Schooldays

Good Morning. Did you all remember your clocks???

Just to prove I can do distressed sometimes here is a quickie I've made using PaperArtsy stamps inked with Adirondack Mushroom. I've distressed the edge of the foremost image and torn the Magnolia 'old book' paper and then swiped with the ink again.

Sorry, can't remember where the eyelet is from. Could be Art From The Heart.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:-

Cupcake Craft Challenge #134 - Monochromatic
http://cupcakecraftchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/03/cupcake-134-monochromatic-and-dt-call.html
Tuesday Morning Sketches #86 - K.I.D.S.
http://tuesdaymorningsketches.blogspot.com/2011/03/tuesday-morning-sketches-86.html
Daring Cardmakers - Book Club
http://daringcardmakers.blogspot.com/2011/03/book-club.html

Back in a minute with another quickie, x

FOOTNOTE: Not sure what's wrong but 3 hours later and I still can't get my image to appear. If you hover at the top of the posting you will be able to click on a link which will take you to my image. I've reported it to blogger

Thank You

Good Morning Peeps and here's to a lovely weekend for you all. I'm not normally up and about at this time in the morning, especially on a Saturday, but my beloved managed to make huge announcements at 5am as he was getting up to travel to Scotland for the footie. The announcement......THERE'S AT LEAST 2" OF SNOW!!! My loving response was.....the game will probably be postponed.....Anyhow, that was enough to wake me from my slumber and with nothing better to do I thought why not catch up on blog posts and e-mails.

So...this little beauty I made yesterday evening, and I had great fun playing with the instructions for the folding frame. Easy peasy and so effective. If you want to find out more hop on over here Splitcoast Stampers

The reason for the frame was for the Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge #81. I've incorporated the sketch from this week's Pixie Cottage challenge #57, used the theme of 'Thank You' from the current Crafty Creations #106 challenge and the colours from this week's Colour Create challenge #64.

The sentiment is a clear mini stamp and I've stamped it in Versafine vintage sepia. I seem to be using this alot lately.

I hope you like it and here are the links, x

http://tuesdaymorningsketches.blogspot.com/2011/02/tuesday-morning-sketches-81.html

http://thepixiecottage.blogspot.com/2011/02/pixie-cottage-challenge-57-sketch-andor.html

http://craftycreationschallenges.blogspot.com/2011/02/106-thank-you-challenge.html

http://colourcreatechallenge.blogspot.com/2011/02/challenge-64-chocolate-strawberry-and.html

50 Wonderful Years

Good Evening Peeps from a very wet and blustery West Yorkshire. Oh Boy! It hasn't stopped now for 2 days and I swear I saw some large snowflakes this morning. Still I guess we should be thankful we're not in Queensland with the dreadful weather they've had down there.

This evening's card is one I've made for a special couple who will be celebrating their golden wedding anniversary next week. I can't remember where I got the rosebuds stamp from but I love it and was glad of an excuse to ink it up. Easy peasy to colour with just 4 copics: Y21, 26, 28, G21. The stems are longer than shown but I deliberately chopped them off for the purposes of this card. BTW, the sketch is for the Tuesday Morning Sketches and was designed by a 12 year old. Brilliant inspiration and its lovely to see the new talent coming up through the ranks.

The ribbon is actually a pale yellow overlaid with a gold ribbon, from my stash, along with the brads and flowers.

The DP is by 7 Gypsies and is both sides of a double sided sheet.

I'm also entering this into Crafty Cardmakers #38 which is 'Flowers' and Papertake Weekly which is 'Anything Goes + optional extra of flowers.

Hope you like it and the links are below, x

http://tuesdaymorningsketches.blogspot.com/2011/02/tuesday-morning-sketches-79.html

http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.com/2011/01/challenge-38-flubbers.html

http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/2011/02/anything-goes-flowers.html

The Love Bug

Hello Bloggers, hope you are all well. Thought I'd cheer you all up this evening with this bright and cheery card, just in keeping with the current Oldie But A Goodie challenge. I can't remember how long I've had this VW Beetle stamp by Funstamps but its always a good stand-by for those difficult to make 'Men' cards. I've coloured it with copics in:
C1, 3, 5, 7
YR02, 04, 07
Easy Peasy this one...

The DP are from a new stack I bought from Crafty Emma's Store called Glitterati by Memory Box. Really vibrant colours.

The metal bellie is from my stash. I've added this to be able to join in the current Tuesday Morning Sketches challenge which is 'Heavy Metal' although I think the VW should have plenty of that in its bodywork, lol

I hope you like it and the links are below, x

Create4Fun wk 3 - Sketch
http://create4fun-challenge.blogspot.com/2011/01/challenge-week-03.html

One Stop #114 - For a Male
http://onestopcraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/01/week-114-card-for-male.html

Oldie But A Goodie #10 - Bright and Cheerful
http://oldiebutagoodiechallenge.blogspot.com/2011/01/challenge-10.html

Creative Card Crew - For Men
http://creativecardcrew.blogspot.com/2011/01/for-men.html

Tuesday Morning Sketches #77 - Heavy Metal
http://tuesdaymorningsketches.blogspot.com/2011/01/tuesday-morning-sketches-77.html