There's a moose loose...

Hi all,

No card, but just swinging by to let you know my daughter Kayleigh has now set up her very own blog! Please, do feel free to go take a peek and I know she'd be really pleased to get some followers besides her mum! lol.

See you all in the morning with my CraftyHands DT project! So excited I'll be able to share this one with you all!

Hugs,

Sammy-x

Drawings!

Hello peoples,

I've not really been around this week, and I do apologise. The Christmas shopping turned out to be a bit much for me, and I made myself unwell by overdoing it. At least that's it for the next year, so I've plenty of time to recover! lol.

Anyway, I'd like to share something different with you all before we scoot off up to Scotland tomorrow. I have here a trio of drawings by Kayleigh, who decided to draw three of her favourite characters from a series of books that is particularly well-loved in out house. The Belgariad, by David Eddings. Eddings is particularly good at creating characters, so I'm not surprised my daughter felt the need to put them to paper!

First, there is Barak. He's a bit of a grumpy bear of a man, and I just love Kayleigh's visualisation of him. Aren't his eyebrows just awesome?
I also love his nose... None of this dainty pretty little nose business, this is a warrior's nose!

Next up is Belgarath the sorcerer. He's the wise old man of the series, and I just adore his hair. And how brilliant is that cloak?

And finally, pretty much everyone's favourite character... Silk. Silk is the cheeky "wiseguy" character of the series, though there is much, much more to him than meets the eye. I just love how Kayleigh captured the mischievousness of this character!

So there we have it, three beautifully drawn gentlemen. I have to add for the record that she does not get this talent from me... I can't even draw stickmen! lol.

Kayleigh would very much like to enter these drawings into the current Ribbon Girl challenge too.

And just in case I don't get the chance later... Merry Christmas to you all, may you have a fantastic holiday season!

Hugs,

Sammy-x

Another guest post!

Hi all,

I have a card to share with you all this evening, only it isn't mine!  My daughter Kayleigh has had another go at making some cards, and would like me to share this with you.

Will you all be surprised if I tell you there's a LOTV image? Well, she is my daughter, after all... :-)

As you can see, she raided my stash for more than just my stamps! The papers are from the Dovecraft "Tea party" pack, the flowers are mostly WOC and she's had a generous amount of my Stardust Stickles!

The sentiment is from the Dovecraft "Cupcake Boutique" sentiment set and she borrowed my Promarkers to colour the image. (There's quite a lot of stickles on the image too, but it's hard to tell from this photo!)

She wants to enter this into the Ribbon Girl kids challenge, and is already working on another card (with... wait for it... another LOTV stamp, lol) and will also have some drawings to share. I'm very proud of her artistic abilities and handiness with a pencil (which she most definitely did not get from me!) and will be so happy to share those with you too!

Until later my lovelies.

Sammy-x

(And Kayleigh)

LOTV open day and a very special guest card...

Good day my lovelies.

Well, I ended up at the LOTV open day yesterday (I'm not even going to pretend to "oops" anymore, lol), and this time my dear 13-year-old daughter came with me. Under duress, I might add!
So we got to the shop, moody teen in tow and started to look for bits and bobs I was after. It didn't take long for her to drop the moody teen thing and start exclaiming over the gorgeous cards on display! So she helped me choose some stamps and flowers and then we went upstairs to share a slice of choc fudge cake! (also foregoing the "oops"...) She then won me some goodies on the tombola, including a paper pad! Woohoo!

Purchases purchased and us ladies escorted safely back home by the boys (who waited in the car the whole time and would absolutely not be coaxed out under any circumstances), said previously moody teen ran off upstairs - after making me stamp her several LOTV images - to go off and create.

As for me, I had a half-finished image on my desk, which I was able to finish off with the new Promarkers I had just picked up and then turned into this card:

You can just make out the glossy accents on the windows!

Recipe:

Image - "Window seat" - LOTV
Medium - Promarkers
Paper - Boofle - Docrafts
Sentiment - Christmas grungy messages - LOTV
Poinsettia - WOC
Die - Xcut
Everything else from stash.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

CHNC - November
A Gem of a Challenge - Christmas is coming
Allsorts challenge - Christmas Cheer
Crafty calendar challenge - All things Christmas
Sister Act challenge - Anything goes 
Crafty ribbons - Anything goes with ribbon
Inky Impressions - Traditional Christmas



Now, for the special guest card. Designed by Miss Kayleigh...

Kayleigh used "James Snow Angel" and teamed him with some magazine freebie papers I'd donated to her.
She had the idea of covering all the white bits with Stickles, and I love how sparkly it is!

So there you have it. Her first LOTV card, and she's already gotten me to stamp her about a dozen more images so she can make cards for all her friends! Feel free to leave her some love and encouragement here, and I'll be certain to pass it on! :-)

Hope your day is a great one,

Sammy-x