Sweet Sketch Wednesday No. 60

Well hello Wednesday! Time flies when you're having fun eh? Turns out our summer is over here in the "Sunny" South East of Ireland. It's either just rain or excessive heat with the chance of rain at any minute. The sun just cannot seem to get through the clouds anymore :-( Anyway here's something to cheer me up, Sweet Sketch Wednesday's Arlana's new sketch! I had great fun with this one!

 

Our fabulous sponsor this week is Shirley's 2 Girls 

 

and the fantastically talented Shirley is giving us a $10 prize for the winner to go digi shopping mad with!!! Kinda jealous girlies!!! LOL!!

I got to use Schnapp's Close Up this week and you can find her here. 

Of course with a fantastic hat and coat like that I just had to vintage her up. Promarkers were used to colour madam and her pooch and then the papers were all from the Victoria & Albert collection. The ribbon is actually champagne in colour, well that's what it says on the label but I think it suits. There is some Antique Linen distressing around the image too, just subtle enough that hopefully now i've told you, you'll see it! :-D Added some pearls to the 'champagne' ribbon because every Lady must have her pearls! 

Hope you can check out my fantastic teamies works. They're still surprising and inspiring me every week! Hop over to Sweet Sketch Wednesday and check them out.

Sweet Sketch Wednesday No. 59

It's Sweet Sketch Wednesday time folks and it's Digi Stamp Boutique week too! Woohoo!!! I'm currently trying to outdo Sneezy from Snow White, I've racked up 22 sneezes so far this morning and i've only been up for two hours. Gonna be a fun day. On the bright side, the sun has finally remembered it's supposed to be summer here in Ireland and has made an appearance for the first time in weeks!! Hope he stays around a bit longer this time. Here's the sketch our lovely Arlana created this week.

Now for the prize, the continously generous Sally-Ann from DigiStamp Boutique is going to give the lucky winner TEN free digis. How sweet is that! Check out the store, I had a little shopping spree there last week and got the cutest of cute images. Sally-Ann is continously creating masterpieces every month, including some seriously cute penguins this month. Check out my DT mates to see what other fab images you can use!

This week I used Tallulah from DigiStamp Boutique and I love her!! 

She's coloured with Promarkers, tried a different combo on the skin this week. Instead of Dusky Pink, Blush and Ivory, I went for Coral, Pastel Pink and Dusky Pink. Think they're a bout more visible in the photo. I was going to go all Pink on her dress but I'm having a blue phase at the mo so she got hit with that. I used some blue stickles on her wings, wand, crown and dress. The papers are from the Papermania pad Henbury Lane and Pink Petticoat. I tried the "Out of the Box" technique that Jenny from My Inky Hands gave a tutorial on and I have to say Jen, I love it!!! 

Looking forward to seeing all your sweet takes on this weeks sketch for 

Sweet Sketch Wednesday!

New Challenge Blog Starting in August

Yo peeps of the blogger universe. Saw this on Crafty Emma's blog this morning and had to share the good news.

The girls from the Magical Crafts blog have set up a new Challenge blog after the closure of the other one. It's called Craft Your Days Away Their first challenge will start on August 7th at 9:00a.m. and to celebrate all this they have three amazing prizes to give away. One being a £10 voucher for Crafty Emma's Store, (YAY!!)

So off you go now and check it out. Spread the word for these girls and have the chance to win, win, win!!

Under the Sea...

Can't quite believe another fortnight has passed since our last challenge! Thanks to all who entered! This fortnight our challenge at My Partner In Crafting Crime is Under the Sea, so whatever comes into your head when you think of that make something with that idea! Layout, alterable or card, it doesn't matter we love them all!!!

This week I used an awesome Kraftin' Kimmie stamp called Nerissa. Just look at that hair! Wish my hair was as nice as that! I'm currently addicted to these curly girls, I think my credit card is feeling the pain already! LOL!!! I coloured her in with the trusty Promarkers and glitterized her wing fin things, also added some glossy accents to the coral shell in her hands. Robin has gone and got herself Copics and i'm mighty jealous, her hair on her mermaid just rocks!!! Check it out here!

The background paper is from the hippy chic DCWV stack and the embossed bubbles is a Quickutz folder. The seaweedy thingys are leaf punches just arranged to look seaweedy and finally the oval was distressed with Shabby Shutters, Pine Needles, Crushed Olive and a smidgen of Chipped Sapphire.

Gonna enter Ms. Nerissa into the following challenges:

Our Creative Corner: Beach

Oh Alice Chapter 22: Under the Sea (Snap!!!) :-D

Allsorts Challenge 61 - Summer

Hop over to My Partner in Crafting Crime to enter your fishy fun!

New Craft Store for us addicts!!

Ok so on one of my blog hop expeditions I came across Donna Doodle's blog, Donna used to be on the SSW DT so I still check in and say hi when I can, anyway Donna had news about a new online Craft Store so I just had to go check it out.

Then I discovered it was the very talented Crafty Emma who was venturing out in the retail world of crafts, I know Emma's work through the Passion for Promarkers blog and from blog stalking of course! LOL!!!

If you would like to take a browse please click on the banner below.

She will also have tons more products which should hopefully be arriving very soon.

She needs the blog worlds help to spread the word so there is a £10 voucher up for grabs with free postage.

All you have to do to enter is:-

1 - Shout about her voucher giveaway on your blog

2 - Post banner above with a link to the shop on your sidebar

3 - Add your name to Mr Linky

Ends Saturday 17th July at midnight (GMT)

Best o' luck Emma in your new venture! Ya know I love it!

First order in already! LOL!!

Sweet Sketch Wednesday No. 58

Wow 58! Can you believe that! I've been on the Sweet Sketch Wednesday team for 12 weeks, a whole 3 months! How time flies when you're having fun. This weeks sketch is another beauty from our fabulous Arlana. It involves ovals! Yay!!

Today's sponsor of our weekly challenge is Digi Stamp Characters and the prize is 3 of these adorable digital images of your choice.

This is the little cutie I got to play with this week.

I paper pieced her dress, shoes, heart hair clip and the butterfly. I forget how much fun that is and glad I did it here. She reminds me of my sister, Claire. She always had a little bob. The papers used are from a freebie My Minds Eye pad I got on some magazine months ago. The sentiment is CWC and the flower is an accordian one I made from a tutorial I found on the Whiff of Joy Tutorials blog. Had great fun making this and it nearly got ruined with a coffee spillage on Saturday but it was saved from destruction by my very quick thinking Mam. Woohoo!

Anyway, I look forward to looking at all your wonderful Oval inspired designs so hop on over to Sweet Sketch Wednesday and check out my fab DT friends.

Spot the Prima

So didn't quite get the card finished to post today but I did make some of these "Prima"esque flowers. 

Can you guess which one is the real Prima?

(It's kinda obvious now that I look, haha)

Anyway card will be up in the morning, right now i'm off to comment heaven. I have my little man in beside me in bed fast asleep he woke up about twenty mins ago with a bad dream and now he keeps talking in his sleep, the last few words were, "Cos Mammy said so." LOL!

News

So then lovely bloggy people, I have some news. I've got three hours of my life back every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday just for me! Yay!!! The little man is in summer camp for the first time and although it took a while to get him in he's settling down now. So i've decided it's craft time for those three hours and when he comes home we can clean and do the rest of the work together. To start I want to tell you about our new challenge at My Partner in Crafting Crime. It's an easy one this week, the theme is summer, so any summer project you have going on enter it in.

I used this Penny Black stamp and coloured Puss in with Promarkers.

Some other news for you too from My Partner in Crafting Crime, we're also having a follower candy so check that out too.

Will be back tomorrow with another card, (yes I said that!) :-D

Sweet Sketch Wednesday No. 57

Hi everyone! 

Had a weird week this week dotted with technology problems. Phone went bust first but that was fixed easily enough. My little man dropped my camera over the weekend and even though there was no visible damage it will not turn on. It has been sent off to be repaired but the chances are slim so got myself a new one! ;-) Printer went on the blink on Monday but appears to be back now it does have a weird lline down one side now though. Maybe time for that laser printer i've been pining for. LOL!! Anyway it's Wednesday so it's Sweet Sketch Wednesday time. Our fab Arlana has come up with this beauty of a sketch. 

Our sponsor this week is Digi Doodle Stamps! 

 

They have a wide variety of digi's available, you are sure to find that perfect image that you have been looking for. Judi from Digi Doodle is generously offering one lucky winner a $10 gift certificate! I just love her designs they are so detailed and pretty. Highly addictive so be warned! :-D

I used the "Boy & Ball" image for my card this week

He reminds me of the 'camera breaker' so much it's unreal. My little dude looks cool in dungarees too and just loves playing football. The papers are from the Papermania Persimmon collection. The image is coloured with the Promarkers. I cut the image out this week and mounted cos I wanted the ball to be raised. Gonna keep this one for me. :-D 

Don't forget to check out my fab DT friends at Sweet Sketch Wednesday too. 

You'll be amazed, I always am!