SLYMI week 32

Write in white is Shimelle's latest Scrap Like You Mean It challenge on UKScrappers.

Here's my LO. Photo of my youngest sister after we'd been to the Rainbow vegetarian restaurant for her birthday.

The large swirl and thought bubble were templates from UKS members Lucille and Dan and cut on my ROBO. The writing in the thought bubble is "doesn't she realise she's getting wet too?"

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Crafty Muse Sketch and Recipe ~ 2nd entry

I've made a card using the current sketch and recipe challenge on Crafty Muse. You still have time to enter and you can use any image you want - not just Sammi's amazing downloads. I've used one of the new sisters and friends images and coloured it using my brush markers. Brads are in all four corners and the ribbon I've made into a small flower on the bottom right

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SLYMI week 27

Wow, we're in to the second half of this and I'm still keeping up. Here's my entry for week 27 ~ scrap a happy story.

I've chosen to use photos from a month ago when Jo and I were in Cambridge. Journalling reads "There we were; in the middle of Kings Street Cambridge, waiting to go to the ADC theatre, re-touching our make-up. We'd just been for a meal at the Rainbow Cafe and were having such a laugh. I love times we spend together like this and thanks to photography, have pictures too."

I've used Scrap Sketch's #103 sketch for this LO

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Crafty Muse Sketch and Recipie

It's Crafty Muse Fortnight Friday today and that means another challenge for you. We have a sketch combined with a recipie, so nip over there to see what they are.

I've used the sketch on top of a box I've made. The image is one of the new 'sisters and friends' download collections available later today.

Scrapsketch Friday Challenge

Steph at Scrapsketch decided to give us all a quick sketch challenge (Friday to Sunday). Here's my entry for it using photos taken on my birthday when my youngest sister and I went to Cambridge. Title "Friends by choice" is from Elegant Word Art and I've printed it onto vellum. Journalling reads "Take time to pout and pose".

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Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

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

An award, a job, holidays and a catch up

Thank you to everyone who is kind enough to visit me and leave me comments. You are all so lovely. I've also been lucky enough to receive some wonderful awards from some of you. They can all be seen lower down on the right. Here's the latest award I've received from my blogging and forum friend Emma. We're all asked to pass it on to 3 fellow bloggers, so after deliberating for ages, I'm passing it on to Tee, Juliet and Shell.

I hadn't realised how long it had been since I blogged. My life changed overnight almost 2 weeks ago. I saw a job advertised on the JobCentre website at lunchtime one day and applied. In just over an hour I was in an interview and half an hour later, I had the job which started the following morning. Was great, but so quick. From being someone who didn't work and could choose how I spent my days, I became a full-time working lady with no spare time at all! What's my job? Well, I'm employed by an agency and at the moment am a customer services administration assistant. It's ok and should last until the end of June after which, I'm hoping that the agency will be able to find me something else.

Went away at the end of my first week working. My youngest sister's in Birmingham studying and invited me to stay with her for the Bank Holiday week-end. We had such a fantastic time. I went to my first all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet followed by a waltzer ride at the fair. I do have a few photos of that week-end (not many as the weather was mostly dull and rainy and I was too busy enjoying myself to keep snapping away!). Some of these piccies will be on my photo blog in the next couple of days. I got home Monday evening very tired and sad to have had to leave as I was having a great time.

I really want to do some blog hopping, but I'm too tired for that tonight and must do some crafting tomorrow. I will visit you all soon I promise. I'm so looking forward to next Monday (9th) as I'm off to Tee's for 3 days.

Hope you're all keeping well. See you here again soon
xxx

Scrap Challenge

Thank you for the lovely comments you've been leaving me. It means a lot and spurs me on to do other things.

Here's one of the scrap LO's I've done. It's for the May Week 1 challenge by the Blooming Pages on UKS. They said:

We would like you to:-

Scrap a photograph of yourself at any age doing anything (within reason ) for 10 points.
To include 'seen' journaling for another 10 points.
Because its May Day you've just got to include ribbons for 5 points.
And finally to use one of the colours from our team logo or alternatively a bloom or if you're feeling really adventerous how about both for 5 points

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Photo is of me and one of my sisters in the mid 70's. I'm the one dressed up in a rainbow dress for a fancy dress/bike competition ~ 10 points

Journalling on the tags ~ 10 points

Ribbon used down the edge of the page and as photo corners, except that the photo slipped ~ 5 points

I used both colours from their logo and a bloom ~ 5 points

Maximum points of 30 for my team The Ruby Snippers and another LO to add to my ever increasing album which is nearly full and has had extra sleeves added already. Thank goodness I got 2 more in a sale.

The saying on the vellum is once again from elegantwordart2.

"I CAN SEE THE SEA!!!"

My youngest sister's funny. She used these to see what she could see at Clacton. Apart from being able to see the seagulls on the sand closer and in more detail and the sea, the answer was 'not a lot'. Thing is, I was about to take a photo of her when her money ran out and she started walking off. Seeing me with my camera poised, she went back and posed. I was told "Don't tell anyone that all I can see is black will you?" No, of course I won't. Wouldn't dream of it. Yeah, right. How well do you know me? You know I love you really.