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

UKS Weekly Challenge ~ June Week 2

Last week on UKScrappers we had another sketch to help us create our LO. The rest of the criteria was:

* At least 3 different techniques ~ I've used paper tearing (squares), masking (using a Tim Holtz mask) and stamping (dotted line along the edge of the striped strip of PP)

** Assorted papers ~ I've used 7 different ones for the squares on the left

*** Title should include numbers ~ I've only used numbers

**** Sketch ~ definitely

Journalling reads: "Cambridge, 9th June 2009. Jo, me and my new camera. We tried to pose and look good while Jo took some photos. Why we took several, I don't know because we both liked the first one the best!"

I claimed full points with this LO for my team The Ruby Snippers and Gold Eyelet House

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs,

Sarah C xoxoxo

May Day!

As you most likely know, it was May Day this last Monday. We at Crafty Muse have decided to use this as our challenge for this fortnight. Here's what Sammi said

"Well... It's the beginning of May.... we've just had May Day and so what better theme for this challenge... We would like you to make a project inspired by the idea of

May Day :: love, flowers, romance!

It's Mother's Day in Australia this Sunday... if you are downunder why not make a Mother's day card for this challenge??"

Here's my card, inspired by the ribbons on a traditional May Pole. I've used an Angelique Sitting stamp exclusively available from Sammi at Crafty Muse.

Sammi also added

"THERE will be a prize this challenge.... the winner can choose one download package + just quietly at the end of this challenge there will be 2 new download sets available.... exciting!!"

So, what are you waiting for, the prize definitely won't be yours unless you take part.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Latest Scrapping

Here's some scrapping I've done for a couple of challenges on UKScrappers

First one was for week 10 of Shimelle's Scrap Like You Mean It challenge and was to scrap a funny photo. I've used a photo of one of the young girls at my sister's hen party a couple of weeks ago. There was a chocolate fountain and she ended up with chocolate over her face and a strawberry hanging out of her mouth.

Second LO is of one of my Ruby Snipper's teamies at Ally Pally last September when we all met for lunch. This week's team challenge was to scrap something we're addicted to, use blue, a flower and song title/lyrics in the LO title. I couldn't think of anything I'm addicted to, but I do keep checking in to UKS to see what my friends have been up to, so went with that. The title is 'Photograph'  by Nickleback and the journalling is some of the lyrics "look at this photograph, every time I do it makes me laugh".

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

Arty Girlz - Flowers

Arty Girlz current challenge is to do some type of crafting in the theme of flowers. I watercoloured a card for this and added layered flowers to represent the sun.

Front

Back

Card open fully

Thanks for looking
Take care, Love and hugs as always
Sarah C xoxo

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

Farming

Done for the challenge on Friday Sketchers, here's my farming card

The background is done by mixing acrylic paints and there's stamping in red and black inks.

Thanks for looking

Take care

Love and hugs

Shell's Challenge

Over on 3C's, it was Shell's turn to set the sketch challenge. LO, card and ATC using the sketch and any extras she decided to set. Here's the sketch and what she said.

Layout - For the LO, I want you all to use just 1 piece of cardstock and 2 pieces of patterned paper, nothing else, no stickers, rub ons, ribbon, flowers etc.......everything you use on the LO has to be made using the c/s or pp or both, so any flowers, lettering, fake ribbons, etc must be made from the c/s /pp.

A challenge and a half I thought, but I gave it a go and with one sheet of Bazzill, 2 sheets of Basic Grey, a black Stazon ink pad and a journalling pen, here's what I came up with:

Card- Christmas is coming so for the card I would like you to make a christmas card, you can use anything you like, the more the better, but I would like sparkle, sparkle and more sparkle, glitter, sequins, the more the better.

Here we go then. I used to hate glitter, but thanks to Stickles I'm converted and the whole tree has been coloured in using stickles and gems. Dome sticker says "We wish you a merry Christmas"

ATC - Again anything goes for this, it can be any theme you like and you can use whatever you like. But I would like to see a hidden element on the ATC, something that makes it interactive. This could be a hidden tag that needs to be taken out, a window/ door that needs to be opened etc........

I've created a pocket using acetate and hidden a stamped flower behind it.

Thanks for looking

Love and hugs

Scrummy

UKS weekly challenge is to scrap something scrummy, use some pink & black, a poem, hidden journalling and fabric.

Here's my LO and it's the first time I've not used a photo on a LO.

As you've most probably guessed I've used the topic of my scrummy stash. LO is mainly pink & black, poem written by me, journalling behind the poem, ribbons (velvet, satin & organza), ric-rac & fibres. I've also added my new stamp, chipboard, button, stamp, Stickles, patterned paper/card, photo turn, brads, blooms, metal embellishments (heart with 'handmade with love' on and a tiny pair of scissors). I added some colour to the stamped image by watercolouring with my brush markers and added a light covering of stardust stickles.

Poem reads:

Ribbons & blooms, paper & card - I used to think crafting would be hard - To make something pretty out of stash - It took me a year, but I gave it a bash

With my inks & stamps & glitter glue - Chipboard & buttons & fibres too - Scissors are poised, DST is at hand - I'm, certainly hooked & life is grand

Thanks for looking. Love and hugs

Daring Cardmakers Sketch Challenge

I stumbled on a new blog (to me) the other day. Daring Card Makers have a sketch challenge and I thought I'd have a try. Here's my attempt

I colour washed the background using blue/green/orange/red brush markers. I cut the right hand side into a quarter-circle (there must be a technical name, but do you think I know what it is!). PP was added to 2 of the shapes and the other one was coloured using pale brown and sage inks. The scallops were coloured using orange and brown brush markers and all the stamping done in brown ink. I added orange ribbon and a thumbs up paper clip.

Thanks for a fantastic challenge and one that got me thinking outside the box.

Love to all

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

A is for Acetate

Dottie's World challenge this week was set by Nicola. She said:

A is for Acetate with a hint of pink!!

It can be a whole acetate card,an aperture of acetate,an embelishment as long as Acetate is there some where & as October is Breast Cancer awareness month I'd like to see some pink!!!

I stamped some acetate and cut the letters and corners, then stuck them on by using my Xyron 150 sticker maker. I added pink ribbon, Imaginisce blooms, brads and ink round the edge and of course a Dottie and George image. I'm turning this into an A4 birthday postcard for someone next year.

Thanks for looking. Love and hugs,
xxx

You Are 4

My cousin's DGS is 4 tomorrow, so I made a card for him. I saw one today that Lou had made that was curved with a bit cut off the bottom at the back (to allow it to stand) and used that technique for this.

I used a CD as a template and once cut, I covered the front and back in Dream Street hugs and kisses love lines card. I took some green textured paper and free-hand cut some grass. I used Stazon to stamp the flowers, butterfly, dragonfly and bumble bee and wording. I then coloured the images with permanent pens.

I lined the inside with yellow textured paper and made a pocket out of same paper which I attached to the reverse of the front of the card and put some money in it for him. I just hope he likes it now.

Spring

Spring has sprung. Well, it did in April in Clacton. Saturday 9th's Sultry Summer Stash Bash on UKS was to use the sketch provided, 2 different manufacturers' PPs and; as an added challenge, mix your alphabets. So, what did I do?

I used 2 different papers: Imaginisce for the top right and K&Co Brenda Walton design (can't remember the exact name as that's the bit I stuck down!!) for the bottom left. Both were bought from Charmed. For the title, I used 2 different stamps, a hand-punch, a sticker, a paper cut-out and handwriting. The flower in the centre is chipboard that I've double heat-embossed using rose ink and clear powder.

Thanks for looking.

What's Been Happening This Week?

Well I'm here again. I've been crafting a bit this week. UKS have a Sultry Summer Stash Bash happening for all of August. The idea is to use the stash you already have rather than buy more for it. Mondays are mini-book day and as I'm not that into those, I'm missing them out. I also started a week late, so I'm playing catch-up. This week so far I've done days 2, 3, 4 and 5. Each day there's a sketch to follow (Wednesday had 2!) and most days had a technique or something else to do too.

Here's my LOs so far:

Day 2 ~ Technique - Stamping (stamped title and stamping above and down the right-hand side of the photo)

Day 3 (2 sketches) ~ Technique - Bling

LO 1) Bazzill Bling card and glitter on the flower card

LO 2) Glass gems on wire plus glass beads around ric-rac

Day 4 ~ Technique - Recycle (the title has been done by stencilling inside the waste from chipboard alphabets)

Day 5 ~ No technique

I realised after I'd photographed it, that I'd called this gentleman my Grandad Kirby when he is in fact my Great-Grandad Kirby. I'll rectify that later by adding a couple of words to the top lines.

Thank you for looking.