a free class!

hi everyone...i have a free sketch class online at UKS today...it officially for the Green Buttons house members...but if you'd like to play along feel free to add your LO as a link here! :0)

there will be a wee prize for someone!

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30 minute Thursdays!

Hi everybody...welcome to my new weekly feature...*30 minute Thursdays*! If you're anything like me,...you like to create something most days but sometimes you'll be short on time, on energy or inspiration...this is where my new feature comes in...each week, on a Thursday, i'll share a quick, and inspirational project that can be completed in less than 30 minutes...using only things that you are likely to have in your craft stash already! i'll vary the techniques and materials from week to week...so expect to see stamping, sewing, altering and inking...and even some surprises! Sound good? i do hope you'll join me on my 30 minute journeys each week...and if you leave me a link to your project...you could a win a wee prize too! :) This week i've started with a pretty beaded bag charm: To create this you'll need a bag clip or key ring, 8 or more jump rings, 5 or more headpins and an assortment of small charms and beads that you love. Tool~wise you'll need a small pair of jewellers' pliers to open and close the jump rings...and this is the most complicated part of the whole project! Start by making a chain from the jump rings, using the pliers and your fingers or tweezers to open and close the jump rings and attach the chain to the bag charm...then take your beads and one by one place them on a headpin and create a top loop with the pliers, winding the excess wire around the top to finish off...and attach to the jump rings in a pleasing arrangement...et voila! as you'll see i've made two samples {both in the 30 minutes!} using an assortment of beads and charms that i had to show you what different looks you can achieve with the same basic design...one pink and girly...and one with wooden beads and pearls which is more sophisticated :) i hope you'll agree this is a quick, simple gift idea that would be ideal for all sorts of people and occassions... do let me know if you have a go at this...and leave me a link to be in with a chance of winning a little beading gift... of course...if you have any questions...do leave those in the comments section too and i'll do my vest to help!

a quick update...

...hi all...i seem to be totally behind on my blogging...not to mention my housework ;)...so i'm just popping in with a quick update to say two things:

1. we have a winner ~ we've decided the caption competition winner is julia dunnit...because she made us giggle...and because hers was the only non~boob related comment!! lol
julia hon, could you leave me your addy in my uks pm box? and i'll have the little *booby prize* on its way to you!

2. i've added my latest bubbly scrumptious post...a real easy quick gift to make...even suitable for a man! check it out here :) and while you're there...do check out the other girls' projects...there is some amazing talent on this team!

ok...hope to be back later with goodies to share...ttfn!

caption competition! :)

a little bit of fun for the week ahead...and a fun prize too :)

firstly a LO...this week i've been trying to finally scrap the photos from my hen~do...my lovely sister took it upon herself to organize a fun hippy themed fancy dress party for me which was a hoot...although i think i might have been the most enthusiastic about the dressing up part!! lol

i've used a sketch for this photo of me {a rarity in that i actually like this photo of me} and its from the fabulous Pencillines sketch site...check it out here. The sketch is actually for their design team search...and i haven't applied...but i liked the sketch so i've used it anyway!

with the hippy theme, it was important to include a serious amount of flower power on the page...and i really like to mix and match styles so...i've included printed flowers with brads for middles...

i also created my own hippy daisies by die cutting some orange leather i had from a sofa swatch and filling the middles with enamel accents and micro beads...and drawing on some simple stems with a white pen...

and i finished my trio of different floral embellishments with a layered flower created from a felt shape overlayed with a fabric on and a cordroy brad...i love how all the flowers work together...and i hope you do too!

now...on to the fun caption competition...one of the reasons i've struggled so much to scrap this event is because everytime i get the photos out...i get the giggles and get lost in the memories of this fun evening...there are so many funny/silly/amusing photos but i've chosen this one for you all to write an amusing caption to:

please leave your caption and your details in the comments to this post...and next week i will pick a winner who will get a prize {related to what is actually happening in this photo!}

so...i leave you to ponder and amuse yourselves with thinking of a caption that sums up what might be happening here?? you don't have to get the answer right...i'll pick the one that makes me and his Nibs giggle the most!

enjoy...but keep it clean please!! ;)

link your layouts here!

anyone...everyone...all of you who decide to play along with me this week...please add your LO links here!

please link directly to the LO, not just your blog, thankyou!
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come play with me...i'll give prizes!! :0)

this weekend i was due to run a class at our local crop...and i wasn't well so i wasn't able to go...bummer for me...but the good ladies of the crop carried on regardless and did the class without me!!

the sad thing is that i didn't get to see all the different interpretations of my sketch...so i thought i'd open it up to you guys...and anyone who fancies having a go and leaves me a link to their LO will go in a hat to win a page kit {i can't tell you how much i love making up page kits...its crazy!!}...i have no idea how many of you, or indeed if any of you will join in...so i'll make up 3 kits for 3 randomly drawn winners...go on...you just might win...and you'll certainly make me happy!!

you have just one week to do this...so make sure you play along and check back next tuesday for the *results* lol

unlike most sketch sites...i'm not going to show you my LO just yet...i'll give you a few days to think of your own ideas...but let it be said that a few people reportedly had palpitations at the number of brads i used to create it!!

ok, get busy with the pp's...with the brads...with whatever you love to scrap with...and check back as i'll try to add a whizzy linky thing in the morning!! *wish me luck with that*

eeeeep...i'm a bit nervous no~one will play...so do join me...if only to stop me looking like a proper saddo!!! ;0)