Silver Wedding

This is another card made to order this weekend, with take 2 of the Sugar Bowl Challenge layout - can't enter this card either as the stamp isn't Sugar Nellie it's Anita's... 3rd time lucky though!

Jx

Minus Mistletoe!

I really love this Sugar Nellie stamp, & I know it's a Christmas one cause it's called Mistletoe... however with a bit of masking, you can turn it into a year round stamp, perfect for an anniversary card.

This was to be my entry in this weeks Sugar Bowl Challenge - only I just spotted a circle behind the image - why did that not show up in my print off of the layout!!! Oh well at least I've made one of the cards I had to do for an order! Jx

Father Christmas

This card was made using Papermania Christmas papers & a Rubber Stampede stamp called Santa Collage. I'm entering it into the ABC Christmas Challenge along with the Docraft Snoflake Challenge. This week the challenge was S for Santa - but not red!

Jx

Couples Cruise

Found this stamp on line when I was looking for another by High Hopes Rubber Stamps and as luck would have it, it ties in nicely with several of this weeks challenges! I'm therefore entering this card into; Friday Sketchers - (rotated sketch).
Crafty Card Makers - Clean & Simple
I Love Promarkers - Transportation
Crafty Creations - also Transportation.

Jx

Black & White

I'm entering this simple card into 2 challenges, the Papertake Weekly as I used their layout and the Crafty Creations Challenge which was white plus 1 & I went for the very imaginative... black!

Busy busy on the fundraising front this week - having just been making my cards for the box at work, I have suddenly got 7 orders all at once - so it's not just buses that do that! On top of that we have our Quiz Night on Fri - our final fundraiser so hopefully it will be a big success - fingers crossed. Jx

BBQ Dragon

Well the hunt was on this week for a dragon stamp for the Myth & Magic challenge over on I love promarkers. I wanted a more grown up dragon & hunted high & low for one. In the end however I fell in love with this little fellow from www.justinklined.com & so went digi!

I'm also entering the card in the sketch Saturday Challenge as I followed their layout.
The Papertake Challenge, which was Just 1 - mine was 1 colour - green.
Ooh, I can also entre it into the JustINKlined Challenge too cause I used one of their stamps.

Papers - Basic Grey - Urban Prairie

On a different note, Alan's Mombasa fund took a leap on Saturday when the Abergeldie Bowling Team visited Turriff. They read about Alan's trip, had a whip round & collected just over £60. So a huge thank you to them. The fund now sits at £1831

Fluffles Flowerpot

I love my Fluffles stamps, but don't use them quite so often now, so it was good to fish this one out of the back of the stamp drawer for this weeks Sketch Saturday Challenge. Paper again by Basic Grey, this time Max & Whiskers.

Dressing Up

I so love this image, & when I saw her spotty dress I knew I could do this weeks challenge over at Lilli Of The Valley, where the theme is dotty about circles.

Papers are again Basic Grey - Lime Rickey.

Jx

Bunny Kisses

I so love this card, it's so warm & summery - just what I need on a very wet & windy day! Ive made it using my PB Bunny Friends stamp (masked off some bunnies though!)& some Basic Grey Lime Rickey paper. I've also used a bug folder for the embossed bits & a few dew drops.

I'm entering the card into this weeks Penny Black Challenge of Summer Lovin along with the Friday Sketchers challenge, as I used their layout.
Finally it also fits this weeks Allsorts challenge which was to get inspiration from the garden or a park & as we stay in the country, we quite ofen have rabbits visit us first thing in the morning.

Finally, finally, it also fits the Crafty Catz Challenge, another I do regularly! This week they want us to use orange, brown & blue in our card. (Defo no problems with the first 2 colours, as for blue, well it is in some of the dots!)
Jx

Rudolph

Well it's a horrid horrid day here. It's not just rain that's lashing the window here, it's hail! & better than that, I'm on a stall this afternoon with Alan at a Vintage Car Rally in Banff... can't wait!

So by the end of today, I donbt it will just be Rudolph who has a red nose, mine could well be glowing too after being out in the cold and wet!

My card however is made for the ABC Christmas Challenge where it is R for Rudolph.

The image is an old Anita's stamp I have & the papers also from a few years back are Christmas Blues by Dovecraft. Oh & Ann, do you spot the dew drop you sent me?

Jx

10.20 am Vintage Car Rally cancelled due to the weather - not surprised really.

Ga-Ga!

I've actually enjoyed making this card with my new magna girl stamp from Sugar Nellie. I've coloured her in red & black, inspired by the Lady Gaga song, "Bad Romance". Now I have to admit I do like the song but I can't stand Lady Gaga I just think she's too off the wall. Having said that, I did watch the video clip posted on the Crafty Cardmakers site, & I would say it's very clever.

So, enough chatter, I'm entering this card for both the Crafty Cardmakers Challenge, having used black & red as my dominant colours. I did try the lace element, but I could only get white, & it was just a bit too pretty & nice for the card.

The card itself is made using the layout in this weeks Sugarbowl challenge. Although you can't see it too well, there are two stripes down the card however they don't show up too well in the photo due to the darkness of the Basic Grey Granola paper behind.

Jx

Another Anniversary

Just to please my husband, he wanted the anniversary card to be made using the Sugar Nellie stamp I have. Now as the card is for one of his friends I thought it only fair he have the final say. Jx

Happy Anniversary

Didn't really like the last Anniversary card I did so this is a 2nd attempt. Same Anita's stamp but different layout. This time I've followed the 3-2-1 recipe on the Papertake Challenge & used, 3 flowers, 2 dew drops & 1 ribbon. Jx

Wedding Anniversary

Made using the Saturday Sketch Challenge.

This card is also entered into the I Love Promarkers Challenge where you had to include a charm. Jx

Friday Sketchers - Christmas

As I'm doing Snoflakes Challenge on Do Crafts I have to make a Christmas card each week. Now I fell badly behind a month back, so I'm now trying to be really good & having made this card, I'm now ahead of things... for now anyway.

I used the Friday Sketchers Challenge sketch, a PB stamp called Xmouse Ornament & some Anitas papers, oh & my snowflake bug folder + some candy dots. Jx

Golfing

After missing last weeks Penny Black Challenge, I thought I'd better show face this week! Made this card using the given layout, my Teed Up PB Stamp, along with my American golfball stamp; Colour co-ordinates - vanilla cupcake buttons & Paper Cellar Men 2 papers. Jx

Off on a First Aid Course tomorrow so won't be around for the next 2 days... but there's always the evenings!

Christmas Cuddles

This was a lovely quick card for me to make, partly because I'd already cut & coloured the image whilst away on holiday a few weeks back. (I had a wallet full of images to colour when we weren't out & about.)

Anyway using the Sugar Nellie image, & a layout from a different challenge which I loved from a while back I came up with this.

Now as luck would have it, it fits the bill for the abc Christmas Challenge.

The Spotlight Technique

On Crafty Cardmakers, their challenge is to do a new technique each month, & this month it is the spotlight technique.

Now little did I know that when I've done this in the past it was a proper technique, there was me thinking I was just messing about with the goldfish bowl so thanks for teaching me something DT.

The stamp used was Delafield G651 & the papers are quite old & by Papermania. Jx

Nativity Scene

On Docrafts I signed up for Snoflakes challenge to make a Christmas card every week this year. After a dip in production last month, I have now caught up again and have 32 cards, this being week 32 of the year.

I used the layout on the Papertake Challenge along with a gifted image, thanks Sandra.

On a different note, the Mombasa fund now sits at £1647, boosted by yet another successful car boot sale today, along with the money Alan earned working at the local agricultural shows. Jx

Snowball Fun

Using this Penny Black stamp along with the layout given in the Sketch Saturday Challenge I made this Christmas card.

As the image contains animals, it can also enter the Craftycatz Challenge.

Jx

Sunny Day

I love the layout of this weeks Sugar Bowl Challenge, & will use it again I'm sure. My card this week uses my old favourite stamp, rockpool fun again - you'd think it was the only Sugar Nellie stamp I had! Honest I have more, I just thought it fitted the challenge best.

I'm also entering this card into the Crafty Cardmakers Challenge, No27, where you had to make a birthday card.

Jx

Special Delivery

I bought this stampat the Elzybelles closing down sale along with a few others. Such a shame they are closing as they really had some lovely stamps.

Anyway I'm back from holidays & in right card making mood so this is my first of 2 cards to upload.

I'm entering it into the Friday Sketchers Challenge along with the Allsorts Challenge where you had to use paper piecing.

Jx

The Isle of Arran

Just back from a lovely week spent on the Isle of Arran on the west coast of Scotland. We stayed in a lodge on the Auchrannie Estate & were allowed to use the hotel & leisure complex as guests for the week. We were so lucky weather wise, we explored heaps, hired bikes, did lots of walking & Colin even swam in the sea!

I've uploaded a few of my favourite pics. Jx

Mombasa Fundraising

A week ago, the boys arranged a fund-raising buffet night in a local Indian restaurant and managed to raise over £500 between the three of them, through ticket sales & raffles. So it's a big thank-you to the Indian Garden in Banff - a lovely place to eat & socialise. With that money, the fund now sits at £1485.47

SQA Results Out!!!

How fitting the challenge on My Partner in Crafting Crime - to make a Teen card, & as luck would have it, that's just what I was doing this week.

Using one of my new Tim Holtz stamps I made this card for Alan, to celebrate his exam success in the SQA exams - he received his results by text 5 mins ago! We are all very proud of you Alan, well done indeed.

Dressing Up Time

Well it should really be packing up time not dressing up as we head off on holiday to Arran on Sat morning, but you know how it is with these challenges!

Had to make this card though as it ties in with 3 challenges which include;

Sketch Saturday - Used their layout.
Allsorts Challenge - Dressing Up.
& Crafty Catz - Material Girl.

So the card itself is made using a LOTV stamp, Basic Grey Max & Whiskers paper & material scraps. Not forgetting the Wild Orchid flowers - a first for me. Jx

Cupcake Delight

Well it didn't take me long to start using my new stamps. Firstly with my Hero Arts cupcake cling stamp I made this thank you card for my sis. Now as luck would have it, it fits in perfectly with this weeks Papertake Weekly Challenge where the theme is "White & Bright". Jx

PB Saturday Challenge No 112

This is one of my older Penny Black stamps, infact it was the first PB I bought! It's called Tender Showers, & it's still one of my favourites.

I've used it this week when making my Penny Black Saturday Challenge card, using the recipe of 1 circle, 2 papers & 3 flowers. The flowers were stamped using a transparent stamp from the Papermania Doodles set, but don't ask me about the papers, they are the last few sheets I have from a prize I won over on Do Crafts about a year ago. Sam, (Whisperscards) sent them to me & I'm sure when she reads this post, she'll say who they were by. Thanks again Sam, I've loved every sheet! Jx

Rockpool Fun

The challenge (39) on the Sugar Bowl is to use any of the previous layouts set. I've gone back to wk 25 for my layout and have made my card using,

Sugar Nellie - Rockpool Fun stamp
Bo Bunny - Sunkissed party paper &
My Happy Birthday embossing folder.

On the Mombasa front this weekend, we raised over £120 doing a bag pack, so Alan's total now stands at £1291.

Dark Duck!

This is the first time I've done this little duckie in darker shades, but I think it works quite well? Anyway I've followed the layout in this weeks Papertake Challenge & used my Funstamps - Puddle Duck stamp & Basic Grey, Lime Rickey papers. Jx

A Grand Day Out...

Well as Gromit would say, or was that Wallace, "It's been a Grand Day Out!", I've at long last, been to Simply Create in Alford, & what a lovely, lovely shop it is. Will have to go over there in the middle of winter & hopefully get snowed in for a week!

Well we were greeted by the lovely Ann on arrival, who popped on the kettle & chatted to Craig, my lovely husdand & driver, whilst I had a good look round. Clearly I could have spent a fortune, but I showed great restraint & only bought a selection of things I really needed! Needless to say I am already looking forward to my next visit.




Anyway I've posted pics of some of my treasures, & just had to tell you about my "Travel Guillotine" It's so lovely, with 2 compartments for bits & bobs too - ideal to take on holiday with me next week! (Sad I know but I'm now thinking it's an addiction I now have rather than a hobby!)

Longing...

Crafty Cardmakers challenge 26 involved using the following recipe;

Stickers or punches - I chose my MS leaf punch.
Yellow / orange - I chose a bit of both!
Animal or fish - Mr giraffe.

The green paper used in My Minds Eye, don't know about the yellow as it was just a scrap!

TFL Jx

Summer Lovin

You can tell it's Summer time, & holiday time by the fact that the number of cards flying off the card table is down! As the boys are off I'm not spending so long crafting, so my cards are trying to catch more than one challenge.

This one covers the elements for the following challenges;

Allsorts Penny Black Challenge - A Burst of Summer Colour
Crafty Creations - Summer Lovin
Friday Sketchers - Used the sketch given.

The card uses Basic Grey, Lime Rickey paper, my Martha Stewart leaf punch & my Penny Black "Captivated" stamp.

Jx

Christmas in July?

This years Christmas cards started off really well for me over on Do Crafts as Maureen, (Snoflake), set us a challenge to make one Christmas card a week throughout the whole year. I was doing really well till about June, then the amount of cards I was making for Alan & his Mombasa trip kind of took over & I stopped my Christmas challenge. It's therefore been nice to do another Christmas card after about a 6 week break.

Now as luck would have it, a number of blog challenges are also looking towards Christmas, so I can enter this card 4 times;

The Penny Black Challenge - Christmas in July
I Love Promarkers - Christmas in July
Snoflakes Christmas Challenge - Make a Christmas card a week for a year.
Sketch Saturday Challenge - To use their layout.

My stamp used is an all time favourite Penny Black called Snowball Fun.
The papers are Anitas Classic Christmas, Blue
& I also used my snowflake embossing folder with my bug.

Jx

Baby Boy

There are so many challenges out there & so many lovely stamps! Am I the only one that mixes them all up? Made a card this afternoon using a Sugar Nellie stamp, using the LOTV layout - what a twit!!! Doesn't meet the criteria for either of these challenges however I'm lucky that it does fit this weeks Allsorts Challenge which is Babies or Children!

And in a slight variation of the theme, here's the girls card to go with it.





Jx

Under The Sea

I've made this card, to enter 2 challenges this week, the first being The My Partner in Crafting Crime, where the theme was under the sea & also for the Pollycraft Challenge where you had to make a birthday card.

Can't tell you much else about the card, as the stamp was an Ebay America purchase & has no name & the paper was a single sheet which has long since had it's pedigree chopped off!

Jx

Summer Time

For this weeks Summer Time challenge on Crafty Catz, No 42, I've made this sunflower card using Basic Grey, Lime Rickey paper & an Anita's Sunflower stamp.

Jx

Laid Back & Late!

Well the dog in this card is so laid back - he missed the challenge (No 23) by a day!!! This was to be my entry for the I Love Promarkers Challenge, but I now see the challenge changed yesterday - woops!

Anyway it's last weeks lay out & doggy theme I've used for this thankyou card. The image is PB & the papers, My Minds Eye.

Woo - hoo ! In a stroke of true carding genius, this card now fits the challenge this week, wk 24... can you tell what the late addition was?

Jx

Pretty Lady

Well what a week I had planned... my other half & youngest were off on a trip to Hull so I thought, big crafty week... If only.

Here I am Thurs lunchtime, rushing to get my Friday Sketchers Challenge card in.

So here it is, a PB image & some doodlebug papers & voila!



As well as card making, the plan was to really boost Alan's Mombasa fund, & yipee, we're through the £1000 mark & almost half way! Really pleased with our progress, & as I'm on a roll, it's another car boot this weekend. Everyone has been so generous giving us stuff to sell. We really have got good friends & neighbours.

Jx

Play Station

For the Lili of The Valley Challenge I've used another new stamp and the given layout. Papers used are My Minds Eye. Sentiment done on computer.

Jx

The Return of Tilda!

Haven't made a tilda card in ages, so made this one for a challenge over on Docrafts along with the following challenges;

Allsorts 61 - where the challenge was "Summer Days" &
Crafty Creations Challenge - where the challenge was "Happy or Sweet."

Along with my Tilda stamp, I used Basic Grey, Lime Rickey paper.

Magna Fairy

Can you tell I'm going through a phase of Magna stamps?

This one is Magna Fairy & I'm using her for this weeks Crafty Creations Challenge.

Whilst I'm posting this I also want to say that this was a very good weekend for fund-raising for Mombasa. Alan & I both did some waiter/waitressing along with another car boot, & what do you know, the fund now sits at £973. - Hopefully we'll break £1000 this week.