A Spoon Full of Sugar - Challenge 127

Good morning, it's new challenge time at A Spoon Full of Sugar and this week the theme is 'die-cuts'.

For my card I have used a Lili of the Valley die-cut image, and the circle sentiment plus additional circle have been cut using my circle punch!!

For all prize details and to see the girls lovely example please drop by at the challenge blog.

Apologies for the brief post, had to schedule it as I am currently not here!!

JOANNE x

A birthday full of lovely treats

Today and for a little while longer it has been/is my 38th birthday, ooooo.... that sounds sooooo old!!!!

I've had a lovely day, been spoilt rotten, had my mum and dad round for lunch, had visitors drop by and all finished off by packing for a few days away, can't wait!

Just thought I would quickly share a few piccies of the packaging my girls made/decorated for my pressies.

First up Hollie decorated a gift box that I very quickly made using my crafters companion.  She used a Little Musings image that I had got already printed off and in my box of images!

 Then I made a couple of bag-a-lopes for Lillie to decorate, for this first one she has used an image from Simply Inger which was also in my box, coloured to match up with the paper she had chosen!

 and using the same paper but a recycled embellishment which I had taken off of a past birthday card!

 and what was inside these lovely packages??  This lovely selection of jewelery and corsage.  I am so happy with these (but I did choose them last week when we went shopping so I should be lol!).

Purple, green + 1

Pollycraft have a colour challenge of 'purple, green and 1 other' so I dug out my crimbo pollycraft stamp and created the following card, my 'other' colour is the red!

I would also like to enter this card for the Meljen challenge which is 'anything goes'.

Chairsma Cardz - Vintage

Good frosty morning!  Is it just me or is this week going really slowly?

Anyhow, it's Thursday which means a new challenge over at Chairsma Cardz and boy was it a challenge for me!  'Vintage' isn't something I attempt too often, think I made a few vintagey cards years back with Joanna Sheen images, but they aren't my thing!!

Still I purchased some mini xmas postcards years ago, have used a few but most are left in my box, so they got to see the light, out of all of them this one is the best.  Simply used a bit of matte holographic card, a couple of scraps of paper, some candy kisses and a blingy corner and I managed it, just wish I'd have used a cream card as my base instead of the white but heh ho it's done now!

We have 2 fab sponsors this week :
Bunny Zoe Crafts Nikki has very kindly donated a Magnolia Tilda stamp, some crochet flowers and xmas charms for our first winner.   and
All That Scraps who have for our second winner offered the choice of 4 stamps or 1 stamp set.

A Spoon Full of Sugar - Challenge 126

Good morning, it's new challenge time for us at A Spoon Full of Sugar and the theme for this week is 'BOO' we would love to see your halloween projects!

My dt creation is the very first 'shoe' that I made (I showed my second the xmas shoes a few posts ago!). 

and a view of the empty shoe!  These are so much easier to make with double sided card!  Less cutting and glueing!!

 We are sponsored by Digital Delights who have very kindly donated a $10 gift certificate as the prize for one lucky winner.

There are fabulous halloween examples by all of the dt on the blog, and we also say a sad goodby to Marley who is leaving the team to concentrate on her studies.

I would like to enter my halloween shoe into the following challenges :
 Top Tip Tuesday  which is 'anything goes'.
Fun at Fairy Knoll which is 'happy halloween'.

 

Well just a quick update on the weekends goings on!  Hubby took us shopping on Saturday so that he could get me a few birthday bits, I managed to get my yearly birthday pressie of a new pair of boots, and they were in the sale to!!!  Not allowed them yet mind you, have to wait until Sunday lol!!  Along with some more goodies, we got some more christmas pressies to, also with discount, which certainly helps this time of year!

Sunday morning was spent finishing digging the footings for the connservatory, needless to say hubby did more than me but I did do a fair bit!  Then after lunch I was manning the cement mixer!  Several dozen barrow loads of cement in I was flagging, my arms have stretched what seems like inches and still ache!!!  But at least we are now at the point of having the block work done, builder is coming to have a look tonight, I've requested he does the cement and lays the floor to!!

Have a great day! 

Halloween is coming!

With halloween only 2 weeks away a lot of the challenges are 'halloween' which is a bonus for me as it means that I can enter today's card into 4 of them!

1) Creative Cottage

2) Everybody Art

3) One Stop Craft

4) Fun at Fairy Knoll

I would also like to enter my card into the Cute Card Thursday challenge which is 'what's buggin' you'!  There is a snail in the image, is it classed as a bug?

Well off into town in a while so hubby can let the girls can get me some birthday bits, only 8 days to go!!!!  I'm also hoping to find myself a new pair of boots to add to my collection lol! 

Tomorrow we have a very busy day, not looking forward to it really.  We have left it until now to decide to put our connservatory on, yep the middle of October!  We have started digging out the footings and have a big muddy patch for a back garden, tomorrow I've been told I'm manning the cement mixer, oh joy!!!  Wish me luck!

Chairsma Cardz - More than one fold (my challenge!)

Good morning, time for a new Charisma Cardz challenge and this week it was down to me, so I have chose 'more than one fold'.  The list is endless and the challenge is open to anything not just cards!!

I made a simple little gift box thingy, so blooming easy to make!  My box was made out of 1 A5 piece of double sided card.  A few folds, no cutting, a bit of ribbon to hold it all together, a few 3d sticker embellie's and heh presto done!!

fill with sweeties, choccies, jewelery, a scarf, anything that fits really!!

We have 2 fabby sponsors this week so that's 2 fabby prizes and the girls have made some wonderful multi fold examples.  Please pop by at the blog and take a look.