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This week at Out of a Hat  we have Summertime as the theme. With the summer not being so good this far here in the UK it was difficult to feel inspired for sure. I bought a very large barbeque fork from Poundland-hung the tags and covered with flowers I had made. The Summer banner I made in psint shop Pro and finished it all off with a twisted cord. It would be nice to hang it outside in the garden but I guess it would get very soggy. Do pop to Janet's blog,    Florence's blog and Sandra's blog to see what they have made for the Summer time project and join us at Out of a Hat where we would love to see what you make of the the theme for this week

At Addicted to Stamps  we are challenge to make something using a line on their Bingo board I chose the bottom line-FLOWERS-BUTTONS-BLUE Stamped and distressed the edges of a white card then added a background made from a Marianne die. Onto that four buttons with a jewel in the middle. The flowers are made from tissue paper and were an idea from my friend Max--hoping to add a tut to my blog soon on how to make the flowers. A simple silver peel-off and the card is finished. Link to Max's tut for making the flowers is here -thanks Max

I usually try my best to make something for just one Challenge Blog at a time but life seems to be getting in the way at the moment and I only seem to have half the time I need to do the things I would like to do. I decided that it would be ok to do a combined challenge and make a present for my friend, who isn't very well, at the same time At Craft-room Challenge  the theme is' Friendship' so that was appropriate. The Crafty Card Makers  have 'Create you Own Flowers' and I just love doing that. Last but by no means least Sugar Creek Hollow   are asking for 'Circles'. Brain in gear I have combined the three and hope my friend will like the result. I am sure she will like the bottle of red wine in the bag and the vintage type bracelet I have added to the Crafty Individuals tag. The flowers are a length of gathered, white lace with double sided tape stuck to the gathered edge and wound round and round on a circle of card to make the shape. Then I dabbed them w...

Well the weather we are having is anything but seaside weather even so we do walk along the prom, prom, prom most days and so does a neighbour who will be 65 next month so I made him this card for the Artful Times Challenge The beach hut stamp is a digital one that I have had for a long time--I even think that Von sent me the link to get it so quite appropriate as she has set the challenge theme. I added the grasses and the do not disturb. The background was made with a small lighthouse stamp and little fish and the sun cut out and coloured  before being raised up a bit on the card. Stamped the text and the big seagull and that's  it finished.  Maybe I will add a 6 and a 5 in the top left hand corner though I don't think he really wants to be reminded about his age lol.

It was the first birthday for Craft-room Challenge and they had 'events' where we could enter and win prizes. I won Julia's Mystery Prize and here it is - just arrived this morning I am thrilled with all of the things and especially the beautiful tag from Julia. Thank you for a lovely birthday 'party' all and for the hard work that must have gone in to arranging it. Love Chrissie xx

The challenge this week at Out of a Hat Challenges  was to be A Domino Book but we decided to include any small book no more than 3x3 inches. I hadn't a clue where to start but I did have some dominoes so that was a good place. I found the wonderful Artful Musing blog of Laura Carson  with this fantastic tutorial. I could have spent all day just looking at the wonderful little book that she had made but jumped in with both feet to start making my own. Maybe one day I will be able to make something as beautiful but for now this is my effort and a big thank you to Laura and all the wonders on her blog Front-Difficult to take a photo as the picture is printed on acetate inside inside back side of it closed. Hope you will venture to  Janet,   Florence  and  Sandra's  blogs to see what they have made for this weeks challenge. Sandra had the idea to have this challenge as a swap amongst the four of us as we have become such good crafting friends. I got ...

A new challenge blog 'Addicted to Stamps'  has just started and each month they are going to have a scrapbook page challenge as well as a weekly blog challenge. This month the challenge is to use bunting on the page. On Tuesday this week the Olympic Torch passed by the end of our road and we, with thousands of others, lined the road to see it go by. There was an amazing atmosphere and a real feel good factor about the whole thing and certainly worthy of a page and some bunting for sure-thank you for the challenge--I hope this will inspire me to make more pages as I have had the scrapbook for many years and still only has 7 pages completed in it :(