Lots happening!!

Another week and a half gone and no post!! I have been creating heaps so thought it was about time I shared them with you!!

Before I do show you though I just wanted to let you know that there are a couple of Blog Hops that I am a part of this week so would love for you to come and hop along and join in the fun!!
The first hop I am involved in is the Paper Crafting Journey Summer Fete Blog Hop!! Lots of prizes up for grabs but you've got to be in it to win it!! It will run for two weeks from this Thursday the 23rd June so you have plenty of time to create and be a part of the fun!!

The other hop I am a part of is Creations by Gill M's Fairy Day Blog Hop starting on Friday 24th! Gill is a mad fairy lover so there was no way she was going to let this event pass her by without celebrating in some way!! This hop will run over two days with different participants on each day so be sure to hop along on both days!! There will be a prize or two up for grabs so be sure to work out the mystery word for your chance to win!!

Now back to my cards! These are all birthday cards that I have been making for family and friends.

This was for my brother's girlfriend's birthday

I am entering this card in the tickled pink stamps challenge which is a sketch!!!

This was for Valerie from Gill's RAK club

This was a jar I decorated and filled with home made fudge for a pre-service teacher at my son's kinder

Another card for my brother's girlfriend's birthday!

This was for a friend's son's 1st birthday!

Before I go I just want to say welcome to my new followers..I hope that you come back often and see what I have been up to!! I am trying to post more often but time seems to fly by!!! I think once these couple of hops have started I'll be back to posting more often!! :)

I would also like to say thank you to a few people!! I have won quite a few blog Candies over the past month so wanted to thank the wonderful people who held these giveaway's.

So THANK YOU to Tracey from Allsorts Challenge Blog,( I won a lot of Magnolia goodies and other bits and bobs), Holley from Holley's Blog ( two sweet pea stamps, some tags and a set of acrylic stamps), Helen and Lew from Elphine House (two stamps from their new Elisabeth Bell stamp range), Ann from Raindrop Echo Designs (10 customised sentiment stamps and a water mark and digital signature for my blog) and Tracey from Spesch Designer Stamps (two digital stamps from the new release).

Wow didn't realize just how much I had won till I wrote it all down!!! THANKYOU SO MUCH EVERYONE!!

I will be repaying the favour in August when I celebrate my one year Blogaversary!! :)

Well that's it from me...lots to create... but not enough time to create!

Until Next Time... Enjoy!! xx

Just relaxing in the garden...

...well not me personally as it is absolutely freezing here but Tilda with watering can is in her new garden with some of her feathered friends...she also has some faerie friends hiding who she hasn't seen yet! Which brings us to this fortnights challenge over at Paper Crafting Journey - Our Feathered Friends. Sorry this is being posted a bit late but I was hoping to have it done earlier but it's just been one of those days.
What a response we had to last week's Anything Goes challenge - over 400 entries. Thanks to everyone that joined us!
We are being sponsored by Glitterbabe's Digi's and we were given a few images to work with (I used the bird and the sentiment). This card has been in the making for about a week, and I have been wanting to share with you since I finished it. I decided I wanted to make a little garden scene and it took a little while for me to actually work it out in my head of how to create it.. So I eventually went for a stair step card and this is what I came up with...

This is a front view of the card

A Bird's eye view

Close up of Tilda and hidden faerie

Close up garden with hidden faeries

I used Kaszazz cardstock and I just fringed the green to make the grass. I shrunk the gorgeous emerald faerie stamps so that they could be hidden in the grass (that was a task and a half to cut out). I also shrunk the birds so that I could place them in the Penny Black tree. I coloured up the Magnolia House and that's where I stopped for a couple of days!!. I wasn't too sure of what else I was going to do until my new Magnolia's from the rainbow collection arrived. So I stamped out Tilda and the car and reduced them so that they would fit on the card and boy were they the perfect fit!! I then stamped out the flowers from a Stampin'Up  set ( So happy for you) I won awhile ago!! Everything was coloured in with Tria's except for the tree which I chalked and added kindyglitz and rhinestones to! I forgot to write down all the colours I used to colour but if you would really like to know then please feel free to ask and I can let you know!! I then just added the flowers to the front under the sentiment, added crystal effects to all the windows on the car and house and I was done!!! I am so super happy with it and so glad that I am able to finally share it with you!!!

I have decided to enter this card into the following challenges:

* Emerald Faeries Challenges - Bling

* Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Anything Goes

* Claudia and Company - Fancy Folds

* Papertake Weekly - AnythingGoes

* Digi Doodle Shop Challenge - No backing Papers

* Top Tip Tuesday - More than one Fold

* Stampavie and More - More than one Fold

* Digital Tuesday Challenge - In the Garden/Outdoors

* Craft your Passion Challenge - Anything Goes

* Stamp Something - Use a digi

Well thats it from me for now.. head on over to Paper Crafting Journey to see what the rest of the DT have created and join us with our Feathered Friends Challenge!!

Until Next Time... Enjoy!! xx

Some cards to share!!!

Where does the time go??  I have been busy making things for some upcoming blog hops so I can't share them just yet but I have made other cards recently that I haven't shared yet. As you can see I've also changed the look of my blog!!! Decided I need to freshen it up now that I know a bit more about blogging and the sites that are around! I recently won a customized digital signature and watermark from Raindrop Echo's A giveaway a day in May so I thought it would be nice to make some changes for when I receive that!!
This first card was made for my niece for her 16th Birthday!! I was so happy with my colouring at the time but looking back at it now it's not overly special!! Oh well, I guess I just keep practicing with my colouring!! I'll get there eventually!!
So here is the card I made!

You cant really see but the yellow cardstock is glittery!! I think the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts (they were from a blog candy I won) and the buttons and ribbon are from my stash!! I coloured Tilda and the car in with Tria's ( G278, G557, G555, WG02, NG02, 0225, 0535, 0528, R635, NG09, R555, R665, Y567, O277, O377, V245, C646) The numbers are from Kaszazz and I painted them with Kaisercraft paint!!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

* The Paper Shelter - Celebrate

* Crafts and Me challenges - Stamp Something 

* Craft Room challenge - Anything Goes

* Going Grey with Scrap-Creations - Happy Birthday

* Die Cut Dreams - 3 stamps, 3 flowers and a bow

* Ohh La La Creations - Happy Birthday

* Incy Wincy Designs - Tic Tac Toe

* There She Goes clear stamps - Milestones

* Scrappy frogs - Birthdays

* Sassy Studio Designs - No patterned paper

 I made this card for a friend's son over in the UK! I've been a bit slack in getting cards sent this year on time but better late than never I guess!!

I coloured this Penny Black image in awhile ago so I'm not sure what colours I've used but I used Tria's and Copic's. I used Echo Park papers and added some buttons!! This is definitely not my best colouring, in fact his face is a mess (think I used a blender pen to fix an error but forgot to fix it!! I still wanted to share it though!!! Because of the bad colouring I'm not entering this card into any challenges!!

That's it for now but I will be back tomorrow with my DT card for PCJ Challenge #12.

Until Next Time... Enjoy!! xx

The Boys Get Creative!!

It was my sister's birthday this past week as well as my niece's 16th so the boys decided they wanted to make a card each. I was very excited when my new magnolia stamps from the rainbow collection arrived from Bizzy Becs on Friday and the boys thought the new car was the best stamp ever so that is what they created with!!!

Logan's Card (Age 4)

Logan used some of our new pirate paper that I bought awhile ago, coloured his car in with  Twinkling H20's, then added some buttons, ribbon, stickers and rhinestones. He is an embellishment king just like his mum! :)

Liam's Card (Age 6)

Liam kept his card pretty simple by using some pirate paper and just adding his car which he coloured with  watercolour pencils. He then added some hearts to the car!! :

Both boys were very proud of themselves!!

We are entering both these cards in the following challenge

* Digi's with Attitude! Challenges - Kid's Digi Day Challenge

Until Next Time... Enjoy!!  xx

         

May RAK Club Card

OOPPSS I was supposed to post this last week but life is hectic and just forgot... I am part of a Random Acts of Kindness Club that Gill set up over at Creations by Gill M. Each month we are given a fellow crafter to send a card too and we follow a theme.. It's lots of fun and nice to receive a card in the mail amongst those bills!!!So this month I received a card from the very talented Cheryl Johnson http://nanascreativeplace.blogspot.com...

What a fab card!!! Thanks Cheryl!!

Until Next Time... Enjoy!! xx

PCJ Challenge #11 - Anything Goes and/or your Favourite Technique

Well the last couple of weeks have been trying due to a lot of blogger issues and the commenting issue is still not resolved as I write this!!!It's taking me forever to get this post written due to not being able to upload photos so I've had to go through Picasa and blog via that method! If comments have not been left on your PCJ challenge #10 Get well soon entry then it is possible that we could not find your post due to blogger removing it or because we just ca't leave comments!! All the entries were fantastic, so thank you for sharing!!!

So with that said... it's time for challenge #11 - Anything Goes and/or your favourite technique!!! We are kindly being sponsored by the very generous Craftie Charlie and boy wait to see what the prize is that is on offer!!.


Craftie Charlie is an online UK store owned by two longtime friends selling scrapbooking, cardmaking and general craft items. And here is a sample of what they sell:

Pretty awesome stuff hey!! Well guess what??? This is the prize that is on offer for this challenge!! I know... WOW!!!

So what is my favourite technique? I had to really think about this challenge and it took me awhile to decide what I wanted to do but in the end I went back to what I love the most (although I haven't done it for ages) is distressing and paper tearing!!! I love that whole grunge look and I think that look suits this stamp from Tickled Pink Stamps - Lil Lad Damon.

I made another side easel card, I just love how these cards look!!!

I coloured the image in with Aqua crayons, then used a bit of distress ink over the top of it!! I used ivory card stock and distressed that with walnut stain distress ink, added the brown cardstock. The music paper is from Kaszazz which I also distressed. I added some buttons with rafia and the sentiment is also from TPS as is the guitar on the inside of the card!!. I'm not usually great at making cards for guys but I think this one ROCKS!!!

Well get your thinking caps on and show us your favourite technique over at Paper Crafting Journey...there's an awesome prize to be won!!!

I am entering this into the following challenges:

* Tickled Pink Stamps - Distressing

* Sugar Creek Hollow - Masculine

* I Did it Creations - Anything Goes

* Whoopsi Daisy Challenge - Birthdays

* Scrappy Frogs - Birthdays

* The Sisterhood of Crafters - Buttons

* The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes

* Kaboodle Doodles - Distress, Rip, Tear, Crumple

Until Next Time... Enjoy!!

Couple of cards to share!!

Wow, can't believe it's been over a week since I posted last!! i received my 72 new Tria pens at the beginning of the week so I have been colouring heaps of images to test out all the colours!! I have also made a few cards but unfortunately I am unable to share them with you yet as they are for my DT position with Paper Crafting Journey!! Speaking of Paper Crafting Journey, you still have another few days to get your entry in for the Get Well Soon challenge. There aren't many entries so you have a pretty good chance of making the top three!!!
So here are are a couple of cards I can share!!! (Did you really think I'd post with out cards?) They are both pretty simple cards but I really like both of them!!

Tilda with cute skirt was coloured in with copics but I have no idea what colours I used as I coloured her in at a craft show earlier in the year!! I followed The Sweet Stop sketch so only added a few embellishments. I actually don't think it needs anything else, Tilda makes this card beautiful all on her own!!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

* The Sweet Stop - Sketch

* Really Reasonable Ribbon's Ramblings - Anything Goes

* Magnolia Downunder Challenges - Your Favourite Things (the stamp, the flower, the bling and the colours)

* Incy Wincy Designs - Clean and Simple

* Lexi's Creations - Spots and/or Stripes

For this card I used Lil Lolita Kellita from Tickled Pink Stamps. This is the first time I have coloured her up and I think she is just stunning!!I've coloured her in using my tria markers but again I can't remember what colours I used. I  must start writing them down now that I have so many!! Not sure where the papers are from, they were given to me from a friend ages ago. I just punched out the flowers and added some rhinestones.. Enough said!!

I've entered this card into the following challenges:

* Creative Cowgirls Challenge Blog - Anything Goes

* Truly Scrumptious Challenge - Anything Goes ( and DT call)

That's it from me for now!!! Off to create and do a couple of blog hops!!!

Until Next Time... Enjoy!! xx