Daring Cardmakers-Sketch 08.02.08

Here is my card for this weeks 'dare' over at Daring Cardmakers which is a sketch.
I'm not normally a sketch person but I thought I would have a bash at it and you never know I might get lucky in the draw.
The colours look a bit scary but that is the scan. IRL the bottom circle is a lovely soft lime.
As you can see I have been putting my doodling into practice. I seem to have become a tad hooked since the last dare. Nothing is safe from my UniPin pen or my white gel pen.........mmmmm the dog would look fab with white dots on his nose.......lol!!!
Anyhoo.....the card is house shaped and I got the template for that from Mirkwood Designs I think.
Circles are cut using the Sizzix Circles. Fence is also Sizzix. Lots of doodling and the chipboard flower is out of a tin of K & Co embellishments.
Oh and I did a bit of distressing with a MM Asphalt ink pad using a sponge.



Thanks for looking
Have a fab weekend
Sheila-x-

Daring Cardmakers Little Extra-Doodled Borders

Here is a quick card I have done for the DCM Little Extra this week. There is a tutorial by the fabulous Jo on Doodling for borders and she would like us to have a go at that.
My background border is made with a Dottariffic pen in Mint Green with the centre dots added using a black Dottariffic pen and outlined with white gel pen.
Other doodling includes line and stitch border and flower centre swirls just to pull the look together.
I loved this one Jo........more please!!!

Stamp A Day Raffle!!!

In my last post I said I was going to be doing a Stamp A Day raffle in aid of the Ellenor Wiseman Trust which you can read about and follow the progress of HERE.

I read Kirsty's blog every day. Although I am not a scrapper I just find her blog compulsive reading and have fallen completely in love with her beautiful daughter Ellie.......also known as Belle.

So I want to raise some money for this gorgeous little girl and I want you to help me.

Every day......until supplies are exhausted......I am going to be raffling off a stamp. Some stamps will be brand new and unused others might be slightly used and there will be a mix of mounted and unmounted stamps, single stamps and bags of assorted stamps.

Here are the rules for the raffle-:

If you would like to win the stamp you will need to be prepared to make a donation to the fund in exchange for the stamp.

To win just add your name to the comments section for that day and

number your comment following on numerically from the previous comment.

At midnight GMT I will use Random.org to generate a winner and announce it shortly after. I will also post the next stamp at that time.

If you are the winner you will need to make a donation directly to the fund and not to me.

Once you have made your donation contact me via the e mail address in the sidebar of my blog to let me know that you have made your donation and also to give me your full name and address details.

The amount of your donation is your private affair and you do not need to let me know how much you have given.

All packages for the week will be posted together on a Friday as this is the one day I know that I can guarantee to get to the post office.

Posts will be deleted as stamps are won and any that are unsold on the day of posting will be left in place.

You will be able to view them by clicking on STAMPS FOR BELLE in the labels list in the side bar.

Sheila

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Edited to add-I am quoting the stamp prices to give an idea of their worth. You are not expected to donate that amount. Whatever you can give will be very much appreciated.

Daring Cardmakers-Red and White!!!

Over at DCM this week the team are daring us to use red and white on our cards and this is my effort. I was going to do stamping in white Brilliance onto red card but I don't have any nice red card left as I haven't restocked yet after Christmas so I have made do with this red spotty paper I found in my stash. I used the scalloped ruler I made out of my Fancy Pants stamp packaging for the edge and then cut out little scalloped hearts with a punch. They don't look it on the scan but they are quite dimensional as I have folded and glued three hearts..........just like Dawn Bibby does with the peeloff butterflies. I then cut an extra heart to glue over the top as I didn't like the crease down the middle. Stems have been nicked off some paper roses that were going in the bin and these are tied together with a piece of crystal organza ribbon.
Love stamp is by Hero Arts.



Well I am soooooo disappointed......we were warned that our area would have approximately four inches of snow today and I was dead excited. I might have known it wouldn't appear. All we got was a hail storm and about six snowflakes. I wished I had had a video camera though to film the hail storm as it was quite spectacular. My workroom overlooks fields and at the bottom of the first field there is a band of trees and we were watching how far they were bending in the wind when the sky went as black as pitch and we saw the hail storm moving in from behind the trees. It was really beautiful in a strange kind of way. I still feel cheated that we didn't get the snow though........lol!!!



I have had lots of visitors since I posted the Bind It All Ribbon Storage book I made.......thank you all for dropping by.
I know not everyone has a BIA but that needn't stop you from making a similar kind of system. If using plastic as I did just use a permanent pen and a ruler to mark out the notches you need down the sides and then cut out with a craft knife or scissors. Punch a couple of holes in the top and use book rings in place of BIA wires.



Hubby dropped a bit of a bombshell last night. There is a good chance that he can get a job in New Zealand and he asked me what I thought of us moving out there if he was successful..........well I know we were on about moving house but I was thinking you know maybe a bit more local than that.......lol!!! However I am game if he is so we'll see how things go.



On Monday I will be launching a fundraising Stamp A Day raffle in aid of the Ellenore Wiseman Fund........you can read about it HERE I have lots of unused and lightly used stamps which I will raffle off for donations to the fund. Full details and appropriate links will be posted on Monday so please come back and support this very worthy cause.



Right I am off to carry on my snow watch......lol!!!
Bye for now
Sheila-x-



ETA-Anniki I have tried and tried to leave a comment on your blog and it won't let me
so I'll just say here that your card is gorgeous.

Bind It All Ribbon Storage!!!

I have been asked to post a picture of the ribbon storage system I made with the Bind It All.........so here it is. The first pic shows a piece of plastic trimmed to approximately A5 size. I have punched 6 holes in the top centre and this is where it is bound with the wire. Down the sides I have punched two sets of holes using the guide on the side of the machine to line them up. The second picture shows the pages bound and filled with my gorgeous spotty ribbons. I have cut out two sections of the punched holes to make holders for the individual ribbons. It depends on the widths of your ribbons how many you remove. I have bound seven pages together. I'm sure that stiff card would work just as well but I thought the plastic would be more durable with the folders being pulled out and pushed into a basket several times a day.

I have been having another shuffling and condensing day today and I am starting to get very organised.......scary stuff this being tidy....lol!!!

I am such a hoarder but have been very good and burnt a whole bin bag of rubbish I sorted out. I burn it so that I can't change my mind and fetch it back in.....lol!!!

There may even be enough room for me to have a cardmaking session tonight.

Right I am off to put the kettle on for hubby who will be home from work any minute gasping for a drink.
Bye for now
Sheila-x-

Oooh before I forget........Fab I am trying to source the stamp for you....bear with me.