LPoCF August Challenge

 Hello again, 

Well, we are hoping to avoid a second wave of Covid-19 here in NSW, we are still choosing to stay close to home, so still no little feathered friend for my lonely budgie. I started making face masks this week for our family and used pipe cleaners for the nose pieces, large scraps of quilting fabric for the inner and outer layers, they will all need a good wash, the fabric has been in storage for a few years and of all things the barrier layer is a pillow protector which is made from the same fabric as the government suggested re-usable shopping bag... I can breathe and not fog up my glasses, so a few more are in the works... need to sort out sizes, some need to be bigger others smaller....

Today brings us to an all new Anything goes Challenge over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, I have made two cards one of which is in the post... both for Family History Friends one who loves Autumnal Colours and the other for a Cool Climate garden lover... using Corner Roses Pre-Coloured from our Sponsor Fred She Said

Fred She Said

Prize $10 Gift Certificate

Here are my cards:-

What I used:-
2x C7 card blank 
Fred She Said Corner Rose Pre-Coloured set
Kaisercraft Basecoat paper, (1st card)
Kaisercraft Script stamp
Memento London Fog ink pad
Altenew Layered Poppy Sentiment (magazine freebie)
MFT Label maker Sentiments
Waffle Flower nesting stitched rectangle and stitched scalloped rectangle set 
Self adhesive pearls 
Kaisercraft Wandering Ivy paper pad (2nd card)
Newton's Nook Birthday Essentials Stamp
CCD Nesting Cross Stitched Fishtail Flag dies
Impression Obsession Border Duo set 1
Baby Blue Liquid Pearls
White cardstock
Clear embossing ink
Metallic Gold and Silver embossing powder
Fussy cutting scissors

I would like to enter these cards in:-
The Happy Craft Challenge Always Anything goes
Bizzy Bec's Store Challenge Anything goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge Anything goes

Is anyone else finding issues with this new blogger, I have had to change several settings to get it to looks as a normal page, I kept getting big gaps after hitting enter to start a new line. Could they not have it set up like other programs... finding the same settings in similar spots... I had to highlight and play with it until I got it to look 'normal'... 

Thank you for looking in...
I hope you are all staying safe and well and following all the various health advice...
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... 

Mother's Day

Hello again,

I’m back to share the card I made for my Mum for Mother’s Day, I have gone back to a plain fold card as last year I made a fancy ‘Joy Fold’ card which although pretty, collapsed and couldn’t support its self 😞

I have used a pretty hydrangea stamp which arrived with my magazine subscription to Australian Simply cards, Mum loves the blue/mauve hydrangea flowers and until a large storm butchered and killed our bushes, were grown in the back yard, due to our soil type the flowers were always pink and to get the blue flowers she wanted most required buying ‘blueing tonic’.

This has been the first time I have used my Prismacolor pencils, they  were a Christmas Present from my brother and his craft loving wife two Christmases ago... I will admit being a little scared of them...

After heat embossing, colouring and die cutting the main panel, I decided it was a little flimsy and I die cut an extra piece of stiff card board from a cereal box to help stiffen and straighten it out. One of my papers is very old and treasured; you know the ones you like to collect and look at from time to time but rarely bring yourself to use any… I bought a mixed paper pack from Doodlebug designs when I first bought my Cuttlebug…. Probably 10 years ago or so…

I think this must be a first for me, I’m usually madly making my Mother’s Day card the day before, and this must be a record…. Now just need to find a present…

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 5x7” 12.6x17.8cm card blank

The Hydrangea set (ASC)
Purple card stock
Prismacolor Water-color pencils (H20 and fine brush)
Kaisercraft ‘Finders Keepers’ paper
Doodlebug designs ‘Lilac Filigree’ and ‘Linen’ petite patterned paper
Fine glitter paper
White cardstock
Wow! Metallic Super Fine embossing powder
Kaisercraft Decorative dies nesting square bracket
MFT pierced circle die
MFT stitched scallop circle die
Crafts4U Happy Mother’s/Father’s Day sentiment die
Fiskars border punch ‘Lace’
Buttercup Liquid pearl
Tiny blue brads
White gel ink pen
Black fine line pen
Bling from my stash
Adhesives:- Double sided tape, foam adhesive, PVA glue, Diamond glaze

I would like to enter this card in:-

Crafts Galore Encore Anything goes May
Southern Girls Challenge Punching above your weight (use punches)
Make My Monday challenge #70 Embossing
Colour Crazy Challenge week 18 Anything goes
Love to Craft Challenge May Anything goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned paper challenge Anything goes
Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge
Creative Craft Cottage #107 Dies and/or Punches

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...

CiJ Day 2 Sketch

Hello again,

I'm back to join in the ladies at Bugaboo Stamps blog Catch the Bug, Christmas in July event, a week of challenges and Sundays challenge is a sketch:- I have rotated the sketch for my card

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White card blank 10.5 x 14.8cm

Pink card AC Dots and Stripes

Pink paper from my stash

Bugaboo Stamps image Bug Sweet Angel

Wink of Stella Clear brush marker

Faber-Castell pencils

Metallic Silver gel pen

Silver embossing powder

Small sentiment stamp from magazine

Pink glitter paper and grey snow flake paper from scrap box

Silver Star Brads 

Lifestyle crafts nesting circle die

MFT Fishtail flags die

Lifestyle Crafts Nesting Rectangle die

I would like to enter this card in:-

Bugaboo Christmas in July Day 2

Merry Christmas Challenge 26 Patterned Paper

613 Avenue Create Challenge 199 Anything Goes

CCC Digi Designs 77 Anything Goes

12 Months of Christmas Challenge 31 Optional theme Oh Deer

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge Use a die Cut

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

P.S. A Huge thank you to all the lovely visitors who take the time to leave me a message, I truly appreciate them all

Upcycled cards

Hello again,

I have been playing on and off with some of my new dies I bought from China, also apparently found on various eBay sites, we had a lovely family friend we met when we began following our family tree who suddenly announced that she and her husband were moving interstate, within a week they had gone, she regularly bought cards from me for her family and was always amazed at how different I made them and how personalised I could make them. Given the incredibly short notice we had a thank you card ready, but little else, so I decided to make her a set of 10 cards to send down asap as a little gift. Which gave me the perfect excuse to try out some of my new dies and make use of some of the paper scraps holding a takeover bid of my desk, I found some co-ordinating paper and or cardstock and used some card blanks, I have also cut some small gift cards up I received as a teacher gift some years ago selecting patterns and the images as feature pieces.

Here are the first three of ten, I have plans of making a few masculine cards too.

On the second card I punched out three circles from the card and piled on some Diamond Glaze to create 'enamel' looking dots.

Butterfly Thanks

 Bicycle Birthday

Butterfly Birthday

What I used:

White card blank 14.7x10.5cm

Pink vintage-y paper from my scraps box

Pink polka dot paper from my scrapbook (pieces larger than a card front)

White paper from scrap box

Silver card scrap

CCD Butterfly Die set

CCD Stitched Square die

MFT thanks die

Vellum

Diamond glaze

Teacher gift card and envelope set

Double sided tape

Birthday Sentiment stamps Magazine freebies (Australian Simply Cards)

Memento Tuxedo Black inkpad

Clear Sequins from my stash

Black fine line

Clear Wink of Stella

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

I would like to enter these cards in…

Snippets Playground weeks 281 & 282 Anything goes with snippets 

Aud Sentiments Challenge #180 Anything goes with a Sentiment

Butterfly Challenge #79 L is for Layers and/or Colour Cream

Crafting by Design May Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned paper Challenge May anything goes

Crafts Galore Encore May Anything goes

Thank you for looking in…

Have a wonderful week…

Megan

Get Well

Hello again,

Today I am sharing a very quick card for a friend who has been in hospital with pneumonia.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 14.8x 10.5cm card blank

Scraps of pink, green, gold and white cardstock

Scrap of patterned pink paper

White cardstock

Kaisercraft Embossing folder ‘Roses’

Creative Die Rose (magazine freebie)

Black striped washi tape

Clear sequins

2mm black pearls

MFT stitched Rectangle Die

Clearly Besotted ‘sweet little sentiments’

Memento Tuxedo black ink pad

Adhesives:- Xyron Sticker maker, double-sided tape and Diamond Glaze

I would like to enter this card in:-

Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Challenge September Anything goes
Creative Fingers Challenge #115 Anything goes
Crafts Galore Encore #33 Anything goes

Aud Sentiments Challenge #163 Anything goes with a sentiment
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

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

P.S. A Huge Thank you to the kind ladies who take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Toothless a Dragon

Hello again,

Today I am sharing a card which required some research, I was asked to make a card for an 8 year old girl who loves a character called ‘Toothless’ now I’m not really into going out to the movies and had no idea who or what ‘Toothless’ was, a little search in Google I found out it was a little dragon from the How to Train your Dragon films, problem now was to find an image or something which I could use I came across a site called Deviant Art where there is a couple of black and white images available, another Google search for handmade cards ‘Toothless’ and a very talented lady Gill Prescott’s blog page with a great punch art card with ‘Toothless’ the dragon on it.

Gill has used a variety of Stampin’ Up punches to create her ‘Toothless’ as I have so far resisted Stampin’ Up products so far, (I do have some on my wishlist) I went through my dies and Gill’s list and selected the best fit using my stash.

I initially inked the edges of the pieces that would lay over the top of others but decided once finished that the dragon required a little more definition and used my white pen to add a fine line around all the black pieces... 

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White card blank 

Black embossed paper from my scrap box

White, silver, grey, green and red snippets from my table (does my table sound messy?) 

Blue checked paper

Green dot paper

MFT Flower medley die

Various circle and oval dies

Colorbox ink pad

White gel ink pen

MFT Label maker Sentiments

Lipstick Red and Blue Lagoon Colorbox Queue ink pad

Balloon die from Magazine

Memory Box Parker Numbers

Blue Tim Holtz Paper twine

Fiskars Eyelet setters (eyes)

Fish skeleton stamp (magazine set)

Adhesives:- Foam tape, double-sided tape, Diamond glaze and PVA

I would like to enter this card in:-

Snippets Playground week #246 Anything goes with snippets

Creative Craft Cottage #71 Spots and/or Stripes

613 Avenue Create #189 Anything goes or twist Autumn Colours

Hiding in my Craftroom Super scraps Saturday

Crafting by Designs September Anything goes

Sisters of Craft September Anything goes

Cute Card Thursday #442 Animals or Creatures

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #41 Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge Anything goes

a new to me Challenge
Cards in Envy For the Kids

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week..

Megan

P.S. A huge THANK YOU to all the lovely ladies who take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Triple Time by 2

Hello again, 

Today I am sharing two Triple Time stamping cards I made for my sister in law and a family friend, they are in two different colour palettes to suit the ladies preferences.

Here are my cards:-

There is two subtle differences between the two cards, can you see them?

What I used:-

White 5” x 7” card blank

Art paper torn from sketchbook

Chianti, amber and Lime Pastel Colorbox inkpad Queue

Warm Violet, Lavender and Aquamarine Colorbox inkpad Queue set

Rouge AC Cardstock

Amethyst AC cardstock

Ribbon from stash

Stamp set from Australian Simply cards magazine

Inkylicious Stamp ‘Wonderful Day’ (won over at the Playground)!!!

Memento Tuxedo Black

Adhesive:- Lots of Double-sided tape

I would like to enter this card in:

613 Avenue Create #188 Anything goes

Crafting by Design August Anything goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #39 Anything goes

Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Challenge Anything goes August

Cards Galore Encore- Use a Digi or Stamp

Thank you for looking in...

have a wonderful weekend (it's almost here)

Megan

P.S. A huge Thank you to all the lovely ladies who leave comments, I truly appreciate them all!

Love Birds

Hello again,

Today I am sharing one of the cards I made for my brother and sister-in-law’s first wedding anniversary, which was almost a month ago... where did that time go?...

Last year not long after their wedding one of my Aussie card making magazines arrived with this very cute and wonderfully coloured image from Ppinky Dolls, called love in the air, which my Mum felt would make a perfect anniversary card for them, as at the reception they had a large bird cage card holder and lots of antique bird cages sprayed in various colours hanging from the ceiling with vines and fairy lights, their wedding cake also had bride and groom birds on it…

Here’s my card:-

What I used:-

14cm Square card blank

Ppinky Dolls image ‘Love in the Air’

Derwent Academy Pencils

Lily of the Valley Bonnets & Bowties paper pack

Silver glitter card

Bella! Droplets

MFT Pierced oval die

Stamp sets various cover gifts & Kaisercraft Mini Clear stamp set

Memory box Sketchbook ‘Love’ die

Pink heart rhinestone

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Stanley knife, cutting matt, steel ruler

Adhesives:- double-sided tape, foam tape, double-sided adhesive paper, Diamond glaze

I would like to enter this card in:-

Crafty Sentiments Something with Wings

Not just Cards #32 May Anything goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #34 Anything goes

Craft your Passion #312 Anything goes

Aud Sentiments challenge #155 Anything goes with Sentiment

Simply Papercraft for all Ocassions #29

Little Miss Muffet #138 Anything goes

613 Avenue Create #176 Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge May

Thank you for looking in…

Have a fabulous weekend….

Megan

Mother's Day

Hello again,

I'm back to share the card I made for Mother's Day last Sunday, I'm only now getting time to share it with you, I decided to make my very first box card and made it a little taller to fit a 5x7" envelope. I wish that I had used a slightly darker shade of pink ink so you can see the butterflies pattern a little better...

Here's my card:-

What I used:-
Half a AC 12" wave card stock left over from a previous project
Cream coloured card generic pack
Lily of the Valley Bonnets & Bowties Patterned paper
Faber-Castell Pencils
FTHS Apple blossom image
Netty's Cards Freebie  sentiment
MFT Die-Namics Royal Leaves
MFT Die-Namics Pierced oval die
MFT Die-Namics fresh cut grass die
Creative Dies Rolled Roses (magazine gift)
Lifestyle Crafts nesting circle die
Kaisercraft Stamp and die set 'Butterflies'
Pink & green card/paper scraps
Pink & black colorbox inkpads
Iridescent white sequin flowers
2.5mm silver rhinestones
Acetate- I tried to buy some, was told it is no longer available, scrounged some packaging from an embossing folder from my un-emptied craft bin
Stanley knife, steel ruler, scoring board, bone folder, 
Adhesives:- Double-sided tape, foam-tape, Diamond glaze


I would like to enter this card in:
Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Challenge May
Catch the bug May Anything goes 2nd Entry
Snippets Playground week 228 Must use snippets
Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper challenge May
Lil Patch of crafty friends #33 Anything goes

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

P.S. A huge thank you to all the kind ladies who take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Butterfly Birthday

Hello again,

I was asked to create a special Japanese card for a friend’s Daughter-in-Laws upcoming birthday which needed to be posted to Japan where her and her family are living and working, the request included keeping it as flat as possible and using Japanese paper of which I have several designs my Aunt having bought them in you guessed it Japan while on holiday many years ago (about five years or so ago)… this is what I came up with…

Here’s my card:-

I was lucky enough for my birthday this year I was gifted a year’s subscription to Australian Simply cards and my brother selected an extra gift as part of the subscription, a set of 5 dies including this lovely background die from Ultimate crafts called Jadene: Free Flourish, I used the die a second time to cut the silver butterflies to make them pop out a little more.

What I used:-

White card blank 10.4cm x 14.7cm

Ultimate crafts die Jadene: Free Flourish

Ultimate Crafts die Invali: Vintage label set

Black card stock

Red and gold Japanese Silk paper

Scraps from stash in metallic silver and white

Glitzee Silver glitter glue

Foam Pads

Sentiment stamp from stash

Memento ‘Tuxedo Black’ Ink pad

Black fine line pen

Adhesives:- P.V.A. glue, double-sided tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

Digi Choosday- week 39 Use something new (both dies used are new)

Eureka Stamps #160 Anything goes

Simply Papercraft for all Occasions #14 Anything goes

Crafting with Friends #7 Anything goes

Come and Get it Challenge # Clear it out-use a stash item (Japanese Paper)

Creative Craft Cottage #48 Anything goes

Craft your Passion #281 Anything goes

613 Avenue Create #143 Anything goes or use Sapphire

Thank you for looking in…

Have a great week

Megan

P.S. A big thank you to all the kind and lovely ladies who take their time to leave me a little message, I appreciate each and every one of them!

Thank you

Hello again...

Well I was asked to create a thank you card for a friend to give a physio she has been seeing for many years. As always I made two cards so she had a choice, and also because I looked at the first card and decided it needed something a little bit more, it was just to plain for my liking. 

I used a freebie embossing folder for the first card and cut away the bottom section and filled it with patterned paper, before adding the flower stamp to the central oval.

So here's my first card:

I added the border from my stash and some bling to finish it off, and then I was happy. 


As I was unhappy with the first card I created a second one which I had a basic plan for. I went with a completely different colour scheme and this one looks like the club colours for a team of some sort.

my second card:

As I had a plan for the second card it came together much more quickly than the first one which lay on my table for several days while I thought of some way of finishing it off. 

What I used:- Card 1

White 14.8 x 10.5cm card blank

Fancy Flourish Embossing folder and Stamp set (Australian Simply Cards issue 81 cover gift)

Pink card stock

patterned paper from stash

scrap of lilac card

Memento Tuxedo black ink 

bling from stash

Thank you stamp from a Bebunni stamp set

Paper border from stash

Adhesives: P.V.A. glue, double sided tape, foam tape

Stanley knife, craft matt, steel rule, scissors

What I used:- Card 2

Blue card blank

yellow card stock

Spellbinders Embossing folder 'splendid'

Bling from stash

MFT pierced Oval die

Butterfly die from Ultimate Crafts Jadene: Happy Thoughts Butterfly set

White card stock from scraps

Printed sentiment

Corrugated card

mulberry paper flowers from stash

Adhesives: P.V.A. glue, double sided tape, foam tape

Stanley knife, craft matt, steel rule, scissors

I would like to enter these cards in:-

Craft your Passion-#279 Anything goes

Crafting from the heart #77 Anything goes

Simply Papercraft for all Occasions #13 Anything goes 

Aud Sentiments #140 Anything goes with a sentiment

Crafting with Friends #6 Anything goes

Beccy's Place September

Crafting by Design September Anything goes

Thank you for looking in...

have a wonderful week

Megan

p.s. Many thanks to all the kind ladies who leave me a comment on my cards, I appreciate each and every one of them...

Case-ing Ourselves

Hello again, 

Well this fortnight over at Case-ing Christmas challenge they have been celebrating Christmas in July with a fabulous blog hop featuring some gorgeous cards made with stamps in both real and digital form from a very kind group of sponsors.

The challenge this time is to case ourselves using a card we have made for another occasion, not Christmas, which I have a limited supply. I eventually decided on this card which was made for a lovely friend whom we met whilst doing our family history, her other hobby is quilt making hence the stitchy make. I have stuck with the layout of the card altering use of washi tape, egg braid and buttons to two ribbons (I rescued the sparkly red one from a present last year) and as none of the buttons in my stash are quite so small I switched them for some star sequins. I recreated the style of the sentiment on my computer, the original Happy Birthday one came from Scrap-al-icious-times. The bingo card is from Sweetly scrapped art.

Several blog challenges are also celebrating Christmas in July this week and today's Bugaboo Stamp challenge is a recipe challenge:

Three embellishments: Star sequins

Two Designer papers: Musical Script, Striped paper, also third which can barely be seen behind the image

Ribbon: two ribbons- red and green

Here’s the card I decided to Case:

Here’s my Christmas version of my Case card

What I used:-

White card blank 12.7cm x 17.8cm (5”x7”)

Tiddly Ink image: Christmas Cutie Emma

Faber-Castell and Derwent Pencils

Sweetly Scrapped digi bingo card

Digital sentiment created on Word

Tiddly Inks Paper pack from Australian Simply Card magazine 2013

Musical note paper from Papercraft Inspirations magazine

Ribbons from stash

Star Sequins from stash

Kraft card scrap

White card

Paper scraps to create poinsettias

MFT-Stitched Circle die

Lifestyle Crafts/ QuicKutz nesting scallop circle die

Marrianne Creatables –Poinsettia with veins

Adhesives- Helmars Tacky craft glue & double-sided tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

Case-ing Christmas #27- Case ourselves

Bugaboo Stamps Christmas in July Tuesday Recipe- See above

Tiddly Inks Challenge #161- Anything goes with Tiddly Image

Sparkles Christmas Challenge #54- use lace, ribbon or twine

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge Extra July- Anything Christmas

Crafting by Design- Anything goes July

Digi Choose-Day week 27- Christmas in July 2nd entry

Beccy’s Place Challenge- Christmas in July

A Snowflakes Promise #1- Christmas and Winter Theme

Di’s digi stamps- Celebration 

Thank you for looking in

have a good one...

Megan

P.S. A big Thank you to all the wonderful ladies who take the time to leave me a message, I really appreciate each and every one of them!