Totally Papercrafts Challenge

This is a scheduled post, as you read this I *should* be getting ready to be on the way to our holiday cottage. 


It's time for another challenge over at Totally Papercrafts and this week our hostess is the lovely Anne who this week has chosen the theme

Digi It

Yes, that's right, use a digital image on your creation. You'll be pleased to know that I read the instructions correctly this time and didn't make a card with a gardening theme.... which would have been ok I guess if I'd used a digital image!


We are sponsored this week by Digi Stamp Boutique who are offering 6 single digis to the winner.

And here we are, a plethora of cards. Well 2... The girl one was made for a work friend's daughter and the boy one was made for a friend of mine who has just graduated from Glasgow Uni as a teacher :) 

Image - Grad Boy and Grad Girl 2012, Saturated Canary, Coloured with Promakers and Copics, Sentiment, Stampin Up

Cardstock/Paper - From Stash

Embellishments - Card Candy, Craftwork Cards

Tools - Notepad punch, EK Success

Remember to pop over to Totally Papercrafts to Digi the rest of the inpsiration the DT have left and we have some new teamies leaving you inspiration today so go and leave them some love.

Thanks for dropping by today. Hugs. Susan xxx

Flexmarkers

My gorgeous buddy Debbi has a couple of sets of Flexmarkers on her blog to give away. Pop over to her blog to see what you have to do to be in with a chance of winning them.


She has some fabby tuts on PM's and there's one on funky hair colours over on the Letraset blog too.


Closes 10th July.


Hugs. Susan xxx

Day 1 done and dusted

And we've all survived....


Here I am, in the midst of packing and getting ready to go away, sitting blogging. Oops.


I have enlisted the help of the children - their clothes are all ready to go, Scott has packed his toys, books and dvds.


And I was just about to go and tackle (yet more) ironing but I thought I'd share these with you. 


This is the card and gift I made for Craig's teacher. He's had her 3 times and is quite fond of her so I wanted to do something to mark the end of that time.

Image - Smitty Schoolboy, Saturated Canary, coloured with Promarkers and Copics, Sentiments from a Woodware set
Cardstock - Stampin Up
Paper - My Mind's Eye (I think)
Embellishments - Card Candy, coloured with Copics
Tools - Label Nestie, Cuttlebug, Cherish Punch Around the Page, MS


And here is the gift, I got this frame in Ikea, it's a 9"x 9" and cost about £4. Bargain. I may do more of these.

Stamp - Definition from an Indigo Blu set
Cardstock - From stash
Paper - Bo Bunny
Embellishments - Card Candy, School Buttons
Tools - Tim Holtz Regal Crest Die, Big Shot


Challenges I'd like to enter - 


Charisma Cardz - Anything Goes
The Paper Shelter - Punches or Dies


I'm off to do some more packing and ironing!


Thanks for dropping by today. Hugs. Susan xxx

It's almost that time of year again

Yes, there's only a day and a half of school left before 7 weeks summer holidays begin. Bring on the madness....


So this week is mainly going to be catching up on stuff and packing to go on holiday on Friday. Can't wait! 


This is a card I was commissioned to make. Now I was asked for a Father's Day card for a friend's dad (but from her girls) for Papa. And he likes horse racing....  


At first I thought, eeek! How on earth?! But then I remembered this LotV stamp. Perfect. And then I thought, eek, how do I colour a horse! 


But I checked my lovely friend Debbi's PM tuts and that helped me no end. I even emailed her the image once I had coloured it in, just to be sure! She said it was fine so I'm happy with that :)

Challenges I'd like to enter

Make it Monday 

Incy Wincy - Anything Goes

Image - LotV coloured with Promarkers

Paper/Card from stash

Embellishments - Ticket, Tim Holtz

Tools - Pink Lemonade alpha die, Sizzix, Sidekick

Thanks for dropping by today. Enjoy what's left of your Monday.

Susan xx

Sweet Stampin' Challenge

Bit later than normal but better late than never eh?

It's Team Abi's turn over at Sweet Stampin this week and this week the theme is

Ribbons and Bows

We're sponsored this week by Crafty Ribbons and our monthly sponsor is Joanna Sheen.

Hop on over to Sweet Stampin to check out the gorgeous cards my fellow sweeties have left for you - and don't forget to stamp your entries!

I had a lovely last day at work yesterday and an even lovelier night out. Thanks to all the people who came along for making it memorable. And also thanks to the folk from work who very generously contributed to a leaving gift for me (I was presented with an IPod Touch yesterday) I'm away now because even just writing that makes me want to cry again!!

Thanks for dropping by today. Enjoy your Saturday - hope you don't get washed away.

Hugs. Susan xxx

Totally Papercrafts Challenge

Morning


Well its finally here, my very last day with the civil service after 26 years. Onwards and upwards though.


Enough of that nonsense, it's time for another challenge over at Totally Papercrafts.  This time our hostess is the lovely Cathy who has chosen this inspiration pic as the theme for this week. You can use the colours, images on your project (or both if you really like) and food and drink images are fine too :) 


We are sponsored by the fabulous Lili of the Valley who are offering 2 stamps of the winners choice.

 So here's my card! I've gone for the colours for my card.

Challenges I'd like to enter:


Crafts and Me - Anything Goes
Divas By Design - To Die For
Scrapalicious USA - Summertime
Charisma Cardz - Summer
Cute Card Thursday - Here Comes Summer
Dutch Dare - Summer Fun
Paperplay - Use a Die




Image - Cali Girl, Saturated Canary coloured with Promarkers, Sentiment from a set by Little Yellow Bicycle
Cardstock/Paper - From stash
Embellishments -  Flowers, pearls from stash
Tools - Labels Nestie die, Big Shot  


So that's it from me. Remember to pop over to Totally Papercrafts to see the rest of the inspiration from my fellow teamies.


Thanks for dropping by today. If you're looking for me later this afternoon. I'll be in the pub.


Hugs. Susan xxx

Almost Wednesday ;)

And another lovely day here! Had to go into school this morning but when I'd finished I decided I would go and do a spot of shopping. My aunt gave me a voucher for my birthday and I still haven't spent it. Of course the law of sod dictates that you don't see anything when you have money to spend on it so I still haven't used the voucher!


No card today but a photo which shows what I was watching tonight at the cinema. Cass, Sandra and I went to see Rock of Ages. It was fab. Now, I am not a Tom Cruise fan by any means but actually he was great. Honest!

Well tomorrow sees the start of my very last week at work. After 26 years in the civil service I leave on Friday (I won't bore you with the details but I have taken a voluntary redundancy package) I actually wish I could just fast forward the week to Friday at 4pm when I'll be in the pub :) 

Hugs xx

What a lovely day

no, honestly, the sun has been shining here all day. Unfortunately with a nice day the ironing basket seems to expand to gargantuan proportions!


Sorry I didn't post yesterday but I always find Father's day a little difficult although I did think about posting a photo of my lovely Dad but I just never got round to it as it was such a busy day.


Andy was still away yesterday so the boys and I got up, went to church, came home, went to rugby where Craig and I helped out on the cake stall. This is a very very bad job ;) The cakes look soooooo tempting. I have to admit to having one of Jan's chocolate chip cookies which was fab. And they must have been good - Scott had 3!!!!


After that we went to Asda as I'd promised the boys we'd do some baking for Daddy for Father's day. Well, by the time we got home, had dinner etc there was no time before they were having showers so I ended up baking by myself after they'd gone to bed. The cakes turned out ok though, even without their assistance.


So, onto a card. This is a stamp I won during a blog hop over at Sugar Nellies (and while I remember, apologies for not Sharing on Sunday). I inked her up. Coloured her face and hair and then she stayed in a poly pocket! I used her for the SN Facebook challenge last week which was dies and/or doodles. See, I'm getting more practice on the old doodling front!

Challenges I'd like to enter:


The Sugar Bowl - Sketch
Creatalicious - Anything Goes
Bunny Zoe - Girls, Girls, Girls
Sentimental Sundays - Summer Fun


Image - To and Fro, Funky Kits, coloured with Promarkers, Sentiment from All In The Family set, Stampin Up
Cardstock/Paper - From stash
Embellishments - Flowers, Pearls, from stash
Tools - Framelits, Stampin Up




Thanks for dropping by today. Hugs. Susan xxx

Sweet Stampin' Challenge

Morning all, it's Saturday and it's the turn of Team Fi over at Sweet Stampin to provide your DT inspiration for the challenge this week. And the challenge this week is 

Summer Fun

Yes, I know, I can hear you all laughing from here! Summer?! That was March wasn't it?

Anyway, this week we're sponsored by Stamp & Create who are offering a $20 gift certificate to the winner and our monthly sponsor is Joanna Sheen who is offering a £10 gift voucher for the winner.

So here is my card. I did toy with the idea of another rainy day card but decided against it in favour of using this Saturated Canary lad!

Challenges I'd like to enter

Saturated Canary - Anything Goes
Creative Stamp Friends - Birthday
Passion for Promarkers - Lots of Layers
Try it On Tuesday - Anything Goes
Paper Shelter - Anything Goes
MWATT - Let's Get Krafty
DYSU - Boys/Men
Charisma - Male Cards
Cardmad Fairy - Father's Day or Something Masculine
Fussy and Fancy - Boy Attitude


No new products were harmed in the making of this card! Use It Up 2012.


Image - Skateboard, Saturated Canary, coloured with Promarkers, Sentiment, LotV
Cardstock - Crumb Cake, Stampin Up
Paper - My Mind's Eye
Embellishments - Stars were the left overs from using the star border punch!
Tools - Star Border punch


Remember of course to hop over to Sweet Stampin' to see the rest of the Summery inspiration that the DT have left for you. There are some fabby cards for you to look at!


Andy is off back to Edinburgh for the weekend so I'm hoping to get lots of crafting done:


Thanks for dropping by today. Enjoy your Saturday. 


Hugs. Susan xxx

Totally Papercrafts Challenge

Goodness doesn't time fly. Can hardly believe that it's Friday again and time for another challenge over at Totally Papercrafts.


This week's sponsor is Wild Rose Studio who are offering 2 stamps to the winner of their choice.


Our hostess this week is Kim who has chosen the theme

Raining Cats and Dogs

We want to see - cats, dogs, rain. You can use any or all of them in your card. You can see that I've gone for the rain and the cat option. Now the more observant among you will notice that that cat does not in fact go with the girl.    That's because I didn't check the instructions for the challenge before making the card.... Kim actually meant us to use Cats or Dogs on our creations and I had ignored that and concentrated on the rain option! So she very kindly changed the wording of her challenge!

Challenges I'd like to enter:


Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Passion For Promarkers - Lots of Layers
Divas By Design - A Summer Theme (I'm from Scotland, this is summer!!)
The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes


No new products were harmed in the making of this card! Use It Up 2012.


Image - Gorjuss Girl, PI, Cat from Purrfect Friend, Funky Kits coloured with Promarkers, Sentiment, Inkadinkadoo
Cardstock - Crumb Cake, Stampin Up
Paper - My Mind's Eye
Embellishments - Wee metally type pearls which reminded me of rain!
Tools - Oval Nestie, Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, Big Shot


Remember to pop over to Totally Papercrafts to see the rest of the cards the DT have made for your inspiration (and you can see that they were good and followed instructions...)


Thanks for dropping by today. Enjoy your Friday. 


Hugs. Susan xxx

Well that wasn't very clever

Went in to check on Scott and switched his cd off. Only he wasn't sleeping, his eyes were closed and he was on the verge of sleep but just not quite there...


So he asked me to lie down with him and listen to the cd. So I did. And got up an hour later..... and now I'm not sleepy any more!!! I had a list of things I was going to do tonight do and haven't managed to achieve anything. Never mind, there's always tomorrow at the Crafty Cabin.


This is something I made a couple of months ago and hadn't got round to sharing. I'm not particularly happy with it (probably because there's no coloured in image on it). I like the colours but that's about it. My friend Lorraine is so much better at doing cards like this than I am!

All products Stampin Up


Image - Creative Elements
Cardstock - Very Vanilla, Soft Suede
Ink - Early Espresso
Embellishments - Crumb Cake Seam binding ribbon




Thanks for dropping by today. Hugs. Susan xxx