Someone was 50 Plus A Stamped Male Birthday Card

I made 2 cards this week. One for my cousin who was 50 last Sunday and one for my sister's boyfriend.

I used 2 stamps and the masking technique for this card. Annie sitting pretty and tree stump with bluebells are both designed by Lou and Karen and sold exclusively by Charmed Cards and Craft. Numbers are Basic Grey Two Scoops stickers

For this card, I used an image from Stampscapes Lakeside Cove unmounted stamp set. I stamped using dark blue ink and added rub-on letters for the sentiment.

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Take care, love and hugs, Sarah C xoxoxo

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.

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Love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Magic Card

Thanks to Joyce (UKS's 2magpies) for her video tutorial for making one of these cards. I've used an image I was given by a friend to make a card for a 5 year old.

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Birthday Card

Here's a birthday card I made this week based on the card I made here which itself is based on a card I found on DoCrafts by Twinkle*. Thanks again Twinkle*.

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A LO 'Just Because' ~ sort of

I had a go at doing a LO for a competition, but once I'd finished it, I decided it wasn't what the sort of LO I wanted to enter IYKWIM? So, here it is and I have the week-end to do another. Thinking cap's on again!

The 'Happy Birthday' is ribbon, the 'Now 11' is done by sticking tiny blue gems onto red ribbon. PPs are Basic Grey Cupcake and blooms are Green Tara.

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Driving Mikey

I had a male birthday to make for someone in their late 60's who's not really 'into' anything. It was a case of "HELP!!!!" until I put my brain in gear and raided some images I'd printed a while ago. A few brush marker strokes, a little chalk ink, a couple of Basic Grey Archaic PPs and a sentiment I printed a couple of years ago and voila. One card. I just hope he likes it.


Image is Driving Mikey from the Mikey collection by Lou and available exclusively from Charmed.

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One Little Word #56 ~ WHY

One Little Word's challenge this week is the word 'WHY'. This got me thinking deep and hard. Journalling is not 'pre-sorted' IYKWIM? I've journalled as I thought and laid a tiny piece of me onto paper. Photo was taken about 20 years ago when I lived with my parents. I was looking out of my bedroom window at the time.

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SLYMI Week 29

Gosh, the year's going too fast! Scrap Like You Mean It on UKScrappers is on week 29. Shimelle has challenged us to 'scrap with 3'. She says "Three photos, three big accents, the number three, three patterned papers, three colours...whatever you want to pick, we better find 3 of it!"

How many 3's could I get on my LO without it looking wrong? Here they are:

3 PPs (Basic Grey)

3 Blooms (Green Tara)

3 Rub-Ons (Basic Grey)

3 chipboard letters/number (no idea what make as they were a present)

3 colours (red, green, brown)

3 in the title

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SLYMI week 27

Wow, we're in to the second half of this and I'm still keeping up. Here's my entry for week 27 ~ scrap a happy story.

I've chosen to use photos from a month ago when Jo and I were in Cambridge. Journalling reads "There we were; in the middle of Kings Street Cambridge, waiting to go to the ADC theatre, re-touching our make-up. We'd just been for a meal at the Rainbow Cafe and were having such a laugh. I love times we spend together like this and thanks to photography, have pictures too."

I've used Scrap Sketch's #103 sketch for this LO

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Scrappers Block #5, BASB #15 and ScrapSketch #1

I've done a LO of my youngest nephew this afternoon and have used criteria from 2 challenge blogs plus a LO from another.

Scrappers Block #5 ~ Solo-Colour Competition

BASB #15 ~ Monno-chromatic (one colour)

Scrapsketch #1

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Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

SLYMI - self-portrait

Last week's SLYMI on UKScrappers was to scrap a self-portrait. I chose to wait until after my birthday and scrapped a photo that was taken in Cambridge on my night out with my youngest sister.

Papers are from Basic Grey's Sultry range. Journalling reads "I've realised this week that I have all I need to be happy ... life, love, family, friends"

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Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

BLOOM and grow

I took this photo of my large bloom the other day and it's just as well I did. We had heavy rain and wind the day after, which destroyed it completely.

PP is Basic Grey. Isn't it just fabulous? It's so lovely, I didn't want to waste any, so I cut out the centre piece that would have been hidden by the photo to use on something else! Waste not, want not eh? This LO was done 'just because' but I've used ScrapSketch's #78 sketch. It had a lot of stitching on it, so I narrowed it down to stitching the frame to the PP and the PP to the Bazzill. Title was cut on my ROBO before inking, with the BLOOM word cut twice and layered.

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Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

Pencillines #136 and UKScrappers Weekkly Challenge May week 4

Pencillines sketch #136 and UKScrappers weekly challenge for the current week, were both used to create this LO.

UKScrappers criteria was:

something old ~ bunch of flowers which were bought a year ago

something new ~ the Basic Grey PPs bought this last week

something borrowed (given to you or non-scrap related) ~ flowers on the tag and top right corner are actually nail art transfers

something blue ~ bottom paper is blue

secret journalling ~ tag behind the photo

ribbons ~ on the tag

I'm claiming full points for the Ruby Snippers and Gold Eyelets.

Photo is of my mum looking at postcards when we were in Cheddar Gorge

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Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

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.

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Love and hugs

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.