I made Top 3 this week

I am so pleased my OSATT Celebration Christmas card made Top 3 at Scrap Creations this week. This is the card with the amazing sketch I followed from Posh Designs and the recycled cardboard backing.

Thankyou Kristen and special thoughts and prayers for you, for Ethan and for his family.

B xxxx

Compendium of Curiosities week 18 - Pink

I didn't think I would get anything done this weekend as I have been away with the family to Ramsgate, but I have worked on this since being home tonight. It's not a wonderful photo as I have had to take it under a lamp, but maybe I will get a better one up tomorrow so you can see the true colours.

I have a wedding to go to next year in Cyprus. Richard, who is the eldest son of my good friends Margaret and Bill, is getting married to Sal and I have promised them a guest book for the wedding day. It will be a small and quiet wedding with a big reception for the rest of the family and friends when they get home.

Sal wants hot pink for her book, so that's where I have started. This will be used to embellish one of the pages. 

I know it's very different and not the usual vintage style I like, but I have used the dabber resist technique from the Compendium of Curiosities. The heart is a cuttlebug die, wings from a TH die and the butterfly is a MS punch. The flower I made from a punch too and inked it using worn lipstick which I also used on the background with spun sugar and pumice stone. The colours of the book will be pink, white and silver.

Please pop over to Studio L3 for the challenge and to see what amazing entries there are. Thankyou Linda for keeping this going, I just love looking every Monday to see what is coming next.

I hope you all have a good week.

Take care. Luv B xxxx

OSAAT challenge - Celebration

Happy Sunday

The challenge at OSAAT this week is celebration and I have chosen to make a card to celebrate Christmas. I really do need to get more of my Christmas cards made, I have been adding some slowly to the collection but I usually send around 160 cards altogether so I have a long way to go if I am going to make them all.

The winner this week gets 5 digis from the Stitchy Bear and I did it Creations Boutique.

I found this sketch on a challenge blog I hadn't seen before - Posh Designs Scrapbook Store and I have to say it really intrigued me. 

I think it is very unusual and thought it would be a real challenge with the lovely snowman digi I have used. Well those of you who know me, know that I am always up for a challenge.

So here is the result.

The digi is called Sammie Snowman and created by Lexi at Lexi's Creations and can be found at Stitchy's store here. I printed it out twice, cut one as a mask and then stamped a background to it, then used nesties labels 2. The papers are from The Shabby Princess and I backed everything on a piece of recycled cardboard from a parcel I had received. The ticket is from Miss Cutiepie.

Enjoy the rest of the day and the week ahead.

Luv B  xxxx

Other challenges to have fun with -
Scrap Creations - Christmas
Tuesday Throwdown - Anything Goes
The Wildflower Patch - Twine
Charisma Cards - Vintage
Meljens Designs - Anything Goes
Alphabet Challenge - Z is for zig-zags   Does ric-rac count do you think????
Stamp Something - Use a digi
2 Sisters - Anything Goes
Mark's Finest papers - Use DieCuts
Alys Sunday Challenge - Distressed
Sentimental Sundays - Distressing and sentiment (Ticket)
The Crafty Pad - Christmas  with a Stitchy Digi

MAWTT challenge 69 - Use Promarkers - Christmas Tag

As you can see the theme this week is to use Promarkers and is hosted by the lovely Lisa. I have collected a few Promarkers this year, and certainly do not have them all, but I love to experiment with overlaying different colours, which is what I have done on my tag this week, especially the girl's red suit.

We are being sponsored by Letraset, who make Promarkers. They are giving away a set of SPRING coloured pens as the prize this week which has the colours Powder Blue, Pink Carnation, Buttercup, Leaf Green and Orchid. There are also 2 fineliners in 0.1 and 0.3.

If you enter, to ensure you are in with a chance of winning, you must put a link to Letraset on your blog, saying that they are sponsoring the MAWTT challenge this week.

http://www.letraset.com/craft/default.asp

This is a tag I made using a vintage image from The Graphics Fairy and using my Promarkers to colour it in.

I used 4 colours and the blender pen on the red suit - Cardinal Red, Crimson, Caramel and Magenta. Now who would have thought that they would mix, but by adding the brown, I think I've got more of a vintage red colour, which I really like.

I added some flower soft to the fluffy bits around the collar and sleeves of the girl. The edges were inked with DIs on all 3 papers and the tag itself.

The Poinsettia is made from glitter card using a creative flowers die from CREAlies.

I added a hole reinforcer, and some ribbon and eh voila.

I shall keep this to put on someones gift at Christmas.

It would be lovely if you took part in this challenge, I love going and looking to see how other people interpret the challenges.

Enjoy your Thursday and the weekend.

Luv B xxxx



Challenges to have fun with.

Fairy Fun Fridays - Tickets or tags

Allsorts - Let's play Bingo - love this one, choose one of the lines from their bingo card. I chose the bottom line ribbon, tag and punch, but I have used a die rather than a punch so I hope this counts.

The Crafty Pad - Distressed or torn edges

Crafty Cardmakers - Use a freebie

Stampin' Royalty - Ribbons

Vintage Halloween 2

Another little card using a free downloadable image, backed onto silver glittery card and free downloadable bat paper. The other bits are from my stash. The spider and web are from a bag of halloween confetti.

Challenges to have fun with -

Everybody Art - Halloween

Crafts and Me - Halloween

Creative Cottage - Halloween

Stampin' Royalty - Halloween

Easy Craft projects - Halloween

2 Sisters Challenge Blog - Halloween

Creative Inspirations - Halloween

One Stop Craft - Halloween

Cupcake Inspirations - Halloween

Doodle Dragon Studio - Halloween

Crafty Cardmakers - Use a freebie

Paper Playtime - Pumpkins or webs

The Crazy Challenge - Halloween

Make and Take

I've just got back from a fantastic workshop with Hels and what a great day we had at The Stamp Attic playing with Ten Seconds Studio metal. Just had to get this up as I want to enter it into the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge which is metal   -  well that's just perfect isn't it???

I just had enough light to get a photo, but had to do it outside. Wall hanging made of 7 gypsies board and metal added after we had used moulds and alcohol inks. The flower is also metal on card, as is the heart.

Thanks for a wonderful day Hels - loved it.

Must dash, dinner is about to be served.

Take care. B xxxxx

Other challenges to have fun with -

The ABC Challenge - Flowers

Paper Cutz - Anything Goes

Our Creative Corner - 3+ embellishments

Stamptacular Sunday - NOT a card

Corrosive Challenge - No white paper

Compendium of Curiosities week 17

Good morning - yes it's morning and I need to get to bed cos I am off early to go to The Stamp Attic later and a workshop with Hels. But I just had to get this post up very quickly so that I can enter the CCC at Studio L3 which this week is fragment charms.

Please go to P. 64 of Tim's book to see what they are and how to use them. It's the first time I have had a go with them and they can create the most adorable embellishments for a whole variety of works of art.

Mine is a Nestabilities frame, a grungepaper deer, DIs, embossing powders and stamps, then some Crafty Bitz embellishments and of course my fragment charms. I managed to make it this evening and was determined to get it done. I've worked all week and had to work all day today, except for an hour in the garden doing some autumn clearing. The family came round for dinner this evening, so there hasn't been much time to play, but here it is.

Apologies for the photo, but I have had to lay this down even though it's going to be hung on one of my doors at Christmas, and the light is awful. Hopefully I'll get a better one in the light if I get home in time later on.

My sincere apologies to blog buddies. I just haven't got round to seeing anyone this week and I'm behind with my DT commenting too. I hope to catch up soon, but it could take me 5 or 6 weeks to be back in the blogging world properly. Please stay with me, I promise I will get there.

I hope your weekend is going well. Have a great Sunday.

Luv B xxxx

MAWTT challenge 68 - Halloween

Wey it's my turn to host the challenge again at MAWTT and this week I have chosen Halloween as we are being sponsored by Sarah Hurley and she gave us some papers and images to play with. Pop over to our challenge blog and you can read more about Sarah and get the link to her site.

I have used Sarah's papers and a scrap from my box. I have used glimmer mists and DIs on the backing paper and added stickles as well. The little spiders web is from a packet of Halloween confetti.

I hope you are having a great Thursday and looking forward to the weekend.

I am off on Sunday to The Stamp Attic in Wantage to do another workshop with Hels Sheridan. If the last one is anything to go by, we'll have a great time.

See you soon.

Luv B xxxx


Challenges to have fun with -
Fussy and Fancy - Halloween
Everybody Art - Halloween
Crafts and Me - Halloween
Creative Cottage - Halloween
Stampin' Royalty - Halloween
Freshly Brewed - Purple and Black
Inktegrity - Halloween
Glitterbabe's - Halloween and sparkle

Pear Tree Designs last challenge - Autumn

This is my last card as GD for The Pear Tree Designs challenge blog.  I have been asked to stay on as a proper team member and normally I would love the chance to be able to design for another team, but at the moment my day job will be taking up most of my time up until December and I don't think it would be fair to say yes and then not be able to give it my all and put myself under pressure. I am sorry I won't be with you girls - but I will still follow what you are doing and enter the challenges when I can. Thankyou for the opportunity of being with you.

So the theme this week is autumn and I managed to get my card to fit in with both the challenge and the blog name - I used a pear which I downloaded and covered with crackle accents. I used nesties for the scalloped circle to back it on and DI rusty hinge and vintage photo. The wishes card is from 7 gypsies and the autumn backing paper was downloaded as well. The green dotty paper is from Summertime Designs and I changed the colour in PSE. The ribbon is from my stash.

Challenges that this card will fit are -
Charisma Cards - autumn colours
Digi Doodles Shop Best - Orange
Tellens Place - 2 patterned papers
Town Scrappers - Distressing
Secret crafter saturday challenge - Distressing
Kaboodle Doodles - Colours of Fall
Really Reasonable Ribbon - Fall

Snow had fallen

Hey - had you realised it's the 10-10-10 today? The 10th day of the 10th month of the 10th year in the new millenium. (Actually if we are splitting hairs it's the 11th year - but that doesn't show in the date does it??)

Welcome to two new followers - Edith and Sarah. It's lovely to see you both here. I will be popping over to see you too soon.

We (the family - Ben, Bev, Becca, Maddie, Ken, myself and Maddie's friend Carol) went up to London to for Maddie's celebration outing for her birthday (which was lat month). We went to see ......

............. and had a fantastic day. We decided to go up early as we had matinee tickets and we wandered round Covent Garden - it was just lovely looking at all the stalls and standing watching the street entertainers. I would love to do it more often, but Ken isn't keen on going into town. The show itself was fabulous. The only known actor for us was Ray Quinn (XFactor fame) but the cast and the set were excellent and really made you feel you were in the 1960's. I remember crying at the end of the film and guess what - softie that I am - I knew what was coming but I still had tears in my eyes. Anyway a great day was had by all.

Right back to the purpose of this post. I am getting a few Christmas cards made now, still not many but at least it's a start. This one was inspired by the challenge at Play date Cafe with Christmas colours but the twist is to use melon rather than red. Love the photo inspiration.

This card uses a TH stamp which I stamped in Whispers archival ink. I used Whispers again for the edge and then went over it in DIs, splattered it with water to get the blots and then stamped some TH snowflakes and embossed them in white. The border punch is MS and the backing paper came from a Christmas pad called deco designs. Stickles have been used on the edges of the image and backing paper.

Challenges I am entering this for -
Play Date Cafe - Colour Combo
Incy Wincy - Sparkly - glitter
Oooh la La - Nothing floral
A spoonful of sugar - Sparkle and shine
AIFactory challenge - Emboss
Nordsalten - Hobbyklubb - Christmas Card
Alphabet challenge - x for xmas
Stamp Something - Punches / dies

I hope you are having a lovely weekend. The sun is out here and I can see some gorgeous 'red' trees from my window - autumn is really with us now. Saying that, look out for my post tomorrow.

Thankyou for stopping by to see me and thankyou, to you all, for leaving me encouraging comments. I love reading them and coming by to visit you too.

Take care. Luv B xxxx