Let's Dance!

Hello everyone from a very cold and sleety Scotland!  We had our first snow yesterday afternoon but by the time I left school it had turned into very wet stuff coming down in bucket-loads.  Yuk!

I'm here today to let you know the theme of our latest challenge at Sweet Stampin'.  It's called "Let's Dance", so we'd like to see your stamped creations featuring dancing of some kind.

I'm a huge Strictly fan so this Tiddly Inks image jumped straight into the shopping cart knowing that it would be used, and often!

I coloured the image with Copics, adding some sparkle with Glamour Dust and some Wink of Stella. I've kept everything else very simple as the image is quite big.

We're giving away a goodie bag to one randomly chosen winner, so why not join in the fun?  The Sweeties have worked their magic and have created the most lovely inspiration cards, so hop over here to take a peek and check out the challenge rules.

On another topic, I've been so proud of the Boy Wonder this week.  We've been following the dreadful events in Paris and around the world, both at home and at school. This has coincided with an announcement locally that we are to have some refugee families in one of the villages not far from us. While I would say that in the main our community has been very welcoming of this news, sadly this has not applied to all.   The BW has taken a stand on Facebook in response to negative comments made by some of his peers, resulting in some not very nice messages and a bit of "unfriending".  The way he has conducted himself over this has been just fabulous - I know he's 16 now, but he's shown such maturity (and tolerance) this week that it's really brought it home to me that my boy is now a young man.  And a thoroughly decent human being.

Have a great weekend and stay cosy!

Hugs

Tracey xx

Stars

The Christmas Season is fast approaching so over at Christmas at Sweet Stampin' we have a great challenge to help you get your card production line moving!

Our theme this month is Stars and here's my DT card

Apologies first of all for the reflection off the sparkle on the penultimate row of stars!  And before you ask, no I didn't suddenly find the patience of a saint and line those stars up with a ruler!  I used a Papertrey Ink coverplate to cut out the stars and used the negative as a guide when it came to sticking them down.

The sentiment was stamped with Versamark ink and white heat embossed.

We've got a little goodie bag up for grabs for our challenge winner, so I hope you can play along.  As ever, the CaSSettes have made the most lovely inspiration projects so why not pop over here to take a look?

Have a great day!

Tracey xx

PS Why Blogger couldn't post this at the scheduled time I do not know!  Naughty Blogger :o(

Autumn Leaves

There are plenty of autumn leaves sitting at the front of our house right now.  I know that I should do as Monty Don suggests and sweep them up, put them in a bin bag and make leaf mould.  But it's cosy indoors and rather wet and dreary outside...

However, Autumn Leaves just happens to be the challenge theme at Sweet Stampin' this week.  We're being sponsored by Crafty Ribbons who are giving away some ribbony gorgeousness to one lucky winner.  Here's what I made:

I used post-it notes to mask off a square in the middle of the cardstock and used a selection of stamps to create the leafy design.  I must admit that I made this card in the summer holidays and then had a panic when I couldn't remember which stamp set I had used.  The leaves are from an Altenew set which has since been sent to a new home and the dots and squiggles ... still can't remember, I'm afraid - middle-aged brain strikes again!

I hope you can join us at Sweet Stampin' this week.  The Sweeties' inspiration cards are just stunning, so do hop over if you get a chance and take a peek.

Have a great weekend!

Hugs

Tracey xx