A little of this and that...

Evening folks.  I made this card last night just for the sake of it. It is an old Clean and Simple sketch that I loved so thought I would use again.  Stamps are Unity and Practicing Creativity.  Paper is October Afternoon.  I liked these colours together: lime; deep red; white and bark (dark dark brown).

Today I've also been busy making some crayon/notepad folders out of felt. I love the pattered felt you can get now, it's so cool and inexpensive.

Here is what the inside looks like.  I made these using a tutorial over at Skip to my Lou (love that blog!)

Thanks for stopping by.

Frog Card call... ribbitt ribbitt!

Hello, today's card was made for a very special cause.  I am a new follower of a blog called Pollycraft, which is also an online shop selling digital images for cardmaking.  Well when I hopped over there yesterday, there was a free digital image of this cute little frog on offer.  The story behind it was about a lady, Lisa (a fellow cardmaker) whose sister, Jayme, has terminal cancer.  She was asking people to send a funny frog card to her sister to bring a smile to her face.  Well with a free image to hand I couldn't pass up that request now could I!  I searched the web for frog jokes and came up with one that made me laugh anyway!

I used the current Get Sketchy Challenge sketch.  I think it also fits the current Cards Blog call for punny cards (well maybe!), not sure if jokes count as puns really....! Now I picked orange for the t-shirt as it goes so well with the green, but it also works with this week's challenge from The Pink Elephant to use orange as the focal point of the card.

Without further ado here is the card.

I inserted the image into Microsoft Publisher then added the scene around it.  The muddy puddle across the road is brown dimensional paint.

Here is a slightly closer look.

And then inside it says:

After making this one and sending it, I also spotted these digital images from Tiddly Inks.  This would be cool too, I might make another one!!

Have a wonderful day and just remember how precious each day is and never take your health for granted.

A couple of challenge cards

HI there folks! Just a quick post today.   I made this card using the sketch at Taylored Expressions.  The flower stamp is Unity and the sentiment is There She Goes.  I love these colours together!

Here is another angle:

And this second card was made using the sketch over at Our Creative Corner.  I stuck with the same colours for the image (another Unity one), but changed the look by backing it onto lime green and using different patterned paper.

Another angle:

I have just made another card, but as it's night time here now, so I'll have to photo and post that one tomorrow.

Have a fab day, I'm off to bed!

Winners Day!!!

OK so today is Winners Day - how exciting!! Drum Roll please...................my daughter getting ready to pick out the winners! Sporting one of my creations of course!

• 1st Prize: Sara - let me know what your choice is and what size you would like
• 2nd Prize: The Sice Family - Let me know what card you like, or colours etc
• Runner Up prize #1: Crafty Tokyo Mama 
• Runner Up prize #2: AJ
• Runner Up prize #3: Susan

Runners up please let me know what your order of prefernce would be for the cup cozy patterns, I'll see what I can do! Winners please email me with your name and address and preferences at   thecraftynomad@hotmail.co.uk  [or jowestfoot@hotmail.com - having some problems with the other account] Thanks.

Thank you so much for entering my giveaway! For those who became followers I hope you stick around and like what you see.

I would have loved to have given everyone a prize! Your feedback has been so useful!  So as a thankyou to those who left a comment for the giveaway (up until it closed) I will be offering 15% discount on your first order with me (excluding postage costs).  If this is something that appeals to you then please contact me directly at thecraftynomad@hotmail.co.uk   [or jowestfoot@hotmail.com - having some problems with the other account!] I am afraid I can only offer this discount to those that I can verify as being original comments through the emails that were left at time of comment or through the linked blog.  There were quite a few people who left me no way of contacting you - sorry!

If you're interested in particpating in the SewMamaSew Blog Giveaway next time and want to know if it is worth it take a look at what I thought here.

Hope to see you back soon.

Giveway is now closed

Ok, so the giveaway is now closed - what an amazing response!  I was blown away by the number of comments, followers and the lovely things that were said!  Thank you so much for taking part in my Giveaway.

Winners will be announced later today.

Just a few words for those thinking they might participate next time.  I just wanted to say a little bit about why I took part in the giveaway so it might help others in the same situation.  Although I do love a giveaway just for the sake of it, I mean who doesn't love to put smiles on people's faces?  I have to say my main reason for doing this one was to reach more people, to get my designs seen by a wider audience and to see if my hobby could ever be more than just a hobby!  So, 'Was it worth it?' I hear you ask? Well here are the stats, and potential future 'Giveawayers' can make up their own minds!  During the 6 day period I had:

• 1261 visits!
• 150 comments on the giveaway post
• 50 new blog followers
• 4 new Etsy Shop Hearts
• 6 new Etsy Item Hearts
• 1 Made it Item Favourited
• 0 Sales

For me, despite no sales, it was definately worth it.  I got some wonderful feedback about my items, including some constructive criticism about something I hadn't thought of so that was good too.  There were also some useful comments about my shop set up too. So thanks for all that.  Hopefully the coming weeks and months will bring orders too!

Just in case you are interested these were the top 5 favourites in order:

1. Dinosaurs (both designs)
2. Car
3. Butterflies
4. Rainbow
5. Pink Heart

Dinosaurs were clearly leading the way!  If you can think of some other new designs you'd like to see feel free to let me know.

I'll be back later today with the winners!!