FMS#271 and NBUS#8

Hi everyone!!!!!



A lovely new sketch up at the Freshly Made Sketches Blog!!!!

 

My card:

I will also be entering my card at Darnell's NBUS Challenge #8.  Darnell is asking us to use the technique of colouring on kraft and that is indeed a new technique for me.  I have coloured my flowers with pencils, but you can actually hardly see that I have coloured it!!!!  I have used white, a soft coral colour and a deeper pinkish pencil to colour the flowers.  I don't own any fancy colouring pencils, just the old fashioned ones we used at school ages ago, so that's most probably why the colouring doesn't show nicely - IRL it does look better than on the screen.   The bottom part of the sentiment is NBUS.
Sentiment stamps from Inspired by Stamping.
The flower stamp is from a local craft shop, Great Impressions.
Finished my card off with black plastic dots.



Such a pleasure having you here - hope to see you again, soon!!!!

CTS#204

Hi everyone!!!


Taking part in the fun over at the CAS(E) this Sketch Blog, tonight!!!!  The sketch:

 

and the card I've made following the sketch:

 

A One-layer with some watercolouring, some masking and 2nd generation stamping and some heat-embossing.

Rhinestones for a bit of sparkle!!!!!!

 

Thanks so much for visiting - such a pleasure having you here!!!!

 

CTS#203

Hi everyone!!!!


I started playing with the current sketch by Michele, over at the CAS(E) this Sketch Blog, on Friday already and only had time to finish it this afternoon!!!!  This is the sketch:

 

and my card:

Rose stamp from PTI.

Sentiment stamps from Verve and PTI.

Some fussy cutting and it was done!!!!

And that will be it - will quickly link my card and then I'm off to bed, it's very late!!!!!!!

Such a pleasure having you here - hope to see you again soon!!!!!

 

FMS#269

Hi everyone!!!!


Nearly one o'clock in the morning, but before I'm off to bed I want to share a card I've made for the current sketch up at the Freshly Made Sketches Blog!!!!!!  This is the lovely sketch by Linda:

 

I've flipped the sketch on it's side and made a landscape card.

 

I absolutely LOVE these flowers from CAS-UAL FRIDAYS Stamps!!!!  Coloured it with my GraphIt pens.

The flowers that aren't coloured were stamped on the card front using grey ink.  The smaller, coloured flowers were stamped in black, die cut and adhered to the card front.  The bigger flower is on foam tape, as is the sentiment strip. 

Piece of silver mirror card and a blue glitter paper strip at the bottom.

Some rhinestones to add sparkle.

I can hear my bed calling loud and clear!!!!!

So lovely having you here - thanks for the visit - hope to see you again, soon!!!! 

Another CTS#202

Hi everyone!!!!


No cards for months and now two cards on one day!!!!!  Yep, I've made another CAS(E) this Sketch card!!!  Very much the same idea as my first card, using the same flower stamps from Altenew.
The sketch, again:

and my second entry:

Sentiment stamp from Inspired by Stamping.
Bg done with MFT inks.



That's it for now!!!!  Not much time left to link my card!!!!  Thanks for visiting!!!!

CTS#202

 Hi everyone!!!

Oh, boy, I haven't disappeared off the face of the earth, I've just lost my mojo for cards and blogging and enjoyed the lovely summer weather we've had over the last few months!!!!  I hope that you all had a fantastic festive season and that the new year is treating you well!!!  I wish you all a great 2017!!!!

I had a craft stall at a local church, during December and I'm happy to say that I'm quite pleased with how it went!!!!!  I didn't sell as much as I hoped for, but apparently everyone's sales were less than previous years, so I'm happy with my sales!!!!  I've sold quite a lot of cards and that makes me very happy!!!!  I think I will do it again this year!!!!

And then I want to apologize to all my friends for not commenting on cards for such a long time!!!!  I follow so many blogs at this stage that it is really becoming a great thing to keep up with commenting!!!!!  When it happens that I miss a day or two it is already such a big thing to get to everybody, that I often just not have the time to catch up and very soon it is just impossible to get to everyone without having to spend hours and hours at the computer!!!!  I really hope to work out a way to keep up to date with commenting and not falling behind so often this year - maybe that's a good new year's resolution, hey!!!!  Some friends also had their birthdays some weeks ago and I will be having something in the mail for you shortly!!!!


I had a look at the current sketch at the CAS(E) this Sketch Blog last night and I decided that it's about time that I make a card and take part in a challenge again!!!!!  This is the sketch:

and my card:

Stamped some Altenew flowers in black on the card base.  The dark panel is grey and I sponged it with Brilliance Dew Drop, Moonlight White, ink which I also used for the stamping.  Added a silver glitter panel for some sparkle. 
Sentiment stamp from a local craft shop, Great Impressions.



OK, I'll be off - my son is leaving on an action cricket weekend, this afternoon and I have to get his stuff ready!!!


Thank you so much for visiting - I have really missed you all so much over the last few months and I will be popping in at blogs and leaving some luv shortly!!!!


Have a wonderful day!!!!

    


 

CTS#186

Hi, everyone!!!!


It's been some time since I last posted!!!!   I've been very busy getting fit again and I've set myself the goal to walk at least 200 km (124.75 miles) during August!!!!  I've started on Monday the 1st and yesterday I've reached 203 km for the month!!!  With another week of the month left I should be able to reach 260km!!!!  Hubby and I have also started running again and we are following a lovely program to build our fitness gradually to hopefully be very fit again, soon!!!!  At this stage I'm hoping to do some half marathons again, next year, but there's still a lot of hard work to do before I will be ready for that!!!  After our run at 7 in the morning I do a 7.5 km (4.7 mile) walk and in the afternoons hubby and I do a 4.0 km (2.49 miles) walk!!!!!  And the wonderful bonus - I've lost more than 10 kgs (22 pounds) since 18 July when I started with all of this exercising - yeah!!!!  I've also been very busy getting all my stuff ready to hopefully be selected to have a craft stall, at a local church, over Christmas.  I have to submit photo's of all my products I would like to sell, by September, and then it's holding thumbs that they will like my stuff and allow me to have a stall!!!!  I think the Christmas Market at the church will be a much better option than the Farmers' Market I did last year!!!!



... on to cards and taking part in the CAS(E) this Sketch Challenge!!!!!  This is the sketch for the week:

and I had such fun creating this card:

Leaves dies from Cheery Lynn - cut from silver glitter paper and green cs.
Flowers hand punched.
Afrikaans sentiment saying: 'Congratulations'.


That will be it for now!!!!  Thanks for popping it - hope to see you again, soon!!!