Peaceful Poinsettias

Hello again,

Another catch-up post for my quota of Christmas cards for the year, I dug out my older Marianne Design Dies Poinsettias, layering them up with my newer larger Poinsettia dies, also from Marianne Design. I grabbed a few little flowers from my stash to finish off the card, which could have been a little better placed as they ended up in a row… never mind we are our own harshest critics…

Here is my card:-

Not sure whether bad photography or poor lighting, the ribbon and flowers are almost the same colour in real life...

What I used:-

5” x 7” white card blank

AC Vanilla Cardstock

My Minds Eye Collectable ‘remarkable “smile” grin paper’

Gold Paper scraps from my stash

Kaisercraft ‘Yuletide’ Paper

25mm ribbon

MFT die Leaf filled flourish medium

Memory Box die Sketchbook Peace

Poppystamps die Garden Sprig

Fiskars Corner Punch

Marianne Creatables –Poinsettia with veins and mini Poinsettia

White paper flowers from stash

Clear sequins from stash

Flower sequins from stash

I would like to enter this card in:-

Christmas Card Challenges #42 Anything goes

12 Months of Christmas Link-up Nature of Christmas

Crafting by Design Get ready for Christmas September

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' Christmas Diecuts

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #300 Use a sentiment

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra Anything goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #42 Anything goes

Before I leave you today I thought I'd show you one of the flowers in my garden, it is a New South Wales Waratah and the floral emblem of our state, these two images are from the same bush (called Shady Lady) one is only just beginning to open (taken from above) and the other is already open, attracting nectar feeding birds to feast...

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Have a wonderful week...

Megan

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Santa Claus is Coming

Hello again,

I’ve been bad again this month, I’ve not remembered to keep up with my Christmas cards so again we reach the final week of the month and I need to post at least two cards for the month, so here goes…

I bought a basic set of colours of Dylusions spray inks which have basically sat doing not very much since purchase, I decided to dig out one of my MFT stencils and have a play, in future I think this had better be done inside a cardboard box spray booth or outside… read messy. I bought my first direct from company stamps from My Favorite Things late last month which I have been unable to find here locally and decided to get them inky too.

Here’s my card:-

What I used:-

White 14cm square card blank

Various black scrap papers

White cardstock

AC Cabbage cardstock

MFT Jingle all the Way Stamps and die

MFT Greeting tags Stamps

MFT Pierced Fishtail Flags dies

Generic metallic red cardstock

Colorbox inkpad Ruby

Kaisercraft nesting Stars dies

Wplus9 hand lettered holiday die

Dylusions Cut grass ink spray

Faber-Castell, Lyra and Derwent Pencils

At you Spica clear pen

Enamel dots unknown brand

Adhesives:- Double sided tape, adhesive sheet and foam tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

Christmas Card challenge #42 Anything goes

Rudolph Day with Srappy Mo September Anything goes

Christmas at Sweet Stampin’ Christmas Diecuts

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge #300 Use a sentiment

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra September

Crafting by Design Get ready for Christmas September Anything goes

12 months of Christmas link-up Optional theme the Nature of Christmas

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Have a wonderful week

Megan

P.S. A Huge Thank you to all the kind ladies who take the time to leave me a message, I truly appreciate them all… 

A slice of Summer

Hello again,

Today I am sharing a card made for my niece’s birthday later this month, it is already on its way in a parcel full of Lego as requested and not 'girls' Lego either! She spent a lot of time playing with her Dad’s old Lego when she last visited us in NSW and took it all home with her, she told us she didn’t have any and she really really liked it! 

Some other things she really really likes is pineapples and watermelons so much so that at her Mum’s she has all pineapple “stuff” and at her Dad’s when they decorated her new bedroom she got all watermelon “stuff like pillows, a mat and even a doona cover!”

That made things easy to decide she got Lego and her birthday card from my parents was to be a watermelon card, I made my card earlier this year using one of From the Heart Stamps Stamp of the Month images, Faith (From the Heart Stamps owner and designer) is very unwell at the moment and is having treatment for a brain tumour, Please keep Faith in your thoughts and Prayers.

This is probably the easiest card I've made in a long time, four circle dies, adhesive tape and sheets, a flag and a few punched hearts cut in two.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White card blank

Dark green cardstock

Cabbage AC cardstock

Tomato AC cardstock

White cardstock

Black scrap card

Diamond Glaze on the Pips

Heart punch

Wooden ladybug (ladybird on the pack)

MFT Pierced Fishtail flags

MFT Penguins in Paradise stamp

Nesting circle dies Lifestyle crafts

Memento Tuxedo Black inkpad

Black fine line pen

Adhesives:- Diamond glaze and double-sided tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

Snippets Playground week 247 must use snippets

Come and get it Lots of Layers 

Craft your Passion #330 Anything goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Anything goes

Naughty or Nice #31 Challenge food or drink

Many thanks for looking in...

Have a great week...

Megan

P.S. A huge Thank You to all the lovely ladies who take the time to leave me a comment I truly appreciate them all!

Annie Oakley get your guns!

Hello again,

Today I am sharing the card I made for my Mum’s birthday last week, she often talks about the year all the girls in the street she grew up in got Annie Oakley outfits for Christmas (the boys got sheriffs outfits) all with cap guns and the fun they all had running around in the street re-enacting stories from the traditional wild west of America and the Television series Annie Oakley…

I was a lucky winner earlier this year over at Little Miss Muffet Stamps and I was thrilled to discover an image called Sugar ‘n Spice dolls Sage as Annie Oakley which of course I had to have as one of my prizes, I found a newspaper article which showed two different costumes for Annie Oakley from the fifties and sixties, Mum can remember that the skirt was red and she wore a white shirt underneath the vest but she cannot be sure of the colour the vest was.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 5” x 7” card

Sugar ‘n Spice Sage as Annie Oakley digi Little Miss Muffet Stamps

Faber-Castell and Derwent pencils

Rouge cardstock (AC)

Shimelle Star Shine Paper pad

Scraps of blue and silver cardstock

Kaisercraft nesting stars die

Happy Birthday die Elizabeth Crafts

Bling from stash

Sullivan’s Self-adhesive flourish blings

Adhesives:- Diamond Glaze, double-sided tape and foam tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

Little Miss Muffet Challenge #146 Anything goes

Crafting circle September Anything hand coloured goes

Craft your passion #329 Anything goes

Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Challenge Blog

and another new to me blog challenge

Seize the Birthday Anything goes optional topping Frames

Thank you for looking in…

Have a wonderful day…

Megan

P.S. A huge thank you to all the kind, generous and lovely ladies who take the time to leave me a message, I truly appreciate them all.

Get Well

Hello again,

Today I am sharing a very quick card for a friend who has been in hospital with pneumonia.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 14.8x 10.5cm card blank

Scraps of pink, green, gold and white cardstock

Scrap of patterned pink paper

White cardstock

Kaisercraft Embossing folder ‘Roses’

Creative Die Rose (magazine freebie)

Black striped washi tape

Clear sequins

2mm black pearls

MFT stitched Rectangle Die

Clearly Besotted ‘sweet little sentiments’

Memento Tuxedo black ink pad

Adhesives:- Xyron Sticker maker, double-sided tape and Diamond Glaze

I would like to enter this card in:-

Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Challenge September Anything goes
Creative Fingers Challenge #115 Anything goes
Crafts Galore Encore #33 Anything goes

Aud Sentiments Challenge #163 Anything goes with a sentiment
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

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Have a great week...
Megan

P.S. A Huge Thank you to the kind ladies who take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Toothless a Dragon

Hello again,

Today I am sharing a card which required some research, I was asked to make a card for an 8 year old girl who loves a character called ‘Toothless’ now I’m not really into going out to the movies and had no idea who or what ‘Toothless’ was, a little search in Google I found out it was a little dragon from the How to Train your Dragon films, problem now was to find an image or something which I could use I came across a site called Deviant Art where there is a couple of black and white images available, another Google search for handmade cards ‘Toothless’ and a very talented lady Gill Prescott’s blog page with a great punch art card with ‘Toothless’ the dragon on it.

Gill has used a variety of Stampin’ Up punches to create her ‘Toothless’ as I have so far resisted Stampin’ Up products so far, (I do have some on my wishlist) I went through my dies and Gill’s list and selected the best fit using my stash.

I initially inked the edges of the pieces that would lay over the top of others but decided once finished that the dragon required a little more definition and used my white pen to add a fine line around all the black pieces... 

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White card blank 

Black embossed paper from my scrap box

White, silver, grey, green and red snippets from my table (does my table sound messy?) 

Blue checked paper

Green dot paper

MFT Flower medley die

Various circle and oval dies

Colorbox ink pad

White gel ink pen

MFT Label maker Sentiments

Lipstick Red and Blue Lagoon Colorbox Queue ink pad

Balloon die from Magazine

Memory Box Parker Numbers

Blue Tim Holtz Paper twine

Fiskars Eyelet setters (eyes)

Fish skeleton stamp (magazine set)

Adhesives:- Foam tape, double-sided tape, Diamond glaze and PVA

I would like to enter this card in:-

Snippets Playground week #246 Anything goes with snippets

Creative Craft Cottage #71 Spots and/or Stripes

613 Avenue Create #189 Anything goes or twist Autumn Colours

Hiding in my Craftroom Super scraps Saturday

Crafting by Designs September Anything goes

Sisters of Craft September Anything goes

Cute Card Thursday #442 Animals or Creatures

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #41 Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge Anything goes

a new to me Challenge
Cards in Envy For the Kids

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Have a wonderful week..

Megan

P.S. A huge THANK YOU to all the lovely ladies who take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Tool Chest

Hello again,

So over the weekend here in Australia we have celebrated Father’s Day, it always falls on the first Sunday of September and this is the card I made for my Old Man…

A few words about my chunky embellishments, my Dad was sure that those things called videos would prevail as DVD’s were far too similar to music CD’s and he wasn’t going to be replacing the older technology…  as DVD’s did win he is slowly letting go of the older outdated VHS video’s. We like to recycle as much as possible and rather than toss the video’s in the rubbish we have unscrewed and separated as much as possible, leaving a collection of interesting screws behind, which I couldn’t help myself from keeping a few for cards, as rather chunky embellishments and as a bonus the VHS boxes are going to be used to store some of my stamps! My second recycled bit came from breaking my asthma inhaler down  which yielded the small white cogs,  I now have several cogs in my stash…

On the front of the tool box I dripped some Diamond glaze and tried to colour it with some inks… it did not turn out as well as I had wanted, should have used some liquid pearls instead… trying to make paint/glue spills

For those of you who saw my Box card tutorial this is fits in the same size envelope I have just altered the measurements to make two 8cm sides and two 4cm sides.

Here is my card:- from a few different angles ;-)

   

What I used:-

Red cardstock

Scraps of card brown, silver, woodgrain, black, grey and yellow

Swiss dots embossing folder

Kaisercraft tab die to make the vice

Circle punch

Black and white Colorbox inkpads

Acetate from packaging

Screws and cogs recycled

Memory box die Antique Gears (I think they work as circular saw blades)

Marianne Craftables Nuts and Bolts  

Papercraft Inspirations Card making mini magazine for Men (hammer, screw driver and wrench)

Diamond glaze

Adhesives: Foam Tape, double sided tape, PVA glue, glue dots and diamond glaze

I would like to enter this card in:-

Snippets Playground week 245

Catch the bug Anything goes September

Avenue Create 613 Challenge 189 Anything goes or Autumn colours

Craft your Passion 327 Anything goes

Crafting by Design September Anything goes Challenge

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge 41

Sisters of Craft September Anything goes

ABC Challenge ‘O’ is for Open (Anything goes)
Pile it on... Recycle- screws and cogs

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Have a wonderful week…

Megan