Thanks for the kind thoughts

Thanks everyone for your kind thoughts about my hubby.  He is out of hospital and on the mend yay..  He has over 40 stitches in his hand with 2 skin grafts so was rather nasty.  Still lots of therapy to go and appointments to doctors for a while.  Its hard when he is right handed and cant use his hand at all.   I am just glad that he is home now.
Everything always happens at once though as when hubby was in hospital our son turned 21 so the only card that I have made in the last 2 weeks was the one for his birthday.  He is not a big gambler or anything but likes to play roulette when we go up to the casino.  So as you can probably tell its another spinner card he liked the card he  said it was pretty cool.  The paper was a bit of a perfect find it was from Kaisercraft. 
So here is his card......

I have still been entering my cards in the Make it Monday challenge and was honoured this week to be picked by Rene as her pick of the week.  It was for my owl with the kites card (here is a link to the original post). So I now have another cool badge for my blog.  Have you joined in at Make it Monday? You can enter any of your cards they don't have to be recent, you can enter that favourite card, just link back to your original post.  The people are lovely and the cards and projects that are linked are awesome.  So take a peek and maybe this week enter a random card.  

I am going to enter my roulette card in the challenge for this week at Make it Monday 

I have already popped another one on there that I did from a few weeks ago its no 11. 

While I was away there was a lovely surprise on my return to find I had a new follower. So I would love to say a huge welcome to stampingirl. 

Have a great day (glad to be back)

Sandy :) 

On hold

All things bloggy put on hold at the moment...  Hubby in Hospital operation on his hand bad infection 2 operations.  He will be there for a week so bit of stuff happening still here...
Will be back soon..... 
Sandy :)

Friend to Friend

I am having a go at another Moxie Fab world trigger this week its a funky typewriter.  I found a digi one at Free vintage digi stamps that I thought worked well.  I printed it, then stuck it on some light weight cardboard and cut it out to give it some dimension.  I also used this weeks sketch from I Spy Sketches the red and black stripes is supposed to look like old typewriter ribbon.  Remember those I used them in school they where so messy and inky.  Hmmm maybe that's where we all got our addiction to ink. 
So here is my card.....

Have a great day

Sandy :)

WOYWW & Challenge Win

Few things happening today around here so not much on my desk, so thought I would show you how I store some of my essential craft goodies. You have probably not taken much notice but this sits at the back of my desk.  I pulled all the draws out of it at the sides and cut cardboard to fit the shelves so that my stamps and  punches sit on something.  It started out as the picture below as just all trays and containers. Its really handy just like that to store but needed something upright that did not take up much room on my desk.  As you can see I have bought 2 but have not expanded my collection enough to use the other one yet.  I have a few inks not shown and other  punches but these ones fit really well in here.  Photos are not crash hot today, light is really dodgy, sorry but hope you get the idea.
So why am I showing stuff about my desk you wonder?  Well on Wednesday we all round up and head on over to Julia's stamping ground to have a peek at workdesks all around the world.  Its addictive and highly recommended to have a peek at all the amazing desks of people and the variety of crafts, so come on around and join in on the fun.
So here is my upright storage..... 

After adding cardboard and craft goodies

Before

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Well how exciting that I found out today that I had a win in the I Spy sketches challenge.  It was for the owl spinner card I made for my daughters birthday more pics Here .  I was so excited to be chosen amongst all the amazing entries to be a top 2 winner.   Such lovely comments I have had on my cards I am so honoured to be chosen for the top 2.   I am having such fun doing sketches and so enjoying making my cards and trying different things.  My daughter loved the owl spinner card, I got the "that's so cute mum" approval.   














It is also my pleasure to welcome as a new follower  Heather.  So hope you enjoy taking a peek around my little blog of cards.
Have a great day 
Sandy :)

Touch of France

This is such a different style for me, but I like to have a go at different things. This is for a friend of mine who has just come back from Paris. Thought she might like a little bit of Paris for her birthday, hope she likes it.  I made this with images from Free Vintage Digi Stamps they have such lovely French images.  Some of the papers where Kaisercraft.  I blended a lot with Tim Holtz old paper ink and distressed edges.  I even did a bit of paper tearing!!  Background stamp is the En Francais one from Stampin'up.  I  bought the little camera stamp from a market I went to on holidays.  Its such a good little stamp, wish now I had bought a few more of his stamps.  Its just peeking out under the bow and pin.  

So here is my card......

I am going to enter this in the following challenges
Simon says stamp and show "what do you say?" Sentiment challenge.
Friday mash up

So here is the "Mashup" Challenge:

1. Make a project with a "Stick Pin on it."
2. Or Make a "Vintage" project.
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a "Vintage project with a Stick Pin on it."

Have a great day

Sandy :)

Tree Owl Birthday Card

This is the card I made for my daughters birthday.  She thought the Santa spinner card I made was cute so made this one for her.  She adores owls as well so had to do one of the spinner cards, this time the girl owl spins up and down the tree.  
So here is my card...

I am going to enter this in the following challenges...
I Spy Sketches   and  The Dynamic Duos


Have a great day
Sandy:)

WOYWW #165

Hi all, hope this Wednesday finds you all up to your elbows in ink, glue, paint, pens, cardstock, paper, lace, ribbon, twine and all other things crafty.  Its time to take a peek at Julia's Stamping Ground to have a look at the desks of wonderfully crafty people from all over the world.  
So here is my desk to take a peek at......

Not a lot going on few stamp sets I haven't put away.  Some twine I am having a go at at coloring.  I have wound it up and inked it with the pink pen. I am happy with what this looks like.  I am going to do a blue and a green think its a really cool idea.  Here is a link to the colored Twine  tutorial on how to do your own.  If  you are like me and have trouble matching it to your project, this might be something you might like to try.  I need to buy myself a plastic bottle to wind it on so the ink wipes off better.  I finally got some washi tape to try, mine just says its masking tape though.  Its been on my wish list for a while so will see if I can get it on to a project soon. 
My Santa spinning card is there I make him spin every now and again just because I can. I made my first ever youtube video goes for a whole 15 seconds.  Press play to take a peek, there is more info Here about this card.  I have added a little black belt and silver buckle onto him now it was after I made the video.

Well that's it for me today, I'm off to peek at some desks.  
Have a great day 
Sandy :)