Sketch n Stash....

Morning peeps hope you had a wonderful and relaxing weekend, at least the shone shone on Sunday which was great even if I didn't manage to get outside to start the next lot of weeding, I had to alter a dress and jacket for my soon to be son-in-laws Grandma, its her outfit for the wedding so there was no pressure, it always makes me nervous unpicking and cutting up someone elses outfit especially as it cost her £100 and it was too big for her, but its fininshed, well apart from the final press.....and it fits her so thats a good mornings work.

Today sees the start of a new challenge at Sketch n Stash and this fortnight we have the optional theme of adding lace and ribbon to your creation.

We have Pink Gem Designs sponsering us

for this challenge

We all got an image to play with this one is called Chloe with Dafodils, such a sweetie, I coloured in in with Prismas and used papers from First Edition called Up Up and Away, I'm trying to use up as much old satsh as possible cos my drawers are kinda overflowing abit and there is no room to sneak in any more.

have a fabbie week

hugs n smiles

Ready Teddy Go......

Morning to you all, firstly big appologies for lack of visiting and blogging, as I mentioned in my previous post this week has gone by in a blur and I've still lots of catching up to do including altering a jacket and dress for my soon to be son-in-laws grandma........I'm trying to earn a few brownie points so I don't become the typical Mother-in-law that son-in-laws make jokes about......lol. Oh and did I mention I still have to make a DT card for tomorrow, as well as the odd bit of housework.

Today is a half way reminder that you still have a couple of weeks to join us at Ready Teddy Go, the theme is Spring has sprung......well its suppose to have but I am still in jumpers.brrrr, mind you the sun is shining as this moment, but for how long. we also have a sponser this month....Ladybug Crafts Ink, who have kindly donated two cling stamps for the lucky winner.

Not only that we are also having a DT call so if you are like me and lurvvvvve teddies why not take a peek at the deets here.

 I have recreated the same card as at the begining of the challenge but in a different colourway. Such a sweet image featuring Teddy Bea, the papers are from First Edition, the new lovely rose collection.I have coloured in the image with Prismas......so love blending these pencils, I just can't get on with markers.

Hugs n smiles

Sugar Ceek Hollow.....

Afternoon fellow crafters, first appologies for lack  of blogging this week, I've spent most of it driving to and from Henley In Arden, my son was offered position as a 3D Junior artist with a  firm there and we have been doing dummy runs and sorting out his contract, we are thrilled to bits that he has finally secured a position doing exactly what he wanted to do as a career. He starts on Monday and after five years at home and university we will miss him.

Todays challenege at Sugar Creek Hollow is to use scraps and your old stash, nothing new to be used for your vintage/shabby chic creations. I had some papers and a tag from some cards that I had made a week ago, so I used them for my card. I did add frantage around the tag to create texture. The pearls were thresded through the seam binding to create another bow.

I'm off to a class today with Lin Brown......lots of painting and getting messy.

Have a wonderful weekend

hugs n smiles

ooh La la.....

Bonjour peeps, hope you all had  a wonderful relaxing weekend and ready for a new start to the week, I managed to have a productive day in my room os mess aka craft room.

 So glad I didn't have to pick the top 3 from the last challenge we had alot of wonderful entries, for the vinatge/nostalgic challenge.

Today sees the start of a new challenge at Ooh La La Creations and for this fortnight we have the theme of......Seeing Red, no we don't want to see you angry, we just want to see some red on your lovely creations.
For my card I have use the main image and green background paper are from  the Carnival of Colour Cd 
I must admit I was well out of my comfort zone on this one as I struggle with bold bright colours for cards although I decorate my home using them.......must learn to scale down to card size.

have a fabbie week

hugs n smiles

Vintage Chic Boutique.......

Morning peeps gosh I don't now about you but we sure had a mixed bag of weather yesterday, hail, rain and more rain and then some sun......will it ever shine for more than a day, I can see why people used to worship the sun cos I'm kinda of need of some rays myself.......hang on I think its starting to shine.
I'm having a chill crafty day today, well that's what I have planned but if the last week was anything to go by, I probably won't..... although my craft room is need of a good clean and tidy up.
Thought I'd share with you another card I made using the Vintage Chic Boutique Cd from Kraftyhands, They still have it at half price at the moment just £9.99. I lurvvvvve this one which is probably why I'm boring you with another card......the last three cards have been made using this CD......sorry. I have been working on other projects in between, I'm just finishing off another Graphic 45 album.....I blame Clare Charvill, she has me totally addicted to these papers and the Graphic 45 team as well as Clare ,make the most inspirational projects, I'm also working on a mixed media canvas featuring one of the new stamps from Crafty Individuals.....but these are all taking a smidge more time to complete.

have a great day

hugs n smiles

Shabby Chic Boutique......

Morning peeps, off today for a hair and make up reheasal for my daughter.....I'm wearing a hat so I'm not bothering with having my hair done, I think it will be well and truly squashed. Talking of weddings we were looking through my wedding album a few days ago, when we asked Ethan who he thought the people were, he said thats Nana.......(I was well flattered as he recognised me as a 20 something bride) when we asked who the man was he said it was the Compare the Market man off the telly.......we fell about laughing as he pointed him out in every photo, it has to be said that hubby did have a beard so he did look abit like the man in the TV advert, but Ethan wouldn't accept that it was really his Grandad.

Todays card is using the Shabby Chic Boutique again, this image came from a photo frame project that you can make on the Cd but I used the image and made this easel card instead, with layering on the building. I used one of the Damask papers for the background and added lots of bling.

hugs n smiles

Vintage Chic Boutique.....

Evening peeps ......wow another fabbie day of sun  just hope that that wasn't summer, although I've got a sneaky feeling we are getting rain later. I have finally  brought my shoes for the wedding today but because they are plain I'm gonna have to bling them up with a buckle or something, its just that they are comfortable whereas all the pretty blingy shoes that I tried on had me hobbling around.......not a pretty sight, well the shoes were just not me hobbling.
I managed to get some crafting done first thing this morning, and made this card using the Vinatge Chic Cd from Kraftyhands, the shop is layered up and I sprayed just the shop with spray and shine and sprinkled glitter just on the roof...... this another pretty cd jam packed with papers and images that I sooooooo lurvvvve. The double Cd is normally £19.99 but its only £9.99 at the moment, click here to buy.

hugs n smiles