Adrenalin Rush

I should have posted this earlier but I got all caught up in QVC's Craft Day. No idea why because it was well below par, but ho hum, if craft is on TV I just gotta stay tuned. I wore myself out and haven't gotten around to posting my great news.

Not sure if you noticed or not but I won last week's PBSC!

I only got this blog up and running last Sunday and already fate has smiled kindly on me and I have won with my first ever challenge card.

I had such an adrenalin rush I couldn't get to sleep and was completely shattered the next morning so sat watching most of craft day in a foggy daze.


I have won a gorgeous little set of stamps and am eagerly awaiting them so I can play.

Thanks to Sugarplum because it was her chatting about getting a blog started that inspired me.

I was giggling to myself earlier in the week, thinking that if I entered a challenge every day, at the end of the year I would have 365 cards to shift!

So to any of you bloggers out there reading this...... what do you do with your challenge cards after you have lovingly made them and entered them?

Is it bad form to send them to forum friends who might have already spied them on your blog, cos I don't have anywhere near enough family to send cards to?

Perhaps I should have a 'feature wall' and stick them all over it?

Answers on a postcard please....... or just in the comments box below.

Until next time

Blessed Be

TW

PS I amazed myself at finally working out how to post things in the sidebar, whether or not I shall remember the next time I need to do it is debatable.

Stampavie Challenge

This week's Stampavie Challenge is to use Pink, Brown and (optional green). Here is my interpretation.

The image is a Rachelle Anne Miller one called Peek A Boo, coloured in with prismas and chalked around the edges cut and matted with Nesties.

The flowers are Flora Doodles and the ribbon and butterly are from my stash. They are all layered onto some K&Co paper.

TW

Loving These Challenge Cards

Gosh I am loving these challenge cards.

This one is for A Spoonful of Sugar's challenge 49, blue and green.

I got some gorgeous DCWV stacks this week and the card has a sheet from the Blossoms & Butterflies stack cut in half and used as the base card. As soon as I saw it I thought, WOW, what a gorgeous blue/green combo. So when I spotted this challenge it called out to me!

Because the background itself is so patterned it didn't leave room for too much more embellishing. The silk flowers were from my stash, but dyed and the centres changed; and the other flower is a chipboard one sanded and repainted.

The butterfly is just a peel off over some starbust stained paper.

The image is from Rachelle Anne Miller's Lily and Milo collection and was coloured in with prismas and OMS. The brolly, boots and puddle all have judikins diamond glaze over the top, sadly not showing up here!

This has inspired me to use a lot more of this colour combination as it really has a wow factor, and to think my Mum used to say 'blue and green should never be seen'.

TW

First Ever Challenge Card

Penny Black Challenge 46


Here is my first ever challenge card. It's for the Penny Black Sat Challenge on the theme of 'Anything Goes'.

The stamp is from the Penny Black Critter Party clear stamp set, and I coloured it with prismas. The icing has cosmic shimmer pastel pink glitter on it.

I matted it with my Nesties label set #4 onto ribbon from my stash, and DCWV's sweet stack papers. The sentiment banner is also from DCWV's sweet chipboards. The small flower at the top was cut from the ribbon and has a glass gem in the centre.

Blessed if I can get the hang of putting the pictures where I want them on the page!

TW

Funny or Embarassing

I will post some pics tomorrow, but for today I thought I would share a funny/embarassing story with you.

Today is my Sister's Wedding Anniversary. As far back as last September my Niece, her Daughter, asked me if I would make invitations to a Silver Anniversary party. Eventually she said the party was not going ahead as she was short of funds. However, as it was a special event I set to at the weekend to make the card that had been in my head for a week or so. I needed a picture of their wedding day to complete the card so I set off on a search for one. I had a copy of a really nice one in a family montage in a frame and thought I could find the original and make another copy. So off I set. I went to April 1984 in my photo albums to locate this picture but there were no pics there. I remembered that some time back I had rejigged the albums and thought perhaps I had misfiled the pics. So I flicked through and through and eventually I came across some pics but they seemed to be filed in 1985. Then I realised that my 25 year old Daughter, whose birthday is in January was walking in these pics and picking up and throwing confetti around which would have been impossible at 3 1/2 months old, and it dawned on me........... they have only been married TWENTY FOUR years!!

I telephoned my Sister gingerly and told her what I had worked out and she told me that she thought all along they had only been married 24 years but that my Niece had persuaded her they had their dates wrong. Thank goodness she didn't go ahead with that party!

TW

Eye of newt and wing of bat, peeking out from under my hat

Spurred on by the bravery of some fellow forum lurkers I have decided to have a go at making my own blog.

It has taken me the best part of an entire day just to get the layout and I still am not sure it looks right.

I joked with my Daughter that having taken so much effort to get it in a state to post on that I was now sick of the sight of it and didn't want to post, but she was right when she said I just needed a break.

So here we are then. I'm still not sure I will have enough content to keep it going but at least I wont wear anyone out keeping up with it.

In the next day or so I hope to post a pic or two of my cards, but for now I shall just say hi.

Oh yeah, and that pic on my profile and the background for the blog isn't really me - I have even less teeth than her!

If you should come across me by accident or design, please drop me a note so I know I am not the only person looking at this.

TW