes it interactive. This could be a hidden tag that needs to be taken out, a window/ door that needs to be opened etc........

I've created a pocket using acetate and hidden a stamped flower behind it.

Thanks for looking

Love and hugs

Another Challenge LO

The weekly challenge over on UKS was set today and I managed to complete it in record time.

Set by the scattyscrappers, they challenged us to use:

4 of something-5points

Something blue -5 points

Time-5 points

Ribbon-5 points

Doodling-10 points

4 white photo corners on Bazzill

Blue Bazzill and blue pen

Take TIME

White ric-rac

Doodled scallops around the photo

Full points for my team the Ruby Snippers

Wording under the photo says:

to see the beauty that surrounds you

The wording near the ric-rac says:

View from Warwick Castle - January 2001

Thanks for looking. Love and hugs

xxx

Craft or Sleep?

I thought I'd show you all where I spend lots of my time.

The journalling:

Base card is yellow Bazzill and the PP that I've cut is DCWV Glitter Posies. I die-cut the title on my Tag-A-Long with Tootsie alphabet and pale blue paper. As a final touch I added a 'made with love' metal heart.

I was going to do a DLO and use a photo of my bed, but I'm wondering whether to do that or something else. Watch this space.

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Haven't we had some glorious weather these last few days? I've had the windows and French doors open every day and even sat outside to eat. Summer's here at last ~ woohoo!!!

UKS July House Challenge

The House Challenge for July on UKS was:

What lightens up your life / Bling (the shinier the better)

I saw a LO by a UKS member (whoopidoo) and decided to 'lift' the idea. My LO was not done with the challenge in mind, but once completed I realised that it fitted the bill perfectly.

memories of NAN:

I've used green Bazzill as the background and cut the PP (from Charmed) so that the flowers overlapped the photo. I used diamond stickles on each flower and between the journalling to add some bling (diamonds sparkle and shine don't they?). The title is cut on my tag-a-long using my Tootsie alphabet and I've used green pen to add detail to the letters.

The journalling down the side is done using a pink pen and reads:

* I remember the numerous hours you spent making soft toys. I wish I still had mine.

* I still have Melanie, the doll you gave me when I was 1 1/2. She goes everywhere with me.

* I remember 'our Fridays'. Chip shop lunch, then I'd take your list to Tescos.

* I remember the bingos you organised at Coveney Village Hall to raise money for the day centre you went to. That's why the Mayoress gave you these flowers. You can tell it was Christmas as you still have your hat on!!!

* Most of all I remember you with fondness and love

A simple LO maybe, but I think the PP provides enough detail.

My Scrapping This Week

I've been crafting this week and have done both challenges on UKS.

Firstly the weekly challenge by the Slinky Pink Scrappers which was:
Scrap a photo from your childhood for 10 points
Use something pink (Well we are the slinky PINK scrappers!) for 5points
Add something metal for 5 points
Recycled something 5 for points
Finally add some stripes 5 for points

Here's my take on this challenge:

Photo from childhood ~ me as a bridesmaid - 10 points
Pink ~ everything except the photo, PP and ink is pink - 5 points
Metal ~ metal brads on the corner of the photo and antenna on the butterfly - 5 points
Reycled ~ the flowers in the top right corner are cut out of wrapping paper one of my presents was in - 5 pointsStripes ~ PP cut into wavy stripes - 5 points

Full marks to me for my team the Ruby Snippers


The second challenge I've done this week is the monthly one. This is what was said:

'With the forthcoming Euro2008, the theme is Team Spirit, but not limited to football of course! and the technique this time means you can enter a MINIBOOK, or just use binding somewhere on your layout.
THEME : TEAM SPIRIT / TECHNIQUE : BINDING'

Here's my take on the challenge.

I've used photos from the Race For Life I took part in 2 years ago.

I then used pink Bazzill card for the base and a folder from K & Co's Hannah scrap pad to go from Charmed. I cut the folder and turned the back round so that you could see the design from the front and bound both parts together using pink ribbon.

My scrapping 'just because' is of one of my cousin's sons before he started school.

I used acrylic paints to colour a piece of white Bazzill and put the photo on using brads. The saying "Time stand still best in moments that look like ordinary life" is from elegant wordart 2 and I've printed it onto vellum, once again holding in place with brads.

What a Scrap !!

Well, I got in gear and did some scrapping yesterday.

First for the UKS May week 2 challenge by the Doodlebugs. They said:

1. We would like you to base your layout on the attached sketch - 10 points
2. We all love using stamps now and again, so incorporate stamping in your layout - 5 points
3. As it's May, we decided to indulge our love of ribbons. So get creative with your ribbons - 5 points
4. And finally, as we are the DOODLEbugs, we couldn't leave out doodling!!! - 10 points

After inking a piece of yellow Bazzill with green and orange Versacolor inks, I:

1. flipped the sketch over ~ 10 points
2. stamped 3 journalling blocks next to the photo using green versacolor ~ 5 points
3. taped (on the back) lengths of yellow check and green ribbon ~ 5 points
4. doodled fake stitching swirls on the right and continued it around the photo and journalling ~ 10 points

30 points claimed for The Ruby Snippers
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Here's my Lo for the UKS May House Challenge which is:

THEME : MY FAVOURITE PLACE / TECHNIQUE : STITCHING

I've copied this from the description I put on UKS:

I've gone for a totally diferent take on this challenge.

In the mid 70's, Dad and I went through a life changing experience and after that my favourite place was to be anywhere he was. The photo shows the award ceremony with Dad and I centre stage.

I've hand-stitched the frame around the photo, the star and the spiral. The background is white card coloured with 3 versacolor ink pads. The scroll and lettering were made with yellow paper. I used a pen to add fake stitching to the letters and inked the edges of the scroll with versacolor.
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Last but by no means least, heres a scrapping challenge LO I did on the DoCraft site set by a member.

We were allowed to use:
* 2 pieces of plain card stock
* 1 piece of patterned card stock
* 1 photo
* 2 different ribbons
* and nothing else

Well, I finally got my head around it and came up with this for which I used:
* dark red bazzill for the base and a small piece of green card to matt the photo
* 1 piece of 6x6 patterned paper (instead of card stock) from a K & Co paper pad. I cut this up and used it for framing and as embellishments
* photo of a hill/mountain near Burnham-on-Sea that Mum and I used as our landmark when we were on holiday there
* brown and burgundy ribbons layered on the green card to frame the photo
* that's your lot

Challenge met and thoroughly enjoyed too

Well done if you got to the end of this post and thank you so much for looking

Crop

Woohoo, I went to my first all day crop today and had a blast!

Confession time, we had home made cookies!! Sorry Gems, just had to do it LOL You deserved it after your hard work organising the day :wub:

I had this 10" Eeyore cut for me using a Cricut. Isn't he adorable? I used him on a LO today with on of his fans. Colours are much brighter IRL. Photo is of my youngest sister with chocolate cake one Christmas.

I also did a LO for the Elsie Flannigan 52 challenge on UKS. The challenge was to doodle on your photos and I used a white Sakura pen to do this. The wording on the vellum comes from the elegantwordart blog

I won 2 prizes in the draw. First was a kit that incuded some Basic Grey two Scoops PP, Bazzill card, My Mind's Eye Acetate overlay, Stamps Away journal stamp, Prima flowers, ribbon, ric-rak and brads.

Second win was a pack of grey card from The Papermill Shop. Will go nicely with the kit above :D

That's your lot for today. Be back with some more craft/life musings when I have some.