Rosie-Dees Challenge - week 43

Hee Hee as promised here is my sneaky peak for Rosie-Dees Challenge Week 43. I bet you cannot guess what it is eh???

To give you a clue: the challenges for July are all about OCCASIONS and this week the theme is.....WEDDINGS!!!

If you want to see my take on it in all its glory please pop over to Rosie-Dee's blog for a looksee and to see what the other members of the Design Team have come up with. Oh and do get all romantic and enter the challenge!!!LOVE & HUGS XXXX

Rosie-Dees Challenge week 42

Me again!!! Do you remember that I put up a sneaky peek at the beginning of the week???? It was my design for the Rosie-Dees Challenge week 42 - sketch. The theme for July is OCCASIONS and this week we were free to pick an occasion as long as we worked from the sketch provided.

The Sketch

I chose to make a birthday card as I have severe need of them this month haha. Now why do birthdays seem to come in batches???

The background paper is K&Co and the stamp is one of my favourites by Elusive Images. The pearls round the lady are yet more taken from my old wedding dress.....it had a long train haha!!! I added some lovely soft velvet ric-rak and some blue lace.

Please pop over to see what the other design team member did for this...everyone has a different take on the sketch!

Look out for a sneaky peak tomorrow for next weeks theme!!! Thank you for taking a look HUGS XXXX

SCD - postcards - VINTAGE

Hello there from a dull & dismal Cornwall today :( Ahhhh well, we have had it good haven't we?

Todays offering is a new challenge from Something Completely Different. It was Gez's choice this week and the subject is VINTAGE!and we are making postcards through the month of July! Please pop over to see what lovely crafting thier design team have come up with...its really inspiring!!!

I consider myself very lucky beacause after my FIL died we found huge piles of vintage paperwork, cards, letter and photographs. So for this challenge I have scanned a rather unusual postcard. It is a birthday postcard sent to his mother from my late FIL Douglas way back in 1936. I scanned both sides for you to see too. The lovely photo of Douglas himself was taken in 1941 when he joined the war, so the dates nearly tally!

Although you can't see it in the pic I spritzed the yellow background with copper glimmer mists and added copper embellies. Oh & I am sure he would have laughed to see the postmark on his head as he was always muttering about the post being late in the office hahahahaha

Thank you for popping over to have a looksee, HUGS XXXX

TAG IT ON #11 - PASSION

oooo what a lovely theme for me!!!! Over on TAG IT ON CHALLENGES

theme this week is.....

PASSION

For those that don't know me I have been married to my lovely Jeremy for only 18months After a really bad experience & thinking that was it with men forever along he popped!!!!! So I just had to have a great big red heart didn't I :) I know this is very corny but whenever I tell him I love him he alsways says 'love you more', which makes the little tag stamp very appropriate for this!!!

I used a mix of worn lipstick & dusty concord distress inks for the background & overstamped with a little Fiskars stamp. The wings stamp is from Maya Rd. I have never put wings on things like this before so I am pretty pleased it looked ok :) Oh & I stuck a piece of red lace in too to soften it up.

The edges are from my silver Krylon pen. Does anyone else get a bit spaced out from the smell of these??? Or do I hold it too close to my nose hahahahahaha?

Thank you for having a look, LOVE & HUGS XXX

Bubbly Fun Challenges #5

Hellooo....as promised...a reveal hahahahahaha!!!!!

As a DT member for Bubbly Funk I organise a new challenge every month. This month the challenge is......

FROM YOUR GARDEN!!!!

This can be anything from leaves, twigs to amazing photography. You can do anything you wish for these challenges as long as its craft related.

Until the end of July there is some AMAZING BLOG CANDY to be had for one lucky entrant so pop over here to see what we are about and give yourself a chance to win £75 worth of lovely stash!!!


Here is my entry....I was going to do some printing with leaves till I found some lovely moss that had dried out in the sun! It made a perfect nest for my bird!!!

Thank you for taking a look, have a great week, HUGS XXXXX

SCD - POSTCARDS and SNEAKY PEAKS!

Helloooo my lovely blogging friends! Today I have three things for you!

Firstly its my entry for the Something Completely Different challenge. As its a new month the criteria has changed to POSTCARDS. This is much larger than we have been working with but its still a lovely size!!! The theme this week is FACES. Now I did struggle with this as I have no face stamps to get all arty with :( When I was doing Art at school I loved sketching faces and always fancied sketching an old man as thier faces are so full of character. Leonardo da Vinci's sketches are stunning so I have chosen him for my muse. Of course he invented Mona so he is a sort of Tim Holtz of his day hahahahaha

So this is a self portrait of the great man himself. I got the image from the net.

The other two pics are of sneaky peeks of thing to come on my blog & elsewhere tomorrow hehe!!! Do pop over to check them out tomorrow night!

BubblyScrumtious Blog



Rosie-Dees's Challenge Blog

Thank you all for taking a look today, have a wonderful weekend XXX

Tag It On #10 - Say it With Flowers

Gosh...its week 10 of the lovely Dragonsdream Tag It On Challenge Blog . I have been so inspired by what others have done for this & the themes have been so much fun!!! Do pop over for a look X

On to this weeks.....

"Since I met Fred, I have received flowers again!! I LOVE flowers, so this week , I want you to make a tag on that theme - say it with flowers. Any colour scheme, any size etc... just so long as it is a tag and has at least one REAL stamp on it... ENJOY!!! "

Awe isn't Fred lovely??? I am lucky to have a hubby like that and I hope you all do too!!!

For this week I used an Elusive Image stamp of a poppy and watercoloured it. I adore blue poppies so it had to be blue haha. I was then insane in thinking I could cut it out......I am still getting used to my new glasses but thats another story!!!! The background is distress ink in dried marigold overstamped with spiced marmalade. The quote is one of my favourites: When God had a beautiful thought he made a flower.

Thank you all for coming to take a look, I hope that you are finding some way of keeping cool in this heat wave. Hugs XXX