Crafty Catz DT - It's a Girl Thing

Morning all,

Well this is another scheduled post - I'll be back in the UK later today but until then, here's a new challenge at Crafty Catz. This week theme is It's a Girl Thing and we are sponsored by Sami Stamps who are offering our winner a $12 gift voucher

For this weeks card I tried to colour outside my comfort zone, so it was all about unnatural hair colouring - I'm not sure I nailed it but it could be worse:

The image is coloured with promarkers in the following: Apricot, Oatmeal, Lavender, Amethyst, Aubergine, Plum, Mulberry, Maroon, Honeycomb, Terracotta, Cornflower, Sky Blue, Moss and Pear Green.

 

I used versamagic inks in Turquoise Gem and Perfect Plumeria; papers from scraps, gems from stash and free feathers I found on pinterest.

 

Hope you like it and don't forget to join us in the challenge this week. Until next time, happy crafting!

Crafty Catz DT - 2 or more Pattern Papers

Morning all,

 

Hope you're all well, I'm coming to you from an aeroplane - well sort of. This is a scheduled post as I will be flying off to my holiday as you read this.

 

Our new challenge is set by Cindy who wants to see you use 2 or more Pattern Papers in your creations this week. We are sponsored this by Bugaboo who are offering our lucky winners 7 images of their choice.

 

This weeks card was a great excuse to use up some paper offcuts

The papers are from various pads, inked on the edges with versamagic - perfect plumeria, turquoise gem, sahara sands, pixie dust and tim holtz - shabby shutters.

The image is coloured with promarkers in pastel pink, moss, warm grey 1 and 2, honeycomb, canary, apricot, lavender and amethyst.

The letters are from echo park's playground range.

Hope you like it. Have fun with this weeks challenge. I'll be back next weekend - until then, happy crafting!

Happy Easter

He is Risen!  Alleluia!

 

Wishing you all a blessed and pleasant Easter Sunday. Whether you have faith or not, may you have a wonderful day and for those of you so inclined - one with much chocolate also!

 

Just a quick card to share today, which was my Easter card for close friends. I've been so busy that actually it's been hard getting anything made en mass but I did manage to knock out 4 of these just in time:

The cross is a Marianne D die, circle is die cut, background shape is hand cut, flowers and leaves are all punches of varying makes.

 

I was rather pleased with them in the end. Hope they've gone down well with the recipients.

 

Whatever you're up to today, hope you have a good one.

 

Until next time. Happy crafting!

 

Mort - Discworld Reading Challenge

Published: 1987

Plot Summery: Mort is not exactly cut out for the family business and his father has encouraged him to become apprenticed to a trade. Death is looking for an apprentice. As Mort begins to take over Death's duties things start to go wrong, a reality (or perceived reality as it is on the disc) is dramatically altered. Despite all the problems, Death is -for the first time- learning what it is to be human.

 

By the time Death learns of Mort's error (with a little help from wizards and his manservant) Mort has taken on so many traits of Death that he is, in effect, Death.point.2

 

The book concludes with Mort duelling Death from his freedom (and life) and his marriage to Death's adoptive daughter.

 

Adaptations: Mort has been adapted into a graphic novel (1994), for Radio 4, two musicals - one in Germany and one by a Youth Theatre in the UK and also a stage play by Stephen Briggs
  

Favourite Quotes: "He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower."
　
"I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, he said, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY."
　
"Goodbye," Mort said, and was surprised to find a lump in his throat. "It’s such an unpleasant word, isn’t it?" QUITE SO. Death grinned because, as has so often been remarked, he didn’t have much option. But possibly he meant it, this time. I PREFER AU REVOIR, he said."

 

Reading Time: Started Wednesday 1st April 2015 - Finished Friday 3rd April 2015

Equal Rites - Discworld Reading Challenge

 

Published: 1987
 

Plot Summery: Knowing that he is shortly to die, the Wizard Drum Billet travels the disc to find the 8th son of the 8th son who is about to be born to pass on his magical skills. Only, this is the Disc, so nothing goes quite to plan and the Disc suddenly gains its first ever female wizard. General bizarreness occurs and it's the first appearance of Granny Weatherwax in any of the books.

 

Adaptations: None known
 

Favourite Quotes:

"She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you."
　
"There would be a price... But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop?"
　
"She told me that if magic gives people what they want, then not using magic can give them what they need."

 

Reading Time: Started Saturday 28th 2015 - Finished Tuesday 31st March 2015

Crafty Catz DT - Anything Goes

Good Morning and Blessings for Good Friday to you all.

It's time for another challenge over at Crafty Catz and as the last Friday in the month the theme is once again anything goes. We are sponsored this week by Fred She Said  who are offering our lucky winner a $15 Gift Card

So, it's been a while since I shared a none card project but it seemed appropriate that I share my Easter creation for a friend of mine. The inspiration came from these crazy chicks mum knitted a couple of years ago now:

Ha! they still make me laugh. Well, I was staring at mine a while ago after I recovered it during a tidying spree and I suddenly had a bizarre thought; could I make this big enough to go over an Easter egg? 

Answer: Yes! 

All honours for creating this awesome pattern should go to my mother, who never ceases to amaze me at being able to draw shapes on paper and create a pattern from nothing! 

Now before anyone points out this isn't knitted - I am aware of this, but I don't knit, so it was never going to be knitted, 

So anyway I hope it makes you laugh and moreover I hope my friend likes him too. If not, he's coming home with me because he makes me smile

Until next time though, happy crafting! 

The Light Fantastic - Discworld Reading Challenge

Published: 1986

Plot Summery: Following the dramatic climax of the Colour of Magic (no spoilers - I promise), The Light Fantastic picks up the story where we left off, with our hapless hero - Rincewind in mortal danger....only not really, thanks to a spell which lives in him. Twoflower appears again and ends up playing contract bridge with the four horseman of the apocalypse whilst Rincewind is nearly killed (again) by Deaths adoptive daughter. The book climaxes with..... well a climax (I promised no spoilers) and Rincewind and Twoflower parting ways.

 

Adaptations: It has been turned into a four part comic, released in 1992-93 and was incorporated into the Sky One two part TV production, which was aired Easter 2008 under the title of the Colour of Magic (see previous post to explain why)

Favourite Quotes: "He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk."

"The universe, they say, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty, and bloody-mindedness."

"Rincewind's feet made their own decision and, from the point of view of his head, got it entirely wrong."
 

Reading Time: Started Thursday 19th March 2015 - Finished Friday 27th March 2015