Card Sketch Challenge #1

I have decided to have monthly sketch challenges for Charmed Cards & Crafts. One entry will have their card featured on our site as our card maker of the month plus receive a £10 voucher for the shop (UK only). Here is the first sketch, you can see an example in my post below:

I want to see the following please:

• Ribbon


• Chipboard

All entries will feature in our gallery on Charmed Craft Talk. You can email the entries to the email address on our site's contact page.

Hellloooooooo

Crikey it's been some time since I last blogged. Been unwell for over a month with a nasty bug so didn't have the energy to do anything other than what HAD to be done!

Anyway, here are some cards I made with the wonderful Wild Saffron Collection from K&Co. LOVE IT!

The butterflies are actually glittery as you can see on the next picture.

Double Tag

I've got a couple of tags I have neglected to deal with so I'll do them here at the same time.

First tag is a lovely smile award from Mellie, thank you Mellie :o)
I have to display the graphic and forward the award to 10 deserving blogs. The former is fine, the latter is HARD!

Recipients will be posted after some thought.

The second tag is from Juliet, thank you Juliet :o) I have to answer the following questions and tag 5 people.

Question 1- If you could have 100.00 pounds worth of scrapbook paper or assorted embellishments,which would you choose?

Embellishments probably.

Question 2- If you had to choose between using only stamps or rubons which would you choose?

Probably stamps as rub-ons are single use only.

Question 3 - If you knew how to do both awesome cards and layouts ,but could only do one for a year which would you do?

One layout and one card for a year? That's a bit mean isn't it? Oh one TYPE! ;oÞ I would choose cards as I need to make them for people I lurveeeee.

Question 4- would you rather own a scrapbooking store or have your own scrapping room at home (cant have both,lol,) ?

Well I do have both so what's ya gonna do about it huh???

Question 5 - and last but not least ,what is your current cardmaking or scrapping style?

I tend to change my style as the project dictates. I really love grungy but also do pretty ( although I'm not really into anything too pretty pretty) and traditional. No set style then really. An important aspect of both cardmaking and scrapping is versatility I think.

I'll come back with the five "taggies" when I'm a little better.

.......and CUT

That is the new challenge at Daring Card Makers - and here is my effort. Hand cut flowers.

DESIGN TEAM CALL...

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I have decided to put together a small design team. Click here for more info if you would like to be considered.

Happy Halloween

It doesn't seem a year ago that I took the girls out trick or treating! It's a sign of old age you know when the years go by quickly, either that or a sign that you lead a humdrum boring life where every week is like another!

Anyway, the girls have decided the don't want to go out this year. I am so going to miss that round, it was one of the highlights of the year! What is better than a couple of hours walking from door to door in the freezing cold? But we always miss most of the callers because we are out there ourselves so this year the girls decided that they want to be at home to greet callers with spooky faces and lots of sweets. We have decorated the hall with unimaginable horrors and will be doing the same outside before tonight.

As they are not getting their "treats" I have of course compiled a selection for them. To go with the goodie bags I made this card for them.

K&Co Light Ideas Halloween. Quickutz Silhouette Haunted House, Karen Foster Halloween paper, and black and green Bazzill. Fibre is Basic Grey Mellow, ribbon is Doodlebug Ric Rac. Eyelets from We R Memory Keepers. I think that's it.

Popcorn!

I had an order in from Lush (the makers of the most lucious bath products) and instead of the normal void fill packaging they used popcorn! What a fantastic idea! I always use environmentally friendly void fill but this really is the ultimate! Not sure how cost friendly it is though and I had noticed that the actual product prices had increased quite dramatically since my last order, so this is obviously where they recoup the costs, but certainly to be applauded in terms of "making a difference".

Moving swiftly from popcorn to Daring Card Makers. There's a little mini challenge there so I decided to have a go. This was the challenge:

The ingredients you need to use on your cards are:
4 brads/eyelets
3 circles
2 rectangles
and lashings of ribbon!

Oh crap! Just seen it says 4 brads/eyelets, I only used 3. Oh well, I made up for it by using 4 circles instead of three. ;o)

Extra Hour in Bed...

Well that didn't happen for me. I have the most annoying cough going and finding it hard to breathe when I lay down, so I got up early. But the extra hour is still there of course so I decided to make another Christmas card.

This one is kinda cute I think :o)

Figgy Pudding....

I am loving the new Basic Grey Figgy Pudding range, but then Basic Grey can do no wrong in my eyes. I have to try and keep up with my forum girls so when I saw that they had created new cards for the new DCM challenge I had a perfect excuse to get out the Figgy Pud! The challenge was called "Wrap it in Ribbon for Christmas"

Large A5 size, Figgy Paper, Chippie Tree covered in the reverse of the Figgy paper, Joy Bauble and flourish cut on Silhouette.

Another Challenge

A sketch challenge from DCM - here is the sketch:

... and here is my interpretation:

Basic Grey Figgy Pudding papers and Holiday Stickers (Reindeer).