Some 'Fab' news

Finally, I can let the cat out of the bag and announce that I am delighted to be joining the Fab and Funky Blog Design Team.

This is a really fun challenge that I participated in regularly as a blogger and so you can imagine how pleased I was to be invited to join. The hard bit has been keeping it under my hat as I was lucky enough to receive the invite last month, just as the Crafty Fairies blog was coming to a close.

So I guess it's true when the say 'as one door closes, another door opens'.

I'm really looking forward to joining in with the fun this year, and the first challenge of 2015 starts today. The theme is 'Something New' and our sponsor is Di's Digi Stamps.

You can find the blog right here so it would be lovely if you popped along to look at all the lovely cards and join in with the challenge.

Meanwhile, my card is made using a very cute Di's Digi Stamp and some lovely papers from Bearly Mine's floral range (sadly these are no longer available as the shop has now been closed due to the new VAT laws on digi's).

I hope you like my card, and look forward to seeing you over at Fab and Funky!

Sharon x

Something New

Well it's my first post for 2015 and, as usual at this time of year, everyone is thinking about new beginnings etc, so I thought I would post up a New Baby card.

I love to make these kind of cards, but don't often get the opportunity, so this lovely SWALK image had it's first outing when I stamped this card, even though I had bought it years ago!

As you can see from the close up image, I stamped and paper pieced the mother's dress and them coloured the rest of the card to coordinate with the backing papers that I had chosen.

I kept the card very simple to focus on the image and managed to part with the very last of my dummy charms…something which I had picked up years ago and never seen again!

I enjoyed using this colour combination as it was a little different from the usual pastel pinks, blues and yellows, and could be for either a boy or a girl I think.

There are lots of lovely challenges to enter this week so here they are:

http://creataliciouschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/challenge-70-new-beginning.html
http://sparklesforumchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/ch63-4th-anniversary-anything-goes.html
http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/challenge-250-anything-goes.html
http://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/a-new-year-and-new-challenge-anything.html
http://abc-challenge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/a-is-for-anything-goes.html
http://buckwellscraftychallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/buckwells-crafty-challenge-anything-goes.html
http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/challenge-354-anything-goes.html
http://graphitmarkers.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/week-1-shiny-and-new-graphit-colouring.html
http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/were-back-january-anything-goes.html
http://pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/happy-new-year-1st-chall-theme-of.html
http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/challenge-273-all-things-new.html

A happy new year to everyone reading this post, and thank you for stopping by today.

Sharon x

Bebunni Christmas Megapage

I love the cute Bebunni images and really wanted to use one to make a card for one of my baby nephews, but of course, I eventually ran out of time for stamping and colouring, so instead I opted for some of the beautiful megapage on the CD ROM.

This card is a fabulous 8x8 size so, you can see the the decoupage is indeed quite sizeable, but the joy in the is that it is really simple to cut out.

This example has about 6 layers so it makes for something quite spectacular in real life.

I have k pet the layout really simple here and die cut some snowflake ornaments for a little bit of embellishment.

This is what I like to call a 'happy' card, because that image really makes me smile!

I have a few challenges to enter today and here they are:

http://deepoceanchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/challenge-93-christmas-is-all-around.html
http://christmascardchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/christmas-card-challenge-4-anything-goes.html
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/challenge-87.html
http://sparklesforumchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/ch63-4th-anniversary-anything-goes.html

Thanks for visiting today.

Sharon x

A very Victorian Christmas

Well Christmas Eve is hereat last (much to my son's relief!) and for me it's a lovely lazy day as I have a day off work.

I thought I would post something very traditional today in the for of a beautiful Thomas Kinkade scne which I have decoupaged.

I have kept the card very simple as the main image is so detailed so it doesn't really need anything else.

The decoupage itself was a bit of a labour of love as it is very detailed and quite fiddly, but the final result is so worth it!

I think this will be my final card before Christmas so I am going to enter this one in to the following challenges:

http://lovetocreatechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/challenge-147-icy-winter-days.html
http://thepapershelter.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/christmas-challenge-anything-goes.html
http://cinspirations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/challenge-294-christmas-new-year.html
http://deepoceanchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/challenge-93-christmas-is-all-around.html
http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/welcome-to-pennys-challenge-208.html
http://sparklesforumchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/ch63-4th-anniversary-anything-goes.html

It just remains for me to wish all of my visitors a Happy and Peaceful Christmas and a healthy and prosperous New Year.

Sharon x

Walking in a winter wonderland

Hi all. Well it's Sunday evening and it's been a very busy weekend, Christmas wise. I am really chuffed that I had a 'wrapathon' yesterday afternoon and now have all of my presents wrapped up and bagged up  :-)

I have also gotten a bit domestic, done a tonne of housework and managed to bake gingerbread cookies with my son.

Last night I was out with friends until the small hours as we said good bye to one of our friends who is moving to Australia in the New Year.

And this morning, I managed to get two big Christmas cards finished for the babies in my family.

The bad news is, that I still have a few family cards to make…..as in not even started……and I am starting to feel like there won't be enough hours in the day.

I guess the thing is, no matter how organised you try to be, Christmas always come down to a bit of last minute panic - otherwise it just wouldn't be Christmas would it?!!

So here is one card that I DID manage to finish. It's very CAS and I made it using a selection of my Cardio stamps.

There's not too much to say about this one really, other than, I hope you like it, and here are some challenges that I would like to enter.

http://lovetocreatechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/challenge-146-create-scene.html
http://sparklesforumchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/ch63-4th-anniversary-anything-goes.html
http://thepapershelter.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/christmas-challenge-anything-goes.html
http://cinspirations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/challenge-294-christmas-new-year.html
http://deepoceanchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/challenge-93-christmas-is-all-around.html
http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/welcome-to-pennys-challenge-208.html
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/challenge-87.html
http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/december-challenge-winter-wonderland.html

Thanks for visiting today.

Sharon x

In the Deep Midwinter

Hello everyone!

It seems I have been a little absent from blogland lately…..not sure why but can't seem to find enough hours in the day at the moment.

None the less I was determined to get a card posted this morning, so here I am, sitting in my PJ's, loading this up before I crack on with whatever else is waiting for me today.

I made this card a while back and it was really a colouring experiment with my Spectrum Noir pens where I decided to get a bit brave with my background. There are some very dark colours in there and I could do with refining the technique but I thought it came out pretty well for a first shot. It kind of looks a bit stormy don't you think?

I had already found the Bps in amongst my very old stash and coloured to match, resulting in an unusual colour combination for me but one that I really liked in the end.

The beautiful image is a stamp from Crafters Companion, and I have to say I think it is just adorable!

Time to enter some challenges again I think, so here goes:

http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/december-challenge-winter-wonderland.html
http://acreativeromance.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/anything-goes-goodbye.html
http://totallygorjuss.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/challenge-265-snowflakes.html
http://natalieandamy.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/challenge-27-cute-cuddly-christmas.html
http://lovetocreatechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/challenge-145-non-traditional-holiday_8.html
http://cinspirations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/challenge-293-anything-goes-option-of.html
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/challenge-87.html
http://graphitmarkers.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/wk-50-festive-wishesgraphit-colouring.html
http://wedodoobadoo.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/challenge-21festive-spirits-we-do.html

Thanks for visiting today and a happy weekend to you all.

Sharon x

Time for a bit of snow and holly…...

It's challenge time once again over at Crafty Little Fairies and this month the them is Holly and / or Ivy.

For this theme I have gone with a smile but lovely background paper for my Holly, rather than my usual choice of die cuts etc. Both the papers that you see are digi papers and have come from my Polka Doodles CDs…my favourite Xmas CD for this year, 'Here Comes Christmas'.

For the image I used a gorgeous Tiddly Inks Image which I printed a few times and decoupaged her.

As you can see from her close up, I have had my pearl paints out, in silver and white, for the snow, and I managed to throw in a bit of glitter for good measure too! I guess we need to make the most of glitter right now as Christmas will soon be passing us by, and it will be time to get back to the sublet stuff again!

Finally - a few other great challenges that I would like to enter:

http://abc-challenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/y-is-for-yuletide.html
http://buckwellscraftychallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/buckwells-crafty-challenge-3-use-colour.html
http://withoutwordschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/december-christmas-modern-look.html
http://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/merry-christmas-and-anything-goes.html
http://digichoosday.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/wk-48-xmasdigi-choosday-crafting.html
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/anything-goes.html
http://nutcrafters.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/challenge-82-midway-reminder.html


I hope you like my card today and that you will feel inspired to join us over at CLF….we really lovel to see your creations so don't be shy!

Thanks for stopping by today.  :-)

Sharon