A new sketch at Let's Scrap

The newest sketch is up at Let's Scrap.

I love the way my layout turned out, it is a very special page to me. As you can see it's of the very special day I got to experience the wonder of snow with my kids. It is super rare to get snow in our parts, so it really was amazing!!!




Here is Cheri's stunning sketch that my layout is based on: I used the right hand side!


PRODUCT I USED ON MY PAGE:

~ Paper - Various
~ Letter stickers - Basic Grey
~ Blue Thickers - AC
~ Rub-ons - Hambly Screen Prints
~ Snowflakes - Cuttlebug Die
~ Smooch Spritz
~ Sewing Machine

Why not check out what Let's Scrap has to offer, it's an awesome site!!!

Please pop back tomorrow, I have some news to share :)

Lift an Odd Girl Challenge

The latest challenge is up at Some Odd Girl stamps, and the challenge is to lift one of the Odd Girl DT girls!! DT gal Robin lifted a card by Kristy, and I have lifted that same card. I loved this design, and my card came together SO easily.

Here is Kristy's card:


The image Kristy used on her card is called Beachy Tia, isn't she cute!

AND HERE IS MY CARD:





I tried to challenge myself by using different colours to what I usually do, and this Basic Grey paper made my job so easy :) I used the gorgeous Dancin Kaylee image on my card, and she was just a joy to colour!!! These 2 adorable images can be purchased HERE, alongside loads of other cuties. I think I may have to purchase one or two more myself!!

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

~ Some Odd Girl - Lift and Odd Girl
~ DYSU Challenge Blog - Sewing
~ Moving Along with the Times - Favourite Things (Copics, Basic Grey & Some Odd Girl Stamps!)
~ Totally PaperCrafts Challenge - Girly Girl

I am so pleased it is Friday, weekend is here. Hope you have a great one!!! :)

A new Anita Be Stampin card for a few Challenges

Here in South Africa it's a public holiday, Youth Day, so that meant a bit of crafting time for me this afternoon. LOVELY to be tucked up inside because it's horribly windy and dusty outside!!

For my card I used an adorable Anita Be Stampin image from the lovely Cherry Sweet set. It includes this adorable image, a cherry image and 5 lovely sentiments. Have a look at my card, you can buy this set and other images HERE.



THE INGREDIENTS I USED ON MY CARD ARE:
IMAGE & SENTIMENT- Anita Be Stampin
CUTTLEBUG EMBOSSING FOLDER
PRIMA FLOWERS & OTHERS
BRADS - Making Memories
SMOOCH SPRITZ - Sea Kiss
RIBBON - From my stash
COPICS!!!

I AM ENTERING MY CARD FOR THE FOLLOWING CHALLENGES:
Anita Be Stampin - Shaped card
Simon Says - Bingo (Flowers, Brads, Sentiment)
Cute Card Thursday - Colour of your birthstone, my birthday is next month, so my colour is RUBY
7 Kids College Fund - Create a Summery Card

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by my blog today, for those that take the time to leave a comment, a HUGE "thanks", it means so much to me :)

Anita Be Stampin Card

Thanks for stopping by again today. As you can see I am on a huge cardmaking kick at the moment and I am LOVING it!!

The card I have created qualifies for a number of challenges, but the main one I wanted to make this one for is for the latest challenge over at Anita Be Stampin. I used to be on this DT, and what a wonderful team it was!! I resigned from the team because I was battling to keep up with my DT commitments at the time, and I was committed to another site that I had been on for ages, only to be told shortly thereafter that my time was up with them. So that didn't work out too well for me, did it!! Anyway Anita Be Stampin really do produce the most gorgeous stamps, rubber and digi. This is one of their digi images, and isn't she cute!! Go and check out their challenge blog HERE. Their latest challenge is to LAYER IT!! You can't see it too well, but the brown square is popped up, as well as the image on my card :)




Products I used on this card:
Brown patterned paper - Basic Grey
Green & white patterned paper - ?????
Paper flowers from a local shop - I went on a bit of a shopping spree yesterday :)
Embossing folder - Cuttlebug
Font used on sentiment - Ali's Hand
Copics!! :)

The challenges I am entering my card for are:
Anita Be Stampin - Layer it
Bunny Zoe's - Lace
Stamp Something - Use a digi image
Sketch 'n Stash - Latest sketch (It's fab don't you think?!?)
AnnaBelle Stamps - Use the colours Olive, Lemon & Chocolate

Thanks for popping in, hope you enjoyed your little visit :)

Another card...I am on a roll!

Morning all. WOWOW it was cold here this morning. My hands were like ice for hours. Luckily it has warmed up nicely now.

Just wanted to share a card I made yesterday. I have been in the mood to play with my Copics and enjoyed colouring this Magnolia image. This card is based on another sketch by Debby over at Let's Scrap.




Products I used on my card:
Image - Magnolia Rubber Stamps
Sentiment - AnnaBelle Stamps
Patterned Paper - Basic Grey
Border Punch - Fiskars
Embossing Folder - Cuttlebug
Pearls - Kaisercraft
Copic Markers

Thanks so very much for stopping by again today. Hope you have a lovely crafty weekend :)

New Card Sketch @ Let's Scrap

Morning Ladies.

I should have posted this yesterday, but it was a Public Holiday here in SA as well as voting day so I just didn't get around to it.

Having finished up with all my card making DT's I don't often make cards anymore, so am really enjoying that as part of my Let's Scrap DT requirements, is a once a month Card Sketch!! Here is this months gorgeous sketch:


Debby did a great job with this one, don't you think?!?

Here is my card. I haven't had a chance to use my Copics in a while, so decided to use an adorable AnnaBelle image instead of a quote. The image, sentiment and lovely pink Sprinkles are all by AnnaBelle Stamps, find their shop HERE!




Why don't you stop by LET'S SCRAP and see what they have to offer. If you are looking for a warm, embracing, encouraging, fun, challenging group, it really is the place to be!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by, thanks so much to those that take the time to comment, I REALLY do appreciate it :)

A new sketch @ Let's Scrap!!

So I spent yesterday afternoon playing with the new sketch from Let's Scrap, and the latest gorgeous palette from The Color Room, good times!!

Here is the sketch I based my page on:


Because I am a one pager gal I used the left hand side for my layout!!

And check out this GORGEOUS palette from the Color Room, LOVE LOVE this!!!!


AND MY PAGE:




Thanks so much for taking the time to visit my little space here on the WWW, for those that take the time to comment, THANK-YOU!!

New Release - Background by Design 3

Welcome back to my blog today. So glad you decided to join us in our February Blog Hop at AnnaBelle Stamps. Today we are releasing another lovely new set called "Backgrounds by Design 3". What a versatile set this is, I can see myself using this set loads, on cards and scrapbook pages!


Here are the two cards I put together with this lovely set.



This card was inspired by a card I saw over at the lovely Andrea's Blog, thanks for the inspiration Andrea, hope you don't mind that I cased your card!!

And here is my second card.



I seem to be having a bit of an Autumn theme going with the colours of both of these cards, what tells you I am dreaming of cooler crisper weather!!

The set will be available straight away with free postage for 24hrs for those living in Australia and for the rest of us we will get a $5.00 discount. The code for Australian customers is "febrelease" and for others is "intfebrelease". You will only need to key in the code to receive the free postage or discount offer on any order that includes the released set. When there is more than one set and you decide to purchase both then we'll include a little something extra as a treat!

So as normal we are holding a blog hop with this release. You will start at the Annabelle Blog, and follow the links along the way. If you leave a comment on each of our blogs you could win this wonderful set!!!

****The next person you need to visit is the lovely LISA go and leave a comment on her blog****

Hope you enjoy your HOP with us, don't forget to leave a comment along the way!! We hope you enjoyed the inspiration provided for you by all the DT members. Why not treat yourself and purchase these two lovely sets, they would be a lovely addition to your stamp collection. The sets are available for purchase HERE!!

Say It In...Pink, Blue, Choc

What a gorgeous colour combo to work with for today's AnnaBelle Stamps challenge!!!! It was just the inspiration I needed to get my creative juices flowing!!! I hadn't made a card for quite some time, but when I got playing with these colours my card came together easy peasy!!! Such fun :)

So here is my card using this yummy combo!!



(CLICK ON EACH IMAGE FOR A LARGER VIEW)

I used the absolutely adorable "Lil Molly" set for the main image. I LOVE this little set, Molly is just such a pleasure to colour!!! The sentiment is from the "All Things Grow" set (another one of my faves!!!!)Both of these sets are available HERE!

All the other DT girls have been busy putting together some wonderfully inspiring cards for you to view. Here are the links to their blogs:

Belles
Andrea
Sue W
Kylie
Chupa
Ida
Jerusha
Rene'
Lisa
Sue K


Bellas
Liz
Kerry



Once you have created your "Say it in...Pink,Blue & Choc" card link it to the AnnaBelle Blog for a chance to win a AnnaBelle Gift Card. We really do hope you will play along :)

A new sketch at Scrapbook Challenges

It's Monday which means Pamela will be posting a new sketch over at Scrapbook Challenges. It's another fab one I must say, and made me think a bit outside my box. I NEVER cut my photos into circles! Must say it made a nice change and this layout was perfect for the page I had in mind!! I had these photos of Ray I wanted to scrap, and I love the male and quite edgy feel my page has! Anyway, here is the sketch:

SKETCH 201:


And here is my page:




The journaling on this page reads ~ In your line of work you are not able to wear a wedding band, so in a wonderfully romantic gesture you got a band tattooed on your finger for our 12th wedding anniversary. I love you more today than I did 12 years ago, and am so touched that, despite your fear of needles you did this for me!

The title & arrows were cut with my Slice. I ran the lettering through my Cuttlebug, and the stars & circle stamps are by Hero Arts. I also used one of my lovely EK Success border punches.

Thanks for stopping by to look at my page. Why not drop by Scrapbook Challenges to see what it's all about!

3 Challenges in 1

Morning everyone. It’s a wet & chilly morning here in Dundee today. Perfect weather for a bit of crafting. So far I have spent time printing lots of photos off the computer so I am all up to date with the photos I need to scrapbook. With all the card making I have been doing I am a tad bit behind on my kids albums. Oops, so needless to say I need to get onto that!!

The card I am posting today qualifies for 3 challenges, and I so enjoyed making this card. It was fun. We got home from our camping trip yesterday morning, and I made this card in the afternoon. The first card I had made in 10 days!! The layout of the card is based on the Friday sketch over at Taylored Expressions, and it was a lovely simple sketch to work with. Gotta love that!! Over at the Simon Says Challenge Blog, the challenge for this week was to use stitching on your card. Not so much of a challenge for me, as I use my sewing machine quite often on my cards. For this card I did use a stitch that I have never used on a card before, and I was extra pleased with the way it came out! I will definitely be using that stitch more often. It gives the card a lovely finish I think! And then finally, over at Cute Card Thursday the challenge is to use Yellow & Black. I must admit this was my fav challenge of the 3. I have never used these 2 colours on a card before, and after finishing my card I stepped back and thought how nice the colours look together!! Outside my comfort zone, but a colour combo I will definitely use again in the future. The adorable image is one that was stamped for me by my Dundonian friend Angella. It was such a pleasure to colour in this image with my Copics. So sweet!! I also used my new Moroccan Screen Cuttlebug folder. I love this one, and will be using it a lot in the future!

So without further ado, here is Taylor’s Sketch.


And my card and close-up photo. I have really been battling to take nice photos of my cards, so sorry for the poor quality!



Would love to hear what you think! Thanks for stopping by, hope you all have a great week.