Serengeti Snapshot for Sunday Snippets

Afternoon Folks

I hope you are having a great weekend and a super Sunday. Ours has been spent doing much the same as the rest of the week - painting! The EM has been painting the hall and I've been painting with watercolours. I'm over simplifying, of course, but you get the picture ... he's been hard at work and I've been slacking keeping out of the way of the paint fumes :)

What you see is my first attempt to paint a background using the Spectrum Noir Aqua Tints that the postie delivered into my eager wee hands yesterday. After recording and then watching just about every Sheena Douglass demo on TV recently I simply could not, in the end, resist ordering a set ... an early birthday present :) The EM was all for it, said why not, you deserve it - I'm swishing my hair Cheryl Cole style as I type, of course :)

Sheena made the tints look so easy to use, as they need to be for an amateur like me :) You may recall that some time back I enrolled on a class aimed at water colouring for card makers. What with one thing and another I didn't make much progress but now I have no excuse not to start again!

It's small, the base is white card measuring just 4"x3" ... big enough though for me to try out this technique of swooshing colour about. All the colours used are from the Perfectly Primary set and the stamps are from an African Safari Silhouette set from Clarity Stamps, stamped with VersaMark and heat embossed with Stampendous Midnight Black powder.

The EM loves bright colours so he immediately claimed this as his own. It reminds him, he says, of photos he's seen depicting the Serengeti, hence the title. As he intends framing it I've kept the matting and layer to just black and white ... a rummage through the snippet mountain produced scraps of black perfect for the job.

Now I'm off over to link with Di's challenge at Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 146 - where anything goes as long as it has a snippet or two on it somewhere.

Many thanks to you for popping in ... leave a comment if you have time because it's good to know that I'm not here on my own just blethering away to myself :)

Take care and enjoy what's left of the day.

Happy Crafting,

More Rocker Cards

Hello Everyone,

I hope this finds you well and having a fun Friday.

Before I share anything today, I'd like to welcome the newest followers, Veerle, Sue, SallyH, Sian, Laurie, TonyR and Kathy, to join me here. Apologies to anyone I may have missed but thank you to each and every one of you ... it's lovely to know that you are popping in every now and again to see what I've been up to :) Now on to the project I have to share today.

Recently I shared a little rocker card (see it here) which I thought would be a fun Christmas card for a child ... well, I've made four more and here are all five in a row on the mantelpiece. One for each of the little ones in our family.

Looks like I've made six but the reindeer has sneaked into the photo shots twice :)

The base, measuring 4" (10.5cm) in diameter, is made from scraps of leftover cardstock. The patterned paper is from stash of 6"x6" pads - I just picked out little patterns that I thought suitable - and each circle of paper is edged with Stickles glitter glue. All the chipboard toppers were found in a box full stashed away unused and unloved - these ones are Noel Chipboard Shapes from Docrafts. I find I have a ton of chipboard toppers, various designs and makers, mainly acquired free with magazines, and I rarely find a use for them. They are really not my thing but, happily, they are perfect for these little rocker cards.

I think the grands are going to have some fun with cards they can actually play with this Christmas. By the way, each card is so quick and easy to make I'd made them all before I knew it  :)

I'm submitting these to the following challenges:

Pixie's Snippet's Playground - Week 145  ... scraps galore went in to these cards
CHNC challenge 197: something beginning with P ... P for the Presents on two of the cards, Poinsettias on patterned paper on one, Pink on another and Polka dots on yet another

Thanks for popping in. I wish you an enjoyable weekend.

Happy Crafting,

Friday Smile - Week 88

Morning Folks

This week, like most weeks, I've had plenty to smile about but I'm only sharing this one photo today.

That smile says it all really. Six months ago my poor husband's back started to play up causing agonising painful spasms down his legs. He couldn't walk, sit and sleep because of the pain he was suffering. He's had blood tests, painkillers, physiotherapy and even an MRI scan - everything the NHS could throw at the problem has been done - but, apart from finding the cause - wear and tear on his spine - nothing seemed to help. And then suddenly this week the pain quite simply stopped! He's now sleeping soundly and life is back to normal, albeit a less active normal than before - the advice he's been given is to slow done and pace himself. Mindful of this advice he is slowly finishing that paint job he started all those months ago. You can see from that beaming smile that he's a very happy teddy indeed and I'm delighted to see him so happy too :) 

By the way, that's not white paint he is covering the walls with - it's a light shade of sage green which looks so much brighter and better than the gunmetal grey that was there before.

I hope you have something equally good to smile about today and if you do, it would be lovely if you link it over at Annie's A Stitch In Time. As she says, share a smile ... make the world a happier place :)

Looking forward to seeing what makes you smile.