Papertake Weekly Challenge - Blue and Green Should Never Be Seen!

Hi Everyone, I'm back! I've been really busy with Work for the last couple of Months and will still be busy till the End of April. I'll be posting and taking part in challenges again but not as often as I was.

What a great Challenge to kick off with. I love this colour combination, it's really super and I think that originally the rule applied to Darker shades of Blue and Green.

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I used these really fab papers from Eugenia Bacon's "Spring Song" collection available from Digital Scrapbook Pages, added some Rik-Rak Ribbon and Buttons along with a Rub-on Sentiment. I also made a matching insert using the same font as the Rub-on.

CPS #39

Here's my take on this week's CPS Sketch. I did it slightly different by adding the word Christmas instead of an embellishment.

This Penny Black Stamp set is just so cute, I coloured it using Twinkling H2O's and some Diamond Stickles. I did the word CHristmas using a Red Sakura Stardust pen and then going over it with the Diamond Stickles Glitter Glue. The red underneath gives it a lovely gold shimmer.

DCM - Golden Highlights

Here's one that's actually on Time, I'm not a Gold Person myself unless I'm wearing it! I really enjoyed this one. Keryn set the Dare and this is what she had to say:

Going back over my cards I seem to have a liking for gold as an accent colour. So this week I'd like you to make a card for any season or occasion but must include gold somewhere. It could be a brad, metallic card, heat embossing, ribbon, anything at all as long as it's gold.

Well here's my attempt, I used Pink Petticoat backing paper from the Doodle-Icious Christmas Rainbow set, I coloured the white lines of the backing paper with a Gold Sakura Gelly Roll Pen. The images are from the "O Christmas Tree" set, and again I used Sakura Gelly Roll Pens to colour.

DCM - Santa's Little Extra Helper #3

Snowmen and Snowflakes

Another late post, but there you are this is going to be the story of my life until the "Training Rollout" is finished, got a heavy schedule and lots of time away from home for the next couple of month's.

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The backing paper is from Daisie Company, Victoria Hutto's Holiday Patterns Paper Kit, I think this paper and the colours are just fab, I love it! I've "Stickled" some of the snowflakes using the Diamond Stickles Glitter Glue. That Stamp again!, this time I used Sakura Gel Pens only.

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Snowy Days!

Another Late one! And another Stamp I got at the NEC on Sunday. I think your going to be seeing a lot of this one, I think it is so fab. This weeks challenge is Snow! Snowy scenes, snowmen, snowflakes etc etc. Come on everyone! Let it snow!!

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Again I used scraps from my box, this time I used Daisie Company, Victoria Hutto's Holiday Patterns Paper Kit, and that fab stamp which I embossed using Kaleidescope Embossing Powerd on Smoke Blue Versa Color Ink and then coloured with Sakura Gel Pens.

Sketch This: Cards: 32

It's amazing how quickly you get used to using the PC for crafting. My Magenta cartridge ran out last week and my printer won't print until it's replaced, so I've had to use what was available. Normally I go straight to the PC and decide which papers to use and then print them, then I wonder why I have so much scrap paper. I think I'm going to make December and possibly January my "Get rid of the Scraps" Month/s.

I used some scrap paper and the border is from a goody bag I got on Sunday at the NEC, the Daisy Stamp is from The Stamp Man's Double Delights Unmounted Stamps.

Sketch This: Cards: 31

This one is really late, but I did the card earlier in the week and thought it such a shame not to post it.

It was such a simple card to make, I used a piece of Backing paper from a Magazine Freebie, a piece of Ribbon and Punched out 4 Christmas Tree's from Pink Petticoat's "O Christmas Tree" Image stamps after painting them with Twinkling H2O's.

CPS #38

I'm really late with this one I know, but I'm trying desparetly to catch up. Made it on Tuesday but it was too dark to take a picture, then I couldn't find my memory stick for the camera. Any way here it is better late than never.....

Pink Petticoat Doodle-Icious Christmas Rainbow paper for the background and a Penny Black Stamp. I've been after this set of stamps for ages and manged to get them at the NEC on Sunday.

Di Hickman Card Sketch - October #5

Here is the last October Sketch for Di Hickman. You know how it takes ages to decide on your design, then make it, take photo's, crop and resize, then finally load them to your post. And once that's all done, you realise you should have done it differently......

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I used the same Daisie Company papers, Victoria Hutto's Holiday Patterns Paper Kit, and card from Paper Mania's Colossal Colour Card Pack.

And CUT!

On Daring Card Makers Challenge this week its Tracie setting the dare and it is to make a card and CUT!
Any theme goes, so for those of you needing a break from Christmas crafting this is the perfect opportunity to have a change. All styles are welcome but there MUST be an element of handcutting somewhere. It could be a greeting, a shape, letters printed on your pc and handcut, anything goes as long as you did it by hand.

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I obviously decided not to take the break and created a Christmas Card. The Letters and Bauble were cut by Hand, all other cutting was done using my guilotine.

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I have again used Daisie Company for my papers. This time I used Victoria Hutto's Holiday Patterns Paper Kit. I used one of the Papers from the kit to create the Letters in my Graphics Program. I used another Paper to create the Bauble using Donna Glenn's 5 Ornament Tag Template.

Final Winner

And the winner is...... Snowcloud, congratulations. Please e-mail me your address and I'll get it in the mail for you.

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Thank you to all that played, and I do hope you'll come back every now and again to see my progress. I quite enjoyed that and so may do something similiar agian but not on a daily basis, perhaps a monthly draw from all comments posted, so do watch out for that.

Ultimate Last Chance Draw

Well Ladies this is it, the Last name to go into the draw is Linda SS. Well done, it looks like it really was last minute saloon there.
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Here is the list of Names in the Final Draw tomorrow.
1. Granann
2. Christine
3. Leni1221
4. Fink
5. Sybil
6. Cathy
7. Yelowflower
8. Leann
9. Pat S
10. SnowCloud
11. Pat S
12. Andrea
13. Cathy
14. All Pink Girl
15. Scrapmomof2
16. Andrea
17. Sectrets (Sybil)
18. Pat S
19. Christine
20. Linda SS
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Good Luck Ladies, I'll post the name of the winner tomorrow morning at about 09:00.

Ultimate - Day 20 "Last Chance"

Hi Everyone, sorry for the really late post, this is the last chance Post for the Final. I'll be leaving this post open till tomorrow night and will post the Last Name to go into the Final at 19:00 UK time. I'll do the draw for the Final and Announce the winner on Friday Morning at about 09:00 UK time.

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It's Day 20, and as you know I have an Ultimate to Finally Give away. Please leave a comment here to be in Day 20's Daily Draw. Eligibility is limited it to UK and US Crafters.
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For more details please look at the Crafters Companion Ultimate Up for Grabs Post, but do remember to come back here to play. I've added a link to Crafters Companion for those who are impatient and might like to buy one now, please have a look at everything else while you're there. I will post the result of today's random draw in tomorrow's Daily Post. Good Luck.
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The Nineteenth Name in the Final Draw is Christine, congratulations. Everybody else please keep on trying, and don't forget to have a look around.

Ultimate - Day 19

It's Day 19, only 2 Days to go till the Final, and as you know I have an Ultimate to Give away. Please leave a comment here to be in Day 19's Daily Draw. Eligibility is limited it to UK and US Crafters.

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For more details please look at the Crafters Companion Ultimate Up for Grabs Post, but do remember to come back here to play. I've added a link to Crafters Companion for those who are impatient and might like to buy one now, please have a look at everything else while you're there. I will post the result of today's random draw in tomorrow's Daily Post. Good Luck.

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The Eighteenth Name in the Final Draw is Pat S, congratulations. Everybody else please keep on trying, and don't forget to have a look around.

Tagged by Louise, Sally and Dawn

Thank you to both Louise (Loublous Carfty Home), Sally (Sally's Stuff) and Dawn (All Pink Girl) for tagging me. You see these things going around and sort of feel left out when everybody else is getting tagged. Then you read an e-mail telling you your tagged, and a big smile appears on your face. LOL.

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

I would want to be gready and have both! But, if I couldn't be my typical normal self I would have to say embellishments.

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

I would have to choose stamps, there's only so much you can do with rub-ons, whereas stamps have no limits.

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

That would definately have to be Cards, I love making them and I love giving them. For obvious reasons I try to avoid the camera so we don't have an awful lot of photo's to scrap.

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4)Would you rather own a scrapbooking store or have your own scrapping room at home (can't have both, lol)

I would say a Store, I would test all the merchandise first, and probably end up moving in to the store room.

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5) And then last but not least, what is your current cardmaking or scrapping style?

I'm still trying to find my style, but if I had to describe it currently I would say it's more plain and simple than anything else.

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Now I have to pick 5 people to Tag, here they are in no particular order:

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1. Wendy (Secret Crafter)

2. Caroline (Pretty Pink Cards)

3. Kim (Simply Fairies)

4. ScrapMomof2 (Crazy for Crafting)

5. Leann (leann's crafty ramblings )

Ultimate - Day 18

Sorry Late Post, I'm on the road at the moment so please be patient with me over the next day or two.

It's Day 18, 3 Days to go till the Final, and as you know I have an Ultimate to Give away. Please leave a comment here to be in Day 18's Daily Draw. Eligibility is limited it to UK and US Crafters.
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For more details please look at the Crafters Companion Ultimate Up for Grabs Post, but do remember to come back here to play. I've added a link to Crafters Companion for those who are impatient and might like to buy one now, please have a look at everything else while you're there. I will post the result of today's random draw in tomorrow's Daily Post. Good Luck.
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The Seventeenth Name in the Final Draw is Sectrets (Sybil), congratulations. Everybody else please keep on trying, and don't forget to have a look around.

Sketch This: Cards: 29

Here's my Sketch for this week. I'm rather pleased with how this one turned out. Goodness only know's who I was thinking of when I made this card, myself perhaps....

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I used another Daisie Company Kit, this time Mechelle's Daisy Crazy Kit. I just love the colours and of course the Daisie's.

Di Hickman Card Sketch - October #4

Here's this weeks Di Hickman sketch, I', still trying to catch up but at the rate I'm going don't think I'm going to make it. The card still needs a Sentiment but I'll add that later once I've decided who's going to get it.

I used Papers and Elements from Audrey Jean Roberts "Windows on Christmas" Kit, DCWV Card Stock and some Ribbons. You can find Audrey's Kit at Daisie Company.

Ultimate - Day 17

It's Day 17, 4 Days to go till the Final, and as you know I have an Ultimate to Give away. Please leave a comment here to be in Day 17's Daily Draw. Eligibility is limited it to UK and US Crafters.

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For more details please look at the Crafters Companion Ultimate Up for Grabs Post, but do remember to come back here to play. I've added a link to Crafters Companion for those who are impatient and might like to buy one now, please have a look at everything else while you're there. I will post the result of today's random draw in tomorrow's Daily Post. Good Luck.

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The Fithteenth Name in the Final Draw is Andrea, congratulations. Everybody else please keep on trying, and don't forget to have a look around.

Tempting Template for a Tuesday

Here's a little extra one from DCM, again sorry it's late.

Now, on to our Little Extra for this week. We're letting Santa's Little Helper have a rest for a couple of weeks, but you can still make a Christmas card for this one if you like. It's ages since we gave you a sketch to play with so that's what we've got for you this time.

And here is my result.




The papers are from a Kit that I bought but not sure where or when, the cirles and matting layers is card from a DCWV mat stack, and I added some stickers to spell SUPRISE.