And the winner is …

My favourite comment for my Gingerbread House tutorial was this one from hannahk …

  This is adorable. I was watching the British Sewing Bee Christmas special where they made a mini dolls house and thought of a gingerbread house idea for next year's gift  making list. Yours tops it and I'm adding it to my inspiration.

So Hannah, please PM me MiniOwner your address through UKS and I’ll post your kit.

UKS Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to today’s UKS blog hop project. I saw a similar felt gingerbread house on Pinterest but it was flatish – I loved it but wanted a 3-D version that will stand on my mantelpiece or maybe hang on the tree.

Click on the page tab at the top of my blog for the instructions.

As an added bonus to the blog hop prizes offered on UKS,  I’ll be choosing one of your comments to receive a kit of all you need to make my project.

Happy Christmas!

Diamond anniversary card

Here’s a card I made for friends of mum who celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary next week.

Hope they like it.

Happy Birthday, Mum!

Today is my lovely mum’s 82nd birthday. Here is the card I made for her.

I used to spend hours playing with mum’s button jar when I was a little girl; I guess that’s why they are my favourite embellishment.

Sketch Challenge Dec 1 – Dec 31

Welcome to my monthly sketch challenge, the last for 2013. Only three entries for last month but three super entries never-the-less. 

My favourite layout was this one by Emily; such a bright and happy page! Just perfect to get us in a festive mood.

Emily – please have a look at the kits on the page tab above and choose one for your prize then email me your address to sue at suehr dot fsnet dot co dot uk.

And so … on to the December challenge ... just use my sketch as the starting point for a scrapbook page. Please link me up to your blog or gallery via the linky thingy below and be sure to mention my challenge in your blog post or gallery text box be nice and only enter new projects. I’ll choose my favourite and send the winner one of my crop kits you can see them at the page tab at the top of my blog.

Beat the Christmas Rush

Hello and welcome to my last BtCR for 2013. First of all a big thank you to everyone who joined my monthly challenge – bet you are thrilled to bits not to be having the usual rush to get your cards done. Well done!

One lady who has been a regular linkie is ionabunny so it’s great that one of her cards was my favourite for November. I love the gorgeous colours.

Thanks also to Sarah and Susi who haven’t missed a month.

So have a fabulous Christmas everyone, and pop back here for BtCR 2014 on January 25th.

Holidays are coming …

We spent a lovely day crafting on Tuesday. While Marilyn and I cut squares for some last minute Christmas quilting, mum made this lovely rag wreath for her door. So effective and a great way to use up fabric scraps.

A couple of layouts

Today I’m sharing two pages I did for UKS challenges. The first is this month’s house challenge set by the Red Ribbons. They asked us to use this photo as colour inspiration.

 

 

The second page is one I did a couple of weeks ago for Heather’s weekly challenge which was to use the sketch and to include some stitching and fussy cutting.

Birthday Card Book

I thought you might like a look at the Birthday Card Book I made for my class at the CCW retreat last weekend. It was nice to dust off my Bind-it-all and put it to good use again. Thank you, Marilyn, for your much needed help with the class :o)

Sue x

Sketch Challenge Nov 1 – Nov 30

Time for a new sketch challenge – I’ve moved the dates back to the first of the month I’m not sure how they got so out of sync. Here is the new sketch and my page … with thanks to Christine for help with the title :o).

 
Your challenge is to use my sketch as a starting point for a scrapbook page. Please link me up to your blog or gallery via the linky thingy below and be sure to mention my challenge in your blog post or gallery text box. Please only enter new projects. I’ll choose my favourite and send the winner one of my crop kits you can see them at the page tab at the top of my blog.

From last month’s links I just loved this layout by Gemma with that fab paint drip paper coincidentally the same paper I’ve used for my layout this month :o). I also want to give a special mention to Christine’s page - how cute is that photo?

 







Gemma – please have a look at the kits on the page tab above and choose one for your prize then email me your address on sue at suehr dot fsnet dot co dot uk.

Beat the Christmas Rush

   
 
Phew! I made it! 50 cards in 10 months! I have definitely Beaten the Christmas Rush I wonder how many other people have? This will be our last link in 2013 ready to go again in January 2014?

First of all, my favourite linky from last month was this gorgeous card by Toni, I love it’s old fashioned appeal and Toni’s colouring is fab-u-lous!

Here are my last five cards for this year – please link up yours, even if you haven’t joined in so far. :o)


Bet you’re humming now :o)
Sue x

Time for blogging at last!

I’m so sorry, dear Blog, to have neglected you for so long. A nasty bout of shingles, the CCW retreat and mum being poorly have meant I have done little scrapping and no quilting. :o( Anyway, I am back in Blogland and have a couple of pages to share which are both UKS challenges and both were done at the retreat last weekend.

The first is the House Challenge set by Alison who it so happens I was sitting next to at the retreat. Alison gave us a selection of Dr Seuss quotations to choose from – I just love this one.

And the second is for the Weekly Challenge set by AllyJ50 who asked us to use

ink or pink/blue
five lines of journalling handwritten/typed on the layout or as labels/tags/note cards
three plus photographs in a cluster/collage
and to start the title with A DAY AT or IN

This page was made in a super class by Niki.

Sue x

For my dear dad - four years on ...

BtCR September 25th

 
If you joined me in January to try to Beat the Christmas Rush you will have 45 cards all done and dusted! It’s not too late to join – our aim is to make up to 5 cards each month ready for December. Here are my September cards >>>

We had some lovely linkies again last month and my favourites was this super card by Susi … I love Susi’s cards and I’m so impressed at Susi’s amazing effort to catch up with BtCR by making 17 cards in August!

Please do join me in Beat the Christmas Rush. :o)
Sue x

The small print : please link back to my blog in your post, mentioning Beat the Christmas Rush. You can make up to 5 separate links each month :o)