Aud Sentiments Glitterbabes

Its been a little quiet over here - sorry, life is a bit busy at the moment!  This time our challenge over at Aud Sentiments is a nice easy one - its to use the phrase "Happy Birthday" somewhere on your card!  Ok, when I say its a nice easy one, I nearly failed!  I forgot to use the phrase, so had to shove it inside quick!

This time we were sponsored by the Glitterbabes

They are giving the winner two of their images!  They also gave us a selection of images to play with!

I chose to use the sentiments from some of their sets...they just made me giggle!  

 

 

Well, thats me for today - back soon!

Rx 

Aud Sentiments - Get well soon

For this next challenge we have been sponsored by Daisy Doodles. They have the most beautiful digis. You should stop by their store and have a look around.
 http://daisydoodlescreativechallenges.blogspot.com

They are giving the winner $10 GC . Thanks so much!

OK, the challenge this time is "A Get Well Card" 

As some of you many know, I am doing an RE course, so have had to reduce my crafting time a bit - but I did manage to "knock" this out!

I just really like the simplicity of this image - and it came in a set with other buggies in - so useful!

Well, everyone seems to need Get Well cards, so this is your chance to make one for your stash and enter into a challenge at the same time

thanks for looking today....and I really dont know why its all in bold font and wont turn off!!!

Rx

Anniversary - and moggy with no self-respect!

Ha ha - yep, mention a kitty cat and you just had to come and check it out!

OK - pics of card first....

And now the moggy - no self-respecting cat would let his photo be taken like this!  His name is Pickles!

I suspect he is a "Rock Kitty" and is practising his air guitar!  Josh said Pickles is going to be in atomic kitten!!!!  MWAH HA HA x

Rx

New School!

Like so many others, Josh has started his secondary school today!  YAY!  

One obligatory pic of him in new uniform.

Picture of Josh removed

And his Good Luck card...

 ...with a face like this...he doesnt need luck!  Lol x

Picture of Josh removed

Hope today went as well for all the other newbies!

Rx

Wedding Wishes!

My friend Ella "does" weddings!  The latest craze is to have a tree and get guests to write little notes and tie them onto the tree!  The little notes are then taken off, boxed off and act as the bride and groom's guest book. 

Ella asked me to make some of the little tags for the tree, so I thought I would post them up here!  I had to make 150 of the plain "Wedding Wishes" hearts and a little box to go with them and then she asked me to do a few more samples for her.  Seriously, you could go for days making these things!

Phew!  If I can get a little confidence doing these, then I am going to look at making some invites etc!

Thanks for taking the time to look

Rx

Delicious Doodles - Fresh Start!

Ooooo - its been lovely having the summer off!  Teri is fabby and never puts any pressure on us to keep up with the challenges, but it has been nice to not have any to do over the summer... until about a week ago, then I got jittery because I didnt have a challenge to ... errrr...challenge me!

To celebrate our return, the first challenge is "Fresh Start" - we want to see you using new stuff!  

I am not heavily into all the darkness and gothic stuff, but there are some of Teri's "dark" images that I just love as soon as I see them - and this was one of them.....

Not only is the image new to me, but I am still really new at the dark and gothic look!  I have to say, its quite difficult to see the card properly in the pic below - not sure how I managed to take quite such a bad picture!

OK - now its your turn - lets see some of your new stuff for our FRESH START challenge over at Delicious Doodles!

Rx

Aud Sentiments - Card/Sentiment for a girl

Hey, we got new DT members, you are gonna love them - they compliment our team beautifully.   They will be joining in from the next challenge - but here they are....

Audrey G. from A Day In The Life Of A Country Mouse

Michelle from Krazee Craftin' Mama

Carol from CM Design

Penny from Penny Busch Creations

Lisa from One Happy Little Crafter

OK - onto the challenge - we were sponsored this time by  Di's Digi Downloads.   I hadnt come across Di's work - but will definitely be popping back now I have - they are cute!  The winner of this challenge will get 5 free digis to play with!

 

Di very kindly gave the team some digis to play with, but I just couldnt decide which one to use!  Typical! 

So, I thought I would use....lots of them - to create a colouring in card! 

They ARE cute arent they?  Hey Ho - its off to work I go now - enjoy your day - ooooo forget to tell you - the challenge is a card or sentiment for a girl - why not give it a go?

Rx

Aud Sentiments - DT CALL!!

Hello Hello!  

Its been ages and I am a week late with this post!  I have a reason, really - I am doing an RE course (in case I get made redundant from libraries!) so that I can go and apply to become a secondary school teacher.  Phew!  Eventually I got to make this card!  I dont normally fret too much about missing the odd challenge because Aud (and Teri for my other DT) is really chilled if we cant contribute...thanks hun!

 

We are losing a couple of our DT members (Carolina and Piali :(), so we are having a DT call!  

All you have to do to apply is put DT next to your challenge entry over at Aud Sentiments Challenges.

The term will be for 4 months.
Your duties will be...
Comment on the entries
Make a card/project every other week
Be active in our Yahoo group
Have fun
We are a very laid back group and craft to have fun and get to know other crafters so if all that sounds good to you we would love to see you apply.

OK, now onto the challenge...

We are so lucky to welcome Whimsie Doodles as our sponsor for this challenge. If you haven't seen any of their images you need to go check them out. They are adorable and so easy to work with.

They are giving the winner a $10 Gift Certificate to the store.

So with us having the DT call we are doing another "Anything Goes" challenge so that you can really show us your stuff! 

Whimsie Doodles very kindly gave us some images to play with - but I particularly wanted to use an image from their fundraiser for the SPCA.

 This card was one of those real toughies - if it could go wrong it did!  Lol.

Please do have a go at the DT call - or just go along and play in the ANYTHING GOES challenge.

Thanks for popping by today

Rx

25th Anniversary card

Our lovely boss at working is celebrating her 25th anniversary this week, so I have popped out a card for her...

I used centura pearl in white and embossed it through my big shot with a fiskars plate - yes these really DO work with the big shot.  I then mounted it onto some more centura silver and used blue as my main backing.  The punch is from stampin up, as is the whisper white ribbon.  The "25" I did on my ecraft with MTC - gotta love it!

The inside - with a piccy of them from their wedding - dont let anyone tell you that you cant get pictures off facebook!  You need to use the snipping tool to do it though, you cant just right click and save.

I googled the verse and liked this one best - didnt want it too slushy!  Printed it in light grey.

And a pic with George!  See that little black speck?  Yep, that's George - some sort of buggy thing!  Luckily he didnt decide to stay!   Phew!

I have entered this into the following challenges:-

C.R.A.F.T Challenge want to see anniversary cards..
Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog wants us to use punches..
Quirky Crafts want us to use numbers
Raise the Bar have an anything goes challenge on - and I really think I did raise the bar on this one!  This is nto a style I have tried before and I am quite chuffed with how it turned out.

Thanks for popping by

Rx

Aud Sentiments - Christmas Challenge

Phew - how hot is this weather?  It seems so strange to be making a Christmas card in this heat!  But yes, that is the challenge over at Aud Sentiments this time - to be more accurate, its to use the words "Merry Christmas".

For this next challenge we welcome back Stamping Boutique.

Now I dont normally give out information about the company or designers but I just needed to mention that Tracey, the owner and designer, has a husband, 3 teenagers, 5 mini-dachshunds and a horse!!!!  WOW!!!!!

They are also giving the winner 3 digis of their choice.

So - here is my card.....

Close up on that image - I find these secular images so useful for Christmas.

Just need to mention this frame though....it is cut on my ecraft!  I am just always so pleased with how well it cuts - I dont know what I expect, but I just very rarely have a fail on it!

I have to confess that I had this image in my files and I can't remember whose it was - I think it MAY have been Julie Flannagan's from the yahoo MTC group - but, huge apologies if that's not right!  

So, thats me for today, please pop over and see the design team's wonders today - and why not join in the challenge - such an open and easy one!

Rx

Back from Hols! AND a DT CALL!

Have just had the most lovely week away - in Wales!  AND, I got sunburn - not what you would expect from that part of the country.

Just thought I would pop on and remind people that Delicious Doodles have a DT call on at the moment!  Just click on the link in my sidebar to go to the challenges blog.

One gorgeous view - from the top of Mount Snowdon!

Thanks for popping by today - now, just need to deal with all the emails at work/urgent stuff and then can get back to my crafty fun!

Rx

Aud Sentiments - Enjoy your day

Oooo last day at Primary School today for my son - going to be a long one mind as they have their leaver's disco after school tonight too.  I feel a bit mixed about it - no more school runs (well, not on a regular basis!) but the end of a stage in his life.

Oh - back to the challenge!  We were very lucky to be sponsored by Just Some Lines.

They are giving the winner $15 USD of digital stamps.    And we were also allowed to pick an image to work with - so I chose the bride!  I just loved her clean look.

The theme of the challenge is to use the sentiment "Enjoy Your Day" or any other sentiment to make someone smile.

I went for the straightforward with this one.  I thought the image was so clean and simple that I would overpower it if I went wild with embellishments (as if I EVER do that anyway! Lol)

So, thats me done for today - please take time to pop on over and see what the others have made - some gorgeous creations, let me tell you!  AND why not enter the challenge yourself?

thanks for popping by

Rx

Teacher's gifts!

Well, the end of primary education looms close!  End of term is Thursday, so I really needed to get these done this weekend.  I had an idea, you know one that sits and germinates, so I kinda knew what I wanted to do before I sat down.

 

There is a nice big bar of chocolate in the hangy doo-dah

Close up of the image - and a brief explanation

Anti-bacterial hand-wash.

The chocolate.....and of course, the wine!

It was very simple - a bit of fiddling around with the hangy thingy....but mainly just playing around in inkscape to make the labels etc.  I was a bit cheeky because I didnt hand colour anything - did it all in inkscape.  Yeah - cop out, I know - but I had 6 of these sets to make, so they would have taken me forever!

Thanks for popping by

Rx

OOOOOOO forgot to say - the images are all from bugaboo!