Someone was 50 Plus A Stamped Male Birthday Card

I made 2 cards this week. One for my cousin who was 50 last Sunday and one for my sister's boyfriend.

I used 2 stamps and the masking technique for this card. Annie sitting pretty and tree stump with bluebells are both designed by Lou and Karen and sold exclusively by Charmed Cards and Craft. Numbers are Basic Grey Two Scoops stickers

For this card, I used an image from Stampscapes Lakeside Cove unmounted stamp set. I stamped using dark blue ink and added rub-on letters for the sentiment.

Thanks for looking.

Take care, love and hugs, Sarah C xoxoxo

It's Been A Long Time

My mojo took an extended holiday over the last few months, but it's slowly coming back. So much so, that I joined a CJ on UKScrappers this week. I'm looking forward to doing it as the circle's called All My Own Photos. The object being that we send photos with our CJ and these are what the others use in ours. I'm taking this opportunity of having a 6x6 album done of the wedding I went to last August. Had a job deciding which of the 130 odd photos I took to use in this, but I've got there. Just got to make my album and do my LO ready for the first posting day. I know I have a few weeks to do this, so that's ok.

So, what crafting have I done this year? The grand sum of 3 cards and zero LOs. That will change soon. I've used digi downloads from Charmed Cards and Crafts which are expertly drawn by Lou. Each download bundle gives you black outlined images plus those same images coloured. Some bundles give you backgrounds and sentiments too. I've used images from Sugar and Spice and Boy Oh Boy. You can go here and here to see more examples of how to use the images.

Here's my cards. One for a 2 year old boy and 2 for adult females.

(I scanned them and no matter what I did, it insisted on cutting the bottom off the female cards

plus the images are not this much brighter than the papers IRL.

They're raised on foam pads, so nearer the scanner bed)

I've used a Sakura glitter pen to add sparkle to the girl's bows and all the flowers and pink gems to the flowers the girl is picking.

Thanks for looking.

Love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

52 in 10

ScrapDolly has a new and exciting challenge for us for all of 2010 starting on Sunday 3rd January. Her aim is to get us to scrap a subject most scrappers shy away from ............................ ourselves. I love the sound of it and I'm sure you will too.

In her own words "I know that you won’t all want to do all 52 weeks. There are bound to be some prompts that just don’t inspire you or that you feel are not relevant. But that is the beauty of the

project. You can dip in and out as you wish. There is no time limit, no pressure to complete,

no onus to share. The whole project is about YOU. Do what you want when you want in your

own time."

So, in my words "why not have a go?"

Click here, see what it's all about, download the prompts and get ready to make 2010 a year about us.

Christmas Day Fun

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE

XXXXXXX

BOY OH BOY

are these new digi stamps just the best ever?? I know I say it about every set Lou does, but these are. Making boy cards is usually so hard, but these digi stamps will make it so much easier for us.

Our Lou's a first class star.

Here's her preview

and here's where to get them.

Well??????????

What ya waiting for???????????

Christmas???????????

Go get yours NOW!!!!!!!!

Has it really been 6 and a half weeks since I blogged?!

Well, the answer is YES!!!!!!!!! And it's that long since I did any crafting too.

UKScrappers had a CyberCrop this last week-end and I thought I may try and do one or two of the challenges/classes. I wasn't going to join a team as I didn't want to feel that I HAD to craft if I didn't feel like it, but with less than a week to go, I decided that if I was going to do even one of them, a team may as well benefit from it. Turns out that the team that came second only lost by the points gained from one item. So although that wasn't my team, I was right to join in. We came third by the way.

Turns out that my mojo had been waiting for something like this and came back with avengence. I felt like doing 15 LOs and managed 14 plus I did 4 other (just for fun) challenges. Here's proof:

Challenges (point scorers)

Just for Fun Challenges (one not photographed was to create a glittery title which I did too late for the points and is on my 'The Cottage' LO)

Classes

Saved the worst till last. We had an extra Wicked Witch challenge on Saturday at 8am to upload a photo of ourselves first thing that morning. I'd only just got out of bed and brushed my hair. I (like a lot on there) was still in my PJ's and in need of a cuppa. So, to make you feel grateful that you only see me when I'm alert and mostly in LOs, here I am first thing in the morning!!!

A huge thank you goes out to everyone involved in making this last week-end such a huge success and fun for me. No pressure, but when's the next one?? LOL

Thanks for looking

Take care

Colours of Autumn

As promised in my previous post, here's the reveal of my LO done for Ribbon Mad. It can be seen in their gallery here. Check out the other projects too as they are simply amazing.

I was given the fantastic October 'SPOOKY' kit to work with and this is what I did:

1) I used the orange/black striped ribbon to create a border around the three sides of my photo.

2) By sticking DST to the top of the ladybird ribbon, I was able to pleat it as I stuck it down on the bottom of the photo.

3) I made flowers out of the orange organza and black/orange stitched ribbons, before stitching them together and adding an orange button.

4) I stuck black buttons onto the top corners and inked some *chipboard letters.

* the letters were from my stash, but all other items were from the kit I was given to work with.

Ribbon Mad

I was asked by Emma at Ribbon Mad, to be a Guest Designer for next month to help showcase the October Ribbon Kit. The chance to work with fantastic ribbons? How could a girl say no?

Here's a sneaky peak to my LO.

The full LO will be on display here in a few days. What I can tell you, is that the ribbon at the bottom of the LO is simply gorgeous and my favourite. I'd've been getting the kit just for that! LOL

Catch Up

This may be a long post, but I think I'm like some of my friends and have realised I've neglected my craft blog a bit. Here's a catch up on what I've done since I was last here.

Mojo's on a little holiday at the moment, so I've no idea when I'll be back here. Sooner rather than later I hope.

Circle of Friends

The lovely Sian has given me this award today. Thank you so much for that Sian.

Here's the all important rules:

1) Make reference to the award blog and publish it on your blog

2) Share 5 things you like to do

3) Share with 10 blogs .. or as many as you wish to!

4) Notify those you choose

So, (in no particular order) I like to :

1) listen to music

2) take photographs

3) have a laugh

4) scrapbook

5) shop for craft supplies

As I can pass this on to as many people as I wish, if you're reading this, please take the award with my love and blessings.