7 Years

Hi again,

I was looking through my blog posts the other day and discovered a rather nice surprise blog hop for Miss Di who is celebrating 7 years at the helm of Pixie's Snippets Playground  were we are encouraged to use our snippets and scraps, the blog hop hosted by Darnell of dj Kard Kreations…

I will admit to stalking the playground for sometime before I took the plunge to create my own blog and I finally joined in the fun in October 2015 when Di was celebrating her 200th Week and challenge, I was one of 5 new students starting that week and a lovely welcome followed the next challenge around... The playground is a fun space to play using up all our snippets, spurred on by class mates, Miss Di and Parsnip and now little Dudley, who I hope can swim once the duckpond has defrosted... A huge Thank you to Miss Di for all the fun, games and prizes she offers each fortnight... 

The stamped flower was stamped in three colours and fussy cut and put back together onto an extra white snippet

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White card blank 10.5x14.8cm

White card snippets

Darkroom Door Eclectic Daisy stamp

Yellow Snippet (Kaisercraft)

Pin dot Square die

Stitched scallop border die

Black Liquid enamel 

Black super fine embossing powder

Darkroom Door Sentiment

Clear embossing ink

Scrap of twine (grey) 

I would like to enter this card in:-

Darnell's Thank You Blog Hop for Di

Aud Sentiments Anything goes + Sentiment

Crafty Creations 383 Anything goes

Have a wonderful week...

Thank you for looking in...

Megan

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

Christmas in January

Hello again,

Well we are well and truly melting (all week long again) our usual summer temperatures here don't often get above 30C but the heat is coming from the Aussie deserts to the mountains and the coast, roll on Autumn. Can you tell I don't like the heat? The native birds are sensible, out early and then they disappear during the heat, likely down the valley where it is cooler, my poor budgies are not enjoying the heat either, one is quite happy to have a fine mist bottle sprayed all over him several times a day, the other quite likes to come out and get put in the hand basin in the bathroom for a splash around to help cool him down.

I have been working on getting a few Christmas cards done for this years stash and want to try and get 4-6 done each month, I made this card earlier in the month for a DT challenge and had such a nice time creating the scrap edge that I made more and tried out a starburst background which I didn't quite pull off correctly.

Here are two more cards:-

What I used:
White 12.5x17.8cm card blanks
Scrap Christmas papers and card
Faber-Castell and Derwent pencils
Mo's Digital stamp Christmas sheep dog with hat
Make it Craft Floppy Digi Stamp
Impression Obsession Top Edger sentiment die
Naughty or Nice die (not sure of brand)
MFT Pierced oval die
Stamp It Australia 'Wonderful Christmas' stamp
Versa Color 'Raspberry' ink
Kindyglitz red glitter
Gold gel ink pen

I would like to enter these cards in:-
ABC Christmas Challenge A for Anything goes
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' 
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge
Merry Little Christmas Challenge 
Sparkles Forum Christmas Challenge #96 Add some Sparkle

No Rudolph Challenge this month while Mo is recovering from knee surgery, sending good vibes for a speedy recovery....

Thank you for looking in...
Keep cool to those down under, stay warm for those in cooler climes 
Have a wonderful week...
Megan

P.S. A huge thank you to all of my lovely blogging friends and visitors who take the time to stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

CBD Layered Birthday

Hello again, 

Today brings us to a new Challenge for Crafting by Designs, we would love you to join in our challenge-Layers, we have one fabulous sponsors this week Fred She Said will be giving the lucky winner a $10 gift card for their store.  

Fred She Said

PRIZE $10 gift card

This challenge is open until January 29th, 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. 

I have used a new stamp from my collection called Beautiful Bouquets- Dahlias to create a birthday card for a friend who loves purple, I had to look and see if Dahlia's actually come in these colours and happily they do. I added an extra layer to the card using the outside edge of the MFT die to trace and cut a rectangle slightly larger, it was cut from the center of the larger plain purple cardstock piece

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 12.6x17.8cm card blank 

White card for stamping

Prismacolor Watercolour Pencils + water/brush

Clear embossing ink

Gold embossing powder 

WPlus9 Beautiful Bouquets- Dahlias stamp

Darkroom Door Brushed Sentiments stamps

Purple cardstock (AC Amethyst)

White cardstock

Check paper (Sugar and Spice) 

MFT Cross Stitched Rectangle Die

Adhesives: Double-sided tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

613 Avenue Create optional challenge Watercolour

Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Challenge Anything goes

Crafts Galore Encore #59 Anything goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge
Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge Optional texture

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 message, I truly appreciate them all!

Twofer Birds

Hi All,

I have been following along with the twofer challenge, but have never before joined in with the ladies, I had been making a mixed set of cards for a friend and had finished them all off and I need a thank you card to post out this week... so with the die set still on the table I decided to join in...

The set is a CCD which came with the two birds, cages and a stand, I have used scissors to cut into the lantern shaped cage to make it look like the birds are out and about. 

What I used:-
Two 14.8c10.5cm card blanks
Silver paper
Japanese paper
Dark grey metallic card
Silver peel off stickers
CCD Bird Cage, Birds dies
Label Shaped die (not sure)
Pink gel ink pen
Close to my Heart Happy Birthday Sentiment stamp
Memento Tuxedo Black ink
Kraft card 
Kaisercraft 'Blue Bay' paper pack (mostly snippets)
Kaisercraft 'Blue Bay' sentiment sticker
Darkroom Door 'Simple Sayings'
Clear embossing ink
Black super fine embossing powder
Adhesives:- Double sided tape, adhesive sheet, 2 way glue pen and foam dots

I would like to enter this card in:-
Twofer Challenge January Birds
Snippets Playground #344
Southern Girls Challenge Anything goes
Crafty Creations Challenge #382 Anything goes

Thank you for looking in...
Hope you all have a wonderful week...
Megan

PS. Stay cool in all this extreme summer heat we are having down under.
 Many thanks for all the kind comments, I have tried adjusting the settings as some are unable to comment unless it opens in a new window... 

LPoCF Champagne Celebration

Hello again, 

Today brings us to a new Anything goes Challenge at  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 Polkadoodles will be giving the lucky winner a £ 6.75 gift voucher.

Polkadoodles

PRIZE £ 6.75 voucher

I have used an image from our sponsor called Champagne Celebration to make an inner cover for my attempt at a Bullet journal for 2019, I have coloured and paper pieced the image using some scrap papers from my table top (read messy table top). I used an embossing folder with a clock design to mount Winnie onto and added a die cut Cheers from MFT that was floating around my table and die cut out some wine glasses from silver paper scraps. I finished it off with die cut numbers which I remembered to add some adhesive to the back before cutting…. 

Here is my journal cover:-

 

What I used:-

White cardstock 

Polkadoodles Champagne Celebration

Derwent Pencils

Red, black and silver gel ink pen

MFT Cheers die

MFT sentiment stamp

MFT wine glasses dies

Scrap papers red, silver, black, glitter

Washi tape to make tab

Clock embossing folder

Magazine freebie numerals die

Adhesives:- Double sided tape, PVA glue, adhesive sheet

I would like to enter this in:-

Daisy Chain Challenges Add some sparkle

Love to Craft Challenge Blog

Polkadoodles Challenge Blog- Anything goes

Digi Choosday Anything goes Challenge
The Happy Craft Challenge Anything goes

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 message, I truly appreciate them all!

CBD Food and Drink

Hello again, 

Today brings us to a new Challenge for Crafting by Designs, we would love you to join in our challenge, we have one fabulous sponsors this week Doctor Digi will be giving the lucky winner their choice of 2 Digi stamps from their store.

Doctor Digi

PRIZE 2 Digi Stamps

I have started off my New Years Christmas card collection, colouring Christmas Chris LINK, dressed in a reindeer costume pinching some Christmas Pud, adding some kindy glitz to his nose and the cherries on the pudding. A simple top edger die cut sentiment and stamped quote added to finish the card off.

I have used up some of my many Christmas scraps after coming across a brilliant idea from Heather of Wire Wrapture the strip used on this card is a mixed bag of leftover patterned paper and I will admit that I thought I had ensured all edges were squared off but must have missed one which then put the next couple of pieces out of square… I had a lovely time creating extra strips using both mixed paper pads and then some where I have stuck to the one designer pad. I think I may have made a bigger mess making these strips, I was supposed to be tidying my desktop…. And I can just imagine using this idea for many other types of cards….

This challenge is open until January 15th, 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.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 12.6x17.8cm card blank 

Doctor Digi Christmas Chris 

White card for printing

Faber-Castell pencils

Scrap Christmas papers and cardstock from stash

Impression Obsession Top edger sentiment Die

Kaisercraft ‘Traditional Christmas’ stamp

Memento Ink Tuxedo Black

Kindyglitz Red  

Adhesives: Double-sided tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

ABC Christmas Challenge A is for Anything Goes

Crafts Galore Encore- Anything goes

Crafty Creations Challenge #381 Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #419 Upcycle or use something old

Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge- Reindeer

Merry Little Christmas Challenge #6 Anything goes

12 Months of Christmas Link-up Optional Anything but a rectangle

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 message, I truly appreciate them all!