Time to craft!!

I have at last found time to do some crafting, my daughter went back to Uni today and Hubby and son are engrossed in the football on TV.  Yipee time to myself!!!   I have created this card for the challenge over at A Blog Named Hero using their logo as colour inspiration!

A very simple CAS card but I had fun getting inky.  I created the squares by using a small acrylic block, distress ink and some water, I love the marbled effect it creates.  Next I stamped the heart and coloured in some of the flowers with my Worn Lipstick Distress marker. Next just the pearls and sentiment, I thought this would make quite a nice Valentine card.

I hope to make a few cards over the next few weeks, as long as the football is on I am on to a winner!!!

More poppies and I have been published!!

My daughter is home from University this week and I have been really busy with her, so not a lot of time for crafting.  This is a card I made for the recent spring card exchange organised by Cheiron over at the Hero Arts Flickr group.  This is the card I made for Sandra in Canada, she emailed me today to say that it had arrived so I can now show you.  I used that lovely poppy image from Hero Arts which I coloured with my copic markers.  The background has been stamped and embossed  with the Italian Poetry Background and then distressed.  I then cut it out with my Wonky Rectangle die and added some pearls.

Last month I was approached by the editor of Papercraft Inspirations and asked if they could feature one of my cards in their July issue, of course I was thrilled and immediately sent of a photograph and waited patiently for the issue to reach the shops.  Imagine my surprise when I noticed that the card featured next to mine belongs to one of my blogging friends Virginia.  Here is a scanned image, not brilliant I am afraid but my card is bottom left.

Hope you are having a good week.

Clean and Simple!!!

At last I think my mojo has returned and I have made two cards today using the same theme.  The new Hero Arts challenge includes three sketch challenges and I have used one of them to create these cards.  I have also managed to use up a few scraps as well, which is always a bonus!!

These cards are also eligible for the current CAS ual Friday challenge of a "Clean and Simple" card with bling added.

We have a long holiday weekend in the UK for the Queen's Jubilee and don't you know it the weather has changed from bright and sunny to wet!!  There are loads of street parties planned and we are having a family barbecue on Tuesday, I think we are going to need umbrellas!!!

Have a fun week.

Star Birthdays!!

Just a quick post with my card for the last  Lily Pad Challenge, I am really sad to see this challenge site finishing as I love playing along with them..  Here's my "Star " card for the Simon Says challenge.  Not my usual type of card but I am trying to kick start my mojo.  I have struggled since my trip away and I am hoping its back for next week as its school half term holidays and I want to create some cards for a craft fair that I am doing.

I rainbow stamped some card stock with some distress inks and my HA leaf and floral background stamp before punching out the stars and cutting the strips of paper.

Hope you are having a fun week.

Sunflowers!!

 Oh my goodness I can't believe its over a week since I posted here.  I had a fabulous weekend away for my Wedding Anniversary ( thanks for all the good wishes) and we were so lucky with the weather, it didn't rain once.  We well and truly spoilt ourselves with two delicious meals out and had fun on the beach and visiting various places.

Since I have been back I have been really busy and not had any time for crafting till today.  I wanted to have a go at Vera's challenge over at the Lily Pad, its quite a simple card but my mojo is playing up at the moment and its all I could think off.  Lets hope it returns soon!!!

Here care three quick photo's, we went to Hix's Oyster Restaurant in Lyme Regis and this was my starter. 

Doesn't it look pretty on the plate, a real work of art and delicious too, this is pureed beetroot with goats cheese, toasted hazelnuts and wild garlic flowers!!

This is the main course and a view from our table out across the harbour and a view off the cobb at Lyme.  My meal was a crab curry, very messy as the crab was served in the shell but really delicious so worth the curry fingers!!

This is hubby on the beach at Charmouth fossil hunting, although its sunny we had to keep our jackets on as there was a cold wind,  it was well worth the hunt , he was lucky enough to find a really rare ammonite.

I promise I will catch up with some blogs this week as things have quietened down a bit now.

Splattered ink!!

 I decided to get inky and  have a go at the Moxie Fab "Splatter Challenge".  I wanted my card to give the impression of a meadow of wild flowers, so I splattered my card quite a bit with various colours and then over stamped with The Hero Arts Blooming Meadow stamp.  I then just added my paper pieced and punched butterflies.

Such a pretty effect, I then just added a few pearls and distressed the bottom of the card with some Bundled Sage ink. I am also adding this to the current challenge at "A Blog Named Hero" called Dust off your old stamps.


This will be my last post for a few days, tomorrow is my 30th Wedding Anniversary and we are going away for the weekend, I am really looking forward to it although it looks like its going to rain a lot :0(  We had planned lots of walks in the countryside and along the coast,  looks like we will be getting wet!!

I though I would add a photograph of our wedding all those years ago, unfortunately both my parents had passed away so we opted for a Registry Office ceremony and then a Honey moon in Monaco to watch the Monaco Grand Prix (hubby is a huge Ferrari fan and has been since he was a little boy) those years have flown by.

Hope you all have a great weekend too.

CAS cards.

Very unusual for me but I have managed to make two CAS cards, both are for challenges over at Moxie Fab, this one is for the Postage Challenge, I thought this would make a great note card set and plan to make five more in various colours to put into a gift box.

This second card is for the Gingham challenge, a very simple new baby girl card, it was tempting to add more bits to this card, but I resisted.

At last we have some sunshine here although there is still a cold wind, never mind I have at last been able to do some gardening and plant some vegetables.  Hope you are enjoying your weekend, especially all my blogging friends who are celebrating Mothers Day.  In the UK Mothers Day is in March so I have already been spoilt this year!!

My Blog Candy Winner is....

 I decided to draw my candy using the old fashioned method of paper in a basket as I can never get the Random Org box to show on my blog.  My son offered to draw the name and he allowed me to film his hands while doing it and then he offered to add some background  sound effects.  What do you think?

Congratulations Lisa, Please contact me.

Hope you are all having a great week.

Fluttering Butterfly number 2.

  Its been raining most of the morning so I thought I would make another interactive card for the Hero Arts challenge.  This card is not my usual style but more of a fun card.  I wanted to use the die cuts to represent a flower head with the butterfly landing on the flower.  I have used the same wobbler device as on my last post, here is a photograph to show you the workings.

I have also added a short video to show you how the butterfly flutters, hope this works as I have never added a video before, in fact I don't think I have used the movie mode on my camera before!!

Its been great having an extra day off, just wish the sun would come out for a while.

Enjoy your day.




P.S. Still three more days to enter for my blog candy.  Please go to this post to see..

Fluttering Butterfly

Fluttering Butterfly, a photo by sally_sherfield on Flickr.

The weather must be bad here I don't think I have ever posted twice in one day before. I wanted to try and make an interactive card for the current challenge over at Hero Arts, After seeing this discussion thread by Susan I had a go at making a DIY Wobbler and attached it to my butterfly. When you touch its wings or even the card they flutter. I am really pleased with this effect and shall definitely be having another go.

The flowers are coloured again with my distress markers and then touched up to highlight the flower centres. I then just added the pearls and sentiment.

This card is also for the CAS-ual Friday First Birthday Challenge.







 P.S.Don't forget to go to this post for my 200 follower's giveaway.