It's Been A Long Time

My mojo took an extended holiday over the last few months, but it's slowly coming back. So much so, that I joined a CJ on UKScrappers this week. I'm looking forward to doing it as the circle's called All My Own Photos. The object being that we send photos with our CJ and these are what the others use in ours. I'm taking this opportunity of having a 6x6 album done of the wedding I went to last August. Had a job deciding which of the 130 odd photos I took to use in this, but I've got there. Just got to make my album and do my LO ready for the first posting day. I know I have a few weeks to do this, so that's ok.

So, what crafting have I done this year? The grand sum of 3 cards and zero LOs. That will change soon. I've used digi downloads from Charmed Cards and Crafts which are expertly drawn by Lou. Each download bundle gives you black outlined images plus those same images coloured. Some bundles give you backgrounds and sentiments too. I've used images from Sugar and Spice and Boy Oh Boy. You can go here and here to see more examples of how to use the images.

Here's my cards. One for a 2 year old boy and 2 for adult females.

(I scanned them and no matter what I did, it insisted on cutting the bottom off the female cards

plus the images are not this much brighter than the papers IRL.

They're raised on foam pads, so nearer the scanner bed)

I've used a Sakura glitter pen to add sparkle to the girl's bows and all the flowers and pink gems to the flowers the girl is picking.

Thanks for looking.

Love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Catch Up

This may be a long post, but I think I'm like some of my friends and have realised I've neglected my craft blog a bit. Here's a catch up on what I've done since I was last here.

Mojo's on a little holiday at the moment, so I've no idea when I'll be back here. Sooner rather than later I hope.

Scrapsketch #74

I took these photos a few days apart, but together they show a typical British day. Journalling reads: "Who put the 'Great' into Great British Weather? Sunny one minute and pouring with rain the next. I'll never understand it, but it is good for the plants."

I've used scrapsketch's #74 sketch

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

Let's Hear It For The Fab Four and A Card Almost Revealed

Last week's challenge on UKScrappers, set by the Norty Crew, was to use

* A Beatles song title - 10pts

** Either black & white or Red,white & blue - 10pts

***Ribbon, a tree or a weaving technique - 10pts

I've used a photo that was taken about 20 years ago. I had taken the son of one of my cousin's to meet up with a child my youngest sister was looking after. We decided to take them to a local park and they kept running off ahead of us, hence the title. The journalling reads "No matter how many times we shouted it, you'd still run off ignoring us!"

So, the challenge:

* I've used 2 songs 'Wait' and 'Slow Down'

** Colour combination was easy as both boys were wearing red, white and blue

*** Nearly forgot the ribbon, so added some around 2 sides of the photo

I reckon that's all parts of the challenge met, so full points for me for my team Ruby Snippers and my house Gold Eyelets. The title was designed on my ROBO, cut 4 times out of 100gsm paper and stuck in layers.

I nearly forgot, I made a card a few weeks ago for a friend of mine and had hidden the sentiment in the corner. I said I'd reveal once she'd received it. Well, she had her birthday yesterday and the card arrived on time which is a miracle for me this year!! But, I can't show you the card in it's entirity as I only saved the hidden version of it!! What am I like???? lol  So, you know who you are HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR YESTERDAY. I hope you had a fantastic day. 

Thanks for looking,

Take care, love and hugs,

Sarah C xoxoxo

UKS Weekly Challenge - Laughter

The Scrappin' Gigglers set the latest weekly challenge on UKScrappers and it was to:

1) Scrap a photo that made you giggle/laugh because we are The Scrappin’ Gigglers =10 points
2) Use 5 of an embelli for the 5 Olympic Rings because the games were restarted in April 1896 = 5 points
3) Use something sparkly and/or magical for Paul Daniels’ birthday and our Tanfastic who is always sparkly =10 points
4) Use a title or quote from Oscar Wilde who was arrested on this day in 1895 = 5 points

So how did I manage the challenge? I

1) Scrapped photos of my mum trying to blow up an almost impossible balloon to prove it CAN be done!
2) Used 5 buttons around the top photo
3) Used black glitter glue on the title and circle frame
4) Used a quote ~ Life is too important to be taken seriously

I designed the title on my ROBO, cut it out 4 times and layered it before inking and glittering.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

Scrummy Stash Cafe and Friday Sketchers

Scrummy Stash Cafe challenged us to use our tags and Friday Sketchers challenged us to do something using their sketch. So, I flipped the sketch over and here's my offer that combines both challenges




Thanks for looking
Take care. Love and hugs
Sarah C xoxoxo

Team Challenge - Feb 09 week 4

Magical Mojo Makers set the weekly challenge on UKScrappers this week. The recap was:

6 of something ~ 6 photos

something on LO that flips ~ the title flips up to reveal journalling

repeated first letters in the title ~ Fun, Food, Friends

something new ~ New Year's Party at New Connexions Church and used new PP

I think that qualifies me for full points for my team and house ~ Ruby Snippers and Gold Eyelets, don't you?

If you're wondering what the photos are:

top two photos are of a couple of the games

middle two photos are of the balloon play at the end of the party

and the bottom two photos are of Stuart decorating one of the paper tablecloths with crayons (yes, the crayons were supplied especially for us to do that, thanks Jo it was great fun!)

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

UKS Whodunnit Cybercrop - Days 9 & 10

UKScrappers Whodunnit Cybercrop days 1 - 8 are here, so now for days 9 & 10.

Day 9 - scrap your most identifying characteristic

Day 10 - File It! - distress some chipboard
I chose to make a mini-frame and 2 photo corners.

Thanks for looking.

As always, take care
Love and hugs

Another catch-up - UKS and 'just because'

I seem to be playing catch-up on here. So, if you're sitting comfortably, I'll show you my latest craft makes.

Shimelle' Scrap Like You Mean It (on UKScrappers)

Week 2 - stars or hearts
(Also done for UKScrappers week 2 team challenge)

Week 3 - chipboard

Week 4 - sketch

UKScrappers - January week 2 team challenge

Just because I can LO.
I followed a Pagemaps Basic Grey sketch and used images from

Crafty Muse's downloads 'Once Upon A Time/Fairytale collection'

Thanks for looking.
Take care. Love and hugs,

Sometimes ...

If you're a scrapper or card maker and doing something 'just because', which usually comes first with you? The papers? The images? The wording? Or something else?

Wednesday evening I was sorting out some of my photos and saw one of me! Yes, it was scary, but all of a sudden a word popped into my head followed by a sentence which became the title and first line of the journalling for the LO I then did.

Sometimes ... You've just have to step into the beauty parlour of Jo-Jo's and let her do her stuff.

My friend Jo-Jo always wanted to be a beautician, but for one reason and another never persued her dream, so I'm her very willing volunteer. Well, who'd say no to freebie pampering? We haven't done that in ages which is a shame as we have such a laugh at the same time. This is one of the photos she took after one of those sessions last year. By the end of it, we couldnt stop laughing especially as her son got in on the act in front of the camera.

So, here's the LO and another for the 'book of me'.

I used white Bazzill for the base and the patterned papers are from My Mind's Eye Bohemian paper pack. Hand doodling on the left, Green Tara blooms and a Third Coast stamp mounted on foam pads completes the simple LO. Lettering is done using Ellison's Chunkidelic alphabet. The doodling took the longest as it's easy to over-doodle which I hope I've managed to avoid.

Thank you for looking.

Love and hugs to you all

xxx

Spooky and Fun

Charmed have a competition running until 1st November to do a card, LO or something else along the lines of spooky. Here's what it inspired me to do:

It's my niece with my Great-Aunt and my Mum. My niece moves so fast!!

Over on UKS, the house challenge is to do a LO with the theme FUN and to use as many patterned papers as we dare. Here's my LO:

I've used a total of 7 different PPs on this.

Thanks for looking. Love and hugs,

xxx

Loving Summer

It was my turn to set the member's sketch challenge on 3C's. I've yet to do my card and ATC, but here's my LO. I challengeed everyone to use bright colours and hand-written journalling.

Sketch

LO

Title and Journalling

Thanks for looking

xx

UKS Oct Week 1 Challenge

I managed some scrapping yesterday and did

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wait for it

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the grand total of


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one LO

Ok, so I'm not gonna win awards for the most done in one day, but I never said I wanted that LOL

So, the LO. Done for UKS weekly challenge set by the Rockin Ribbon Raiders. They said:

We decided to keep it quite simple. One of the team designed a sketch for us which will gain you 10 points if you use it.
Our name has 3 words in it so 5 points for a 3 word title.
Use 3 of whatever you use i:e, pics ribons, papers etc 5 points
something or someone inspirational to you 10 points.

So to summarise:
Sundays sketch... 10 points
a 3 word title 5 points
3 of whatever you use i:e papers, ribbons pics etc other than the title 5 points
someone or something inspirational ... 10 points

I chose to use a photo of my niece and eldest nephew as they are so inspirational to me and I'm so proud of the people they've become despite everything they've been through.

Thanks for looking. BTW, I've done my blog-hop, but if I've missed you please let me know. It isn't my intention to miss any of my friends out.

Hello

Hi everyone, I am still about. Quick catch up on me, then I'll bore you all with my crafting.

I had 2 weeks work at Ely Cathedral and had such long days I was shattered. Then, after a week-end away when I went to the Scrapbook Show at Ally Pally, I came down with a viral infection, so I've been off work for nearly 2 weeks. I'm still not fully recovered, but I'm getting there. Due to that and the fact that I temp, my job had to be given to someone else. I'm now waiting to hear if I have a job at one of the colleges in Cambridge starting Monday and going until Christmas. It'll mean very long days, so don't expect much on here if that happens :(

Well, that's me. Now my craft. To start with, here's the stash I bought at AP

My niece ~ QUEEN OF THE CASTLE

My eldest nephew's birthday card

My youngest nephew

My new patio furniture

My youngest sister and her O/H one month after getting together

25th Wedding Anniversary Card

Members Sketch Challenges on 3C's ~ do a LO, Card and ATC using the sketch and 'extras' as stipulated in each challenge.

Sketch

LO

Card

ATC

Sketch

LO

Card

ATC

Mum's Birthday Crafting

Exploding Garden

Framed LO

DLO of a view of the village I grew up in

Birthday Card

Mum & I at a wedding in the early 70's

Sunset on the Norfolk Broads

Tractor Fire

Sunset

My cousin Sandra

Thanks for taking the time to look. Please feel free to leave me a comment to let me know you stopped by. I'm hoping to do a blog hop this week-end, so if I do I'll pay you a visit to see how you are and what you've been up to.

Love as always, Sarah xxx