You'd Better Shape Up

It was Lou's turn to set the challenge on Dottie's World on Sunday and she said,

"You might have spotted that I'm a bit addicted to making shaped cards so I've decided to go with what I love and challenge you all to make a shaped card using one of the Charmed digi stamps. When I say shaped I mean it can be any shape except the usual square or rectangle."

So, I went to Mirkwood templates and downloaded one for a hexagon petal card. After cutting it out using double-sided card stock, I punched a hole in each petal with my crop-a-dile and threaded ribbon through to enable me to tie it together.

I used a pre-coloured hippie Dottie from the Rock & Roll collection and stuck it inside with foam pads and added a sentiment that was a magazine freebie ages ago.

My message is written on gold glitter paper stuck on the back.

Everyone who enters will be put in a draw for some fab goodies :D

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

Flower Power

I've done a bit of scrapping this week or so, but wanted to show you one in particular. I'm lucky enough to have an A3 printer so printed the Hippie Dottie (from Charmed) coloured image directly onto 12x12 yellow Bazzill. Once I'd done that I took some photos of my flowers in my garden and cut round them before sticking them down. I added Prima flowers (from Charmed), handmade paper flowers and a few others. I changed her printed bunch of flowers for tiny handmade blooms and added a glass gem to the centre of some. The title is cut out on my Tag-a-Long and I used the Tootsie alphabet. To finish this off, I used diamond stickles on the title and butterflies, black gems for Dottie's eyes and black stickles for the beads on her necklace.

I'm on the look out for a 12x12 box frame now to put this in so I can hang it on my wall.

The rest of my crafting will be on here by the end of the week I hope. I need to go job hunting first.

Hippie Anniversary

Anyone would think I like the Dottie & George images wouldn't they? Well, they'd be so wrong. I LUUUUUUUUURVE them.

So much so, that when Karen on 3C's reminded us about the June card sketch challenge she gave us, I immediately looked at the pre-coloured images I printed out on Sunday to decide which one to use. One??? Only one??? Take a look at the sketch again Sarah, there's room for 2!

I had Hippie Dottie & Hippie George available, so went with those, but I still had no idea what else I was going to do on the card. After deliberating, I flipped the paper over that I'd printed the sketch on and traced it on the reverse to give me a different take on it. Still not happy, I turned my paper upside down. Hmmm......... could that work? Probably.

I hunted for the right papers and remembered I had a Papermania pack with funky patterns in it. Flicking through about 170 papers is not an easy feat, but I got there and decided to go for the same pattern in 3 different colours. We are talking the 60's so psychedelic works I think. I also found my bright floral ribbon that I got in a dumper bin at a local haberdashery store (go check out yours, you may be surprised what you can pick up for pennies).

The red buttons (that I've stitched on) came off a jacket I used to have to wear for work eons ago, smiley and floral buttons are Dress It Up and were from Charmed. I printed the greeting out onto vellum and did it in a circly way inspired by a tutorial from Charmed.

The card's made in time for an anniversary in just over a week. All I've got to do is remember where I put it.

Scrapped and Carded

I've actually managed to find my craft table and have a LO and card to show you.

UKS Challenge last week was:

Use something American: 5 points
Stars or stripes: 5 points

Use glitter: 5 points

Use quotation marks: 5 points
Use the sketch: 10 points

Here's my take on the challenge:

My Dad was a huge Elvis fan and hated impersonators. He'd always say something like "nobody does it ike Elvis does it".

So, for the points:

American ~ Elvis, what more do you need? LOL
Stars and stripes both used
Stickles Glitter on Elvis' buttons
Quotation Marks on the phrase
Sketch used as it is for a change and not turned round and flipped over

Pleased to claim full marks for my team The Ruby Snippers

Base card is Bazzill and the patterned and green card is Three Bugs in a Rug ~ Seeing Stars from Charmed. The Elvis picture is a bonus coloured image from the downloadable Rock & Roll Dottie and George collection by the talented Lou and also available from Charmed.

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For my card, I have had most of it made for a little while, I just needed to add the image as the first attempt went wrong. My cousin's DH turned 60, so I made this for him using the bonus coloured image from the downloadable Rock & Roll Dottie and George collection by Lou and once again available from Charmed.