UKS June 09 Week 1

I've used photos of Alexander Palace for the weekly challenge on UKScrappers this week. We were challenged to:

Use the sketch they p[rovided ~ which I've turned and flipped

Something handmade and acetate ~ I've combined these as I've glued tiny gems onto acetate to form the swirl

RicRak ~ I've used this instead of the journalling strips

PP once again is Basic Grey. At the rate I'm using it, I should have bought two packs of the offer, not one!

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

Twice as Nice

Adele set the weekly Dottie's World challenge on Sunday and said:

Twice as Nice.......

I would like you to use two or more charmed downloads on your creations this week. You can mix and match, duplicate an image, re-size, whatever you fancy but I need to see two or more images.

One of my sisters has a birthday next week, so I decided to make her a tri-fold card. I used 3 images from the Holly and Madison World Tour collection and my Prismacolour pencils.

Holly in Spain is a tag (for One Stop Craft's Tag It challenge). It's held in an acetate pocket edged with ribbon, so it can be used as a bookmark.

The wording inside the card reads "On your birthday and every day, may your dreams take you to the places your heart desires". Wonder where she'll choose?

Thanks for looking.

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

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

Crop

Woohoo, I went to my first all day crop today and had a blast!

Confession time, we had home made cookies!! Sorry Gems, just had to do it LOL You deserved it after your hard work organising the day :wub:

I had this 10" Eeyore cut for me using a Cricut. Isn't he adorable? I used him on a LO today with on of his fans. Colours are much brighter IRL. Photo is of my youngest sister with chocolate cake one Christmas.

I also did a LO for the Elsie Flannigan 52 challenge on UKS. The challenge was to doodle on your photos and I used a white Sakura pen to do this. The wording on the vellum comes from the elegantwordart blog

I won 2 prizes in the draw. First was a kit that incuded some Basic Grey two Scoops PP, Bazzill card, My Mind's Eye Acetate overlay, Stamps Away journal stamp, Prima flowers, ribbon, ric-rak and brads.

Second win was a pack of grey card from The Papermill Shop. Will go nicely with the kit above :D

That's your lot for today. Be back with some more craft/life musings when I have some.

Birthday Dottie

My friend's birthday was the perfect excuse (not that I needed one) to use the Birthday Dottie download created by Lou and available in the Fun Time Set from Charmed Cards and Crafts.

To make this card, I:

* printed Dottie out, coloured her in using my new watercolour pencils, cut her out and stuck her onto some red paper before cutting round her again.

* used 2 contrasting patterned papers for the background and stuck Dottie on top using foam pads. My friend likes peel-offs so I coloured a birthday greeting with permanent pens to make it red and added this to the card.

* tried a technique I had seen on Create and Craft using acetate to create a dome. It worked (yippee, meant I didn't have to re-do the card) and I used ribbon down either side of it adding yellow eyeletts on the four corners. (You can see the curve of the dome in these next 2 photos.)

I made a box for it to help protect the acetate, but forgot to photograph that before sealing the jiffy bag I put it in (it's being posted). I just hope she likes it.