Indigo Mills Kit Competition

Indigo Mills set everyone a very interesting competition. Here's what they said:

"Our competition for you is to show us just how many projects you can create from one collection pack.... using the odd extra embellishment here and there, and of course your basic tool kit, how much can you really get from one kit? (No limit on plain cardstock!!!! It's a necessity and a way of life!)) Lets see just how good the value for money is."

I bought My Mind's Eye Garden Party Kit (£6.65) and wanted to see what I could do with that and minimal items from my stash. Here's what else I used:

Bazzill, SafMat, scrap card for journalling, cream card for the card bases and bookmarks, a little ribbon, a couple of brads, some stickles, a chipboard '2', journalling pens, brush marker, brown ink pad, magnetic sheet and used my Tag-a-Long to cut some letters (although I considered cutting by hand or writing them all). I used nearly all the PPs (have small scraps left now) including the small strips of designs on the cover slip that was in the kit and all the die-cuts. The 'sucking lemons & blowing bubbles' words were cut from the cover slip and scraps of the PP, but I used the reverse sides to get white letters. I even used the bottom strips from the PP as they had a gorgeous brown pattern on them and two of the 'EYE' words from the strips on my 'EYE 2 EYE' LO. Nothing goes to waste around here LOL

Here's what I did with it:

1) Maze Book (3 photos)

2) LO - we love uncle david

3) LO - lasagne

4) LO - sucking lemons and blowing bubbles

5) LO - shopping

6) LO - EYE 2 EYE

7) LO - What a View

8) LO - decisions decisions ...

9) LO - Scotland Lake

10) Card - Thank You

11) Card - Thank You

12) Card - With Love

13) & 14) Bookmarks (2nd photo shows magnetic bookmark opened)

I loved working with it so much that I've bought 2 more kits to take with me when I go to my Mum's to dog-sit in just over a week.

Thanks for looking and getting to the end of this long post

Blogging Our Art Out!

Over on Blogging Our Art Out, Karen has a competition to win a gorgeous set of stamps. All you have to do is make a Christmas card. It's as simple as that. So, heres my 'Rockin' around the Christmas tree' card:

The Dottie and George images are available to buy as downloads from Charmed. I've used loads of stickles as the tree is coloured in using those and gems, plus there's some on Dottie and George's outfits.

At this rate, my Christmas cards will be done in time for a change. No rushing at the last minute I hope.

Thanks for looking
Love and hugs

I Missed The Deadline :(

Hi everyone, Cleo Crafts had a competition on their blog to do a LO using their sketch.

I so wanted to enter and last night I did this with it

Well, the closing time was 10am this morning. I was awake (as usual) through the night; but we all know night light is not good for taking photos, so planned to wake in time to sort it out today. Guess who forgot to set her alarm and woke at 10:10??? Aargh............ Obviously I wasn't meant to enter or at leat that's what I'm telling myself.

Never mind, it helped me to scrap a rare photo of my Mum's Dad. I've added minimal journalling on the front and have some hidden (private) journalling behind the photo. I inked some white blooms to soften them and cut some PP for the flourish, matting, circle and corner.

Next time I'm going to triple check my alarm!!

Thanks for looking. Love and hugs to you all

Lou's Curvy Card Competition

The fab Lou came up with a very novel, interesting and hugely popular card design. After great interest, she shared the template and instructions and they were available for FREE download. Unfortunately for anyone who hasn't already got it, you are going to have to wait a while as a company has snapped it up and will be marketing a template some time. So popular was this design with her fellow crafters (myself include), that she ran a competition for people to make one of these cards.

Here's my offering which I made this morning. I used green and silver gliteer paper, a die-cut Father Christmas, red ribbon, green brads and stuck silver snowflakes on with foam pads. I follwed her instructions to the letter and it was much easier to do than it looked.

Thank you so much Lou for this new and fantastic design. This may be the first card I've made like it, but I know it won't be my last.

Happy Fridays

Would you believe Friday's here already? I've realised that Wednesday and Thursday have disappeared according to the world of Sarah C's Ramblings. So, what happened to them?

Wednesday passed in a blur. Was supposed to be going for a Job Seeker's appointment, but it's now on Monday morning. Not much happened apart from that, so that's Wednesday. Told you my life's exciting!

Thursday, what happened Thursday? Oh yep, I remember. Went for lunch and the afternoon to my friend's. Was really looking forward to it as we haven't seen each other for 6 weeks. Gosh how time flies. Catching up on everything was brilliant and we think we've put 'the world according to men' right again. Needs doing occasionally. I went there feeling a bit bleurgh, but after lots of cuddles from her 19month old, I left feeling much happier. He's the only child I know who can put his hand in a dog's mouth and not worry about it getting bitten off. He uses that method as we'd use a lead. It's a case of hand in mouth and follow me. Scary stuff usually and I'm hoping that nothing happens to make the dog change temperment as it would be quite nasty if he did. But they play so happily together with lots of giggles from the little man.

Had to brave Tesco in the evening and was surprised to find it wasn't very busy. 18:30 at the till and there was a cashier waiting for us. Can't be bad. As I'd fallen asleep Wednesday evening for a couple of hours, I woke at 11pm and was awake all day until I fell asleep at about 11pm last night. Woke today at 4:45 which means I've actually had nearly 6 hours sleep. Can't wait to be normal and sleep properly.

If you're looking for me today and can't find me on the 3C's site, I'll be hidden in amongst my craft goodies. There's a couple of card competitions I want to enter and the closing date for them is today. *Note to self - pull your finger out (ouch!) and get a move on. You may come last, but it won't be official.

Will be back with piccies later today.
Luv n hugs to all xxx