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

Scrap Around The Clock June CyberCrop ~ challenge 7

An 18th Century Chic LO is Karen's challenge on Scrap Around The Clock's CyberCrop. She's asked us to use 4 of the following:

Layering of PP's ~ YES

Lace ~ MADE A LACE FLOWER

Ribbon

Feathers

Pins ~ HATPIN ON THE FLOWER

Hand Stitching ~ I'VE HAND-STITCHED THE LACE FLOWER

Flowers ~ DEFINITELY

Buttons

Bling ~ STICKLES ON THE TOP BLOOMS AND GEMS ON THE HATPIN

Oops, I've used more than 4!!

I've also used Pencillines Sketch #140

Thanks for looking,

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Scrap Around The Clock June CyberCrop

Over on Scrap Around The Clock, we're on day two of our week long CyberCrop.

Melody set the first challenge and she's stepped back to 1970 for which I chose to scrap a photo of me taken either very late 1969 or very early 1970. Apologies for the flash on the photo.

Sketch is from Pencillines (#139), PPs are My Mind's Eye Bohemian range and from a mail order craft club I belonged to, pink Colorbox Fluid Chalk Inkpad (used around the edges and on the tag) is from ScrapShed, lace and ribbon from a local haberdashery and the blooms and Stickles from Calico Crafts. The Once Upon A Time title is from elegant word art and I've printed it onto SafMat.

I've set the second challenge and I've gone back to the 1950's to a time that I would have loved to live. The photos I've used are from the birthday party I was given this year. I've made a slight error on the bottom LO, but as I only bought one sheet of each PP, it's gotta stay that way.

Sketch is from ScrapSketch (#90), all the PPs and the pink Colorbox Fluid Chalk Inkpad are from ScrapShed, buttons and white Inkssential pen are from Charmed,

If you're wondering what the criteria is for these challenges and want to join in, hop over to our forum to find out.

Thanks for looking,

Take care, love and hugs,

Sarah C xoxoxo

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

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

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

Lace and Layers

The Scrap Like You Mean It challenge on UKScrappers for the last week (which I only just managed to complete in time tonight) is to scrap using lace and layers. Caroline from Bubblyfunk had put together a fantastic kit for this that I treat myself to the other week. I also took great inspiration from her LO to complete mine.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

Just Jeans for an Altered S

I fancied having a go at doing some altered art yesterday, so I used my ROBO to cut 16 A5 size S's using light weight card. Repositioning spray adhesive came in very handy for sticking them together and after lightly sanding the edges, I got to decorate it. Might make more things like this in the future.

I was inspired by My Time To Craft's latest challenge 'Just Jeans' and mixed acrylic paints to a denim colour for the base, over which I've used a cream ink pad to give it a distressed look. My name is also cut on my ROBO and has been inked and doodled on. I finished with a mix of blooms, brads, lace and fibres

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

Cards For Different Occasions

I've made 3 cards in the last 24 hours for such different occasions. I definately am not a card maker nowadays and much prefer doing scrap pages. Oh well, sometimes you just have to bite the bullet as they say, so here's the cards:

1)This is for my cousin's as it's her birthday on Saturday. I've glittered alternate stripes on the backing paper which you can just about see.

2) My youngest sister and her DH-to-be get the keys to their first home tomorrow and I want a card to be on the doormat when they first get there (please Royal Mail don't let me down). The house design was card lifted from a card by my friend Juliet. It's not half as good as her card is, but I had to go to plan B when my stupid computer wouldn't realise I'd put a disc in it's drawer with downloads on. I wanted to use the back to front Dottie and George on it!


3) This card's for my mum's cousin (see post below). I've tried to make it suitable for a man to receive, but have a touch of femininity and gentleness, hence the lace.

Thanks for looking

Lods of love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Three Challenges And A Birthday

Well, I've not done as much crafting as I hoped I would and so far this week have managed the grand total of TWO Christmas cards! HELP!!!!!! I have done some crafting though and here it is in all it's glory - although photos identities have been protected.

UKScrappers weekly challenge - use sketch, theme of new beginnings, stamping and white ribbon or flowers ~ all components met, so full points for my team The Ruby Snippers

Member's Sketch Challenge on 3C's set by Tee - (ATC done previously) Christmas card for someone special and including ribbon ~ LO using torn/ripped paper and hand-journalling. Once again all components met so full points for me.

Card

LO

Dottie's World Sunday Challenge set by Adele - textural - ribbon and lace ~ must use some of at least one on your creation. I've used silver sparkly ric-rac ribbon. Picture is a download by Lou and available from Charmed and it's finished with a stamped greeting, some Stickles on the sowman, snow and Dottie's dotty boots and a K&Co snowflake


Birthday Card - stamped image with jewels and flowers highlighted with Diamond Stickles. I've used pink/white lace down the side over some floral paper and stamped the greeting.


Thanks for looking

Take care
Love and hugs