A Pink Princess

Hi crafty friends,

At the beginning of July, Hannah (my daughter) joined the design team at 'The Paper Variety'challenge blog and I thought I would play along this week as they have a tic tac toe board to work from .... I hope family members can play along too?
I also combined this with the CASual fridays challenge which is to make very CAS design on a 4 x 9 card, and how about this  .... this weeks sponsor is Lawn Fawn , one of my fave companies although I decided to not use LF stamps on my card :)

This is so not like me to make a girly card, but I've had this idea for a while in my head since I picked the Studio G crown stamp up for a pound at Hobbycraft :)
I'd also like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to Mr Tim Holtz for having the genius idea to drill a row of holes on a gridded acrylic ruler, it makes hand-stitching straight lines so much easier :)

I've added beads and gems to the stitched background and the crown for a little sparkle and dimension, here's a close up ...

Here's the Tic Tac Toe board over at The Paper Variety, I've used PINK, STITCHING and CARD ( obviously!) the challenge is open until Tuesday ...go check it out :)

Yesterday, in the glorious sunshine, we put our tent up on a trial run for a camping weekend we have planned and also to check the mice in the loft haven't used it as a comfy nest over the winter ...I'm pleased to say they haven't :)
I'm glad we took it down again last evening tho as it looks like a scorcher today, not the weather to be in a tent in !!!

Please check back tomorrow as I have my first card to show you as a design team member at St Lukes Charity Card Challenge, until then, thanks for looking and enjoy the rest of the weekend X

Go Westie

I find a simple sketch is sometimes all you need to get you routing about in old stash for a stamp set you haven't used in a while .....

.... and the 'Lucy Loves Lines' sketch over at Lily pad cards did just that :)

I just love this stamp from Little Claire Designs and it actually stamps as a 9 square grid so I've cut out 5 images, popped up the little westies for dimension then added a piece of faux red leather collar instead of a ribbon tab, as per the sketch .

I'm quite pleased with the linen card base which I thought was too flimsy to do the job but with it being a small narrow card base  (A5 folded length-ways) it stands very well :)

That's all from me today .... I've been busy tidying the blog up and finally learnt how to add extra pages, now I can feel a headache coming on so I've probably been looking at the screen too long :(

Don't forget to check out the "Less is More" blog in the morning , it's a lucky dip week being the 5th Saturday of the month :)

Thanks for visiting  X 

A Stormy Sketch and a Blog Award

Hi everyone,

Yesterday I decided to collate a few challenge sketches, colour combos and trigger pictures onto a word document and print them out, because I can then pin them up in the craft room as I always seem to forget about some challenges until they close !
As a result I was busy crafting last night and I have a card to share with you,  it's following the Clean and Simple Sketch.... a challenge I haven't played along with for ages !

This would have been great for the Lawnscaping challenge 'Stamp a Scene' but I missed that deadline yesterday, see what I mean? 
I used my two newest Lawn Fawn sets called 'Partly Cloudy' and 'Critters in the Burbs' ...... aren't they cute little characters, I just love how the brolly handle curls round the cats tail :)

I received this Blog award a few weeks back and thought it was about time to pass it on

Thank you Suzarte for handing me the award, please hop over to her blog here and you will see Suze has a 'Blogging is for Sharing' giveaway running for the next 6 months in which you could win $100 of PTI vouchers

The conditions of this award are....

1) Create a post on your blog and post the award.
2) Link back to the person who gave you the award and say if you accept.
3) Choose 3-5 of your favorite blogs to tag, link these in your post too and tell the lucky people they have won the award.

As the aim of this award is to bring unknown good blogs to light, please don't tag somebody with 3000
followers

.... so I'd like to pass this award to

Alison - Creations by Alison
Jen W - Jenerally Speaking

and
Sarah - Little Snippets

I always find this part hard, choosing people to pass the award too as I follow lots of wonderful blogs but with a few more awards to blog at some point, I'm sure I will share them with you :)

If your still with me at this point, I'll say goodbye and thanks for looking X