It's raining MEN...or Boys

this week at OSAAT as we really want to see your creations for those fellas in your life. We are sponsored this week by the fabulous Sew Many Challenges and I have used "Morty Fishing" and added a couple of stamps from a Daisy and Dandelion set.

I hope my little card has given you some inspiration for our challenge this week and if you'd like more, you can find it over at our challenge blog - OSAAT.
Hopefully this week I'll be able to get round to comment on all of your fabby creations, but as I was camping for half of last week (then sleeping and cleaning the rest of it) I never had the time.
Thanks for stopping by my little old blog and leaving me some love - I really do appreciate it.
Take care
Sam x

One for the kids...?

Wow another week over and you guys are just astounding us over at OSAAT with the amount of entries you are putting in for us to look at. To be honest I kinda thought "Flowers" might be popular - but I wasn't ready for the response we acually got, so I'd like to thank each and every one of you for making it worth while setting up the challenge blog and keeping it running.
Anyway onto this weeks challenge....your brief is simple - "Childrens". It can be a card for a child, a scrapbook LO with your kids/grandkids in (or nieces/nephews) or simply have a child on it. My card has one of our lovely sponsors (Angela from Sew Many Challenges) digis on it called "Duncan with Owen". With Fathers day in June, (next month already ARGHHHH!!!) I figured this could be a lovely little card from a little boy to his dad.

The image has been coloured with my newly acquired Promarkers which I think I am in love with. I mean, I loved my copics but the brush tip was always a bit of a bug bear for me as I am a little heavy handed sometimes and it cramps my hand up if I'm trying really hard to colour intricate little details.
Anyway, I hope you'll join in the fun once again this week as coming round to your blogs keeps me out of trouble (it also keeps me from crafting but it's sooooo worth it to see all your talent out there).
Take care all.
Sam x

PS Don't forget over at Stitchy Bear Stamps there is a 50% sale going on for the WHOLE month and we also have a little group on SNR and our lovely Tammy #2 has got a little challenge going on over there too if you fancy another one.

It's Sunday - It's OSAAT time!!!!

A big thanks to all that took part in last weeks Egg hunt over at OSAAT, with the prize that was up for grabs we thought there may have been more entries but I guess you were all busy stashing eggs yourselves from the kids.
Anyway another week, another challenge and this week we have our fab regular sponsor Sew Many Challenges.
The theme this week is "Anything Goes" and I used one of Angelas fabulous Friday freebies - a lovely butterfly.

Did you guess thats what it was from yesterdays sneak peek.
I still haven't got anything else made as my hubby decided he would join Facebook yesterday, so I was setting up an email account for him and then I set the facebook thing up for him too. Then I had to read all instructions for him until he got the hang of it as he's dyslexic - luckily he is very quick to pick things up, but he still roped me into Mafia Wars so he had a buddy, so no crafting done for me last night in the end.
Anyway I hope you like my little offering, I think it's going to get turned into a picture for my daughters room eventually as I don't like it much as a card. I hope you'll pop round to all the other fab DT and leave them some love as I think they all do a fab job in spite of my best efforts lol.
Take care
Sam x

Easter Egg basket minus the eggs

I've made this little basket for my daughter to put some mini eggs in for Easter, but it has no eggs well not yet anyway! Two reasons for this, one very simply we don't have any yet and the second reason is that I've just started a sponsored slim to raise funds for her school as they need a new classroom and I can do without the temptation - chocolate is my FAV! I picked up the tutorial from Splitcoast stampers and changed the size, which is very easy to do as it is very basic. Gonna try something a little more adventurous next time, but anyway onto my little basket.

I'm also entering it into a few challenges
Charisma  something for the kiddies
Creative Inspirations   anything but a card
One Stop Craft   let it shine
Stampin for the Weekend   Easter


The image is by Angela of Sew Many Challenges and I have coloured it with my Whispers Strokes pens, and then glittered the eggs and a bit on the bow.

I just wanted to share this with you all too. My daughter brought this home from school yesterday and at the moment I have no where to hang it for her.

On another note, don't forget you still have time to enter into our "Vintage" challenge over at OSAAT and if you need vintage images check out the store and Junes place Dezinaworld.
Take care all and I'm sure I'll be back with some other bits real soon.
Sam x