The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers - C is for Caffiene

Greetings, fans of Snark! Edna is in need of a little 'pick-me-up' this week and her stimulant of choice is COFFEE!

So, now that Edna is fully caffeinated, let's get down to business!

I think this sweet Saturated Canary image was a freebie. I added the wording on my PC and went with some very simple colouring. I created the background with WOW! Embossing powder, Distress Ink and as many coffee related stamps as I could lay my hands on.

I had no idea which colours to choose for this card, so took a peek over at Design Seeds and found this gorgeous palette to inspire me.

Finally, here's a fun cartoon that nearly became my card for this challenge.

Please check-out the Sister's fabulous cards for this challenge and then play along and share your snarky coffee inspired cards with us!

School's out for Summer!

Ah, the school holidays... Or as I like to call them my 'Six Week Summer Craft-fest!'
Yes, in the words of Alice Cooper "School's out for summer." On Friday we said goodbye to our lovely Year Six children in an emotional leavers assembly (I blubbed throughout) and have now broken-up for the summer hols.

My plans for the summer are simple: relax, make things, read (lots), see friends and family, hangout with the cat and go on holiday to Croatia with my DH. Sounds good, huh?

Here's a very simple card made using Krista's 2000 Facebook followers freebie.
Isn't she adorable?

I printed her out and also printed a mask on a long Post-it note. This was so I could add the coffee cups background and quote from a set called Smell the Coffee from Impression Obsession. This is quite an old clear stamp set and doesn't seem to widely available anymore. I've only made one other card using this set, which is odd as I think the images are gorgeous. You can expect to see a few more cards using these images! BTW, the colours look really weird on the screen, especially the base card which is actually deep pink and matches her lip colour.

So, I'm booking my place on the sofa between hubby and the cat for the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth games tonight, despite having only just recovered from The World Cup and Wimbledon.

Happy crafting everyone!

June CCC reveal

Goodness me, I am one tired bunny this morning after a very busy week. As usual I am a wee bit late posting my Card Chain Challenge card (which reached the lovely Dawn in NZ in record time).

I hope its okay that I feel rather pleased with this little card. Yes, my stamping could be straighter, my colouring could be better but I like the composition of this card and the fact that it turned out just as I planned!

I think this little sweetie is simply adorable and always have such fun creating with Krista's beautiful digis.The stencil is by Memory Box and was a birthday present from my parents. As this stencil is rectangular I masked the lower portion to give me a square. I love this gorgeous script W&W stamp (now there's a stamp company going from strength to strength!) against the Distress Inks.

I'm going to link this card with the current Winnie and Walter Challenge which is to combine Distress Inks and a W&W product. The prize is a gift card for a yummy $30.00!

Finally, here's the link to Deborah's Card Chain Challenge sign-up for July. This month there's a special 'twist' to the challenge with a rather desirable prize on offer! As always Deborah is doing an amazing job with organising this challenge, which is one of my favourites to play along with. I enjoy the crafting element of the challenge but I also love 'meeting' other members of the crafting community when we email to exchange addresses. And, let's face it, there's nothing like receiving a beautiful handmade card from a fellow crafter.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Less is More - Colour Challenge

After a busy Monday it's good to come home and indulge in a few minutes catching up with my crafty pals in Blogland!

Over at Less is More it's week #175 and the girls want to see cards featuring 'The colours in your bedrooms'. Anyone who visits my blog will not be surprised to discover that my bedroom, and therefore my card, is heavy on the turquoise! Such a wonderful colour and I love it in combination with other colours too, especially pink and lime.

I'm sorry about the quality of the picture. I've already given this card to my friend Claire (it's her birthday on Wednesday) so I can hardly ask for it back to photograph again!

I love the big Mama Elephant sentiment... just what my stamp collection needed. I coloured that adorable Saturated Canary image, fussy cut her and popped her up on dimensional tape to tuck alongside the sentiment. The card looked rather plain until I hit on the idea of colouring the doodled border. I think the additional 'pops' of colour really pull the card together.

I'm also linking up with the lovely girls over at Seize the Birthday. They have an optional 'topping' of Summertime for this challenge. I'm hoping that my vibrant colour combo simply shouts 'summer' for them like it does for me.

Have a great Monday evening everyone and happy crafting!

Just a little bit posh!

Last Sunday I joined the girls at the Chateau Impney, near Droitwich, to celebrate my friend Jacquie's 50th birthday with an afternoon tea.

 

We had a great time chatting and laughing, and eating far too many delicious sandwiches and lovely cakes.

And here's the card I sent to the birthday girl: a super-sexy Saturated Canary image coloured in Promarkers and pencils. Well, every girl should feel she's got ooooodles of  'Va va vooooom' left when she reaches her half-century!

Happy crafting everyone!

Beautiful Hannah hanging out with two weird old women!

My best friend's daughter is 21 today! I know it's a cliche, but it really does seem like only yesterday that she was born.

I CASEd this card and gave the cute Saturated Canary image red hair as Hannah is a red head - only to discover that she is currently blonde!

Isn't she a beauty! And check out that lovely cake - shame the bling hasn't photographed that well.

Here's Hannah flanked by two strange women: that's Mom (Jacquie) on the left and 'Auntie' Jo (me) on the right, at her birthday party yesterday.

 

Believe it or not I'm linking this card to the LIM Challenge to Use Designer Paper in a CAS Way.  It certainly was my intention for this to be a CAS card but it just got a little less CAS as it progressed.

 

So happy birthday darling girl, love you loads. Happy crafting everyone!

She'll make a beautiful bride.

My lovely friend Alex just got engaged, so guess who made a card?

As you can see I left everything pretty simple, just added some glitter and Diamond Glaze plus two little gems in her hair... just like Alex wears!

I love this image from Saturated Canary and was delighted to get an opportunity to use it.
Challenge #192 at I {heart} Promarkers is an Anything goes week so I'm going to link up and play along.

Have a great weekend everyone!

The big 12!

Don't you just love Krista's gorgeous digital images? I find it very hard to resist them, especially when I'm in the mood to colour.
This is Tammy Pie and as you can see she is just perfect to stand alongside that giant paper pieced number twelve. I'm trying to use up some of my older paper pads (and not just hoard them) so I broke out Basic Grey's lovely 'Bittersweet' papers. I printed the numbers and then cut them out... simples.
The weather is horrible right now so I feel a little more card making coming on!

Happy crafting everyone!

Rain, rain... and more rain.

It's raining cats and dogs outside yet again... and there are poodles everywhere!
Sorry, couldn't resist that.

At least the weather means that I don't have to feel too guilty about an afternoon in the craft room. I've got a friend dropping by for coffee and to collect a birthday card soon so I'll keep it brief.

Here's a card made to order for my friend Amanda's sweet daughter Felicity (Fliss) who is three next week. I created the big number '3' on my PC, printed it out and ran it through my Cuttlebug. The papers are from the last few pages of my Echo Park Springtime pad. I'd love to buy another pad as these papers are just perfect for little girl cards, but alas they seem to have all sold out.

I thought this Saturated Canary image was just what I wanted for Flissy's card as she always wears her hair in sweet little bunches. I cut out the image very carefully so that I still have her sister to use on another card! The sentiments are from Hero Arts.
I'm linking this card up with the following challenges:
Charisma Cardz Challenge #25 - Anything Goes
MAWTT - Birthday Week 2 (Many happies girls!!!)
Crafts and Me - Challenge #90 Birthdays
Chocolates, Coffee and Cards Challenges - Anything Goes.
OSAAT - Use a Digi (The girl's have got a DT call out).

Well, I best go and put the kettle on as my mate will be here any minute. I'll also go and check for leaks as we had a huge flood of almost biblical proportions in our laundry room the other day.

Happy crafting everyone!