My Mum and Me

This is a LO of my Mum and Me.  It was taken on my 18th Birthday and I was presenting my Mum with a bunch of flowers for organising my birthday party.  At the time I wanted to have a 21st party not an 18th but I am glad my Mum persuaded me as just over a year later she died of Cancer.  This is one of only a couple of photos I have of my mum as when my OH & I moved from the house I was born in I seem to have lost all the old family photos.

I am entering this LO into DEZINAWORLDS SPOT PRIZE CHALLENGE - Mother and Child.  Hop over and join in any project is accepted as long as it a new post and follows the  theme.  June is also have an EVERYBODY WINS CHALLENGE just follow the link to find out all the details.

Blog Candys in memory of Amanda Mary

more than 1 candy to win

Leigh and a few of her blogging friends are having a blog candy in memory of a special blogging friend who died last month.

AMANDA MARY

a very special Lady

Amanda loved scrapping and was an active member of UK Scrappers.

If you would like to join in/donate a prize hop over to Charity Crafter's blog

**************GREAT NEWS**************

 CREATIVE COWGIRLS CHALLENGE

STARTS

SUNDAY 21st NOVEMBER

The challenges will be every 2 weeks and we (the Creative Cowgirls) will be using our sponsors images.  There will be theme/sketch to follow but you may use any image.  I will give you more details at a later date.  I hope you're as excited as I am.

Dezinaworld - Everyone Wins - Prize Give Away Challenge

I have copied this from Dezinaworld's blog, hope you don't mind June.  June sells (and gives freebies) of a fantastic eclectic mix of images and collage sheets and her DT is awesome.  Here are the details of her most recent challenge.

I am thrilled to say that I am almost at the 300 followers mark with this blog and would like to say a huge thank you to all my followers and also I would like to celebrate by  issuing you all a challenge with a difference. The difference is EVERY single person that joins in the challenge will win a prize to spend in my store. YEP you read it correctly . I may be mad, but I am a happy soul and love to give back and have fun so please join in and get yourself a prize just for doing what you love most ...... creating.
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO ...
1/ Create a piece of art  ... CARD/ATC/ANY PAPER CRAFTS or other physical art ( Sorry no digital this time ) Using a Dezinaworld  Image - If you havent yet purchased any you can use any of the many DEZINAWORLD FREE PRINTABLE  IMAGES HERE 
2/ Make sure you are a follower - If not, then add to follow
3/ Make a post on your blog mentioning the 'Everyone Wins Challenge and  a photo of your creation
4/ Please tell all your friends so they dont miss out 
5/ Enter by adding your details to the inlinkz box below
  -----Deadline is 4th December ----- 
And last but not least .... have fun, I will also be making a feature of theTOP 12 creations on the main Dezinaworld site.

Hop over to Dezinaworld now and join in the fun.  I will be posting my project later, I need to think and that takes a long time.  Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

Don't tell my OH about this!!!

Just a quick post I've been playing with Photoshop and my pictures. I'm too mean to pay for digital scrapbook layouts so I've been having a play.  These aren't exactly fantastic but I really enjoyed playing and am learning new things daily.  The title of the post is because if my OH knows I have posted this LO he wouldn't make me a cup of tea for days.

The photo was manipulated in Photoshop Pro by my daughter who was 10 at the time and I have made it into a transparent .GIF so I could put it onto a Creative Cottage background.  The lipstick and brooches were from a collage sheet I won at Dezinaworld I cut them out changed the colour and made them into .GIFs and added them as embellishments.  I was supposed to be entering it into Dezinaworld Spotprize Challenge 'Hot pink and silver' but got the dates wrong and missed it.

These are photos are of my daughter when she was in the panto 'Frankenstein the Panto' in January this year.  She played a school girl, a ghost and a bat.  The papers are from Creative Cottage.

Cowgirl Up Designs and Cowgirl's Sunday Stamp'en Challenge

Hi All,  I just wanted to let you know that Cowgirl Up Designs and Cowgirl's Sunday Stamp'en Challenge sites have been closed by the owner.  I had an e-mail yesterday to say they were closing.  Thank you to everyone who participated and if CJ decides to re-open I will let you know.  I was very proud when I was asked to be a member of the Posse and will still be using CJ's designs as they are some of my favourites.

Cowgirl Sunday Stamp'en Challenge - Bring on the BLING BLING

Hope everyone enjoyed the blog hop last week, the winner has been announced over on the Cowgirl Sunday Stamp'en Challenge blog, hop over and see if it is you.

This week we would like to see your cards over the top with BLING BLING and we have NEW RELEASES from CJ at Cowgirl Up Designs, all the new images have a fall theme.  There will be a discount on the new releases for more details hop over to the challenge.

My image is called FALL AFTERNOON.  It was a pleasure to colour and I really enjoyed colouring all the leaves in Autumn colours.  I used a cream base, coloured with Promarkers and Copics added bling with my gold Sakura Calligraphy pen, and gelly roll pen.  I then punched leaves out to form a border which I backed with shiny red paper and after all that effort you can't really see any of it on the photo.  The punched out leaves were coloured with gold pen and distressed ink and 3D randomly on the image.  I used the sketch from Friday Sketchers #126.

Our winners sponsor this week is Delicious Doodles hop over and take a look at Teri's great images

The winner will receive 3 images of choice

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The Winners Badge to display with pride

The TOP 3 will each receive 1 image of choice from Cowgirl Up Designs

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The TOP 3 Badge to display with pride

To see what the other Posse members have been upto go to the buttons at the top of my page and click it will give you the links or you could hop over to the Challenge and see all the Posses fantastic creations.

CHALLENGES
Friday Sketches #126 - sketch by Claudia
Crafty Creations #91 - Halloween or perhaps Autumn
Paperake Weekly - Bright and Sparkly (it does shine 'onest Guv)
Craft Your Passion #29 - Add glitter and sparkle
Simon Says Stamp - Punch 'em 

Cowgirl Sunday Stamp'en Challenge - HALLOWEEN BLOG HOP

Good morning everyone, This week is the Cowgirl Sunday Stamp'en BLOG HOP and it's a big one but the prizes are fantastic.  

If you arrived here from Marianne's blog you are on the right track if not please hop back to the challenge blog and start your incredible journey.  If you are on track you will need to hop over to Rosalien blog to continue.

The rules are simple you have to make a card for the challenge, leave a comment on all the Posse's blogs (we will be checking) and make a note of the Posse card you like the best and then leave a comment on the challenge blog with your choice. Here's mine

I drew a pumpkin template and cut my card accordingly, I then shaded it with distressed inks.  I wrote the sentiment on my computer.  The fantastic image is PUMPKIN SETTING  by CJ at Cowgirl Up Designs I coloured it with Promarkers.

There will be a special draw for a grab bag of goodies and images for anyone who uses a Cowgirl Up Designs image.

If you don't celebrate Halloween we would like to see you use an image from Cowgirl Up Designs and your name will be added to the special draw. (please see the challenge for full details)

Our Sponsor this week is Crafty Ribbons

The winner will receive a bundle of ribbons

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2 images from Cowgirl Up Designs

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Winners Badge to display with pride on their blog

Top 3 will each received 1 image from Cowgirl Up Designs

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TOP 3 Badge to display with pride on their blog

I hope you enjoy the BLOG HOP and I can't wait to see your fantastic creations.

Have a wonderful week.

CHALLENGES

Crafty Creations Challenge #90 - colour challenge - red, green & brown

Moving Along With The Times #69 - Anything goes - Letraset are sponsoring this weeks challenge and the prize is a set of Promarkers and fine liner pens

The Crazy Challenge #37 - Halloween

The Creative Cottage #25 - Halloween

An Apology + Cowgirl Sunday Stamp'en Challenge - sketch by Alison and make your own DP

Firstly a big apology to everyone.  I have been unable to comment on peoples blogs due to personal reasons and I really miss visiting everyone.  At the moment I am only posting my DT work on Sundays.  Hopefully I will be able to get back to normal in a few weeks.

Now onto my DT work for the Cowgirl's Sunday Stamp'en Challenge.  This week we were asked to make our own designer paper.  I am hoping this passes as making my own because I can't make another.  The digi papers I have used are from Creative Cottage Designs and the tiled image is from CJ at Cowgirl Up Designs.  I used Paintshop Pro to colour the image and Word 2007 to manipulate it into a tile backing for my pictures.

I've blanked out the faces of the girls as I don't have permission from their parents to publish them.

Our sponsor for the winner this week is

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Winners Badge to display with pride

TOP 3 will receive 1 image of choice from Cowgirl Up Design

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TOP 3 Badge to display with pride

Hop over to the Challenge blog to join in and press the buttons at the top of the page to see the Posses fabulous work.

CHALLENGE

(I could only find 1 to enter.  I really should plan ahead)

Just Inspirational Challenge #16 - a stamped project it can be either ink or Digi 

Cowgirl's Sunday Stamp'en Challenge - Anything Goes - Halloween Release

This week at Cowgirl Up Designs CJ has a new releases for Halloween.  There will be a 20% sale on the new releases for this week so hop over and grab yourself some truly wonderful, spooky images.  

If you hop over to the challenge blog you will see what the Posses have done with the new releases.  Unfortunately there was a problem getting my image to me so I have used another of CJ images and hopefully coloured it to pass as Halloween.

I have used one of CJ's images and the backing papers are from Creative Cottage.  I have coloured the image with Copics and Promarkers and gone over the cobwebs with a Sakura gel pen.  I hand cut a cobweb and spider then used a white Inkssentials pen to draw in the eyes and smile (couldn't leave it without a smile).

Our Sponsor this week is

This time around the WINNER will receive

"4 IMAGES OF CHOICE FROM CJ"

and the TOP 3 will receive

"2 IMAGES OF CHOICE FROM CJ"

CHALLENGES

MAWTT #16 - Fairy or Fantasy

By the Cute and Girly - Spooky

Delightful Challenges - Colours - Purple, Green & Black

Alphabet Challenge - W for Wings

Hop over to the Cowgirl's Sunday Stamp'en Challenge blog and see all the fantastic creations by our wonderful Posses