My Cards On Create & Craft!

Hi Everyone,

 

I hope you are all enjoying this lovely warm sunshine that we are having here in West Sussex. I went down to the bottom of my garden today, to an area I made into a wild garden. It,s very pretty at this time of the year with loads of spring flowers, Grape Hyacinths, Hyacinths, Primroses, Daffodils, Polyanthus, to name but a few and the Bluebells' buds were just showing. I sat on my pretty cream metal bench in the sun and it was just lovely. I can't believe that only a couple of weeks ago we were freezing!!

 

Early in January, Stamp Addicts put out a DT call in their newsletter. I have over the years bought quite a lot of their stamps, so I thought I would give it a go. I didn't hear anything until a couple of weeks before I went into hospital for my op. I had an email apologising for the delay but they had hundreds of replies to go through. Also, that I was in the last 12.

 

Just before I went into hospital, I had another couple of emails that came through together. One said I was in the last 4 and the other saying that I had not been successful this time. The odd thing was, they had more or less the same sent time!

 

A couple of weeks ago I received a set of Owl stamps and a Victorian street stamp through the post. Very strange I thought because I had not ordered them. The only paperwork with them was 2 flyers advertising Stamp Addicts!

 

I phoned them the following day and to cut a long story short, before you all fall asleep, they had sent the last 2 emails in error and they wanted all the final 12, to make sample cards so they could then decide who they wanted. They said only use the stamps you were happy with.

 

So these are the samples I made.

 

I saw that Stamp Addicts were on C&C yesterday, Monday, doing the Craft Clinic. So I decided to record it.

 

Guess what? The first card below was the second sample card shown  and the next card was the third card shown!! I had no idea they were going to be on there!

 

 

The card above was stamped with Memento and coloured with Copics and Promarkers.

 

The one below was stamped with Walnut Stain Distress Ink and the colour just dragged out with a damp brush. I then added Peeled Paint on the trees and Weathered Wood on the roofs and the buildings.

 

I don't know if either of the owl cards were shown, as I missed the end.

 

I did put a letter in saying that these stamps were a bit out of my comfort zone, so a bit lost as to how to use them! The flowers on the one below, I made just from a strip of paper, snipped and rolled up tightly and glued. I then just curled over the 'petals' and put a gem in the middle.

 

 

It's a long time since my cards were on C&C. Not since I was on Little Claire's DT. I did have a picture of a table I had painted on there, when Sheena Douglas first bought out paint fusion. I had an email from Ross, Sheena's husband, asking if I could email the pictures and give them written permission to show them on TV. They were shown 2 days running and Sheena telling the story as to why I did paint it!

 

Well I am yet to find out if I am on the DT or not. So watch this space and I will let you know.

 

Thanks for stopping by and leaving me your amazing comments.

 

Hugs,

Carol S.xx

It's Done!

Hi Bloggers,

To say I am shattered is putting it mildly. It took me and a friends son, two and a half days, to take up and replace properly, two footpaths in my garden. I had to level the ground and then put the slabs down on a dry mix of sand and cement. All 35 of them! Then I cut the membrane to fit around the slabs and finally David put the gravel on around the slabs. On the first day we did a whole path but the second was a lot longer in length and took a day and a half. We were also rained on a few times, which gave us an excuse to watch a bit of the Olympics!

On the afternoon of the half day, another of my friends and her husband came over, to take away all the unwanted earth and grass turfs. So I spent the afternoon pushing a barrow full of earth the length of my back garden, 108', the length of my house and the length of my front garden, about 40' to the road, where the trailer was. I am sure my arms are now a bit longer than they were! It was very kind of them to take it away to use on their land, as it was much cheaper and easier than getting a skip.

I then went over the patio, taking out the bad lumpy bits and relaying the membrane flat. I also have planted some plants in the gravel, so it looks less like a beach!

I was going to do this post this morning but as I was sitting here at the computer, there was an almighty crash in my sitting room. I ran in to find the huge mirror over the fireplace had crashed to the floor. Glass was everywhere and a few items on the fireplace had been broken.

I wonder if the bad luck I have just had with the garden, will come off the 7 years of bad luck!!

This is a card I have just made for stock. I love this Little Claire stamp and I haven't used it for a while. I coloured it with a mixture of Copics and Promarkers.

The sentiment is also from a set of Little Claire stamps. For the gold dots I used the Cosmic Shimmer gold glue.

For the leaves I used a die from Cheery Lynn Designs and Prima flowers from my stash.

 I sprinkled a little Star Dust Stickles around here and there.

Hope you like what you see and thanks for stopping by.
Hugs,

Carol S.xx