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.

Thanks for looking

Rosebud Pixie

I've made another card using two pre-coloured images from the new Pixie Chicks collections only available from Charmed Cards and Crafts.

I layered Rosebud onto the Flower Arch before printing onto watercolour paper, matting and layering and adding ribbon and tiny gems. I've also used my Sakura glitter pen to glitter her wings and the centres of the flowers.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs,

Sarah C xoxoxo

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

UKS Dark Challenge

Ok, I'm a little late showing you my entry for this week's weekly challenge on UKScrappers, but hey, better late than never I say.

So, the challenge set by The Norty Crew was:

- Choose a theme about something dark which brightens your life - 10 points

- Use a dark colour scheme to represent DARK- 10 points

- Add a dash of your favourite bling to represent BRIGHT - 5 points

- Use ink somewhere on your LO (eg stamping, doodling or journalling) - 5 points

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Dark skies and rain

Black and grey with a little silver

Blue gem brads in the middle of the blooms

White ink for the journalling and detail around the photo

Full points claimed for The Ruby Snippers and Gold Eyelet teams I'm part of.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

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.

Thanks for looking

Love and hugs

Flower Power

I've done a bit of scrapping this week or so, but wanted to show you one in particular. I'm lucky enough to have an A3 printer so printed the Hippie Dottie (from Charmed) coloured image directly onto 12x12 yellow Bazzill. Once I'd done that I took some photos of my flowers in my garden and cut round them before sticking them down. I added Prima flowers (from Charmed), handmade paper flowers and a few others. I changed her printed bunch of flowers for tiny handmade blooms and added a glass gem to the centre of some. The title is cut out on my Tag-a-Long and I used the Tootsie alphabet. To finish this off, I used diamond stickles on the title and butterflies, black gems for Dottie's eyes and black stickles for the beads on her necklace.

I'm on the look out for a 12x12 box frame now to put this in so I can hang it on my wall.

The rest of my crafting will be on here by the end of the week I hope. I need to go job hunting first.