So many candles!!

I thought I'd better post this card before I miss the deadline at CASual Fridays and the Lawnscaping Challenge ...I'm rather good at leaving it too late!

I haven't played along with a Lawnscaping challenge for a while now, no reason really, but this week I've an idea organised for the getting texty challenge, so here it is

I've had this text background stamp for a while and the Lawn Fawn 'Bake a Cake' set goes perfectly with it :)
I inked one of the Happy Birthdays in black so I didn't need to worry about a sentiment on the card.
I'm also entering this into the CASual Fridays challenge this week which asks for brown and three shades of a different colour .... I just hope the black and white are acceptable too :)

Over at Young Crafters Unite the challenge is to make an envelope to match so I thought this would be a fun design to try with, here's what I came up with ....

I just masked a strip across the bottom and sponged ink before adding two rows of the text using a stamp positioner and then a row of candles :)
Here they are together

It was great fun to do but I'm not about to decorate all my card's envelopes ..... it depends on the design, although I can imagine it's quite exciting to see a pretty envelope on your doormat amongst the bills!!

Right best get dinner ready for the troop...potatoes don't peel themselves!

Thanks for stopping by X

Jenny

A Sketchy Note

Morning peeps,

First I'd like to blow my own trumpet and say how excited I am to find that I'm this weeks Colour Queen for this card .... I can't believe a piece of die-cut waste inspired me to make a winning card (squeal with delight)...right put the trumpet away now :)

Now onto This weeks challenge at Less is More and I have to say how impressed I was with last weeks cards by all the Limettes, some of whom made 10 or more, to try and get to the 1000 target...we very nearly made it too, it still must have been a record at 782!!! Mandi and Chrissie did an amazing job commenting on all the cards too, I for one appreciate all the time they put into the challenge blog and I can't imagine they did a lot else last week apart from sleep and eat!

This week is a sketch to follow and I found it quite a tricky box to fill

I had to use my new stamps from Artemio, I'm not a fan of caged birds in real life but they make cute images for cards right? I decided to stamp the cage twice so I could raise it up but felt the background was a little bland until I spritzed it with green cosmic shimmer. The sentiment took the longest to fiddle about with on the computer...trying to match the ink colour is not easy, especially when the monitor doesn't give true colours either!!

Right back to the craft room whilst I have some time to myself :)
Thanks for looking X

 Edited to add : I'm on a winning streak at the moment...I've just found out that I've won a set of unity stamps on Alison's blog too.....WHOO HOO...long may it continue :)

My Crafty Haul

So we are back from our little jaunt to Ally Pally yesterday .... I remember why I stopped going now, too many people and too much barging about...anyone would think the products were going out of production!!!

It was a lovely day weather-wise so a gentle walk up the hill from the station was in order, to a misty view across London,  not worth photographing so here's one of Ally Pally itself

We tried the arm out-stretched self portrait shot in front of the building but it wasn't working!!
It was just too busy in the hall itself so no more pics from the day, but here is most of the stash I bought

A selection of clear stamps...we seem to have a tree and bird theme going on here!!!
There didn't seem to be as much choice with the stamps ...only a trace of Penny Black and hardly any Hero Arts!

A pad of yummy Tim Holtz co-ordinations card with a Kraft core...oh yes KRAFT :)  A Christmas vine embossing folder, holly leaf punch,yummy buttons and I thought I would try a pack of the new fine nibs for Promarkers.  There are also some funky die-cut Santas, acrylic buttons and strips of calico/cotton too.

A selection of adhesive pearls in gorgeous colours and a cheaper version of Nestabilities in a fancy bracket shape...I've tried this companies shape dies before so thought I would try these too :)

and what I really wanted to get, a large guillotine as my Carl Rotatrim is just rubbish now. This will take 12x12 easily and has an extension arm for longer measuring so Hannah can use it too in her scrapbooking... it's very sharp and will definitely be out of James's reach!!!

Well that's about it apart from a bit of adhesive, some lovely packs of A4 card to use as card bases and a few memento teardrop inkpads :)

I'm itching to get using it today but I will save it until later and in the week when the house is empty :) Lots of  jobs to do today ...making up for the day out yesterday!and I need to catch up with my blog hopping too!

I'll be back in the week, thanks for visiting X