A Spoon Full of Sugar -challenge 26

Our challenge at A Spoon Full of Sugar this week is called 'Blooming Marvelous' you could use a stamped image of flowers or with flowers on, or flowered paper or add flowers to your card anything you wish.
I have used an image that I received in a swap, I think it's a Pink Petticoat image and not a stamped image but I am sure that is fine! Unfortunately the outlines run a little in places which has spoilt it a bit, but I have lacked enthusiasm for painting images the past fews days so had to go with it. After colouring the image with my pearl paints, which are shimmering nicely, I attached prima flowers over the top of the ones on the images and added a small gem to the centres. Then added various sized and coloured flowers from the same set and a few buttons, the sentiment is a rub on.

a close up of the flowers added to the dress!This weeks prize is 2 lovely stamps which have kindly been donated by our new sponsors Alota Rubber Stamps.

I am also entering my card in for another couple of challenges, I followed the sketch from Sketch Saturday and seeing that I've used buttons I can enter it for the Secret Crafter challenge which is called 'Cute as a Button'.

A nice surprise!

Nice it was actually lovely! When I went to see what post we had this morning I found a large padded envelope with Origin Publishing on the front woo.. hoo.. I thought, obviously some goodies, but what for? This is what was inside : Jolly Nations shrinkies, tea bag folding book, page of Paper Cellar stick ons, Cute Companions stamp sets - Deck the Halls and Wish Upon a Star and Christmas Collection cd

so so excited with these, who wouldn't be receiving free stamps??Now it says these were sent as a thank you for my card appearing in the readers gallery of issue 28 of Beautiful Cards, this isn't a magazine I buy very often and cannot for the life of me remember what card(s) I sent in, if you happen to have this magazine could you please let me know which is was then I may just go out and buy one!!

Well thankfully I managed to escape the lurgy although I've had a headache all day but no sickness or ...... you know! Lillie was better again by Friday afternoon, but we had Matthew off to on Friday! Think he had just convinced himself he was going to get it to, you know what men are like!? But he works himself to exaustion then gets a really bad headache which makes him sick and a day in bed or resting usually cures it. He was feeling a lot better yesterday and helped me paint our old room which will be a play room/guest room soon. We got a third of the way round and I looked at the walls and hated it, I hated the colour it was too dark, we finished the room and I couldn't bare it. So off we went to town for a tin of Magnolia!!! Got home went to the room and said "it's dried lighter mmm.... it's not as bad as it was" the decision to make was do we do another coat of this colour or 2 coats of the magnolia? We stuck with the first colour, think we can live with it, hoping with the furniture back and a few pictures up it will look ok. Just got the glossing to do now.

I got Lillie to ask for last weeks homework that she missed, so that she could catch up. They had to dress up a picture of Pudsey Bear, give him an outfit! So here is the finished article, she added sequins to the bandana, made trouser legs out of the paper I had been using for a card and cut out a top (a girls!) from the Sunday magazine, what a dude!!!

Here is the card I was making at the time, it's one my friend Kay asked for for someone who is leaving work this week. She doesn't know the reason but there is a running joke about Smurfs so she wanted one on the front! Thank goodness for Google!!!

she also asked for a Norwich City football card last week, I used the Papertake Weekly sketch again, this time I re-attached the corners that I had cut off of the patterned layer onto the corner of the plain layer. I was pleased with the finished result and Kay loved it!

I'm off to a chocoholics party later, never been to one, but have been told it's not expensive and there will be lots of christmassy bits, so fingers crossed it will be ok. Not that we need chocolate of course!

Spoke too soon!

It had to happen didn't it? Yes Lillie came into my bedroom 7am this morning saying that her tummy really hurt, I told her to get the bowl that Hollie had had Monday evening, and within minutes she was being sick. Hollie went to nursery and although the school is minutes up the road I had to take the car as Lillie wouldn't have made it on foot, bless her she sat with the bowl on her knee and told me I had to drive slow as I was going too fast and making her tummy hurt! All she has had are sips of water all day, and this afternoon she has been constantly on and off the toilet, crying that it hurts, I am waiting a call back from the doctors to see if there is anything they can prescribe or suggest I do. Lillie is always the illest of the 2, Hollie just sort of takes it in her stride. Been told to make sure she drinks, she can have calpol and to use sudocream crossing everything that this does the trick.
Not a lot of creating done by me today, I have made a card that my friend asked for but haven't loaded it up yet.
So thought I would leave you with a very simple altered picture frame that I did a couple of weeks ago. The frame is a suedette material and there were a couple of black marks on the top left corner, so I simply attached 2 orchid flowers to cover this up and another to the bottom right corner just to balance it up a bit. I received this pack of flowers as a gift for appearing in one of the craft magazines, me being me couldn't use them on a card they were far too pretty Lol.! So they are now gracing the front of my picture frame with a piccie of the girls on my bedside cabinet!! The flowers although orchids were a great match for the gladioli the girls are standing with!

BLOG CANDY ALERT

Elaine is celebrating her 40th birthday on the 15th of the month, and is giving away some fab candy, oh how I would love to win this one, something that I desperately want. Take a look here for more details.

Claudia Rosa (Pretty Pressings) is celebrating her blogoversary with the most wonderful blog candy, there are 4 chances to win and each of the prizes is just fab! Claudia's case is amazing! Take a look here

Christmas Bella

Papertake Weekly have got a great sketch for this weeks challenge, I have used my christmas bella image, watercoloured her and added 3d snow writer for the fir on her hat and boots, all finished off with a few gems.Hollie went back to nursery today after having the day off yesterday. Monday I headed off to bed at about midnight as I reached the top of the stairs there was a whiff of sick! Poor Hollie was laying in a pile of sick, they normal cry and scream the place down but not this time. The smell as I walked in the door was horrendous, bless her I had to wake her up, strip her, her bed and give her a shower! Luckily Matthew was home from darts in time to help me. I was going to keep her off again today but she had been fine during the day and hadn't been ill overnight, she said she wanted to go so I sent her in. When we picked Lillie up she came home with a letter saying gastroenteritus (sp?) was going around, fingers crossed it will miss Lillie and Hollie had the mildest of cases.

Snowmen

2 more challenge cards today (made another but will show that tomorrow)
This first card is for Stamp Something whose challenge is 'simple somethings' you were only allowed to use 1 layer of card! I haven't even used that, I have stamped my serendipity snowman from Joanna Sheen straight onto the card itself, highlighted him with lots of glitter, added Anita's ribbon and some sticky gems, card done! staying with my snowmen (this wasn't done intentionally) here is my card for Friday Sketchers. I chose blues instead of the traditional reds and greens and instead of adding a flower I punched 2 1.5"circles ripped 1 to make it a bit smaller and added a fancy button in the middle. I have used 3d snow writer for the snowmans pompom on his hat (image sent by Trina) and the snowflakes and added a little accross the bottom of the image.

Both of these cards also qualify for this weeks My Time to Craft challenge which is, would you believe 'snowmen' and no I didn't know this before I made the cards for a change!!

BLOG CANDY ALERT

The very talented Fran is celebrating her blogoversary and passing 55,000 hits to her blog with the most fabulous blog candy, take a look here.

A Spoon Full of Sugar -challenge 25

Hello, can you believe we are on challenge 25 at A Spoon Full of Sugar? It doesn't seem possible that I have been part of this wonderful challenge blog and wonderful deisgn team for so long, and loving it!!
Our challenge this week is to make 'a childs card' not too difficult is it?!
I have made my card for my cousin's little girl (bet you can't guess how old she'll be or even her name can you?!), she like disney princess's so this image of snow white should be perfect, I hope. I enjoyed making the DL card last week using Trina's sketch, so went for the same size again, coloured the image with my watercolour pencils and added a few gems to take away the plain patches of white.

There is a scrummy prize on offer which includes a Magnolia stamp, which has been kindly donated by Summer from Roses on Paper. I am going to try to do better with my blog visits this week but I keep having pc problems and it's driving me nuts! Don't forget to pop over and take a look at the rest of the cards from my DT friends they are all truly beautiful.

This is also my entry for the Secret Crafter challenge which was to use this weeks sketch.

'Believe'

Here is my entry for this weeks Sketch Saturday challenge. The snowman and 'believe' sentiment are stickers that I got from Poundland yesterday, ooooo..... they are scrummy, they are chipboard, 3d and sparkle with the addition of gems! I wasn't in the mood for painting today so these were perfect and it doesn't say you have to use stamped images (I don't think).This is also my entry for Daring Cardmakers whose challenge is 'sparkle and bling'.

Back tomorrow with my A Spoon Full of Sugar card.