Playtime...

oh so long since I did any scrap booking and I have so many photos of Eli and holidays to catch up on.  Eeeeeeeek need more hours in the day methinks!  After getting home from work today I decided to chill out and use a sketch from one of my favourite blogs, Stuck on You Sketches to do a page about Eli playing on his jungle play mat.  I'm using the term 'playing' very loosely here as it's more a case of grap an animal and gum it into submission, but hey it's all good fun.

My page was created using Serif Craft Artist - ideal for those times when you're just too tired to get the real papers and embellishments out.  No tidying up to do just a case of closing down the computer and off to bed - brilliant.

Goodnight all.

Ann xxx 

Friday ... Bah! Humbug! time...

This week we are focussing on die cuts as our main theme for Christmas cards.  Check out Max's design and our fab guest designers here at Humbug Hall. 

Stunning eh?

For my card I used a Cuttlebug dove die and embossing folder that I have had for ages and not got round to using.  Don't know why because I really like it especially with the added pearls.  I also used some die cut swirls created using one of the many fabulous Marianne dies available.  The base card is called Ice Gold due to the gold shimmer running through it which you can just about see in the photo.

My card is also for the challenges at...

• Charisma Cards - Anything Goes
• Dutch Dare - Pearls and Swirls
• Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
• Crafty Sentiments - No designer paper

Have a fabulous weekend everyone.  I'm working most of it so no crafting time unfortunately, but maybe next week.

Ann xxx

Crafting Time...

Yeah, I managed to steal a little time in my craft room yesterday and played around with a really easy peasy sketch I found at the Clean and Simple Challenge blog. It's a fab sketch with just so many possibilities.

On my first attempt I decided to go for polka dot flowers and use a snippet I had left from a sheet of black and white spotted card I used some time ago.  Still got a full sheet left, but using the snippet means I can save that for another time.  The sparkly line, sentiment and dots in the middle of the flowers are all from the Anita's Glitterations range.  I did try to do a single layer - simple card, but the desire to mat and layer on to sparkly black to match the peel offs got the better of me.

My card was made with the following challenges in mind...

• Crafty Ann's Challenge - Clean and Simple
• Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge - Happy Birthday
• Less is More - Polka Dots
• Jules Crafty Snippet Challenge - use your snippets

My second card using the same fab sketch is a Halloween version.  I really love orange and black together.  This time the sentiment was computer generated and printed on to orange card.  The two fence pieces were cut using a Cuttlebug Halloween die that I've had ages and the cat came from a sheet of stickers that I think originated at Poundland and that came to light recently in one of my many tidying up sessions.

This card is for the following challenges...

• Sentimental Sunday - Halloween plus sentiment
• Allsorts Challenge - Halloween
• Alphabet Challenge Blog - Soon be Halloween.

Well better go and get ready for work now.  Have a good start to the week everyone and thank you so much for all the lovely comments I receive.  Really appreciated.

Ann xxx