Weekend of chaos

 After a very soggy week, I spent over half the weekend trying to dry my crafting shed out. 

Well at least it wasn't quite as bad as it could have been, the roof is still in place.

On the plus side, have washed up all the water leaks it is now very clean. 

Still chaotic but clean (youngest daughter keeps threatening to go organise it, it's organised chaos), Hey I basically know where everything is! 

Ok Ok so now and then I put something back in the wrong place and then spend weeks trying to find it, BUT, that's when I discover an old stamp set I haven't used in years 😉

 

I just received news, I passed my college course "Understanding Autism" 💖Woohoo💖

So, how many of you remember me mentioning this back 2020

Well there will be more news to follow shortly 

PLUS 

I will be revealing something very soon (November)

So hit the follow button for updates

Hugs & Happy thoughts

Buffy xx

Spooky season fast approaches

 I love this time of year

Pumpkin pie, hot totties and the little children in their halloween costumes, so much fun.

As you may remember I crochetted a little witch and a candy-corn, see here. 

Well I made a slightly larger candy-corn keyring with eyes

So now on to the card-making, I spotted that The Sisterhood of Crafters had an exciting challenge

Pumpkins!!!

So pleased to be able to put my WMS stampset to good use again, it was getting lonely on the shelf.

Although there is a pumpkin promarker, I used it the least. Apricot, honeycomb a little pumpkin and some moss green helped to give the pumpkins a more rounded appearence. With a tiny pop of white gel pen on top.

The apples are crimson, poppy and cardinal. Pear is lemon, lime green and apple green. Lastly the grapes are plum, orchid and violet.

White and Honeycomb cardstock. 

And when you spend quite a bit of time on the card, well then envelope has to have a hint of something

I would also like to enter this card into the following fabulous challenges:

• Creatalicious challenges - Anything goes + optional halloween 
• Stamping sensations - Autumn colours + anything goes 

 

Hope you are all as excited about Halloween as I am.

Keep crafting and smiling

Hugs & Happy thoughts

Buffy xx

A feminin touch

 What crazy weather have we been having????

Anyway, over at Fab'n'Funky challenges we want you to.....

Make it Female

So thing of all the wonderful woman/girls in your life

are they delicate, pretty and fragrant or just palin FABULOUS

 (remember delicate does not mean weak)

 Another couple of F.T.L.S. stamp sets, several delicate coloured Promarker and of course a little candy floss twine.

Please remember to go check out all our lovely DT's designs over at Fab'n'Funky challenges and leave them some love.

An other crochet share coming very soon

Hugs & Happy thoughts

Buffy xx

A crochet creation and CAS card

 Hello my lovelies,

I promised to share my latest crochet creation and here she is

 I even gave her a candy-corn. My granddaughter ran off with the candy corn but the little witch is sitting in our geocache waiting to be taken to her forever home.

I have also been doing quite a bit of card-making recently. I know there was a time when I would be posting on a regular basis but I lost myself for a while and I couldn't find me or my mojo. 

BUT

I'm starting to get back my mojo, it had just been buried quite deep.......SOOOO back to the importantly fun card-making/creating.

I have created this lovely little card for an interesting challenge

They have this intersting colour challenge at CAS Colour & Sketch and I can honestly say I probably wouldn't have put these 3 colours together myself and that's what makes it fun, so without further ado

And yes it's very simple and clean, maybe too simple. 

But it has presence and the cloloured hexagons  in this photo seems a lot darker than in real life, I'm going to have to check my camera setting.

So I used my S.U. hexagon punch, S.U. thin oval punch, white cardstock and Tuxedo black ink for the sentiment (which was free on a magazine and about 10yrs old)

Well I still have dozens of christmas cards to make so I will see you soon.

Hugs & Happy thoughts

Buffy xx

Show your Colouring

 So been a little while but I think I'm slowly getting back to me, which is a great thing.

Baked butter bread with my granddaughter, crocheted a witch & a candy corn BUT I also got back to some card-making.

And, our challenge this week over at Fab'n'Funky challenges is:

Show us your colouring

yeah, cool challenge right, so simple. So whether your a fan of pencils, markers, crayons or paint, just go wild and show us what ya got.

As you may have guessed I'm a fan of Promarkers, but here I allowed the cardstock to tell me where to add colour. Tan & sandstone promarkers to add shadows to the wals, terracota for the bricks and chimneys and a variety of greens for all the foliage. Plus, just for fun, a white gel pen for the cute picket fence, door and window sills.

This was also a multi layer masking excerise. Fence first, then the conifer, next the house and finally the small stones at the front.

Please visit all our lovely DT's and leave them some well deserved love.

I'll share my crochet makes next time.

Hugs & Happy thoughts

Buffy xx