Get Ready for Christmas October

Hello again,

Today brings us to a new challenge over at Crafting By Designs and this week it is our ever popular Get ready for Christmas edition for October, not long to go now until it is time to get all those cards out in time for the big day. I hope that you will join us and add a card or two to your stash.

I have used some of my stamps from home to create two cards for my stash, I have used Distress Oxide inks in Peacock Feathers, picked raspberry, seedless preserves and wilted violet many splashes and squirts of water to create a A4 sheet of background paper and used a die I bought last October from Paper Roses to create the sentiment. I then used scraps of the DOI background to stamp and heat emboss a row of trees which I then fussy cut out and added them to my cards.

I liked how these two turned out and still have some of the background sitting on my desk, I also plan on making a couple in more masculine colours and maybe try the sentiment in portrait....

Here are my cards:-

What I used:-
White card blanks (12.6x17.8cm)
Distress Oxide Inks Peacock Feathers, Picked Raspberry, Wilted Violet and a hint of Seedless Preserves + Water and heat tool
Paper Roses Merry peek-a-boo die
Stamp-It Australia Tree-o!
Black and white cardstock
Hero Arts Merry Stamp and Cut (stamps only)
Scrap of silver mirri card
CCD Swirl die
Clear embossing ink
Wow! Super fine silver embossing powder
Wow! glitter silver embossing powder (and heat tool)
Embossing ink pen to draw on decorations and colour the star in
Bling and sequins from my stash
Black fine line pen
Adhesives:- Double sided tape, foam tape, pva glue and adhesive sheet

I would like to enter these cards in:-
Christmas at Sweet Stampin'  Anything Christmas
Merry Little Christmas Challenge Anything Christmas
The Merry Christmas Challenge Anything Christmas
12 Months of Christmas Link-Up optional theme gear up for winter
Rudolph Day with Scrappy Mo
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #409 optional For someone special
 
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Have a wonderful week...
Megan

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Friends

Hello again,

I needed a couple of cards for my Mums friends who celebrate their birthdays in the next couple of months, I won a stamp from Naughty or Nice Challenge (now closed) which features four ladies and as mum and her friends get together and there is just four of them this stamp is very fitting, I have stamped and heat embossed in black and used some of my many scraps to make clothes for them, I decided to use water colour pencils to colour/paint their pants and then paper pieced each of their tops. The sentiment is from darkroom door stamps and is heat embossed in silver before I cut it up. The inside has obligatory Happy Birthday and also one of the included sentiments from the set which says ‘here’s to another year of laughing at our own jokes’

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 12.6x17.8cm card blank 5x7”

White card scraps

White card stock

All patterned paper from My Minds Eye ‘Happy Day’ Paper pad (one of my first paper pads)

Pink cardstock

Lots of Love  Art Impressions stamp set

Friends stamp Darkroom Door

Black and Silver super fine embossing powder

Faber-Castell and Prismacolor pencils

Rectangle die

Fussy cutting scissors and Stanley knife

Adhesives:-Double sided tape, foam tape and PVA glue

 I would like to enter this card in:-

Pause Dream Enjoy Challenge  October card challenge

Sisterhood of Crafters a little bit of humour

Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Challenge

Snippets Playground must use snippets 

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned paper challenge

Thank you for dropping by,

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

P.S.  A huge Thank You to all my blogging friends and visitors who take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Calendar 2019

Hello again,

This will be my second attempt at posting this as blogger decided to be unfriendly the other day and it froze on me, so here goes again....

After making several friends calendars as small gifts one year for Christmas, it has become somewhat of a tradition, last year I made owl calendars in various colours ensuring they fit inside and A5 envelope, I came across a Split Coast Stampers calendar tutorial and saved it to use this year and having already purchased the tiny calendars followed the directions to make them free standing using C7 card blanks. Two are upright tent fold cards and the other two horizontal and as a bonus they will still fit in the regular envelopes for posting...

I have used the same daisy stamp from Stamp-It Australia heat embossing in silver and black, colouring and painting in the colours with Prismacolor watercolour pencils in purples, pinks, yellow and red. When I added the calendar tabs to the two landscape cards both tore the calendar off at December which was a pain quickly rectified by stapling the rest back on. 

Here are the calendars:- Apologies, I couldn't get them to fit in two by two so one pic of each with an extra showing the prop inside the card.

What I used:-

White C7 card blanks (vertical card 12.4x17.4cm) horizontal (12.6x17.8cm)

Pink, mauve, yellow and white card stock (scrap box)

Stamp It Australia Daisy Bunch stamp

Stamp tool

Martha Stewart scoring board 

CCD apron lace die

Memory Box Pippi Butterfly die

MFT Stitched inner and outer oval die

Crafters Choice Pastel basics papers

Wood effect paper

Sugar n spice Pastel papers (some are scraps)

White cardstock for making brace at bottom of calendar

Sequins and tiny black pearls
Black and Silver embossing powder + heat tool

Staples and stapler 

Couture Creations 2019 Calendar tabs

I would like to enter these calendars in:-

613 Avenue Create optional theme use something wood (red daisies)
Crafts Galore Encore challenge Anything goes October (red daisies)
Creative Craft Cottage Pretty in Pink or Halloween (pink daisies)
The Butterfly Challenge G is for Gold, green (yellow daisies) (paper a golden yellow and green on the foliage)
Creatalicious Challenges Anything goes optional use purple (purple daisies)

Thank you for looking in...
Have a wonderful week.... 
Megan

P.S. A Huge Thank you to all my lovely blogging friends and visitors who take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all! 

Elephant Christmas

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I am on a roll with my Christmas cards, today I am sharing one featuring two cute elephants, under a starry sky. I created the background with Distress Oxide inks in Black soot, faded jeans and broken china, added some dark green card with a grassy border behind them adding dots of clear embossing ink with my pen and some gold embossing powder. I have even managed to make four Calendars which will be given as thank you gifts, all using the same stamp just in different colours.... 

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 17.5x12.5 card blank (fold on short side)

Distress Oxide Inks- Black soot, Jaded Jeans and Broken China plus water

Green card stock

MFT Fresh cut grass die

MFT Pierced fishtail flags die

Sentiment typed on PC in font called FishFingers

Digi Stamp Boutique image Christmas Edwin and Hetty (store closed)

White card for printing

Faber-Castell and Derwent Pencils

Ranger Clear embossing pen

Stampendous Detail Gold embossing powder

Adhesives:- Double sided tape, PVA glue and Foam tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

Cards in Envy Favourite Holiday (Christmas)

HLS Christmas Challenge October optional ribbon

Southern Girls Challenge Critter Crazy (animals on card)

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' Anything Christmas

The Merry Christmas Challenge 

12 Months of Christmas Link-up Optional theme Gear up for winter

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge  optional sentiment as the focal point


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Have a wonderful week...
Megan

P.S. A Huge thank you to all my bloggy friends and visitors who take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

LPoCF #92 Gus Fishing

Hello again,

Today brings us to a new Anything goes Challenge for Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, we would love to see what you have been making, all comers and crafts are welcome, we have a lovely sponsor this fortnight Bugaboo Stamps  will be giving the lucky winner 4 Digital Stamps.

Bugaboo Stamps  

PRIZE 4 Images

I have used an image from our sponsor called Gus Fishing to make a birthday card for my brother. 

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White cardstock

Faber Castell, Derwent and Prismacolor water colour Pencils

STAMP NAME AND LINK 

Bugaboo Stamps Gus Fishing image and sentiment 

12.4cm x 17.5cm card blank (fold on short side)

Wobbly double stitched rectangle die CCD

Brown leather grain card

Patterned paper ‘Rosie’s Studio’ 

Candy dots from stash

White liquid enamel 

Diamond glaze (glasses, beer bottles)

Water and brush

Adhesives:- Double sided tape and foam tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

613 Avenue Create Anything goes optional use something wooden

Crafts Galore Encore #56 Anything goes

Love to Craft Challenge Blog October Anything goes

Bizzy Becs Store Blog October Anything goes

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Have a Wonderful week…

Megan

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CBD Nursery Rhymes or Stories

Hello again, 

Today brings us to a new Challenge for Crafting by Designs, we would love you to join in our challenge Nursery Rhymes and Stories, we have one fabulous sponsors this week QKR Stampede will be giving the lucky winner their choice of 3 Digi stamps from their store.

QKR Stampede

PRIZE 3 Digi Stamps

I have used a sweet image from our sponsor QKR Stampede called Cow jumping over the Moon on my card inspired by the traditional story Hey Diddle Diddle, I have used an old piece of paper from my stash which is very pale with polka dots and some pale yellow card stock to make a birthday card for a toddler.

This challenge is open until 16th October, you can add your project by using the Linky tool over at Crafting by Designs. Please be sure to link your project back to us. We don’t want this challenge to be too difficult, use any image or stamp you like and just let us know which fairy tale or nursery rhyme or story you have been inspired by.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White card blank 10.5x14.8cm

QKR Stampede Cow Jumping over the moon 

White card for printing

Faber-Castell pencils

Paper from stash

CCD Pinking shears circle die

MFT Pierced circle die

MFT Sentiment die

Memento Ink Tuxedo Black

Clearly Besotted Sweet little Sentiment stamp

Adhesives: Double-sided tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

Always Happy Birthday Challenge

Alphabet Challenge blog N is for nature- Fauna
Little Miss Muffet Challenge #198 Anything goes

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Have a Wonderful week…

Megan

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Purple Penguin

Hello again, 

Expect to see more Christmas cards from me over the next few weeks, my planned 'I will make at least 4 Christmas cards per month' went by the wayside a long long time ago, I did at least start myself off by colouring many images over winter and I am slowly working my way through them. Today I am sharing another card made using Digital Stamp Boutique penguin image, I had planned on using some of my new Kaisercraft papers (well last years) which are in greys, silvers and purples.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 12.6x17.8cm card blank (5x7”)

Kaisercraft Christmas Jewel paper pad

Kaisercraft Christmas Sentiment stamp and die set

Grey cardstock

Digital Stamp Boutique image Waddle Francis

Faber-Castell and Derwent pencils

Scrap of metallic paper, scrap die cut stars

Clear embossing ink

Black embossing powder

Stitched square die

Circle die

Black fine line pen

Fairy Krystal glitter paint

Adhesives:- Double sided tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

Merry Little Christmas Challenge #2 Anything goes

12 Months of Christmas link up optional challenge Gear Up

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #406 

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

P.S. A Huge Thank you to all my lovely friends and visitors who take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all.