The end of a busy weekend!

Hi,

I've finally found time on Sunday night to sit down and do a very quick post. It's been a hectic weeknd as my son had his 9th birthday earlier in the week and this was his official birthday weekend,culminating in a Quasar party which is quite exhausting, considering that it involes a pack of hyper active and over excited 8/9 year olds! Makes me glad birthdays happen just once a year.

So now it's back to peace, tranquility and a good old cup of tea.

Here's a card that i have made using one of the Room With a View stamp sets released by Little Claire's earlier this month. Sorry I don't know the official name for this set, but you will be able to find it on the website as always.

Hae been busy making some cards for the March club release this week and also something for the first ever Little Claire's challenge, so I will look forward to showing those to you soon.

Thanks for looking .

Sharon x

LOTV and Stamp Something challenges

Here's my card for the above challenges.

The LOTV challenge was a sketch by the lovely Dawny P. I really like her sketches so I just had to make time to do this one, particularly as it gave me a chance to use one of the lovely new stamps that have just been released!

The Stamp Something challenge says to stamp something cute, so I think this image definitely fits that category.

Thanks for looking.

Sharon x

Crafters Companion Challenge

I have just about managed to scrape this one in before the Crafter's Companion January challenge comes to an end. This month, the theme was a sketch with the option subject of 'New Beginnings'.

I am also entering this forthe Cute Card Thursday challenge which is a one, two, three recipe (I have opted for one paper, two stamps and three flowers), and finally the Teddy Stamper Anything Goes challenge.

Thanks for looking

Sharon x

Pink Gem and LOTV challenges

Hi all,

Here's a quick post to show a card that I made for the Pink Gem and Lily of the Valley challenges which you can find here:

http://pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.com/

http://liliofthevalleythursdaychallenge.blogspot.com/

The Pink Gem challenge is a sketch and I have combined this with the LOTV theme which is 'Things with wings'

Thanks for looking.

Sharon x

Peartree Designs - Anything goes challenge

Pear Tree designs have an anything goes challnge this week, so I thought I would enter a card that I have made for my neice's birthday which is coming up later this week.

I have used one of the recently released stamps from Lili of the Valley for this card and the little cupcake 'stoppers' are stamped from one of the Crafters Comapnion Cute Companions Summer Stories sets (I can't remember what it's called but ut's the set that has the cake layer and pillars plus numbers - it's a really useful set to have!

The gorgeous backing paper also come from the Summer Stories CD rom, and I thought it complemented the stamp really well. Ihave coloured with Copics as usual, and I did something a little bit different this time as I distressed the backing paper with distress ink.

Hope you like this card and thanks for looking.

By the way, you can find this challenge at http://peartreedesigns.blogspot.com/

Sharon

The one that nearly made it to fame.....

Hi there,

For those of you that didn't already know, a Little Claire's show went out on Create and Craft last week, and myself and my DT friends were all watching (or recording) so that we could see if any of our cards had made it on to the show.

Well on the day, some of my cards got a viewing, but this particular one didn't quite make it. The presenter picked it up with a pile of cards and was flicking away, but then she stopped on the card before mine. As this is an A5 side card, I could see it sticking out behind the previous card, but then she walked off with the cards in her hands, to talk about promarkers or something. For the next 5 minutes or so, she continued to do this, picking the cards up, and putting them down again, with me sitting there holding my breath and willing her to show the card!! How ridiculous I am!

Anyway, despite my frustrations, this card never quite made it to the front of the pile, so I thought I would give it the limelight today. Better luc kfor the next show I hope!!

Sharon x

A little candy from Little Claires

Morning all,

In homour of ther new blog challenges that will be starting over at the Little Claire's blog from February 5th, we have some lovely blog candy up for grabs.

Why not hop over to http://littleclairesdesigns.blogspot.com/2011/01/time-for-some-candy.html for your chance to win, and don't forget to come back on Feb 5th to join our first blog challenge.

Good luck

Sharon x