Craft Your Days Away Challenge # 42 Easter

Yay Saturday is here and time for another challenge at Craft Your Days Away.  Sorry this post is a tad late but it has been a rather hectic day today.  This fortnight the lovely Cathy has chosen the theme of Easter.

We are sponsored by the fab Stamp Fairy and we were luck enough to use some of their gorgeous images.

 
Items used:
Stamp Fairy image coloured with Promarkers
Forever Friends DP
Lacy circle nestie and marianne creatables butterfly
Rest from stash

Please pop over to CYDA and see all my teamies great Easter cards/projects and we would love to see yours too.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Totally Papercrafts - Easter
Charisma Cards - Easter
Delightful Challenges - Easter
Paperplay Challenge - Easter
Fab n Funky - Easter
Simon Says - Anything Goes

Hugs Sarahxx

Spring Easter Tilda

Good evening all a very late post from me here - I think my body clock is still an hour behind.  Loving the glorious weather we are having at the moment just wish I could get out in it a bit more.

Here is a card made using fresh spring colours and with an Easter theme.

Items used:
Magnolia tilda image coloured with Promarkers
DCWV paper and card and ribbon and chipboard egg
Quickutz flourish die and MS butterfly punches

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Midweek Magnolias - 3 flowers, 2 pearls and 1 ribbon
Simply Magnolia - die/punches and ribbons
Crafts and Me - spring colours
Cute card thursday - Anything goes
Paperplay - Spring Colours

thanks for looking and any comments you may leave.

Hugs Sarahxx

Craft Your Days Away DT Card Ch# 41 - Boys/Men and buttons

Good morning and it is time again for another challenge at Craft Your Days Away and the lovely Gaynor has chosen the challenge of boys/men with buttons.  Here is my card:-

For my card I have used one of the great LOTV die cut squares which are fab for quick and easy cards.  I love this image as this is what my boys look like a lot of the time !  I have used some papermania papers and bazil buttons.  I have also used my MS PATP.

Please poop along to Craft Your Days Away and take a peek at my teamies fab creations and we would love to see your creations too.

Have a great weekend whatever you are doing.  We are sponsored by the fab Crafty Emmas Store.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Cute Card Thursday - Happy Birthday
Poodles Parlour - Anything Goes
Totally Papercrafts - Male Card
Papershelter - for the boys


Hugs Sarahxx

Mother's Day

Good evening and boy am I glad it is Friday it has been a tough week with one thing and another. Here is a mother's day card I have made for MIL:-

Items used:
MelJen Victorian birdcage coloured with Promarkers
Brenda Pinnock paper and ribbon
MS butterfly punch and frond
flowers and gems from stash
Card candi

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:-

OSAAT - Use a digi image
Dream Valley - Mother's Day
MAWTT - Special Lady
I love Promarkers - Anything goes
My Mum's Craft Shop - Mums the Word
Papertake Weekly - For Mum

Thanks for looking and have a great weekend.

Hugs Sarahxx

The Versatile Blogger Award

Good Evening and a big thank you to the lovely Judy of Inkypinkydelights who has nominated me for this lovely Award.  Thank you so much Judy for thinking of me.

Here are the rules:

If you are nominated, you’ve been awarded the Versatile Blogger award.

• Thank the person who gave you this award. That’s common courtesy.
• Include a link to their blog.
• Select 15 blogs that you’ve recently discovered or follow regularly. Now as always that is such a hard task.
• Nominate those 15 bloggers for the Versatile Blogger Award .
• Finally, tell the person who nominated you 7 things about yourself.

Wow it has been so hard nominating bloggers but here they are:-

 

Mel - Exclusively by Mel

Katina -Katinas Cards and Chat

Sarah - Lazy Daisy

Sara - Daisy Dreams

Claire - Pastel and Cream

Caz - PAC Handmade Charity Cards

Vicky - Vixx Handmade Cards

Nic - Coops Cluttered Corner

Catherine - Catherines Craft Corner

Sandy - Sandys Crafty Bits

Now for the 7 things about myself:-

 

1.  I love crafting but need more hours in the day 
2.  Unfortunately I am not a tidy crafter but am trying
3.  I am also not a very organised person either but am working on this too
4.  It was my 40th birthday yesterday
5.  I have two gorgeous boys aged 12 and 9
6.  I work full time as a conveyancing secretary
7.  I am trying to lose weight at the moment but not very successfully!

Hope everyone has had a great day.

 

Hugs Sarahxx

Happy Birthday Cupcake

Evening all what a busy weekend I have had.  It is my 40th birthday today and I have had such a great weekend.  I went out with my parents and brother yesterday for lunch and have spent a lovely day in London today in the sunshine - we went on the London Eye which I have wanted to do for ages and then we did some sightseeing.  Am now totally warn out after all that walking!

Here is my card:

 Items used:
LOTV image coloured with Promarkers
Papermania capsule paper
MS doily lace punch and frond

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:-

Lils Little Fairies - ribbon and lace
Sketch Saturday - sketch #198
DIVAS By Design - favourite things - LOTV stamps, purple, MS punches, flowers
Simon Says - Mother's Day/Special Girl
Papertake - Anything goes


Am off to soak my old weary feet now.

hugs Sarahxx

Tilda's Birthday

Good evening and what a nasty day it has been. I went to visit my poor nan in hospital today and had to travel through torential rain and even a blizzard!

Here is a card I have made following the great sketch at TOMIC.

[Image]Items used:
Magnolia Tilda image coloured with Promarkers
First Edition Love Letter papers
Eyelet circle nesties, Quickutz swirl and MS doily edge punch
Papermainia buttons
Prima flower

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:-

TOMIC - sketch and birthday
Simon Says - anything goes
Just magnolia - anything goes
Magnolia Stamp Lovers - punches

Thanks for looking and any comments you may leave.

Hugs Sarahxx

Craft Your Days Away DT Card Challenge # 40 - Mother's Day

It is time for another challenge over at Craft Your Days Away and this fortnight the challenge has been chosen by the lovely  Donna and it is Mother's Day.  This can be any crafting project you wish as long as it has a Mum. theme.  

This fortnight we are sponsored by the fab Meljen Designs who are offering 4 digi images to the lucky winner.

Items used:

Gorgeous image called Victorian Bird Cage by Mejen Designs coloured with Promarkers.
Papers - Papermania Capsule
Dies/Punches  - Memory Box corner die, Whimsey bunting die and MS frond and butterfly punches
Rest from stash

Please poop along to Craft Your Days Away and take a peek at my teamies fab creations and we would love to see your creations too.


I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:-

Bunny Zoe - Celebrations
Cute Card Thursday -Spring
Totally Papercrafts - Song and Dance
Stamping for w/e - bingo - bow/glitter/flowers
Crafty Catz - punches and dies
Allsorts - winged things

Have a great weekend.

Hugs Sarah