Friendship

We have a brilliant challenge this week on Penny Black Saturday Challenge its for Friendship. I thought this slapstick stamp was perfect for the challenge. I matched the colours to the Prima papers which is the reason for the yellow watering can.
Some of my favourite punches, the Martha Stewart Picket fence, the medium EK sucess funky flowers with a Leone-Em centres and not forgetting the Quickutz corners.
Now there had to be a bit of ribbon and the sentiment is Craftwork cards and some pearls to finish the flowers.
Do pop over to the challenge blog and check out the fabulous samples from the team.

Bauble Fairy

I hate camera how can my red baubles and his red pants be pink yet my matching ribbon is red. Not sure I know how to rectify this so you will have to pretend that it matches well it does in real life.
My adorable image is from Cuddly Buddly, I think its a Karen Middleton. It works for Things with wings challenge on Papertake Weekly and I 've used sketch 55 at Sketch and Stash where you choose one of their previous challenge.
The digi papers are from Zoe Pearn at Sweet Shoppe called Merry and Bright. Border punch is EK success scroll and dot, the strip is 3 inches wide before punching and fits 10mm ribbon and of course Martha Stewart Holly punch which I have to get out of my system.

Less is More Pairs

I knew straight away when I read the Less is More Challenge this week for twos that these tweet little birds from Penny Black would be perfect. Generally I don't buy clear sets that often because of the size of the images but I just had to have these birds and I brought the set just for them.
I used the sentiment in the set too.

I saw this style of card from my Penny Black team-mate Helen and thought how fabulous it was. So I had a go with a stampin up tree and using chalk pad stamped directly to the paper twice. Quick and easy cards for Christmas thiat is till the chalk ink dried and turned from a green to a dirty yellow!

WOYWW and Scrapbooking

 So this is the kind of mess I leave after every card I make although it can be worst and after each card I clear the space on my craft mat, well most of it. This is what welcomed me on my WOYWW this morning after making a few cards while Hubby enjoy football last night on the large telly while DD was away. She's back now catching up her telly viewing and sporting a black eye. She's had been kayaking in France and hit herself in the face with the paddle!

 I have been Scrapbooking and I've sorted out my favourite pics of my Nieces Wedding. Again I'm going to use different sizes to my scrapbook for interest. The first one is using the Martha Stewart around the page stamp. The page size is 8inch square and it was perfect for what I had in mind and I will be using those stamps again, especially this leaf stamp.

 Look at me stamping on the page but the paper bag was standing by in case I hyperventilated. I had a small problem that MS around the page punches are not 8inches.

Not happy with this page I reckon I may have to put some else on it.

Wish it could be Christmas everyday

Gosh another Wednesday where is the time flying to. It does mean its time for another Simon Says Stamps Challenge and this time its a song title or film. Now the DT have been quite clever with their titles but me I took the cheats way out and brought out my Penny Black sentiment stamp just like the song it comes out every Christmas. The festive couple are a new Penny Black slapstick stamp and lots of Glitter.  The paper pack is Authentigue Wonder which is fabulous and the Holly punch from Martha Stewart.

Do pop over to the challenge to check out the team they've done  fabulous work for the challenge.

Someone has to win this fabulous prize but you have to enter the challenge to win it.

Finally I recommend check out the Simon Says Stamp blog its a month of tutorial, candy and offers.

Flowers

I can't believe how time is flying cos its time again for Everybody Art Challenge and this week its flowers. Ive used the cute Stampavie stamp her knobbly knees do make me laugh.
The papers are Kaiser and Martha Stewart punches for round the oval mat and for the ribbon strip. Little EK success flowers.
Do hope you can join in this week and check out the team for some fabulous samples.
Also I'm re-drawing the candy from a few weeks again you can find the post here.

Touch of Blue

I had Tilda ready to be placed on a card just waiting for the right sketch and this time is was Bev sketch at Just Magnolia but I decided on just white card with a touch of blue for a change.
I do enjoy making these white cards cos I can use my favourite punches and embossing folders and the job is done. The snowflakes have been glittered and the sentiment is a craftwork card using Stampin up punches again.
I confess to have brought quite a few new stamps from several companies but I'm so disappointed with a couple of them. The images are so beautiful but the size of the actual image are so small especially for layering come to that it must make it more difficult to colour. I guess I'm going to have to check the dimensions before I buy and if they don't have them I don't buy them. I'm being more swayed using digi images, one I can have the size I want and it doesn't hurt to print several images on a page unlike stamping.

A Sugar Bowl Sweetie

I'm going to have to be more prepared with dark mornings and miserable weather because photo this card this morning with the light on is a bit of headache trying to get the white looking white. Anyway I don't think it did too badly with this Sugar Nellie Christmas Fairy.
I've used the Sugar Bowl sketch with Nitwit digi papers and then out came the Martha Stewart snowflake and I love the holly punch too at the moment.
I had to put the cuttlebug corners on cos the plain corners bugged me. I then flocked the trim of the fairy's skirt and jacket when that was dry I then placed the wings but had to wait for the silicone glue to dry before using glamour dust over the whole her wings. Really like how the flocked worked but not sure you can see it a bit like glitter and the camera.
I had a lovely day with my Sis had planned to colour loads of images but I only managed 3! Did a bit of cross-stitch we also went to a craft shop but it was shut due to Southern Electric maintenance and the fact they had no electric. But its OK my friend Nikki came round a dropped of a Stampin Up order!
Looking for my Try Again Candy Look here

I can't believe its 10 years since the awful tragedy of the Twin Towers. I still remember the shock of watching the events unfolding.
My hearts goes out to the families and friends whose lives were never the same again.
 

Try Again

The Winner of my EAC candy hasn't been in contact and its been ten days so I was going to draw out another name but Mr Linky has done a runner. So I'm going to have to re-do it again. So just add your name to this Mr Linky

Delicious

So when I found out that this weeks challenge on Penny Black Saturday was Delicious all I could think of was food possibly since I'm on a diet I crave for nice bit of cake but its far too many points.
I've used this cute Penny Black stamp that I got from Simon Says Stamps, I've been after it for a while and was really pleased I managed to get it.
The papers are My Minds Eye and the good old EK sucess funky flower had another outing. This is quite clean and simple well for me it is.
Loved everyone who entered last week create a scene and look forward to the entries this week.
I'm spending the day with my Sis so hopefully Mr Blogger behaves.

Up in the Clouds

Whoops running late this morning, the card hadn't been photo so it was a good job it wasn't too dark to take it. This is using this weeks Sweet Sketch Wednesday and using a Sugar Nellie stamp. Seeing has she was standing on a cloud it seemed only right that she had a few clouds to keep her company using a MFT die.
The papers are Nitwits remember reading they were having a sale so I popped over to have a look and you can see I didn't leave empty handed.
The flowers are roughly the same shape as those in the paper and there is a holly leaves on it too so I used the Martha Stewart Holly punch for the leaves, I can see it being used quite a lot in the next few months.

Sunglasses maybe Needed

Well this turned out a bit brighter than I imagine but we certainly need a bit of Sunshine here. I finally got round to using the Pink Ink Sketch it looked nice and easy till I tried to put all the papers together.
The cute Hippie Digi is from Paper Shelter and the papers are Cosmo Cricket Delovely. I had to keep changing the papers because they swamped the image but I was surprised by the time I finished putting swirl and flowers on it doesn't look half bad. Of course it look better in RL but thats camera for you.

Simon Says Multifold

Hope you enjoy the Blog Hop last week at Simon Says Stamps, back to normal this week with a Multifold Simon Says Stamps challenge. I'm afraid I took the easy option and made an Easel card with the fabulous My Minds Eye papers  Lost and Found.
I cut out the the Adore from the underneath my image mat and popped it on some sticky fixers for a little bit height. Checking out my Sarah Kays images at the moment which are still available at Simon Say Stamps.

Did have a play with quite a few punches and dies too. The Martha Stewart  Cherish  punches and the one I call my Wrought Iron Fence, the Doo Hickey swirl die from Magonlia and the Cuttlebug corners. The flowers are from Simon's huge stock of Primas which I finish with coloured pearls.

Don't forget to join in and you could be in for a chance for a prize of:-

I'll be back later to link up with the Simon Says Stamps Store its having a bit of maintenance at the moment.

Autumn

It's Autumn at Everybody Art Challenge and its certainly Autumn here in the South of the UK, its wet and windy and on the chilly side.
But it does give us a chance to get out the rusty browns, oranges etc for this week challenge. I blew of the dust of some of my Sarah Kay stamps  and using some Kaiser papers which had the perfect colours for this challenge.
I apologise for the what looks black card stock but it in fact brown but my camera obviously not keen on dark brown. My leaves are Sizzlit from Stampin up so are the flowers but using a punch. I love the Martha Stewart deep edge trellis punch.
Now don't forget to pop over to the challenge blog to check out the rest of the teams fabulous samples.

Season's Greetings in September

I love this sweet angel from Mo Manning and I enjoy making this card using the sketch on Mo's DP2 Challenge blog.
The papers are the Authenique Wonder pack again and the poinsettia is a brought one with the centre taken out and I used McGill punch for the centre with gold coloured pearl to finish. I did sneakily add a bit of ribbon but I won't tell if you won't.
The sentiment is a Woodware one and a cuttlebug corner and job done.

It's a blue, blue Sunday

I had lost the papers I had originally coloured this Penny Black Mouse to, so I had to track down some more to match and there lies the problem. I found this one piece of Basic Grey which matched perfectly, lucky for me the Sweet Sketch Wednesday this week looked like I could get away with just one piece. But I had a real job to find a background mat but found the plain blue in another BG pack.
The sketch got turned and then my ribbon slipped down a bit which I think worked better for me. The flowers looked boring so I popped them through the cuttlebug using the swiss dots folder. But it still looked plain then I remembered that Simon Says Stamps had popped some black gems in my order as a Thank you and as you can see they worked brilliantly just want it needed.
I had a fabulous day yesterday at MJ All day crop,  I did get some scrapbooking done but none quite finished which I hope to do today.

Looking for my Stamptember post, you're find it here

Create a Scene

Day 2 of full Internet connection am I a happy bunny. Today I've had to schedule my Penny Black Saturday Challenge post cos I'm off to MJ all day crop at Thatcham hopefully to do some scrapbooking.
But the challenge this week at PBSC is to create a scene, afraid I'm going to put this in the same category of distressing. But I use the pack of clear stamps called Xmas Snapshots I made this scene although the snowflakes are not Penny Black.
By the time I cut out all the individual pieces I'm glad I kept it quite plain except for plenty of glitter which of course the camera doesn't pick up.
This week there's a fab stamp which I don't have which now I want and some fabby ribbon. Do check out the team though they've made a much better job than me at this challenge.

A Wee Christmas

Whoo Hoo my internet stayed connected all day yesterday and I managed to visit quite a few off my blog list so hopefully fingers crossed that it stays that way so I can catch up.
So todays card is the sketch from Dawny at Papertake Weekly and I used a digi image from Cuddly Buddly called Winter Fairy, (sorry but I've search the website and can't find her now). The papers are Authentique Wonder and because the papersare  a dirty cream  than white I used a blending tool and Antique Linen distress pad to take off the white stark from the paper I used for my image.
I didn't leave much room for embellishments because I think my image is a touch too big but it does mean it all fell together really quickly.

Penny Black Christmas

 First off I must apologise for Mr Virgin who now claims that I do indeed have a problem which will be fixed in 48 hours so we will wait and see. But it does mean this has to be a quick post cos I don't know when my broadband is going to disappear again.
This is my Less is More card this week in fact I blame the challenge for this Penny Black Stamp its not usually my style but I had seen stunning cards made with this style of stamp.
The challenge this week on Less is More is to chose three previous challenges, I have picked.
Off the page week 6 which was going to be my image but I couldn't bring myself to do it so I settle for snowflakes going off the page.
Use the colours of your Countrys Flag week 27, which in my case red, white and blue.
To use Ink week 28, I was going to use a brayer but that one went in the bin so I settle with inking with a blending tool.

I think she works better on a tall card although now she floating!
Just what to thank you for the lovely comments and wishes and fingers crossed for normal service to resume soon.