CBGM BLOG SKETCH CHALLENGE #8 - PINK/GREEN WITH FLOWERS

Hello all its saturday at long last - what a week ive had as its been one thing after another and for the past few days ive been quite poorly and sick - the pain was so bad last night that i contacted NHS 24. They told to come in straight away and wanted to keep me in overnight but i declined so am being admitted to hospital today. For how long i dont know but until they do all the necessary - an ultra sound, scope probe thing and whatever else as i have either gall stones or a gall bladder issue with where the pain is and the yellow colour of my skin and in my eyes. Its not pleasant and will post an update when i can.  Anyways moving on to what this post is all about and  i hope you are all going to have a great crafty weekend.

I am guessing that the last challenge stumped everyone with the lack of entries ! Anyway hopefully this one will be easier for you all. 

Thank you for everyone who did take part and as usual thanks also has to go to the DT for their creations.

So onto the winner of the "Pink & Lilac sketch" challenge -  

CONGRATULATIONS GOES TO   

LINDA SIMPSON  !    

linda i know you are heading off to Sheenas workshops this weekend - hope you have a barrel load of fusion fun!! Sheena rang me last night and i was telling her you were attending and that she has competition in the fusioning dept - she is worried !!  Enjoy it and let me know how you get on.

Please can you email me (from the ME tab) and i can send you your winning blinkie button for your blog.

Now on for this weeks challenge - its a theme challenge where your creations need to be using the colours 

GREEN and PINK and the element to use is flowers - as many or as little as you choose - you could even make a flower as the main feature .

Here are the DT creations for this challenge - thank you ladies for you time and work on this one.

This is mine

Jacki

Lisa

Margaret

Pamela

Valerie

Kitty

I hope your creative juices are now flowing - but before you get set to work there are a few conditions for entry into the challenge.

1 - You NEED to be a follower on my blog

2- You NEED to use a current project, no back linking please

3 - Link up DIRECTLY to your challenge post  and not just to your blog.

Its great to receive comments so would love it if you could spare the time to write a line or 2 even if your only browsing. If you would like to visit my DTs pages individually then you can find their links on the CBGM tab at the top of my blog.

Well GOOD LUCK everyone and we look forward to seeing your creations.

AMENDMENT ON SAT 4TH JUNE -  thanks to those who have linked up so far im glad you are liking this challenge  - however some entries have had to be deleted as there is not a proper link up to the entry card. Also some that are entering are not a follower on my blog - please remember to do this before you link up or you cannot be considered for this challenge. Thank you,

Digi Doodle Stores Best blog challenge # 60

Good morning crafters. Over on Digi Doodles Shops best blog the theme of the challenge #60 for today is Anything Goes.  You can use any digi image but obviously it would be good to use a DDS image.


Now on for the challenge - here is my creation - i have used the karaoke singing girl digi and coloured her in copic sketch markers in a pink dress - could have been me once upon  a time !!! The image is then matted on cerise card stock to match her dress.I have used a rock on backing paper - cant remember 
where i got that from and ive added a bow and button.

I hope you like what i have created - please feel free to check out the rest of the DTs creations - this can be found from the DDS DT link from the top of my blog

Thanks for stopping by and i look forward to seeing your creations


If you are interested in getting some FREE candy click HERE

WILL YOU BE WILLING TO HELP ?

I am taking part in a friends blog hop for a great cause to help women in need who are victims of domestic violence. This hop is taking part on 10th June and theres an amazing line up of woman taking part and a HUGE bumper blog candy basket on offer.

Click Here to find out more and know how you can take part.

I'd rather be at the beach candy winner - is it you ?

Good evening everyone.


Today i have drawn a candy winner from the "I'd rather be at the beach" blog hop
I have looked at all the comments over the 5 days of the hop and the winner of a piece of my handcrafted jewellery is ....


AMYJROCKSTAR !!


Congratulations.


I will drop you an email if you could then please come back to me with your full name and postal address so i can get this piece of to you. I hope you enjoy it


Im in the UK so not sure how long it will take to get to you but when you do receive it can you let me know.


Congratulations again.

Designed 2 Delight - weekly challenge

Hello all - the weekend has caught up with me between one thing or another and ive not managed to post my cards for the challenges that i regularly enter into.


Anyway here is one for starters


Its for Designed 2 Delight digital stamps  - summer days - delightful inpsirations blog


I have coloured the digi with copic markers, glittered the dandylion clocks, matted and layered the card onto pink and silver mirror board. The card stock is from craftwork cards which ive covered in a papermania poppy paper from the henbury lane collection. I have edged the card with pinflair flexi bend peel offs then added a craftwork cards sentiment, mounting in on mirror board, added some buttons and a little bow for decoration. 


Hope you like it

BOWS & BERRIES CHALLENGE - COLOURS #6

Good morning everyone

Today over on Bows & Berries challenge blog is the new colours Challenge #6 - the colours to use Turquoise, Pink, Yellow and Black.

For my DT entry i have used their umbrella digi and have incorporated all the colours for the challenge into the umbrella and the backing paper.

Here is my entry

So why not pop on over to B&B and give the challenge a try !  You can check out the other DT inspirational creations by clicking on the BnBDT tab at the top of my blog

Thanks and i look forward to seeing you over on B&B

If you fancy getting 3 free digis from B&B then please click HERE for what to do.

I am also entering this card into another challenge -
Aqua, pink and yellow  over at A Gem of a Challenge no 21

"I'd rather be at the beach" blog hop 18-22 May - DAY FIVE

Welcome to the "I'd Rather Be At The Beach" Blog Hop running from May 18-22 with different projects and lots of blog candy on offer each day. 

If you have arrived here from Kim’s blog  then you are on the right track. If you are here just browsing around blogland but would like to “hop” along with us then please click HERE to start at Emilys blog.

In case you missed my previous posts click HERE for day one, HERE For day two, HERE for day three and HERE for day four.

Now day five and the last projects for this hop.


I have been working on SB layouts for holidays going back years and years ago - so i decided to start with up to date ones for this hop. This first one is from Majorca last year and it shows our hotel, the view from our hotel balcony and the beach bar  - where i enjoyed way too many pina coladas and sangria!!!

This one is from Salou and the first layout is of our hotel pool bar just along from our secluded beach area.

This second layout from Salou is of Jim on the beach taking a dip - ooohh cold water !!

I  hope you like what i have created and id appreciate it if you could leave me a comment. If you do like what you see and wanna see more then id love it if you would become one of my ever growing list of followers. I have blog candy giveaways on a regular basis, I have a RAK, a birthday club and  I also run bi weekly challenges for you to take part in.

Now back to the hop -  my candy offering is a handcrafted jewellery piece that i have made for  this hop and its something you can wear on the beach or at the pool side and look  fabby or for a night out and look stunning !

There are a lot of talented crafters on this hop and I hope you enjoy looking through their blog entries.  So now please hop on over to the next blog (http://jackrabbitscrappin.blogspot.com/)   where you will find another lovely creation from Jackie      
              
Here's the lineup in case you get lost along the way:

Emily: http://www.createserendipity.net/

Dawn: http://dawnsdesignsthatdelight.blogspot.com/

Tricia: http://lshdesigns.blogspot.com/

Margaret: http://auntmargaretdesigns.blogspot.com/

Janet: http://www.createatdreamscrapbooks.blogspot.com/

Lisa: http://honeybearzdesigns2011.blogspot.com/

Theresa: http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/

Lisa: http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/

Elsa: http://justafewdesigns.blogspot.com/

Martha: http://pattisscrapingtime.blogspot.com/

Dana: http://danascraftycorner.blogspot.com/

April: http://www.curlsngrins.blogspot.com/

Kim: http://kimmarieskorner.blogspot.com/

Gill: http://www.creationsbygillm.blogspot.com/ --- you are here

Jackie: http://jackrabbitscrappin.blogspot.com/ ----- next and last hop stop

Make sure you have hopped along through everyones blogs on each of the five days to see all the inspirational projects and each partipants blog candy offerings .

After doing this hop i now NEED my holiday and am so looking forward to jetting away - sun, sea and pina coladas !!!

 Thank you for hopping by over the 5 days, i look forward to reading your comments and i will draw my candy winner based on what you've said about my projects and will post a winner on Monday - be sure to pop back and check to see if you are lucky ! Thanks everyone and extra thanks to Emily for having me on this hop.

IT'S THE WEEKEND

Hope your all having a great weekend so far.
Mines been a busy busy one again - but nowt new there then !!

I am in 2 blog hops this week - on this blog its the "id rather be at the beach hop" which started on wednesday and runs till sunday and on my other blog SCBGM im in the "vacation" hop which started on friday and runs till sunday also. So by doing these it  has put me right in the mood for going on my holidays!! Hope you will have a chance to check them out.

I went off to a demo this morning at my local craft shop with friends, had lunch then home again to get stuck into crafting. Im working my way through some projects for my upcoming blog hops - for those that know me they will know that i NEED to be ahead of the game so im working on the august hops just now as im up to date with the others.  I am now sitting down watching a DVD while having a chicken salad then it will be back to the craft room!!

Tomorrow there will be lots and lots of tidying up and not just in my craft room!! Then its round to my parents for lunch and home again about 4 to get stuck back into more craft projects. Then its back to work on monday - oh that W word sends shivvers up my spine !!

Anyway this is just a little reminder for you that there is still time for you to enter into my current blog challenge - its a sketch challenge with the theme of pink, lilac and the use of 3 buttons.
Click HERE to check out the posting and to enter.

"I'd rather be at the beach" blog hop 18-22 May - DAY FOUR

Welcome to DAY FOUR of the "I'd Rather Be At The Beach" Blog Hop running from May 18-22 with different projects and lots of blog candy on offer each day. 

If you have arrived here from Kim’s blog  then you are on the right track. If you are here just browsing around blogland but would like to “hop” along with us then please click HERE to start at Emilys blog.

In case you missed my previous projects click HERE for day one, HERE For day two and HERE for day three.

Now onto my projects for day FOUR.
I have created 5 pyramid style beachy scene cards.


The images have all been cut out & layered gradually to look like a pyramid if you turn it on its side. A bit like decoupage but different. The cut out layers have then been mounted with 3d foam, backing papers attached onto the card and various peels offs and embellishments added for effect .

I  hope you like what i have created and id appreciate it if you could leave me a comment. If you do like what you see and wanna see more then id love it if you would become one of my ever growing list of followers. I have blog candy giveaways on a regular basis, I have a RAK, a birthday club and  I also run bi weekly challenges for you to take part in.

Now back to the hop -  my candy offering is a handcrafted jewellery piece that i have made for  this hop and its something you can wear on the beach or at the pool side and look  fabby or put on your LBD for a night out and look stunning !

There are a lot of talented crafters on this hop and I hope you enjoy looking through their blog entries.  So now please hop on over to the next blog (http://jackrabbitscrappin.blogspot.com/)   where you will find another lovely creation from Jackie                    
Here's the lineup in case you get lost along the way:

Emily: http://www.createserendipity.net/

Dawn: http://dawnsdesignsthatdelight.blogspot.com/

Tricia: http://lshdesigns.blogspot.com/

Margaret: http://auntmargaretdesigns.blogspot.com/

Janet: http://www.createatdreamscrapbooks.blogspot.com/

Lisa: http://honeybearzdesigns2011.blogspot.com/

Theresa: http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/

Lisa: http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/

Elsa: http://justafewdesigns.blogspot.com/

Martha: http://pattisscrapingtime.blogspot.com/

Dana: http://danascraftycorner.blogspot.com/

April: http://www.curlsngrins.blogspot.com/

Kim: http://kimmarieskorner.blogspot.com/

Gill: http://www.creationsbygillm.blogspot.com/ --- you are here

Jackie: http://jackrabbitscrappin.blogspot.com/ --- next and last hop stop

Make sure you hop along through everyones blogs daily  to see all the inspirational projects and each partipants blog candy offerings .

 Thank you for hopping by, i look forward to reading your comments and i hope you will pop by and hop along again tomorrow.

"I'd rather be at the beach" blog hop 18-22 May - DAY THREE

Welcome to DAY THREE of the "I'd Rather Be At The Beach" Blog Hop running from May 18-22 with different projects and lots of blog candy on offer each day. 

If you have arrived here from Kim’s blog  then you are on the right track. If you are here just browsing around blogland but would like to “hop” along with us then please click HERE to start at Emilys blog.

In case you missed my other 2 projects click HERE for day one and HERE for day  two.  Now onto my day three projects

I have made 3 pairs of beach holiday earrings. I bought some charms a long time ago for using on projects but did nothing with them. Now was a great opportunity to make them into earrings for my upcoming holidays in August. The first one is a cerise pair of flip flops, the second a pewter set of palm trees and the third an emamel set of palm trees with coconuts. I used a jump rings to attach to the charms and then an earring loop attached to that, all secured with my long nose pliers. Im looking forward to wearing them now when i get to Cyprus

I  hope you like what i have created and id appreciate it if you could leave me a comment. If you do like what you see and wanna see more then id love it if you would become one of my ever growing list of followers. I have blog candy giveaways on a regular basis, I have a RAK, a birthday club and  I also run bi weekly challenges for you to take part in.

Now back to the hop -  my candy offering is a handcrafted jewellery piece that i have made for  this hop and its something you can wear on the beach or at the pool side and look fabby or for a night out and look stunning !

There are a lot of talented crafters on this hop and I hope you enjoy looking through their blog entries.  So now please hop on over to the next blog (http://jackrabbitscrappin.blogspot.com/)   where you will find another lovely creation from Jackie 
                   
Here's the lineup in case you get lost along the way:

Emily: http://www.createserendipity.net/

Dawn: http://dawnsdesignsthatdelight.blogspot.com/

Tricia: http://lshdesigns.blogspot.com/

Margaret: http://auntmargaretdesigns.blogspot.com/

Janet: http://www.createatdreamscrapbooks.blogspot.com/

Lisa: http://honeybearzdesigns2011.blogspot.com/

Theresa: http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/

Lisa: http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/

Elsa: http://justafewdesigns.blogspot.com/

Martha: http://pattisscrapingtime.blogspot.com/

Dana: http://danascraftycorner.blogspot.com/

April: http://www.curlsngrins.blogspot.com/

Kim: http://kimmarieskorner.blogspot.com/

Gill: http://www.creationsbygillm.blogspot.com/ --- you are here

Jackie: http://jackrabbitscrappin.blogspot.com/ ---- next and last hop stop

Make sure you hop along through everyones blogs daily  to see all the inspirational projects and each partipants blog candy offerings .

 Thank you for hopping by, i look forward to reading your comments and i hope you will pop by and hop along again tomorrow.


If you are interested im also taking part in the "vacation hop" on my other blog, click HERE if you wanna hop along to that too.

"I'd rather be at the beach" blog hop 18-22 May - DAY TWO

Welcome to DAY TWO of "I'd Rather Be At The Beach" Blog Hop running from May 18-22 with different projects and lots of blog candy on offer each day. 

If you have arrived here from Kim’s blog  then you are on the right track. If you are here just browsing around blogland but would like to “hop” along with us then please click HERE to start at Emilys blog.

Click HERE for my day one projects in case you missed it and then read on for  my day two projects

For this card i have used "a little bit sketchy" range of the  toddlers from Sheena Douglass. I am on Sheenas DT where my products usually are shown on the create and craft tv channel.  Anyway the image is coloured in copic sketch markers and cut out. The card base has been covered in biege sand coloured paper. I have then taken a large square piece of card and covered it in randomly ripped up pieces of masking tape and when totally covered i then used various brown distress inks to cover  the tape. Once fully covered i sprayed it with crafters companion stick and stay spray and then sprinkled over gold embossing powder. I then heated the powder and with the glitter content it made it sparkle and look like fancy sand.

Once the fancy sand is completely dry i used my cricut carts to cut out a fancy scallop matt and a twirly flourish, I put the coloured image on top and stuck it down with pinflair glue gel. I then raided my mums bathroom where she has a large shell that contains all beachy type things like seaweed, coral, shells and assorted materials which i applied to the card with pinflair so it was sure to be secure. The other elements like the cloud hearts, the bottle and the sentiment are also from the stamp sheet.

I would also like to enter this fancy sand card into the Patches of Pink link up for this week.

This next card was such fun to create. I have used sand  backing paper and used a beach clothes line stamped image and cut it out close to the edges and coloured in copics. i then attached it to the card with pinflair glue so it is raised up. Ive added a sentiment beach sticker with bling for effect. Sorry but this photos seems a tad blurred, it was ok when i took it initally!

I  hope you like what i have created and id appreciate it if you could leave me a comment. If you do like what you see and wanna see more then id love it if you would become one of my ever growing list of followers. I have blog candy giveaways on a regular basis, I have a RAK, a birthday club and  I also run bi weekly challenges for you to take part in.

Now back to the hop -  my candy offering is a handcrafted jewellery piece that i have made for  this hop and its something you can wear on the beach or at the pool side and look fabby or for a night out and look stunning !

There are a lot of talented crafters on this hop and I hope you enjoy looking through their blog entries.  So now please hop on over to the next blog (http://jackrabbitscrappin.blogspot.com/)   where you will find another lovely creation from Jackie     
               
Here's the lineup in case you get lost along the way:

Emily: http://www.createserendipity.net/

Dawn: http://dawnsdesignsthatdelight.blogspot.com/

Tricia: http://lshdesigns.blogspot.com/

Margaret: http://auntmargaretdesigns.blogspot.com/

Janet: http://www.createatdreamscrapbooks.blogspot.com/

Lisa: http://honeybearzdesigns2011.blogspot.com/

Theresa: http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/

Lisa: http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/

Elsa: http://justafewdesigns.blogspot.com/

Martha: http://pattisscrapingtime.blogspot.com/

Dana: http://danascraftycorner.blogspot.com/

April: http://www.curlsngrins.blogspot.com/

Kim: http://kimmarieskorner.blogspot.com/

Gill: http://www.creationsbygillm.blogspot.com/ --- you are here

Jackie: http://jackrabbitscrappin.blogspot.com/ ----- next and last hop stop

Make sure you hop along through everyones blogs daily  to see all the inspirational projects and each partipants blog candy offerings .

 Thank you for hopping by, i look forward to reading your comments and i hope you will pop by and hop along again tomorrow.