Bleached Daisies

 Hello again,

I have made a card following this month's Group of Cardmakers, using the bleaching technique. I have used a scrap of water colour card which I used dylusions Funky Fuchsia and crushed grape spray inks and one of my potluck stamps from Darkroom Door that I bought before they closed down in Australia and recently re-opened in the UK. My potluck stamps are from the scraps, when the rubber had not quite made a full set, they saved the stamps that they could and sold them at a discount.

My stamp comes from the set called Viva la Flora Vol.2 it has a script background which doesn't show on my card as the texture of the water colour card comes through. Stamped in clear ink and heat embossed in black powder. Using bleach-soaked cotton buds on the flowers, I have added a sentiment from Art Stamps Australia.  

What I used

White card blank 10.5x14.8cm

Watercolour card (Micador from Big W)

Darkroom Door Daisy stamp 'Viva la Flora' Vol.2

Clear embossing ink

Black embossing powder

Art stamps Australia Sentiment stamp

Dylusions Spray ink Funky fuchsia and crushed grape

I would like to enter this card in:

Group of Cardmakers Bleaching Technique

Allsorts 847 In the Garden

Beautiful Blossoms Anything Floral goes optional mood board

Daisy Chain Challenge #106 No Design papers

Aud Sentiments Watercolour and/or Spring + Sentiment

NBUS Challenge #85 Daisy stamps first outing

We Love Stamping 'Spring' We already have one jonquil and anemone in flower, whilst all the trees are still only just starting to get their Autumn leaves changing colour her in Aus.

We are starting to get Autumn leaves in our area, which I fully expect to be overrun with tourists as they change as some of the elegant gardens in our area are cut off after several years of extreme weather has caused damage to the roads, some are required to get permits to enter their own streets some of which are several kilometres long, some people have had weddings cancelled as the venues have had to close to the public, some are used to getting 1000+ visitors each day over Autumn. 

That does not include the still cut main highway between Sydney and greater west New South Wales where convicts built the road in 1832 and it has recently failed, almost 200 years and used to transport B-double trucks laden with coal for export or quarry materials for construction. A Blog post from one of the local librarians shows a colourised picture and a story of a grisly murder from 1842, Caroline Collit's Blue Mountain's Local Studies.

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

p.s. Many thanks to my blogging friends and visitors who stop by and take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

#276 LPoCF Star Stampz

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Well today marks the start of an all new Anything Goes Challenge with my team mates at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, this fortnight we are sponsored by Star Stampz who kindly gave the team some of their cute digital stamps to use.  I have used Balloons and Ice Cream to make a card. 

We are also looking for some new members for our design team; you can find out more information here

Star Stampz

Prize 3 Digital Images

Here is my card:

What I used:

White linen card blank 10.5x14.8cm

Star Stampz Balloons and Ice-cream digital stamp

Faber-Castell coloured pencils

Paper Roses Stitched Australian Rectangle dies

Cloud paper (mystery it was an already cut single sheet)

Townscape die I think Marianne Design (it is blue like others)

Navy Cardstock strip

Fussy cutting scissors

I would like to enter this card in:

Polkadoodles Challenge 4 week 4 Anything goes

Crafting Happiness Anything Goes

Sisterhood of Crafters Make someone smile

613 Avenue Create Anything goes optional April Showers

Digi Choosday Anything goes

Colouring with Pencils Anything goes

Pattie's Creations Design Challenge Anything using a digital or stamped image

Paper Rocks Scissors Anything goes scissors used to fussy cut 

Crafts Galore Encore #146 Anything goes

We have been having lovely warm days, with little wind which means the bushfire brigades are currently working hard at doing strategic hazard reduction burns around villages all around the state, we have had a little over 2000 hectares burnt around our town, generally where previous fires have caused havoc in the past, but for only the third time in my memory have they burnt the valley just 200m from home (not the very edges of the valley, we don't want to upset the tourists, some of whom are idiots and ignore signs to stay out)

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan 

p.s. Many thanks to my blogging friends and visitors who take the time to stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Batch Baking Christmas

 Hello again,

Over the last few days, I've been digging through, sorting and adding to my scrap bags, I keep large scraps in one box (if it doesn't come from a set) and smaller scraps in display books according to colour and finally anything smaller than a printed photo in plastic bags again according to colour. I decided that I was going to use some of the scraps up to make some Christmas cards, I dug out some of my Christmas tree dies and set to. I have extra trees left over which may make it onto more cards or maybe just gift tags. 

I tried to use a mix of patterned or embossed, plain and they all have one sparkly glitter tree. I used some more scraps to die cut 'Merry' (3 times and layered on each card) and the star punch to finish them off.

What I used

6 White 5x7 card blanks (12.6x17.8cm)
White cardstock to emboss

Kaisercraft Diamonds and Crafts too Lattice embossing folders

Scrap papers and cardstock including metallics (some are 15+years old)

Marianne Design, Kaisercraft, Magazine freebie and Cottage Cutz tree dies

Memory Box Merry Script die

Nellie Snellen 'Christmas love' clear stamp

Marianne Design Star punch die

Clear embossing powder

Black, Cocoa, Orchid, and two blue inkpads

Adhesives: Double sided tape and PVA glue

I would like to enter these cards into:

Snippets Playground Challenge #530 Anything goes with snippets

The Paper Funday Challenge #86 Anything goes optional twist Die cuts and punches

Can you handle the pressure April Challenge optional blue on blue

Crafty Calendar April Dies or punches

The Neglected Stuff Challenge April patterned papers

Peace On Earth Challenge #109 Anything goes

12 Months of Christmas link-up Anything goes optional Nordic Christmas

Have a wonderful week

Megan

p.s. Physio is going well, I walked nearly 200m without the knee scooter, school holidays is on, and the number of kids giving me strange looks then questioning their Mums about that lady on a scooter is fun, last week one little boy in full meltdown screaming stopped, sniffed and ran to catch up with his Mum his eyes wide in surprise at a scooter being inside the shop by a lady. 

Many thanks to my blogging friends and visitors who take the time to stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!