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.

Thanks for looking

Love, Sarah C xx

Someone was 50 Plus A Stamped Male Birthday Card

I made 2 cards this week. One for my cousin who was 50 last Sunday and one for my sister's boyfriend.

I used 2 stamps and the masking technique for this card. Annie sitting pretty and tree stump with bluebells are both designed by Lou and Karen and sold exclusively by Charmed Cards and Craft. Numbers are Basic Grey Two Scoops stickers

For this card, I used an image from Stampscapes Lakeside Cove unmounted stamp set. I stamped using dark blue ink and added rub-on letters for the sentiment.

Thanks for looking.

Take care, love and hugs, Sarah C xoxoxo

Colours of Autumn

As promised in my previous post, here's the reveal of my LO done for Ribbon Mad. It can be seen in their gallery here. Check out the other projects too as they are simply amazing.

I was given the fantastic October 'SPOOKY' kit to work with and this is what I did:

1) I used the orange/black striped ribbon to create a border around the three sides of my photo.

2) By sticking DST to the top of the ladybird ribbon, I was able to pleat it as I stuck it down on the bottom of the photo.

3) I made flowers out of the orange organza and black/orange stitched ribbons, before stitching them together and adding an orange button.

4) I stuck black buttons onto the top corners and inked some *chipboard letters.

* the letters were from my stash, but all other items were from the kit I was given to work with.

Ribbon Mad

I was asked by Emma at Ribbon Mad, to be a Guest Designer for next month to help showcase the October Ribbon Kit. The chance to work with fantastic ribbons? How could a girl say no?

Here's a sneaky peak to my LO.

The full LO will be on display here in a few days. What I can tell you, is that the ribbon at the bottom of the LO is simply gorgeous and my favourite. I'd've been getting the kit just for that! LOL

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.

Thanks for looking

Bingo Anyone?

No, it's not a game of Bingo unfortunately, but I have altered a Bingo board I bought on Monday.

To start, I coated all the sides with a mix of brown, white and black acrylic paint and used a crumpled piece of kitchen tissue to sort of stipple it. Then, I added some red ribbon and tied a couple of short strands of brown fibre near the knot.

I used Karen's masking tutorial to stamp the images (Annie collection by Lou and Karen and exclusive to Charmed) onto 260gsm card. Thanks for the instructions Karen, it worked a treat. These were coloured using my Prisma pencils and blending pencil. Not sure what I think to it, but I still haven't made some of the paper stumps. After cutting the images I stuck them down using foam pads. To make sure they stuck well, I added a drop of PVA glue to the side that would be sticking to the paint.

The wording was cut on my ROBO, stuck with PVA and doodled on.

The only sad thing, is that some or all of it will be covered with the paper I clip there reminding me of things 'TO DO'.

Thanks for looking

UKS Weekly Challenge ~ August 09 week 1 and Kim's SATC August Sketch Challenge

Another 2 for 1 tonight.

The Scrapgoddesses set this week's team challenge on UKScrappers and challenged us to:

* Use travel or a journey as your theme (10 points) ~ journey to Scotland in 2000 and stayed at the Press Castle hotel on our last night

** Use handwritten / hidden journalling maybe in the form of a letter (10 points) ~ have handwritten a letter and hidden it behind the photo of me

*** Use ribbons (5 points) ~ pink organza

**** Use purple (5 points) ~ backing paper is purple

Full points for the Ruby Snippers and Gold Eyelets :D

I've also used the sketch Kim has made and challenged us with on Scrap Around The Clock for August

The floral PP and title have been cut on my ROBO.

Thanks for looking

SATC August Blog Challenges

Hi everyone, quick post today to reveal what I've done for the August Scrap Around The Block LO Challenge. Don't forget to check out the criteria for the LO and ATC challenges and have a go yourself to be in with a chance of winning a great prize.

Everything I've used here was in my Christmas Day parcel in the UKScrappers Advent Swap last year except the ink.

Thanks for looking

Mmmm .......... Strawberries and Chocolate

Anyone fancy strawberries and chocolate? If you do, nip over to Crafty Muse as that's what Sammi's given everyone for the next fortnight. Inspired by the scrumptious colours, here's my card. The image is from Sammi's sisters and friends download collection and I've coloured it using my brush markers and a blender pen.

Thanks for looking

UKS Weekly Challenge ~ July week 1

Set by The Snippets on UKScrappers, the weekly challenge this week was to:

* Have your title referencing summer ~ fun in the sun (10 points)

** Have a summer theme ~ playing with water bombs (5 points)

*** Use ribbon ~ red stitched ribbon near the bottom (5 points)

**** Use 2 pictures ~ Yep (5 points)

***** Have secret journalling ~ the leaf pulls out to reveal the journalling (5 points)

I've used Scrap Sketch's #107 sketch for this LO

Thanks for looking

Let The Sun Shine! on Dottie's World

'Let the sun shine!' is Lou's challenge on Dottie's World at the moment.

Here's my card.

I've layered 3 images from the Pixie Chicks downloads available exclusively from Charmed, printed them onto photo paper and added a butterfly sticker. The sentiment is also printed onto photo paper.

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

Pencillines #136 and UKScrappers Weekkly Challenge May week 4

Pencillines sketch #136 and UKScrappers weekly challenge for the current week, were both used to create this LO.

UKScrappers criteria was:

something old ~ bunch of flowers which were bought a year ago

something new ~ the Basic Grey PPs bought this last week

something borrowed (given to you or non-scrap related) ~ flowers on the tag and top right corner are actually nail art transfers

something blue ~ bottom paper is blue

secret journalling ~ tag behind the photo

ribbons ~ on the tag

I'm claiming full points for the Ruby Snippers and Gold Eyelets.

Photo is of my mum looking at postcards when we were in Cheddar Gorge

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

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

Crafty Muse Goes Spotty

It's hard to believe that it's been a fortnight since the last Crafty Muse challenge, but it sure has been. Once again, I'm not at home for it, so this is a scheduled post again and any comments will be approved once I return home. I'm visiting a cousin of mine who I haven't seen for 15 years. We lost contact and I was traced by her son at the end of last year. Should be a good week-end as I'm staying with her and her family until Sunday.

So, back to the reason for this post. On Crafty Muse, we challenge you to use lots of spots on your crafting. You have 2 weeks to get creative. Here's my card using an image from the boy/male image download collection, together with some backing paper from Poundland and some spotted ribbon. I printed the image onto watercolour paper and used watercolour paints. The sentiment was designed in Word and printed onto card before inking over it with Sage Versacolor ink.

Thanks for looking.

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

Good Luck With Crafty Muse

As I've said in my last post, I've scheduled this one to pop up on Friday while I'm at my mum's. Fingers crossed it's worked.

So, the reason for the post? It's challenge time again on Crafty Muse and this time we'd like you to make something for Good Luck.

Here's my New Home card using one of the downoads from the Once Upon A Time/Fairytale bundle.

Thanks for looking and don't forget to take part.

Good luck

Love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

It's A Recipe For Papertake Weekly

Papertake Weekly have given us this recipe to use to make a card week

1. circle

2. ribbons

3. stamps/images

Here's my card and I've used 1 large and 2 small flower stamps to make it.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah  C xoxo

Holly and Card Positionings System

I've used the Holly Hipster download with the latest sketch for Card Positionings System. Holly has been coloured using watercolour paints. The sentiment was one of loads I designed and printed when I dabbled in card making a few years ago.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo