It's A Recipe For Papertake Weekly

Papertake Weekly have given us this recipe to use to make a card week

1. circle

2. ribbons

3. stamps/images

Here's my card and I've used 1 large and 2 small flower stamps to make it.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah  C xoxo

Hen Party

My sister's Hen Party was the perfect excuse to take lots of photos and this week's challenge on UKScrappers was the perfect excuse to scrap some of them. Set by the Pink Glitter Gals, they challenged us to:

* use either black & white or at least 4 colours of the rainbow
** celebrate womanhood
*** use at least one distressing technique
**** use 5 of something

Here's how I met the criteria:

* I used pink/red/blue/green
** Theme is Jo's Hen Party before becoming a married woman
*** I sanded the edges of the bracket
**** I used 5 blooms

Full points claimed for my team and house The Ruby Snippers/Gold Eyelets

This was done following the Pencillines sketch 124

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

Sketch This #79

Sketch This have a new sketch on their blog ~ #79. Handy really because I just fancied losing myself in some scrapping and didn't have a clue what I wanted to do. I saw the sketch and started looking for a couple of photos. Well, one kept drawing my eye and was almost screaming at me, so I gave up and went with it.

The photo is of one of my Mum's cousin's on his wedding day 22 years ago this year. This morning his wife died suddenly and her death has rocked us all. If she was ill even she didn't know about it as she would have talked to Mum. My thoughts and love are with Frank and everyone who knew Ann. She was a ray of sunshine and so loved. She and Frank were always smiling no matter what. They were so hard working on their farm too, yet had time for anyone and everyone. I know Ann will be missed by so many people.

I can't do much, but here's my tribute to the lady that brought happiness into the lives of so many and to the gentleman who found her, captured her heart and gave her his.

Also, today would have been my Mum and Dad's wedding anniversary. Love you both to pieces and miss you so much Dad.

Thanks for looking

Take care and please don't put off until tomorrow to tell your loved ones how much they mean to you and to give them a hug/call/visit. For some, tomorrow will be too late.

Love and hugs to you all from my little corner of the world
Sarah C XOXOXOXO

Something New

Crafty Muse have this title for the latest challenge and here's my work:



I've used MillyRose and teddy that I coloured in using a free downloadable programme Paint.net. After importing the coloured image into Word, I added the matting backgrounds and wording and printed it all onto photo paper. This was stuck to a base card and ribbon added with DST.

I was going to appologise for giving you a computer generated card this week, but I've changed my mind. It's done like this mainly because I can hardly see my craft desk and I'm also still quite poorly, but it does show the versatility of downloadable images.

Quick update on me: I caught what the nurse thought was a virus at the end of September, now the docs don't know what it is! I ache all over, I'm unable to get comfortable, I'm sneezing and coughing all the time, feel really lethargic, can't sit at the computer for long at a time and don't feel like crafting (now I know I'm not well!! LOL). I did manage this week's challenge LO on UKS the other day and I've done an ATC for part of Ruth's challenge on 3C's, but that's all. So, until I can get here again take care.

HAPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL
Love from me xoxoxox

Three Challenges And A Birthday

Well, I've not done as much crafting as I hoped I would and so far this week have managed the grand total of TWO Christmas cards! HELP!!!!!! I have done some crafting though and here it is in all it's glory - although photos identities have been protected.

UKScrappers weekly challenge - use sketch, theme of new beginnings, stamping and white ribbon or flowers ~ all components met, so full points for my team The Ruby Snippers

Member's Sketch Challenge on 3C's set by Tee - (ATC done previously) Christmas card for someone special and including ribbon ~ LO using torn/ripped paper and hand-journalling. Once again all components met so full points for me.

Card

LO

Dottie's World Sunday Challenge set by Adele - textural - ribbon and lace ~ must use some of at least one on your creation. I've used silver sparkly ric-rac ribbon. Picture is a download by Lou and available from Charmed and it's finished with a stamped greeting, some Stickles on the sowman, snow and Dottie's dotty boots and a K&Co snowflake


Birthday Card - stamped image with jewels and flowers highlighted with Diamond Stickles. I've used pink/white lace down the side over some floral paper and stamped the greeting.


Thanks for looking

Take care
Love and hugs

1st Design Team Submission

I'm guessing that by now you are aware that I'm on the design team for Crafty Muse. Their challenge this week is to create something using the colour purple. This was so hard for me considering purple's my favourite colour!!! LOL

So, what did I do?

Using images from Crafty Muse, I made this card with Millie Rose Dots which I watercoloured using my bush markers. I covered some card in purple star paper and tied some ribbon on the left. I stuck Angelique and the sentiment (made using WordArt) before adding some diamond Stickles to Angelique, the sentiment, the ribbon and the stars.

I thought this card might make a perfect invitation for a little girl's party.

My second offering is this using sitting down Angelique.

Here's how I made it:

I took a piece of mountboard and cut it large enough to fit a notepad, pen and clip onto. I covered it in the same star paper as the card and inked the edges. I mixed blue, red and white acrylic paint to get the right shade and covered the front of the notebook. Sitting down Angelique was printed onto SafMat and put on the bottom then the notepad was stuck using wet glue. I punched holes in the mountboard using my crop-a-dile to thread ribbon through to add detail to the pad, to hold the pen and to be able hang it all up. The clip at the bottom is stuck using hot glue and can hold vouchers, extra notes and more. This could also have magnets stuck on the back (instead of the ribbon) for putting on a fridge and using as a shopping list/voucher centre.

Thanks for looking.

Take care,
Love and hugs