Allsorts #6, Papertake Weekly, My Time To Craft #66 and Sketch Saturday #56

1 card, 4 challenges.

Lou and Karen have put together two amazing new collections for us. Pixie Chicks 1 and 2. The images are so sweet, that it's so difficult choosing which to buy. I'd advise you to give up trying to decide and go for them both. You get pixies, backgrounds, sentiments and a card template in each set. The pixies and backgrounds come in black & white outlines and coloured. As always, I went for the GIF option so that I could print them onto anything I chose and also to layer them onto each other.

I've printed some images onto watercolour paper and made these 2 cards today. The first one is using Daisy 3 and Swing (both pre-coloured) which I layered before printing. This one is for the 4 challenges. The saying (life is beautiful) is a sticker which I've matted onto some scrap watercolour paper.

Allsorts ~ #6, Wings ~ Yep, Daisy 3 has wings

Papertake Weekly ~ delightful downloads ~ Both my cards have downloads on, but this is the one I'm entering into the challenge.

My Time To Craft ~ #66 In the garden ~ Daisy is on a tree swing - in the garden of course!

Sketch Saturday ~ sketch #56

Card 2 uses Water Lily and the Flower Frame pre-coloured images. I've drawn round a CD to get a circle before cutting the folded card. Lou I think gave us a tip a while back and said to cut off a small piece at the back to give a flat surface so that the card will stand. Thanks for that. The saying (wonderful) is another sticker that I've matted onto some scrap watercolour card. I've stuck the frame flat and added Water Lily using foam pads, then I've stuck gems to the frame and put some diamond stickles in the centre of the yellow flower.

Don't forget to check out Dottie's World for more ideas plus hints and tips.

Thanks for looking,

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

HMITM (#106), BASB (#13), Pinkalicious Sketches (#6) and My Time To Craft (#62)

One LO, 4 challenges:

How Much Is Too Much (#106) ~ Recipe ~ 2 each: colours of cardstock, PPs, pictures, chipboard, stamps and flowers

BASB (#13) ~ Border Punches / Punches ~ I've used a heart punch to creade a border at the bottom and backed it with brown card

Pinkalicious (#6) ~ Sketch. I started off with the sketch and I'm sure it is there still

My Time To Craft (#62) ~ Love and Marriage

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

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

My Time To Craft's Island Fun

My Time To Craft have challenged us to make something using the theme of 'Island Fun'. They said to use hula images, pirate stamps, or hot tropical colours.

I went with the colour scheme and used hot green, pink and orange to make a pyramid exploding box suitable for putting a yummy special chocolate inside for a gift. I've inked a cuticle stick in hot pink to hold it together and added a rub-on to each of the 4 side.

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Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

Racing To Papertake Weekly and My Time To Craft

I combined Papertake Weekly's latest sketch and My Time To Craft's "It's Raining Men" to make this card. I've used 2 different stamps, a couple of brads and some PP to make a racing lover's card and just in time for it to start on Sunday too.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

Five In One Challenge Card

Once you start making a card, it's surprising how many challenges it sometimes ends up being suitable for.

I made a card last night (Sunday) and used the sketch from the JUST CHRISTMAS AND BIRTHDAYS blog, after turning it round. I'd already coloured the Holly image in using watercolour paints and realised it fitted with PAPERTAKE WEEKLY's pink/orange/brown, MY TIME TO CRAFT's hat and adding the right sentiment meant that it fitted with ONE STOP CRAFT CHALLENGE's sorry challenge. After photographing it, I also found that I'd completed DOTTIE'S WORLD's get the feeling as I'd used ribbon and velvet brads.

I'm late uploading it for some of the challenges, but never mind. I made it because I wanted to, adding in the challenges was a bonus. The Holly image is available for download as part of a collection exclusively from Charmed. While you're there, look out for the latest utterly amazing collection ~ Holly and Madison's World Tour.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

Challenges and more

One longish post from me again today everyone. I did some crafting on Saturday and came down poorly on Sunday, so never got it all photographed until today. A little too late now for one of the competitions and some of the challenge deadlines but never mind.

UKS weekly challenge last week - only managed 20 of the 30 points as I mis-read the main part and included the word FREE in my journalling not the title. Oh well, I tried!
Sketch This - LO using the sketch provided which I turned clockwise

Creativity Life - Competition to do a LO using scrumptious chocolate shades

Just Christmas and Birthday Cards - I managed to make the Christmas card this week using the sketch

Dottie's World - Last Sunday's challenge (told you some were late!) Fur or Feathers ~ image is by Lou and available exclusively from Charmed

Arty Girlz - Using a poem or verse on the front of whatever you craft

Papertake Weekly - Competition - Let It Snow
Cute Card Thursday - Competition - Snowflakes
DoCrafts - Last week's weekly card sketch challenge

My Time To Craft - Challenge - It's Raining, It's Pouring ~ image is one Lou kindly gave us on her blog a while ago
One Stop Craft Challenge - sketch which I turned (as usual!!)

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Take care and I hope you are all well

Love and hugs

Coffee and Cream

It's been coffee time over at My Time To Craft. They've had a competition running this week which ends at 10pm tonight (Monday 10th November). We had to do some sort of crafting (from quite a wide range they selected) with the theme 'Coffee and Cream'. I chose to do a card and here it is

I coloured in the eyes and mouth using brush markers and added some diamond stickles for sparkle. Cream organza and brown satin ribbon with a cream button completed the card.

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Take care
Love and hugs