LPoCF# 282 Polkadoodles- Sweet Gnomie

 

Hello again,

We are enjoying a few warm winters days, as long as we can find a place out of the wind. Last night was 3C but the wind chill made it feel like -8C. The washing is getting dried out on the washing line, it is just a bit cold. Someone locally managed to photograph Black Swans at the local lake, which must have migrated from somewhere else in Australia, as they are not commonly seen here.

On to my card, today brings us to an all new Anything Goes Challenge with my team mates at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, this fortnight we are being sponsored by Polkadoodles, I have used Sweet Gnomie Bee Buzzy to make a box card. I coloured this one during my hospital stay last year. 

Polkadoodles

Prize 3 digi stamps

What I used

Polkadoodles Sweet Gnomie Bee Buzzy

White cardstock

Faber Castell coloured pencils

Green card (AC Cabbage?)

Paper Rose Studio Arches Die

MFT grass die, fence die

daisy, circle and flower punches

Marianne Design Butterfly punch die

scrap card- white, green, yellow, black, purple and pink

adhesives- PVA glue and double sided tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

Polkadoodles Cardmaking Challenge 7
Colouring with Pencils July Anything goes
Paper Rocks Scissors July Anything goes (scissors used to trim grass edges)
Digi Choosday Challenge 7
Crafts Galore Encore Anything Goes #149
613 Avenue Create Anything Goes Optional any holiday

Creative Knockouts #575 Outdoor Fun

Ally's Angel's #108 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 take the time to stop by and leave me a comment. I truly appreciate them all!

Pansies

Hello again, 

Two posts in one day! It has been a while since I have managed to do this... 

I recently brought home two new baby budgies who are seemingly the easiest to finger tame to date, once they have settled in and are less scared, I will try and get a photo of the two of them, Pip has a lovely lilac body and dark wings, and Dusty has a powder blue body and white wings... they weigh less than 35g and it is like playing with a little butterfly, once they are able to come when needed, I let them out to stretch their wings and play outside their cages.

Tourists abound as the schools have broken up for the Easter holidays, they have the next two weeks off. Living in a tourist zone means we get busy roads, add to that our area has been advertised on television as a wonderful place to view Autumn leaves... cue the tourists stopping traffic to grab the perfect photos.

My second card with homemade embossing paste uses a new set of dies from Paper Rose Australia called Etched Pansy 2 and Nesting Arches, I was pleasantly surprised that the embossing paste survived being die cut. I chopped the rounded edge off the arch to make a vase shape for the pansies with my trusty scissors; some are glued flat others have some foam dots added to lift them.

I had planned on adding a sentiment, but the set I was looking for has gone AWOL. I will add it later, when I find them... 

Here is my card:

scraps I used (some for the earlier card)

What I used
Embossing folder Kaisercraft Flourish
Yellow silk paper, purple, green x2, off white, and pale blue card
Paper Rose Etched Pansy 2
Paper Rose Nesting Arches
Memory box Lorelai Branch
My Favorite Things Stencil (I cannot remember the name)
Homemade embossing paste
Clear flat backed round gems
Adhesives: Double sided tape, PVA glue and Foam dots
12.6x17.8cm card blank

I would like to enter this card in

Group of Seven Gallery Embossing Paste

Snippets Playground Anything goes with snippets

I.D.E.A.S with Darnell D is for Dies

NBUS 73 arch and pansies dies are NBUS

Addicted to Stamps and More 490 Die cuts and/or Stencils

613 Avenue Create Anything goes with a touch of colour

Paper Rocks Scissors 3 Anything goes using paper and scissors

Thank you for looking in... 

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

p.s. Many thanks for all my kind blogging friends and visitors who stop by and take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Floating Frames

 Hello again,

We are having a late heatwave here in New South Wales, this week has been 27C to 30C a little too hot for me. I am again joining the lovely ladies over at Group of Seven Cardmakers this month's technique is Floating Frames I chose some lovely new stamps for my Christmas present from Paper Rose called Sketchy Rose, I stamped them in Memento 'Tuxedo Black' and coloured them with Faber-Castell coloured pencils before die cutting them.

I rolled up pieces of washi tape (sticky side out) to temporarily position the flowers over a 12x17.2cm piece of white card stock.  I added foam circles to the backs and replaced each flower, before die cutting the hexagon from the centre adding the first piece to a card blank covered with black paper.  

The second card uses the die cut hexagon, I have added an Inkylicious sentiment which I won from Snippet's Playground on a snippet of black paper. Adding some clear (no silver backing) flat backed gems, packet says it is meant to be 'shaker mix' also from Paper Rose. The black layer behind the die cut was traced and cut by scissors.

The two cards together

What I used:

Paper Rose 'Sketchy Roses' stamp and die

White A4 cardstock

Faber-Castell coloured pencils

Memento Tuxedo black ink

Clear embossing ink

Gold and white embossing powder

Inkylicious sentiment

Kaisercraft Hexagon nesting die

Kaisercraft Roses embossing folder

MFT Happy die

Scraps of black and gold papers

Magazine freebie stamp 'birthday' and butterfly die

Flourish of gems clear silver 

Adhesives: Foam dots, Double sided adhesive, pva glue

Other: Stanley knife, scissors, steel rule, heat gun.

I would like to enter these cards in:

Group of Seven Gallery Floating Frames

First Card

Creative Knockouts #242 Birthday Wishes

Cut it Up Challenge #325 Happy Birthday 

Beautiful Blossoms #27 Anything Floral goes 

NBUS #72 Anything goes with Never before used schtuff (flower stamps and dies)

613 Avenue Create March Anything goes optional Any Occasion 

Second Card
Love to Craft Challenge Blog #84 Anything goes
Make My Monday Challenge #247 Use die or punch

Crafts Galore Encore #133 Anything goes

Crafters Cafe #317 Anything goes optional CAS

Can You Handle the Pressure? Optional Lucky, St. Patrick's Day

A Cut Above Anything goes with a die cut

Thank you for looking in...

Have a Wonderful Week...

Megan

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

Bokeh

 Hello again, 

I hope you are all feeling warm, we have just spent over a week in Winter without a heater after the gas heater malfunctioned, first repair company said the wait was 3 weeks before they could come out... company number two came one week and one day later... the ignition part of the heater broke... 

I am joining in with the lovely ladies over at Group of Seven with this month's technique being Bokeh, I have used Candied Apple, Ripe Persimmon and Mustard seed distress oxide inks to create the background and I created my own circle template using the backing from Ezy-Mount foam and three different sized circle punches, largest is a Fiskars squeeze punch 1", adding layers of dots with some white pigment ink.

Here is my card: -

What I used
White Card blank 12.6x17.8cm (5x7")

White cardstock
Mustard Seed, Candied Apple and Ripe Persimmon Distress oxide inks

Colorbox White pigment ink
Memento Tuxedo Black
Kaisercraft Leaf die
Darkroom Door Sentiment (Full Bloom Vol.1)
Paper Rose Stitched rectangle die 

I would like to enter; - 

Gallery at Group of Seven - Bokeh
Daisy Chain Challenge Birthday
Crafts Galore Encore Anything Goes
Ally's Angel's Anything Goes

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful weekend...

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... 

Santa in the sun

 Hello,

 I am back with a second Christmas card for my new stash, trying to join in with Rudolph's Day, kindly taken over by Helen and joining Darnell and her I.D.E.A.S challenge, Santa has been in my stash for two years and this is his first stamping, so NBUS too. Each week is different.

Here is my card;-

What I used;-

12.6x 17.8cm (5x7") card blank
Crimson cardstock
white cardstock
Paper Rose Summer Santa
Clear embossing ink and pen
Black, White and clear embossing powder
Derwent Watercolour pencils and water brush
Faber-Castell pencils
Nellie Snellen Christmas love sentiment stamp (unavailable)
Antique linen, tea dye, tumbled glass, stormy sky Distress oxide inks

I am joining in:

Darnell's A for Anything goes

Rudolph's Day Anything Christmas goes

NBUS #59 

The roof has been fixed now just waiting for some rain to confirm no further leaks....

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

p.s. A big thank you for my kind blogging friends and visitors who stop by and take time to leave me a comment. I truly appreciate them all!

G is for Green and Gold

 Hello again,

Trying to play along with the challenges with Beccy's Place annual Holiday Card Challenges, not keeping up so todays card has been duplicated and features a Gold die cut, against a two green papers from Kaisercraft

Here are my cards:

Apologies for the photo, the colours are really green and gold mirri card, we have the sounds of a storm brewing and photos were taken outside. Reddish reflection you can see is the red bricks, although it looks like the leaves are burning... 

What I used:
White c7 top fold cards
Gold mirri cardstock
LoTV sentiment stamps
Clear embossing ink
Gold embossing powder
Kaisercraft 'Australiana' paper pad

Paper Rose Gumleaf die 

I would like to enter these cards in

Beccy's Place Annual Holiday cards G is for Green and Gold

Have a wonderful week..

Thank you for stopping by...

Megan

Surf Life Saving Steve

 Hello again,

Well, I always start the year with the best of intentions of making a few Christmas cards each month, again I have not made nearly as many as I need. Today sees the start of Beccy's Place annual Holiday Cards Challenge, today I have gone as Australian as it is possible....

Australian Surf Life Saving Sand-man Steve is a Digi from Beccy's Place and I have coloured him in the traditional Surf Life Saving colours seen on Aussie beaches, although when the surf clubs have competitions against each other each club also has club colours..

Here is my card:

What I used:

Beccy's Place Sandy Christmas Set- Steve
Top fold C7 card blank
Red cardstock
White cardstock for printing 
Rectangle die cut (resized to fit image)
Faber-Castell coloured pencils
Paper Rose Merry Christmas Die
Checked paper (Sugar and Spiced Paper) 

Adhesives- Double Sided tape, pva glue

I would like to enter this card in 

Beccy's Place Annual Holiday card A-for Australian

A Perfect Time to Craft Open challenge November

Digi Choos-day Anything goes week 43

Digi Design Challenge Sports Related (Surf Live Saving)

Cut it Up Add a Sentiment (shape and sentiment are both dies)

Use your Stuff 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 take the time to stop by and leave me a comment. I truly appreciate them all!

LPoCF #164 Fabrika Fantasy

 Hello again, 

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 Fabrika Fantasy who are offering the lucky winner 3 images of their choice

Fabrika Fantasy

Prize 3 images

Shop Fabrika Fantasy images

Facebook Fabrika Fantasy

Instagram Fabrika Fantasy

Pinterest Fabrika Fantasy

I have used an image from the store called Betta Fish Crowntail to make a thank you card. The background was created using a gelli-plate and various distress oxide inks some white paint and stencils

What I used:-

Fabrika Fantasy image Betta Fish Crowntail

White 14.8x10.5cm card blank

Paper Rose stitched layered rectangles

Paper Rose layered thanks sentiment

CCD circles

Distress oxide inks

Silver Kindyglitz 

I would like to enter this card in:-

613 Avenue Create Anything goes optional choose your palette
Aud Sentiment Designs 281 Anything goes + sentiment
Creative Craft Cottage 143 No patterned paper
Mix it up Challenge 52 Use more than 2 mediums (distress oxide and paint)

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

Thank you

 Hello all, 

Well this past week our local bank branch was closed due to lack of use during Covid two of the three staff chose to take redundancy the third is planning to work from home for a while before she thinks she'll join them. My parents have opted to change banks (grudgingly) as they prefer to deal with a human, the ladies that worked at the branch have been there for many years and I made them each a card to say thank you for all their help over the years. 

Here are my cards:-

What I used:-

Kraft slim line card blank
text background paper 
Kaisercraft High Tea paper pad
CCD Stitched square die
CCD butterfly die
Scrap silver and vellum
Sentiment from High Tea paper pad
Adhesive Pearls

C7 white card blank

Black cardstock

White art paper

Waffle Flower 'Pretty Wings' Stamp set (temporarily unavailable)

Distress Oxide inks various (read I didn't remember to write them down)

Art Stamps Australia Sentiment stamp

Memento Tuxedo black ink pad

Enamel dots

Ribbon scraps

Square card blank

Pink and white cardstock

Paper Rose Stamp 'Milly's Bouquet'

Sentiment from Waffle Flower 'A Little Note' 

Painted with Derwent water colour pencils

Clear embossing ink and Gold embossing powder

Clear and yellow tiny gems

White adhesive pearls

I would like to enter the cards in

Card 1-

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned paper challenge

Cute Card Thursday #675 Feminine

Sisterhood of Crafters Anything goes

Card 2-

Cards Galore Encore Anything goes

Allsorts Anything Feminine Goes

Polkadoodles Craft Challenge Anything goes week 9

Card 3-

Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog Spring with a sentiment

Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge Anything goes

613 Avenue Create Anything goes optional heart and soles

Well I started the year off well with my Christmas cards and completely skipped making any during February...

Thank you for looking in... have a wonderful week, I hope you are all keeping safe and well during the numerous lockdowns...

Have a good 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.