BLEACHED BUT - ALAS - NOT BLONDE!!!

Hi there lovely blog friends and fellow blogsters - and a special hello to my two new followers Christine and Julie, I really do appreciate you checking out my blog and my 'offerings'.  

I don't know about the weather near you but it has been bloomin' cold here and we have had more snow this year than we have had for a long time.  The birds have been fed at least twice a day although the little divils are back on their Sainsbury Basics bread not the Kingsmill!!!  They also have dried worms, bird seed, peanuts, fat balls and bird pellets!  I don't mind them popping in for a feed and a bath (they have tepid water in their bath and bowl in this weather!!!) but I do draw the line at their 'funny' business which they seem to do on the garage roof!  Mind you the snow has stopped all that for the time being - makes me blush!

Anyway enough of my birdy antics and on to my card!  I found this project when I was (still am by the way!!) clearing out my drawers and things.  I did this at a workshop I attended ages and ages ago.  The technique was bleaching and I absolutely loved it.  I haven't done it since though - which is typically moi - but I shall have to have another go.  I stamped the image onto the card using bleach  then, when it was dry, did two images either side using Versamark and gold embossing powder.  Must admit it looks a lot more detailed in the daylight.

I matted the green card onto a piece of gold satin mirri card then onto a piece of black card and finally onto another piece of toning green card.  I used the same toning green card for the border piece and label.

I quite like the effect of the green on black - especially as I don't tend to use much green card.  I hope you like it!  If you have left me a comment I must tell you I am really grateful.  You are all so kind to me and give a boost to my confidence.

Anyway I hope you are managing to do some crafting in this awful weather, we have had a little more snow again today!!  I do need to make some cards for a Guest DT spot coming up on Christmas Cards All Year Round - wow am I getting adventurous or what!  I am usually so backwards in coming forwards! LOL!!   Mind you I really am enjoying being on Lady Anne's Challenges DT, it is really interesting.

Lots of big crafty hugs to you all out there, I'm off to catch up with your blogs now.

See you soon

SUE
This is an edit to this post because I would like to enter my card into the following Challenges -

613 Avenue Create Challenge No 12 - http://avenue613.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/anything-goes-challenge-12.html
Challenges 4 Everybody Challenge No 16 - http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/challenge-16-anything-goes.html
Clearly iStamps Challenge No 71 - http://clearlyistamp.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/clearly-inspired-challenge-71-cic71.html
Ladybug Crafts Challenges - http://ladybugcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/march-challenge-and-new-dt-members.html
NanaVic's Challenge No 4 - http://www.ladyanneschallenges.com/4/post/2013/02/nanavics-4th-challenge.html
Paper Shelter Challenge No 105 - http://thepapershelter.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/challenge-105-anything-goes.html
Party Time Tuesdays Challenge No 113 - http://partytimetuesdays.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/ptt1130-anything-goes.html
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge No 120 - http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/welcome-to-pennys-challenge-120.html
Simon Says Stamp challenge - http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/simon-says-anything-goes.html
Throough the Craftroom Door - http://www.craftdoormagazine.com/2013/03/ttcrd-march-26-april-1st.html

TWINCHIE CHALLENGE NO 3 - FLOWER(S)

  Good afternoon my fellow blogsters out there!   Well here I am sitting cosy in my tip of a craftroom - my back has been really poorly so I am still working on the sorting out of my stash and Graham is nursing stubbed toes!!  I do need to welcome my three new followers - yay!!! - Crafty Amy, Lisa and Taniaj - thank you so much for becoming followers and I hope you enjoy my blog postings - I do waffle and have a giggle (mostly at myself).

I have two Twinchies to share with you today, I am only allowed to enter one into the Twinchie challenge but I like both of them so am posting two on my blog for you to look at.  The theme this month is Flower or Flowers so I found some gorgeous freebie digis (yes I do buy them as well - lol!) and mini'd them into Twinchie size then coloured them with my Promarkers.  All I can say is thank goodness for my magnifying glass!!!  Here is the Twinchie I am entering into the Challenge -http://twinchie-twinchiehotmaillive.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/challenge-3-flower-or-flowers.html I like them both really but the little sentiment is so me!!! 

You can't really tell from the pic but I have glazed over the ladybird and also glittered the wings of the two bumble bees!  I went round the edges of the two Twinchies with my black Promarker pen.

 

The second one is also a freebie digi but I can't tell you where they came from because they don't have the originators' names on - such a pity. 

 

 

I do love this challenge and have not entered for a while now so I am really going to have to find time to enter each month.  I would like to ask anyone reading this to have a go, they really are a pleasure to do.

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my blog warbles, I did warn you that I waffled - if waffling was in the Olympics I would have a gold medal!!!  LOL!!!!

Lots of hugs to all of you out there, it has been snowing outside but the sun is shining now - at least it isn't -21 degrees Anne-Elise!!!!  I hope you find time to do some crafting this week.

SUE

Twinchie Challenge No 3 - http://twinchie-twinchiehotmaillive.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/challenge-3-flower-or-flowers.html

HAVE A VERY MOUSE BIRTHDAY!

Hi there my blog friends and a special welcome to Asmah my new follower!  Thank you all so much for popping over and checking out my little blog planet!

I found this little card whilst I was clearing out a basket with some cards in it.  I know I haven't shown it before and..... it is a House Mouse stamp!!!  I just love this little mouse's tum tum!  It reminds me of my super hubster who, incidentally, pulled in Sainsbury's yesterday!!!  Apparently a 'young' lady asked him if he could help her by getting "The Lady" magazine from a high shelf -because she couldn't quite reach it!  He does come in useful for that sort of thing, being 6' 3"!!!  When he passed it to her she thanked him and then said that she thought he smelled really nice!!!!!   Of course I was thinking ahhh bless, he still has it.  Then he tells me he would have been a toy boy!!!!  I am still guffawing at this final revelation!

The image is one from a set of House Mouse stamps that I bought from Joanna Sheen.  The dark coloured diecut is a Spellbinders die (I found the diecut in my stash and can't remember which one it is - ooops).  The HM stamp was stamped on a piece of white Neenah card and coloured with my Promarkers,  I rounded the corners with a punch.  I had some gorgeous lace in my box which looks very much like Torchon bobbin lace (something I used to make) but this piece was made on a machine. First of all I tinted it slightly with some Distress Ink (think it was Antique Linen), I glued this underneath the die cut and added three flowers with button middles!  You can't see from the pic but there is some Stardust glitter on the petals and the cake icing - which is pink by the way although it looks lilac.  Weird or what??  Sorry that the details are a little sketchy but this was made a while ago and I didn't make notes at the time.

I do hope you like it - if only for the cute little mousey!  My stash is slowly - very very slowly - being put in the new cupboard and on my four new shelves!!!! Yay!  I have cleared out some drawers so far but I really do have to do this in stages because my back isn't so good.  I have found loads of things I had lost - lol - and I even found two Spellbinder dies in the other cupboard!!!

Big hugs to you all

SUE

I will be entering my card into the following challenges - 

A Gem of a Challenge No 69 - http://pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/challenge-69.html
Catch the Bug Challenge - http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/anything-goes-saturday-challenge.html
Crafting for All Seasons No 46 - http://craftingforallseasons.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/challenge-46-dies-and-punches.html
Crafts and Me Challenge No 122 - http://craftsandmechallenges.blogspot.in/2013/02/challenge-122-dies-or-punches.html
Digistamps for Joy Challenge No 61 - http://digistamps4joy-sa.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/challenge-61-birthdays-are-fun.html
Natalie and Amy's Challenge No 7 - http://natalieandamy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/challenge-7-diecuts.html
One Crazy Stamper Challenge - http://onecrazystampercom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/march-anything-goes-challenge.html?m=1
Party Time Tuesdays Challenge No 109 - http://partytimetuesdays.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/ptt109-anything-goes.html
Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge - http://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/happy-birthday-to-you.html
NanaVic's 4th Challenge - http://www.ladyanneschallenges.com/4/post/2013/02/nanavics-4th-challenge.html

SUCH A BUSY LITTLE BEE!!

Hi there ladies - I need to tell you that the Challenge over at Lady Anne's blog should be Anything Goes - not Spring as I told you in my previous post!  I have just slapped my hand for being a silly billy! Duh - as if I ever change!!!!!!!

Hello there fellow blogsters!!!  As usual I am grovelling 'cos I haven't managed to comment on all of your creations/blogs.  Please accept my apologies, the reason is that I started to fill my new cupboard and then realised that I needed to move all the stuff about in my room.  I have loads of drawers on castors and I have taken all my card blanks out of the drawers so that I can put my card/paper in there.  I am having to sort through 7,000,000 cards and envelopes (I never exaggerate!!) so that I have the ones I use on a regular basis close to me and the others can go in the cupboard - naturally at the bottom.  Failing that, I will be getting rid of some of them.    This is why hubby is still stubbing his toes!  No need to try and make me feel guilty Sue and Jenny - I am shameless!!  LOL!

I had made a card for my DT challenge and then the images were changed so I have used the basis of my card with a different image and am posting it on my own blog.  I love this image, she really is a cute little bee-girl. 

 

I haven't popped a sentiment on there because I don't have an occasion for this one yet.  I put a little Stardust on her wings and the flowers and a little glaze on the buttons at her neck and on her shoes.  Oh and I also glazed the tips of her antennae.  I wanted a hexagon shape because I thought of a honeycomb when I was putting it all together.  I didn't have a very big one so I cut out the Grand Scalloped circles and then cut the scallops off to form the said hexagon!  Yay an idea that worked!!

 

 

 Ingredients

White Centura Pearl card

Floral paper from First Editon paper pad

Spellbinders Grand Circle

Spellbinders Grand Scalloped Circle

Digi stamp from Dearie Dolls

Pinflair Pearl Wand

Promarkers

WOC flowers/leaves

Daffodils and sunflower from stash

Stardust/Glossy Accents

Peel Off Borders

 

I hope you leave a comment if you can, I would like to thank you so much for visiting my blog and having a peep at my work.  I know I tell you how happy it makes me to read your comments and last Thursday even my hairdresser said that my blog was the best thing that had happened to me recently.  I really was down after our two furry girls and our feral furry boy died last year but blogging has certainly helped me along.  As hubby is my photographer and carpenter (stop laughing) I feel he has been helped as well.

 

Anyway I will leave you to your new day - I hope you manage to craft a little.  Remember, the dust will come back tomorrow!  I am intending to do my ironing - tomorrow!!!

 

Huge crafty hugs to you all

 

SUE

I would like to enter my card into the following Challenges -

613 Avenue Create Challenge No 8 - http://avenue613.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/challenge-8-anything-goes-optional.html

Alphabet Challenge Blog - http://alphabetchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/a-for-anything-with-wings.html

Crafting for all Seasons No 46 - http://craftingforallseasons.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/challenge-46-dies-and-punches.html

 Challenges 4 Everybody No 14 - http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/challenge-14-anything-goes_17.html

Crafty Bloggers Network Challenge No 8 - http://craftybloggersnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/challenge-8-sponsored-by-elizabeth-bell.html

Delicious Doodles Challenge No 24 - http://deliciousdoodleschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/challenge-24-flowers-for-spring.html

Fab 'n' Funky Challenge No 159 - http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/challenge-159-flower-power.html

Jellypark Challenges - http://jellyparkchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/new-challenge-get-in-shape.html

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