Circle of friends award

I have recieved this fab award from the lovely Katrina of Whimsical Wishes, thanks hunni you are such a sweetie. I am going to pass this on to Alex of Hau to Craft, Emma of Devotion to the Dream and Rowena from Craftypagan Designs, check out these ladies blogs, they are super talented girls

Thanks for looking, please feel free to leave a comment as I love reading them.

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Wowzers more candy!!!!

Blogland is full of yummy candy at the moment, my lovely Stampeezee DT pal Katrina of Whimsical Wishes is giving away this yummy lot, click here for details of how you could win it

................and the lovely Steph is giving away this lot of stash to celebrate her new look blog, it looks amazing, check it out here

Thanks for looking

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Sarah

Blog candy Alert

So ya wanna get your hands on these sugababes??? Leanne is giving them away as blog candy to 1 lucky winner to celebrate her move to Dubai. Hop over to her blog for all the details of how to be in the running, click here to be transported.


Oh I had another birthday card arrive today from my DT sister Deb, it is stunning, I will post my cards on my blog soon, I am just waiting for a couple more that are winging there way to me....got to say its my first birthday where i have had crafting friends and it has been sooo exciting opening the cards & appreciating the time & effort that has been spent on the stunning creations. Anyway, watch this space.

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Sarah

Passion for Promarkers

Passion for Promarkers time again & this week Maria has chosen the colours Aqua & Pastel Pink & has designed a fab sketch for us to follow.

Shabby chic Tilda was stamped in Black Impress Ink onto SU Whisper white cardstock, coloured with Promarkers & cut out and mounted with nestie dies, the DP is Papermania Blueberry Hill, layered onto SU cardstock. I used my Martha Stuart border punch to create the pretty heart edge. The sentiment is from the SU Oval all set, punched out with SU Oval & scallop oval Punches. The ribbon & flowers are from my stash.

Thanks for looking, please feel free to leave a comment as I love reading them.

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Sarah

C4E Sketch Challenge

I am back from Scotland, I had a fab week with the in-laws, my mother-in-law is a crafter so we indulged in a bit, erm a lot of craft retail therapy, but it was my b'day & I was given pennies to spend!!!!! My MIL had also bought stuff to make projects together so we made a few things in her new craft room, including this card!!!!!! This weeks sketch for C4E incudes the option 'Vintage', I struggled with this as I took nothing vintage to Scotland with me at all so I had to make do with what I had & raid my crafty mummy's stash!!!!

The papers are MME Bloom & Grow Asparagus from Stampeezee & the image is Charmed Delectable 'Annie with Ted' another neglected stamp of mine!!!! I coloured her with........erm....Copic Ciao's........no I have not gone to the dark side it's just we had limited space in the car, what with my son in the back & 3 doggies in the boot & was restricted with what stash I could take!!! My MIL kindly allowed me to use them, got to say, I prefer my PM's, it took me ages to get used to the brush tip of the copic pen, I much prefer the bullet tip of the promarker, not to mention trying to get used to the colours!!!!

My background shape was created with a Martha Stewart border punch & my circles cut out with nesties. The sentment is one from my MIL's stash punched out with SU punches, I also raided her lace stash for the pretty bows.

After I had stuck the card together I realised I had not inked my edges but it was all a little late by then.....LOL

Anyway, some fab news, C4E have 2 new DT members, Andie & Suzette, check out the girls blogs as they are super talented.

Sadly there is also bad news from C4E, the lovely Cindy has been involved in a nasty car accident, if anyone would like to send Cindy a card please contact Michelle of C4E for her e-mail address.

Anyway, thanks for looking, please feel free to leave a comment as I love reading them.

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Sarah

A lovely award from a lovely friend

Happy Friday, I have an award from the lovely Andie from Andies Space, she is such a sweetie & always has something nice to say about my cards, thank you hunni. Go check out Andie's cards they are so sweet.

I am going to pass this on to my fellow DT members at Passion for Promarkers, they are all such sweet, supportive girls, such a fab DT to be on, thanks girls.

Anyhoo, last day of my hols in Scotland today, had a fab time, I have seen a bit more of Scotland this visit, it truly is a stunning place. Not got much crafting done but I have managed to get a bit of craft shopping done as I had some birthday money to spend, will try and piccie all my new stuff when I get home as got some internet stuff to come yet too.

Anyway got to sign off now as we have 6 dogs running round here, yes 6...3 of them are Heinz varieties (my rescues) & 3 are King Charles Cavaliers belonging to my in-laws, things are a little hectic at the moment....LOL.

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Sarah

Passion for Promarkers

Yay its PFP time again and this week Ida has chosen the yummy colours Lime and Rose Pink. Our sponser this week is Papriloftet and they kindly provided the DT with some yummy stash to use, their products are fantastic, please check out their site here, you will not be dissapointed.


Here is a piccy of the prize on offer this week, how fab does that stash look??

Anyway, on to this weeks card, I used a gorjuss girl and coloured her in the following Promarkers:

• Hair: Cool grey 2-5
• Clothes: Rose Pink, Blossom, Lime, Meadow green
• Skin: Blush & Dusky pink
  

The DP is MME Asparagus from Stampeezee, matted onto SU Cardstock. The green flower & charm are Papriloftet & the pink roses & ribbon are from my stash. The large ovals were cut with nestability dies & the sentiment is Penny black punched out with SU Oval & scallop oval punches.

I have just noticed I forgot my white pen highlights but I am in Scotland now visiting my in-laws & the card is at home in the Midlands, I thought it was a bit far to go back....LOL. I am hoping to meet my fellow DT buddy Debbi who lives up in Inverness...................(oops sorry Deb I mean Aberdeen.........get lost in my own house me...LOL) whilst I am here, I love meeting my fellow bloggers. Saturday I met the lovely Sassy, she lives not too far from me and I had won one of her auctions on e-bay so I thought I would pop over. I am a big fan of Sassy's vintage look cards, they are so original & even prettier in real life, she really is a ribbon & lace kind of gal. I came away with this card, I loved it when I first saw it. Anyway Sassy is a real hunni & made me really welcome & we got on sooooo well, I hope to visit again real soon.

Anyway must go as off out for the day with the family.

Thanks for looking, please feel free to leave a comment as I love reading them. Hugs

Sarah

C4E Sketch Challenge

Something a little different from me this week, I am creating samples for my SU demo box and as I have just treated my self to Bloomin with Beauty I thought I would use it to make a card for this weeks challenge. I have teamed it with 2 of the fab SU background stamps, En francais and Sanded to create an aged look.

I coloured the image with SU markers & an aqua painter and I am pleased with the result, these pens really are quite versatile. I have distressed and inked the edges with SU close to cocoa, I think it looks like the card has been in a fire, I quite like it think.

Thanks for looking, please feel free to leave a comment as I love reading them.

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Sarah

Passion for Promarkers & Friday Sketchers

Time for Passion for Promarkers again & this week and Helen has chosen the colours Gold & Ruby with the extra challemge to include jewles and gems on your cards, so get your bling & promarkers out and get creating!!!!!!

We are being sponsered by Emerald crafts who are giving our randomly gebnerated winner £10 to spend on their fab site.

This week I have used the fabby sketch from Friday Sketchers, I love it and will be using it again for sure. My image is Dahalia from the Greeting Farm and I thought the new June Bug Paper from Basic Grey matched perfect with this weeks colours..................I got them from Stampeeze, they are getting new stock every week and I want it all mwaaaaaaahhhhhhhh.

The sentiment is Hero arts and the flowers are Flora Doodles again both from Stampeezee, the punched flowers beind them have been created with 2 different sized Sakura punches. The card & ribbon is Stampin Up........can you tell??? It co-ordinates perfectly!!!!

Dahalia was of course coloured with Promarkers as follows:

Hair - cool grey 1-5
Skin - Blush, Dusky Pink
Clothes - Ruby, Maroon & Gold

I added my bling with gold stickles & bling dots from stash

Thanks for looking, please feel free to leave a comment as I love reading them.

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Sarah

C4E Sketch Challenge #40

Happy Sunday everyone, this week at C4E we have another fab sketch for you to follow, I have used my new Basic Grey Lemonade Papers & flowers both available from Stampeezee. I coloured the sweet Gorjuss girl with Letraset Promarkers and I had a go at doing dark hair, I followed a tutorial by my fellow Passion for Promarker pal Caryn, i used my cool greys, thanks Caryn hunny I love it (Tutorial will be available soon on the PFP blog). My sentiment is by Hero Arts and my cardstock is Stampin Up.

Thanks for looking, please feel free to leave a comment as I love reading them.

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Sarah

Passion for Promarkers Challenge

Time for another PFP challenge and this week we are being sponsered by Stampeezee who are offering Hawai Tilda & Palm as the prize. If you have not been on the Stampeezee site before check it out here, they stock the full range of Promarkers, Magnolia Stamps, Greeting Farm stamps & Martha Stewart punches among many other fab crafty goodies.

So onto this weeks card, Debbie has chosen the colors Cocoa & Cornflower and designed a sketch for us to follow.

I chose to use one of my Gorjuss girls that has never seen ink, teamed her up with Sandylion Floral crochet blue & Cosmo Cricket Chemistry: Forget me not DP Matted on to SU Chocoalte chip & Ballet blue cardstock. The sentiment is by Penny Black and the scallop punches are by Stampin Up.

I used the following Promarkers to colour her in:

Clothes: Cornflower, China Blue, Blue Pearl
Face: Blush, Dusky Pink & Blossom
Hair Cocoa, cinnamon & Sandstone
Outline: Pastel Blue

I added faux stiching to all the elements and punched out some butterfly's with my 99p Tesco & Hobbycraft punches and covered them in stickles, the bling dots are from my stash, I coloured them with the cocoa promarker!!

Thanks for looking, please feel free to leave a comment as I love reading them.

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Sarah

C4E Sketch Challenge #38

Time for the next C4E sketch challenge and this week we have a fab prize available for the randomly selected winner, check out these fab digi images designed by the lovely Michelle of C4E

If you want them now though you they will be avialble on the website for purchase some time today. The DT were lucky enough to be sent the images to use this week & i choose the adorable dino, how cute is he???

I used Basic Grey Archaic papers mounted onto Stampin up old olive & pumpkin pie cardstock, the textured panel behind the dino was done on the cuttlebug and the mesh ribbon thingy was from my stash. The buttons are K&Co threaded with SU twine, Dino was printed out onto SU whisper white cardstock & coloured with Promarkers. All the panels were then attacked with my paper distresser...........suprise, suprise.

I hope you all have a great Sunday, I am feeling a bit under the weather as spent the day in bed yesterday with sickness............i drank some out of date fresh OJ first thing so could have been that I suppose......oh well I wont do it again!!!

Thanks for looking, please feel free to leave a comment as I love reading them.

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Sarah

Stampin Up Ribbon Share

Hope you are all enjoying the fab weather at the moment it sure is a tad warm, I burned myself on my steering wheel today it was that hot inside the car, just hope it lasts!!! Hubby is not coping well at all, he hates the heat, he is from Scotland so he is used to a much milder climate..........LOL

Anyway it's last call for the ribbon share, I have a couple of places left if you want to get your crafty hands on some scrummy Stampin Up Grossgrain Ribbon, 22 metres for £15.50 delivered to your door!!!! For more details click here

It's on order at the moment so should be with me Monday or Tuesday so I could have them to you by Friday.

Leave a comment or send me an e-mail at sarahjhorne@btinternet.com to reserve your share

night night, hope you all get a good nights sleep in this heat.

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Sarah