Woohoo...school's out for the summer!

Hi All

Well, I am very fortunate to now have a whole six weeks off! Woohoo! I won't rub it in too much...;-)! I am now in Sunderland, left hubby behind for two whole weeks! My Mum, sister and I have been crafting today...wasn't sure if I'd be blogging whilst I was away but we have taken part in some challenges so I hope you enjoy having a look at what I've created! I must apologise for the photos....messed around with the settings on my camera but they haven't come out very well...apologies! Not sure if it may be the light....or just my bad photography skills!

My first card today is for three challenges, the Lili of the Valley challenge which is 'Fun and Games', the Cute Card Thursday challenge which is a 'For his eyes only' card (I didn't have anything saucy so settles with a card for a man!) and a new challenge that I have been introduced to which is Totally Papercraft where the challenge is 'One for the Boys'. I'm never quite sure of my cards for boys/men but I love this Lili of the Valley image! He looks as if he is going to be covered in mud when he gets home! Lol!

The next card I created was for the Just Magnolia challenge which is 'What's Cooking?', the Papertake Weekly Challenge which is 'Getting Cute' (surely noone can say Tilda is not cute?!) and finally for the Allsorts challenge which was 'Free and easy July'-another new challenge I'm having a go at this week! I made another one of my easel cards....really think I am addicted....wonder if there is a group for that...lol! Also used some of my Mum's new flowers (perks of crafting with others!) and twirled the stems with a poky tool! A very girly card fully of pink and cupcakes...what more can you ask for!

For the Penny Black challenge this week, which is 'Starburst-using stars somewhere on your card', I used this really cute stamp with a hedgehog pulling a little snowman on a sledge...so cute and I love using these kind of colours for Christmas cards. I used star backing paper to meet the challenge and then I finished it off with a bit of stickles to make it extra Christmassy! I would also like to enter this into the I love Promarkers challenge, another new challenge for me, as I have coloured this little image with my beloved Promarkers! Don't know what I would do without them now....what did we used to do before Promarkers!! I have used the colours: Denim blue for the snowman's hat and scarf, Tan and Sandstone for the sleigh and the hedgehogs spiky bits and blush for the hedgehogs belly and face.

Finally, for today anyway-there will be more crafting as we have left the dining room table a mess as we are in crafty progress(!)-I have made this tag for the Spoonful of Sugar challenge which is to create a 'tag'. I would also like to enter it into the Winter Wonderland challenge this week which is ''Holly and Ivy' (I have holly but no ivy....so hope this is ok..) and another new challenge, Lollipop Crafts where the theme is 'Anything Goes!' I love this image of the mouse in the stocking and it was really nice to create something other than a card as I very rarely make anything like this. Of course it had to be finished off with a little bit of stickles!

Phew....that's it for today....hoping that I will post again before the end of the week. It is supposed to be a lovely day tomorrow so we may have a day at the beach! Heard we can buy a bucket of chips from the seafront chippy and then you can use the bucket afterwards! Doesn't take much to impress me but that did! Lol! Will take piccies if we get one!

Must go now....will hopefully come and visit you on your blogs over the next few days.

Bye for now!

Hugs

Arline

xx