Black

What a really miserable day here in Aberdeen the rain is really battering against the window as I type,just the perfect day to hide away and make some cards! 

I made this one for my Goddaughter who will be 23 soon .I realise that the paper bow isn't very clear in the top picture hopefully the second photo shows it better. I made it for the Casology  challenge their cue card  says BLACK. 

I used Pink Petticoat digi pinstripe paper , SU heart,and the sentiment and sparkles are from my stash .

Now off to have a little browse around blogland as I am lucky enough to have won the bonus ball in my work (we pick numbers and pay each week for them, then when the bonus ball is drawn on Saturday nights  lottery if you have that number then you win the pot )but I won a rollover week and so won the princely sum of £64!  so off to see which catches my eye and treat myself.

Hope you all have a great weekend and thanks for looking x

String or twine

String or Twine

It has been such a long time since I posted I almost forgot how to do it! :-)
 I confess to being not feeling that great lately and to my horror I lost all inclination to even enter my favourite challenges or even to comment  (which I am really sorry for ladies!!! ) but feeling much better now and so decided to take part in one of my favourites the Less is More challenge which is for string or twine...I am hopeless with this medium try as I might !
So went for a really simple card ,embossed the card base with dots and then added one of the festive flurry stamps from SU that I had heat embossed in silver and then used liquid pearls to dot  the snowflake in bisque because it matched the bit of string I had (I know it doesn't look it in the pic but then in real life there isn't that pink blush either ...ah the wonders of dear old blogger!). Think it would look better with a ribbon instead but  oh well .The sentiment is also from SU.
    But at least  that's the first Christmas card made !
  Thanks for taking the time to look  x

Round and Round

Next week it is my son's 17th birthday and in the uk that is the age when they can take driving lessons, and that is all he speaks about just now who we can book for his lessons! so have been wracking my brain to think of a card for him and so went looking at my favourite challenges to seek inspiration and found it on the Less is More site with their challenge ROUND and ROUND and I shamelessly CASed both of Chrissies ...they do say that copying is the highest form of praise remember Chrissie :-) and I totally agree and thanks for the picture tutorial  for a spinner card ...though mine is more a slider card!, which I managed  no bother (well when I unstuck my fingers from the tape that is ) Did originally think of a car then realised it would roll sideways so went with the SU motorbike instead, and  computer generated the sentiment to make it  a bit more personal.

Now off to seek inspiration for a get well card for a friend who is in hospital just now.....

xXx

p.s was updating  the blog when I noticed that for some reason blogger has decided to add a pink cast to my card ! Honest the real card and the original post don't have it ...ah the wonder of blogger!!

Dessert and tags

When I saw this weeks cue card for CAS.ology the first thought was dessert cocktails!!

Not an obvious choice I must admit but when we were in Glasgow not long ago on the menu for the desserts were dessert cocktails , so we just  had to give it a go and went for the raspberry cheesecake and all I can remember was it included a raspberry liquer called chambord as one of the ingredients.  When it came it was in  a glass just like the one on the card with cream floating on the top (how do they do that??) and it was delicious....just wish I had taken a photograph at the time.

My card is made with with a die and stamp set that I bought a wee  while ago and for now the name escapes me...sorry (and of course to save space have added it to another set so no longer have the packaging!) Decided to stamp the bottom layer in black and then to stamp the tag (which is the from the same set ) in Melon Mambo and align it so the words match ...which was remarkably easier than I thought it was going to be ,and popped the cocktail glass up on dimensionals .

It will also be perfect for the challenge over at the Friday Mashup as the challenge there, is to add a tag to your project,as too is the current challenge over at CASon Sunday (Tag it)

Thank you so much for taking the time to look x

Gold

When I saw this weeks CAS.ology  cue word was GOLD was a bit stumped so gathered my stock of gold (which wasn't a lot I must admit!) and saw the gold jingle bell and just while in my head I was singing jingle bells the postie delivered a new set of die cut letters ...sorted - or so I thought ,the original had a piece of old  gold paper behind a negative cut of the word but it was 'slighty' squint and the next one grew way too much layers etc for a CAS card , and after three attempts ran out of gold paper so it was back to the old drawing board .

I always admire  cards that have just the word as the focal point on them so this is finally my interpretation of it though not sure if I actually like it...think there is something lacking???

Thanks for looking and I really appreciate any comments that you leave x

Uniko challenge no.1

HEY there !

Thought that I would join in with UNIKO STUDIO first challenge ,have just lately discovered them and they are so good went back for more hee he!!! The challenge is to make a card that said Hello showcasing some of their products.

This is my take on the challenge ......

 I would firstly like to say a huge thank you to Bev and Ren-Yi  for helping me to understand what a blog hop is -Doh -think I over thought it but these ladies took the time to explain and hopefully this post will meet the challenge!

But back to the card......

This was the first stamp I bought from them  - Beautiful Blooms 1 ,and I love it though had a bit of a panic when the SU melon mambo ink stained it ,I usually use baby wipes to clean my stamps but these stamps clean up better with a bit of warm water and soap and then I was able  to go on and stamp in pale aqua the next time!

I showed this card to my hubby when I finished and he insisted that I add the 'there' as he just couldn't get a card that said simply 'hey!' :-)
Oh and before I forget my random fact is when I was wee I used to carry worms around in one my handbag s ...don't ask my why !
Thanks for popping in by ! x
Sorry about the picture its a bit overcast here at the moment !
P.S Thanks Gay, for pointing out  to me that this card also meets the criteria for the Less is More challenge which is hand made flowers!

Holiday

It's the holidays yay!

...and finally I might have enough time to play and take part in some of my favourite challenges which this week are -

The crafty cardmakers - Holiday

Addicted to CAS - codeword WATER

Addicted to stamps and more (new one for me) - Make your mark,using markers chalks etc

After  very busy and at times very stressful few months it's finally the school holidays and I am on holiday for the next 6 weeks! don't know about you but when I get really stressed I close my eyes and dream, my favourite being - of lying on a warm sandy beach and slowly toasting in the sun (of course in the dream I'm also at least 2 sizes smaller and 3inches taller!!) so hence my card....and isn't colouring in sooo therapeutic so restful even when it takes half a dozen goes to get it right !

p.s would like to say that in RL the umbrella is red and green not orange as it appears here, our son has our camera on his trip so have had to use my phone camera and I'm amazed to find that apart from the colour of the umbrella that it doesn't take too bad a picture ! 

Thanks for popping over x

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