Hello

Hi everyone

Sorry it's been a bit quiet in the life and times of Sarah-land just lately.  Not only did I have a stinking cold, thankfully mostly gone now, but as said in last post I've completely lost my interest in cards right now.

I still am wandering into the dining room and looking at all my stuff and wandering out again having made nothing, nada, zilch, not a sausage!  I know I've got DT cards to do and I will do those, but I seriously can't find any enthusiasm for making anything for me.

I don't know if it's the stash diet - I am sooooo missing my little parcels of happy - those internet baskets are getting heavier and more difficult to delete!!!  Maybe it's the good weather and not wanting to be indoors while that lasts! Maybe it's the looking at the dies and papers that I want and having to put them back that's making me fed up.  I'm keeping an eye on the diary counting down the months to the craft fair, but oh dear I'm weakening.  Even the beads aren't calling me right now, how pants is that!

Anyway I've been through this sort of creative dry patch before, and come out again (obviously!) so until then I'll leave you with a card I made a few weeks ago but haven't blogged yet.

Front shot:

Detail:

I used:

Lili of the Valley - Milly Flower Power, coloured with my Promarkers and Flexmarkers and sentiment stamp

First Edition paper pad - Hideaway

Gems and ribbons from my stuff

Craftwork cards - card blank

Ho hum, so depressing again!  I'm surprised I haven't frightened you all away!  Lets hope some of this sunshine makes its way into my dark dining room and inspires some more cards, eh!!!

Hope you are all doing well and apologies that I've not been visiting you all very much - I will do, just as soon as I don't spread the depression with me!!!!

Cheerio

Sarah

It's Saturday,

it's 8am and it's (no not Crackerjack!) but time for a new challenge over at Sweet Stampin!

This week we are sponsored by two wonderful companies.  Firstly our regular monthly sponsor:

 who is offering one lucky person a £10 voucher!

Also this week's sponsor is:

who is offering this week's winner a $12 voucher.

So what is the challenge this week, I hear you cry!  Well it's one we all love and is a very brilliant - Anything Goes!  So lets see those projects, with stamping, but this time anything you like.

So I was very boring with my anything goes and made a card!  Not much surprise there then!  The Design Team were very lucky to be allowed to pick an image from A Day for Daisies and this is the card I created with my image:

I used:

A Day for Daisies digi image: Flowers for my mommy and coloured with Prisma pencils (as I'm not very good getting a pastel look with my Pro / Flexmarkers).

The papers are all Basic Grey - Sugared pad

Cheery Lynn: Fanciful Flourish

Ribbons and silver corner (which was the last one by the way - and I haven't rushed out to get more!) from my stuff

Craftwork cards: card blank

Quite a simple card as at the moment I'm not really creating much - only two cards this whole week!  I'm not even playing with my new beads.  I came down with a rotten cold yesterday and I think it's put a dampener on my creativity.  I wander in the dining room, mooch a bit and then come back out again!  Unheard of!!  Hopefully, once the cold has gone, I'll be right back there stamping and colouring to my hearts content.

Now I do hope that everyone is feeling much more creative than me so why not pop over to the challenge, see what my talented teamies have created and stamp yourself into the challenge.

Am looking forward to seeing you there!

Sarah

A challenge, or two:

Hotshot Craft blog: Challenge No.5 - ribbons

Stampin' for the Weekend: Challenge 6 - anything goes

Cute Card Thursday: Challenge 209 - anything goes

PaperCrafting Journey: Challenge 5 - Pretty Pastels

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Hello everyone

Well it's been a bit quiet on the old card making front at the mo hasn't it!  You could put that down to having had a busy week this week and then starting to feel a bit yuk today (it would appear that I'm getting another cold!) or that I've been busy collating what could be my next 'thing'!

But before I show you  that, would you like to see a special card and flowers that I got?  Nope, well hard luck you ain't got a choice!  Well, unless you would like to wander away right now that is!!

So lookey at these:

This is the card Emily made me for Mother's Day

The flowers she made and ones that hubby and Emily went and got for me:
Vase 1:

Vases 2 & 3:  (Peter used to own a shop next to a florist and picked up some flower arranging tips so he never leaves them in the bouquet that they come in from the florists.  Personally I'm the put some water in and stand back type!)

My new collections!  A Mother's Day present

And my first attempts at beaded hat / stick / corsage pins:  Whaddya think?

So I have been busy just not really making cards as such - more sorting out beads and playing around making hat pins.  Oh and taking apart old jewellery to get to the beads on them.

And, after all my angst, I had a lovely Mother's Day, was woken at 6.10am by having chocolate stuffed in my hand!  Emily was awake and desperate for me to open my presents and so the chocolates were the first things I woke to and was told I had to try one right now.  Not the first time I've had chocs for breakfast, but probably the first time said breakfast was at 6.10am!!!

Some wonderful presents, a mooch around the charity shops for beads and a lot of time spent with Emily! Who could ask for anything more.

Back soon with a card - now if only I could make one that looks like it could take a pin, hmmm.  Off for another mooch with paper, ink, stamps and now beads!!!

Cheerio
Sarah