Dottie Over Buttons and Beads

Adele's turn to set the challegne on the new look Dottie's World. She has decided to challenge us to use either buttons or beads on our crafting, along with at least one Charmed download.

I decided to make a tag using Madison - Oh La La! My plan was to have three of the heart charm/wooden bead ribbons at the bottom, but it didn't work, so I felt I'd cheated a little by only adding one bead.

I then made a card using Madison 3-in-1 gift and added a pair of beaded earrings I made plus tiny beads to the bloom.

Both images have been printed onto watercolour card and painted with watercolour paints.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

UKS Music ATC's

I recently took part in a music ATC swap on UKScrappers. We had to make 10 ATC's based on .... music!!!!!!!!

I chose to do mine using the song Handbags and Gladrags by Rod Stewart. To do the gladrag image, I opened the Madison Goes To The Ball image (from the Holly and Madison download collection) in Paint.net and coloured her in with a contrasting background before re-sizing and printing onto watercolour paper.

Closer look at one of them

All 10

Each one is slightly different

I hope everyone liked these. I loved receiving my envelope and each one I was given will be treasured. Thanks ladies for all your hard work.

Take care,

Love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Cute Card Thursday goes all citrus

Cute Card Thursday's latest challenge is to use Citrus Colours  and they said

"We want to see your fabulous bright creations this week using the colours hot pink, lime, lemon and orange! (You are allowed to use some or all of the colours!)"

Here's my take on that using Madison 3-in-1 Gift from the original Holly and Madison download collection  available from Charmed coloured with brush markers.

Thanks for looking

Take care,  love and hugs,

Sarah C xoxo

Madison goes to France for Sketch Saturday

This is the latest sketch from Sketch Saturday and they said: "as you can see, all squares this week! (of course you can use other shapes if you wish to)".

I've printed Madison onto watercolour paper and coloured her with my Prismacolours. I've also used blooms in place of the squares. And yes, I am cutting up my blooms a bit now. I've realised that by doing so, I get to use one bloom in more than one place which can only be a good thing.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

Twice as Nice

Adele set the weekly Dottie's World challenge on Sunday and said:

Twice as Nice.......

I would like you to use two or more charmed downloads on your creations this week. You can mix and match, duplicate an image, re-size, whatever you fancy but I need to see two or more images.

One of my sisters has a birthday next week, so I decided to make her a tri-fold card. I used 3 images from the Holly and Madison World Tour collection and my Prismacolour pencils.

Holly in Spain is a tag (for One Stop Craft's Tag It challenge). It's held in an acetate pocket edged with ribbon, so it can be used as a bookmark.

The wording inside the card reads "On your birthday and every day, may your dreams take you to the places your heart desires". Wonder where she'll choose?

Thanks for looking.

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Lady In Red

I printed and watercoloured one of the Madison downloads on Friday and today decided it was too small for a card. So, what do I do with an image like that? Make it into an ATC of course! To complete the ATC, I watercoloured the background, fixed a champagne glass to some ribbon and added them to the side.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

Five In One Challenge Card

Once you start making a card, it's surprising how many challenges it sometimes ends up being suitable for.

I made a card last night (Sunday) and used the sketch from the JUST CHRISTMAS AND BIRTHDAYS blog, after turning it round. I'd already coloured the Holly image in using watercolour paints and realised it fitted with PAPERTAKE WEEKLY's pink/orange/brown, MY TIME TO CRAFT's hat and adding the right sentiment meant that it fitted with ONE STOP CRAFT CHALLENGE's sorry challenge. After photographing it, I also found that I'd completed DOTTIE'S WORLD's get the feeling as I'd used ribbon and velvet brads.

I'm late uploading it for some of the challenges, but never mind. I made it because I wanted to, adding in the challenges was a bonus. The Holly image is available for download as part of a collection exclusively from Charmed. While you're there, look out for the latest utterly amazing collection ~ Holly and Madison's World Tour.

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

Friday Sketchers and Madison

I've used the current sketch on the Friday Sketchers Blog along with a Madison download from the Holly & Madison collection to make this card. Thanks to a few hints and tips by Lou in the Let's Get Crafting Watercolour magazine, I've been able to get a skintone which I've found hard to master before. Thanks for that Lou.


Thanks for looking.
Take care, love and hugs,
Sarah C xoxo

New Downloads

I'm a little late with the sketch challenge, but here's my take on last week's Papertake Weekly sketch using a download from the new Holly & Madison collection which I've watercoloured using watercolour paints.

Thanks for looking
Take care, love and hugs
Sarah C xoxo