Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

I just wanted to pop on and wish you all a very Merry Christmas!!

Thank you to everyone that still comments, I know my posts have been a bit scarce this year and I have been a tad 'ignorant' to say the least, I hope to change that i the New Year, I will be glad to see the back of this one which I have found difficult!!

Anyway, What I haven't got now it's too late, I feel poorly with a cold and I am going to snuggle with my hubby, son & our 3 fur babies and watch the Wizard of Oz and eat junk!!

Tomorrow I am off to my sisters for Christmas lunch....although I am cooking the Turkey for 15 people......er no pressure then!!!

Anyway, I hope you all have a fantastic christmas and a wonderful New year

Love Sarah

P.S I popped in to Hobbycraft today and got some christmas MME glittered stacks half price, it's worth a look folks!!

Passion for Promarkers Christmas Extravaganza

Good morning crafters, we hope you are surviving the very cold weather we’re having at the moment. It’s definitely the perfect weather for staying indoors and crafting!! If unfortunately you do have to venture outside, like me, make sure you wrap up warm and take care on the icy roads and pavements!

We would like to stay a massive thank you for all your support for our blog hop and special challenge over the past 2 weeks. It has been wonderful to visit all your blogs and see the fantastic talent and creativity around in blogland! You certainly made it a blog hop to remember. Please check back later this evening to find out if you are one of our lucky winners. As we stated at the start of the challenge we unfortunately won’t be choosing any top 5 passionista as we will be too busy sorting out all the prize winners – I’m sure you’ll understand.

Following on from our blog hop & special challenge we now have a Mega Christmas challenge for you which will last until January 4th 2011. I’m sure you’ll agree that the design team deserve a little break to catch up on their last minute gifts and cards. However to make up for the lack of challenges we again have some magnificent prizes up for grabs.

Our theme for the Mega Christmas challenge is a nice easy one “anything goes”, just remember to use your promarkers or aqua markers to be eligible for our prizes. Don’t forget you can enter as many times as you like and combine with any other challenges.

So now for the exciting bit – the prizes!

Letraset are generously offering a set of 40 promarkers in specific craft colours stored in two promarker wallets – fab eh!

Simon Says Stamp are generously offering 3 x $10.00 gift certificates to their online store!

Just Tracy’s are generously offering a variety of prizes including 3 promarkers, a memento ink pad, 10 sheets of suitable smooth white paper and a stamp from their own range

Whiff of Joy Stamps are generously offering 1 stamp of winner’s choice

Some Odd Girls are offering 3 digi images of the winner’s choice

if that wasn’t enough - they are also offering a 25% discount to everyone on any order placed on their site during the challenge period using code PRO25 (excluding sale items)!!

Wowzers, I am sure you will agree that is a fab line up of prizes so get your PM'S at the ready, pop by the PFP blog for some inspiration and get creating to be in with a chance!!

Here is my card, I used a fab Elzybells stamp as the main image and the sentiment is also by Elzybells, first time these have seen ink.......i will use all my stamps eventually...LOL



The DSP is Imaginisce Polar Expressions Frosted Forest, the little flecks of snow are glittered, this is last years paper, not sure if it is still available.

The Nesties I have used are called Lacey Circles and are available here at Stampeezee. For the snow I used Twinklets Diamond Dust, had that over 12 months and only just opened it....how rubbish am i??

Of course I coloured the image with Promarkers

Hope you can join in the fun, I am looking forward to seeing all your fab creations

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

Hugs

Sarah

I Re-discovered my cricut!!!!

Happy Sunday bloggers, sorry I have been AWOL again not sure where the time goes!!

Anyway, I was thinking of selling my cricut, after all it just sits in my craft room collecting dust!!! I borrowed New Arrival from a friend and found some great baby cuts on it so I started looking at what else was available!

I am overwhelmed by the amount of cartridges out there now and the cuts in my opinion have got so much better than they used to be. I fancied the Hello Kitty Greetings cartridge so i ordered it from Ebay Thursday night and postie delivered it Saturday.......Yay

The first thing I wanted to make was this cute Kitty card, yes this cartridge has fab card feature on it, this one is from page 74, I thought this cute shaped card was perfect for all the kiddies I need to send cards to. I cut Kitty and all the layers at 8 1/4", this gave me a great sized card and I had envelopes that were perfect (I will check size and post it later).



The cartridge has Kitty cuts for all occassions of the year, even a graduation!!!
I know I will use them all, every single cut on this cartridge is just too cute for words and the accessories are adorable, they include, cherries, a strawberry, a sun, butterfly, cupcake, a present, a teddy baloon amongst others!!!

If you like Hello Kitty this cartride is a must, I will be posting more Kitty cards soon!!

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

Hugs

Sarah

Cheaters card!!!

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Hi peeps,

Hope you are all well, we are mega busy of late and I hardly get near the computer these days, I have to fine my son and hubby for my own laptop!!!

Anyway, I thought I would show you a quick card I made using a portion of a DCWV 12x12 paper, I just cut the patterned image off the card and mounted it on to red and green cardstock and then onto a s
heet of A4 card folded in half and voila a quick easy card!!!



I have picked up this idea from Deb at Stampeezee, she makes some amazing cards for sale in her shop from patterned papers with just a few embellishments, just quick and simple but effective!! I love this DCWV stack, some great papers in it.

Anyway, I am off to bed now, I am worn out, had a long day today, well everday is a long day as moving offices means I am travelling for 2hrs a day now...yuk!!!

Hope to get round some blogs at the weekend to see what you have all been up to.

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

Hugs

Sarah

Passion for Promarkers Blog Hop

WELCOME TO THE PASSION FOR PROMARKERS BLOG HOP!!

Over at Passion for promarkers challenge this week we are celebrating the change of design teams with a blog hop. I’m sure you are as excited as I am as there are lots of lovely goodies up for grabs!! We also have a few new faces on the design team so I hope you will leave them a nice comment to welcome them.

Firstly if you’ve arrived at my blog from Nic's blog you are in the right place, if not return to the challenge blog and start your hop again. Our blog hop challenge will last for 2 weeks so you have plenty of time to enter your card (or cards) and hop around the whole design team.

Our challenge theme for the next two weeks is “old & new” i.e. a brand new stamp/digi with old papers etc. Please can you tell us your old and new items in your post. Don’t forget to use your promarkers or aqua markers to be included in our prize draw.

My card uses on old Magnolia stamp, old Magnolia papers & my new Cuttlebug folder that I think looks like snow. My sentiment is also old, it is from a set by Kelly Panacci but this is the first time I have used it so is that new or old?....LOL

I kept my card really simple , I was having a few issues with embellishment placement. I have used Vintage photo Distress Ink to add a bit of colour to the Papers and added some stickles for sparkles, the silver cord is by Stampin Up.

As you’ve read on the challenge blog the design team are also offering some candy of their own, so please leave me a comment on this post and I will randomly draw a winner for a promarker prize courtesy of Letraset.

You also have a “mystery word” to find and my contribution is the letter “S”. Make a note of my letter and then proceed to the mega talented Sue C for the next part of the hop. If you get lost on the hop at all just return to the challenge blog for full directions.

I just want to let you know the wonderful prizes up for grabs for our blog hop challenge:

Letraset are offering a full set of Aqua Markers to one lucky winner *woohoo*.

Wendy at The Secret Crafter is offering a Basic Grey ‘Oliver’ paper pad

Emma at Crafty Emma’s Store is offering a 12 pack of Aqua Markers

Sally-Ann from DigiStamp Boutique is offering 6 digi images from her shop

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge and also have fun taking part in our blog hop. Don’t forget you need to “hop” on over to Anja now and leave her a comment and collect your next “mystery” letter. Have fun and good luck!

Hugs

Sarah

Magnolia Stamp Alert!!!!

Just a quick post to let you all know that Stampeezee have just taken delivery of some more Magnolia Christmas stamps, a couple from the new collection and and some from older collections so take a look here

They also have a couple of designs of the new papers and the Ponsettia and misletoe dies which I don't think have been loaded yet!! Anyway take a look here but be quick as Deb has only ordered about 6 of each of these cuties and some of her regulars have already snapped some of them up!!

Not another baby card Surely???

Yes I am afraid so another baby card, no idea what I am playing at but I can't help but churn these out, they make me happy and we seem to be having a bit of a baby boom in the office at the moment so I will need them all!!!!

Anyway, I am using my unloved stash, yes shock horror, I have had that cuttlebug folder for more than 12 months and I have never used it, the bear comes from PTI's Baby Button Bits set, got to say I have used a couple of the stamps from that set now.......go me!!!!

The dark and light pink panels are from a co-ordinations stack, they are both mounted onto PTI's fab Kraft card. I coloured bear with my very neglected Promarkers!!

Hope you like it!!

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

Hugs

Sarah