Happy as Larry ~ Busy as a Bee

Well, who wouldn't be happy if they were surrounded by stash and were crafting for the afternoon/evening? That's how I was. I had several challenges I wanted to do and yesterday was my 'catch-up' day. Here's what I did:

One Stop Craft Challenge ~ Theme - Petals
Mine are blooms I've cut and contained in an organza bag sealed with a heart

Cute Card Thursday ~ Theme - Red & Green

Papertake Weekly ~ Sketch

Just Christmas and Birthday ~ Sketch

Biker George is downloadable from Charmed

Card Positionings Systems ~ Sketch (CPS 90)

My Time To Craft ~ Theme - Snowmen (Dottie is available for download from Charmed)

Sketch This ~ Sketch (I've turned it round)

Arty Girls ~ Theme - something inspired by yours or someone elses blog
I've used my blog colours for the inspiration

Thanks for looking.

Take care,

Love and hugs

Craft Your Resolution

Karen set us a challenge on 3C's to craft our resolution. It could be a resolution from last year or one we intend to set this year. I had a hard time racking my brain (and yes, it was in there somewhere LOL) and finally came up with this:

I have a habit of remembering a birthday or special occasion on the day or a day before/after which is no good if I want to post a card to arrive on time!! I keep telling myself every year, that this will be the year that EVERYONE gets their card on time, but nope, it doesn't happen. It will now though, I hope.

I took 2 pieces of 380gsm white card and cut each to fit over the envelopes with an overlap on the right side. I covered the fronts with PP from My Mind's Eye Bohemian and sewed a button (from Charmed) onto each. I covered the insides and inked the edges in brown. I layered and stuck 5 blooms, then stuck them on the front. I used Ellison's Alpha-In-A-Box die-cuts for the lettering which I cut using a spare envelope (to give the same texture), inked them also in brown, and stuck them using my Xyron 150 sticker maker. I wrapped and knotted fibres round the buttons so the album could be tied closed.

The envelopes are larger than C5 ones so that I can get a few cards inside each. All I'll need to do then is find envelopes for the cards before posting/giving to the recipients. I stamped the month several times on the fronts of the envelopes alternating each envelope with green and brown ink. I used my large journalling stamp to add the lines and wrote the details on in the contrasting ink. I punched a couple of holes in each and added eyelets for strength.

Once this was done, all I had to do was add a couple of book-rings and some extra fibres and ribbons and a small tassel.

Using envelopes and book-rings means I can add an envelope if I need more storage or change one if needed.

I'm hoping to enter more card challenges and decided that those could most possibly be some of the cards I fill this with.

Thanks for looking. Love and hugs as always

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

Dottie's Been Tagged

Over on Dottie's World last Sunday (24th August), Adele set the Sunday challenge. Although I'm posting very early Sunday morning (3:30amish to be precise), I'm still officially on Saturday as I haven't been to bed yet. So, technically speaking, I'm still in time for this challenge :D LOL

Adele said:

This week I want to see a tag or tags of any shape or size. It could be tag shape toppers, gift tags, tag books....and because hubby and me have just celebrated our wedding anniversary....for an extra Dottie bonus I would love to see some hearts and flowers too!!!

My card is a 25th wedding anniversary acceptance card as I needed to get one to the couple by Wednesday 3rd September! Something else I've left until the last minute! I've used one of the fab pre-coloured images from the love and marriage collection and printed it onto Safmat. For the hearts, I used Papermania paper and the flowers (red and pink) are from Calico Crafts. I cut the card in the shape of a tag and added ribbon to the top of the front. I've also stamped a 'thank you' tag and added narrow ribbon to that too.

Challenge completed and as long as I get it in the post now, I can go to the ball.

Hippie Anniversary

Anyone would think I like the Dottie & George images wouldn't they? Well, they'd be so wrong. I LUUUUUUUUURVE them.

So much so, that when Karen on 3C's reminded us about the June card sketch challenge she gave us, I immediately looked at the pre-coloured images I printed out on Sunday to decide which one to use. One??? Only one??? Take a look at the sketch again Sarah, there's room for 2!

I had Hippie Dottie & Hippie George available, so went with those, but I still had no idea what else I was going to do on the card. After deliberating, I flipped the paper over that I'd printed the sketch on and traced it on the reverse to give me a different take on it. Still not happy, I turned my paper upside down. Hmmm......... could that work? Probably.

I hunted for the right papers and remembered I had a Papermania pack with funky patterns in it. Flicking through about 170 papers is not an easy feat, but I got there and decided to go for the same pattern in 3 different colours. We are talking the 60's so psychedelic works I think. I also found my bright floral ribbon that I got in a dumper bin at a local haberdashery store (go check out yours, you may be surprised what you can pick up for pennies).

The red buttons (that I've stitched on) came off a jacket I used to have to wear for work eons ago, smiley and floral buttons are Dress It Up and were from Charmed. I printed the greeting out onto vellum and did it in a circly way inspired by a tutorial from Charmed.

The card's made in time for an anniversary in just over a week. All I've got to do is remember where I put it.