Recipe of The Week - Week 3

Hope you are all doing fine.  It's so hot and sticky here today - yuck!!!

Ok - Week 3.

This weeks recipe is to combine

Black and white and add one more colour to the mix.

You can add anything to your creation.

Have fun with this one.

Don't forget to pop back to this post with a link to your creation or drop me an email with a photo and I will upload it for you.

Deb's Card - gorgeous colour combo.  Thanks Deb.

And here is Jane's card - I had to laugh when Jane emailed me with her card - such a cheeky little puppy in the mud.  Gorgeous Jane.  Thanks for joining in.

Have a great week everyone.

Luv Sandie

Recipe A Week - Week 2

Hi there everyone.  Hope you can join in this week's challenge.  (You still have today to complete last week's challenge).

Ok for today's Recipe you will need


Notebook page - ruled lines
Red and pink cardstock
Hearts - it can be stickers, stamps or patterned paper - or all 3


I need you to create a tag.  You can include this tag onto a card if you like or just leave it as a tag.

If you're into Valentines you can make a valentines day card or tag.

Have fun with this one and don't forget you can add anything you like to it.

Just including Jen's card - it's gorgeous Jen.  Thanks for joining in.

And here is Jane's card.  Thanks Jane it looks fab.

Luv Sandie

Recipe Of The Week - Blog followers

Yay - Jane has joined in with my challenge and made a card for Recipe of The Week.

Here is a shot of her scraps

and here is her card that she has made from the scraps.

Well done on using up your scraps - you have a bonus card all ready to go now. Thanks for joining in.

Secondly, we have Jenny's card.  I am super excited for Jenny to be joining in.  She was a little worried the card wouldn't make it in on time - rest up Jen it arrived and it's beautiful.  Thanks for joining in.  Look at Week 2 and see what you can come up with. 

Luv Sandie

WORLD CARD MAKING DAY

Yes - that's right!!!  Today is World Card Making Day.  All over the world card makers will be creating away - in groups, with friends or even on your own.  It doesn't matter - just go crazy and make cards.  Perhaps you could make a start on your Christmas card (note to self - start Christmas cards.....LOL).

So to help celebrate I am giving away some of my daisies.  The winner will get to choose a colour combo of their own.

So I dug up some of my old sketches (and very sketchy they are too..........LOL). 

You can interpret these as you like - you may turn them sideways and you can add whatever you like.

Have fun and leave me a comment to this post with a link to your creation or drop me an email with a photo that I can share with everyone. Deadline will be Saturday 8th October.

I  hope you all have a great weekend.

Luv Sandie

And the Winner is..................

The winner of my March Challenge is...................................... Everyone!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for joining in girlies, there will be a "Li'l" something heading your way. Luv to all......................Sandie

.................and the winner is.........................

Gail.................congratulations Gail.

All you need to do is drop me an email with your mailing address and I'll whisk a little something your way.

Thanks again for joining in.

Luv Sandie

.................and the WINNER is................

.............the winner of my January Challenge















pulled out of the hat




















is



















VICKY F...................yay Vicky.

Thanks to all for joining in the fun of the first challenge for 2011. Be sure to join in the fun of the February Challenge.

A little something is being sent your way Vicky.

Luv Sandie

Keep watching

Keep watching THIS POST

I am updating entries as they come in.

You still have plenty of time to enter your creations.

I would love to see what you're up to.

Be sure to pop in and check out everyone's entries and say g'day.

Luv Sandie

Winners of Christmas In July

I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to everyone that joined in my "Christmas In July" challenge.

I hope you enjoyed getting in early to create some Christmas Cards - even if you didn't complete the whole set of cards (you are not the only one - how embarassing - but it's on the list of things to complete) at least you have a nice little stash of cards already underway.

There are 2 lucky winners - and they are

















Grandma Jack and Shandell. (Can you please drop me an email with your mailing address please girls)

Well done girlies. You have won the gorgeous craft packs from Craft Queen - huge thank you to Nicole for her generous donations. I will throw in a little surprise too.

Thank you once again.

Happy creating.

Luv Sandie

Updates for Christmas In July

I am adding some updates from the very clever Grandma Jack.

She has been very busy creating her Christmas Cards and I have to say she is the first one to complete the lot.

Well done Grandma Jack!!!! You're officially a legend!!!!!

They have been sitting in my Inbox waiting for me to update them to my blog - so sorry for the delay.

Don't they look fantastic? Plenty of inspiration to be had.

I have been working on catching up - should have some updates to add over the next couple of days.

There is still time to catch up and upload - so - come on!!!

Luv Sandie

Here is the next instalment from Grandma Jack

Great job GJ - she has detailed which cards are which - good idea.

Plenty of work to inspire us all.

I - ice/snow (3D sticker from Handmade Art)
N - Noel - the word is on the stamped tree (pps Bo Bunny (scraps from last Xmases collection - I forget what it was called!) stamp is pink Paisley Mistletoe & Co Collection)
J - Joy
L - Loveheart. Hearts on pp
Y - yoyo (tree stamp Kaiser - Merry Christmas, rub on sentiment - Kaiser, embossing folder - QuicKutz snowflake)

Good on you for joining in. They look fab!!!

Luv Sandie

Christmas In July - Updates from Grandma Jack

My friend Grandma Jack has been busy creating some Christmas cards - she doesn't have a blog to share them so here they are

Thanks Grandma Jack.

Luv Sandie

Be sure to check out

............the lovely cards Deb has created so far.

http://debisjoy.blogspot.com/2010/07/christmas-in-july-cards.html

Great start to her Christmas card stash.

Don't forget to leave Deb some loving comments.

Well done Deb.

Luv Sandie

Tutorials and Entries for my Blog Giveaway

I am putting this post up separate to the Blog Giveaway post. You can find all the details of how to enter at the post below.

Here I would like to present the entries so far.

Deb’s Card

Sandy’s Card

Vicky’s Card

Leesa’s Card

Leesa has been rather handy dandy with her recycled product – she uses her paper towel which has been used as a drop sheet when she uses her Glimmer Mist – now that is amazing and such a great idea Leesa. Imagine all the different colours you could make. I was lucky enough to see Leesa's card in the flesh and it's stunning. Well done Leesa.

Sandy's Second Card

I have to say that I am blown away with the girlies efforts. I love that they have all included a fantastic TUTORIAL on each of their blogs. PLEASE pop into their blogs to check out how they made the flowers for each of these cards. So different and so fantastic. You can click on their names beside each card above and that will lead you to their blogs - be sure to leave some lovin while you're there by way of a comment or 2.

Thanks for your efforts girlies. Now I know how to make some new flowers and everyone else can join in and create them too. Well done!!!!!!

Don’t forget you still have time to join in if you’d like the chance to win something just for YOU!!!

Luv Sandie

Keep watching..............

As the entries come in for my Blog Giveaway I am adding the cards to the post
We have some gorgeous creations coming in and even better they have kindly shared a tutorial so we can all create a card/layout/otp using these gorgeous flowers.

Gotta love that!!!!

Thanks girlies.

Luv Sandie

Altered Calendars

(April's card)

(March's card)

(February's layout - this image above is taken from the calendar page)

(January's card using the frangipani image from the calendar)

Back in January I put up a challenge to anyone who wished to take it up.

The challenge was to use last year's or previous years calendars to create something with them.

A card, OTP, layout - whatever takes your fancy.

Each month create something with that month's page - take a photo of the calendar page before you start so you can see the before and after and then pop back to my blog to share it with everyone so we can be inspired.

I just thought I would showcase what DebiJ has been up to

Here are her month by month shots

You've done a great job Deb. Keep up the great work and keep on inspiring us.

Luv Sandie

This post is for displaying the entries for my blog giveaway

(look at this gorgeous creation from Shelee - thanks for joining in Shelee - you must be very proud of this beautiful creation. Thanks for joining in and good luck. Luv Sandie)

(front and back of Sandy's card - wow)

(this is the latest entry from Sandy - just have a look at those gorgeous little booties. A lot of work has gone into this card Sandy - thanks so much for joining in - good luck!!!!!)

(This is the gorgeous box Lyn created to hold the beautiful card below - this was a very special card for her daughter's recent wedding. Beautiful Lyn - very romantic. Thanks and good luck)

(Lyn's beautiful wedding card)

(the above card is Deb's gorgeous card - I love it Deb. It's so romantic. Well done and good luck)

(Anita's beautiful and bright card - well done Anita and thanks for joining in)

(This is Leesa's entry - I just love the colour combo Leesa - very soft and pretty. It reminds me of Easter colours. Thanks for joining in.)

(This is Vicky's fabulous card - I love what you've done Vicky and the colours are fantastic.)

Keep em coming

Keep your entries for my Blog Giveaway coming girlies. I just popped a new entry in for Sandy - a gorgeous baby card.

You still have plenty of time.

Luv Sandie

Altered Napkin Challenge

Just thought I'd let you know that I have updated some photos for this challenge.

You can see them here

http://sandie-sandiesplace.blogspot.com/2010/02/altered-napkin-challenge.html

Let me know if you have completed yours so I can include it on my blog for everyone to see.

Luv Sandie

How are your entries coming along?????

Just checking to see how your entries are coming along for my Giveaway.

I have added a seperate blog post for the entries

You can find them here

http://sandie-sandiesplace.blogspot.com/2010/03/this-post-is-for-displaying-entries-for.html

There are some gorgeous entries so far - looking forward to seeing yours. Just let me know once you've completed it and I can add you card to the entries.

Luv Sandie