Elves tell Santa...

Hello again,

Well I'm on a roll with my Christmas cards for this year, my second, third for this month too. (I should be doing several more each month but...)

I have coloured a Birdie Brown image from her digi stamp days (no longer available) in colours that represent a certain film character and a sketch from Sketch Saturday to make my card.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White 12.6x17.8cm card blank
Green cardstock
Doodlebug Design 'Santa Express' paper pad
Echo Park 'Dots and Stripes' Christmas paper (funny thing about this pad- there are no stripes at all)
Sentiment from Whimsie Doodles (appears to have closed down)
Fiskars scalloped border punch
Birdie Brown image
Faber-Castell Pencils
Spica Clear glitter pen
Pin dot rectangle die
Scalloped circle die
Circle die

I would like to enter this card in:-
12 Months of Christmas Link Up Optional Feature a Creature
Sketch Saturday #565
Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge Anything goes optional circles
Cute 'N' Crafty Christmas Challenge Anything winter or Christmas
Merry Little Christmas Challenge Anything goes
Rudolph Day with Scrappy Mo

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

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

CBD Feature a Creature

Hello again,

Ooops…. I forgot to hit Publish for this one to be published yesterday while I was in Sydney... 

Today brings us to a new Challenge for Crafting by Designs, we would love you to join in our challenge and this week I am hosting the challenge is Feature a creature we want to see any and every kind of animal from tiny little mice to giant giraffe, cats and dogs to kangaroos and elephants and everything in between, we have one fabulous sponsor this week All Dressed Up will be giving the lucky winner 2 digi stamps of choice from their store.

All Dressed Up

PRIZE Winners Choice 2 Digi images

I have used a stamp from our sponsor called Llama to make a card, the image was coloured with Faber-Castell pencils and cut using a Cross Stitched Oval Die, a second oval die was used to cut out the sentiment. I added four brightly coloured MFT Stepped Up Chevron die cuts in colours similar to those I coloured the blanket with. I made my card blank out of some AC ‘Pool’ cardstock.

This challenge is open until May 28th, 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:-

AC Pool cardstock to make card base

White card for printing 

All Dressed Up Llama digital stamp 

Faber-Castell coloured pencils

MFT Stepped up Chevron die

Cross Stitched Oval die

Oval die 

Chevron cardstock

Scraps in bright colours, white and gold

Single hole punch

Hello Stamp (miscellaneous sentiment set)

Versacolor Orchid ink pad

Adhesives: Double-sided tape and glue pen

I would like to enter this card in:-

Fabrika Fantasy Challenge #30 Animals

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!

Teddies Christmas

Hello again,

Autumn has well and truly arrived here in Australia, the leaves on all the trees are changing to the most beautiful bright colours and they look striking against a storm darkened sky (if only the clouds would open) we are approaching water restrictions soon due to the dam level reaching 50%. I did some illicit colouring last week and decided to make a Christmas card with one of the images I coloured.
I have again used my trick to expand the 15cm (6") paper to cover the larger card blank cutting and hiding the cut behind the centre strip...

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White 12.6x 17.8cm card blank (5x7)
From the Heart Stamps Teddy Gift Stack digi image
Lily Bee Designs Christmas Cheer Papers
Faber-Castell pencils
Wink of Stella liberally on bears hat
Hero Arts Stamp and Cut Christmas
Clear embossing ink
Silver super fine embossing powder
Clear rhinestones

I would like to enter this card in:-
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge #438 Optional Candy canes
12 Months of Christmas Link up- Creature Feature
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' Anything Goes May
Merry Little Christmas Challenge #10 May Anything Christmas
Christmas with the Cuties-#26 Feature a Creature
Cute N' Crafty Christmas Anything Christmas/Winter
Happy Little Stamper Christmas Challenge May

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

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

LPoCF Chicken Soup

Hello again,

Today brings us to another new Anything Goes challenge with my lovely Design Team mates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, this fortnight our sponsor is Bugaboo Stamps and Jodie is offering the lucky winner 4 images from her store.

Bugaboo Stamps

PRIZE- 4 Digi Stamps

I have used an image from our sponsor called Kitchen Chicken Soup to make a get well card. I have used a variety of patterned paper scraps to create a sunburst behind the image panel.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White 10.5x14.8cm card blank
Bugaboo Stamps image Kitchen Chicken-soup
Faber-Castell and Derwent pencils
Scraps of paper from Shimelle 'Star Shine' paper pad
Nesting circle die
Sentiment die
MFT Simple Sayings stamp
Memento Tuxedo black ink pad

I would like to enter this card into:-
Daisy Chain Challenge #30 Anything goes
Crafts Galore Encore Anything goes
Crafty Creations Challenge #390 Anything goes
The Happy Craft Challenge Anything goes May
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned paper Challenge Anything goes

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

P.S. Many thanks to all my lovely blogging friends and visitors who take the time to stop by and leave me a comment on my creations, I truly appreciate each and every comment.

CBD Birthday Balloons

Hello again, 

Today brings us to a new Challenge for Crafting by Designs, we would love you to join in our challenge and this week our challenge is For the Girls, we have one fabulous sponsor this week SheepSki Designs will be giving the lucky winner 3 digi stamps of choice from their store.                

SheepSki Designs 

PRIZE Winners Choice 3 Digi images

I have used a stamp from our sponsor called Birthday Balloons to make my first ATC, the image was coloured with Faber-Castell pencils and paper pieced with a scrap of striped paper before being fussy cut and added to a ATC made using scrap cardstock and a piece of patterned paper from my scrap box.

This challenge is open until May 14th, 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 ATC:-

What I used:-

White 12.4x17.5cm card blank card for printing 

Sheepski Designs Digi Birthday Balloons

Faber-Castell coloured pencils

Pink cardstock, pink patterned paper, striped paper from scrap box

Adhesives: Double-sided tape and glue pen

I would like to enter this ATC in:-

Crafty Creations Challenges #389 Anything Goes
The Happy Craft Challenge May Anything goes
Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned paper 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!

Sketchy Christmas

Hello again,

Well, Mr. Mojo has been absent of late and this is the first card I have felt like creating, I was tidying my craft mess space looking for the card I made earlier on for Mother's Day which will be this coming Sunday here in Australia and I discovered an A4 sheet of mixed images I had already coloured and decided since I had significantly tidied a space I should mess it back up. I found a sketch challenge with the lovely ladies over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 to follow as a little prompt for my mojo. 

While my mojo has been AWOL I have been digging up more of the family tree, one lady was the mother of 17 children, not sure how many actually survived though at this point... 

Apologies for the picture being a little dark, Autumn has truly arrived, but don't let the spring bulbs know that they are incredibly early flowering...

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
14cm square card blank
grey polka dot paper, pink card (from my messy table)
Pink pinstripe paper
Saturated Canary Image Christmas Angel
MFT Pierced circle die
Pinking shears circle die (CCD)
Scrap metallic silver paper
Wild Rose Studio 'Christmas Labels'
Clear embossing ink
Wow! Metallic Silver super fine Embossing powder
Impression Obsession Deer die
Wink of Stella Clear on wings
Adhesives:- Double sided adhesive sheet, Double sided tape

I would like to enter this card in:-
12 Months of Christmas Link up- Optional theme Feature a Creature
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' Anything goes
Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2- #159
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #436 Optional add bells
Merry Little Christmas Challenge May Anything goes

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!

Twirl, Twirl, Twirl

Hello again,

Today brings us to a new Challenge for Crafting by Designs, we would love you to join in our challenge and today sees the beginning of our Anything goes challenge, we have two lovely sponsors this month QKR Stampede and Colour of Love will each be giving one lucky winner their choice of 3 Digi stamps from their stores.

QKR Stampede

PRIZE 3 Digi Stamps

 Colour of Love

PRIZE 3 Digi Stamps

I have used a stamp from our sponsor QKR Stampede called Dancing Digital Stamp and I have made a page in my journal, I created a background for the little Elephant using two patterned papers and an old precut border scrap, I coloured the elephant with Faber-Castell pencils and paper pieced her tutu before fussy cutting her out. The sentiment is from my collection of sentiments from Paulette at Create with TLC to finish I added some bling using a circle hole punch and some sparkle paper… 

This challenge is open until May 25th, 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 page:-

What I used:-

White card for printing 

QKR Dancing Digital Stamp

Papers from my stash (mystery brand)

Scrap box border, silver glitter paper and checked paper

Single circle hole punch

Sentiment from Create with TLC

Pierced oval die

A5 Art book

Scissors

Adhesives: Double-sided tape, Glue stick, PVA glue

I would like to enter this page in:-
QKR Stampede Anything goes #345

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!