LADY ANNE'S CHALLENGE NO 6 - 'SPRING' THEME

Hello there my blog friends - I just wanted to post my first DT card today.   There is a new challenge over on Lady Anne's 'Stamp' Challenge No 6 - http://www.ladyanneschallenges.com/stamp-challenge.html.  The theme is Anything Goes and here is my card - a Chameleon in his rainforest home!!  The digi is from Crafting with Jack -http://craftingwithjack.weebly.com/.   They are the sponsors for this challenge which runs from February 20 right up until April 3 2013.  The winner will be drawn using a Random Number Generator on April 3.  You can use either a digi stamp or rubber stamp - the world is your lobster - lol.

I chose the chamelon from the digis we were given because he is unusual and not my normal sort of style.  However, I did add my cheeky side with the sentiment which was a freebie on Ginger's House blog.

Of course hubster had his input and wanted a fly in there for the chameleon's tea so I found a teeny tiny one on the internet (freebie site) and fussy cut it out - just to please him!!

This final pic is just to show how I have piled the leaves up on the front of the image.  I think I could have put more leaves around 'Ken' the chameleon instead of sky - but it is spring in the rainforest!!!!!

Ingredients

7 x 7" card base

Digi stamp - Crafting With Jack Stamps

Paper/card - DCWV Latte Stack

Promarkers/Copics

Spellbinders - Labels 28

Spellbinders - Scallop Circles

Spellbinders - Grand Circles

Sentiment - free from Ginger's House blog

ColorBox Chalk Inkpad - Azurite

I hope you have a little chuckle at 'Ken' and his fly!     He thought it was yummy!  Thank you all for stopping by and reading my warbles - if you have had time to leave a comment, may I thank you as always.  You brighten my day enormously - I miss it when I don't have a card to post on my blog!!!!

Take care my friends and have a go at the above challenge - great fun!

Hugs to you and yours

SUE

I will edit my post if I find any challenges for the above card

VALENTINE FOR HUBBY - OOPS!

Hello my blog friends I hope you are all really well and crafting!  This is the card that I made for hubby - with a slight twist - 'cos I don't do serious very often.    He always says I never make him any cards so he has now had a birthday card, Christmas card and Valentine card.  Well I did have a birthday card!  

He has decided on his next project and that is to put up another shelf above my desk and lower the one that is already there.   My 18 x A5 folders will then be  easier for me to reach - they hold allllllll my dies.   He says I will have more room on my desk (for me to clutter up of course) if I move my printer, free view and Sky box onto the new shelf!  He is such a lovely hubby!

You might see that I have now mastered the pearl blobs - I bought myself a Pearl Wand from Pinflair and I can really manage this - yay!!!!   Anyway this was the outside - the ladybird has glaze on it and looks much better in real life!!

However, I couldn't stick to sugar and had to have a little spice inside the card -

This really made him chuckle - the truth is out there! - I found the poem on the internet, again by Jon Brattan. 

Ingredients

7 x 7" card base

Free digi stamp - Sliekjestamps No 102

Promarkers

Charm from Ebay

Ribbon, papers, from stash

Hearts from my diecut box (part of Anja square design)

Poem - Jon Brattan

Stickles Stardust

I hope you like this as much as hubby did - thank you for stopping by and for having a peek at my blog.  I enjoyed making this card for the simple reason it made my hubby laugh - job done!!!

I am so glad I have such lovely followers - you make my little blog really pleasurable for me.  And ....... I am even making cards quicker than I used to!!!  I will never be able to do one in less than three days mind - lol!

Lots of big hugs to you all

SUE

I am entering my card in the following challenges - 

Challenges4Everybody No 13 - http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/challenge-13-anything-goes.html
Crafty Sentiments Design Challenge - http://craftysentiments.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/valentines.html
Cards for Men - http://cardsformen.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/challenge-3-all-my-love.html
Heck of a Challenge - http://heckofachallenge.blogspot.in/2013/02/love-is-all-around-us.html
Inky Chicks Challenge No 3 - http://inkychicks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/challenge-3-valentine-or-anniversary.html
Kaboodle Doodles Challenge No 158 - http://kaboodledoodles.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/challenge-158-valentines.html
Lacy Sunshine Challenge No 1 - http://lacysunshinechallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/challenge-one-anything-goes.html
Ladybug Challenge - http://ladybugcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/time-for-february-challenge-already.html
The Squirrel and the Fox Challenge No 37 - http://thesquirrelandthefox.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/challenge-37-love.html
Tuesday Alchemy Challenge No 50 - http://tuesdayalchemy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/challenge-50-my-hearts-all-flutter.html

THOMAS THE TEENAGER!

Hello there blog friends - and a warm welcome to my two new followers!  Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my wafflings.  I have been sooooo busy making cards - all four of them (stop laughing) - that I haven't posted anything on my blog for days!!!  I have popped over to many of your blogs though and left a few comments, here and there lol!   However, Thomas (my next door neighbour's young son) is 13 on 1 March and I have made him the following birthday card.  I looked all over for digi stamps but didn't find anything I liked as much as the one Jenny used for one of her cards.  I popped over to Mo Manning's Digital Pencil Shop and bought the very same one called 'Video Boy'.  I've not copied Jenny L, I have been inspired by her instead - lol!

 

I found a lovely poem on the internet which I thought was quite appropriate (as long as he doesn't take it seriously!!!).

 

 

I wanted this to look as if it had been ripped out of a notebook and had been pinned to the 'fence' with drawing pins.

I can tell you that this is the earliest I have made him a card as I am usually still thinking about it the week before his birthday.  I knew keeping a blog was a good idea - the inspiration and information (re where to get things from) is amazing - lol!

Ingredients

8 x 8" Papermania Kraft Card
Kanban Card - Wood effect
MME Card - On the Bright Side
Papermania - Plain Textured Card
Spellbinders - Grand Circles
Spellbinders - Small Circles
Nellie Snellen - Star 3
Die-namics - Photo corners
Die-namics - Notebook Edge
Promarkers, Copics and White Pen
Craftwork Cards - Card Candi
Twine, Buttons from stash

I have another little pic for you - however, if anyone knows where these little darlings (grrrr) were during my birdy count last month - please don't let me know!  Mind you these Long Tailed Tits are soooo bloomin' gorgeous they can visit us whenever they like!

I hope you like both the card and my birdies.  Thank you for stopping by and looking at my blog wafflings.  I always appreciate it if you have time to leave me a comment or three, I love reading them and often giggle over our banter.

Please take care and I will pop by sometime soon.  Hope you manage to do some crafting today!

Big crafty hugs to you all

SUE

Ooooh just remembered that I have actually used my Cricut machine to cut out the lettering - very basic I know but at least I have used it - lol!!!!

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges :-

Brown Sugar No 28 Challenge - http://brownsugarchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/challenge-28-anything-goes.html
Cards Galore February Challenge - http://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/card-galores-february-challenge-one-for.html
Fab n Funky No 158 Challenge - http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/challenge-158-whats-inside.html
Lacy Sunshine No 1 Challenge - http://lacysunshinechallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/challenge-one-anything-goes.html
Make it Monday No 127 Challenge - http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/mim-127-with-little-miss-muffet-stamps.html
Pin and Tack - Spark Your Creativity No 6 Challenge - http://pinandtack.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/spark-your-creatitivity-now-challenge-6.html?m=1
Pretty Little Ribbon Shop No 19 Challenge - http://theprettylittleribbonshop.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/february-challenge-19-anything-goes.html
The Crazy No 138 Challenge - http://crazychallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/138-for-birthday.html
Through the Craftroom Door - http://www.craftdoormagazine.com/2013/02/ttcrd-challenge-feb-12-18-2013.html
Tuesday Throwdown No 134 Challenge -http://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/tuesday-throwdown-134.html  http://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.co.uk/   unable to link to challenge so have linked to blog

BIRTHDAY CARD FOR A BLOG FRIEND

Hi there to my blog friends, I do hope you are all well and keeping warm.   I have some news which I would like to share with you!   I entered a card into Lady Anne's Challenge blog and she emailed inviting me to be one of her DT members.   I am really pleased to have been asked and am girding my loins to enter my first card shortly!  I will give you more details about this when I can.

 

Well, this is the real post for today and one I nearly forgot about!!!  I made this card just after Christmas but couldn't post it until I had sent it to my friend Suzie from http://suziescards.blogspot.co.uk/.  Suzie is the fantastic lady who started my blog for me - me being totally phobic about technology!  She still helps me and answers my questions now, 6 months later!

 

I know she has a Cocker Spaniel called Rosie and I had this gorgeous LOTV stamp with two little dogs on it so thought it would 'sort of fit' for the occasion.  If my memory is correct I seem to remember that Suzie likes these colours.

 

 

I used my Grand Nestabilities - Large Scallop and cut three from some White Centura Pearl card.  I used eyelets to secure two together and then threaded some purply ribbon through.  Then I made it into an easel card using an inner circle of Bazill Basics and edged it with peel-offs to make it stand out.

The image was cut with another Spellbinders die - Grand Decorative Circles, this one being the smallest circle.

 

The border strip along the centre of the card and either side of the front panel is an EK punch - it took me a while to get the hearts opposite each other when I punched it.  I then used a small peel off chain down the middle of this border to give it a little oomph!  The sentiment is one I found on the internet (a freebie),  I'm not fond of really sugary sentiments myself so I think this one is just right.

Suzie said she liked it so I was quite pleased with myself - yay!!!

Ingredients

 

White Centura Pearl card

Floral paper from stash

Spellbinders Grand Large Scalloped Circle

Spellbinders Grand Decorative Circle

Spellbinders Grand Circle

LOTV stamp

Copics and Promarkers

WOC flowers/leaves

Stardust

 

I hope you like this card.  Thank you so much for stopping by my blog - you know by now that I can waffle for England - wish it was an Olympic Sport!  I hope you have left a comment for me to read, I really am grateful for your continued support.

 

Big hugs to you all

 

SUE

LITTLE BOX OF SECRET STASH

Hello there blog friends - I have to tell you about the book I have recently read called A Simples Life!!!!  Yup it's THE book written by Aleksandr Orlov - the meerkat - and it is so funny that I giggled all the way through.  Graham bought me this for Christmas - I already had my Copics!!!   I kept reading bits out to him, which made him laugh - mind you I had to read them in Aleksandr's accent!!!  It was only as I carried on reading it to myself that I realised I was also reading it in HIS accent in my head!!!!!    I know this book is for the younger person but I am young in me brain - it's just me body that is crumbling!

Well now that I have admitted to reading such a tome, I would now like to show you my little box of secret stash.  This is a box that I found when I was clearing the corner before my cupboard alterations.  It used to have Turkish Delight in it - the one with the icing sugar coating on it YUM YUM!   I won't have the other sort covered in chocolate in the house (bluuuuurgh) 'cos in my mind Cadbury's choccy and Turkish Delight are NOT a match made in heaven!

Da Da! my little secret stash of Ferrero Rocher!  Scrumptious.  Mind you I will share them with my photographer!   That's because he bought them LOL!

I covered the base of the box with a border of Graphic 45 Le Cirque paper  (I did have to keep topping up the anaesthetic to use this gorgeous stuff) then used the spotty paper (same collection) for the lid.  The little sentiments were also on the same page as the border.  I went round the edge of the lid with some Black Soot DI and I painted my cardboard heart with the Eco Friendly Metallic paint and added some Mica Flakes and circles (also painted) then popped some Watch parts on top.l  I added it to the lid but put a small piece of foam underneath to make it stand up at an angle to the lid.  The smaller flowers were then glued on and I added some press studs to the centres - I found these when I cleared the corner!!

This is the second thing I have really liked so am I turning a corner I wonder??

Ingredients

Empty Turkish Delight Box

Graphic 45 Papers - Le Cirque

Lining - Piece of handmade paper

Heart from Every crafts a Pound (part of a voucher I had for winning a challenge).

Metallic Eco Friendly Paint - Copper

Small Cog from Watch parts (Ebay)

Small Press Studs from stash

Gold Mica Flakes from Stamps Away

Black Soot DI

Large Flowers by Colour Connection

Smaller Flowers - Nellie Snellen punch and embosser

 

I hope you like this one, must admit that since the photograph was taken several hours ago, the choccies have diminished somewhat.  I really enjoyed making this and have promised hubster that now I have finished it, I will sort out my cupboard and move the stuff from the bedroom floor!!!!  He is especially sick of stubbing his toe!

 

Thank you for visiting my blog and I hope you have had the time to leave me a comment, I do know what it is like though and tempus certainly fugits!  I will be visiting you all again soon.

 

Big hugs to you

 

SUE 

I will edit this post if I find any challenges to enter - not sure whether this is eligible for Anything Goes challenges - hope it is though!

IS IT A CARD, IS IT PAPERCRAFT ........... OH NO!

Hello there my blog buddies - and a warm welcome to my new followers Wendy and Carol.  I can't believe I have almost 60 followers - I am soooo chuffed.  Today I have posted a pic of another of the crafts that I used to do.  Mind you I still have all the stuff in my cupboard because not only am I  The Procrastinator I am also The Hoarder (I expect a television crew to turn up one day - ooops!). 

We had only been married a few years and we decided to do a class at nightschool. Enamelling was a bit different to most of the things on the "Prospectus" so we gave it a go. After the course had finished I wanted to do more and, for my birthday, Graham bought me enough stuff to carry on at home.

You may recognise three of these little pots as "Cold Cream" pots, the other one is a little jam pot - I 'hoarded' them once they were empty and made these little tops for them.    The actual tops are made from sheet copper which I cut out and then added the enamel powders, glass shapes, rods and nuggets.  I also used millefiore (or Billy Fury's as we call them) on some of the things I made.

 

 

The tops were then fired in a kiln and whilst they were still extremely hot (and in the kiln) I pulled a pointy tool - well it was very similar - through the glass bits and pieces and the glass mixed together slightly as in the pics.  This isn't as simple as it sounds because I had to do 'things' to the metal beforehand to stop it bending etc.  After they were cold I painted round the edge of the cold cream jars with black matt enamel paint and glued the top in place.

I hope you are still with me - yup this is a little long - albeit piccy wise and I trust you haven't nodded off!  Do let me know if you like them, despite the total danger to myself - hot things and moi! - I loved making them.  Can't remember why I stopped doing them ................ oh yes I do .... we went on to Shotokan karate!  Before you bust a gut laughing we both got to brown/white belt - just one short of black belt!   See I was really fit once upon a time, mind you now I have a bad back, bad knees, bad hip! lol.

Finally, I just want to thank you for stopping by and I hope you leave me a comment or three.  I love reading them as you all know, and I enjoy my blog and my blog friends.  I love the fact that I receive emails from some of you now as well.

Enjoy the rest of your day - I must tell you about the book I have just been reading next time I blog.  It was a corker!

SUE

TOO MUCH BIRDWATCHING I FEAR!!!

Hello there my blog buddies and welcome to my new follower Teresa - yay!  I am doing my birdwatchy count thing tomorrow but whilst Graham was altering my cupboard I thought I would make a little card - I was supposed to be labouring but inbetween I was crafting.  Well, when I say labouring I was pointing out the screw that he'd dropped on the floor, or the pencil that was behind his ear, finding his hammer - you know what I mean - the difficult stuff!  Oooh and I did hold the vacuum nozzle just underneath where he was drilling - to catch the brickdust!!

I will be filling my new storage next week - I am having a rest this weekend and may be crafting just a tad.  Well labouring is really tiring - lol!

This is the card I made - of course I was thinking of my bird count wasn't I.

This really is a diddy card only 6 x 4.5 inches approx.  I found the image on a freebie site some time ago.  I couldn't get really clear lines when I went to print it, but I felt it would look good with a few steampunky embellishments so I used this die with some cogs and lovely MME papers.  I just loved those little caterpillars and coloured them green in homage to those I found in my knickers!  I wasn't in my knickers at the same time, I hasten to add.  The story is further back in my blog if you are interested - may be that is too much information though!!!!!  Here is the link - lol!  http://susiesplanet.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/not-card-but-story.html

Ingredients

 

6 x 4.5" card blank
Papermania textured card stock

MME Lost & Found - Portobello Road papers

Image - Freebie from the internet
Promarker pens
Spellbinders - Fancy Postage Edge

Heavy Card Cogs from stash

Small Cog from Watch parts (Ebay)

Black & Silver Acrylic Paint - Eco Friendly

Safety Pin and Heart Charms (Ebay)

Black Soot DI

 

This was a card that came into my head just because I wasn't crafting and I made it really quickly.  I had to wait for the photograph 'cos I didn't want to disturb hubby at his work (on my new cupboard lol).  The thing is, I really like this card myself - totally amazing for me!

 

I love reading your comments, so please leave something of that ilk on my blog - if you have the time of course.  Thank you for stopping by and taking an interest in my creations and my wafflings.  I hope you are all well and cosy and, of course, managing to craft.

 

Big hugs to you all.

 

SUE

 

PS  I have something ready for my next post but it isn't a card or even papercraft so I hope you are intrigued - then again it could - yup - it could be boring.  And ...... there could be a piccy of my empty new cupboard - and another one later when it is full - not boring at all.

 

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges :

 

Allsorts Challenge No 191 - http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/week-191-masculine.html

Bunny Zoe's Crafts Challenge - http://bunnyzoescrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/monthly-challenge-anything-goes.html

Challenges for Everybody No 12 - http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/challenge-12-anything-goes.html

Deep Ocean Challenge No 43 - http://deepoceanchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/challenge-43-anything-but-square.html

I love Promarkers No 152 - http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/challenge-152-anything-goes.html

Lady Annes Challenge No 5 - http://www.ladyanneschallenges.com/3/post/2013/01/5th-stamp-anything-goes1.html

My mum's Craft Shop Challenge No 1 - http://mymumscraftshop.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/challenge-1-anything-goes.html

QKR Stampede Challenge No 23 - http://qkrstampede.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/challenge-23-soft-pastel-colors.html

Through the Craftroom Door Challenge - http://www.craftdoormagazine.com/2013/01/ttcrd-jan-22-28th.html

Whoopsi Daisy Challenge - http://cutedaisymay.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/use-digi-challenge.html?showComment=1359286639205