Having A Bit Of A Tidy

I've been busy this week (not on crafting), but in between I did give my craftroom a bit of a clean. I came across something I stamped months ago and I'm ashamed to say it was very neglected. I think the stamp is a woodware one, but can't be sure as I put it away so well I can't find it.  So I rummaged a bit more and found that there was some gold mirri card and a sheet of craft card being neglected as well. It didn't take me long before I was distracted from the tidying and was putting this together. I felt it needed some matching card as well but as I had none I set to and made one that matched using My Craft Studio. A little bit of ribbon from my stash and a sentiment that had been made and foiled sometime ago and soon I had a completed card. Oh well there's always tomorrow to finish the tidy up.

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

Sue

My First Christmas Cards Of 2015

I promised myself at the end of last year that I would start making my Christmas cards earlier this year. So here is my first four cards, two in the same colourway and two different, using the same stamp which is by Penny Black and available to buy from Oyster Stamps. The backing papers that I've used with these cards are all from Sue Smiths Stripe and Co, a CD that I've had for a few years now. I turn to this CD quite a lot at Christmas as I especially like the green and red stripes together with the green and red spots. These four are now ready to pop into my Christmas card box for 2015, a great start all I have to do now is keep it up and then I won't feel so much pressure nearer the time.

I would also like to enter this into this months challenge over on the Stamping Sensations blog, this month the challenge is Die Cuts and Punches - I've used Dies from Marianne - Poinsettia, Tonic - Present and All Occasion Dies - Happy Christmas.

Thank you for taking the time to look and your kind comment which are always appreciated.

Sue

Playing With The Brayer

I'm determined this year that I'm going to use the things that I keep buying, one of those being a speedball brayer that's been in the cupboard for at least two years. So yesterday I set out with ink pads and brayer to have a play. Below is my first ever picture created using the brayer, I'm quite please with the result and will be using it again. I made this card for  the Lavinia Challenge this month which is Anything goes. I also had a play with Paint Shop Pro and managed to make myself a watermark for my photos.

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

Sue

Animal Antics With CD Sunday

What wild and windy weather we seem to be having at the moment, at least there's no snow here in the south. This week the challenge on the CD Sunday blog is Animal Antics and I found myself reaching for Charismatic Cats from Creative Crafting World. While I was looking through the CD trying to decide which of the wonderful images to use I saw that it had teabag folding on there. My first ever craft CD that I bought was from Create and Craft when they first launched as a separate company from Ideal World. It was by Chris Warner who had to be the Queen of tea bag folding. I enjoyed my trip down memory lane remembering how to fold the tiles, hopefully you can still see what the kittens are up to on the shelves.

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

Sue

Birthday Card For Mum

I thought that I would show you the card that I made for my Mum's birthday (which was yesterday). She love the card as well as the canvas that I showed you in the previous post. I have wanted to make one of these box cards for quite a while, but somehow just didn't find the time.  I had bought this CD some time ago, it's a Debbi Moore CD with a template for the box card on. I ended up making my own and not following the instructions on the CD, but I did use the papers which were just right. There was just the right amount of decoupage on the one sheet to complete the flowers too. I just added the die cuts to finish.

I thought I would add this to the challenge at In The Pink, which at the moment is anything goes.

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

Sue

Another Canvas

A few months ago I made a canvas that I was lucky enough to have published in the November issue of Craft Stamper in the Over To You section. My Mum has much admired the canvas and even borrowed my Magazine to show all of her friends. So with her Birthday fast approaching I decided to make her one of her own. You can find the details of how I made the original canvas here, so I will not bore you with details today. Needless to say that the colours I have used here are to match the decor in my Mum's lounge. I hope that she likes this one as much as the original.

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

Sue

Winter Walks

Just before Christmas I invested in a new PC, so the last week or so I've been swapping files and programs from my old PC to the new one. Also getting to find my way around windows 8, I think I'm getting there at long last. In between I managed to make this card for the challenge over on the CD Sunday blog, but then discovered my old photo editing program did not work. So I've spent today looking online for a new one. Luckily they do free trials. In a moment of madness I also decided that my blog needed an overhaul as well (I don't know how long it will last but I like it for the time being). Anyway onto my card which started with an A5 white card base, then I popped Pollyanna Pickering Magical Christmas Moments into the PC, I remembered that I'd seen some beautiful scenes with Farmer, Dogs and sheep on a country farm track on what appears to be a cold frosty morning. After printing it out and mounting onto some pearlesent gold card, I stamped this lovely sentiment from Inkylicious and added it to finish.

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year. Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Craft A Scene - Week 3 - Winter Scene

I have to say sorry as this is a day late. I should have posted this yesterday, but hubby and I have been on a last minute Christmas Markets Cruise and only returned yesterday. We had a nice time although the weather on the high seas left a lot to be desired and I'm glad I popped the travel sickness pills into the suitcase when I packed. We stopped at Copenhagen, went through the Kiel Canal, visited some fantastic Markets in Hamburg as well as a visit to C and A (how I miss this shop from our high streets), six floors of wonderful clothes. Next we should have visited Amsterdam, but unfortunately due to the terrible weather we were not able to get into the harbour so we had to divert to Zeebrugge. Needless to say we were all disappointed but made the  most of it. Anyway onto my card this week for the final Craft A Scene challenge. I've used stamps from Chocolate Baroque for my scene, and coloured with spectrum noir pencils. I then added some glitter to make it look cold and frosty. I do hope that you will pop over to the challenge blog and take a look at the wonderful inspiration the the DT has made for you. You still have until the end of December to take part.

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

Sue

Christmas Card For Mum

A couple of weeks ago (in what now seems like a moment of complete madness) I booked hubby and I on a last minute cruise to the Christmas Markets calling at Copenhagen, Hamburg and Amsterdam lasting 10 days. Not our first cruise, but we've always been lucky with the weather and the calmness of the seas. Hubby is quite a good sailor and has been on trips before where the weather has been rough and has suffered no ill effects. We're about to find out just how good I am by the looks of the wonderful weather reports coming in on the News today. I'm just praying that it's a short lived storm and will blow itself out quite quickly.

This was my last Christmas card make and it's for my Mum.  The stamps are from Heartfelt Creations  and I loved playing with the stamps and dies to make the flowers and the holly flourishes. I've posted all my cards that needed posting and hand delivered the rest, just got one more to deliver by hand and that to a friend who's running us to Southampton to get the Boat tomorrow. What I haven't finished is the Christmas shopping, I'm hoping to find some lovely gifts at the Markets.

 

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

Sue xx

 

Craft A Scene - Winter Scenes - Week One

This year has rushed by so quickly, I can't believe that it's December already and as it's the first Sunday in December it's time for a new challenge over on the Craft A Scene blog. This month we are asking for your scenes to be a Winter Scene. For my entry this week I've used this wonderful stamp from Chocolate Baroque which shows this lovely snowy cottage scene. I stamped onto white card and coloured with Spectrum Nior pencils. The sky was coloured with distress inks, Tumbled Glass and Faded Jeans, I then added the sentiments mounted onto some silver mirri card and then onto an A 5 blue card blank. With an off cut of the silver card, I added some score lines and ribbon and placed onto the bottom of the card. Finishing with a poinsettia made with a Marianne die.

Unfortunately this months challenge is going to be the last, I shall be sorry to see it go. Before being asked to join the DT back in 2012, it was my favourite challenge blog. Stamping scenes is probably my favourite form of stamping so I'm really going to miss it. I hope that you have the time to pop over to the blog and see what the DT has made for your inspiration this week, and also hope that you have the time to join in with our last challenge before the the end of the month.

I shall all so be entering this card into the Stamping Sensations challenge which this month is Winter Wonderland.

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

Sue