Been busy...

You may or may not have noticed that I was a little quiet last week. Mostly this was because I was busy with a projects that took up quite a bit of time...
I tend to make up my own treat bags for halloween, but normally they're just plain baggies with sweets in. Now, being an avid papercrafter, this will of course not do! So, I started making tags to go on top of the bags. They were done using some of the Framelits "tag" dies, which were then folded in half:

I then stamped a whooooole heap of Bobunny halloween stamps, coloured them and fussy cut them to add to the tags. I've made 52 so far! You'd have thought that would be enough, but I made up 50 bags last time, and we ran out!

The "angel" and "devil" ones were the most fun to colour, but I love all the stamps in this set. However, the next batch are likely to feature a Rick St Dennis digi that I acquired with a little vampire on them.

Hope you all have a fine evening/day depending on where you are.

Sammy-x

Second batch of LOTV Christmas cards

Hi all,

Well, I spent two days over them, but finally my second batch of LOTV Christmas cards for my mum ready.
I picked up 2 more "christmas tree" type stamps from the LOTV stand on Saturday, so it's going to work out at 18 cards total for her to send out. (She sends loads more, but I won't be able to make all of them! lol)

Anyways... Here's one of the latest:

Again, keeping it relatively simple, and quite flat, so it'll be easier for mum to post them out!

Also, as you may be able to tell, I have a brand new shiny watermark on my card! It was made by Claire Keay at Jellypark, and the proceeds go to charity, so if you don't have a watermark yet, this is where you want to go!

Card recipe:

Image - "Swirly Fir Tree" - LOTV
Medium - Promarkers
Papers - "Krafty Christmas" - LOTV and Docrafts Boofle
Dies  - "Small poinsettia builder" - Dies by Chloe and an unbranded nesting die.
Sentiment - Cardmaking & papercraft freebie
Red and white card, ribbon and gems from stash.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Created with love - Any holiday
Lawnscaping challenge - Use patterned paper

Hope you're all having a fabulous day, I'll be back later with more stuff I've been working on!

Sammy-x

Halloween?

Hi all, I have another card - not entirely sure what kind though, lol. It's sort of halloweeny, but also girlie. I started off with the image and decided she needed purple hair. As I'm still very low on purple pens, I was limited to this pale colour, which in turn influenced the rest of the card...

Purple, incidentally, is my favourite colour. Honestly, I have NO idea why I have so few purple supplies! lol.
And a glimpse of the inside:

I just adore these Cuddlebug Cuties digis. If you haven't yet, I strongly suggest you follow the link below to check them out!

Recipe:

Image - "Willow" - Cuddlebug Cuties
Medium - Promarkers
Papers - Dovecraft "Back to basics II"
Flowers - WOC
Sentiment - The Alley Way Stamps
Dies - Spellbinders Shapeabilities "Foliage"
White, purple and green card and gems from stash

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

One Stitch at a Time - Use a digi 
Hobbycutz - Halloween 
The Paper Players - Halloween


Hope you've all had a fabulous day!

Sammy-x

Ohhh lookee, a card!

It's been less overcast this afternoon, so time to whip out the camera, lol.

Now the autumn/fall colour palette isn't actually one I often play with, but I thought I'd give it a whirl, especially considering I had some brand new leaf dies to break in!

I rather like the end result, and wish I had more papers in these colours to play with! (No! Bad Sammy! No more paper for you! You have enough! For now... lol)

Recipe:

Image - "Simply Lovely" - Cuddlebug Cuties
Medium - Promarkers
Paper - Magazine freebie
Dies used - Sizzix Framelits - "Tickets"  and Spellbinders Shapeabilities "Foliage"
White and brown card, ric rac and flower gems from stash.


I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

2 sisters - Fall fun
Allsorts challenge blog - autumn colours
Sweet Stampin' - Autumn

Have a fabulous day my lovelies!

Sammy-x

Honey, I'm hoooome!

Erm... I may or may not have bought lots of crafty deliciousness at the Harrogate fair today!

And yes, even though I'd told myself I was NOT allowed any more paper pads, I somehow ended up with another 6... Oops! lol.
I got a nice selection of dies, a few stamps (including another set of LOTV), some embellishy kinda bits and a HEAP of stuff to alter!
Oh, and 4 packs of card. But that doesn't even count as that's an Essential Purchase. ;-)
And I just noticed I missed a couple of the stamps I got off this picture... They were still in my bag!
I also met several really lovely ladies while there and spent some time chatting about craftiness while queueing. How come everyone in the craft world is so very nice?

After I was done there, we nipped to a shop elsewhere in Harrogate that sells chalk paints, and I picked up a couple of tins of that too.

So, all in all a successful trip. Can't wait to get started (just trying to find a home for it all now, lol).

Hope you're all having a wonderful day!

Sammy-x

Harrogate tomorrow!

I for one am really looking forward to the Harrogate fair tomorrow. Anyone else going?

I've been saving up pennies to buy lots of crafty goodness, so watch this space for a loot picture. ;-)

I also have several cards ready for showing, but it's been utterly miserable here the past few days, which isn't helping the photography much. It is my mission in life to find brighter lightbulbs!

Have a good one!

Sammy-x

LOTV Christmas

First of all, again I would like to thank everyone, both for the lovely comments and also for the enquiries and concern about my health. As I said in my earlier post, I'm doing pretty well all things considered and I'm staying optimistic. Either way, thank you all, I really appreciate the support! x

Now on to the card du jour...

I mentioned a while ago I was making a set of cards for my mum to send out this year. I finally have the first batch ready :-)

I made half a dozen of these, and the plan is to pick up some more LOTV Christmas "foliage" stamps (possibly on Saturday at the Harrogate fair), and make another half dozen of each.

Obviously I'm keeping things fairly simple, as I am talking large quantities of cards overall and I'll otherwise not have enough time/stash to make my own! lol.

Recipe:

Image - "Holly Tree" - LOTV
Medium - Promarkers
Paper - Magazine freebie pack with no designer name on!
Sentiment - Another magazine freebie with no name
Red & white card and ribbon from stash

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenge:

Creative Inspirations - Your favourite stamp company (LOTV of course! No contest...)

Have a fabulous day one and all!

Sammy-x