Sketch N Stash #134

Morning all, time for another dose of the Sketch N Stash Challenge. I absolutely LOVED the sketch this time as it seemed to suit my current LIM state of mind.

We are being sponsored by another TWO companies this fortnight, both of them offering fabulous goodies.

 

Firstly, My Creative Classroom who have an online workshop as their wonderful prize for one lucky winner

Secondly, Delicious Doodles are giving away FOUR images to a second winner.
So, TWO chances to win what are you waiting for?

We'd love you to join in with us and just take a look at our wonderful DT cards on the challenge blog for inspiration.
It will be my turn to choose the Top 3 for this challenge and I'm really looking forward to seeing all your little works of art.

The beautiful image on my card comes from Delicious Doodles and the papers and sentiment from my stash, all finished off with lashings of glitter on the roses.
I can't begin to tell you how simple and basic my card is but I just didn't want anything to detract from that glorious image.

 

Mixed Emotions

Morning all, things have been a bit fraught here at 'Chez Chrissie' lately so I apologise for not being around much.

The month started off quite happily with a dear friend welcoming a new baby into her family so I whisked up these 'cute as a button' baby cards for her.

I designed these in CAS and just added the die cut name tags, so they weren't too fat to be posted normally.

Later in the month we received the very sad news that hubby's sister had died.
I never really know what to do for sympathy cards, I always use the 'thinking of you' sentiment but I tend to find it difficult to decide on an image. However, I kept it very simple and my niece really liked it, so it must have been OK.
I really hate the months of January and February as we seem to lose so many loved ones then, roll on March!

A Gothic Birthday

Morning all!
I just thought I'd share this card with you as it's definitely a change from my normal style.

It was my youngest son's girlfriend's birthday yesterday and he asked me to make a card featuring her favourite character, Sally from 'Nightmare Before Christmas' fame.

This is an 8x8 card and not only did I use quite a few of my diamonds (real of course) for decoration, but I also cut into my precious flocked velvet paper for this.
Obviously, all we crafters know that using your ONLY remaining sheet of black, flock velvet paper shows unconditional love for your son, such a shame he'll never realise it.

Sketch N Stash #133

Morning all, time for another Sketch N Stash Challenge.
We're still working our way through the archived sketches and this fortnight we're being sponsored by

Crafty Devils Papercraft who are offering a £10 prize.

I'm tired of these dark and drizzly days so I decided to brighten things up a bit by using some vibrant colours for my card. Did you need your sunglasses? ha ha.
The image I used is designed by Jasmine Beckett-Griffith and is part of a set of her Gothic Fairies that I bought years ago.
I found this sketch was perfect for using up some of those scraps of papers we all hold onto.

I hope you can join in with us and check out the blog for the winner and Top 3 from the last challenge and to see the wonderful creations my teamies have come up with.

A Couple more Plaques

Morning all!
I expect you're surprised to see me when it's not a Sketch N Stash day aren't you?

While we were recently having some work done to the house, our carpenter saw some of my plaques and asked if I would make one for his partner and another for her daughter. Of course I obliged, so I thought I'd share them with you.

It's difficult to see from this photo but the shoe is decorated with lots of diamonds (real ones of course!) and finished off with black satin ribbon.

The image for this is from Digital Pencil Too it's Mo Manning's 'Video Girl' and again is finished with satin ribbon, this time pink.

Sketch N Stash #132

Morning all! I'm sharing my DT card for this fortnight's Sketch N Stash Challenge We are lucky enough to have TWO wonderful sponsors again and they are:

Crafty Individuals

and

 Inky Impressions

It would be wonderful if you could join in with us and our DT have made some wonderful cards if you are in need of inspiration, just pop over to the challenge blog to take a look and check out our last lucky winner and Top 3.

I've used an image from my Kanban collection of Carnaby Street, these girls are so elegant, just perfect for a female card.

I'm sorry that I haven't been about too much lately but January and February are always bad months for me, due to personal reasons. I'm hoping that by March I'll be feeling brighter and back to joining in with you all much more.

Sketch N Stash #131

Morning all, time for Sketch N Stash's latest challenge which is being sponsored by Stitchy Bears who are offering a $10 voucher to our winner.
The above image is from their store and is called 'Lady Jane' isn't she lovely?

 Card Details:
* Image - Stitchy Bears 'Lady Jane'
* Colouring medium - Promarkers
* Sentiment - Crafty Ann
* Everything else from my stash

I do hope you'll be able to take part and join in the fun with us, take a look at the challenge blog for lots of inspiration from our lovely DT. While you're there why not  check out last fortnight's winner and Top 3.

Sketch N Stash #130

Morning all, firstly may I wish all of you a wonderful New Year full of good health, love and laughter.
Next, welcome to the first challenge of 2014 for Sketch N Stash where we are continuing to use sketches from our archives.

This challenge is being sponsored by Live and Love Crafts who are offering our winner a £10 voucher to spend in their online store, so I hope you can make time to join in with us.

I treated myself to a few craft things in the online sales, including the set that my card was made from, I just couldn't resist the beautiful Art Deco foiled images and papers.
The metallic cardstock that I used for framing has reflected the colours in the image rather than staying the silver it should be and the lavender pearls (top left) barely show up at all in this scan, but I'm quite pleased with the card in real life.

I think you may be seeing a lot more of this type of card from me this year as I seem to have bought lots of vintage goodies and I'm hoping to get back to my favourite style of crafting again.

Card Details:
* Papermania 'Art Deco Roaring Twenties' die cut and paper pack.

Sketch N Stash #129

Morning all, it's the final challenge for this year from Sketch N Stash.
As with the other challenges this year, we have taken the sketch from our archives and I've loved using these original sketches again.
The optional challenge set by Janet is 'no design papers'. Gosh, this was difficult ( I do hope the paper strip down the side of my card doesn't count!)
Please excuse this terrible picture of my card. It was scanned and as it's quite 'bumpy' it should really have been photographed, but you all know by now how useless I am at taking pictures and hubby is 'on holiday' and enjoying playing his PC game, so I didn't feel I should ask him.

We are being sponsored for our final challenge of 2013 by the Stamp Fairy and they are offering our winner a $10 certificate to spend in their shop, so well worth joining in with us.

I hope you all had a wonderful and peaceful Christmas and I wish you all a very happy and healthy new year.

Favourite Five Christmas Cards

Morning all, I am joining in with Debby's challenge for my five favourite Christmas cards.

This was quite a struggle for me because when I reviewed what I'd made, I found I didn't really have ANY favourites.
My problem seems to be, I love them when I'm making them but I don't like any of them that much once they're finished. Never mind, onward......

Three of these five were made in CAP2 (have I told you I love this program? Oh OK, don't all shout at once!)
If you would like to join in Debby's challenge just post your cards and link them to her blog here
 
 

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Just popping in to wish all my crafting friends and followers a very Happy Christmas and sending hugs to all those in need of them at this time of year.
May you all have a joyful and peaceful holiday and may 2014 be all you wish for.

Sketch N Stash #128

Morning all, time again for the Sketch N Stash challenge and this time another Christmas card from me.
The optional theme this time was my choice and I chose 'Glitter and Sparkle' Well, would you really expect anything else? I'm also going to be responsible for choosing the Top 3, so no pressure then.
My card for this challenge was made in CAP2 and I added loads of Stickles 'Stardust' for a really sparkly card.

We have 2 wonderful sponsors for this challenge and they are:

Ooh La La Creations who are offering a CD of our winner's choice 

and Inky Impressions who are offering another winner $10 to spend in their store

So please pop over to the challenge blog, take a look at the fabulous creations our DT have made, check out last time's winners and Top 3 and with TWO chances to win why not join in with us? We'd love to see you.

Hubby and I are celebrating our 41st wedding anniversary today, not sure if that merits congratulations or commiserations, I'll see how the day goes before I decide. Joke! I love him to bits and wouldn't change him for anyone (well, maybe Tom Selleck but no-one else!)

Sketch N Stash #127

Morning all, it's this fortnight's Sketch N Stash Challenge and I've made a Christmas card (yeah I know, don't faint)

We're being sponsored again by Crafty Individuals, who are offering our lucky winner some lovely goodies.
The optional theme is 'Let it Snow' so I thought a few snowflakes may be in order.
Looking again at the sketch I see that I've changed the jaunty layer into a ribbon, I hope I'll be forgiven.
I hope you'll find time to pop over to the challenge blog, take a look at the gorgeous offerings form the DT, check out our winners and Top 3 from last time and maybe join in with us for this challenge (especially if, like me, you need encouragement to make some xmas cards)

My card was made, yet again, in CAP2 where I'm still enjoying playing with scrapping and card making.