Sweet Stampin GDT ... Saturday sketch

Oh dear, I'm a very bad guest at the party .... I completely forgot about this week's challenge over at Sweet Stampin!!  But sure, its better late than never! LOL!  Its my last week as GDT, so thanks very much for having me Sweet Stampers!

This week's challenge is to use Jo's sketch ... play along and you could win some fab digis from Simply Betty stamps

• Sketch from Sweet Stampin
• Creative Card Crew - the colours of your country (mine's red, white and blue)
• Lili of the Valley #82 - anything but square (my card is A6)
• Allsorts #88 - recycle something - my red ribbon was recycled from some Christmas packaging
• Alphabet Challenge - M=Men
• Totally Papercrafts #51 - one for the kiddies

Sweet Stampin GDT: Clear as Mud!

I've been racking my brains trying to think of what to make for Greg's birthday card that wasn't too girly or mushy and then I was lucky enough to win some Meljen Designs images from a recent scavenger hunt over at Sketch and Stash and I thought this image would be perfect! 

• Now, I love it when a plan comes together - this week's challenge at Sweet Stampin is a colour one - Clear as Mud ... use brown plus one other ... perfect for my little owl!
• Then I found this sketch at The Pixie Cottage #53 with the added theme of Who do you love?
• Paper Playtime #34 is to use the word LOVE on your card.
• Fab'n funky #56 is to use an animal on your project
• Paper Sundaes are having their birthday celebration this week and it's a free choice of challenge, so I went back to the Sundae Toppings Bar from #44 - choose at least 2 from punches, ribbon, embossing and the colour blue.
• Stamping Vacation - Animal Applause challenge - use an animal that appears to have eyebrows
• Fuzzywuzzy January challenge - an animal + anything goes
• Creatalicious January challenge #18 - Love theme + use a ribbon
• Cards for Men #2 - Lets Party

Any hoooooooo, hope you're having a great Saturday and that you get some time to play along with us over at Sweet Stampin .... I'm looking forward to seeing your Brown+1 creations!
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Sweet Stampin GDT: Use a photo

This week's Sweet Stampin challenge is to use a photo, so I thought I'd have an attempt at a scrapbook page which I've never done before.  I won a wee scrapbook album aaaaages ago, but have always been really intimidated by it - I always just lifted it out of the cupboard, looked at it, hummed and haaaed a bit, and then put it back .... but not today! 
This little cutie is my niece doing the laundry, so on the background of my page I used the washing line and flowers from a Practising Creativity set.

Get your photos out that you've been meaning to do something with and play along HERE .... there's a fabby prize from Tiddly Inks up for grabs!

• Sweet Stampin - use a photo
• Paper Sundaes #51 - Circles
• Cupcake Craft #124 - Something new (my new scrapboook)
• Stamp Something - anything goes
• CES Challenge #19 - no designer papers
• Craft Your Days Away #11 - anything goes

Sweet Stampin GDT: Try something new!

ETA: I got Top 3 at Monday Lunchtime Challenge with this card!

Sweet Stampin's challenge this week is to Try Something Different.  I've fancied making a pocket card that incorporates a bookmark for ages but hadn't got round to it .... so this was the perfect excuse to try one!  It was sooooo easy that I'll definately be trying it again!

I used a little mousely stamp from High Hopes for my bookmark - coloured with copics and clear gloss and glitter added to the balloon.  I've also added some of this DP to the back of the bookmark to make it a bit sturdier.

So what new technique have you been meaning to try? Get your thinking caps on as we'd like to see you try a new technique, a different colour combo than you would normally play with, whatever you like .... then upload your new creation to Sweet Stampin and check out the DT's fabulous creations while you're there!

• High Hopes #99 - Party Animal
• Sketch from Monday Lunchtime #155
•  My Time to Craft #122 - up in the air
• Charisma Cardz #1 - Birthday / celebrations
• Cute Card Thursday #146 - out with the old (my DP is old stuff from my stash)

Sweet Stampin Guest Designer

Happy New Year! 

I'm starting 2011 on a high as I'm lucky enough to be this month's Guest Designer at Sweet Stampin!  This week's challenge is to be inspired by your favourite song.  Mine is Chasing Cars by a local band Snow Patrol ... have a wee listen HERE (give it a minute to get going!) - there's a line in it show me a garden that's bursting into life ... so this is my garden bursting into life!  (in fact I wish my garden had some flowers at the minute, everything is a bit wilted and dead looking after all that snow and ice - don't think I've any blue flowers hibernating in my garden though LOL!) 

I got this High Hopes image a while back and then bought a little pack of ladybugs for the specific purpose of using them with this stamp ... oh dear, I think this is maybe the second time I've used one!  Coloured with copic markers, some Smooch Iluminate on the bees' wings and a silver peel off sentiment to finish.  Papers from Basic Grey

Hope you've liked my wee card ... don't forget to play along with your favourite song over on the Sweet Stampin challenge blog (it's a tougher challenge than it sounds!)

• Sketch from Sketch and Stash #51 (my stash is my little wooden ladybug)  Its a free choice of sketch so I've used #30
• Cupcake Craft #122 - Thank You
• Papertake Weekly - Be Thankful
• CRAFT #83 - Thank You