Bon Appetit!

Still no donkey foal, and I'm in panic mode every time the phone rings?

To take my mind of it, my friend came round this morning to craft, and I made this card

The wooden background was stamped on natural card and laid on a base. I then added some navy card with a MENU label added on the bottom. I die cut a cream circle, and drew an inner broken circle with a marker to make it look like a plate. I fussy cut a lobster and put it on the plate on 3D pads. I downloaded some clip art cutlery and stamped a pattern on the handles before grouping them together with a raffia bow. The finishing touch was the sentiment tag on the bow.

I am entering it in these challenges :

CAS Colours and Sketches have these colours,                                 

the sketch is from Just-add-Ink,

The Male Room want us to MAKE PINK MASCULINE,

and lastly, Addicted to Stamps want us to MAKE YOUR MARK

Supplies :

Card - Naturals White, Whisper White, Very Vanilla, and Night of Navy

Stamps - By the Tide, Inkadinkado, Hardwood, Always Elegant, and Simply Sketched

Inks - Black, Raspberry Ripple, and Crumb Cake

Tools - Big Shot, Nestabilities, and Stamp-a-ma-jig

Extras - 3D Pads, Raffia, and Laptop Sentiment 

                   

Thanks for dropping by, and hope you'll come back again

Howzat !!!

Well, that's another busy week over, and before I knew it, the weekend has started.

My latest order from SU has arrived, and I've been dying to use the markers and stamps, but I haven't had time to craft until tonight. Here's a card I needed for my friends cricket mad husband.

The cricketer was coloured with my aqua painter and SU markers, and mounted on orange card. I used a bamboo stamp to make some stumps, and stamped the sentiment over them, before doing the same as the player panel. I embossed the blue card with a texture that looked like the bails off the stumps, and added the two panels with 3D pads. I drew white stitches on the orange cricket ball and finished it with a twine bow.

I will also be entering it into these challenges :

The sketch comes from Freshly Made Sketches

the colours from Hand Stamped Sentiments, (a new challenge I've found)

The Male Room has the theme of

GAMES

                                                  

and lastly, Stampin' Royalty have ANYTHING GOES

Supplies :

Card - Marina Mist, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, and base FMS

Stamps - Papermania, Inkadinkado, and Simply Sketched

Inks - Black Archival, Tangelo Twist, Hello Honey, and Lost Lagoon

Tools - Big Shot, Sizzix Textures, Aqua Painter, and Nestabilities

Extras - 3D Pads, White Gel Pen, and Bakers Twine

It was at Nathan's sports day on Tuesday, where he did very well in helping his house come second. 

Here he is with his rosette for 2nd in the sack race.

He was running so fast in the egg and spoon race that this is the only clear picture that I took.

It was also my SD, Dave's,  birthday on Wednesday, and Nathan and Sophie thought it would be funny to buy him a Darth Vader onesie. I think Halloween has come early, don't you??

That's all for now, so until the next time, have a good weekend (what's left of it!)

Ugly Bug Ball

Today, this is my DT card for The Male Room, where our theme is NATURE
and I'll also be entering it in three challenges.

The sketch is from Clean and Simple,

the colours from CAS Colours and Sketches

and Addicted to CAS are looking for something TRANSPARENT

                                                           

Here it is

This is what the card looks like without the acetate overlay that bares the Dragonfly, Bumblebee, and Ladybird. I didn't mind stamping all the insects, but when it came to the spider, it freaked me out! I hate them! Thank goodness it was only a small one. 

Supplies :

All from Stampin' Up unless stated otherwise

Card = Whisper White, Early Espresso, and white base FMS

Stamps = Stippled Blossoms, Simply Sketched, and Inkadinkado Insects

Inks = Blushing Bride, Strawberry Slush, and Adirondack Espresso

Tools = Stamp-a-ma-jig, 

Extras = Acetate

I had a terrible start to my day. I plugged my laptop in to see what challenges were out there, so I could prepare an idea, and pack the relevant supplies, as I was off to my friends for a crafting/coffee morning. After about five minutes, I realised that the TV and my alarm clock had gone off, so thought I had a power cut. Then, I saw that lights were on in my neighbours house, so I rang her (on my mobile, as the house phone was also out) and her house was fine. I made a mercy call to my Step Dad, who turned up an hour later. He discovered that the electrical fuse box kept tripping out, so we had to check every wall socket in the house. Sounds easy, but with me in the house plugging something in, I was then having to get to the top of the stairs to shout down to Dave in the garage, who would try the trip switch again. Eventually, we found that a wall socket had fallen off the wall that was hidden by my desk (it had never had a metal wall bracket set into the wall, and I've been here for almost 13 years!!). Then we found out that the garden pond pump had also fused ( what were the odds that this would blow at the exact minute that I plugged my laptop in!!!!! Anyway, with electric back on, I was in no mood to craft so didn't go out, but made this card later.   

I'm in hospital again today for my treatment ( I cant believe how quickly four weeks pass by ), so I'll be resting for a couple of days. I hope you have a good week, and an even better weekend.

Travel Stamps

Morning Stampers, this is my DT card for The Male Room, where our challenge this week is a male card with the main focus being TRAVEL OR TRANSPORT

I went for Stamps from around the world on a world map background. I will also be entering it into Fab Friday who have these colours.

Supplies :

All are Stampin' Up unless stated otherwise

Card = Naturals White, Whisper White, Black, and white base FMS

Stamps = World Map, Loving Thoughts, Clarity Stamp and Africa Elements, Inkadinkado Asian Influences, and Clear Choice Viva France

Inks = Black, Pumpkin Pie, Rich Razzleberry, and Old Olive

Tools = Stamp-a-ma-jig, and Sponges

Extras = Post Its, and 3D Pads

I've been in the wars again! I fell over in the kitchen and bashed my head against the door frame, and badly bruised my arms and legs, not to mention my pride!!. Once I stopped the tears, it took me a good ten minutes to gather enough strength to get up, and to stop Monty jumping on me as he sensed something was wrong.

I now have a terrible cold that I caught from Nathan at his birthday party. He loved his cake and Pinata, and I now have to make a Halloween one for him and his friends for Trick and Treat night! No pressure there then!! Here is his dinosaur one I made.

This is the side view. There are lots of layers of paper mache, and then several layers of Magnolia paint.

Here he is painted in a pale green, with the face and spots details made from pieces of coloured card glued on and finished with a black marker.

I hope I get some time for crafting and blog hopping this week, as I've been a little slack with one thing and another, I'm Sorry.

Hope you can drop by again soon, and thank you for your lovely comments.

Bee-autiful Florets

Here goes the start of another week of scorchio temperatures in the UK, so I hope you all have your fans at the ready? I'm definitely staying out of it as it's too much for me!

My second card today is for four challenges


First is Clean and Simple with this sketch,


second is Play Date Cafe with
 Burnt Umber,    Honey, and Butter

third is CAS-ual Fridays with                     POLKA DOTS

and lastly, Friday Mashup with                                                                                              NATURE

Here is my card

After embossing some white card with dots, I swiped half of it with a Butterscotch ink Pad, and the other half was reversed and sponged lightly with the same colour. I then made the panel by stamping and fussy cutting the flowers and leaves and mounting them on a Nestie that had been laid on some white card coloured with a distrees ink pad. The bees were stamped onto tracing paper, cut out and placed in their final positions. It may be the heat affecting my eyes, but I think the spotty background looks almost like honeycombs ( well,  if you have a vivid imagination they do..........don't they? ) For the finishing touch, the busy bees have left a bead of honey on the sentiment banner!!

Supplies :
Card = Naturals White, Whisper White, and Daffodil Delight
Stamps = Fabulous Florets, Tea Shoppe, and Inkadinkado
Inks  = Archival Black, Crushed Curry, Adirondack Butterscotch, and TH Tea Dye Distress
Tools = Big Shot, Dots EF, Nestabilities, and Fiskars Scissors
Extras = 3D Pads, Tracing Paper and Gems

It's my sisters birthday tomorrow so I'll be back very soon, and I've got some exciting news to share with you all

                                                         

Going Japanese

My card today is one my friend has asked me to make for her friend who is jetting off to Japan, so I've tried to combine it with two challenges.

First is ColourQ with these colours ( not what you would  immediately pick for an oriental card!?)

and secondly, Paper Players who have this sketch   

Here is my card

                                             

I cut the four panels in white, stamped the images on them, and then laid them down onto dark grey card which was on a white base. The Buddha was stamped in Archival ink so that I could use my Aqua Painter to colour it with washed down black ink, and then positioned him on 3D pads.

Marilyn was really pleased with it, what do you think?

Supplies :

Card = Whisper White, Naturals White, Dark Grey and white base FMS

Stamps = Inkadinkado and Baroque Motif 

Inks = Real Red, Crushed Curry, Pool Party, Black and Archival Black

Tools = Aqua Painter

Thanks for dropping by and I hope you can come back soon.

Let it Snow!

Brrrrrrrrr!!! What a cold wet day outside, thank goodness I'm still putting my decorations up indoors. Now you may think that my house must look like Santa's grotto, but watch out for the photos at the end of my post and see for yourself.

Today, I've only had time for a quick card that is for the  Less is More challenge  and they want a 

ONE LAYER CARD

       This time our theme is

       Let it Snow!

So out came my snowflake stamps and sponges, and this is what I came up with

I stamped the snowflakes in Versamark across the top of the square card, and heat embossed them with white powder. The same was done with the sentiment. I then embossed 2 lines across the middle of the card and covered them with Post Its before sponging over the top area with blue inks. Gems were added for a little bit of bling.

Recipe :

Card = Whisper White

Stamps = Inkadinkado, and my stash

Inks = Versamark, Bashful Blue, and Brilliant blue

Tools = Heat gun and embossing tool

Extras = White embossing powder and gems


Thanks to my RA it takes me sooo long to do what takes a normal person only a few hours!!! but I think it makes my room look festive even if it does cause me pain to do it. 
Here is my traditional red tree ( and I've just noticed the strange pale patch on the dining room curtains, and if it's not the reflection of the camera flash from the large mirror, it's a ghost ??)

and this is my fireplace, minus the large red baubles (which I hang from the top of the garland swag, and I think must still be in the loft) and the coals from the fire as Monty likes to steal them and hide them under the dining table!!



Tomorrow I'm off to Jacqueline's to play and it may be my last chance to go round before Christmas, so I'd better get my crafting stuff ready.

Thanks for dropping by and I hope you'll call again soon.

Bermuda Bay Bird

Yaaaaayy, the lovely DT at Make My Monday have chosen me as Top 3 again, Thank you so much Ladies I really appreciate it.

November already??!! Just where has this year gone? Still I love the autumn and winter months, everything looks so beautiful and the colours of the trees are fabulous.

Now, back to the present, today's card is for the CAS-ual Fridays challenge #26  using this sketch as a starting point.


I decided to rotate the sketch through 90* so my card is wider, but still keeping the structure of the design.

This is the end result, what do you think?

I started with some white card and stamping the bird with his wonderful tail on his branch. Then I extended the branch across the rest of the card using two swirls in the same green (with the aid of my Stamp-a-ma-jig ). The stamped image was then layered on some blue card before it all was placed onto a white card base and the corners rounded. To finish, a sentiment and gems were randomly added.

 

Recipe: 

Card = Island Indigo, Whisper White, and white card base from my stash

Stamps = Whimsical Wings, Inkadinkado and Verve

Inks = Bermuda Bay, Pool Party, and Pear Pizzazz

Tools = Stamp-a-ma-jig and Xcut corner rounder

Extras = gems

I've got a few busy days coming up, so I'll be back as soon as I can.

Thanks for dropping by

 

Enjoy your Day

Well I didnt have any dream or thoughts on the lottery numbers, so I'm still here crafting........mind you, even if I DID win the lottery I would still be crafting as I've have more time to do it, and be able to pay people do all the other stuff..............no harm in dreaming I suppose!

In the short time I've been awake today I've made a card to enter in to the Clean and Simple challenge # FTL156 where they have this sketch.

My trusty Big Shot is still on the table from yesterday so it was my influence on the makings for the card.

I started with a white card and stamped the sentiment on the left hand side in green. Then through the BS I put some brown card and a pendant die, some green card and a border die, yellow card and a flower die (twice), and some  bright green card with 2 leaf shapeabilities. All these bits were layered on the border which was placed on the right hand side. The finishing touch was the bumble bee which had been stamped on some acetate and was left over from a project a few days ago.

Here is the end result, have a look and see what you think?

I hope you liked it.

Recipe : Card = SU Pumpkin Pie, Garden Green, Green Galore, Yo Yo Yellow, and white card from my stash

Inks = Handsome Hunter, Adirondack Black, Butterscotch and Espresso

Tools = Big Shot, SB Border, Pendant, and Shapeabilities

Stamps = Verve sentiment and Inkadinkado Bee

Thanks for dropping by, and I'd love it if you could leave me a comment if you have the time.

Hope to be crafting again soon so I'll see you then

Bee-autiful Garden

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaayyy!!!!!!  I've just seen that I came top 3 again over at Make My Monday so I'm really chuffed...........I feel like it's my birthday not Mum's!!!! Thanks very much to their wonderful DT for picking my card.

Hello and welcome to my new follower, Helen, I hope you like what you see.

I'm typing this with sleep still in my eyes as I've got to get this post done before I go out for the day!! I hope it all makes sense to you.

Well Tuesday at Jacqueline's was a disaster for me, I had an idea for my card for the Make My Monday challenge and it involved making a bee hive, you would have thought that it sounds quite easy, but the pointed angles on folded card completely threw me.

The challenge is still "things with wings" but must include acetate.

My idea was to make a garden scene on the card and have an acetate front cover on which the bees would be stamped so they looked like they were in flight.

After several expletives and throwing things down on the table, this is the end result.

This is a side view so you can see the dimension that the acetate gives, and I hope you see that the bees look like they are in flight??

This is what the acetate looks like on its own.

The 2 flowers and leaves were added in the bottom corners to help weigh the acetate down.

It all started with a white 6" square card that I sponged the top half with Bashful Blue and the bottom half with Certainly Celery. A SB nestabilitie label was then cut in the BS and the top half again sponged with BBlue, but with a scallop circle mask to make cloud shapes. A verve sentiment was stamped in the sky with Brilliant Blue.  I then stamped the leaf frond from Growing Green in CCelery 3 times and cut them out. Using the Greenhouse Garden set I stamped several flowers in different colours and they were also cut out. A sheet of acetate was stuck on the back of the label and then that was stuck to the card itself (so the sticky tape securing the acetate was hidden) but so that the acetate falls down over the front of the card. The flowers, leaves and hive ( concertinaed card sponged with SSand)  were stuck on the card, and some bees were stamped on the acetate and coloured with Pro markers. Two flowers and some leaves were added at the bottom to stop the acetate rolling up.

Recipe : Card = SU Whisper White and white card from my stash

Stamps = Greenhouse Garden, Growing Green, French Foliage, Verve and Inkadinkado

Inks = SU Regal Rose, Pink Passion, YoYo Yellow, Pumpkin Pie, Tempting Turquoise, Brilliant Blue, Melon Mambo, Rich Razzelberry, Crushed Curry, Dusty Durango, Lovely Lilac, Elegant Eggplant, Sahara Sand, and Black Adirondack

Tools = Big Shot and SB label and scallop circle nestabilities

Extras = Acetate and Pro markers

It's Mum's birthday today, so I'll be spending the day with the family. I'm not sure what we'll be doing but we'll do something?? so no crafting today.

Hope to do some tomorrow, so I'll get back to you then.

Insect Invasion

Hello friends, Thanks for stopping by my blog and for your patience while I've been having a few health problems.

Today I've finally got the strength to get creating again, and as it's the British Grand Prix I'm rooted to the sofa with my crafting stuff. I've seen that over at Less is More their theme is Something with legs,and at first I thought of the usual butterflies and animals, but then I remembered that I had a set of Inkadinkado insects ( as I'm scared stiff of creepy crawlies,I've no idea why I got these??). So out they came to invade the daisies from SU Inspired by Nature.

To make my entry I used SU Whisper White card for the base and stamped the flowers and grass from Inspired by Nature in Certainly Celery ( my favourite green),Crushed Curry,Melon Mambo, and Rich Razzleberry.I then stamped the caterpillar climbing up the stem with Bermuda Bay and CCurry, and the spider on his thread hanging from the petals in Soft Suede and Dusty Durango.The Bumblebee and sentiment were stamped with Black Archival and coloured with CCurry, before finally rounding all the corners of the card.

Thanks for dropping by,and I hope to show you some more creations in the next few days.