LPoCF #196 Alex Syberia

 Hello all, 

Today brings us to an all-new challenge over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, this fortnight we are sponsored by Alex Syberia who has kindly given each member of the design team an image to work with. I have used an image called Christmas Ornament to make a very quick card. I actually made a second card, which I liberally added glitter paint to, and the new printer ink ran ruining the whole idea. 

Alex Syberia

Prize $15 gift card 

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Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 12.6x17.8cm card blank (5x7")

Alex Syberia image Christmas Ornaments

DCWV Christmas stack

Faber-Castell coloured pencils

Liquid pearls

Adhesives: double sided tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #625 Anything goes

Christmas Kickstart If it's Christmassy link it up

12 Months of Christmas Link-up Anything goes

Thank you for looking in...

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas

A Huge Thank you to all my lovely blogging friends and visitors who stop by and leave me a comment. I truly appreciate them all. 

Megan

LPoCF #194 Joy Clair Designs

 Hello all, 

Our wild winds have arrived this week, along with giant mosquitos, apparently, they are twice the normal size and in flooded areas have been biting people through their hats.... 

This week brings us to an all new Anything goes Challenge with my team mates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, this fortnight our sponsor is Joy Clair Designs who have kindly given our team one set of Digital Stamps called Santa's Favorite Digital Set to work with.

Joy Clair Designs

Prize 1 Digital stamp set

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I have created two cards using two of the cute little penguins on my cards, both are using ancient papers from now closed discount store.... 

First card:

Second card:

What I used:
Joy Clair Designs Santa's Favorite Digital Set 
C7 white card blanks (12.6x17.8cm)
Francheville papers
Derwent and Faber-Castell coloured pencils
White corrugated cardstock
White cardstock scraps
MFT Fishtail flags die
Sprinkled sugar stickles

I would like to enter these cards in:

Card 1 Blue

613 Avenue Create Anything goes optional fancy fold

Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Anything goes

Daisy Chain Challenge Christmas is Coming

Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge November Anything Goes optional Santa

Card 2 Pink

Beccy's Place Month of Holiday Cards 'P' for Pink and Penguin 

Cards Galore Encore Anything goes

Digi Choosday Cardmaking and Craft Challenge Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Anything goes optional use some glitter (stickles)

Thank you for looking in, have a wonderful week... 

Megan

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

LPoCF #192 Sheepski Designs Coffee and Cake

 Hello again,

Well, we have now had the wettest year on record in New South Wales, the last time it was this wet was the year my Mum was born... our current local rainfall for this year is 2419.3mm or about 95.2inches, we are currently sitting just under twice the average rainfall for area. 

This fortnight brings us to another all new Anything Goes Challenge with my team mates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, we are sponsored by SheepSki Designs and the Design Team chose four different images to work with. I chose one called Coffee and Cake and whilst I coloured and paper pieced the combined image I managed to smudge my finger through glue and decided that I would use the cake which came as a stand-alone image. 

SheepSki Designs

SheepSki Designs on Etsy

SheepSki Designs BlogShop

SheepSki Designs Blog

SheepSki Designs Facebook

SheepSki Designs Instagram

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
SheepSki Designs Coffee and Cake image #173
Faber-Castell coloured pencils
MFT Stitched scalloped circle, stitched scalloped border and stitched scalloped square dies
White card 17.8x12.6cm 
White cardstock for printing
Kaisercraft High Tea Paper pad
Art Stamps Australia Sentiment stamp
Memento Tuxedo Black ink

I would like to enter this card in:-

Polkadoodles Challenge blog Week 42 Anything Goes

AllSorts Challenge 698 Add a sentiment

Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Challenge Anything goes

Digi Choosday week 41 Anything Goes

Crafts Galore Encore #104 Anything Goes

Thank you to my kind blogging friends and visitors who stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Megan

LpoCF #190 All dressed Up

 Hello again, 

This weekend brings us to an all new Anything goes Challenge with my teammates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, this fortnight our sponsor is All Dressed Up, I have used an All Dressed Up image from my stash called Happy Little Christmas Star to make a card with a paper pad from Kaisercraft called Christmas Jewel. 

All Dressed Up

Prize 2 images

All Dressed Up Shop

All Dressed Up Challenge

All Dressed Up Facebook

All Dressed Up Instagram

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White 12.6x17.8cm card blank (5x7)
All Dressed Up Happy Little Christmas Star
Silver tape
Purple and silver glitter cardstock
Kaisercraft "Christmas Jewel" paper pad
MFT Pierced circle dies
Faber-Castell coloured pencils
Clear Wink of Stella on wings and star
Spellbinders Sentiment dies
Marianne design dies punched stars Cannot find either online anymore

Adhesives:- Double sided tape and sheets

I would like to enter this card in: -

All Dressed Up Challenge 132 Anything Goes with ADU 
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Anything Christmas goes optional plaid/tartan
As You Like It Challenge Favourite Metallic or glitter card definitely glitter card now that it comes in sheets that don't shed 
Bizzy Bec's Challenge Blog Anything Goes

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan 

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

LPoCF #188 Streamside Studio

 Hello again, 

Our weather is finally starting to warm up here in Australia, we have had snow predicted the last few days, but it has not arrived. Just cold and damp, we have now begun to see plants die from too much water, 20inches in 10 days was just too much.

This fortnight at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends we are being sponsored by Streamside Studios and they sell both digital and clear stamps. Each member of the design team was able to choose one digi set. I have used a set called Designer Birthday Cake to make a paper pieced cake. 

Streamside Studios

PRIZE 3 Digi stamps/sets to value of $15

Streamside Studios Etsy Store

Streamside Studios Instagram

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
Streamside Studios Digi set Designer Birthday Cake (sentiment from same set)
White card stock
Kaisercraft 'Party' paper pad
Stitched Rectangle die 
Pierced scallop rectangle die 
Stitched Scalloped circle die
White Opal and Buttercup Liquid Pearls
Clear wink of stella on candle
Pale green enamel dots
Adhesives:- Double sided tape and PVA Glue

I would like to enter this card in:-

Bizzy Bec's Challenge Blog August Anything Goes
613 Avenue Create August Anything Goes
Seize the Birthday Anything goes optional topping Sketch

Crafts Galore Encore August Anything Goes
Ally's Angels Anything Goes

Thank you for looking in,
Apologies for being a bad blogger and been offline more than online, my family history has been taking front seat of late. That and most of my stamps are digital and whilst I can access them from the old pc, I am yet to buy a new printer...

Have a wonderful week... 
Megan

LPoCF #186 The Paper Shelter

 Hello all,

Well we have had over 20inches of rain in the last 13 days the greatest amount in one day was 8inches and the bulk fell over just five days, we are starting to dry out again, the people who live on the plains area around Sydney are cleaning up after their 4th flood in 2years, some only just having replaced all their plasterboard walls and timber floors.... the train line has been cut again by another landslide which they currently estimate taking minimum six weeks to repair, lets hope the high winds don't cause any more trouble with trees falling...

This week brings us to an all new Anything goes challenge with my team mates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, this fortnight we are sponsored by The Paper Shelter who kindly gave the Design Team one image to work with we are using the super cute Ellie Digital Stamp

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Here is my card;-

What I used:-
Ellie Digital Stamp
Faber-Castell and Derwent Coloured Pencils
Memory box (I think) Mushroom dies
MFT Grass die
MFT pierced circle die
Doodlebug Design Paper pads gingham-linen and dot-grid-daisy stripe petite prints 
White Liquid Enamel 
Clear Wink of Stella on wings
Adhesives:- Double sided tape, pva glue and foam dots

I would like to enter this card in:-
Polkadoodles Anything Goes week 29
613 Avenue Create Anything goes optional Balck and White
Bizzy Becs Store Blog Anything Goes
Crafts Galore Encore Anything Goes

Have a wonderful week...

Thank you for looking in...

Megan..

A huge tahnk you to all my blogging friends and visitors who stop by and take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

LPoCF #184 Fred She Said

 Hello all,

I finally had to give in and get a new pc it works so much better than the 12yo one it has replaced but with new comes more issues, I have been blaming the old pc for shadows in the corner of my screen, turns out to be the screen with the problem although it will work for the time being, also my old printer is not compatible with the new pc, so new printer to come too.... it is also 12yo so really should be glad it has worked for so long, I will be plugging old pc in as needed to use printer until current inks run out so that I can continue my blog and design team commitments....

Today brings us to an all new Anything goes challenge with my team mates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, apologies for the photo being dark, I can only think it is caused by the winter sun this week sees the Australian Winter Solstice. I have used two coloured images from our sponsor to make two male birthday cards, for a change I won't be madly making two cards for my Dad and Uncle who have birthdays the same week.

Fred She Said

Prize $10 Gift certificate

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Here are my cards:-

What I used:-
Fred she Said Designs Digi stamp pre coloured The Old Truck
14.5cm square kraft card blank
12.6x17.8cm white card blank
Kaisercraft Factory 42 paper pad
scrap silver and red paper (die cuts)

Labels die 

Pin dot nesting rectangle die

Cogs die from magazine
Paper Rose Happy Birthday die
Art Stamps Australia 'Happy Birthday' 
clear embossing ink and black embossing powder

I would like to enter these cards in...

Crafty hazelnut's Patterned paper challenge Anything goes

Crafts Galore Encore #100 Anything goes

Paper Funday Challenges Optional Twist Masculine

Little Red Wagon Digi Do challenge (must include a digital item)

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 stop by and take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

LPoCF #182 LeAnn's World 101

 Hello again,

We are well into Autumn here in Australia, I love the leaves changing colours and creating a carpet of colour. This week brings us to a new Anything Goes challenge with my team mates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, this fortnight we are sponsored by LeAnn's World 101 who kindly gave the design team two images to work with, I have used Taking Flight to make a card for my Mum for Mother's Day (last weekend).

LeAnn's World 101

Prize 2 Images

LeAnn's World 101 Facebook

LeAnn's World 101 Challenge Blog

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

C7 card blank 12.6x17.8cm

LeAnn's World Taking flight digital stamp

Faber-Castell coloured pencils

Yellow and white cardstock

Patterned paper 'Sugar & Spice Studio' Pastel 

Sentiment stamps -magazine freebie

Four self adhesive pearls

Adhesives:- Double sided tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

LeAnn's World 101 #50

Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Challenge Anything Goes

Paper Funday- Anything goes Optional- Family 

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

A Huge Thank you to my blogging friends and visitors who stop by and leave me a comment! 

P.S. for the first time ever we have exceeded our data limit for the month, I'll catch up with you all later this week when the data resets!

LPoCF #180 All Dressed Up Little Bookworm

 Hello again,

Autumn has well and truly arrived here in Australia, the trees are beautifully coloured and dropping all their leaves. I hope those of you who celebrate have a Wonderful and Happy Easter.

Today brings us to an all new Anything goes challenge with my team mates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, this fortnight we are sponsored by All Dressed Up who are giving the winner 2 digi stamps of choice. All Dressed Up kindly gave us two images to use and I chose Little Bookworm I printed the image in two sizes and ended up colouring both and making two cards in two different sizes. 

All Dressed Up

Prize 2 Digital Stamps

The first card is a smaller card A6 (10.4x 14.8cm) size using the image and some paper snippets to add to the sides, I printed the sentiment from my pc onto the darker pink cardstock and die-cut with MFT fishtail flags set, finished off with a trio of hand punched flowers with tiny gems added, the ribbon and bow on the flower were paper pieced with snippets of patterned paper on both cards.

The second card is C7 size or (12.6x17.8cm) I added the large sentiment from Inkylicious (I won from Snippets Playground) using Versa color Cyan ink cube and some clear embossing powder and another striped snippet, finishing this one off with three pre-made flowers which have a green gem in the centre, one flower is also glittered. 

What I used:-
White card blanks Aussie A6 and C7 size
White card for printing
All Dressed Up Little Bookworm Digi image
Faber-Castell and Derwent coloured pencils
black and white striped paper
kraft, plain pink, blue and pink polka dot paper snippets
MFT stitched border die, MFT fishtail flag die
Hand punch- tiny flower
Inkylicious sentiment stamp
Versa Color ink Cyan
Pre-made flowers

I would like to enter this card in...
Pixie's Snippets Playground #426 Anything using snippets (paper pieced hat ribbons, striped, pink and kraft paper)
Polkadoodles week 16 Anything Goes
All Dressed Up Anything Goes
Seize the birthday (pink card) Anything Birthday or Optional topping Signs of Spring
Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Challenge Anything goes

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

P.S. Many thanks to all my blogging friends and visitors who stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all! Apologies I've not been around much, my 12yo pc appears to be on the last legs, and has started randomly shutting down, usually when I'm in the middle of something. I changed the 'watch/button battery' inside the tower and all appears well at the minute. 

LPoCF #178 All Dressed Up

 Hello again,

We are starting to dry out here, we have had over 2 feet of rainfall (in ten days) where I live and the yard and laundry flooded again, some silly people have crossed the local creek ahead of the rain storm and had to be rescued when surprise the creek became impassable and yes they stepped over the warning signs not to go into the bush due to the weather. Heading out to an appointment a group of people dressed only in their underwear were walking out of another part of the bush where local guides take people canyoning all of which remain closed after the extreme weather. We have had a small water-dragon move into our backyard, not sure how long it might stay as the pit drain has now only got mud left. The local train line has had two landslides and one sink hole, they are estimating a minimum two weeks until they can reopen the train line....

All Dressed Up Shop

All Dressed Up Challenge Blog

All Dressed Up Facebook

All Dressed Up Instagram

Prize 2 Images

So today brings us to an all new Anything goes Challenge with my lovely team mates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, this fortnight we are sponsored by All Dressed Up who offered the team two images to work with. I have chosen Russian Dolls, I printed them a little larger than I would usually and have paper pieced the smaller one with some scrap papers from my stash, adding a lace border, a doily die and some tiny silver flat backed gems. (please note this image was selected long before the current issues started)

What I used:-

White C7 card blank 12.6x17.8cm

Hot off the Press 'Botanical Etchings' papers

Faber-Castell coloured pencils

Scrap wood grain paper (hair)

White die cut doily die (I think couture creations)

MFT pierced circle die

Lace 

Silver X-Press-it tape

1mm flat backed gems

Sentiment stamp from magazine

Clear embossing ink

Wow! Metallic silver super fine embossing powder

I would like to enter this card in:-

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Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Challenge Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge Anything goes

Love to Craft Challenge Blog #67 Anything goes

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

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

LPoCF #176

 Hello again, 

Today brings us to an all new Challenge with my team mates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, this fortnight we are being sponsored by Joy Clair Designs

Joy Clair Designs 

Prize 1 Digital Stamp set

Shop:- Joy Clair Designs

Facebook:- Joy Clair Designs

Instagram:- Joy Clair Designs

Joy Clair Designs gave the Design Team Just Butterflies set to work with. I have used one butterfly and one sentiment from the set to create a Thank you card, the butterfly was coloured using Derwent Pencils and the sentiment was coloured with an embossing pen and heat embossed in gold.

Here is my card:-

I made a second card as a birthday card adding a sentiment from Clearly Besotted and  some die cut rings, not sure what is happening with the photo, the design paper is much more purple irl. 

What I used:-

Joy Clair Just Butterflies Digi set

White cardstock

Kraft Au A6 card blank 14.8x10.5

14cm square card blank

Derwent coloured pencils 

Circle, pierced circle and scalloped circle dies

Fiskars scalloped border punch

Brown brads

Flowers from stash

Gold thread

Orange, silver and white scrap papers

Cocoa and purple colorbox inkpad

Clear embossing pen

Gold and Clear embossing powder

Paper Rose Nesting rectangle dies

Clearly Besotted Sweet Little Sentiment stamp

Adhesive Pearls and gems

Adhesives:- Double sided tape and PVA glue

I would like to enter these cards in:-

Thank you card

CCC Digi Creations #133 Things with Wings

Crafts Galore Encore (anything goes)

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned paper Challenge (anything goes)

Birthday card

Bizzy Bec's Store Blog (anything goes)

Seize the Birthday (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 stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Japanese Inspired

 Hello again

Highly unusual for me to post twice in two days! I have a friend who has a Japanese daughter-in-law and asks me to create a card especially for her each year. I have been looking online and discovered a handmade card using Japanese papers which have been padded. I have gone fairly basic with my card and added an embossed background which is also seen in the patterned paper. A further search suggests this technique is called Japanese Padded Paper Quilting here is a link to another blogger Christine where I read about the technique.

Inside each square is a smaller square of cardstock which I attached a very thin layer of quilt batting, about 1/3 the usual thickness of the batting. I then wrapped the patterned paper around and stuck the paper edges onto the back. A little like covering school books.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 10.5x14.8cm card blank
Embossing folder
Gold paper 
white cardstock
Couture Creations 'Asian Wave' Embossing folder
Japanese paper squares
Stitched square dies
thin layer of quilt batting
Mystery Sentiment stamp 
Clear embossing ink 
Gold embossing powder

I would like to enter this card in:-

Can you Handle the Pressure 1st Challenge use Pink

Daisy Chain Challenge For the Girls

613 Avenue Create Anything Goes 

Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Challenge Anything Goes

Seize the Birthday Challenge Anything goes optional sparkle and shine (the patterned paper has a sheen and the gold layer is metallic, you cannot really tell in the photo though)

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

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

Rockin' Robins

 Hello again,

Well, we are still enjoying a wet summer here in Aus, our dams are full to over flowing. Having allergy to environmental moulds is no fun during Covid, my doctor tells me that so long as I don't have any other symptoms of Covid I am safe to go about my business. 

During the most recent wet spell I got my Christmas gifts out and made six cards with paper pieced robins, all the scraps came from my scrap bags and boxes, I had intended to stamp the included sentiment in the top corner but for some reason the embossing powder did not stick, so covered up my mistake with little signs.

Here are my cards:-

What I used:-

10x21cm card blanks
white card stock
Woodware stamp Robin Stack clear stamp
Brown, red, orange, and green paper scraps
Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad
Clear embossing ink
Gold embossing powder
Scraps of kraft paper, narrow strips design papers
white loose glitter 
Double sided tape, Helmars tacky craft glue
single hole punch (conveniently fit the size of the berries)

I would like to enter these cards in:-

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #581 Cute

Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge Optional Snowflakes

12 Months of Christmas Link-up Anything goes optional hearts

Snippets Playground #421 Anything goes with snippets

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week... 
Megan

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

LPoCF #174 The Paper Shelter

 Hello again,

Happy New Year to you all! May this year be Happy, healthy, safe, prosperous and crafty! We are staying in, avoiding going out and about whilst the numbers of covid cases rise dramatically here in New South Wales, we have over 340,000 cases who are supposed to be remaining in isolation after testing positive. 

Today brings us to our second Anything Goes Challenge for this year with my team mates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends for 2022! This fortnight we are sponsored by The Paper Shelter who kindly gave the Design Team Little Butterfly to use. 

The Paper Shelter

Prize 3 images

The Paper Shelter Blog

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I have made a birthday card with the image and a Kaisercraft paper pad called  'Wandering Ivy', this is probably one of the easiest cards I have ever made, it is one sheet of paper with the bracket die cut out then I embossed the middle layer before carefully cutting around it as the next nesting size down was smaller than I wanted. The sentiment is from the same paper pad.

Here is my card:

What  I used:
14cm Square card blank
The Paper Shelter Little Butterfly digital image
Kaisercraft 'Wandering Ivy' Paper pad
Kaisercraft nesting square bracket die

I would like to enter this card in:-

613 Avenue Create-  Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge- Anything goes
QKR Stampede Anything Goes #436

Polkadoodles Challenge week 3 Anything goes

Aud Sentiments Challenge blog #290 Anything goes + Sentiment

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

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