Hello All,

We have our Designer's choice challenge at Inkspirational. For this challenge my very dear friend both in blog land and IRL, Nonni, has chosen the challenge:

One Layer Cards

I love making one layer cards and here is what I made:

A very happy Friday my friends,

Freshly Made Sketches are celebrating their 200th sketch this week. Naturally I wanted to join in the fun. If you need a little more to tempt you, check out all the sponsors they have here.

I find sketch challenges hard however this week was a very CAS sketch and as soon as I saw it I had an idea. 

Here is my card, inspired by an arty picture of London I saw here.

A very Happy Friday Eve to you all,

This week at Time Out Challenges we have our 'Home Sweet Home' challenge based on a photo to inspire you.

Here is our photo:



I love this photo and found it hard to get past the blue stripes but there is so much more here to inspire you-glasses, anchors, pops of red, wood grain, rope and I am sure you can pick out a lot more.

I went with the blue stripes and pops of red. I made this card for my hubby:

Hello All,

I am sorry for not visiting so many of you this week but I have not been feeling so well. However today I was browsing blogland and saw a few challenges that inspired me to craft-the best way to recover!

First my card using a sentiment from Stamplorations and a sparkle stamp from Visable Images

Hello there,

Time for our word prompt challenge at Inkspirational. Our word this week in:

I thought about this for a while and was going to go with ice cubes in cocktails or something similar as we are in the middle of Summer in Britain. However this sketch back in July at CAS(E) this sketch got me thinking in a different direction and here is what I created:

Have you played along with our 'Inspired by Words' challenge at Time Out Challenges?

Our words are:

'Friendship is Golden'

You can use any word or the whole phrase as I have here:

I am here quickly to re-share my CAS version of my Muse card for Christmas inspired by Kimberley. I did post this the other day here showing you how I got from a water coloured card to this CAS version. However I couldn't seem to work out how to add both cards to the link up. Every time I tried it just said that the link already existed and I was prevented from doing it. Can anyone help here?

So here is the CAS version so I can add it-I wanted to re-post it, as I do really prefer this version.

Yesterday I wanted to play along with the Christmas Muse card this week. This week there the card was by the very talented Kimberley. The card was not my normal style but I was in the mood for water colouring so decided to give it a go. I was mainly inspired by the water colour effect and the foliage in the left hand bottom square (see below). I came up with this:

I embossed the leaves and sentiment (from Happy Little stampers Mixed Christmas sentiments) and then water coloured. To be honest I am not happy with this card but I wanted to share with you how this card led me to the card below-which I really like and it makes me happy. This is what happened-I was looking at my water coloured card thinking I am not happy with this and then decided-why not just stamp this following the same design and adding some holly and a few gems. I did this and created this card, which I do like. So thank you Kimberley for inspiring me to make 2 Christmas cards!

I will enter both of these into Muse Christmas Visions and 52 Christmas Card Throwdown-green and red challenge.

I will enter the second into One Layer Christmas Card

There are quite a few challenges at the moment that are inspiring me to craft. I doubt I will get time to play along with them all. Today is a card I made that was inspired by combining 3 challenges.

A very happy weekend to you all,

Mr. Postie today delivered to me some new stamps designed by my very dear friend Kylie. For those of you that didn't know, Kylie has started her own line of Happy Little Stamps, check out the stamps here.

I was very excited to get stamping as soon as they arrived today and here is what I came up with:

Hello my crafty friends,

Today I am sharing my card for the Muse Card Club.

This week the card by Joan immediately made me think of making a Christmas card. Here is what I came up with:

I loved the crisp look of her card and the little bow. I stamped the bow on some scrap, coloured it and added WOS. I then fussy cut it out and added it to my card using a foam pad to give dimension.

All these stamps are from Winnie and Walter.

Another Christmas card done!

Time to take some Time Out and craft at Time Out Challenges

This week is our 'Inspired by Words' challenge and we have these words for you:

'Friendship is Golden'

You can use any of these words or use the whole phrase as I have done here:

Hello All,

I am very excited that today I am the Guest Designer at CASology. I was honoured to be asked and then slightly worried that I would not have an idea of what to create when I got the cue word. Here it is:




I was lucky in that I immediately thought what was 'precious' to me and what popped into my head was 'Family'. Using the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch and this NBUS visable image stamp I made this card.

Time for a new challenge at Inkspirational. It is our photo inspiration challenge. Here is my card: