Growing Up

The weekly challenge on UKScrappers this week was set by the Butterfly Bonanza's, they challenged us to:

Design your own sketch based on packaging, a film poster or a book cover ~ 10 points ~ yes

Include something transforming ~ 10 points ~ yes (my eldest nephew as he grows up)

Use spring colours ~ 5 points ~ yes (my garden's only got orange and green in it ATM)

Use something gold ~ 5 points ~ yes (pen for the swirls and brads)

I found this film poster on the net and did the following sketch from it

I then found some photos of my eldest nephew as he was growing up, printed the latest one so it would almost fill one side and went with that for my theme. The journalling tells of some of the many things I just love about him ~ his sense of humour, his caring nature, his dimples .....

I'm planning on doing a LO of his sister now and will do one of his younger brother once he's a little more grown up as he's only just turned one.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Holly and Card Positionings System

I've used the Holly Hipster download with the latest sketch for Card Positionings System. Holly has been coloured using watercolour paints. The sentiment was one of loads I designed and printed when I dabbled in card making a few years ago.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

Inspire Me!

I was at my youngest sister's yesterday waiting for a delivery for her and her husband-to-be and spent the morning happily colouring in some of Lou's amazing images that I'd printed onto watercolour paper. It's amazing the difference that the correct paper makes. I must get some more paper as I've run out of it now. Still, I have plenty of images to keep me going and some still need to be coloured. I've used one of those images for this weeks challenge on Dottie's World.

Juliet set the challenge on Sunday and gave us this photo saying:

"You can take whatever you like from the photograph: you could focus on the colours, use a cupcake on your work or make a cupcake shaped card - it's up to you. You must include one of the Charmed downloads on your project and please tell us how the photo inspired you in your make ... "

I took the colours and made a card using one of the new Holly and Madison downloads that I've watercoloured using watercolour paints. When I cut a large flower in half  it reminded me of the chocolate colured icing on the cakes. I was horrified when Mellie said she'd cut a flower ages ago, but now I know why. In doing so, we get to use the flower twice which is a great bonus!!

Thanks for looking.

Take care, love and hugs to  you all

Sarah C xoxo

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

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

NOT a Card

Lou set the weekly challenge on Dottie's World this week. She said:

"It's my week this week and I fancied a change so here's the challenge;
Make something using a Charmed download but IT CAN'T BE A CARD!"

Ok, thinking cap on. Do I do a LO? No, I fancy doing something else. So, my aim was a one layer exploding box to use as a gift box. I got the layer cut and folded then decided that I didn't want to do that so I cut some more card and made a proper box.

And here it is.

I had a pre-coloured Robin Dottie (available from Charmed) that I'd printed out earlier onto photo paper, so used that. I added green glitter glue to the leaves and diamond Stickles to her tummy. I put red ribbon round the edge and secured it with a red dotty brad. Notches I cut in the side were edged with cinammon Stickles.

I'm aiming to use this (if I make more) as alternative Christmas crackers or I may just use this as a traditional gift box.

Thanks for looking.

Love and hugs

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.

UKS July 08 Week 4 Challenge

Well, July's nearly over and this week's challenge on UKS was set by The Scrap Pack. Here's what they said:

On this day last year the final Harry Potter book was published - use four of something to symbolise the four Hogwarts houses.

In this week in 2005 Lance Armstrong won his seventh consecutive Tour de France so we'll need you to use some yellow in your layout to represent his winner's jersey.

In 1969 Apollo 11 splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean after it's historic trip to the moon. To symbolise this use space, stars or water in your lo.

...and because we are The Scrap Pack we'll challenge you to use some scraps.

To summarise:

* Four of something - 5 points
* Use yellow - 10 points
* Use water/stars/space theme - 5 points
* Use up some scraps - 10 points

My LO is another for my Somerset Holiday album.

I have used:

* 4 complete sheets of paper from Dovecraft's Abstract Prints 6x6 Pack. Also part of title cut into 4 individual words

* Yellow brad and Yellow chipboard 'S'

* Photo is of the sea at Somerset, so yes I've used water

* I raided my scrap drawers and found some dark red card that I've used for the first part of the title

Full 30 points for me for my team The Ruby Snippers

I added diamond stickles round the title and the chipboard letters and then some sea shell and starfish buttons

A Bit of A Bright Sit Down and Tee's Challenge Part 1

Good morning everyone and how are we all? For me it's Monday lunchtime and the sun's been out to warm the air. Yesterday we managed to sit outside and eat lunch (jacket pots, burgers (yes, mine were veggie ones) and salad). It was a chance to try out my new patio furniture and here's one of the chairs.

I did warn you it was a bit of a bright sit down in the title of this post!! LOL One of my sisters is going to see if she can get me a yellow parasol from B & Q while she's out today ~ woohoo!!!!! It'll look so much better than the blue/green floral one we used yesterday.

Aargh............ just had a midgie crawl over the computer screen. Shouldn't complain really cos it probably means Summer's here at last. I just hope they don't get into my craft stash like last year :(

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On Charmed my friend Tee set the challenge for the next 4 weeks. This is what she said:

For my first challange I would like you to do a Scrapbook Layout, it can be any size you wish to do, and either a single or double layout, the choice is yours.

The extra bits are as follows that I would like you to use within your layout.

1. Please use foam on your layout.

2. ribbon to also be used

3. Visible Journaling and please make it more then just a title.and please feel free to add any other embellishments you wish to use.

My take on it is this:

1. I've hand-cut pink funky foam for the title and distressed it using white acrylic paint.

2. I've put a strip of ribbon along the bottom and up the right-hand side.

3. Visible journalling for me was the easy part as I love to do this.

The chipboard arrow is from a Bo Bunny pack and I've painted it with copper acrylic that I've mixed with white. Ive also added white acrylic paint to the paper to layer the photo on

BTW, spot the spelling mistake!!! LOL

Watch this space for my take on part 2. I haven't even started it as she only set these challenges yesterday.

Right, I'm off to get a drink and do some crafting. Catch you all here soon.

xxxx

A Quick Card and a Brilliant Sunday

I had to make a quick card on Friday night as I realised that I would need to take it to David's Dad on Saturday. It's his birthday next Saturday, but he's going away for a few week's holiday. As there wasn't much time, this is the quick card I made. It's been ages since I completely finished a card in less than half an hour. To make it easier, I used co-ordinating items all from Dovecraft's Masculine Range ~ 6x6 Paper Pack, Funky Brads. Chipboard Embellishments. All that was left for me to do was put it all together and add some fibres and a greeting. I used a peel-off due to the time factor (well, it was nearly 3am!!!).

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I have no photos to show you of my Sunday, but I've had the most awesome day. My niece is leaving Junior School and going to the 'big school'. Doesn't time fly? So that she has a lasting memory of being there, she's visited me these last 2 Sundays and I've helped her to make a mini-album for her friends and teachers to sign and for her to add photos and anything else she chooses. I gave her several ideas and she chose what she wanted and added her own ideas and twist on things. She's such a natural crafter that it's a joy to be with her like this (her elder brother is just the same). She decided to put one pocket on each DLO and make tags for everyone, which looks brilliant. She's going to come over in the Summer holidays and add the final touches to the book and then I'm hoping to take some photos. I did have to frisk her on the way out though as she was threatening to sneak all my stash out the door! Hmmm...... I don't think so LOL

Pick A Letter

The DT on Dottie's World take it in turns to sets a Sunday challenge. This weeks was to use an image from the Dottie/George/Cat collections available from Charmed and to Pick A Letter. We had to use different elements on the card using just the one letter we'd chosen.

The letter I chose was B.

Dottie's Balancing on the ladder
She's holding a Happy Birthday Banner
I've used a Bling Brad on the Banner
I've put four Buttons on the corners of the card
The Buttons, Brad and ladder are Blue
I've used Black Bling gems for Dottie's eyes