Another Cup of Tea

Time for another challenge on Simon Says Stamps Challenge and this week its Thanksgiving or a Thank you card. Also a bit of a warning this is going to be a long, photo heavy post.

Remember the shaped card challenge week well it reminded me I haven't made a tri fold card for ages and this week I thought I would make one didn't realise how long it would take to decorate.

Now you know I love teacups and I used these Tilly and Miranda in teacups from Stamping Bella before but I do love them. The papers are Basic Grey PB&J and the swirl is Simon Says Stamps Exclusive Harrington Vine die I've used it in various colours and cut some to fit.

I was going to put another Teacup girl in the centre but she was bit tall so I decided to use the My Favourite Things Always Time for Tea set instead. The stamps set had the perfect sentiment.

Here's the picture of the whole card love it when the end result looks better than what you envisage.

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 Thank you card post and of course link your card with the blue frog to win.

Houses

Edited changed the pictures now now yellow tinge just a bit grey!

Sorry for the yellow tinge I only made these last night and I had to take the photo with electric light on this morning. I wasn't going to enter the Less is More this week cos I'm short of time.

In the end I remembered the Molly Bloom House which I stamped and coloured last night while watching the telly and just before popping off to bed I added my mixture of Flower Soft and Fun flock to the roof and glitter on the tree, tops of the fence and all the squiggly lines.

This house is using the just the Stamps from Simon Says Stamps exclusive Where's the heart is but I really needed a fence because the house looks like it floating in air. Also I could use a paper stump and sansodor to blend the colours some silly idiot used the wrong ink!
I'll change the photos later.

Ovals

Oh I'm a bad Design Team member this is similar to the card I made a couple of weeks ago for Everybody Art Challenge but when I saw Ovals I had to used the Floral Oval and when I was checking out what image to use I saw this Molly Blooms Post Box and thought wouldn't that look great in front of the oval.
I tried to add gingham or spotty paper but it just didn't look right, I've just made next weeks lets just say at least it isn't red!
Once again I've used the Cuttlebug snow falling folder for inside the oval and the diamond folder from Sizzix which is from the Hello Friend bundle for the outsidde. I stuck some gingham ribbon to a wide red one to make it larger to make more of a impression. Sentiment is LOTV and the snowflake is a cuttlebug die must some flower soft and funflock mixture to finish.
Do pop over to check out the team and their fabulous designs.
I'm just grateful that I managed a card yesterday and I was pleased with the result and another nearly finished but they're DT cards one more to do then I can play and do what I want.

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.