Do you have one?

Hello blogworld

A four legged friend that is?  We do, two of the purring, independent sort and currently one of them is laid on my arm seriously hampering my ability to type.

Anyho, I will plough on - I will just hope that he doesn't decide to bite (he does that you know) and you will just have to excuse any typo's!

So it's Saturday morning which means, in Sarah blogworld anyway, that it's time for a new challenge over at Sweet Stampin and as you might have guessed from the title this week we'd like to see your four legged friends.  So any type of animal anywhere on your entry (plus stamping of course!) is what we are looking for this challenge.

Our sponsor for this week is Whimsy Stamps, who are offering the winner five free digi stamps.

Our regular monthly sponsor is Joanna Sheen, where a £10 voucher is on offer.

Want to see my card?  Oooh and tag - I made a tag!  First time for everything, eh.  This is what I came up with:

Front shot of card:

Detail shot of image:

Tag:

Card and tag together: (and I've just noticed a deliberate mistake!)

I used:

Image:

Pollycraft - Marleys Party, coloured with my Promarkers

Dies:

Nestie square and circle

Go-kreate (for the tag)

Papers:

echo park - Splash

Others:

Mettalic thread and sentiment tag - from my stuff

Craftwork cards - card blank and sentiment

I hope you like my cheerful card (inspired by Arabella's wonderful colour choices for her cards) and it brings a bit of sunshine into these dreary days that we are currently enduring.

Please pop on over to the challenge blog and you'll see all the little creatures that my teamies have used on their creations - and they are lovely (my teamies and and their cards!), I promise!

See you soon,

Sarah

A challenge, or two:

Pollycraft Monday Challenges: Challenge #138 - matching card and tag

Emergency Crafters: Bold and bright

Cute Card Thursday: Challenge 215 - one for the boys (this is for a little boy in my daughters class at school)

Hmmm, how many bees are an invasion?

Hello blogworld

So which would you like the first the good news or the bad?  I normally go for the bad, then the good is gooder!

The bad news then - to which the above title pertains.  We are being invaded by masonry bees!  We've had them in the walls outside for years and for a month or so during spring I have to dodge the little blighters when coming into the house through the conservatory but this year they are chasing me in the house itself!  So would finding at least 6 bees every day (all over the house) constitute an invasion?  Peter doesn't think so, he thinks I'm over-reacting.  I think it is, not that I would get them exterminated or anything (I don't even step on ants - I mean you never know what you might come back as do you!) but I do object to having to a bee crawl out from under the microwave at me!  Even Emily was surprised to see one crawling around in the kitchen this morning.

Now the good - I'm getting another hair cut tomorrow.  My regular followers of my inane drivel will know the angst the last haircut caused - I'm prepared this time!  I've shown Peter the hairstyle (I googled hairstyles!) I picked and my hairdresser said it will suit me.  So wish me luck at 10.30 tomorrow when I will be having lots of hair cut off.

So and now I've waffled on for even longer than I do normally, anyone want to see a card?  It may seem familiar as I still had the papers and Promarkers out from when I made my Divas card and so this one is along the same style.  I'm not entirely pleased with it as I'm not sure I got the highlights in her hair right and I am rubbish at cutting out.  Also I've run out of my normal super sticky tape and am using wet glue.  I only noticed the splodges under the ribbons after I'd take the pics.

Well here it is anyway and I leave it up to you to see if you like or not:

Front shot:

Detail of image:

I used:

Image

Pink Petticoat digi stamp - can't remember her name! She's stored on the PC and I'm on my lappy (I will find it out and get back to you)

coloured with my Promarkers

Papers:

Die Cuts with a View - backing paper

Craftwork cards - swirls

Dies:

Nesties for the circles

Others:

Flowers, buttons and ribbons all from my stuff

Craftwork cards - sentiment

Hope no-one else is having to avoid bees in their house!

See you soon,

Sarah

A challenge, or two:

Crafting When We Can: Challenge 17 - Sketch

The Cutie Pie Challenge Blog: Monochromatic

Creative Card Crew: Challenge #9 - Ribbon

and Lisa's Waste not Wednesday:  This one is a digi from 2009 and I've only ever printed her off and coloured her in once before!  It's the hair, it is intimidating (that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!!).

It's all grey here!

Hello blogworld,

So as promised here I am again - did you enjoy the day off from my waffle yesterday?

This time I'm here with my DT card for the new challenge at Divas by Design and this time we would like to see your Monochromatic (part of the definition is 'having, or appearing to have, only one colour') creations.

Our sponsor this week is:

I chose to go with shades of grey to black, accented by white, and this is what I ended up with:

Front shot:

Detail shot of image:

I used:

Digi stamp:

Saturated Canary: Hollywood, but I can't find her in the shop at the mo.  This time I used my Prisma pencils for the dress (I'm absolutely rubbish at colouring black with my Pros!), Promarkers for her hair / skin and chalked for definition on the background.

Dies / Punches:

Circular Nestie

Papers:

 Die Cuts with a View stack

Swirls - Craftwork cards

Others:

Craftwork cards - card blank and sentiment

Pom-pom trim from my stuff

There you go, hope you like what you see!  I'd love to see your creation, why not pop over to the challenge to get more inspiration from my marvellous Teamies and I'll keep an eye out for your entry!

Cheerio

Sarah

A challenge, or two:

Sketch Saturday: Week #205

Crafty Sentiments Designs: Spots or Stripes

Papertake Weekly: Anything Goes