Scrap Around The Clock ~ August Sneeky Peek

Would you believe a month has nearly gone by since we challenged you on Scrap Around The Clock? That can only mean one thing ~ Get ready for the challenge reveals on Saturday and to see what the Design Team have done to help inspire you.

Here's a sneeky peek of my crafting for it

Thanks for looking

It's Nearly Crafty Muse Time Again

And that means another sneeky peek for you.

Check us out on Friday to see what the challenge actually is and to see what the team have done to help inspire you.

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Crafty Muse Peek For Challenge This Friday

It's nearly a fortnight since we set the sketch and recipe challenge on Crafty Muse, so that means it's time for my sneeky peek at the next one.

Come back on Friday to see what the challenge is and to join in.

Thanks for looking

Crafty Muse Sketch and Recipe ~ 2nd entry

I've made a card using the current sketch and recipe challenge on Crafty Muse. You still have time to enter and you can use any image you want - not just Sammi's amazing downloads. I've used one of the new sisters and friends images and coloured it using my brush markers. Brads are in all four corners and the ribbon I've made into a small flower on the bottom right

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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.

Scrapsketch Friday Challenge

Steph at Scrapsketch decided to give us all a quick sketch challenge (Friday to Sunday). Here's my entry for it using photos taken on my birthday when my youngest sister and I went to Cambridge. Title "Friends by choice" is from Elegant Word Art and I've printed it onto vellum. Journalling reads "Take time to pout and pose".

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Sketch and Stash (#10) and One Stop Craft Challenge (#30)

Sketch and Stash are a card challenge blog and their criteria is that you use their sketch and some new stash. I'd printed last week's sketch and used it this evening in my crafting, although I didn't meet their criteria at all. Why? Because 1) I did a LO not a card and 2) I didn't use any new stash.

I did complete the latest challenge (#30) for One Stop Craft Challenge's VINTAGE challenge as I used vintage papers and some lace.

Here's the LO. These are not her wedding, but I love this photo of her and wanted to do a soft LO for a different album I'm doing. 

and here's where the journalling is hidden.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Black & White Plus ??

Crafty Muse challenges you to craft using just black & white plus one colour of your choice for this next fortnight.

Here's a couple of cards to maybe give you some inspiration. I've used images from the new Marriage download collection and this will be given as a prize to one lucky person who takes part. The images are b&w, plus Sammi has coloured them in and you get them all.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Sketch This #86, Butterfly Crafts #11 and The Creative Type # 17

Sketch This  (#86) have a single photo LO for their latest sketch which I've turned on it's side.

Butterfly Crafts (#11), challenge us to use our favourite Disney characer for inspiration and

The Creative Type (#17) challenged us to use numbers on a LO

What did I do? I pondered Butterfly Crafts challenge for a few days until it dawned on me that I loved Sleeping Beauty as a child. The photo of my youngest nephew was pefect for this. I cut the title on my ROBO using a free Disney style font. As for using numbers, I found I had a sticker that said '1 of a kind'.

Journalling reads "Kieran you are '1 of a kind'. You manage to sleep through a party, yet when you're in bed you hear a pin drop!"

I've given up trying to use the borrowed camera for photos of my craft, so have scanned this and pieced it together. As I don't have any fancy software it's a little (or a lot) hit and miss, so appologies for the look of the image. I hope it doesn't spoil it for you. I will be replacing all the latest photos with new ones once I get my camera back (or a new one).

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

It's Nearly Time For Another Crafty Muse

Friday will see the next challenge on Crafty Muse. Here's a sneeky peek at 2 things I've made for it. Don't forget to check in on Friday to see what we're challenging you to.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Oh Happy Day

It's a happy day in the life of me.

I saw a post on a blog yesterday asking for people to offer to be a Guest Designer for them and applied. I heard back and was so pleased that they had asked me to do something for June for them. Before I could reply to say a big YES, I noticed another e-mail and read that first. Just as well I did as it asked me to be a permanent DT member instead of having a guest spot. Did I smile? You bet I did! And I still am.

So, who's team am I excited to be joining? ROLL THE DICE

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

One Little Word's 2nd Birthday

One Little Word are celebrating their 2nd birthday and to celebrate they're giving away prizes to some people who enter the current challenge. They've challenged us to do 2 things based around the number 2. I've done 2 LOs for this. 

Take Two Girls (and one chocolate fountain)

2 Brides (one wedding)

Appoogies for the bad photos, but my camera's gone wrong and has been sent off for fixing. I've borrowed one to use while I'm waiting, but I'm still getting used to it.

Thanks for looking,

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Growing Up

The weekly challenge on UKScrappers this week was set by the Butterfly Bonanza's, they challenged us to:

Design your own sketch based on packaging, a film poster or a book cover ~ 10 points ~ yes

Include something transforming ~ 10 points ~ yes (my eldest nephew as he grows up)

Use spring colours ~ 5 points ~ yes (my garden's only got orange and green in it ATM)

Use something gold ~ 5 points ~ yes (pen for the swirls and brads)

I found this film poster on the net and did the following sketch from it

I then found some photos of my eldest nephew as he was growing up, printed the latest one so it would almost fill one side and went with that for my theme. The journalling tells of some of the many things I just love about him ~ his sense of humour, his caring nature, his dimples .....

I'm planning on doing a LO of his sister now and will do one of his younger brother once he's a little more grown up as he's only just turned one.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

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

Music

Design X have had a challenge (#47) to do a LO based on MUSIC which ends tonight, so I'm just in time.

The journalling for this starts

"Anyone who knows me, knows how much I like music .............." so for me this was a very easy challenge. I decided to go with the song by John Miles titled simply 'Music' as it sums me up and is one song I've said I want playing at my funeral.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

May Day!

As you most likely know, it was May Day this last Monday. We at Crafty Muse have decided to use this as our challenge for this fortnight. Here's what Sammi said

"Well... It's the beginning of May.... we've just had May Day and so what better theme for this challenge... We would like you to make a project inspired by the idea of

May Day :: love, flowers, romance!

It's Mother's Day in Australia this Sunday... if you are downunder why not make a Mother's day card for this challenge??"

Here's my card, inspired by the ribbons on a traditional May Pole. I've used an Angelique Sitting stamp exclusively available from Sammi at Crafty Muse.

Sammi also added

"THERE will be a prize this challenge.... the winner can choose one download package + just quietly at the end of this challenge there will be 2 new download sets available.... exciting!!"

So, what are you waiting for, the prize definitely won't be yours unless you take part.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Sneaky Peeks Again For Another Crafty Muse Challenge

It's nearly 2 weeks since the last Crafty Muse challenge and here's my sneaky peek before this Friday's challenge.

Don't forget to check back in a couple of days to see what the challenge is so you can participate.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

One LO, Two Challenges

I've done a LO to enter for a couple of challenges. Firstly:

My Time To Craft (challenge #60) ~ "Anything but a card". I've done a LO instead.

Secondly How Much Is Too Much (challenge #105) ~ "Working 9 to 5". They said we must use at least:

9 words in our journalling ~ couldn't say it in just 9, so used 25!!

8 brads ~ 8 gold ones

7 letter stickers ~ actually, there's 17

6 pieces of patterned paper ~ yep, exactly 6

5 photos ~ 4 black & white and 1 colour

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Living On The Edge with Shimelle

On UKScrappers, Shimelle challenged us last time to 'live on the edge' by using the edge of our LO in some way. Either by cutting it fancy, putting something right at the edge, overhanging something or ......... The choice was ours.

So, I decided to cut the edge of my green card, put ribbon at the edge on 2 sides and use blooms on one corner.

It's a fairly simple LO, but hopefully one that draws your eye to the yellow rose in the centre. Apologies for the flash, but the photo was taken at night.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

UKS April House Challenge

April's monthly house challenge on UKScrappers (set by the Green Buttons) was to take inspiration from part of this poem

An April Day

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807-1882)

When the warm sun, that brings
Seed-time and harvest, has returned again,
'T is sweet to visit the still wood, where springs
The first flower of the plain.

I love the season well,
When forest glades are teeming with bright forms,
Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell
The coming-on of storms.

From the earth's loosened mould
The sapling draws its sustenance, and thrives;
Though stricken to the heart with winter's cold,
The drooping tree revives.

The softly-warbled song
Comes from the pleasant woods, and colored wings
Glance quick in the bright sun, that moves along
The forest openings.

When the bright sunset fills
The silver woods with light, the green slope throws
Its shadows in the hollows of the hills,
And wide the upland glows.

And when the eve is born,
In the blue lake the sky, o'er-reaching far,
Is hollowed out and the moon dips her horn,
And twinkles many a star.

Inverted in the tide
Stand the gray rocks, and trembling shadows throw,
And the fair trees look over, side by side,
And see themselves below.

Sweet April! many a thought
Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed;
Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought,
Life's golden fruit is shed.

I've used the last verse as my inspiration and a photo of my youngest sister and her husband; surprisingly, on their wedding day. You hadn't guessed that had you? lol

The orange bloom has been inked to make it the right shade and I've used a Sakura glitter pen to  draw a frame around the main body of the LO.

Thanks for looking.

Take care, love and hugs,

Sarah C xoxoxo