Lovely Hanglar only challenge card

At last I have had chance to make  a card for a challenge and this is mine for Lovely Hanglar only

There is a sketch to follow and this is my interpretation of it.
Here is what I have used

• Tim Holtz Shabby Vintage papers
• Promarkers
• Sizzix Primitive Star die
• Stickles
• Quickcutz border die
• gems

I hope you like it
Have a great evening#
Love sarah X

My First DT card for Cowgirl -Up Stamps

Hope you all had a great weekend.
Well here is my first DT card for Cowgirls Sunday Challenge where the theme is "Scallops and embellishments"
The DT have all made wonderful cards. We have all used images from CJ's shop. I have used the Watering can Image which you can buy here. It is only $1.75 or approx. £1.15. And of course because it is a digital image you can resize it, flip it etc.
I have coloured mine with Copics which you can buy here at Hotshotcrafts.I have also added Glossy Accents over the flowers which you can also buy at Hotshotcrafts. I have added some pink netting which i fed through the back of a pearl button which I bought from  The Hobby House. Here is my list of ingredients

• Paper and cardstock - DCWV and Basic Grey
• Digital image - Cowgirls digital stamp
• Netting
• Pearl Button - The Hobby House
• Martha Stewart punch

I hope you like it. It is going to be used as a leaving card for one of the teachers who is retiring. I still have another 2 retirement cards to make so as soon as I have done them i will post pictures.
Thanks for all the comments you leave.

 The sponsor for this weeks challenge is Crafty Ribbons
 So have a go. See if you can win or make the top 3
 Love sarah XXX

Totally Gorjuss DT card

I won't mention the football or the tennis!!!!!!!!!!!!
But we are a great nation of cardmakers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's Saturday so it has to be a new challenge at Totally Gorjuss. We have a super sketch for you to follow

This is my card. I have coloured TGF image with Promarkers. the lacey border is made with a MS punch. I have added some net circles behind the image. The DP is Cosmo Cricket
Have a good weekend

An amazing funeral attendance

 Some of you, particularly if you live in the Midlands, may have heard about a young lad called Josh who died 6 weeks ago when a car mounted the kerb in Smethwick, and pinned him up against a shop front. The shop front collapsed. Several others were injured but unfortunately Josh lost his life that day. He was only 15. He and his older brother were friends of my children and we know the family. So it was a real shock to us when we heard of the incident and then realized it was someone we knew. Now when someone dies people always say what a lovely person they were, and this was really true in Josh's case. Both he and his brother are and were an absolute credit to their parents, children any parent would be proud of. And the proof of it was at the funeral. There were 400 at the crematorium and about 1,000 at the Hall in Dudley, the majority being adults who were so impressed with this young man. Many of his school friends at teachers attended too. It was very emotional seeing girls and boys walking in with bouquets of flowers and then seeing them go and talk to Josh's parents afterwards.
It is a good reminder to us that we do not know what is around the corner or how long we have left. Life is too short to bear grudges.
Josh, you may be gone but you are not forgotten

(James 4:14) whereas YOU do not know what YOUR life will be tomorrow. For YOU are a mist appearing for a little while and then disappearing.


Sarah

Exciting news, and more cards

I won't mention the football!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another glorious day weather wise.
My exciting news is that CJ at Cowgirls Sunday Challenge has asked me to join her DT!!!! Do check out her blog and shop Loads of great images there to play with.
Here are a few quick and easy flower card I made as well as my card for Chi Chi Memories

You can buy the elephant stamp here.
http://www.chichimemories.com/digital-stamp-set---4th-of-july.html
I used my Primitive Stars Sizzix die and coloured the image with Promarkers

 Finally here is a picture of me with my younger sister Ruth who was the Production Manager for Gardeners World at the NEC last week

Totally Gorjuss DT card

Hi girls
Whjat great weather
We are off tonight to celebrate mum and dads 51st Wedding Anniversary.
This week at Totally Gorjuss we want to see bags and I know how you girls love those.
Here is mine. I have used MS border punch for the handle  and a digi image coloured with Promarkers

It is so easy to make. I hope you have a go
Love sarah XXX

Another bargain! 2nd post of the day

 

Just thought I would add this quick post. I was in Home Bargains In Wolverhampton yesterday. Not sure if there are any others around the country. I spied these 2 stamps PARTY and MUCHAS GRACIAS. Would you believe it they were 19p each. Yes 19p each!!!!!!
Has any one else found any good bargains recently? I would love to know what you have found and where
Love sarah XXX

I have been AWOL!!!!! and Emma is back and well

Hi everyone
Sorry  haven't been around to leave a post or comment on your lovely blogs but remember the internet problem I told you about a month ago? It happened again!!!! All of a sudden they blocked us again and it has been really
difficult getting switched on again. I hope that we are sorted for good now.
We picked Emma and her friend up from the airport....bad timing....the England match was on....Good thing her Dad loves her!!!!  She is much better now ( she had tonsillitis while she was away). She looks well and tanned and like she has lost weight too. She liked the scrapbook page I did of her. You can see it here
This is an exploding box I was commissioned to make for a teacher at school. I haven't shown every page, there are already lots of pics to look at.She really liked it.

Love sarah XXX

My beautiful daughter!

Here is another scrapbook page I made for Saturdays workshop. It is all one colour. I used C'ordinations cardstock and cut out flowers and sprays with it using Sizzix dies.  The girl sentiment was cut with chipbopard then covered with the cardstock. I also cut some netting flowers to add to the back of some of the flowers. I added  jewewl brads to the flowers too.
This photo was taken when Emma was on holiday a couple of years ago and I think it is lovely. Well I would....I am her mum!!
Most of the photos we take of Em she closes her eyes on so it is great to have a photo of her with her eyes open!!
I would love to read what you think about this layout
Sorry for so many photois. I got carried away!!!!!
Sarah XXX
challenges entered
Craftilicious challenges - monotone

Scrapbook page

Hi girls
just a quick post to show you one of the pages I did in prep for the scapbook day I had yesterday. Mike's brother and family are here for tea any minute . They just got back from 3 weeks in Australia so we're looking forward to the photos and of course seeing the kids. A good excuse to act silly!!! Actually I don't need and
an excuse.
This photo had been in a frame and somehow got damp and spoilt. It is also very faded but I didn't want to throw it away. It was taken in Scotland when we went on holiday with Mike's parents when the kids were little.
Hope you like it
Back with another post tomorrow

Love sarah XXX

Totally Gorjuss DT card and DT call

Sorry this is so late. I have been holding a scrapbbooking workshop all day. 8 were supposed to come but only 4 turned up. However we had a great day. 2 had never scrapbooked before and between the 4 of them they made 24 pages!!!!! Ubfortunately I can't post any pics of them as a lot of them were of children and I didn't feel I could ask them if I could make those photos available for all to see.  I visited my local Hobbycrafts before the workshop as the first 100 customers got a free Goodie bag. I am posting a pic of the contents.
My card here is for Totally Gorjuss where our theme is Sugar and Spice. The Gorjusettes have made some great cards as usual. I have used a C.C. Designs image coloured with Promarkers and if you double click the photo you will see I have crackle glazed her boots. The sentiment is a izzix die and the flowers are from my Sizzix 3D flower die. It was great to see how many entered last weeks challenge "boys". Considering we all say we never know what to do for men, we had our most entries ever!!!!!
Also, we have a DT call for 2 guest DT for 3 months!!!!

Have a great weekend
Love sarah XXX
challenges entered:


Crazy for challenges - Paper flowers
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Nice and Girly
A spoonful of sugar - Enjoying the sunshine
Stamp something  - something summer

Lovely Hanglar only card

Hi girls. What has happened to the sunshine?
We were in touch with Emma yesterday. She is worse now with pain in both ears. She can hardly swallow and has spent the first 2 days of her holiday in bed!!! We told her that she shouldn't go but she really didn't want to spoil things for her friend Hayley who she went with. Mike and I went to the Gardeners World show at the NEC yesterday and we rang her. It was so upsetting to hear her crying and saying that she felt worse. To top it the weather is bad in Gran Canaria and her hotel not so good either. I just wisg she had taken our advice but you know what young people are like these days. Perhaps we were the same when we were her age too.
This is my card for the great new Lovely Hanglar Only Challenge blog. The theme is Shabby Look.
I have coloured the image with Copics. The papers were from Poundland. The BOY was cut out of chipboard with a Sizzix die and coloured with Adirondak daubers. I also used my sewing machine on it. Definitely a shabby look!!!!
Hope you like it.
I'm off now to continue preparing for tomorrows Scrapbook workshop I am holding
Love sarah XXX