Atten-shun! Alright you lovely lot!!!.......in a sergeant major stylee :-)

Good morning you lovely bloggers, the sun is shining and I have a little breeze coming through the window as I get this ready to go live (it's Saturday morning as I write this). Is it hot enough for you all! Blimey, I like the heat but it's such a heavy heat in this country, not like when you go abroad for your hols. Hey ho it's yet another excuse to stay indoors - makes a change from saying "I have to stay in because it's raining cats and dogs outside". Anyway, my slightly odd title is all about this weeks challenge over at OSAAT, which is "Military". Yep it's a bit of a doozy, but I think we all pulled it off. Basically, as long as you give your project a bit of an armed forces feel, whether that be by paper or by your choice of images then it's good to go. Now it doesn't matter what occassion you make it for so just go for it.
Here is my card for your inspiration this week. I've used Stitchys "Letters Home" digi which is available from the Stitchy Bear Stamps store.

I've made some flowers with help from a template  and the paper is from Patternhead http://www.patternhead.com/ and he has quite a few freebies available to download - well worth a look.
Hope you like my card for this weeks challenge, and remember, it's Lizzy B up again next week - ah another week off...I could get used to this heheheehe.
Take care now and I'll be back soon with some more crafty makes.
Sam x

Now available in my webstore

Finished these fresh and funky mobile phone covers this morning and they are now in my store for sale at £4.50 - might also put them on folksy and maybe even my Facebook shop which I havent finished setting up yet.

 http://yammascardsandcrafts.com/

I would love to get some more of this yarn as it is so soft and silky feeling, but alas it was free from a magazine, so I have no idea what it is but I have a few more ideas going around in my head for some more of these but in a slightly different style -just need to get the wooly stuff now that I want and I can get cracking on with those ideas.
Hope you like them
Sam x

Ready, steady, Cook....oops no that should be craft :-)

Hello and welcome to Ready, Steady, Craft. Hahahaha can you tell the sun's back out over my way at the moment - yes I have gone slightly lala once again. It's challenge time once again over at Stampin with the Dragon and (now my silliness is exposed) it's a recipe challenge. We'd like you to use 3 buttons and a transparency on your project this fortnight.
We are sponsored by Sue of Beary Dust Stamps this time around and I used "Angel Bear" and made the cutest New Baby Boy card. Obviously this could easily be done for a girl too and in my mind it could also be used for those sadder times when someone you know has lost their little angel.
Anyway, onto my card.

As you can see, it will no longer fit into an envelope, so I have to make a box for this one at some point. I hope you like my offering today and that you will join us at SWTD and show us your fab makes.
Take care
sam x

I'm back....

with the cards that were splattered on my table in my earlier WOYWW post, so without further ado here is the card I made for my hubby. This is a download from CUP (CraftsUPrint in case you didn't know - I know what my staich is like for some of these initialed thingys lol x) designed by Julie Green. Now this is meant to be for a little lads birthday but it just looks so much like my James that I couldn't resist (his bike looks like that too but with lots of added mud hehehe). Oh almost forgot, for the background I inked up with my versamark pad, one of my free stamps that I had lying around in my drawer and just stamped randomly here there and everywhere.

This is the other card. The image is by my buddy Stitchy of Stitchy Stamps (which you can buy from the
Stitchy Bear Stamps store) called "Naptime", the little text with scroll is from Lindsays Stamp Stuff and the paper is from a place I found only yesterday, http://www.patternhead.com/ loads of free repeat patterns there for you to nab. Anyway this card has been made for hubbys boss. His better half had their first baby just the other day - I was told her name was Piglet (lol they are pig farmers hehehe) as they couldn't think of anything at the time, I do believe they have changed that to a more regular name now but James had forgotten what it was by the time he came home last night.

Anyway I hope you like these two little offerings for today, I'm now off to finish my DT card for OSAAT before the idea that is in my head dissappears.
Bye for now
Sam x

EDIT
oh I just realised this second card fits in with the challenge over at The Crafty Pad this week with their challenge of Animal Fun.

WOYWW 7th July 2010

Two reasons why today is very special - 1. it's WOYWW over at Julias blog The Stamping Ground and 2. it's my 4th wedding anniversary today. Anyway no time for mushy stuff ladies (and gents if there are any looking) here is my creativity station this week.

Someone asked about the coke label and was wondering what I was going to do with that - sorry hun it's really boring...it's only a pencil case stashed full of yet more pens. Oh and someone else said about the small tube that was sitting to my left (I think lol), thats really boring too - it's a tube I inherited from my nan with some crochet hooks in. I may make it look pretty with a crocheted cover for it yet but we'll see if I get the time hehehe.
I have to finish off the card that you see on my table and make an envelope for it and another one for hubbys card which you can also see sitting there. My paper and image are there for this weeks coming challenge over at OSAAT (I want to get that done too). Anyway enough jabbering for now - I'm going to get these cards done and then I'll be back with those 2 that you see later on when I've done fannying around with them. Then I might get time to visit a few of you later on.
Take care now and I'll be back soon.
Sam x

Just found a fab new blog for all you greenys out there......

I've put a link on my sidebar as well, but it deserves more than just a link!! I checked out a new follower of mine this am (Jan is the ladys name) and she has this as one of her blogs.
Going Green Crafters and Artists -

ggcaa for short http://www.ggcaa.com/ .I think it's a fab idea and I'll be going back to check it out and see what fabby ideas I can borrow.
I know as crafters, we do tend to recycle an awful lot of stuff (my hubby looks at me very strangely when I clean off the foil lid from a tub of marg or butter although he is getting used to it now hehehehehe) but this looks to have loads of ideas and I'm thinking already "now why didnt I think of that?"
Ok thats it for me today - didnt get any crafting done yesterday (thats a lie really ... I taught myself how to make an afghan square last night while watching the footy) and I don't think I'll get much done today as 1 I've got to go into town in a bit and 2 I'm helping out at weedyfaces school fete on the "Slat the Rat" stall yayyyyy, and tomorrow I'm being dragged out for what looks like the day (rain rain come back again lol for one day only though).
Right then my lovely peeps I'd best get on just in case I can find some time to craft today.
Take care
Sam x

Prototype Mobile bag

This isn't going to go into my store but further makes may do hence it being called a prototype. I'm just playing with some old yarn that I've got lying around, a nice thin yarn would look better I think and in white or cream.

Obviously it's not a fellas thing - I shew it to my hubby when I'd finished playing last night and he looked like he wanted to burst into fits or laughter, so I said to him "Go on then laugh and say it's s**t then" and all he said was, "well I wouldn't want one". Well baring in mind I never thought in the first place that a fella would want one, I just wanted to give him a slap. Anyway I'll most probably play a bit more on this idea and then I'll show you what I come up with.

Oh and one final picture - of the lovely little model, bless her, my little weedyface and I couldn't resist putting my copyright mark on her although she was made a little bit before 2010 (try 2000) and, no she isn't chewing on a wasp, she didn't like the fact I got her piccy hehehehe mean aint I?

Well that's me for now, but I may be back if I get something else made in a while.
Take care now
Sam x