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

Scrap Like You Mean It Week 19

On UKScrappers Shimelle challenged us to scraplift one of the many LOs already done in the previous 18 weeks of her Scrap Like You Mean It challenges. I had to flip the page I'd chosen as I cut the green PP the wrong way!!

The original

My LO

Another one done for Jo's wedding album. I designed the title, cut it out four times on my ROBO and layered them. The swirl was done on a friend's Big Shot and inked in brown. I haven't worried about journalling as such, I've just listed who's who in the photo.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Scrap Like You Mean It Week 18

I still can't believe I'm managing to keep up with the Scrap Like You Mean It challenges. The latest one is #18 and is to "scrap the outdoors". Not a hard one for me as I have tons of outdoor photos. I decided to go with one taken last September at Ally Pally. You'll probably recognise it as it's my current blog header.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Living On The Edge with Shimelle

On UKScrappers, Shimelle challenged us last time to 'live on the edge' by using the edge of our LO in some way. Either by cutting it fancy, putting something right at the edge, overhanging something or ......... The choice was ours.

So, I decided to cut the edge of my green card, put ribbon at the edge on 2 sides and use blooms on one corner.

It's a fairly simple LO, but hopefully one that draws your eye to the yellow rose in the centre. Apologies for the flash, but the photo was taken at night.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

Cut Up A Photo - aargh ..........

Shimelle challenged us to cut up a photo for her weekly Scrap Like You Mean It challenge on UKScrappers this week. After thinking about it for a few minutes and searching through the photos for a suitable one, I decided to cut up my eldest nephew. He's been cut up before, so he's ok with it by now LOL I tore and inked some PP and die-cut the letters on my Xyron Personal Cutting System. All I had to do then was assemble it all, add a teeny button in the shape of sunglasses and do some doodling. Simple, but I like it.


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

SLYMI week 7

Shimelle's Scrap Like You Mean It on UKScrappers, is on week 7 already. The challenge was to scrap at least one old photo. Here's mine using the DaVinci Class from the Whodunnit CyberCrop last week-end.

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

Another catch-up - UKS and 'just because'

I seem to be playing catch-up on here. So, if you're sitting comfortably, I'll show you my latest craft makes.

Shimelle' Scrap Like You Mean It (on UKScrappers)

Week 2 - stars or hearts
(Also done for UKScrappers week 2 team challenge)

Week 3 - chipboard

Week 4 - sketch

UKScrappers - January week 2 team challenge

Just because I can LO.
I followed a Pagemaps Basic Grey sketch and used images from

Crafty Muse's downloads 'Once Upon A Time/Fairytale collection'

Thanks for looking.
Take care. 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

Spooky and Fun

Charmed have a competition running until 1st November to do a card, LO or something else along the lines of spooky. Here's what it inspired me to do:

It's my niece with my Great-Aunt and my Mum. My niece moves so fast!!

Over on UKS, the house challenge is to do a LO with the theme FUN and to use as many patterned papers as we dare. Here's my LO:

I've used a total of 7 different PPs on this.

Thanks for looking. Love and hugs,

xxx

Loving Summer

It was my turn to set the member's sketch challenge on 3C's. I've yet to do my card and ATC, but here's my LO. I challengeed everyone to use bright colours and hand-written journalling.

Sketch

LO

Title and Journalling

Thanks for looking

xx

UKS Oct Week 1 Challenge

I managed some scrapping yesterday and did

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Ok, so I'm not gonna win awards for the most done in one day, but I never said I wanted that LOL

So, the LO. Done for UKS weekly challenge set by the Rockin Ribbon Raiders. They said:

We decided to keep it quite simple. One of the team designed a sketch for us which will gain you 10 points if you use it.
Our name has 3 words in it so 5 points for a 3 word title.
Use 3 of whatever you use i:e, pics ribons, papers etc 5 points
something or someone inspirational to you 10 points.

So to summarise:
Sundays sketch... 10 points
a 3 word title 5 points
3 of whatever you use i:e papers, ribbons pics etc other than the title 5 points
someone or something inspirational ... 10 points

I chose to use a photo of my niece and eldest nephew as they are so inspirational to me and I'm so proud of the people they've become despite everything they've been through.

Thanks for looking. BTW, I've done my blog-hop, but if I've missed you please let me know. It isn't my intention to miss any of my friends out.

Hello

Hi everyone, I am still about. Quick catch up on me, then I'll bore you all with my crafting.

I had 2 weeks work at Ely Cathedral and had such long days I was shattered. Then, after a week-end away when I went to the Scrapbook Show at Ally Pally, I came down with a viral infection, so I've been off work for nearly 2 weeks. I'm still not fully recovered, but I'm getting there. Due to that and the fact that I temp, my job had to be given to someone else. I'm now waiting to hear if I have a job at one of the colleges in Cambridge starting Monday and going until Christmas. It'll mean very long days, so don't expect much on here if that happens :(

Well, that's me. Now my craft. To start with, here's the stash I bought at AP

My niece ~ QUEEN OF THE CASTLE

My eldest nephew's birthday card

My youngest nephew

My new patio furniture

My youngest sister and her O/H one month after getting together

25th Wedding Anniversary Card

Members Sketch Challenges on 3C's ~ do a LO, Card and ATC using the sketch and 'extras' as stipulated in each challenge.

Sketch

LO

Card

ATC

Sketch

LO

Card

ATC

Mum's Birthday Crafting

Exploding Garden

Framed LO

DLO of a view of the village I grew up in

Birthday Card

Mum & I at a wedding in the early 70's

Sunset on the Norfolk Broads

Tractor Fire

Sunset

My cousin Sandra

Thanks for taking the time to look. Please feel free to leave me a comment to let me know you stopped by. I'm hoping to do a blog hop this week-end, so if I do I'll pay you a visit to see how you are and what you've been up to.

Love as always, Sarah xxx