Autumn - Sweet Stampin' DT

Good morning all,

It's Autumn over at Sweet Stampin' this week!

I'd finally managed to get my hands on a Prima doll recently, and was itching to use it. I also really wanted to use a lovely Paris background that I've had in my stash for ages. Now technically, neither of those really scream "autumn", but seeing as how the Paris stamp had trees, I had the idea of colouring them in autumn colours, and hey presto!

This was the result:

As the image itself is so busy, I decided the rest of the card should be quite CAS, so some simple matting and layering and a big silky red bow with only one DP.
The card looks a little brighter than it does in real life, and there seems to be almost no colour on the buildings! One of these days I'll find the perfect way to take these pictures, lol.

Now I'm sure you'll all want to visit the rest of the Sweeties, and then come join in yourselves, as there's a £10 Bunny Zoe voucher to be won!

Have a great weekend, and if you happen to be going to the Harrogate fair on Sunday, keep your eyes peeled for a pink and black plaid hat (my daughter!) and come say howdy!

In the meantime I think I shall play along at the Allsorts challenge blog, where they also have an autumn theme!

Sammy-x

October challenge - Rhedd's Creative Spirit DT

And hello again for the third time today! For my Buckwells Crafty Challenge and Crafting with Dragonflies posts, please scroll down.

So, it's October, and as we all know October's main "holiday" is Halloween. So this month, the team at Rhedd's Creative Spirit have all prepared some Halloween themed projects for your inspiration, but the challenge itself is still Anything altered art goes, so you can enter a Halloween project or something else, we love to see them all!

For mine, I managed to get my hands on a Tim Holtz configurations box (one of the really big ones, at 16" wide!) and decorated it in Halloween style.

I started by painting everything black and then "wallpapering" with G45 Steampunk Spells paper. Most of the elements are either from G45, or spiders and such I picked up in a pound shop! The little book is made up of G45 spell cards and opens and closes, and you can flick through the pages.

Poison and blood! (actually blue fairy washing up liquid in the one, and handwash with red food colouring in the other... It's beautifully thick like congealed blood, lol)

Hobbies collide! Long before I took up crafting, I used to paint Games Workshop miniatures. I myself preferred the Orcs and Goblins and Lord of the Rings armies, but I remember hubby had dabbled with the undead one for a little while. So I dug around and managed to find some skulls left over from his skeletons, and added them here and there throughout the boxes.

This was oh so much fun to do, though I did end up running out of Halloween stuff in the end! I had a few other things I wanted to add, but due to the ridiculously long wait for it to be delivered (over a month!) I ran out of time. The plan was to have working lights and allsorts... I may well add them in at some point anyway.

Now then, time for you to go check out what spooky wonders the rest of the team have made. You won't be disappointed!
And look what's on offer for this month's winner:

Off you go!

And have a fantastic day.

I'd love to enter this creation into the current all crafts challenge!

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

Anything Goes - Crafting with Dragonflies DT

Hello all!

It's that time again... A new challenge over at Crafting with Dragonflies. And the theme is the easiest of all... Anything Goes!

For my project I used an image from one of our sponsors, the Dollar Graphics Depot, and made a door hanger.

I fussy cut the image after colouring it with my Promarkers, and attached it to the hanger, which I'd covered with some paper from Grace Taylor first. I added a die-cut branch, then sealed everything with a couple of coats of modge podge.
Finally, some buttons and twine to finish it off, and it's ready to go on someone's door!

Initially I was going to add a name to it, but both my kids have long since outgrown this kind of thing, and I wasn't sure who else to make it for, so left it nameless in the end!

Now I hope you'll all come see what my fellow Dragonflies have been up to, before you come and enter the challenge yourself!

Have a fantastic day, and I'll see you all in a few hours with my next post (two of three today!).

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

Shades of One - The Crafting Cafe DT

Morning crafters!

You may or may not have seen that this month's challenge at The Crafting Cafe is Shades of One, and today is my turn to post some inspiration.

I used a lovely image from our sponsor Scribble and Scrap, and made this:

For some reason I always seem to end up doing browns for this theme (though in this case the browns do tend towards the pink end of the spectrum for a change...)
The papers are LOTV, and the flowers are WOC, except for the large one in the middle, which came in a clear baggie from a craft fair with no name on, so no idea, lol. The large pearls I got recently from The Works (a jar full of them, just because I loved said jar...)

Also, I must apologise for the photo being slightly wonky and tilted. At least it goes with the rest of me!!

There's still a week to come and play, so hope to see you there!

I thought I would maybe play along with the Scribble & scrap challenge too this time.

Have a fab day,

Sammy-x

Ribbons and bows - Sweet Stampin' DT

Good morning everyone!

It's Saturday once again, and that of course means a new challenge at Sweet Stampin'! This week, the theme is ribbons and bows!
So of course my thoughts went to girlie cards, and from there on to LOTV and pink, and this is what I eventually came up with:

The flowery ribbon was one I chanced upon at a car boot sale, and the bow is seam binding from the Ribbon Girl. Some WOC flowers and Fernli designs wooden corner and some pearls to enbellish, and finally a metal bow charm, which you can just see a teeny bit of under the large flower in the bottom left, lol.
There was alltogether a little too much pink for my liking, so I used a little cream paint to add some interest here and there, and break up the unending pinkness!

Now it's your turn to join in... We're being sponsored by The Ribbon Girl, so you'll not want to miss out!

And I'd like to add this card into the Ribbon Girl Lovely Lili challenge!

Have a fantastic weekend!

Sammy-x