MY LITTLE TREASURE UNDER THE OCEAN

Hello there peeps!  I'm still here in the villa on me hols and it is a tad cloudy today so I thought I would post my other card for Lady Anne's "Stamp Anything Goes" Challenge. This challenge is being sponsored by Oak Pond Creations, the images are lurvely and it is open throughout June.  Once again I hope you find the time to enter the challenge!

You all know that I am not a "quick" card maker, it can take me ages to make a decision as to the backing papers alone!  However I made this one in an afternoon - tres vite pour moi!   I found the papers first and just had to use them because they felt "watery" to me.  Whilst sorting out my craftroom I found this silver mesh type material and popped some under my image - the image is called "Anchor under the Sea" from OPC.  I also found this little treasure chest on t'internet but it had 'things' in it which I didn't like so I went over the 'contents' with a Versamark pen and heat embossed it in glittery gold emb. powder.  I did leave the necklace where it was though.  I then glued some teeny tiny jewels and pearls on it - also popped some 'diamonds' onto the necklace.

The shells I picked up from places near, ie Cornwall and far, ie Bora Bora and the Maldives.  Even the diddy bottle has tiny shells in it!  Just goes to prove I enjoy myself once I am there! Lol.  I can't give any more information on the ingredients though 'cos, as mentioned in the last post, my book of knowledge is back in the UK.

This is a close-up  of the treasure chest which I altered.

Again I hope you have a go at this challenge, we love seeing your creations.  

Thank you for stopping by my blog, I lurve your comments and you make me chuckle loads.  Oh by the way this post took me - and the hubster - 5 hours because I lost the pictures!  I had put them on a draft post back in the UK and we had to dig deep into our few grey cells to find out how to get them back!  Cor blimey he has the patience of a Saint - bless him!

Hugs to all of you and I hope you enjoy your weekend!

SUE

MY BLUE HAIRY (SORRY HAIRED) FAIRY

Hi there blog friends!  I hope you haven't given up on me yet, I was feeling better then my holiday crept up on me!!   If you knew me you would realise that this is a huuuuuge event 'cos  I stress about everything, being a real home bod I lurve my home soooo much and hate leaving it.  I love it when the packing is sorted (and weighed! ) and the flying is over.  We're  in a gorgeous villa in north Majorca - never having been to Majorca or Spain before and, now we're here, I am enjoying myself!   Sorry am I rabbiting on a tad?

Anyway this is a card I made for Lady Anne's Challenge no. 4. The theme is to do with 'The Great Outdoors'.   This challenge runs throughout June and is sponsored by Inky Impressions Rubber Stamps. You can use anything to do with gardens, lakes, rivers etc.  and the prize is a $10 gift certificate to use in their store.

I used peaches and brown's for this one but, as there is some blue in my paper, I gave her a blue rinse!!   Hence I wanted to call her my Blue Hairy Fairy but Graham said "No".  He is sooo masterful at times!  I usually put in the ingredients for my cards but I forgot to pack my  little book of knowledge in my case -  duh!!

Please enter this challenge if you can, I think it is a great theme!

I do hope you like my card - I loved this image and had to add a little wooden peg with a rose to it.

Well that's all for the moment friends, I have two other cards I need to post.  One is for Lady Anne's -Stamp Anything Goes challenge and the other is for a colleague of Graham's, and will need some explaining!!

Big hugs to all  and thank you for the e-mails and e-cards.  They have helped me along no end!  Back soon to check your blogs but please be patient 'cos this has taken me almost three hours to post on a 'tablet' as opposed to my trusty purple laptop!

SUE

FISHERMAN'S FRIEND - YAY!!

DT CARD FOR LADY ANNE'S CHALLENGE NO 2

Hello my blog friends and buds!  I really must apologise for not posting or visiting your blogs for so long but I have been having a few problems of late -which I do not wish to bore you with!!!  In fact I have only made a couple of cards recently as a DT member for Lady Anne's Challenges.  Must admit I am thankful that I am on the DT because, if not, I doubt that I would have made any cards at all!!

Anyway I have tried to keep as positive and as 'oh be joyful' as possible and (the main reason for mentioning it now) I am beginning to feel more myself - well 10% is better than 0%!!!  I am sure I will be back on form - watch out for more wafflings Jenny, Sue and Christine!! - they will be back with a vengeance I am sure.  Ooops I think they are back already!!!! 

Here is a card that I've made for my other DT spot on Lady Anne's 'new' Challenge - http://www.ladyanneschallenges.com/14/post/2013/05/2nd-lady-annes-challenge.html .  The challenge runs from 6 May - 2 June 2013 and entails making an easel card.  We were given some gorgeous images to choose from so I chose the fly fishing one - they are by Digi Darla Designs who are offering the winner a prize of 5 digital images of your choice!  They have some really great images.   

The funny thing is that I really enjoyed making this one, even though I haven't felt like crafting for a while!  I am popping a close-up of my flies on here - steady girls I'm not that mad - yet!

I made the flies by printing and cutting out three hooks (digi images from t'web) then glued a little bit of bendy wire to the back of them.  I used a bronze metallic Promarker to colour the hook and then chopped up a few 'gaily' coloured feathers - I glued these on and also wound some metallic thread around them to make them look like 'waffle flies' - (yup I made 'em so I can name 'em) lol!!!

Ingredients

Fly Fisherman Digi image - Digi Darla Designs
Trout image - freebie on the internet
'Life' Sentiment - Ginger's House
Birthday Sentiment - LOTV
Papers - Cherry Blossom - Gingham - Nitwit Collection
Promarkers and Copics
Distress Inks - sorry - had a senior moment and forgot to take note of colours
Feathers and buttons from my stash
Bazzill Basics card
Kraft card for the base
Grand Nestablities Labels 1 die

I hope you like this one - I would have kept it for the hubster's birthday but he doesn't  fish now and never did fly fishing anyway - sooooo no point at all!!! lol.

Thank you for stopping by and I am so grateful to you for taking the time to leave a comment.  Oh and a quick welcome back to my lovely friend Dr Jaya - I have missed you! 

Don't forget to enter the Challenge will you - I just lurve easel cards to bits and my DT friends have made some glorious cards for you to check out.

Hugs to you all

SUE

I would like to enter my card into the following Challenges

Addicted stamps Challenge No 55 - http://addicted-to-stamps-challenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/challenge-55.html
Anything Goes Challenge No 92 - http://anythingchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/challenge-92-shaped-but-not-square.html
Cards for Men Challenge No 9 - http://cardsformen.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/challenge-9-animals.html
Challenges 4 Everybody No 19 - http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/challenge-19-anything-goes.html
Digi Sketch Challenge - http://digisketchchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/for-boys.html
Love to Scrap Challenge No 5 - http://lovetoscrapchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/challenge-5-anything-goes.html
Make it Monday Challenge No 139 - http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/mim-139-with-saturated-canary.html
Stamps & Fun Challenge No 150 - http://stampsfun-creativity.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/challenge-150-knopfe.html
Through the Craftroom Door 7-13 May - http://www.craftdoormagazine.com/2013/05/ttcrd-may-7-13th.html

DT CARD - LADY ANNE'S STAMP ANYTHING GOES CHALLENGE NO 8

Hello mes amies - I feel as if I have been away for soooo long!  Well - we (I am using the Royal 'we' here) have decorated the kitchen - as you may guess I was supervising and also 'snagging' the job!  Such a good thing that Graham is used to me - lol!  He always asks me if he's missed any bits - so I am only obeying!  He's made it look really sunny and cheerful.  Lurve it!!!

Anyway this is another card for Lady Anne's Stamp Anything Goes Challenge - it runs from 1 May to 4 June and the prize will be a set or sets of rubber stamps to the value of $15 from Red Rubber Designs.  You can use either a rubber stamp or a digi stamp for your design so please take part.  Oh and don't forget to read the few rules and have fun.

This is my card

 I know it won't be to everyone's taste, I was unsure about the background paper but decided to go ahead and add some green and a smidgen of sparkle to it!  The sentiment was on and off so many times it knew where to go in the end!! lol! 

INGREDIENTS 

A5 White Card Blank
Rubber Stamp - Milk Churn with flowers from Red Rubber Designs
Backing Paper and Ribbon  - Create and Craft (no name)
Grand Nestabilities - Labels One
Martha Stewart Edge Punch
Square gems from Papermania Mosaic stones
Sentiment - LOTV NEW Sketch Pad General Sentiments Set 8
Flourishes from my 'bit' box
Promarkers
Crystal Stickles
Charm from stash

Thank you so much for stopping by, I hope you take part in the Challenge, and if you have left a comment you are a star.  Even if you haven't the time to leave a comment I still lurve you! 

Big hugs to you all.

I might be back to add my card to a few challenges - but then again I might forget!

SUE

Yay - I've remembered!  I though I would enter my card into the following Challenges!

Bearly Mine Challenge No 84 - http://bearlymine-challenges.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/84-anything-goes-challenge.html
Celebrate the Occasion Challenge No 110 - http://celebratetheoccasion.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/challenge-110.html
Crafts and Me Challenge No 131 - http://craftsandmechallenges.blogspot.in/2013/05/challenge-131-floral-frenzy.html
Critter Sketch Challenge No 162 - http://critterchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/challenge-162-flowers.html
Die Cuttin Divas No 113 - http://diecuttindivas.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/challenge-113-anything-goes.html - Grand Nest. Labels One
Fresh Brewed Designs May Challenge - http://freshbreweddesigns.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/fbd-may-month-long-prize-challenge.html
LEJ Designs Challenge No 51 - http://lejdesignschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/lej-designs-challenge-51-anything-goes.html
Party Time Tuesday Challenge No 118 - http://partytimetuesdays.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/ptt-118-anything-goes.html
Sisterhood of Crafters - http://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/its-free-for-all.html
Through the Craftroom Door - http://www.craftdoormagazine.com/2013/04/ttcrd-challenge-april-30-may-6.html

CHRISTMAS CARDS ALL YEAR ROUND - MY GDT MEMBER CARD

Good morning to my fellow blogsters and friends.  Welcome and a huge hello to my new follower John - thank you so much for becoming one of my blog followers and also for any comments you may make on my offerings!!!

This time I am posting one of the cards I made for my GDT spot with Christmas Cards All Year Round - http://christmascardsallyearround.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/april-challenge.html.   This is a monthly challenge and the theme is O Christmas Tree!  Brilliant theme I think!  The challenge started at the beginning of April, so you will have plenty of time until the end of April to enter!!

I chose dark colours for this one because I wanted it to appear frosty and cold!!

Ingredients

 

8 x 8" Kraft card blank

Bazzill Basic Dk Blue card

MME Signature Christmas Patterned papers

Sentiment - from the internet

Dee's Distinctively Stacker Tree Die

IO Dies - Snowflake

Cheery Lynn Holly Corner Die

Memory Box - Snowflake and Corner

Border Strip and Poinsettia from stash

Diamond Dust Stickles

 

I really enjoyed getting out my Christmas dies and Stickles to make this one, I'd forgotten how much I love making Christmas cards.

 

I hope you like it and if you have time to leave a comment, I can't tell you how great that would be!   It would be lovely if it also sets you off to make a card for this brilliant challenge, there are two amazing cling stamps from Platypus Creek to win!!!

 

Well, that's it for now, I hope you have a lovely day and I want to send an extra special hug to my friends out there who have either lost their mojo, feeling down or not feeling too well - you know who you are my lovelies.

 

Hugs to everyone.

 

SUE

SPRING MEANS DAFFODILS!!!

Hello there my wonderful friends and blog followers - huuuuuge welcome to my new follower as well - I hope you know that you are letting yourself in for a load of Susie type waffling!  

Anyway .... Lady Anne has a new Challenge (as from 1 April) there will be a different theme each month, this time it is a sketch, our sponsors are Daisy Doodles and the prize is two of their images.  I am now a DT member on this challenge as well and I would love to see your cards over there.

This is my first card for this NEW Challenge -

I coloured the daffodils with an 'orange' trumpet - yup I have used orange again - but I can see some of them from my kitchen window and they are so bloomin' cheerful.  The squirrels sit amongst them chewin' their nuts (whoa there! they have their monkey nuts providing they leave my bulbs alone!)  this seems to work, although they do bury the darn things in between the bulbs.

 

This is the sketch we worked to

 

 

Ingredients

 

6 1/2 x 6 1/2" card blank

First Edition papers - Bird Song

DCWV papers - Glitter stack

White doily - free with magazine

Daffodils from stash

Strips of card from snippets box!!

Digi Images - Daisy Doodles

Promarkers

Craftwork Cards - Card Candy

 

This little card only took me a day to sort out - which, as you know, is super quick for me!  I hope you like it and also manage to get some time to enter the new Challenge here http://www.ladyanneschallenges.com/14/post/2013/03/our-first-challenge.html. 

 

Thank you for visiting my blog and checking out my cards, I love reading any comments you may leave (nothing rude of course)!  Oh and whilst I am here I have a Guest DT spot over on Christmas Cards All Year Round coming up on 15th April.  I love an excuse to make a Chrimbo card!

 

Big hugs to you all

 

SUE

 

I have found a few challenges where I would like to enter my card -

 

613 Avenue Creations No 13 - http://avenue613.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/challenge-13-anything-goes-with-flowers.html

Crafting for all Seasons No 49 - http://avenue613.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/challenge-13-anything-goes-with-flowers.html

DisDigiDesigns Challenge - http://disdigidesignschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/flower-frenzy-challenge.html

DL.Art No 106 - http://dianamlarson.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/dlart-thankful-thursday-challenge-106.html

DRS Designs No 64 - http://www.drsdesignsblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/challenge-64-paper-flowers.html

Happy Campers Challenge No 14 - http://happycamperscc.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/happy-campers-challenge-no-14-flower.html

Little Miss Muffet No 58 - http://littlemissmuffetchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/tea-party-release-day-2.html

Paper Shelter No 106 - http://thepapershelter.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/challenge-106-use-doily.html

Sister Act Card Challenge No 1 - http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/challenge-1.html

Through the Craftroom Door - http://www.craftdoormagazine.com/2013/04/april-2-8-ttcrd-challenge.html



BRIGHT OR WHAT????

Hi there my blog buddies and followers - with a special hello and welcome to my new followers.  Thank you so much for reading my blog, I love the fact that you pop by to check out the warblings of a weak and feeble woman - OK that really is OTT but it sounds poetic.

I am posting my new DT card for Lady Anne's Challenge - Stamp Anything Goes No 7.  We were given the digi images by Stamp N Doodle as they are sponsoring us this time.   I had some really bright papers and thought they would look nice with the image.   I think this is probably the first time I have truly picked out the paper before I did the colouring - yay!! Anyway here is my card

Did I mention this was bright??  Must admit though, I am quite pleased with the result because you know I am always bemoaning (is that a word) the fact that I don't use orange!   I hope you have a go at the Challenge - here is a link to it http://www.ladyanneschallenges.com/3/post/2013/03/7th-stamp-challenge1.html.   You can enter two creations but there is a limit of five challenges that you can enter including this one.  There were some gorgeous cards last time and I am sure there will be again.

As for my card, well you can see that I used faux stitching (once pronounced 'forks' by one tv craft presenter - oops) around the edge, with a few screw top brads and a bit of chicken wire (well it's a diecut piece actually).  I even trawled through the cupboard to find some Card Candi for the corners!  No holds barred eh???

Ingredients 

 

Corrugated Kraft Card 6x6"
Image from Stamp N Doodle

Bo Bunny Papers - On the Go

Orange card from stash

Spellbinders - Labels 4

Cheery Lynn Die - Chicken Wire Frame

Copics/Promarkers

Card Candi

Screw top brads

Dried Marigold Distress Ink

Green ribbony stuff from stash

Orange banner courtesy of some 'puter wizardry

 

I hope you like this one and also enter the Challenge.  Thank you so much for stopping by, if you don't have time to leave a comment that is fine, lives are busy and I understand.

 

Anyway big hugs to all my craft buddies and I will pop over to your blogs asap!

 

SUE

 

PS - Graham bought me a gorgeous Bailey's choccy Easter Egg - I can confirm that it tasted as good as it looked - yup it has been demolished!!  He still has his though - but seeing as he isn't at work for another four weeks, there's no chance I will be able to pinch a bit.    I can hear you all going "Poor old Graham, not only does she cause his stubby toes but she tries to half-inch his choccy egg!"    AS IF!!!

 

I am doing a quick edit to my post in order to enter some Challenges - I actually won a couple when I first started but nothing since -lol!!!  I still love entering though - 'cos everyone loves a trier - allegedly.  Guffawing wildly now!

 

Challenges 4 Everybody No 17 - http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/challenge-17-anything-goes.html

Crafty Bloggers Network No 10 - http://craftybloggersnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/challenge-10-sponsored-by-rick-st-dennis.html

Kreative Stempelfreunde No 74 - http://diekreativenstempelfreunde.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/team-b-74.html

Lexi's Creations No 87 - http://lexiscreations.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/challenge-87-and-winners-of-86.html

MarkerPOP No 20 - http://blog.markerpop.com/2013/04/01/markerpop-challenge-20/

Mema's Crafts April - http://memascrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/april-anything-goes-challenge.html

Ooh La La Creations - http://ooh-la-la-creationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/a-colourful-challenge-at-oll.html

Paper Makeup Stamps No 82 - http://papermakeupstamps.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/digi-makeover-challenge-82-anything-goes.html
Paula Holifields Crafts No 1 - http://paulaholifieldcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/our-first-challenge.html

Sparkle N Sprinkle April - http://sparklensprinklecreativechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/april-challenge.html

Stamp and Create April - http://stampandcreateblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/april-challenge-use-at-least-1-die-cut.html