Do Golfers Always Look This Happy?

Do Golfers always look this happy? If you were to ask my parents this question they would certainly say 'no'!

They both love to play golf, and do so on a regular basis but are the first to admit, that as well as being enjoying, it can also be hideously frustrating when things aren't going how they should be.

Having said that, Golf is definitely my Dad's 'thing' and hence the theme of this Father's Day card for him.

Equally important is that the lovely blue sky is also fictitious in my Dad's golfing world as he has spent a good amount of time golfing in the rain this year!

The image from this card came from good old Digi Stamp Boutique and I printed and coloured it twice so I could decoupage it up (not sure if you can tell from this picture).

It's all coloured with Pro Markers of course and the cloudy backing paper is from my NitWits Just Hatched set.

Thanks for looking. One more 'manly' card to go, and then it's back to the girly stuff for me!

Sharon x

Day of the Dads...

How could us Mother's / Daughters forget that today is of course Father's Day.

There are three Fathers in my life - Hubby, Dad and Father in Law so the last few weeks have been employed in trying to think what to get them and of course, making suitable cards to fit each of their interests.

We have done the rounds today and now everything is delivered so I finally have time to sit and do a quick post, to show one of my 'manly' cards.

This one was for my husband, who is interested in all things Alien, so this is a tongue in cheek homage to that. Digi Stamps to the rescue in this case as that's where I have sourced the UFO and also the standing Aliens, who actually happen to be from the Little Monsters set. Of course, being digi, I could resize the Space Ship so I had a big one for the front of the card and a smaller one for the inside.

I have to say that, by the time I finished this card, I was pretty high on vapours, from the alcohol pens and also the spray and sparkle that I sprayed liberally on to the backing paper and card!

Now that I can reveal this card, without fear of spoiling the surprise, I am going to enter it in to a couple of challenges:

Papertake - Lads and Dads

Southern Girls - Anything Goes.

Get ready for a few more manly cards coming soon before I revert back to my usual girly cuteness!

Thanks for looking.

Sharon x

An English Country Garden

It's been such a lovely day today, weather wise....... just like an English summer is supposed to be. Too bad that I spent most of it cooped up in work... but at least I have managed to enjoy a bit of the evening sunshine, which is always a bonus.

So on that note, I thought I would post a summery sort if card, created using the newly released Little Claire's wheelbarrow stamp. Now I know that there are a few different wheelbarrow stamps around but this is a really nice one, and just the right size to make a lovely centre piece on a 6 x 6 card.

The lovely 'rosy' paper came from a free pad that came with a craft magazine a few months ago. It's a bit on the traditional side, compared to what I would normally go for, but I felt that they went perfectly with the cottage type flowers in the wheel barrow.

Well that's me done for today. It's starting to cloud over outside now so I'm going to enjoy the last of the warmth - after all it could be pouring tomorrow!!!

Sharon x

A Gem of a Challenge

Things have been soooo busy at work these last few weeks that I've hardly had time to do any crafting, let alone enter any challenges!

So, I thought I would fix that this weekend, and enter the Pink Gem challenge which is about flowers or charms. So here's my card which is kind of 'flowery' althought it doesn't have any of those lovely fabric flowers that were on the gorgeous samples on the challenge. I don't have any charms at the momoent so I used artistic licence and used some pearl beading instead - I hope it still qualifies! I'm also entering this one for the LOTV challenge, which is 'Anything Goes'. It's the first time I've entered their challenge and not used a LOTV stamp - hope they will forgive me!!

On another note - Today hubby is in Wales doing a 100 mile cycle ride up hill and down dale. It's not the distance I'm worried about - he does more miles on his bike every year than I do in my car! - but have you seen the weather out there??? One hundred miles in the pouring rain........doesn't sound like much fun to me!!

Anyway - while the cat's away as they say.....this is my chance to get on with making his Father's Day card, for which I'm going to be using some of the fabulous Digi Stamp Boutique Aliens and Monsters. Guess I'd better get off the web and start printing and colouring, pronto!!

Sharon x

Comment - tastic!!

Whahoo! - I am able to comment again!! I was over at my SIL's yesterday and she let me in on a little secret to get my comments back. Apparently, when you log in on google, you need to un-tick the box that says 'stay signed in'. After that you should you get your ability to comment back. I tried it today, and it worked, so thanks Sue for restoring my sanity.

Anyway, whilst I'm here I thought I had better post a card.

Here's another example from the Little Claire's June set. As luck would have it I had some papers that matched the Gerbera perfectly so it was a case of picking the papers that I wanted from the pack and colouring the Gerbera to match. These papers are from the Milton Range at Wid Rose studios and they have a lovely range of greens, oranges and browns in the pack which makes a lovely change for me.

Well I am off now as I should really do some house work now (oh joy!!) - so much for Sunday being the day of rest..........not if you're a full time working mum! If I don't get some ironing done today we will be going to school / work in our birthday suits!! Better get on then........

Sharon xx

A lightbulb moment

To anyone who is interested, I have found a way to kind of get round the comments issue.

On my own blog I went to settings and comments and and then scrolled down to the bit where you can decide who is allowed to comment on your blog. If you allow anyone to comment this will add an anonymous and name / url options to the select area of your comments page.

I think that, as a commenter you will be able to select one of these choices and make a comment.

I need to find another blog who has these options to try it out and see if it works, but if someone would like to try and comment on my blog and let me know if it works I would be most grateful!

Thanks

Sharon x

No comment!!!!!!

I never released how much I like commenting on blogs until I found I couldn't do it any more!! I don't know about all of you out there but I am finding it all very frustrating. Some blogs I can comment on but in most cases I can't, and the follower box on people's blogs seems to be deactivated too so I can't follow anyone new.

I keep checking the blog update each day, hoping for a little light at the end of the tunnel but to no avail. I know it's only a little thing in the big scheme of things but it is really starting to bug me now as I am feeling quite cut off from the blogosphere!

Anyway - on to happier things.......

Here's a card that I made using the Little Claire's June club stamps.

For the background I used the small flower in the kit and randomly stamped it around the edge of the base card with distress ink.

For the main flower I stamped it twice on to coordinating papers and cut them out. For the upper layer I chopped some of the petals off so that you can see some of the petals from the bottom layer, to give that 3d effect. The stamens were made with Stickles Pearl paint.

After that, a little bit of matting a layering and voila!!

Much as I love colouring, it made a nice change not to do any for a change, and, as you know, I do love cutting out flowers!!!

Thanks for looking, and, if you are one of the lucky few that are still able to comment, I would love to hear from you!

Sharon x