BEAUTIFUL YOU MEETS MEDITERRANEAN MOMENTS

It has been a while since both of these sets have had an airing from me.  Both lovely stamp sets in their own right but they do also go so well together.

The challenge over at Inkspirational Challenge this week is Urban - hmm - tricky one for me but then I remembered the lovely street scene from Mediterranean Moments.

 I used the gorgeous Island Indigo for my card - both as the cardstock and for the accent colours in the imges.  I used some of our lovely Copper Embossing Powder and the now retired Delicate Details for the lace embossed iamge.  The wording is from a Project Live set.  A touch of the Copper Metallic thread finished off the card.  She looks Adventure Bound, don't you think?



 

BEAUTIFUL YOU MEETS FOXY FRIENDS

I'm back in my office which is my craft room after nearly a week of being poorly with a bad cold.  Aren't they so stupid?  They knock you for six for something which seems so trivial but you feel so ill.  I couldn't face anything - shows how bad I was that Hubby cooked twice lol!

Anyway today I'm feeling a bit stronger and wanted to try and be creative.  To give me a bit of a mojo boost, I thought I'd have a go at the Addicted to CAS challenge which is pets.  I love my pets - I have two dogs and two cats and love them both for their own personalities but I think I will always have cats and not necessarily always have dogs as I get older.

My favourite cats are black or black and white - and its sad that they are so often overlooked as people are superstitious about them.  I always think of them as lucky black cats and my little cat Jet is a treasure!

Here he is looking guilty - he had been in the sink licking a Valarian tea bag I had just used.  Apparently Valarian is like catmint for them and he loves it!

Here's my card  for the Challenge.  I used the Beautiful You set - which is the lovely background stamps in the set.  Just goes to show you can use sets outside of the main images that are in them.

I didn't really have an animal stamp and suddenly remembered my Foxy Friends punch and set which I haven't used in a while.  I punched it out in black and embossed the face in white embossing powder.

The little Hello is from a Project Life set Date It - also often overlooked as stamp sets but this one has 82 stamps in it!!!!! 

The colours I used for the background were Watermelon Wonder, Tangerine Tango and Crushed Curry.
 

As usual all products can be purchased direct from my store and don't forget SALE-A-BRATION is still on and you can get FREE stamps if you qualify.

HAPPY CRAFTING


 

BRONZE ELITE - WATERCOOLER WEDNESDAY FOXY FRIENDS

It's been an exciting week for me this week as I've been promoted to Bronze Elite.  It's been a hard slog to get my promotion as I have found it difficult to get my SU business off and running but I'm so glad to have made it before my 1st year Anniversary.  Onwards and upwards as they say.

I'm joining in with the Watercooler Wednesday challenge this week which is a colour challenge to use all or some of the following colours : click here to be taken to the website.





 I've used the Foxy Friends set here and the reindeer and the tree.  I love the trees in this set - there are two and they are so versatile.  I'm not sure really that I should have added the toadstools because they really are not winter things but they are so cute.  I've used the Winter sentiment from one of the Project Life sets - Date It and the Merry is from the Sweet Home set. I've used the Banners for Christmas set to make the banner.  The DSP is not from any Christmas papes - shock, horror but is from the Designer Series Paper Stack which just goes to show it can also be used for Christmas Cards.

 Thanks for stopping by. I love to read your comments good or bad.

Happy Crafting

 

ALL ABOARD

 My husband of nearly 31 years eek recently had a birthday - not a special numbered one like 50 or 60 - somewhere exactly in between!  What do you get the man who has everything?  Apart from fly fishing gear - of which he has loads - his other love is Steam Trains and he is quite partial to some real ale. 

We are very luck in Hampshire to have our own Steam Train on hand in the beautiful town of Alton.  What I found out was they offer Steam Train rides on a Real Ale Train.  Well, that chance couldn't be missed and funny enough the family wantaed to come with us.

At only £2 per pint of real ale it was a real treat.  The evening was a beautiful sunny early Spring evening on 7th May.  A poignant day for me cause its the anniversary of losing my beloved mum 6 years ago.

 The Train was wonderful - we all thoroughly enjoyed it.  The station is also all done out as it would have been in yesteryear - very 1930's - you could almost see the guys going off to war and in fact they also hold WWII days down there.

In keeping with the idea of yesteryear I turned my photos into black and white to give them more atmosphere.

And it gave me a chance to play with some Project Life.

I started my crafting as a scrapbooker and, to be honest, its my first love. I find it's a lot more satisfying than making cards - and at least you have something to treasure for generations to come.  I'm just starting to use Project Life and I am surprised at how quick it can be.

 

PROJECT LIFE

I recently returned to a local Scrapbooking Crop that is held once a month in a village near me.  Scrapbooking was the first paper craft I got into and its still my first love but its something I've not done for a long time.

Finding Project Life with Stampin' Up! has been a new scrapbooking experience for me and armed with my new projects I spent a lovely few hours with the ladies at the Crop using my new Project Life sets.

I was so pleased then to see that Global Design Project were choosing Project Life as their challenge this week.  I managed to do two full sheets while I was at the crop which is four pages - definitely a lot quicker than conventional scrapping.   You'll find their challenge #GDP035 here

I did some layouts for one of my nieces who has just had a baby and the other was of our 30th Wedding Anniversary last year with the family.  Its so nice to get those photos off the phones and computers and onto some paper where they can be seen.  I'm trying to spread the word and get friends and family interested.