Just A Little Late For The Deadline

Well, it'll teach me to read things and translate them to print properly.

I came across a blog the other day and thought I'd have a go at the current challenge (#31) ~ BRADS or EYELETS. In my haste, I thought two things: 1) that the blog was called simply 'Secret Crafter' and 2) that the deadline was tonight. Wrong on both counts. The blog's actually called 'Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge' and the deadline; surprisingly, was last Friday.

Oh well, here's my crafting anyway. I've made a mini-book to house the latest crafting I hope to do from various internet sites and blogs and for the information for the Design Teams I'm on. It's A5 size and I've made dividers to make it easier to find things (I hope): Design Teams / UKScrappers / Blog LOs / Blog Cards / Blog Various / All Others. Eyelets have been used on the holes for the book-rings and fibres. The 'C' stands for Craft / Challenges / Create.

Still having to use the borrowed camera and even with photo editing, I still can't get a really clear photo. Might try scanning next time.

Thanks for looking.

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Oh Happy Day

It's a happy day in the life of me.

I saw a post on a blog yesterday asking for people to offer to be a Guest Designer for them and applied. I heard back and was so pleased that they had asked me to do something for June for them. Before I could reply to say a big YES, I noticed another e-mail and read that first. Just as well I did as it asked me to be a permanent DT member instead of having a guest spot. Did I smile? You bet I did! And I still am.

So, who's team am I excited to be joining? ROLL THE DICE

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

1st Design Team Submission

I'm guessing that by now you are aware that I'm on the design team for Crafty Muse. Their challenge this week is to create something using the colour purple. This was so hard for me considering purple's my favourite colour!!! LOL

So, what did I do?

Using images from Crafty Muse, I made this card with Millie Rose Dots which I watercoloured using my bush markers. I covered some card in purple star paper and tied some ribbon on the left. I stuck Angelique and the sentiment (made using WordArt) before adding some diamond Stickles to Angelique, the sentiment, the ribbon and the stars.

I thought this card might make a perfect invitation for a little girl's party.

My second offering is this using sitting down Angelique.

Here's how I made it:

I took a piece of mountboard and cut it large enough to fit a notepad, pen and clip onto. I covered it in the same star paper as the card and inked the edges. I mixed blue, red and white acrylic paint to get the right shade and covered the front of the notebook. Sitting down Angelique was printed onto SafMat and put on the bottom then the notepad was stuck using wet glue. I punched holes in the mountboard using my crop-a-dile to thread ribbon through to add detail to the pad, to hold the pen and to be able hang it all up. The clip at the bottom is stuck using hot glue and can hold vouchers, extra notes and more. This could also have magnets stuck on the back (instead of the ribbon) for putting on a fridge and using as a shopping list/voucher centre.

Thanks for looking.

Take care,
Love and hugs

I'm so happy, I'm so happy La la la la la

My friends at Crafty Muse were looking for DT members and have asked me to join them. Bet ya can't guess what I said to them??????????????????





























Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes.

I'm still dancing round the room :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

What an absolute honour to be chosen. Thank you. They also chose Becky and my friend Ruth. Congratulations to you both. I'm looking forward to working with you and the rest of the talented design team.

Keep safe and well everyone.
Love and hugs from a very happy

The Big Quiz

Some of us get together on New Year's Eve for an evening of food, fun, games and laughter. For this particular one, I'd composed a big quiz. These are the 2 teams before we started. Team A weren't laughing at the end though when Team B won. I've blanked out the faces of my nephew and niece for safety reasons.