Things with wings - Buckwells Crafty Challenge DT

Hi all,

Well, we had a lovely time at the seaside this holiday, though I think next time we're going to want a quieter spot! Didn't get a wink of sleep with noisy drunk people walking past just outside my window all night.
Apart from that it was a really fab holiday though, and we all enjoyed ourselves immensely.

However, there's some sad news today, and that is that this month's challenge will be Buckwells Crafty Challenge's last. So I hope you'll all come and join in and see it off in style. The theme is Things with Wings and we're being sponsored by Sweet Pea Stamps.
The image I chose to play with is the gorgeous Butterfly Blue by Ching Chou Kuik. Isn't she lovely?

I went with a pastel blue/pink/yellow colour scheme, and decided on the shabby chic route with lots of distressing, flowers and lace. I also added some sparkle with my sakura pen, which shows up a teensy bit better on the angled shot blow.

Now I hope you'll join me in wishing the challenge and my lovely teamies a fond goodbye, and of course do come and play along with us!

I'll be back in a bit with my next DT post!

See you soon,

Sammy-x

Buckwells Crafty Challenge mid-month inspiration

Hi all!

Popping in this morning with my mid-month inspiration for Buckwell's Crafty Challenge, featuring our regular sponsor, A Lil Digi Heaven.

For this card I chose the fab image called Serenity. Now if any of you are familiar with the TV show Firefly, or the later film Serenity, you will certainly recognise those influences in this image.
Which made it the perfect image to use on a card for my brother, who like me is a big fan! (In fact, any of you that were around when I first started my blog may well remember an earlier card I made for him with the same theme!)

I went predominantly with brown and creamy yellow colours, which also fit in with the show.

The sentiment if a quote from the show, and I followed it up on the inside with "From wishing you a shiny birthday".

And there she is. Ready to get sent off to Edinburgh in August (nothing like being ahead, lol).

And don't forget this month's spots and/or stripes challenge.

Have a fantastic day!

Sammy-x

Spots and/or stripes - Buckwells Crafty Challenge DT

Good morning everyone!

We're really looking forward to our holiday to the seaside in a few weeks here at Casa de us, so I give you fair warning that today is going to be a very nautically themed day here on my blog, lol.

First up, there's the May challenge at Buckwells Crafty Challenge, where the theme is spots and/or stripes. as you may have guessed, I've opted for stripes!
Aside from the fact that they seem to work so well with a seaside theme, I must admit I'm rather partial to a good stripe or two. More so than spots, though I've nothing against those either (except, of course, when we're talking chicken pox and the like!).

So, I took my adorable image from sponsor A Lil Digi Heaven and put together this card:

I want an outfit like that for our holiday!

Hope you'll come and play this month. All you need is some spots or stripes, or even both, easy peasy!

Right then, back in an hour with another sea-inspired make!

Sammy-x

Colour Palette - Buckwells Crafty Challenge DT

Good morning all, my first post today is for Buckwells Crafty challenge, where we have a gorgeous colour palette to play with in this month's challenge!

Isn't it pretty?

I decided to use all the colours on a fabulous image from Sponsor Lacy Sunshine and went with a super CAScard!

Apart from the pink mat, the only thing I did was heat emboss the sentiment. It's rather more CAS than my usual, but I do try to be brave and give it a whirl from time to time, lol.

I hope you'll all find the time to go take a peek at my fellow teamies' creations, and then why not come and have a go too?

I'll be back in an hour!

Sammy-x

Floral inspiration for Buckwells Crafty Challenge

Hi all,

It's been a crazy few weeks for me, so I hope you'll forgive me for being MIA. My parents were visiting before, and this last weekend I was at the Country 2 Country festival in London, which was beyond awesome!!
And yesterday my wisdom teeth were finally removed. Those of you that have been around here a while might remember that I first started suffering in February last year. It's taken our wonderful national health service until now to actually do something about it! What can I say; You get what you pay for!
But it's finally done now, and you have no idea how relieved I am!

Now then, on to the reason I'm here this morning... my mid-month inspiration for Buckwells Crafty Challenge! The theme this month is flowers, which is a nice easy one for most of us, so I hope you'll come play along!

I used the digi "Dani" from our sponsor A Lil Digi Heaven, and teamed her up with some pretty floral papers.
And this was the result:

I hope you'll all come and play this month!

Please bear with me for a few more days while I get myself back on my feet so to speak (and can start eating solid food again, lol), and I shall come visit you all soon.

Have a great day,

Sammy-x

Flowers - Buckwells Crafty Challenge DT

Good morning everyone.

Is it really March already? It seems this year is flying by just as quickly as last year did...

And of course there's some new challenges starting today, including the monthly one at Buckwells Crafty Challenge. The theme this month is flowers, the first of which have already started to appear here! You have no idea how happy the first glimpse of snowdrops makes me each year, lol.

We're being sponsored by A lil digi heaven again this month, and I used the adorable Abigale for my card, along with some pretty papers.

Buckwells supplies used:

15mm Brown satin ribbon

Coral Cosmos daisies

15mm open roses

10mm open roses

White Spiral Stamen

Now it's your turn. Go take a peek at my fellow teamies' creations, and them why not play along? There's such scope with this theme, as you could have an image of a flower, floral paper, or add flowers like I've done. So many options!

Hope you're all enjoying your weekend. I shall be back in an hour with my next DT post.

Sammy-x

Buckwells inspiration...

Good morning all!

Just popping in to remind you all of the challenge at Buckwells, which is red/love this month, and is sponsored by Buckwells Craft Supplies, and Kenny K.

You may remember that I made a card at the beginning of the month with the Brianna Blaster image. I decided to make a second card with the same image, but going for a different, more steampunk look.

The Copper Pot papers from Buckwells Craft Supplies were perfect for this.

And I found a Kanban sentiment that was perfect! I stuck mostly to using neutral Promarkers for this, with the occasional pop of various shades of red/orange, and love the way she came out!
I don't really like how the Frantage looks in the picture, but in person it looks pretty awesome!

Now there just so happens to be a 10% off sale happening at Buckwells for the next few days, so go grab yourself a crafty bargain while you can!

Right then, that's it from me for now, hope you all have a most fab day!

Sammy-x

Red/ love - Buckwells Crafty Challenge DT

Good morning everyone!

It's February already! That was fast! And of course it also means there's some new challenges happening... First of all, the February theme over at Buckwells Crafty Challenge is, unsurprisingly Love/red.

Our sponsor this month is Kenny K, and IO got to use the super fab image Brianna Blaster.

I figured it would make an awesome image for hubby's valentine's card, so I killed two birds with one stone :-)

I coloured Brianna with my Promarkers, and teamed her up with some MME papers and Buckwell Craft Supplies ribbon.

Now, there's 3 chances to win this month at Buckwells! You could win some digis from Kenny K, or two lucky winner can get their hands on some of the new digi papers available from Buckwells. So why not come and play along?

Right then, I shall be back in an hour with my next project... Watch this space!

Sammy-x

Anything goes - Buckwell's Crafty Challenge

Good morning all, and Happy New Year! May it be a fun and creative one, and may you all find yourselves in the best possible health and happiness.

Now then, as well as the first day of the year, it's also the first day of the month, which of course means a couple of new challenges for you!

First up it's the new challenge over at Buckwell's Crafty Challenge, and the theme is an easy peasy Anything Goes, so I expect you all to come play along! ;-)

I used an image from our sponsor A Lil Digi Heaven and made a tag:

I'm sending this to someone in America I'm doing an "art exchange" with. She loves geeky stuff (including the Batman universe, so I'm hoping Harley will be appreciated :-)

The background stamp is from Visible Image, and I used red and black ribbon from Buckwell's Craft Supplies. The words are Tim Holtz chit chat stickers and the rest are bits and pieces from my stash.

Now then you lot, time to get your craft on and come share your creations with us!

Have a splendiferous day!

Sammy-x

Use the colour red - Buckwells Crafty Challenge DT

Good morning everyone!

Just the one post from me this morning, as Rhedd's Creative Spirit is taking a break for Christmas.

But I do have a new challenge at Buckwells Crafty Challenge to share with you, and the theme is Use the colour red.
All the DT used the same image from sponsor Lia Stampz, and all used the colour red, yet they're all so different! I suggest you go take a peek!

This is what I did with mine:

I used the Lia Stampz image "Christmas Snowmen" and Buckwell Craft Supplies 15 & 10mm red satin ribbon. 

And while I'm on the subject... From today until the 15th, Buckwells is having a Christmas sale, with 10% off everything if you enter the code XMAS14 at the checkout.

Have a fabulous day folks!

Sammy-x

Use Ribbon - Buckwell's Crafty Challenge DT

Hello again!

This is my second post this morning. If you're looking for my Sweet Stampin' DT post, please scroll down...

Well, the first month over at Buckwell's Crafty Challenge went really well, and I can't believe the month is already over and we're onto the second challenge! And the theme this month is simply Use Ribbon. Easy peasy, no?

I decided to use some of the gorgeous 25 mm coral silk ribbon and an image from our sponsor A Lil Digi Heaven's Joy.

I used Some First Edition papers too, and of course some liquid pearls, gems and a flower brad.
As you can see by today's posts, I still love this hair colour at the moment!

And on top of the challenge, there's some really good deals going on at Buckwell's right now! And there's more ribbon up for grabs for a lucky winner too!

Also at  Buckwell Craft Supplies there has been a price drop on all Cutting Dies plus an extra 10% Off all the Cutting Dies in stock from the 1st to the 8th November.

So, a great challenge and lots of great deals... We certainly hope to see you there!

Back in an hour, hope you're all having a fab day so far!

Sammy-x

Anything Goes - Buckwells Crafty Challenge DT

Good morning everyone!

This is my second post today, please scroll down for my Crafting with Dragonflies DT post.

Well, here it is... The brand new first ever challenge at Buckwells Crafty Challenge! And the theme is one you'll all have no problems with... Anything Goes!

I myself made two cards for this first challenge. First of all, a shabby chic affair using some of the gorgeous beige 25mm organza ribbon and Bisque liquid pearls available in the shop:

And next up is a new baby stamp for which I used 15mm pink satin ribbon.

Yes, I seem to be having a bit of a "pink" time at the moment, lol.

I do hope you'll all come join in, as there's a brilliant prize waiting for the winner!

You could win your self some gorgeous Organza and Satin Ribbon from Buckwell Craft Supplies Shop..

 Ribbons can be found HERE

and check out all the other crafty goodies that are in the Shop. As it's the first Challenge over at the Shop, from 8am Friday the 3rd October through to Midnight Sunday 5th October it's going to be FREE DELIVERY..

See you all in an hour with my next post!

Sammy-x

Exciting news!

Hi all, just interrupting your regularly scheduled Sunday scrolling to let you know about some exciting news I have!
Some of you may know the very talented Lozzy, and possibly also know she has recently opened up an online craft shop, Buckwell Craft Supplies.

Now from the 1st of October, Lozzy will be launching a brand new challenge blog to go with said shop launch, and she asked me to be part of the DT.
Naturally, I couldn't say no!

So I hope you'll join us on the 1st of October for the new challenge.

In the meantime, enjoy what's left of your weekend!

Sammy-x