Warning long waffly post!

Helllooo blogworld

Can't believe the clocks have gone back today - the year is just disappearing so quickly.  Hubby reminded me yesterday that Christmas is only a short time away - my response was don't tell me until November and he said that's next week!!!  Arggghhhh!

I am sorry I've been a bad blogger this week.  I've hardly visited any of you, so I will make serious efforts to remedy that either tonight or next week.

We ended a busy week with some friends of Emily's coming over on Friday.  So there were three girls here of 5, 4 and 3 yrs and a tiny baby boy (who was very well behaved, hardly made a peep!).  They had a lovely time, up until the afternoon!

The girls' mum and I were talking at the corner of the house, with Em and her friend playing round in the small garden over on the other side, when I heard screaming, it was the friend who had fallen into our pond!   I haven't run that fast for years - didn't think I had it in me any more but, my god, I flew!  I only looked away for seconds, after checking that I could see them both, then one of 'em had gone.  Luckily it isn't too deep a pond and, with her friend being 5 already, she is tall enough to climb out again, but she was soaked and shocked.  Got her in and cleaned her up, by the time we all calmed down I was in tears.  Can't believe that happened when they were visiting at my house - I felt terrible!  Her mum was fine, very calm and said no harm done - me I was a shivering wreck.

Right I think that is enough of my waffling, and I've done mega waffling today!  So I'd best show you my card!  I made this for a challenge, but I've missed it - again - so I'll post it and then go wander see if I can find a challenge to enter it into.  Otherwise I'm just sharing with you all!

So here is card:

I'm actually quite pleased with this one - I coloured the image horribly with just my Promarkers, but then just as I was about to bin it, I thought of Vicky and Lisa and all the others of you who colour with Promarkers and Prismas, so I tried adding shading and depth with my Prismas - and hey presto!

So details:

Image is Tiddly Inks: Druscilla - coloured with Promarkers and Prisma pencils and a little bit of stickles glitter on the wings.
Paper: Prima Inc: Fairy Flora paper stack
Trim across the top is a Memory Box Die - Meridian Border
The word is made up from rub-on letters that I've had for ages.

There I think I've bored you all silly with my waffle, I'm off now to waffle away on your blogs!

See you soon,

Sarah

Ah-ha!  I've found a challenge, or two:

The Secret Crafter - Challenge #158; Spooky or Whimsical - I hope my card falls into whimsical?

Polka Doodles - Week 43 Challenge - Mystical and Magical

Got to be quick

Hi all,

This is going to be a really quick post from me - I've dinner in the oven as we speak and it's about to go ping!

We've had another busy day - hence me and hubby eating way after Em has gone to bed, I'll be back at some point to waffle on about it all - including me freaking over something that happened - but for now I just want to join in with a challenge and then have me dinner and got a pile of ironing to do ready for Em going back to school next week.

So here's me cards (still doing the make two at one go!):

Card one:

Cards two:

Like the second one best, but quite pleased with them both.

Teddy Bo & Co image: Teddy Bea - Balloon Bea, coloured with my Prisma pencils.
The sentiment I've had for ages, no idea where it came from.
Pearls from Hobby House.
Made my own square blank and bits of coloured paper from my drawers.
Thats it!

Hope you all have a great weekend.

Sarah

A challenge, or two:

Teddy Bo challenge - Challenge #20 - CAS (Clean and Simple)

Trying something new

Hi everyone

Sorry for the absence, which can be put down 100% to the half-term holiday and therefore lack of time to craft. We've had a busy time so far - and it doesn't look likely to change.

Yesterday I think I had a personality change as I decided to clean!  We had the chimney sweep over to clear the pots ready for winter and while he was here I decided to clean the oven, change the filter in the extractor fan and then wash the blinds in Emily's room.

Today we went out for a ride on a bus - now I know this probably isn't a treat for a lot of you, but for us it's a very rare happening.  We drive everywhere, it's just easier with where we live and more reliable!  Today though we took a trip out to Spilsby and spent a couple of hours there, had a drink and little snack in a cafe then got the bus home again.  Emily loved it!

Enough waffle, onto card.  I'm not sure about the colouring on this one - I've taken a leaf out of Vicky's book and have base coloured with my Promarkers then added shading with my Prisma pencils.  It's nowhere near as good as Vicky's colouring, but I quite enjoyed working this way so you may well see it again!

So here's me card.
Front shot:

Detail of image:

It looks a little wishy, washy here - in real life the colour is deeper.

Anyway, enough of my waffle.  I'm off now to try and catch up with you all.

Hope you are having a good week, whatever you are up to.

Sarah

A challenge, or two:

The Cutie Pie Challenge - Challenge #3, A Recipe.  Ladies - I hope my card is lilac enough for you - I hope it hasn't gone too far into purple!