MAWTT challenge 66 - 'Fairies and Fantasy'

Well this is a completely new style for me, I have played with fairies (I'm often away with the fairies - if you know what I mean), but I have never dabbled with fantasy. I shall have to keep this card for Ken cos it's his favourite genre of reading material and television watching, that mixed with sci-fi.

This week we are sponsored by Stitchy Bear Stamps and you can find so many digital images and papers over at the Stitchy Bear and I Did It Creations Crafting Boutique.

I chose to use one of my friend Stitchy's stamps called Dark Angel. She is just gorgeous and because of her name and the way she looks I chose to keep her on the dark side, but used some bright yellow, mauve, green and turquoise to lift it all. I really enjoyed experimenting with another new style.

I have used Photoshop Elements again to colour in the image and printed it onto photo paper to get a more glossy effect. I used a sketch from Sweet Pea Stamps - I visited their blog to get a feel for how to approach this style. It's certainly different and for the first time I have used black soot for distress edging. I will welcome your comments, please give me the critical friend views, the good and the areas to develop, so that I can look to improve on what I am doing.

Please go over to the MAWTT challenge blog to see what my team mates have been crearing for this fabulous challenge.

Have a good end to the week, I shall be coming home tonight with Mum after we have been out for a meal.

Take care. Luv Brenda xxxxx

Celebrate - second GDT card for PTD

Welcome Everyone

It's Monday morning and my second guest designer card for Pear Tree Designs. This week the challenge is Celebration and they are being sponsored by Robyn's Fetish. Robyn is a creator of great digital images and can be found here at Stitchy Stamps and I Did It Creations Crafting Boutique.

As you read this I will be in Swanage with Mum - this post is scheduled but I will have my laptop with me and have access the internet, so I shall be able to keep up with my friends and followers blogs too.

I have made a card to celebrate friendship which could be used for an anniversary.

I seem to really be into easel cards at the moment, and thoroughly enjoyed making this one. I used a sentiment from Raindrop Echoes as the main focal point, but you can see it is a flap and underneath is this -

It is 'Cake' by Robyn's Fetish and I have used it as a digital image, colouring it in Photoshop Elements and adding the sentiment to it before printing it out on paper from the Shabby Princess. I used Nestabilities to cut out the mounts and used pumice stone DI on the edges.

This is the full card leaning back and you can see the space for writing your own words in it. A border using a MS punch has created the 'block' for the easel to stand against and a ribbon and some flowers (edged with DIs and stickles) finish it off. The papers are all from the shabby princess and I also used the victorian velvet DI.

I hope you like the shabby chic look of this one.

Luv B xxx

OSAAT challenge card - Anything Goes

Happy Sunday everyone.

As you read this I will be on the south coast at Swanage and I hope the weather will be favourable as I am taking my Mum away for a break. Some of you know that we always hire a beach hut for the time we are there and this is the view from where we sit. (I am guessing the weather will not be as warm and as clear as in this photo as it was taken a couple of years ago). But we will hopefully enjoy the sea air and get some good weather.

I scheduled my sneak peek yesterday and this post today, but will have my laptop with me to keep in touch. Did you correctly guess what the challenge was?

Well as you can see, this week the challenge at OSAAT is 'Anything Goes' and is sponsored by Crop Stop. They have a huge menu of crafting goodies for you to peruse and they will be giving the winner a $15 voucher to spend in their shop. So pop on over to see what is in the store.

I have chosen to use an image by Robyn's Fetish this week called Katy Kittie, and I think she is really cute. I have chosen to use the vintage style again and hope you like the colours, they are rather different for a change.

Please pop over to the OSAAT challenge blog and take a look at the great creations from my wonderfully talented team mates.

In the meantime I hope you are having a great weekend.

Take care. Luv B xxxx

Challenges to have fun with -
Stampitcrazy  -  Anything goes

Stamp Man Blog Hop

BLOG HOP at the STAMP MAN.
Great prizes to be won.
Running until he 7th October.
Click the link above to find out more.
Bxxx

We are here

Hi Everyone

I hope your Saturday is going well. We are here in sunny Swanage and I thought I would show you the view from our flat. I can't believe the weather today, it is stunning. I hope we get more of it.

I brought my camera lead with me and glad I did. I have never used the camera with the laptop before but it worked wey hey...........

Chris these are for you .......

Looking across to the pier.

The other direction towards the beach

I zoomed in towards the end of the pier and look - in the background is the Isle of Wight.

Enjoy the weekend.

Luv B xxxx

OSAAT Sneak Peek

Hi there Everyone

There is a new game that has started over at OSAAT. The idea is that by looking at sneak peek photos of the DT cards that will appear the next day, you try and guess what the challenge will be about. The FIRST person to guess the theme correctly (OR the one nearest to the correct theme) wins a prize and everyone taking part in our fun games in September, will, at the end of the month, go into a draw and ONE winner will be picked from all the comments.

So have a look at this sneak peek and then go over to the OSAAT challenge site and look at the other photos. Have a guess, leave a comment and who knows you could be a lucky winner soon.

Good luck and I hope you enjoy taking part.

Luv B xxx

My SURPRISE BLOG CANDY

Now come on you followers very few of you have guessed what I did that was new for me on my MAWTT challenge 65 - 'To Do List' card.

I tell you what ............ I will continue to promote this candy and say that those who have already had a guess have not yet got it correct, so please go back and have another go and those of you who haven't yet tried please go and take a look. I am now going to post this on my side bar as well.

Perhaps it's because you don't know what you could win that you are not trying or perhaps because it was in with the information about the card and the challenge that you didn't see it, but whatever - here is a pic of some bits I have got together already and there could be MORE added whrn I get home. (Depends if I get any more guesses).

So far there is a Lisa Bearnson 'Friends' mini album with all the bits included to make it up straight away, a fan with a stand ready to be made into a card or album, See-D's alphabet stamps, Distress Ink in Brushed Corduroy and a set of Tim Holtz clear stamps called 'Lost and Found'. (These are all brand new and unopened).

Now isn't that worth having a go for???

Go see what you can come up with and a little clue is .............  enlarge the pictures to see if that helps you.

I am not trying to get more followers by doing this but just to say thankyou to those who already are followers. So now it's up to you.

See you soon. Luv B xxxx

Christmas card - Don't forget my surprise candy

Happy Friday Folks - the weekend starts here.

In fact for me the week starts here. Ken's shoulder is much better and he has taken the sling off today, so thankyou to everyone who sent their good wishes to him. We both really appreciated your lovely comments. So he has decided to join Mum and me in Swanage for the week and Maddie is moving back in to look after the cats, so I am really pleased he will be with us and I am sure the sea air will help to get rid of the anaesthetic that is still in him and making him sleepy (or is that just a man thing????).

I just had to make a card this afternoon - really I should be packing, but I loved the challenge at Incy Wincy and the Colour Create Blog which is to make an all white card and you can use a coloured image. Hurrah, another Christmas card, I thought it fitted perfectly. I wanted to keep the image simple so I used a stencil, put it through the Big Shot with those lovely mats you use for the Impressabilities and Nestabilities and eh voila a fab image that I coloured up using DIs and a blending tool and edged with MS glitter glue. I also used a star embossing folder, an xcut snowflake punch and a MS border snowflake punch and some little gems.

I have a couple of other images similar to this that I experimented with but I don't have time to make them up into cards and perhaps will show you another time.

Right I must go and get some packing done before the family turn up for dinner.

Take care and watch out for more posts over the weekend.

Luv B xxxx

MAWTT challenge 65 - 'To Do List'

Hey it's Thursday and I only have 2 days before I am off to Swanage with my Mum. It also means that it's another challenge for MAWTT and I am hosting again.

I don't know about you but I live my life with 'To Do' lists, especially at the moment with packing. Trouble is they just get longer and longer and I don't seem to cross much off. Anyway, I thought it would be fun to play with a list today.
The sponsor for the challenge this week is Meljen's Designs. They have a long list of goodies for you to buy so it may be worth you popping over to have a look see what they do.

So the challenge for this week is to cross at least THREE things off my list and put them on your card/project, now doesn't that sound like a bit of fun? Here is my list of 8, so there should only be 5 left once you've finished.

1. Two different patterned papers
2. A button (or more)3. Glitter

4. A key

5. A vintage image

6. Some leaves

7. A new technique

8. Embossing (heat or dry)

I have also provided an optional, simple sketch for anyone wishing to use it.

So here is my contribution.

I seem to be challenging myself at the moment to make anything and everything into a vintage style card, and here we go again. I have used 2 patterned papers, glitter and leaves from my list and I used my sketch. The image is from Meljen's Designs and is called Love Birds.

I just love these cute little love birds and decided I woild make them blue(ish)birds as well.

Please pop over to the main MAWTT blog to see what my team mates have created, they have really produced some stunning work.

I promised I would think about some Blog Candy just for my followers. My numbers are creeping up so here is an opportunity for you to get yourself some surprise goodies to play with. I have tried something new on this card and I will make up a surprise goodie bag when I get back from Swanage for a blog candy prize. This will be for the first follower who guesses correctly what it is that I have done that is new. Leave me a message with your answer and I will announce the winner on the 3rd October. Have fun guessing. Please note that this is for followers only.

I shall be in touch while I am away as I will take my laptop with me and the flat has wifi. Poor Ken has to stay at home on his own with a poorly shoulder as he had an op on it on Monday. I am sure he will survive and be better off with me out of his hair for a few days. He can laze around and not worry about it - he he.

Take care. Luv B xxxx

Challenges to have fun with
Stamp something - Digis
Saturday Challenge - Anything Goes
Totally Gorjuss - Animals
Daisy Doodles Creative Challenge - Digi + one embellishment (mine is leaves)
The Craft Den - Cute
Papertake Weekly - Animal magic
A spoonful of sugar - Anything Goes
ABC Challenge - D is for Distressing
Aifactory - Anything Goes
Charisma - Anything Goes



Guest Designer Christmas Card

Happy Monday everyone

Firstly, welcome to Jess who has joined me and who is a creator at OSAAT. Hi Jess thanks for joining this road show.

As part of my win at Pear Tree Designs, I have been invited to be a guest designer for a month, now isn't that fantastic and it's great creating things for a different group of people, one of them is my MAWTT team-mate Heidi. Thanks to Donna for giving me this opportunity.

This is my first card for PTD and it is a sketch challenge with a twist, which is to add gems. Now you may remember me saying that I am way behind many of you making Christmas cards, so I thought I would make another one and I found this gorgeous image at the Graphic Fairy, which immediately reminded me of my grandaughters. So I think this will be their card this year.

The image and the sentiment have been edged with bundled sage DI and with crystal stickles. I created the sentiment on the computer to fit the sketch. I punched out the snowflakes in glitter card and have put gems onto some silver card, using the same to mount the sentiment on. The pink backing paper is from one of my Christmas paper stacks.

I hope you like my interpretation of the sketch and feel inspired to have a go at this challenge.

Take care. B xxx

Challenges to have fun with.
The ABC Challenge - D is for Distressing
Saturday Challenge - Anything goes