Bobbi and His Present

Good morning and welcome to another wonderful Wednesday.

Here it is 21st May already we're nearly half way through the year .

Today is Wednesday and that means it's another wonderful Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2, congratulations to our winner last week and to our Top 3 cards well done everyone.

This week Sally has another great sketch to work with and again it's very easy peasy and looks great finished.

Sketch #015

This week our sponsor is 

Sally-Ann Hancock the owner and design of 

DigiStamp Boutique.

Do you know that the first digistamp image I ever purchased was from 

DigiStamp Bouitque and I've been working with these wonderful images ever since.

DigiStamp Bio:

All images/designs are created and copyright owned by Sally-Ann Hancock.  My work means the world to me - it allows my passion to draw and create, to fit with my family life too, often the inspiration for my designs.  Hope you enjoy my images as much as I enjoy creating them.

Sally-Ann is offering our lucky winner

Prize:   £10 voucher 

to spend in her online store.

Now its time to pop over to Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 and see what the rest of the design team have created for you this week using Sally-Ann's wonderful selection of images from DigiStamp Boutique online store.

Challenges I'm Entering:

Through the Craft Room Door Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiment Challenge Inspired by A Song

The Mamas & The Papas – Dancing Bear (1968)

Lacy Sunshine Challenge # 33 Anything Goes

Craft for the Craic May Challenge Something for a Baby

Crafty Boots Challenge Blue and White Challenge

Eureka Stamps Challenge #90 Birthdays

ABC Challenge L is for Lots of Layers

2 Sisters Challenge #176 Baby

DigiStamp Boutique Challenge May Anything Goes

The Paper Nest Dolls Challenge #10 Anything Goes

Card Recipe:

1. Base: White SU

2. Coloured Card: Blue American Craft Card

3. Design Paper: Bella Join Together

4. Image: Bobbi sitting a present by DigiStamp Boutique

5. Colour Medium: Copics

6. Sentiment: PC generated using Papyrus font.

7. Tools: Cuttlebug Classic Squares from Spellbinders, Cherry Lynn leaf die, and Fancy Labels die by Spellbinders, Pop Dots, Glue Dots and Real Tacky Glue and Glossy Accents.

8. Embellishments: Blue and White ribbon, flowers, blue gems all from my stash.

9. Inside my card.

Thanks so much for visiting my blog, wishing you all a wonderful safe week and happy crafting.

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 This week it's Monochromatic and our Sponsor is Heather Ellis

Good morning and welcome to another wonderful Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2.

Congratulations to our winner and to our Top 3 cards awesome work ladies and it's lovely to see all those entries.

Well this week is our week with a TWIST and I was so excited to be able to make a Monochromatic card (to tell you the truth I've never made one before).  But when push came to shove I was so worried how it would turn out.  I knew exactly what sketch I was going to be using for the image I had chosen.  But my problem was the colour and where do I start.  So in the end I thought if I go pink, or blue, the grass is going to look funny so that is why I started from the bottom and progressed upwards.  That's why I chose GREEN.

This week I worked with Sketch #005 I loved working with it the first time and it was a very popular sketch.

Sketch #005

I was happy with the way my card turned out but feel that it's missing so blue sky, I tried inking another image I printed off and put a green sky in well it really didn't look right.  It would be like eating a blue tomato.

This week our sponsor is 

Heather Ellis Digital Stamps

Bio:

Heather Ellis is a Writer and Illustrator.  She lives in the United Kingdom with her husband and two children. Coming from a very creative family Heather loves drawing, painting and most of all creating cute characters.

Stop by her shop and have a look around, so many adorable images await you!

http://www.heather-ellis.co.uk/
http://www.etsy.com/shop/digistampcharacters

Our winner this week will receive

3 Free Images for the

Digistamp Character online store 

Challenges I'm entering:

Love to Create Challenge # 104 Anything Goes

Make It Monday Challenge #180 Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door Anything Goes
Digistamps4Joy Challenge #86 Dies or Punches
Card Makin Mama Challenge # 81 Stack It Up
Challenges 4 Everybody Challenge #38 Anything Goes

Card Recipe:

 My finished Monochromatic Green card.

1. Card Base: White SU

2. Coloured card: Dark Green Bazzill 

3. Design Paper: a la Carte French Onion by American Crafts

4. Image: Pure Innocence PI017 by Digistamp Charactor

5. Colour Medium: Copics, white gel pen.

6. Tools: Cuttlebug, Spellbinders Squares, Real Tacky glue, Glue dots, Pop dots and a flower embossing folders. 

7. Embellishments: Diamonds cut using the cuttlebug, White Satin Flowers, Leaf ribbon, green gems and diamond heart gems, green wool thread and white and silver tulle from my stash.

8. Inside the card:  Cheery Lynn leaf cutter, and a white satin flower with a green gem centre.  

Take care wishing you all a great week and happy crafting.

Sweet Sketch Wednesday Sketch #235 with Elisabeth Bell sponsor.

Good morning and welcome to another wonderful Wednesday. 

We are getting so close to Christmas and there isn't enough hours in a day to get all my jobs done.

Today is Wednesday which means its another wonderful 

Sweet Sketch Wednesday.  Congratulations to our winner and to our Top 3 cards thanks so much for entering ladies it was lovely to see your work.

This week Sally has another wonderful sketch for you to enjoy, it's very easy and it's a sketch where you can use up all those scrap pieces of design paper we all have stashed away.

Sketch #235

Here's my card using Apple Bake by Elisabeth Bell.

Such a cute image it reminds me of making Apple Pies here in New Zealand with a green apple we use for cooking called

Granny Smith Apples.

This week or sponsor is Elisabeth Bell Designs.

About Elisabeth Bell Designs

Elisabeth Bells Digital Collection features enchanting, whimsical, Digital stamps for all of your paper-crafting projects!
Although Elisabeth illustrates for several stamp companies, no one except Elisabeth Bell herself has a collection of sweet digital stamps, this is a perfect way to get your instant gratification.

With a growing catalog of high-quality digi stamps, Elisabeth offers a multitude of themes. Such as holidays, special occasions, childrens adorable characters, and just the everyday cuteness that Elisabeth is famous for producing.

These Digi Stamps are available in standard black and white line art, and are great for resizing, and rotating to suite your needs.

Inspiration, by her very own Design Team, is posted, and shared daily, on Elisabeth’s “Digi Bells Blog” using Elisabeth Bell’s digital art.

This week our lucky winner will receive 

2 of the three digi images that the Deign Team

have used this week.  These are really cute images.

Don't forget to check out the Elisabeth Bell online store 

http://www.elisabethbell.com/digital-collection


Digi Bells Blog

http://digibellsdt.blogspot.com/


Don't forget to drop by Sweet Sketch Wednesday and see 
what our Design Team Diva's have created for you this
week using these Elisabeth Bell images. 



Challenges I'm entering:

Make It Mondays Anything Goes
Through the Craftroom Door Anything Goes
Brown Sugar Challenge #70 Thank You
2 Sisters Challenge #172 Anything Goes
Challenges 4 Everybody #34 Anything Goes
Lacy Sunshine Challenge #22 Anything Goes
Creative Card Crew Challenge #50 Sweet Treats
Ink Chicks Challenge # 18 Buttons, Bows and Bling


Card Ingredients:

1. Base: White SU

2. Coloured Card: Blue and Apple Green Kaisercard

3. Design Papers: Anna Griffin papers which are now deleted.

4. Image: Apple Bake by Elisabeth Bell Design

5. Colour Medium: Copics.

6. Tools: Cuttlebug, pop dots, glue dots, real tacky glue.

7. Embellishments: Cream coloured satin flowers I coloured with my blue copic marker, button, gems and bakers twine all from my stash.

8. Inside my card.

Take care everyone wishing you all an amazing week, happy crafting and getting ready for Christmas.

Sweet Sketch Wednesday Sketch # 234 Sponsor Eureka Stamps



Good morning everyone and welcome to my blog.  Well with the Christmas countdown upon us it's less than a month to go before Santa coming sliding down our chimney.  Well that would be a laugh and a half as we have a special wire surround around the top of our chimney so that birds don't nest in there. 

Welcome to another wonderful Sweet Sketch Wednesday.  Congratulations to our winner and to our Top 3 cards this week.

This week we have a very easy peasy sketch from our very own Sally, it easy and looks great finished.

Sketch # 234

This week our sponsor is

Eureka Bio.

Finally, The Stamps You've been Looking for!Eureka Stamps offers a large variety of images and sentiments in many different categories for all of your stamping needs. Our Paper Sculpting stamps add an extra dimension to your creations. Or, Mix and match our Balloons and Balloon Holders to celebrate every occasion. Our Stamps are available as unmounted, deep etched, natural red rubber stamps OR as digital stamps. If Eureka Stamps aren't exactly what you are looking for, Don't miss out on the sister companies: QKR Stampede, Biblical Impressions Rubber Stamps, or the newest addition; Alluring Impressions.

We have several rubber stamp lines featuring over 10,000 designs. We have been offering our own unique stamps and supplies to the craft industry for over 15 years and have loved every minute of it! Keep an eye on our page as we have lots more designs to add.

Eureka Stamps

 are offering our 

lucky winner

 this week

5 Digital Images

 of the winners choice.

With over 10,000 designs to choose from you just won't know where to start but have fun looking here:

http://www.eurekastamps.com/

Don't forget to drop by the design team over at
Sweet Sketch Wednesday and see what they created using these amazing images.

Challenges I'm entering:
Make It Monday Challenge # 168 Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments Challenge Anything Goes
Paper Crafting Journey Bling It Up
Song Bird Challenge # 28 Die Another Day
Love to Create Challenge #93 3 Of Your Favourite Embellishments
Pearls, Flowers and Die Cuts
Bearly-Mine Challenge # 114 Anything Goes
Brown Sugar Challenge # 69 Anything Goes
Sweet Stampin Challenge Cause For Celebration
2 Sisters Challenge # 171 Thank You
Challenge 4 Everybody Anything Goes
Lacy Sunshine Challenge #22 Anything Goes

Card Recipe

1. Base: White SU

2. Coloured Card: Orange card from Bazzill and Champagne handmade paper.

3. Design Paper: Scraps left over from a sheet of design paper from  Bo Bunny.

5. Image: Floral Basket from Eureka Stamps

6. Colour Medium: Copics

6. Tools: Cuttlebug, Petite Ovals, Floral oval by Spellbinders, glossy  accents from the bow,  pop dots, glue dots, real tacky glue.

7. Embellishments: An array of flowers all from my stash and stuck down with real tacky glue.

8. Embellishments: 3 flat back champagne colours peals all from my stash. 

Wishing everyone a great week, happy crafting and Christmas shopping.



Sweet Sketch Wednesday Sketch #230 Sponsor StampFairy

Good morning I'm on the count down this time in 8 weeks or 56 days we'll be saying "Merry Christmas".  Oh where has the year gone, I've done a little bit this year, there have been a few milestones, illnesses, passing way of older friends, some travel and my eldest son's first year at secondary school, high school,college or collegiate what ever you call it in your neck of the woods.  He's just turned 14 and this weekend he's in his first rowing regatta how exciting is that I'm so looking forward to seeing the boys row keep the boat straight and not fall out. But I'm not looking forward to the lead up to Christmas.

Today is Wednesday and that means we have another wonderful 

Sweet Sketch Wednesday

for you.

Congratulations to our winner and to our top 3 cards, awesome work ladies and there were some really lovely cards this week even a scrapbook layout.

This week Sally has another love sketch this is easy very simple and very effective.

Sketch #230

Our sponsor this week is StampFairy and I've used is from Molly Winner 2 and the park bench is a separate image. 

This week our sponsor is 

StampFairy  Stop

A Little Bit About StampFairy

"Stamp Fairy officially launched on November 5th 2010.  Gerda Burghardt, artist and owner, creates cute and whimsical digital images for the young and old, inspired by her life, love and 4 cute cats.  You will find adorable teddies bears, young boys and girls, fuzzy little bunnies and whimsical critters.   Please visit the store and browse StampFairy’s wonderful images.  We hope StampFairy’s images inspire YOUR creativity."

The lucky winner that creates a stunning card and follows Sketch #230 will receive

This voucher can be used in her online store, there are so many great images to choose from.

You can also check out Stampfairy Shop here

http://stampfairy.com/

Don't forget to drop by the rest of the

 Sweet Sketch Wednesday

 design team and see what they have created especially for you this week and don't forget to give them a little love for their lovely work.

Challenges I'm entering:

Incy Wincy Designs Red & White

Tammy's Scrapping Corner Challenge #86 Anything Goes

Paper Crafting Journey Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door Anything Goes

Challenge #32 Challenge 4 Everybody Anything Goes

Winter Wonderland Challenge

Lacy Sunshine Challenge #20 Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiment Anything Goes

Card Recipe:

1. Base: White SU

2. Coloured Card: White SU and Red Bazzill

3. Design Paper: Christmas Pack from Rosies Studios

4. Image: Christmas Molly from Winter #2 and Park beach a separate image.

5. Colour Medium: Copics, Black embossing pen.

6. Tools: Cuttlebug, Spellbinders Floral Oval, Pop Dots, Glue Dots, Stickles Star Dust and Martha Stewart white glitter for snow.

7. Embellishments: Green ribbon and flat back pearl in Mollies hair all from my stash.

8. Inside my card the end of the design paper and left over ribbon from the bow.

Take care everyone wishing you a wonderful week crafting and I'm so looking forward to seeing your creations.