Multi-Tasking!

I have a few things to post that are not holiday related or Creative Boot Camp related, so I'm going to put them all in one post.

First, I won an award - woo hoo!  Deanna from Artwork by Deanna, one of my new bootcamp friends, awarded me this Beautiful Bloggers Award, thank you Deanna.

 This is one of those '10 things about me' awards so here goes:

1. I love clothes: shopping, wearing, accessorising.

2. My favourite fruit is raspberry, which is good because this is the time when you get nice Scottish rasps.

3. My best subject at school was economics but it wasn't my favourite.

4. My favourite subject at school was French.

5. I know a lot of people but only have a few good friends.

6. I've been married for 29 years.

7. I rarely leave the house without makeup, even if it is only some tinted moisturiser, mascara and lippie.

8. I like bold, bright colours.

9. I love seafood.

10. I am very fond of animals but no longer have any pets in the house due to my hectic work schedule.

There are so many beautiful blogs out there and many beautiful bloggers visit my blog, so if you are one of them please accept this award, stick it on your blog and tell us 10 things about you.

Next on the agenda is What's on your Workdesk Wednesday (WOYWW), I don't usually play along with this as my workdesk often looks much the same from one week to the next!  However, I thought that as I was at home, I would share my desk with you.

Now some of you might recognise that sketch...yes it is for the DCM dare and here is the card I've made for the dare:

This week's dare is being sponsored by Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker  and Sarah's Cards with some generous stash to give away.

The papers are Webster's Pages, flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Come back later when I will be posting more holiday pics.

A perfect fit!

I have been neglecting the Daring Card Makers with all my busy-ness, but this week I have made time to take part in the dare.  The theme is 'Anniversary', now although Brian and I will be celebrating our 29th Wedding Anniversary in June, we don't actually give each other cards, so I thought it better to make a card to give to someone else.  

The chippie jigsaw pieces have been in my 'bag of chipboard' for a very, very long time but seemed to be just perfect for this card.  Papers are all Websters, the butterfly is K&Co Wild Saffron (I still have another two left, I'm very stingy with my favourite stash lol!) The little flower is a Wild Orchid Crafts one and the text is computer generated. 

To have and to hold...

Remember I showed you this picture of the Tando Creative horseshoe that I made for my son's wedding?  Well now I am going to show you the book that I altered to present it in.

This also features a piece of Tando Creative Chipboard, the lovely branch of leaves which I combined with Wild Orchid flowers to match those on the horseshoe.  The papers are Websters and also some K& Co.  I've smudged the date in the photo deliberately.

 It fastens at the side with velcro and ribbon.

When you open it the horseshoe is inside as well as an appropriate poem.

I hope you enjoyed seeing this as much as I enjoyed making it.

I thought I would also show you what the 'book' was made from, it was a Christmas present from my other son and his girlfriend, I'm on my last bottle of shower gel, but I hope the book will be treasured for a little bit longer.

Wedding Horseshoe

I'm entering this for this month's Tando Creative competition.  This is the horseshoe that I am making for my son and future daughter-in-law's wedding in a couple of weeks.  There is a 'book' for it to go in, but that is not yet finished, but  I thought I'd post this for the competition. Flowers are by Wild Orchid.

Double Helpings!

I'm just sneaking these two competition entries in under the wire!  Both are due for 31st March and I didn't want to blog the birthday card until today as it is my friend's birthday tomorrow and she does sometimes look at my blog.  However, I know she is out and about today and not near a computer, so it is safe to go ahead.

First is a tag I have created using Tando Creative Chipboard.  Tando run a monthly competition with lovely prizes, the rules are simple you have to make a piece just for the competition and include a piece of Tando chippie.

The tag came from a pair of jeans and has been lurking around my desk for some time waiting for the right project. It was painted with Ranger Acrylic daubers, gessoed and then,inspired by the Utube clip over on Bubbly Scrumptious, I embossed it in my Cuttlebug using the 'Friend' folder.  Swiped over the embossing with dark brown ink.

The Tando piece is the lovely branch of leaves, which again was painted with acrylics and then highlighted with Distress inks in Peeled Paint and Rusty Hinge (I have only got 6 Distress Ink Pads, so the same ones do appear regularly). Flowers are by Wild Orchid Crafts.
The little tag was made with an offcut from the Thrinchie I made yesterday with some bits of lace, ribbons and buttons from my stash.


Second item is my card for the Get Funky Challenge 'Girls Girls Girls'

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The Funky Hand paper is from the Papercraft Factory CD in the Just Happy range.  Vintage images from Millie Motts and e-crafting.com, flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Just in case you were wondering, my friend is not French, but her name is Avril and when I saw the image on the Millie Motts site, I knew I had to keep it to use for her next birthday, particularly as it featured shoes and handbags! As the text is in french on the advert I continued the theme with the Paris collage sheet and the french birthday greeting.

Amethyst

It's Daring Card Makers time again! As it is the first dare of the month the challenge relates to this month's birthston the Amethyst.

Background Paper is from the Funky Hand CD - Papercraft Factory 'Dreams Come True' Stamped with Elusive Images background stamp from the India Theme plate using Stazon Vibrant Violet.
Feature Stamp is also from EI theme plate and is stamped with glue pad and glittered. Sentiment from same theme plate Flourish is by Dimension Fourth also glue stamped and glittered. Flower is by Wild Orchid Crafts tinted with two different Copic colours (thanks Joanne!)

This dare is being sponsored by the lovely people at Craft Obsessions with a fabulous Martha Stewart punch up for grabs. I have had excellent service from Craft Obsessions, they really go the extra mile for their customers.