Guest DT at Little Miss Muffett!

How are you all recovering from Xmas? We had a lovely afternoon spent with family that are down from Qld and now the boys and I are home before we head off in the morning on a road trip to NSW... So early night for me!!
Anyway, I am here today to share a card with you that I have made as Guest designer at little Miss Muffet challenges!! I won the tags challenge a couple of weeks ago and was asked if I would like to be a guest designer and of course I said yes!! So chose the Van Family brothers to work with and decided to make a card for my older son that my younger son can give him for his birthda next month!! I probably would have liked to have had more time to create but life has been so crazy in the lead up to christmas so i am happy with this.

The background paper is from Polkadoodles from the See Stars did download bundle. I then coloured the images in with tria markers, stamped the sentiment which were from kaszazz and then added the stars button and twine. Pretty clean and simple buut i think perfect for a boy and I know my son will love it!!

Thanks to the team at LMMS for having me as Guest Designer!!

I'm off to bed now before my big road trip tomorrow...

Fluffy White Snowflakes at EBW!

Merry Christmas everyone.. it is Xmas day- the 25th of Dec which means it's time for our final challenge of the year at Elisabeth Bell's world. We are being sponsored by one of our wonderful DT members, Rose, who is offering the lucky winner a wonderful prize!!. Our challenge this month is Fluffly White Snowflakes and I used Letters to Santa which you can get from Elisabeth bell's digital collection.

I coloured her in with Tria markers and added stickles to the snow on the ground and kindyglitz to her coat fur trim! i kept the card fairly simple, punching an eyelet border, using some christmas carnival kaisercarft scraps, then adding the die cut snowflakes, ribbon, buttons and rhinestones!!.

Well that is it from today, it's been a very long day and I am beat!

Be sure to pop over to the Elisabeth bell's World challenge blog to see the DT creations and what prize Rose is offering!! of course there will also be a digi or two for one lucky challenger also from Elisabeth Bell's digital collection!!

CYP and SALS!

Merry Christmas everyone....as our Xmas day draws to a close many of you are only starting or about to wake up to the festivities of the day!! I am at my mum's house and was lucky enough to to spend Xmas Eve and Day with all my brothers and sisters and their kids and partners. There were what seemed hundreds of presents that took hours to wrap and sort and only 90 mins to unwrap and enjoy!!! So now as we wind down (or nearly fall asleep) I thought I better catch up on some blog posts (cos I ran out of time).

Yesterday saw a new challenge start at CYP and Seems a Little Sketchy. At Seems a little Sketchy we are sponsored by Whimsy stamps and at Craft Your Passion we are sponsored by the Robin's Nest and the challenge is to alter something so we don't want to see any cards this time round!! So I had a box that has been sitting on my desk for ages, so I decided to decorate it with some papers that I had just been given for free. Turned out absolutely perfect!!

This is the top of the box and I followed the Seems a Little Sketchy sketch. The image is  from a Graphic 45 pad I had, so no stamping at all this time!! I used my new let it snowflake die from MFT and put kindyglitz on them all for a bit of sparkle!!

And because the paper was so busy I decided just to add a thin ribbon around the outside.
Well that is it from me.. Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!! I'll be back in  few hours with another post!!

The last Digi Bell's Blog Hop for the year with Christmas Bell's!!

Wow, can you believe it's only 3 days till Christmas (probably 4 for most of you). I have finally finished christmas shopping and just have a few gift cards to make and then I'm finished wrapping too!! I'm so glad too cos usually on Christmas Eve I'm still wrapping presents at 2am, then I wake up exhausted Christmas morning!! So it's good to be organised in one aspect of my life.. Still have an untidy house and still have baking to do, oh and a few more DT cards to make and preschedule!! There are still two days left for me to do that so I should be ok...
Anyway, you are not here to listen to my babble, you're here for the final Digi Bell's Blog Hop for 2012!!  So if you have arrived here from Susan's Blog then you are definitely on the right track but if you have stumbled across my blog or you are a regular follower then you may want to start at the Digi Bell's Blog and join in the fun cos there is a prize at the end of the hop!!
So today we have a gorgeous new image designed by Elisabeth Bell and she is now available in her digital collection.. This card is not the one I originally made but long story short, my first one ended up in the recycling bin. But kind of glad it did cos I absolutely love how this one turned out!!!

Please Welcome Christmas Bell's

Isn't she just stunning!! i origianlly had her coloured up in traditional Christmas colours but I really do love these non traditional Christmas colours!! I coloured Christmas Bell's in with Tria markers and as you can see added kindyglitz to the fur trim!! I bought this core'dinations card stock the other day and really wanted to use it so that I could sand it and play around with it!! You probably can't see that I sanded around the edges of the card but I did and also over the embossed dots!! I had no matching twine or ribbon for the colours I used so decided to use raffia instead which I think turned out perfect!! I then die cut some snowflakes and flourishes and layered those, added aome buttons and pearls and finish off I added the Tim Holtz Love Tag!! Well that's it from me for today, I will now send you on to Pam's blog where I'm sure you will be dazzled!! Don't forget if you get lost along the way then head back to the Digi Bell's Blog!! And also 'Christmas Bell's' is available now from Elisabeth Bell's Digital Collection if you just have to have her!!
I would love to enter this card into the following challenges:
* Christmas at Sweet Stampin'- Christmas Anything Goes
* Divas by Design - Anything Goes
* Inky Impressions - Sparkle
* Penny's Paper Crafty - Merry Christmas
* Simon Says Stamp - Christmas
* Creative Craft - Non Traditional christmas
* Little Miss Muffet - Christmas
* Hooked on Crafts - Christmas

Anything Goes at Paper Crafting Journey

Can you believe there are only 4 days till Christmas!! I still have so much to do... Oh well.. there is always tomorrow!! LOL!! 
Well today is the last challege of the year at Paper Crafting Journey and we leave you with an easy one - Anything Goes!!! We are being sponsored by Rick St Dennis this challenge and we were lucky enough to get to create with one of his images!!!
I chose Cocoa's and Cookie Santa to play with:

I wasn't too sure what to do for this card and it ended up being a pretty clean card but I love the way it turned out!! I coloured the image in with Tria markers and added rock candy stickles to the trim of his jacket and hat. So I just made one half of the card look like  a santa jacket and added some stars around Santa to the other side!! The image is a from a Papertrey Ink.

That's it from me, sorry for another short post but I have presents to wrap tonight!!! I'll be back tomorrow for a fabulous Hop so be sure to come back then!!!

Head on over to the Paper Crafting Journey blog to see what the rest of the DT have created and don't forget we a have DT Call at the moment so why not sign up... We'd love to have you as part of our friendly team!!

Logan's Final Craft Your Passion Kids Post!

Well today is a bit of a bittersweet days as it is Logan's last post for Craft Your Passion  Kids, not just for the year but forever!! Jenn has decided that due to low entry numbers and her life being so busy it was time to call it a day... Logan was a bit sad when I told him this would be the last card he made for his DT but he will be at school next year so less time at home to get cards made so it kind of suits us too!!!
So here is his card:

I actually cannot remember what the theme was supposed to be (so be sure to checkout the CYPK blog to find out) but Logan wanted to use this Polka Doodles image (from the Picnix 2 Collection!!) I have actually been using this collection alot too for all the teachers Christmas gifts as I have run out of time to sit and colour images!!
So  no colouring today for Logan but he chose all his papers and embellishments. The background paper is fromMagnolia and not sure about the mistletoe one, it's from my stash. He added a little bit of red ribbon, then added the presents word and picture rubons. Logan was so pleased with this card that he doesn't want to use it...
So  hope that you will join us for the kids very last challenge at CYPK.
Wishing you and your families all the best for the Festive season!!

A Recipe at Craft Your Passion!! (but not the cooking kind)

Hello, I know another late post!! I am really sorry, I think I mentioned the other day I was falling behind, well that was an understatement!! I have had to wave the white flag and surrender because I just cannot keep up. So after Christmas and a few scheduled posts, I will be offline for a few weeks!! My boys and I are going on a road trip to Culburra beach in NSW to catch up with a friend I haven't seen for about 5 years!! So I am very much looking forward to that!!
Anyway, I'm already late with this post so better get to it! This week at Craft Your Passion we have a recipe challenge for you this week so we would like to see - 3 Different Design Papers, Ribbon or Twine and Something Circle Shaped! We are sponsored by Delicious Doodles this week and I used Steampunk Fairy!

I only added a bit of colour to the wings with a purple Twinkling H20. Left the rest of the image uncooured again to keep inline with the colour of the papers!! I actually created a design paper of my own with a cog stencil I recently purchased, then added the other two cog design papers!!I added some faux stitching around the outside of the card. I added some ribbon down the bottom of the card then added the bow as well! To finish off the card I added the buttons and all the rhinestones!!
Well that's it from me, but go check out what the DT created on the Craft Your Passion blog!!