A Blue Monday !

Hello everyone !

Hope your heads aren't too bad after all the celebrations !! lol

Well, we have a new challenge at Magical Monday's and we are sponsored by our very own Lacey, owner of Stamp and Create.

The theme this time is .......

Anything Magical

and the winner will receive a $20 voucher to spend at Stamp and Create

so, get crafting, but remember to use a magical image !!!

This was my card for the DT .....

The DP's are some that I have had in my stash for a long time. My new year's resolution is to use up my stash before I go out buying new stuff !!!! Like that's going to happen lol lol 

I have used a Teddy Bea image 'cos I like them soooo much - I have loads !!

And, of coourse ...... plenty of Wild Orchid flowers and I made my own pin with some beads left over from my jewellery making days !!

I will be entering this card into the following challenges ......

Deep Ocean - Warm Wishes

Colour Create - Blue, Silver and White

Cutie Pie - Use a Sentiment

Teddy Bo - Birthstone (Aquamarine)

See you all soon (hopefully) with some more makes. 'Til then ......

Stay safe and stay happy.

Hugs, Sandra xx

Almost Forgot !

Hi everyoone .......

Well, I have fed 'im indoors. I say fed him ..... I made him a sandwich while he gets on with the very important job of helping Michael Cane in The Eagle Has Landed !!!

A quick post this time 'cos I almost forgot to show you this card that I made for a "pink loving" (you'd never guess !!) friend of mine. I was supposed to get it in for the last challenge at Magical Mondays but ...... I missed the deadline (so sorry teamies !).

I wanted to enter it into the I Love Promarkers Challenge - "Anything Goes".

I would love to be placed in one of their challenges, as that would mean my coluring is getting better !!!

The challenge at Magical Mondays was "Pink, Silver and \White" 

I love this image of the dreamcatcher fairy, she is so sweet !!

If you look at the dragonfly - can you tell the wings used to be blue ? No ! It's amazing what you can do with Promarkers isn't it ??? lol lol

I'm away now to finish my DT card for tommorrow's new Challenge - I'm determined not to miss another one !!!!

Stay safe and stay happy

Hugs, Sandra xx

Twins - Again !!!

Happy New Year to all my lovely followers !

I have been missing in action just lately. Unfortunately, December and January is the busiest time for me work wise and so I have to prioritise but, not over the Holidays I don't !! lol lol

We have been taking our neighbours over to Glenfield Hospital and back daily (about an hour each way !) so crafting time has still been limited but ..... we don't mind. They are in their late seventies and the wife had to have open heart surgery so we took her in and have been taking the husband to see her every day.

They have no transport themselves although, they do have a son who is part of a two car family but ...... maybe the less said about that the better !!

Anyway, apart from that, my bessie mate's grandson has had twins well, when I say he has, his partner has and they are soooooo adorable. There is Jack, who is dark and came first at 6lbs and Olivia, who is fair and came 45 minutes later (trust a woman to be late !! lol) at 6.2 lbs. Happily they are all healthy and doing well.

That means I had to go into my craft room and make a card - quick 'cos they don't keep them in long any more do they ??? This is what I came up with ......

I pieced together some oddments of DP's that I had to make a quilt, did a bit of faux stitching and added some pearls were the stitching crossed.

 

I am really sorry but, I can't think were I got the digi stamp from. I got it some time ago before I started seriously keeping records of what, where, when and (sometimes) why ??

Trouble with twins is that you need two lots of bootee charms for one card !!!!

Thought I would enter this in the following challenges while I had the chance ....

Charisma Cards - Anything Goes

Whimsy Stamps - Add a Charm

Allsorts - New Beginnings

Well, off the feed 'im indoors although, how he can eat anything after that dinner is beyond me !!!!

Stay safe and stay happy - not just today but all year through

Hugs, Sandra xx

Trying to get back !!

Hi Everyone !

I just wanted to say a really big sorry for not being around for a while (again!!) but, on top of all the work that has come flooding in (I'm sure most of my clients think I don't have to do a thing towards Christmas or even have a Christmas at all !!!) it was the 1st anniversary of losing our son Michael and it has been a hard couple of weeks for us both. 

We know he wouldn't want us to put our Christmas on hold (as it were), he wasn't that sort of person and would be the first to tell us to carry on regardless and enjoy it !!! but, it I don't think we were prepared for the way it stopped us in our tracks and hit us like a train that it had been a whole year !!!

Anyway, enough of me being negative. I will be back as soon as work and Christmas allows but, in the mean time, would like to say thanks for all your messages and, as always, stay safe and stay happy !!

Back soon

Sandra xx

It's Monday again !

 Hi Everyone !

It's Monday again and time for another Magical Monday Challenge and this time it's a sketch by our very own Heidi !

Before I show you the sketch take a look at the winning entry of our last challenge ....... Karina !

Isn't it gorgeous !!!

On to today's challenge and, as I said, it's a great sketch to follow. You can interpret it any way you like just remember to use a magical image.

We are being sponsored, for this challenge, by 

who are offering the winners 4 digi images of their choice !!

It's a super sketch and this is what I did with it ...................

The DP's were free in a magazine and I have simple layered them up with some plain pink and kraft brown card. Not a combination I use a lot but tried it after seeing some of the gorgeous results my friend Tammy (kizzydesigns.blogspot.com) gets with her brown and blue combination so ..... thank you Tammy for your inspiration!

I love this stamp from Sugar Nellie and have used it a lot for my Christmas cards this year (making it sound like I have made loads when really I have loads to do !!!! lol) She is simply stamped on to white card which has then been edged with my distress inks and coloured in with pro-markers.

 The sentiment is also stamped on to white card and edged with distress inks. I have then coloured just the holly and used glossy accents to give it a shine !

 I have then completed the inside to match the front (don't know what happened to the colour on this one but it's not quite as pink as it looks !!!).

 I have been "missing in action for a couple of weeks as I have been up to Scotland for some R&R before the rush starts at work.

4 of us hired a cottage and had the time of our lives with some sightseeing, some rest and sooooooo much food !!!!

It's a gorgeous location at Dunnet Head which, if you don't know ('cos I didn't before I went !! lol) is about 10 miles west of John O Groats and right on the coast.

Anyway, I will post some more pics when I have had time to sort them out a bit !!!

In the mean time stay safe and stay happy !!

Hugs, Sandra xx