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

Written In The Stars

I saw a competition on PageMaps blog with a sketch and thought I'd quite like a go at it although I had no plans to submit my entry to try and win. So, what were the rules? They gave you a sketch designed for an 8 1/2 x 11 LO and asked you to convert it to a 12x12 LO, use at least one photo, a title, some journalling and products that were still widely available. Also the winning entry was going to be published in May/June so they wanted LOs suitable for that time of year.

Here's the sketch and my LO

For some reason, I always spell LeAnn wrong and add an 'e' to the end! Photo is of an ex-housemate of mine (Cecelia). The journalling speaks for itself I think.

I used:

Buttercream Bazzill,

3 Bugs in a Rug (seeing stars)

Dress It Up buttons (I've Got Rythm)

Dovecraft Metallics A brads

SafMat

Ric-Rak - widely available
Journalling stamp - any journalling stamp with lines will do for this as I had to print it several times to get enough lines. Not sure the one I used is still available.

Brush Markers - also widely available - mine were free with a mail order craft club.

This was also done for the challenge on Scrummy Stash Cafe blog which was to scrap your favourite band/artist/song.

Thanks for looking

Take care

Love and hugs

Dottie's Been Tagged

Over on Dottie's World last Sunday (24th August), Adele set the Sunday challenge. Although I'm posting very early Sunday morning (3:30amish to be precise), I'm still officially on Saturday as I haven't been to bed yet. So, technically speaking, I'm still in time for this challenge :D LOL

Adele said:

This week I want to see a tag or tags of any shape or size. It could be tag shape toppers, gift tags, tag books....and because hubby and me have just celebrated our wedding anniversary....for an extra Dottie bonus I would love to see some hearts and flowers too!!!

My card is a 25th wedding anniversary acceptance card as I needed to get one to the couple by Wednesday 3rd September! Something else I've left until the last minute! I've used one of the fab pre-coloured images from the love and marriage collection and printed it onto Safmat. For the hearts, I used Papermania paper and the flowers (red and pink) are from Calico Crafts. I cut the card in the shape of a tag and added ribbon to the top of the front. I've also stamped a 'thank you' tag and added narrow ribbon to that too.

Challenge completed and as long as I get it in the post now, I can go to the ball.

Think Pink

Dottie's World challenge last Sunday was set by Karen. She ws having internet connection problems, so Lou posted for her. This is what she said "Right, this week Karen wants us to go pink pink pink with our cards, she also wants us to add a bit of glam in the form of beads, jewels and/or charms you can use just one or loads it's up to you as long as your main colour is pink and you USE ONE OF THE CHARMED DOWNLOADS."

I've sort of missed the glam part of this challenge, although I did add stickles diamond glitter, so I'm hoping that by adding diamonds that way I've covered the whole challenge. The stickles are on the blades of her boots as well as on the ice and the commas on the word n'ice'

This started out as a Christmas card, but I can't find my Christmas rub-ons, so adapted another rub-on to fit with the card. The 2 patterned papers (striped and squares) came in a pack from a pound shop and I've just edges the squares with a silver metallic marker. Dottie is one of the bonus coloured images in the Christmas download bundle from Charmed that I've printed onto photo paper. Lastly I added a length of pink ribbon and tied it into a bow.