No your not seeing things!

Hello blogworld

If you are here for my Divas by Design Design Team card please scroll down.

And, no you're not seeing things, I am posting twice in one day - this is going to be a very, very short post - as I'm in the middle of bed time routine (TV, Fruitpot, yogurt, small piece chocolate, bath, books, bed!) so it has to be very quick.  At the moment she is being entertained by Justin's House (thank goodness for Justin Fletcher!) but it will finish soon and she will realise I'm 'putering!

So I realised that The Sugar Bowl finishes tonight and I really wanted to take part - here is my card:

Just the one pic - everything done at high speed, so no extra pics!

I used:

Sugar Nellie stamp - Gorjuss Girls; Flower Girl - coloured with my Promarkers.
Lots of embossing folders (will go check later what they are).
Image die-cut and mounted onto nestie shapes.
Marianne Creatable swirl die.
Wild Orchid Crafts flower.
Card blank and sentiment; Craftwork Cards.

Goodbye, from a rushing Sarah!

A challenge, or two:

The Sugar Bowl - Challenge 71 - Erika's Sketch (I didn't follow the option of patchwork, hope that's OK).

Passion for ProMarkers - Week 126 Theme; White on White

Divas by Design - Challenge 15 : Monochromatic

Hello blogworld

Suppose this isn't too bad, it's only been two days between posts!  I had hoped to post yesterday, but I ended up being busy turning apples into mush to make even more apple jelly.  Hey-ho, such is life - always busy, even if I'm not really doing anything much!

Anyway, enough of me - onto the reason for this post: a new challenge over at Divas by Design.  Can't believe how fast the last two weeks have gone and typing this I was astounded that we are up to the 15th Challenge!  How did that happen!

The challenge this fortnight is Monochromatic, i.e. a colour scheme consisting of only shades of one colour.  We are sponsored by The Digi Garden and the DT were offered the chance to use one of their digi images.  I spent a lovely time wandering around the website, there really are some very cute images there.

I have to admit to being stumped with this one for ages, I've only ever done two mono cards and struggled with those as well!  Anyway I put my little thinking cap on and came up with this card:

Front shot:

Close up of image:

I used:
Digi image from The Digi Garden: Courtney with Flower, coloured with my Promarkers then die-cut and matted onto nestie shapes.
The patterned paper is from a Prima pad: Fairy Flora.
Gems, little flower, ribbon and pearl in the middle of the flower are all from my stuff.
Card blank and sentiment are from Craftwork Cards

So I hope you like and please pop over to the blog to look at the stunning cards my Teamies have made and then join in with the challenge!

Looking forward to visiting all your blogs.

Sarah

Peek-a-boo!

Hello there blogworld

So another absence from blogland, I'm beginning to doubt that I'll ever get back into posting on a regular basis.  Just when I think I've got it nailed - life goes and throws a wobbly!

So where were we when last we met?  I think I was off for a haircut, which I did and I'm not entirely sure about!  You know how it looks lovely when you leave the hairdressers, then it takes a day or so to settle (and I don't know about you, but I can never get it looking like it did when I stepped out of the salon) then you make your mind up if you like it or not?  Well at the moment it's settling and I'm not sure I like it!  I will let you know the final verdict in a few days.

We've had daughter off school, again!, this time with a cold.  I thought she would be well enough to go, but after a lot of tears and wails of 'I'm too poorly to go to school!', I gave in and let her have the day off.  Poor thing did have (and still does) a cold, but not bad enough not to go I thought, but then who am I to know!  I'm just muddling through this parenting malarky!

Friday evening was spent in total darkness in our house - we were in bed for 9.15 (and not for anything naughty!!) just because the blooming electrics decided to fuse.  We ended up with one light for the whole house - no sockets, no other lights anywhere working.  We don't have any street lights here (only the posh areas in town have those!) so it was pitch black outside and in - so off to bed we trotted.  I didn't even have any internet connection - we've got a BT hub and without the phone, the hub don't work!  How I survived the evening and morning I'll never know.

Yesterday and today have been quiet and I've finally got a chance to get a card made!  Yay - I was starting to get withdrawal symptoms, but then I was finding it hard to get in the colouring groove and chucked quite a few images!  I'm still not 100% happy with the colouring on this one, but I'm letting it go and posting for you all to make up your minds.

So, mega waffle over, here is card:

Front shot:

Detail shot of image:

I used:

Saturated Canary digi image: Let it rain - coloured with my Promarkers.  I then swiped a Distress Ink pad around the edges and stamped with one of the Lili of the Valley additions corners in the same ink.  Not tried this before, not sure how it's worked!
All papers are First Edition - Desert Blooms pad.
Pins and flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts - I coloured the smaller flowers with my Promarkers to match the colours of the image and put a touch of stickles on the edges (again not sure it worked out!).
Card blank and sentiment: Craftwork Cards.

Hope you like and am off now to try and catch up with you all and my commenting duties!

Best wishes, hope you have all had a good weekend.

Sarah

A challenge, or two:

Saturated Canary - Challenge No 4: Autumn Colours

Paper Sundaes - #95: Digital Images