Mystery Kit

I made a card for today but I know I shall warts and all but honestly its awful so I'm posting my Mystery Kit for UKS Cyber Crop which I was voted the winner. What happens is you buy the kit for the team you're in I was in Romantics and it came from Sarah's Cards. You all had the same items and you were only allowed to add black and white card, pen, paper, thread etc. The box it came in was allowed to be used to which made my front cover which I painted roughly with white paint and  inked the edges.

 I was full of cold and tired after our few days away but since I brought the kit I had to make something with it. The Monkey World pic weren't the greatest cos the monkeys are not that keen on posing.

 I made a couple of pockets for some extra pics

 I sewed the pages together and left the ends at the top of the book and made the paper beads to finish off.

I may not have been making cards this weekend but I sorted out quite a bit of my room now quite a lot found the bin this including inkpads and pens that don't work no idea why I thought I needed to keep them.
I'm now down to paper this could be harder than the stamps.

On the 11th hour, 

On the 11th day,

of the 11th Month

We shall Remember them.

A bit of Pink

Not sure on this card nor the one in my craftroom waiting to be finished seems I'm losing the plot or just plain tired at the moment.
It seemed a good idea to use Kraft on the Sketch Wednesday sketch but now I'm thinking too much.
The flowers are Woodware Daisy punches with snowflake centres and the heart border is from Martha Stewart with cuttlebug corners. Last of all a bit of ribbon with a Penny Black image.
I had a fabulous time yesterday and yes there was a lot of chatting also met Alex Kamann who was showing some cards she made and images she coloured for her debut on Create and Craft today at noon her colouring is amazing.

Tis the Season

This card started off as the Cute Card Thursday Sketch but had to move the sentiment because it looked better above then below the image, but this card sure did give me a headache.

The papers are last years Kaiser called Carnival Christmas and it has smaller bauble paper and large baubles with glitter so I cut out some large one for embellishments and the sentiment is from the pack too.

I stuck the mats down and the image and before layering I stuck the baubles on with their silver string, planning  that when they were dry to fold it over the card.

So I carried on sticking the Martha Stewart Holly and layered the cute Penny Black Hedgies added the sentiment went to stick the string down and realised the card fold was on the right WHOOPS. This wouldn't have been as bad as it sounds but I had for a change used double sided tape not my usual repositional herma. Somehow very carefully it lifted off and I was able to put it right.PHEW

So I gave it the finally look to see if less was more or does it need something else when something just wasn't right. The baubles on the main background mat were now sideways!!!!!!

 As luck would have it the bauble paper will be fine with the fold of card at the top but that would mean the image is now the wrong way and the baubles certainly didn't hang anymore. There was no way I could risk lifting it all again so it meant removing the large baubles and the middle mat including image to be turned. As you can see I managed it with it all in tacked just wished now the photo wasn't crooked but I guessing I pushed my luck with this card already.

So off to a Stampin Up party with Lesley Grenouille Greetings can you believe she only lives a hop, skip and jump away from me but I still have to have my Sister pick me up cos I don't drive anymore and Julie Catch me Crafting whose my team-mate from Mo's Dream Team will be there too not sure there will be much shopping but certainly plenty of chatting.

Sassy Clown

I had to mirror the sketch on Sketch Saturday because I had decided to use the Sassy Clown but  it didn't look right  exactly like the sketch.
Once I decided to use the clouds the rest fell into place and since it was quite busy I left it clean and simple. Just flowers using the Martha Stewart snowflake punch for leaves and a small  flower punch and then it was a handmade banner with a sentiment. The papers are Echo Park possibly Happy together but don't hold me to that its nearly all gone.
I've put a few things up for sell on a FB group and sold two things so far but learning something new about Paypal everyday. I'm going to attempt to set up a PO account that prints out the postage and address since its difficult for me to get to the PO since most things at the moment are thin enough for a normal post box.

Some more PINK

So we're still thinking Pink for the Less is More challenge and in my recent Simon Says Stamps parcel there was this Stamping Bella. Many years ago it was really hard to get hold of the Bella stamps and I love this stamp and some friendly crafter sent me some images. When I saw Simon Says Stamps were selling her she had to come home to me and it just happened she was on my desk and it was simply the case of stamping and paper piecing her coat and some Flower soft and fun flock mixture for the cuffs.

This was just a rough experiment looking forward to receiving the die now cos obviously my cutting out isn't quite straight.
So I'm trying to downsize my craft stuff I've tried to be ruthless but its hard I've three bags of stuff now but I've got to go through my Tildas. I love Tilda but not everyone in the non crafty world gets her and I'm often have cards left with her its going to be hard to sort those boxes out.

Just too cute

Still trying to find Mr Mojo but I think the cute Saturated Canary image saves my card, this image is the one that come with Halloween teeth but here in the UK but I don't have use for Halloween cards so I was really pleased she also came with them and you can use her all the year round.

The papers are LOTV and the sketch is from The Sketchy Challenge with the usual embellishments, swirl, flowers and corners.

Well the workmen came to fix the burst pipe and dug a hole which over the course of the day just got bigger they stopped the water but left us with a huge hole hopefully they're be back today to fill it in.

Thinking of You

It's time for another challenge on Simon Says Stamps Challenge and this week its for a Thinking of You or Sympathy Creation.

So onto my card which in hindsight I shouldn't leave it to make when I'm obviously going to be tired after a day out. The first problem is the brown memento inkpad it doesn't agree with the camera and comes out wishy washy and I should of stamped the Sarah Kay Cherie with her best friend Blondie hair in a different inkpad and used black memento for the rest of her but you live and learn.

Having recently got my DT parcel and I had chosen a set of new exclusive stamps Holiday Labels even though the die was on pre-order and of course I did order them but I couldn't wait that long to get my hands on these stamps. So all I did was to stamp onto bits of Kaiser Devonshire and cut them out and layered them  on the main background.

Its going to be brilliant for scraps but also its so in to have hexagon on scrapbook layouts and I planning to use them.

The rest of the details is I've used is MFT Flourish and Flower and Leaf Trio.

Don't forget there is a fabulous prize to be won and you just have to make sure you mention the Simon Says Stamps challenge and link to the blog on your Thinking of You post and of course link your card with the blug frog to win.

In the Pink

So Mr Mojo felt I had been doing to much so he went off for a couple days break and left me in the lurch. I had no idea what to post since I didn't have a card but I did have a couple of Kaiser stamps sitting on my desk with the idea of using them for Scrapbooking which I will use them for but I quickly made a couple of cards. 

The first one is stamped in Melon Mambo and the bottom one is with Pink Pirouette and all I did was to cut out a couple of the butterflies since they both Pink I'm added to the Less is More challenge. I know they're not very inventive but I will probably put them in a baggie together and send it to Mums Christmas Fair.

Not sure how Mr Mojo will behave today, I'm struggling to get to sleep at the moment just managed last night to be woken up by the Police to say that a water main had burst and it was pouring across the front of the house. A phone call to Thames Water who said someone will look at it within four hours which is obviously what they did do cos its still pouring but it is missing the house. By then I'm wide awake and I still woke up as normal.
Back at 2pm with my Simon Says Stamps challenge card.

Embossing

Its an embossing challenge on Everybody Art Challenge and you can just work out behind Mo's Adele there is an embossed circle. Clever of me to make it and then cover it up!
I'm pleased how this turned out the papers are Teresa Collins and I think the swirl is Cheery Lynn, flowers are EK success punches. The crochet border die from MFT is almost permanently on my desk and the embossing folder is from Lifestyle.
Do pop over to check out the team some gorgeous cards have been made.

It's the Pirates Life for me

Life can return to normal this week now that Cyber Crop over on UKS is finished, trying to make a card to blog, DT cards and still join in pushed me a bit too hard and yesterday I just made my DT card but I'm not happy with it but DD was impressed.
So I did some colouring and bit of cross-stitch and just relaxed yesterday but I found out I won the Remains of the Day and Paige Tooner which is lovely cos one is scrapbooking and the other is cardmaking.
I kinda of cheated with my card today along with the Adventure Guy I coloured Mo's Pirate Captain Hugh to the same papers and I knew I wouln't be able to cover the jigsaw paper and when I saw this weeks Sweet Sketch Wednesday it would be perfect.
The square on top of the sketch I changed into small banners and one of the square has become a Skull and cross bones ( I had to search for the die wasn't where it belonged ) The anchor is a Marianne die and I faux stitched to bring it all together.
Today I've some catching up to do with some paperwork and other things that I put off last week then maybe I go and do some crafting maybe using a bit of pink.

Aimi

First I need to apologise for being a bit late and for the photo I had cards made but didn't photo them till this morning and its not good daylight so I had to use the home light but that turns the card a bit yellow.
So I had this little darling coloured for a while and she just needed to be made in card. I've used the sketch on Papertake Weekly and I couldn't bring myself to cover up the beautiful paper from LOTV so I made a frame to put over the paper so it looked like the sketch.
Then it was just some flowers and butterflies with a bit or ribbon to finish, annoyed with the brad in the ribbon because I coloured it with a copic pen and even though I didn't have the right colour it does not look that bad as it does in the photo so please pretend its not there.
Had a fab day at MJ's All day crop yesterday I made one layout which needs a title and in the process of another but discovered I had left all my swirls at home and of course I couldn't go farther without them.
It sounds like I didn't do much but I have a couple of big projects to come before Christmas and I made the shells in preparation of things to come and that took most of the morning.
I have to make a DT card today and it has to be done lucky for me I know sort of what I'm doing well in at least in my head hope I can transfer it to paper.

More UKS layouts

Yes I'm sorry its me again but I realised I loaded these to UKS but didn't blog them and since my blog is a record of the things I make I have to blog them.
The first is a class which had to be a story about you so I did my weight loss. Cardmaker followers may recognised the retired stampin up medallion stamp (not keen on the new one) and the Absolutely die from Simon Says Stamps I decided to use it when I was searching for a suitable leaves die and saw in my box.
It doesn't lean in real life I take layout pages with myself holding the camera while cards are taken with the camera on a tripod(even then I can't always get straight cards).

This was a challenge to take pictures round your surrounding and tell the story. Some really old papers were used up here. The leaves are a Tim Holtz die.

A Cute Christmas

Nearly forgot to schedule this post and that will never do, off out early tomorrow. So the first Saturday of the month its time for a new challenge on Penny Black Saturday Challenge and a nice and easy one and to help with those Christmas Cards that need to be made so its time for A Cute Christmas.

The hardest thing about this challenge for me is which cute stamp cos I love the cute Penny Black and have a few!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I decided that the Snow Couple need a turn and I found these papers while sorting out my Christmas Stash and wanted to use them, they're probably Cosmo Cricket but don't hold me to that since I think they are a couple of years old.

The Snowflakes are Kars punches and the corner is Memory Box, pearl and lace to finish. All in all quite please how it turned out.

Do check out the team and there's some fab prizes too,  I really fancy that stamp.

Found out some fab news today/yesterday, I won one of the Mystery Kit prizes. I really struggled with feeling so ill and had to push myself really hard to make my Monkey World book but felt that since I got the kit I should really make something for the challenge, never in a month of Sundays did I think I would win. Many thanks to the fab UKS members for voting for me and well done to all the other winners also to everyone who entered it was really hard to choose a favourite from each team.

Remains of the Day

There's a challenge on UKS Cyber Crop for making a card with the scraps leftover from anyone of the classes you've done. I had some papers left from Our Story class what was brilliant about that the patterned card is double sided so the swirl paper had this beautiful Aqua colour on the back and the dotty had the brown. 

I've used the Fabulous Florets from Stampin Up I've been dying to use them and I know I will using them again. 

The leaves are also a Stampin Up die all embossed and inked, the sentiment is LOTV and the dotty border is a Martha Stewart punch but with only the tiny dots showing. I finished with some brown pearls but it appears I've lost one off the one of the flowers.

I saw this sketch on someones blog and I wanted to have a go but then couldn't find it again so not sure if I remembered it correctly but still love how this turned out. I run the brown patterned paper through the Stampin Up woodgrain folder and it wasn't keen on my card that the core broke through. So repairs were done with a brown ink pad and it made the wood more life like. Then it was just to punch a flower with my Funky flower punch and  a snowflake punch for the centre. A few pearls and LOTV sentiment job done.

Teen Fairy

Since I've used the Sketch Saturday sketch this week I better post it before the challenge finishes. I coloured this cute Teen Fairy Pia from Mo Manning to match the papers then realised how grungy they were. So lots of antique linen inking was done to take the stark white away I think I managed it. I have both teen fairies I think they great for teen girls and I've coloured the flower before now so it doesn't look like a poinsettia so she would work all year round.

Also knew the white glamour dust might be too white and the gold well just too gold. So I mix a bit of each before spreading it over her underskirt and wings and even though the camera hasn't shown it that well it did work a treat, will be doing again.

The papers are October Afternoon, the favourite Floral Oval and the poinseittas are Marianne dies.

Well I think I'm done with the Cyber crop now although there are still challenges but the classes have to loaded by tonight, challenges tomorrow. Not bad since I had hoped I would be up to date with my cards to blog and had to combine the two. I do have a DT card that must be done and I need a card for Sunday and Monday to do so that for today.

UKS Bookmark

So another challenge on UKS Cyber Crop was for bookmark and I thought I would make a card with a tag that can be used as a bookmark which is why there's a long bit of twine so it will hang over the book.

With the thought of my Gt nephew birthday I thought I would used this Adventure Guy from Mo Manning which I had coloured in to match the Doodlebug papers. I put the jigsaw paper down and everything else just got lost in it and since it was a boys card the brain immediately stopped working and I hadn't got a clue to embellish the card. Buttons and sentiment with a couple of corners were all I could manage.

The little strip is a tiny pocket for the tag/bookmark to sit in and making it easy for it to be taken off.

Mojo Monday

So there on my desk is a small square of dotty paper left so I've used the Mojo Monday sketch to make another card. I do feel I should of found something other than the gingham paper or maybe not so much.

The 25 and the holly are elements in a Woodware stamp that I've used to paper piece and to place them similar to the stamp.

Less Is More

I mentioned I a person of habit in my WOYWW yesterday which is proved once again by my posting my Less is More post. Must try and change it up now and again.
Anyway the challenge this week at Less is More is for a sketch, now the top card isn't the first one I made but is my favourite.
I 've used the Holly and Mistletoe stamp from Penny Black twice, I really just wanted the bit at the bottom of the stamp. The 25 is in fact a Woodware stamp and stamped on spotting paper and cut out.

This was my first card but the top one pipped the post for a favourite. I've used the Simon Says Stamps star die and again used the stamp for the 25.

cowgirl

I've loaded this challenge on UKS so it was only right that I posted it here too. This challenge was to follow a Pagemap.
I knew I would like all the white space so I flicked some paint to make spots. The main butterfly is a Personal Impression stamp and the smaller ones are from Stampin Up.
If you follow my blog you know I make card a day and you will recognise my favourite border at the moment from MFT it did take four strips to make this circle and the join is under the photos.
I used a stitching template for the pearls to make the swirl. The Title is straight just the wonky photographer at it again.