Funky Easel

I'm entering this card into two challenges. The monthly one over on Funky Hand - where this month the theme is 'Just a Number' and Crafty Ann's challenge which is to make an easel card. My papers are from the Papercraft Factory CD - Dreams Come True and the numbers are Crafter's Companion stamps - coloured with Promarkers to match the bp. The Happy Birthday strip was done using my design runner - just a little balloon embellishment from my stash and a name plate finish off this 8 x 8 card.
Thanks very much for visiting today.
I'm off out dancing ceroc tonight so only just had time to finish the card and get it posted.
Thanks for visiting.
Beryl xx

Can't wait to get these in the garden

I know. Second post of the day. What's the world coming too? It's because I've left it a tad late for
Brenda's Poppy Challenge. These  poppies are one of my favourite plants - and as today I finally got the last of the perennials that I brought with me in the ground (in between showers) I can now scatter some of my double orange poppy seeds around and hope at least some of them germinate. The seed is 2010 but I think poppy seeds last a fair time. I have had them my gardens since the early nineties - all from one original plant in a mixed packet of seed. The stamp is a Sheena Douglass one, stamped with Stone Grey Stazon and coloured with Inktense pencils. The background is a mixture if Pan Pastels overstamped in Versafine Black Onyx using Hobby Art wooden stamps.
Thanks very much for visiting. If you want to enter Brenda's challenge you've got about one day left to do so.
Beryl xx

A life on the ocean waves......

Time for another challenge from CD Sunday and this time it's 'Mainly Men'. We had lots of entries last week with the 'A' theme - so many different takes on it - and this week I think the theme is fairly open too.
For my card I used a Sheena Douglass stamp - coloured with water colour pencils and inked round the edges with Black Soot DI. The ships wheel is a Crafters Companion stamp. The compass is from Daisy Trail SteamPunk Adventures and the bp is from my Sheena Douglass Paint Fusion CD. I used a Fiskars punch for the border across the bottom and the hemp twine is courtesy of B & Q.
I look forward to seeing what you all come up with.
Thank you for visiting today.
 Beryl xx

Sassy Santa

This is my card following the current Sketch and Stash challenge. 

The main image is from Sassy Studio Designs - I just love these ladies It's coloured with Promarkers and the flower is  from a Sheena Douglas Paint Fusion set. BP's from my stash and some peel off corners, as it looked a bit bare but I didn't want to cover the pretty paper too much.

Thanks very much for visiting. Hope you are all enjoying the hot weather. I'm not!

Beryl xx

A is for .... Arctic Conditions

Where did this week go? I had a fabulous weekend catching up with cousins I hadn't seeing for over 50 years and meeting quite a few who weren't even born when I last had contact with this branch of the family. I also saw my neighbour from when I lived in Wilburton, my son and his family and my daughter and her partner. I came back Sunday night and this week has just disappeared. So here we are - time for another theme on the  CD Sunday challenge blog.It's Wendy M's (Antaurus') turn to pick the theme this week and she's chosen 

A is for...... - so I decided to go with Arctic and make a Christmas card.

The bp (including the snowman) is from the Me to You Christmas CD and the decoupaged image is from the same CD. I wanted some snowy icicle type thingies but didn't have a suitable stamp, punch or mask so these were traced from a clip art image (searched for hours and finally found it on my pc in the Word Clipart.Der!)cut apart and the non icicle piece laid on the bp. I then sponged above it with Versamark and added white detail embossing powder. I also went round the edge with the same method. Snowflake is a Wizard die and sentiment computer generated.

Thanks very much for all your entries last week - it's my turn to pick the top three - eek. I hope you'll be able to join in again this week. It's a very flexible theme so lots of scope.

Thank you for visiting today.

Beryl xx

Pearls and Swirls for a Prom

Welcome to another challenge on the CD Sunday Challenge blog. This week I've been the one to choose the theme - I chose 'Pearls and Swirls'. Don't know why - it just came into my head a few weeks ago and I had no idea what I'd be doing for it. My grand daughter had her school prom last week and after planning to have a purple dress - which in the end wasn't going to be finished in time - she managed to get hold of a turquoise one. (Good job I didn't finish the card with a purple dress on it - wasn't happy with it so binned it.)
I'd seen this image on Sassy Studio Designs and thought it would look great in the same colour as the 'new' dress so made a card just in time for the prom. I coloured the image with Promarkers, added some pearls and a Memory Box die cut corner and used a swirly backing paper from MCS Flourishes CD.I hope you'll manage to find some pearls and swirls somewhere and join us this week. Below is a piccie of my grand daughter just as she was about to leave for the prom

Thanks very much for visiting. I'm away this weekend visiting famil and friends so hope Mr Blogger publishes this for me on Sunday morning. I'll have to have a mega catch up on Monday.
Beryl xx

Truly Scrumptious

This week's challenge on the Pan Pastel challenge blog is all about ice cream. I've chosen to go with Neapolitan - think that's a bit obvious. I stamped the  Kanban cupcake with Black Onyx Versafine and clear embossed it - then coloured it with Promarkers. For the background I coloured a piece of white card with Permanent Green Tint Pan Pastel and over stamped with Sepia Versafine using a swirl stamp from the same set. The pieces with pink swirls are again another swirl from the same set using Cinnamon Versacolour. The sentiment was computer generated and I added some glossy accents to the cherry.

I used the Sketch n Stash current challenge sketch so I'm entering this card into that challenge too. The new/neglected element is the stamp set - bought some time last summer and seeing ink for the first time today.

Thanks very much for visiting.

Beryl xx

Best of British??? .. Weather!

It's time for another challenge on The CD Sunday Challenge blog - where has this week gone? This time we want to see The Best of British. I know - it's warped view of 'best' but this challenge sprang to mind as soon as I saw this image on The Paintbox Poppets CD. Not far wrong considering the weather of the last few days as it happens. Maybe not the best weather, but the best the skies above can manage it seems.The bp is also from the same CD, the lacy mat is from a Martha Stewart punch and the sentiment is from a Hobby Art set.
I do hope you'll join in this week. If the weather carries on like this there won't be a lot of time spent in the gardens methinks.
Thank you for visiting today.
Beryl xx

A Victorian Gentleman?

The current challenge from Crafty Ann is called Memories are Made of this. I would love to have memories of this man but as he - and all my other grandparents departed before I was born - I never knew him. Until last year I didn't even know what he looked like until a long lost cousin of mine sent the photo to me. It is the only photo I have of any of my grandparents but I'm hoping to put that right soon. I'm off to Cambridgeshire in a week or so to a family gathering - family I haven't seen in 50 years - and some I've not yet met of course. I'm hoping someone there will be able to fill me in on the grandparents a little.
The page was done in Craft Artist and the I've not gone overboard on the embellishments as I don't think the background calls for it.
Thank you for visiting today.
Beryl xx

Sassy in Paris?

It's the last round of the Sassy in the City Relay challenge and this time it's the turn of Carrie Sassy.

I was so lucky to stumble across this challenge just as it was beginning - I've got some fab digi stamps in my stash now and have thoroughly enjoyed doing something that's a bit different for me.

I did the background in Craft Artist, the eifeel tower is clip art from Microsoft Office and the window frame is a Craft Artist embellishment. The background is Craft Artist too.

I coloured Carrie with Promarkers, cut out and 'stood' her next to the window. The sentiment was done with my design runner and mounted onto to a wizard die cut. The border at the top is a Martha Stewart punch.

Thanks very much for visiting today.

Beryl xx

Wish I was there...

This week's challenge on the CD Sunday Challenge Blog is 'Seaside Treasures'. Lots of scope with this one I think.
My card is an 8 x8 as the main image - a Sheena Douglass stamp is quite a good size. I coloured it with watercolours. The bp is from the Crafters Companion Paintbox Poppets CD and the shells I printed in Craft Artist on to glossy photo paper, cut them out and used Glue Gel to add them as a border along the bottom. The sentiment is from the same set as the image stamp. The 'rusty cog'  has been sitting at the back of my desk for a while now waiting for a home. I was having a play with some die cuts a while back and trying out different embossing powders and other stuff to give them texture. The upshot is - I can't remember exactly what went onto this one but it's quite chunky.
I hope you'll come and join in this week.
Thank you for visiting today.
Beryl xx