As clean as it gets

Oh I really should get my bum in gear - I used Sketch Saturday's sketch and then didn't enter it in time.  The weather was too nice to be playing about with the blog and challenges.  I am in time for Passion for Promarkers with their Clean and Simple challenge, and I Love Promarkers' challenge of Occupations.

My friend's daughter is soon to be 18 and wants to be a vet nurse.  I found the ideal image at PJG Scrapbook Heaven.

Life's a Beach

Another leaving card to do for work.  Gosh seems to be the year for it.
I fell in love with the digital image by Hannah Lynn some time ago.  It's one of those pictures that reminds me of school and colouring between the think bold lines.  I coloured her for well over 2 hours.  How glorious is that - to love colouring so much you just lose 2 hours in thoughtless freedom.
The sketch is courtesy of Sketch Saturday.  Thank you - it's a lovely base as always.

 As well as entering Sketch Saturday I am entering this in to I Love Promarkers for this week - an anything goes week.

G'Day !

I was asked to create a card this week for a family that is just about to gain Australian citizenship.  There's not many Australian digi stamps around I can tell you.  I did find this one over at Make it Crafty...and the rest of the card followed.  The sketch is courtesy of...as always...Sketch Saturday.

I wish the Wollacott family good luck.

Sarah's Leaving for a baby...

I was asked to do a baby leaving card for a colleague, so here's what I produced

Sketch courtesy of Sketch Saturday and donkey courtesy of Meljen Designs.

Stars, Stripes and Union Jacks

An old school friend asked me to make her a card.  She used to live here on the Isle of Wight and now she lives in the US.  She makes lovely jewellery under the name of Suki Bijoux. So this is what I came up

with using an image from Kenny K which looks remarkably like my friend.

And this can go in the following challenges whilst I am at it:

Lovely Saturday Sketch

Flag Colours over at Sweet Stampin'

Sparkle over at I Love ProMarkers

And the following picture is one of Suki's creations.  Isn't it fab.  I love it.

Life's a Beach

Sometimes I wonder how far I can stretch a sketch - then I see the other cards entered either by the DT or fellow challenge hunters and I need not worry.  As usual I've used Sketch Saturday's sketch.  Lovely one this week - simple.  I like simple - it's effective.  A bit of hunting through my ever growing pile of oddments I found some gingham that also gives me the chance to enter over at Passion for Promarkers. 

Fairy Nearly Missed it

2 hours to go - and I am determined to make it to Sketch Saturday's Challenge.  I love this fairy and so she's making a show two blog posts running.
Of course being a SC Digi I have to enter her girls' challenge too...bling is this fortnight's theme.

My camera really doesn't do her colours justice.  Might have to have another photo shoot later...but in the meantime...I've a deadline to meet.