Busy Day and Award

Hello to you all.  Hope you are enjoying your Bank Holiday Weekend so far.
I spent a few hours baking yesterday so no cards to share with you again.
My brother and nephew are visiting for the weekend so I thought I would do some baking for them.  Its ages since they came to stay. I saw them very briefly in April when I visited them while I was working down in Devon.
So the treats I made are Cheese Scones, Chocolate Chip Cookies & Flapjack.  Lets hope they are feeling hungry!!

So onto my Award and the seven people I am passing this onto are

Cherie
Sue
Amanda
Linda
Ann- Marie
M@rtine
Jenny

It is incredibly hard just to pick out 7 but these are the ones I have picked but there are so many fantastic and inspiring blogs that think everyone should have an award :)
Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Hugs Sally xxxx

My Very First Award

I can't believe it the lovely  Elaine has left me an award.  This is such a great thing for me to receive as my week has started off being pretty rubbish really so a huge Thank You to Elaine for cheering me up with this.

As its the first one you will have to bear with me but promise I will be back to pass on to 7 people.

Penny Black Challenge Week 115

Well Hello everyone, it has been a while since I have managed to come and join in the fun.
Work is absolutely crazy at the moment, working stupidly long hours with not much time for me.  I think if I write another list of things to do "today" I might just go mad!!   So I hear you cry why are you making cards if you have so much to do?..........I just had to have a break and so I thought entering a challenge or two could just be what I need.
So I have put together very quickly I hasten to add a card for the challenge over at Penny Black which this week is a sketch.

For my card I used

A white card blank (I even used a pre made card blank to speed up the proces!!!) 5" square.
Betsy Blue image from Penny Black coloured with Promarkers and Copics.  The balloons have been glazed with Glossy Accents.
The background paper is My Minds Eye and the corners punched with MS punch.
Flowers are from my stash with someflower brads for the centres.
The buttons are also from my stash.

I am entering this card into the Penny Black Challenge and the Secret Crafters Saturday Challenge

Thanks for looking.
Hope you are all ok and I will try and catch up with what you have all been creating soon.

Hugs Sally xxx

Just Because......

I haven't got any creations to share with you but I have got some news........
We (Mike and I) are trying to get a business started selling jewellery and gifts.  
We have both decided that we want to spend our time doing something other than our current jobs although it won't be too much different for Mike except all his hard work and effort will be for us rather than someone elses benefit.   We have a plan that we are working towards and one of the first steps is to get some items on a blog to give people the opportunity to see what we have on offer.
Mike has put the first range of jewellery on there today so please feel free to pop over and have a look.   Any comments would be appreciated too.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Hugs Sally xxx


http://justbecausejewellery.blogspot.com/

Penny Black Challenge #112

So where did another week disappear to?  

This weeks challenge over at Penny Black there is a recipe to follow which is as follows.

READY STEADY COOK



and the ingredients you will need are


1 Circle....2 Papers and 3 Flowers



For my card I have used Betsy Bluebell image which I have coloured in with Promarkers.
The Background paper is from DCWV and the flowers made with punches and the centres are Card Candy with Stickles from Craftwork Cards.

Thanks for looking.
Hugs Sally xxx

Just Cute Bears Challenge #27

Well we have tidied up the garden today and got some more stuff ready to take to the tip......yeah!    We are basically preparing to put the house on the market in the new year so the big clear out has already started.  I think the craft room clear out will be one of the last things on the list :).

I have made this card for the Bear Necessities challenge over at Just Cute Bears this week.  They are looking for clean and simple cards this week and I think this would fits the bill.

Forever Friends stamped image coloured with Copics.
Embossed white card for background.  I have inked round the edges of all the cardstock with versamark Gold ink. 
Sentiment - Craftwork Cards.
Ribbon - From stash.

Enjoy whats left of the weekend.
Thanks for looking.
Hugs Sally xxx

Penny Black Challenge #111

Hello everyone,
Hope you are all enjoying the weekend.  I have been watching bits of Craft Day on QVC and treated myself to the Martha Stewart punches.  I think you will be seeing them in a lot of my cards and projects from now on :)

I have made a card for the Christmas in July Challenge over at Penny Black.
Image is coloured with Promarkers.
Snowflakes made with various different punches and die cuts.
Embossing folder used for the background.
Ribbon from stash and some glamour dust to finish off.

Thanks for looking.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Hugs Sally xxx

Challenge #53 Happy Birthday

I am trying to enter a few more challenges at the moment but know it won't last long as work will no doubt take over again.

I have made a card for the challenge over at Pollycraft which is to make a Happy Birthday themed card.

I have used an image from Pollycraft coloured with Promarkers and Copics - Glossy accents to highlight the icing on the cake.
The background paper is from my stash.
Martha Stewart Scallop Dot punch for the edging.
Card candy and sentiment from Craftwork cards.

Thanks for looking.
Hugs Sally xxx

Born to Shop

Good evening everyone,
Here is another card that I made at the weekend using the free stamp from the latest editon of Creativity magazine.
The image is coloured with copic pens.
Background paper is from DCWV.
Card Candy from Craftwork cards.

Thanks for looking
Hugs Sally xxx

A Couple more Quick Forever Friends Cards

Good evening everyone,
Hope your Monday has been ok.......soon be Friday again......Yeah!!!
Oh O Wishing my life away.

Just wanted to share a couple of cards I made last week using up a bit of my stash!!

Thanks for looking.

Hugs Sally xx