It's Saturday, already!

Good morning blogworld,

So I'd like to know where the last week has gone to!  Thinking that Tuesday was Thursday seems to have set the whole tone of the week for me, and the week seems to have just disappeared into thin air!

Anyway one good thing about it being Saturday is that there is a new challenge over at Sweet Stampin' and this week we'd like to see your Fairies / Angels and a popular theme I would imagine that's going to be!  My Teamies certainly created some gorgeous cards.

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The DT were very kindly given a digi to play with and this is what I came up with (lots of pictures!):

Front shot:

Close up of image:

I then got all arty!

and finally just in case you didn't realise I'd glittered the wings!!

I used:

Digi:

The Emerald Fairies - Isabella, coloured with my Promarkers and Flexmarkers

Dies:

Nestie circles and scalloped circle

Die-namics - open scallop

Le'abilites - Frame Square Curve

Papers:

First Edition - Bird Song

Others:

Flowers, button and brads from my stuff
Stickles glitter glue on the wings

Looking forward to seeing all those lovely Fairies / Angels - don't forget you need to stamp somewhere on your card.  

Hope you all have a good weekend - we're off to another birthday party tomorrow.  A soft play area again!

Cheerio

Sarah

A challenge, or two:

A Passion for Promarkers: Week 149 - Inspiration Photo (I used the pink / green / blue colours for inspiration)

Cute Card Thursday: Challenge 217 - A touch of Sparkle

Crafting for all Seasons: It's a celebration with buttons

Hmmm, not quite sure!

Hi blogworld,

Hope everyone is well?

So what shall I waffle on about today then? How about an update on the cat situation? Well it's still here and settling in even more! The arguments between it and the other two are slightly lessening but they are still not 100% happy in each others' company.  Emily however loves it!

Hubby took it to the vets and all they could say was that it doesn't have a chip - they think it's between 2 - 6 years old (put it much younger myself!), can't tell if it's a boy or girl as it has no 'bits'! They said it's very difficult to tell if it's been done or is a girl and they do have a missing black cat on their books but in a different town to where we found it - not much help there then!!

So it now has a name, but I don't think it's a name that's staying - Emily wants to call it Ryan!! We're sticking with 'puss' for now! It has a collar, is sleeping on Emily's bed, getting up before 6 every morning and eating about 4 meals a day. I do hope something happens soon to say whether it will stay or not, it's getting harder to get Emily to say it might be someone elses!!

There we go - I'm all waffled out and I would imagine you are all fed up of my waffle as well!

So onto card - it's for my friends' mum and I'm not entirely sure I've got it right.  This is the friend who likes big cards, so it's larger than I'm used to working on and the image isn't one that comes naturally to me.  It's a beautiful image, but flowers aren't something that I would immediately go for.

But I'll show it anyway, and you can make up your own minds.

Front shot:

Detail of image:

My pins:

I used:

Image:

A Passion for Stamps - Two Roses, coloured with my Promarkers

Dies:

Nesties for the image

Memory Box - Maderia Corner

Shapeabilities - Fancy Tags two

Papers:

Daisy D's

Others:

Doily, ribbons, pins all from my stuff

Sentiment created on my PC

Craftwork Cards - card blank

Oh, and another bit of waffle before I go - Emily has her class assembly tomorrow afternoon.  They are doing a play based on 'The Hungry Catterpillar' book - they've all got lines and actions and all the parents / rellies are invited to come see them perform!  So guess where we are off to at 2.25pm tomorrow.  I'll let you know how it goes.

See you all soon,
Sarah

A challenge, or two:

Sketch n Stash: I hope it's OK that I turned the image square into a rectangle and the backing square into a doily?  The ribbon is the strip going across the sketch - can you see it?  On the whole, I do hope I've not altered it tooo much, sorry!!!  My stash are the papers and the image is new.

I love Promarkers: Challenge #117 - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly: In the garden

Moving Along With The Times: Keep it Real

and for fun: Lisa's Waste not Wednesday - it's the papers Lisa!  The image is new, but the papers are from when I dabbled in scrapbooking after Emily was born - so they are getting on for 5 years old and it's the first time they've seen daylight. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear!!

I'm stuck!

Hello blogworld

As I look at the clock now, it's 13:17 on Tuesday afternoon and I'm stuck. I broke my C plate on my Cuttlebug yesterday - hubby has gone shopping and is going into a craft shop (shock breath there!) to buy a replacement but he's had to take the plate with him to make sure he's got the right one.  So I'm stuck!  I knew I used my lil' bug a lot, but I didn't realise quite how much a lot was!  I've got three cards to get done this week and now I'm awaiting on hubby to come back before I can get on with them.

So I thought I'd blog the card that broke the bug and say hello to you all!  I'm really behind with commenting right now, have to be honest and say I'm struggling to get back into routines (again!) so if I'm not visiting your blog please excuse me and I'm sure I'll be back soon!  That is unless my not visiting you is a good thing!!

I'm also slightly distracted by a new arrival at our house - a stray little cat!  We went out to the beach on Saturday and found this very hungry, very thin, very young cat wandering about begging for food.  Long story short - it's now residing at our home, while we try and find it's owners, or a rescue place to take it if it's been dumped, and it's not getting on very well with our elderly female!  The boy of the house is OK-ish with it, but oh my goodness the elderly lady is not!  Our Katie is such a placid cat that it was a real shock to see her growling, hissing and spitting at this little 'un - of course the little 'un gave as good as it got - and we are now trying to get them to all be calm until we find out what to do with the visitor.  Unfortunately Emily has really taken to the new cat and wants to keep it!  Oh dear, trouble ahead I think!

Anyhows, waffle, waffle, blah, blah, over - here's my card:

Front shot:

Detail of image:

I used:

Stamp:

Sugar Nellie: Daisy, coloured with my Promarkers and Flexmarkers

I also used a gel pen (hmm not liking the cheeks!)

Dies:

Nestie squares

Memory Box - Elegant Scrollwork

Papers:

First Edition - Bird Song

Others:

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

String and flowers from my stash

(the little green resin flower was a freebie in with an order from Teresa at My Crafty Heart, it's very sweet and I can see me ordering some, soon!!)

So hoping that everyone is keeping well and I will try to be back soon with more cards and, of course, tales of the goings on in cat house.

Cheerio

Sarah

A challenge, or two:

The Sugar Bowl: Challenge 83 - Kiki's Sketch, with the option of your favourite Sugar Nellie stamp.  I thought long and hard about this one - but it has to be said for sheer cuteness - Daisy does it every time!  She might even be the first stamp I brought from Funky Kits, but it's been so long I'm not sure!!!

Totally Gorjuss: Challenge 131 - Pink and Green

Bunny Zoe's: Challenge 24 - Anything Goes