Baby Boy Card

Just a quick make from me. My cousin's eldest son had his third baby nearly 2 weeks ago. Welcome to the world little one. Congratulations to you all.

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Love, Sarah C xx

Magic Card

Thanks to Joyce (UKS's 2magpies) for her video tutorial for making one of these cards. I've used an image I was given by a friend to make a card for a 5 year old.

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SLYMI week 31 and Michelle's sketch challenge on SATC

Yep, one LO, 2 challenges. Shimelle's Scrap Like You Mean It on UKS this week is to scrap "something old, something new, something borrowed or something blue". She said to use one or all and we could ignore the wedding connection if we wanted.

So, after realising that the photo I had wasn't quite what I'd remembered, I decided to scrap a copy of a school photo of my nan aged 11.

old ~ photo

new ~ flock paper which I've inked to make it a darker shade of blue

borrowed ~ the original photo so I could scan it

blue ~ Lo is blue and white

Michelle's sketch challenge on Scrap Around The Clock for July-August was provided by Pagemaps and I've turned it for my LO.

The brackets and swirls were cut on my ROBO which is now working with the Vista on my laptop :) I also got ROBO to cut the title out of the blue paper to allow the white to show through.

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A Little Bird ...

ARTY GIRLZ challenged us to make something using a blue and yellow combo and I chose to make a card using one of the Animal Magic downloads from Charmed and coloured it in with watercolur paints.

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Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

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

Pick A Letter

The DT on Dottie's World take it in turns to sets a Sunday challenge. This weeks was to use an image from the Dottie/George/Cat collections available from Charmed and to Pick A Letter. We had to use different elements on the card using just the one letter we'd chosen.

The letter I chose was B.

Dottie's Balancing on the ladder
She's holding a Happy Birthday Banner
I've used a Bling Brad on the Banner
I've put four Buttons on the corners of the card
The Buttons, Brad and ladder are Blue
I've used Black Bling gems for Dottie's eyes

Somerset Hols

The weekly challenge on UKS this week is:

In April 1581, the first circumnavigation of the globe was completed – although sadly, Ferdinand Magellan, the man who planned and led the expedition, never saw his goal.

* So … use a map or plan of some kind on your LO = 10pts

* The sailors must have sailed a lot of seas, so for using the colour blue = 5pts

* Use a hand-made embellishment = 5pts

* Use ink on your LO (eg stamped image, inked edges etc) = 5pts

* Use eyelets and/or brads - 5pts

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I Googled and printed out a map of the area of Somerset that mum and I travelled while on our hols. I had to print it on 3 pieces of paper and jigsaw it together to get the whole area big enough to see the tiny villages (such as Mark) that we went to and drove through. I then printed out some small photos that I'd taken and grouped them round the map which has hand-drawn scallops round.

As for the challenge:

* Map ~ Somerset = 10 points

* Blue ~ Blue Bazzill card for the background = 5 points

* Handmade embellishments ~ the arrows are hand-cut, doodled on with black brush marker and have stickles (diamond and black) added = 5 points

* Ink ~ a black brush marker which contains ink = 5 points

* Eyelets and/or brads ~ top left corner embellishments are white eyelets = 5 points

Full marks (of 30 points) for my team The Ruby Snippers

I've Managed One LO

What on earth's happened this week? I've managed the grand total of one LO and here it is:

On UKS, the weekly challenge set by the Lavender Lovelies is this:

1. Since 1967, on or around Hans Christian Andersen's birthday, 2 April, International Children's Book Day (ICBD) is celebrated to inspire a love of reading and to call attention to children's books, therefore we would like you to use a fairytale / fantasy / or children’s book title theme for your layout.
2. Its April Fools day on April 1st so please 'fool us’, you could include some hidden journalling or maybe use something surprising on your Layout that wouldn’t normally be used for scrapping.
3. Also in relation to April 1st..... in 1891 the Wrigley’s Company was started , As a bit of a giggle please use something 'wriggly ' on your layout , this could be ric-rac or wavy lines maybe.
4. As it is hopefully going to become more spring like please use spring colours on your layout, these do NOT have to be pastel, but we are thinking along the lines of blues, pinks, greens, yellows, white etc.
5. To celebrate the clocks changing this past weekend to British Summertime please use a clock or time on your layout, the time can be within the journalling.

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So to summarise:

1. Fairytale / fantasy / or children’s bok title theme - 10 points
2. April Fools element - something not as it seems or hidden etc - 5 points
   
3. To celebrate Wrigley’s company starting on 1st April 1891 use wavy lines on your layout - 5 points
4. Spring colours (do not have to be pastel) - 5 points
5. Use a clock or time on your layout - 5 point

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1. I've used one of my favourite books from my youth - The Famous Five
2. The white in the bottom right is actually the wire mesh used to repair cars, which I inked and heat embossed in white. There is also some journalling behind the photo
3. I cut the wire mesh wavy
4. I've used pinks, whites and blues with some red thrown in
5. I hand-cut the clock and set the hands to the year of the photo ('87)

Full marks to me for my team The Ruby Snippers. I just can't believe my family and I went to that wedding wearing so many colours between us, even matching the colour of our tights to our tops!! I cringe in shame!!! LOL

Birthday Card

Just a quick post today as I have things to do before mum comes over. Hope you are all well. Here's a card I made for my cousin's eldest son's birthday yesterday.

I used:

Three Bugs In A Rug - Seeing Stars ~ Brilliant and Star Stripes
KI Memories Collection V Playful Wisdom (saying is "Act like a grown-up ... Play like a child! - Deb Foy (Both from CCC)
Brads - Dovecraft neutral squares
Wording die-cut using black paper from The Paper Mill and Ellison Tootsie Alphabet

Catch you all here again soon (maybe?!) xxx