Just A Few Photos

I've been so busy since returning from our cruise last week, but I did manage to download the photos to the PC, so I thought I would share a few with you. The scenery was fantastic.

These top three were taken in Stravanger.

One of the stunning sunsets.

These three were taken at our stop at Olden - one of the most scenic places I have ever been too.

These next three were taken when we stopped at Eidfjord - Our trip on this day took us up into the mountains and a Dam that supplies Hydro electric power. Although you can't see from the photos the dam was still frozen, and although the snows were melting it was still extremely cold (so glad we took coats).

This was taken on our last trip ashore at Kristiensand - The trip we did was called the WW11 experience. This gun is placed on the most southerly part of Norway and was put the there by the Germans when they invaded Norway in 1940. There was also a similar gun placed opposite on Denmark, together these guns covered most of the entrance to the Baltic Sea, making it very nearly impossible for anything to travel into these waters during the war. We then went onto visit the place when the SS set up it's headquarters in Norway, where there is now a museum to the  Norwegian resistance, and also the dungeons where the SS carried out there interrogations on the Norwegians. During their occupation there were over 2000 people killed by the SS and those that were not killed were taken to work camps in Poland. It was a very moving experience. The week was over far too soon, but we had a fantastic time. I hope that I've not bored you with the photos. If you click onto them they will enlarge.

Thanks for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Craft A Scene - Week 3 - Create your own Flower Garden

I'm scheduling this post, because by the time this goes live I shall be on the high seas (well I hope they're not too high). Hubby and I booked a last minute deal to go to the Norwegian Fjords aboard the P & O ship Oceana. So the passports are ready, clothes sorted and now were just waiting to set off. Anyway enough of our holiday and onto todays card. It's week three over on the Craft A Scene blog, so we are still asking for your cards making a flower garden. For my card I have used all stamps from Chocolate Baroque, the cottage is from Home Sweet Home  set (you'll notice if you look at this set that I did not ink up the tree that was behind the cottage), the flowers at the front are from the Floral Edges set and finally the tree and tall flowers are from The Patchwork Landscape set. I drew the hills behind by hand and then used pro markers to colour the scene . Last of all I popped the scene onto some white card before mounting in all onto a 6x6 blue card. There's still plenty of time to join us this month, so do pop over to the blog and take at look, there is lots of inspiration for you there. One of the DT has even used an old embroidery transfer to create here garden. All I have to do now is hope that my Son does not forget to water my own garden and greenhouse, when he gets in from work this week.

Thanks for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

A Taste Of India

I love all of Sheena Douglas's gorgeous stamps and the Taste Of India stamps and embossing folders were no exception. So I bought them, cut them out ready to go and then they sat on the worktop ready to go. So yesterday I cleared a space, dug out the card and made this. It is for my husbands Brother-in-law, who's birthday next month. He and my Sister-in-law love holidaying in Goa, so this seem rather appropriate. I used two of the embossing folders and the large elephants stamp, along with some twinkling H2o's, guilding wax, distress ink pads, a little luminate gold paint and a sentiment which was from a Fiskers set of birthday sentiments..

Thanks for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Craft a Scene - Create A Flower Garden Week 1

Another month has crept past, I can't believe that we are now in May. Still that does mean that it time for another new challenge over on the Craft A Scene blog and this month we're asking that you Create A Flower Garden for us. For my garden I've used all Chocolate Baroque stamps, but from different stamp sets. After stamping in Memento Black Onyx I coloured everything with promarkers, I then matted onto some white card and popped it onto a 6x6 green card base. I do hope that you'll be able to join us this month and do pop over to the blog and take a look at the wonderful inspiration that the DT has made.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Art Deco Flapper

I had just finished this card, using the fab new stamps from Chocolate Baroque - fabulous flappers, when I spotted that the new challenge over on the My Time To Craft blog is Art Deco (a very popular theme recently). So it was the perfect excuse to pop it onto here and enter. Like my first card the other day this started out as a tag, then I got out my Dylusion sprays (bubblegum pink and funky fuchsia) after covering my card with these I then added detail to the backing paper by stamping one of the roses that are on the stamp sheet, and also the sentiment which is from another Chocolate Baroque set - Macintosh Sentiments. I then popped it onto some black card, before putting it onto a white A5 card base.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

For Someone Special

On Sunday it's Father-in-laws Birthday, and this is the card that I've made for him. I've used Creative Crafting's - Pollyanna Pickering - British Wildlife Cd. He loves owls so this image was perfect for him. It's also perfect for the CD Sunday challenge this week which is For Someone Special. I used an 8x8 card base, gold mirri card for matting and layering and backing papers from the CD. Dad was cut on the cricut and the Happy Birthday sentiment was from Tonic dies.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Art Deco Flapper

Chocolate Baroque have just released a new set of stamps called Fabulous Flappers, I knew as soon as the email arrived on Thursday to announce their release that I had to have them. I ordered them straight away and by Saturday they were sitting on my doormat, I spent the afternoon cutting them out ready to use. With the awful weather on Sunday it was the ideal time to get them out and have a play. I stamped all five of these beautiful ladies onto tags and embossed with ebony black embossing powder, before colouring them in with promarkers. I then went around the outside of the tag and added some distress inks in matching colours. For this finished card I hem made a matching background using one of the smaller stamps and the same coloured ink as the tags. Then I mounted onto some brown card and finally an A5 cream card base. The sentiments both come from the Macintosh Sentiments and match these stamps perfectly.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

CD Sunday - Deco Drama

This week over on the CD Sunday blog the theme of their challenge is Deco Drama. One of my favourite theme's and it's always handy to have Wedding Cards in the box so that's what I've gone for this week. I've used Debbi Moore's Art Deco Wedding CD and an 8x8 white card base. The backing paper is mounted onto some silver mirri card, I've also used silver mirri card for the corners and with the flowers. I added pearls to the topper and the flowers centres, these were made with a crealies die. Finally I added the sentiment which was made on the PC and put through the foiling machine.

Thanks for taking the time to look and you kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Craft a Scene Week 3 - Hills and Mountains

It's week 3 over on the Craft a Scene blog, and we're asking for your Scenes with Hills and Mountains this month. This week I've incorporated my card with Hubby's birthday which is on Wednesday 23rd April. He's a very keen fisherman, so every year I try to come up with something a little different but including fishing somewhere. For this card I've used all Stampscape stamps, except for the fisherman which is a Woodware stamp that I bought at a show last year. I then coloured it by masking areas off and using a brush and various colours of Adirondack ink pads. I do hope you have the time to join us this month, or even just pop over to the blog and take a look at the wonderful inspiration the DT has made for you.

Thanks for taking the time to look and you kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Repeat Stamping

Last year Glenda Waterworth from Chocolate Baroque ran a series of email tutorials called Mojo Monday. Every week I would save the email with the intention of getting around to trying some of the wonderful techniques. You've probably guessed I didn't get around to it. So when Glenda announced that she was going to run them again this year, my immediate thought was "This year I will make something the week the email is sent out". Which brings me to week one and the technique which is repeat stamping, for this I've worked on a tag (like Glenda and also used the same sets of stamps as she did, Indian Elephant and Indian Textiles). The stamp pads I used were Big and Juicy - Soothing Sunset and Hydrangea. As the stamps were small ones I could pick between the colours that I wanted to use. I then inked around the edge with Spiced Marmalade distress ink. Next I took one of the larger stamps from the Indian Textile sheet and embossed this with Wow Gold embossing powder, then coloured the image in with distess markers. Next I cut around the outside of the image before mounting it onto an oval of matching card. I also went around the outside with Spiced Marmalade, then mounted the complete topper onto the tag. I'm now waiting to see what is on the agenda for next week.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue