Saturday, 20 September 2014

CCC(20) - CHRISTINE'S THEME - A WINTER WONDERLAND..... BRRRRRRRRRRR!!!


Good morning everyone out there in blogland - I hope you are all well and crafting!   Because I have to post my DT card for the OSAAT challenge tomorrow I am posting my CCC card a day early - I don't think my fellow CCC members will mind though, we have a lovely little coven oops - club.  Anyway this fortnight it was Christine's turn to choose a theme so she chose 'Winter Wonderland' and I thought of a little village - in the wilds somewhere - totally covered in snow, where I could make another snow angel (providing Graham was there to help me get up off me knees) - ooooouch!!!
I have this gorgeous, rather large, rubber stamp by Anita which I thought would really fit the idea I had in my head!   Then I 'found' most of my snowflake dies (just had to mention this for Sue J), cut them out in glitter card and glued them around the stamped area.   It didn't take too much colouring, as you can tell, so I made this card in an afternoon - yeehaaa!   Another bonus is that it's also very flat - for posting!

 Ingredients

 7" x 7" White Card Blank - Anna Marie Designs
Pale Blue backing card - stash
Winter scene rubber stamp - Anita's Stamps (very very old)
Merry Christmas sentiment - Stamps Away
Delicate Snowflake Emb. Folder - Tattered Lace
Giovanna Snowflake die - Poppy Stamps Dies
Lindeman Snowflake, Bristol Snowflake, New Castle Snowflake and Rizza Snowflake dies - Memory Box Dies
Snowflake plate DIE 100-F - I.O. Dies
Flexmarkers
Pinflair Pearl Wand (for the blobs!)
Glitter

 I quite like this simple 'quick' card and, once again, it's another one in me box for Christmas!

 Thank you for stopping by my blog, I hope you enjoyed the visit and, if you managed to leave me a comment, I am really grateful.

 Please take great care of yourselves, I'll be back soon to add a few challenges.

 Big hugs to you all 
Sue xxx
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Sunday, 14 September 2014

CRAFTY CALENDAR SEPTEMBER CHALLENGE - LEAVES AND LACE


Hello everyone out there, I hope you are all keeping well and crafting.  It's definitely turned to cooler weather now and I lurve it, autumn is my favourite time of year, have I ever said that before ????  I am definitely feeling loads perkier!  

Anyway, over on Crafty Calendar we have a new monthly challenge and the theme is Leaves and Lace.   When I saw this I had loads of ideas in my mind about what I could do (there's a first)  and knew exactly what papers I was going to use.   We are being sponsored by  Art by Miran this month, I love her images and she is giving 3 digis to the winner of our challenge - there are so many to choose from as well!!!

 Just thought I would tell you that the mat underneath the digi image is something I had been playing with.   I've inked the embossing folders first before I popped them through me machine - not tried this before!  I really like the fact that some areas are minus the ink on this piece, so I decided to use it on my card.  I should have asked the maestro to take a pic before I cut it up - duh!!!

 Ingredients

 7" x 7" Kraft card - Anna Marie Designs
Digi - Autumn's Memoirs - Art by Miran
Enchantment paper pad - LOTV Nitwits Collection
Sentiments - LOTV Set 24 Sentiment Tags
Grand Circle die - Spellbinders Dies
Regency Swirls Embossing Folder - Die'sire Embossalicious Folders
Flexmarkers
Leaves - WOC
Berries - Hobby House Crafts
Skeleton Leaves - stash (Coo these are soooo old and one of the very first things I bought for my stash carrier bag - waaaaay before I got my Craft Room!)
Twine, Lace, Pearls and Peel Off Stickers - stash

 Now, remember that you have until 8 October to get your creations made and entered into our challenge - I really would love to see them on there!!!

 Whilst I am on I will just give you an update on furry babies!!!  Donny (Blossom's husband and love interest) is slowly being integrated into the family, he has always lived outside and we were hoping to get him 'sorted' before an adoption 'proper'.   This is mainly because of spraying - phwoar does it pong!!! - anyway he came in without us realising and was in all afternoon fast asleep on one of the dining room chairs under the table.  No spraying whatsoever!!!  This is happening all the time now and I firmly believe it's Blossom's Feliway (or cat spliff's).  He is still quite timid but he's getting more confident and once he is less shy we will take him to the V - E - T's!! for a blue brick job!   He is getting the same flea treatments as Blossom and has been wormed, so we are slowly progressing, he will be chipped at the same time as chopped!   Yayyyyy!

 I will now leave you in peace, thank you for the nice comments I have received on my last two cards and also for the understanding you have shown me - I do appreciate it!  Please take care of yourselves and your families and if you have time to make a card for our challenge - please do so!!!!

 Lots of big hugs to you all
Sue xxx
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Monday, 8 September 2014

CCC(19) - HAZEL'S THEME - SOMETHING BEGINNING WITH 'S'


Good morning everyone - this is my latest card for our little Christmas Card Club - I should have posted it yesterday but it coincided with my OSAAT DT post and I don't like posting two cards on the same day - yup I'm odd!  This fortnight it was Hazel's turn to choose a theme and she asked us to make a card with something beginning with 'S' on it.   I have a lovely rubber stamp with a Santa Claus image but I just couldn't get it to look right, maybe 'cos it is fairly small, so I put my 'tries' aside to use at a later date.   I had a trawl through my folder of what I call my 'Bought or Won' digis and came up with this one.   I have a gorgeous pad of 'First Edition' papers with a Nordic feel to them and that was it - a match made on Planet Susie!!!
This is another fairly flat card so wonderful for posting!    As usual the photo isn't picking up the glitter on the bottom of his jumper, the snow, the snowflake corner and the snowflake border.  In real life it really does sparkle and shine - two more 'S's methinks!

 Ingredients

 7" x 7" Kraft card - Anna Marie Designs
Nordic Christmas Paper Pad - First Edition
Christmas Tree No 3 die - Dee's Distinctively Dies
Snowflake Corner die - Memory Box Dies
Frosty Border die - Memory Box Dies
Large Circle die - Spellbinders Dies
Large Petite Scalloped die - Spellbinders Dies
Christmas Sentiment - LOTV
Gems - Papermania 
Star Dust Stickles

 I hope you like my Christmas card with the Nordic feel to it, I just love these papers so much.  I must thank Hazel for choosing this theme because I've enjoyed it and there was soooo much scope to it!   There's a huge pile of cards ready for Christmas now - yay!!!

 Anyway ta ta for now peeps I shall pop round to see all the cards made by the CCC girls later - unless I have already visited you.

 Please take care and if you need a hug, here's a virtual one just for you!!!

 Big hugs to you all

 Sue xxx
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Sunday, 7 September 2014

OSAAT DT - CHALLENGE NO 219 - ANYTHING GOES WITH A DIE!


Well hello there peeps - I bet you are thinking "oh she's still here then" - I have been making a few cards but have neither posted them nor have I been commenting on my friends/followers blogs.  I have been commenting on my DT work however, but if someone had said "don't worry about it" I would have quite happily isolated myself even more.  I do feel guilty that I have 'ignored' my friends in blogland but this is something that builds up and happens to me every now and again and I want to hibernate.  'Nuff of that!

 This week, the One Stitch at a Time challenge is back after the summer holidays (I'm pleased because I have had to get me bum in gear to get this card posted!!).  There are a few simple changes which you will be able to read about here on the site!  This is an 'Anything Goes' challenge but with the addition that you must use a die or dies on your project - no problem for the majority of my blog friends - eh girls/guys!!!   One of the changes is that our challenges are now fortnightly so I do hope you enter this one and use your favourite dies!  The prize will be 5 of the images that the DT have used for Challenge No 219 - you can see them on the OSAAT site (here) where all the cards made by my teamies are posted.

 I cut my card blank out using the Spellbinders Grand Scalloped Circle die - I had to pop it through a few times because it had to be doubled/folded - if you see what I mean - me brain's still a on strike just a tad!
I paper pieced the umbrella but to ensure that the 'under' side of the brolly was different I went over the 'outer' side with my Flexmarkers to deepen the yellow/blue colour.  I was really pleased with the result!  I also added some Glossy Accents to her glasses to make them look the part!
I put a few daisies on the lower half to make the 'stop' for the easel and added a couple of stars - just 'cos I like them.
The sentiment was a freebie I found on t'internet but I retyped it in dark blue then cut it out with one of my pierced dies.

 Ingredients

 Rainy Day image - BBKakes at the Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet
Card Blank - originally a 7" x 7" Pearl card - Anna Marie Designs
Little Sizzlets Paper Pad - Country (for umbrella)
Checked card - stash from QVC (I think) many years ago 
Grand Scalloped Circle die - Spellbinders Dies
Stitched Star die - Lil'inkers Dies (USA)
Daisy and Leaf dies - Marianne Craftables Dies ref CR1272
Clouds (plus raindrops) - Cheery Lynn Dies
Ornamental pierced Tags 3 - Spellbinders Die D'Lites 
Flexmarkers
Glossy Accents

 I think I have waffled on enough and I don't want to bore you any further - lol!!  I can see Sue J (Olliesmam) going glazed already!  I would love to see your cards - or anything else you want to make - on the OSAAT challenge.  You have two weeks to get your favourite dies and image out before it closes - plenty of time (says she who takes forever)!!!

 Thank you so much for popping over to check my card out - I really appreciate the fact that you are there for me, especially when I know that there are plenty of people a lot worse off than me.

 Take care of yourselves - lots of big hugs to you all.

 Sue xxx
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Sunday, 24 August 2014

CCC(18) - MARY'S THEME - USE A CARDINAL (OR ANY CHRISTMAS) BIRD


Hello blog friends and followers - this is slightly late today because I didn't have time to write the 'splurge' yesterday.   Oh and the maestro only took the pic this bright sunny morning (yes ... it is sunny here).    First of all I must say thank you so much for the comments on my little Christmas box, I'm so glad you liked it.  Now for this fortnight's challenge at the CCC - Mary asked us to use a Cardinal bird on our cards although she did say we could use any Christmas bird if we didn't have the right image.   I managed to find this lovely picture of a Cardinal bird on the internet and thought it would be perfect for my card.
 I coloured him in with my Flexmarkers and then cut him out using a Marianne Craftables die, I cut around the overhang of the spruce and popped the die underneath so that it wouldn't chop into it.   I have even been practising blobs - an homage to my blog bud Sue J (Ollie's Mam) who is the Queen of Blobs - and blobbed a few around my image.

 Thank you for this lovely challenge Mary, I'm quite jealous because I guess you see these gorgeous birds all the time where you are in South Carolina.

 Ingredients

 7" x 7" White Card Blank - Anna Marie Designs
Digi - Colouring Pages found on the internet
Green Glitter paper - A5 Glitter Pad (very old stash - had to do a join on the lower edge)
'Softly Falling' die - Die'Sire Creatables
Corner Flourish die - Spellbinders Die D'Lites
Christmas Sentiment - LOTV
Pinflair Pearl Wand (for the blobs!!)
Stardust Stickles

 That's it for now then - this Christmas card will be winging it's way to my friend across the pond later on this year.   Thank you for stopping by and checking out my blog, I shall be checking out the cards made by the other girls later on.  It's really nice to see what everyone makes and to know that we are steadily building up our stash of Christmas cards.

 Big hugs to you all and please take care of yourselves.
Sue xxx
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Clear it out Challenge - http://clearitoutchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/we-have-new-sponsor.html   (used Glitter Paper pad bought at least 10 years ago)
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Sunday, 10 August 2014

CCC(17) - LIZZIE'S THEME - ANYTHING BUT A CARD


Good morning fellow bloggers and friends out there - I do hope you are having a good weekend, the sun has been shining here (although we had torrential rain on Friday night plus a thunderstorm)!  

 I will be honest and tell you that I had forgotten totally about this fortnight's challenge for the CCC - I know I usually forget until a few days before but I remembered Friday night and when I found out what the theme was I will admit to being chuffed to bits.  I have to make a box for a Christmas present and now I've sorted it .... sooner rather than later - wahey!!!  Must thank the bride-to-be Lizzie for this wonderful challenge - I hope you have a gorgeous day and the sun shines on you both next week!

This little box is 4" square and 2" deep.  The thin card is double sided but is a plain green on the holly card and plain red on the dotty card, didn't think it was worth asking the maestro for another pic but I have since realised that it isn't clear how much of this is the lid - sooooo suffice it to say that all of the red dotty card is the lid and I edged it with a Spellbinders Banner Basics die-cut.  I have also used my favourite Poinsettia die - I absolutely lurve this one and would use it on all Christmas cards if I could.

 Ingredients

 Thin Card is from my stash and is years old!
Poinsettia dies - Britannia Dies from Joanna Sheen
Small Ivy die - Britannia Dies from Joanna Sheen
Banner Basics 2 die - Spellbinders Dies
Merry Christmas sentiment - Cheery Lynn Dies
Gold Pearl Wand - Pinflair
Tartan Ribbon - Hobbycraft Embellishment Kit

 I am happy with my little project and it is the perfect size for the gift I have in mind.  

 Thank you for stopping by my blog and please leave a comment (if you have the time) 'cos you know I love reading them.

By the way, I know a few of you were wondering what my birthday present was, you know the one with the batteries!!  Well, it was nothing to do with bunny rabbits but I will put you out of your misery/curiosity and tell you that it is, in fact, a MicroPedi - for me feet!!!  And before you all think "what on earth was the maestro thinking of" - I asked him for it!  Me poor old tootsies were in such a state that I could have climbed Mt Everest barefoot, without any crampons and now ... I could do Dancing on Ice without skates!   Total bliss!!  I dare say a couple of my blogster maties out there are now trying to imagine me climbing or skating .... as if!!!

 Well must be orf now - got a spot of the old ironing to do - I am trying not to let it get too high (the pile that is not the cat Mrs Duck).  Blossom is looking pretty slim by the way, she will never be sylph-like (unlike her mum lol!!) but her tum is better!

Catch up with you again shortly, take care of yourselves and enjoy the warm weather while we have it.

Big hugs to you all

Sue xxx
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Sunday, 3 August 2014

CRAFTY CALENDAR AUGUST CHALLENGE - ANYTHING GOES


Hello there peeps!  I have been soooooo busy lately, Mrs Mojo went for yet another tramp in the woods (dirty girl) and I was left scratching my ar head!  I only had three cards to make but boy have I struggled!  The anniversary card I made for my hubby was definitely the easiest (sick bucket at the ready) 'cos it came from my little soft heart!  Seriously though, it did!!!!

 Anyway, I must thank you for all the comments on my last Christmas card, it was so simple to make and I received the most amazing comments - I really am chuffed to bits!  I would also like to welcome my newest follower, Tamesis, thank you for joining this merry little band of bloggers.

 Right, now for my latest card - this is one I made for the Crafty Calendar DT - we are sponsored this month by Hobbybook and they have some really wonderful images!  I chose this one to colour ('cos I like red and saw the opportunity to do a red and white card with some red spotty card that I had unearthed a while ago).  This could be a birthday card but also a Get Well Card - I think she has some nice chicken soup in the bottom of her basket as well as the bread!  Who said 'here she goes again, her and her food'!!  The theme this month is everyone's favourite 'Anything Goes' so we really would like to see your cards in our challenge.

Ingredients

 Digi Image - 'Little Red Riding Hood' from Hobbybook 
7" x 7" White Card blank - Anna Marie Designs
Ditsy Dots Embossing Folder - Tattered Lace
Cherished Centres dies - Tattered Lace Dies
Meridian Border die -  Memory Box Dies
Elegant Ovals die - Spellbinders Dies
Layering Ovals die - Tonic Dies
Dotty 3D Bow die - Sue Wilson at Creative Expressions
Red Dewdrops from stash
Promarkers and Flexmarkers

 Thank you for visiting my blog again, I really am grateful to you and apologise profusely for not commenting on your cards as often as I should.  That doesn't mean I don't pop over to see what you are making though - 'cos I do!!  I must now go and do a little ironing - haven't done any for three weeks!  Oh joy!!!

 Please take care, I hope you are all feeling well - sending a big huge hug if you aren't!

 Hugs to you all
Sue xxx
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