Quilted Christmas

Hello again, 

Well onto my final two Christmas cards I have been making recently, I have been trying to use up some of my older Christmas paper pads and the freebie ones from magazines, I have used two different Kaisercraft paper pads mixed with some kraft and other vintage paper from my stash and a brand new CCD I ordered using my refunded birthday money…. Great for quilt making friends, for all occasions.

Here are my two cards:-

What I used:-

White 17.8x12.6cm card blank

Kaisercraft Patterned papers

Magazine freebie paper

Vintage Christmas paper (first Edition)

Kaisercraft Sentiment stamp Traditional Christmas

Stamp it Australia Sentiment Stamp

MFT Scroll die

Clear sequins from stash

Impression Obsession holly leaf cluster die

Clear embossing ink pad

Red Embossing powder

I would like to enter this card in:-
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge 356
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge Extra
ABC Christmas Challenge U is for Unlimited and V is for Vibrant
CRAFT Challenge #438 Christmas
Craft-a-holics R Us Anything goes
12 Months of Christmas #34 Anything goes
The Holly and the Ivy Challenge Anything goes

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

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

CiJ Final Day! Recipe

Hello again,

Well, today is the final challenge with the lovely ladies at Bugaboo Stamps Catch the Bug 7th Annual Christmas in July, and today the ladies have a Friday Freebie challenge and a recipe to follow which you can see below. I turned the computer on last night and coloured the free image before going to bed, even getting a coat of Diamond Glaze on Rudolph nose and eyes and little birds eyes allowing time to dry before putting the card together this morning.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White 14cm square card blank
Bugaboo Friday Freebie image-Reindeer 01Digi Stamp
Faber-Castell Pencils
Diamond Glaze
MFT Cross Stitched Rectangles
Wplus9 Hand lettered Holiday Stamp
Primary Ebony Superfine Embossing powder
Versamark ink pad Clear
Heat gun
Express-It Glitter tape
Kindyglitz Crystalina Glitter glue on snow flakes and ground
Memory Box Precious Star Die
Embossed Kraft paper from Daiso
Kaisercraft 'Christmas Collection' paper
AC Black card stock
White Gel ink pen
edit- Fiskars Scalloped border punch


I would like to enter this card in:-
Catch the Bug Christmas in July Day 7 Recipe Challenge
C.R.A.F.T Christmas Challenge
Merry Monday Christmas in July catch up- #245 Use Kraft
12 Months of Christmas Link-up #31 Optional theme Oh Deer!

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

P.S. A Huge Thank you to all the lovely visitors who leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Reindog

Hello again,

Today I am sharing the second card made with my Memory box Santa Paws Stamp and Die set, I can see this set being useful for other cards too, not just for Christmas. My second card also features the same cute little cavalier King Charles Spaniel and I had intended to include one of the other little dogs but neither of them fit the space available, so I'll just have to make another larger card ;-)  

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 10.5 x 14.8cm card blank

White cardstock

Memory box Santa Paws stamp and die set

Memory box Grand Merry Christmas Die

Scraps of Christmas papers Kaisercraft 

Memento Tuxedo Black inkpad

Faber-Castell, Derwent and Lyra Pencils

Adhesives:- Double sided tape, foam dots

I would like to enter this card in:-

The Merry Christmas Challenge #4 Add a Cat or Dog

12 Months of ChristmasLink-up Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge #303 Use a sentiment

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge Extra Anything goes

C.R.A.F.T Christmas

Jingle Belles While Shepherds Watched their Flocks

Thank you for looking in…

Have a great week…

Megan

P.S. A Huge Thank you to all the lovely ladies who take the time to leave me a message, I truly appreciate each and every one!

Science Guy

Hello again,

What a long week last week was, still no answer from pain clinic, buck passing again... 'it's not my area' strange that I can have a physio who understands and can print text book images of what I'm talking about but Dr's....

Still sharing some of the cards I made last month, this one is headed for a teen science whizz...

I downloaded and printed a periodic table to create the nerdy sentiment... overlaying cardstock scraps (held with washi) and running it back through the printer until I had all the letters I needed

Here's my card:-

Okay so the paper I used came from a $2 shop I chose the area with some random patterns and colours mixed through it and used a stencil for the first time with some red and white Colorbox ink to add some more interest to the background paper.

What I used:-

What I used:

Green graffiti paper from stash

White card blank

Black and white cardstock from scraps (large and small)

Polka Doodles image Science Geek

Faber-Castell Pencils

Francheville enamel stickers

Bella Droplets enamel stickers

Memory box stencil ‘zippy dots’

Red and white Colorbox ink pads

Black and white printable Periodic Table

Diamond glaze on glasses, flasks and dotted around boy

Adhesives:- Double-sided tape and foam tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

Creative Craft Cottage #61 For Men/boys

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #39 Anything goes

Snippets Playground week 242 (must use snippets)

Polkadoodles Challenge week 32 Anything goes

Aud Sentiments for a child (do teens count? if not please delete)

613 Avenue Create #188 Anything goes

CRAFT #376 Anything goes

Crafting by Designs August Anything goes challenge
Crafting Circle August Anything goes

and the lovely Christina over at Memories Crafter is having a giveaway before her blog undergoes some changes. Please feel free to join in the more the merrier!

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

P.S. A huge thank you to all the lovely ladies who visit and take the time to leave a comment, I truly appreciate them all ;-) 

Paper Pieced Santa

Hello again,

I’m back today with another Christmas card, since I have fallen behind on making them. I decided to combine a couple of different challenges including Jingle Belles who this fortnight would like to see ‘Santa Baby’, 52 Christmas Card Throwdown who would like to see some paper piecing. 

This is my second card this year featuring paper piecing again using a digi image, this one is from Bugaboo and is called Stocking Santa Star. I went through my many images and chose this image because it was less complex than most others and would be easier to piece.

I printed Santa out on plain paper first then added my cut paper pieces to the top of the image using some washi tape to hold them in place, before reprinting the image again.

I have used no sentiment on the front other than to add a postmark from my set of Christmas Postmarks, allowing the receiver to read the landmarks on the map, which include the Candy Cane forest, Yule Loggery and Abominable Snowman's Cave.

Here’s my card:-

What I used:-

White 14.8cm x 10.5cm card blank

Bugaboo image ‘Stocking Santa Star’ 

Faber-Castell pencils

Pebbles ‘Home for Christmas’ Design Paper

Clear Sequins

Memento Tuxedo Black 

Kaisercraft Twig and Berry 'Postmarks'

Adhesives:- PVA Glue, Double sided tape, Foam tape

Fussy cutting scissors, cutting matt, Stanley knife, steel ruler

I would like to enter this card in:-

Jingle Belles Challenge 'Santa Baby'

52 Christmas card Throwdown Technique Challenge: Paper Piecing

12 Months of Christmas Link up: Optional theme Christmas Decorations Santa is holding a star

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas challenge extra Anything goes

Hiding in my Craft room: Any holiday

Winter Wonderland For a Child

CRAFT add some Bling

Holly Jolly Christmas use your stash- item paper pad is over 18 months old and I have not touched it!!!!

Thank you for looking in…

Have a wonderful week…

Megan

P.S. A HUGE Thank you to all the lovely ladies who stop by and take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all.

Hippity Hoppity...

Hello again,

I’m joining in with the second challenge of MHK Designs, which ends in a couple of days. This month Mynn gave us another inspiration board featuring a gorgeously coloured bird and the colours from his plumage, with the option of Anything goes with MHK Designs. I have mixed and matched, using colours similar to the challenge board and using an image from MHK Designs to create an Easter pouch for my niece, she lives interstate and sending chocolate eggs is a no go in the heat. 

When my niece visited early this year she told me about some special jelly beans which you basically dare people to eat. There is no other explanation for them, yuck comes to mind when you read the flavours in the pack, it even has a Caution warning on the pack! They look identical but could be e.g. Chocolate Pudding or Canned Dog food, Buttered Pop-corn or Rotten Egg, I'm sure you get the idea. GROSS!!!!

I made a sachet to hold the bag of beans using 15cm wide piece of card stock and my scoring board to create the folds. I took the tips of the fold over top off with my Fiskars corner rounder and have used some adhesive Velcro to close it up. 

I created a little scene using Mynn’s Digi set called BunnyLove which I was lucky to win during the last blog-hop, the little bunny I used is so cute, I've altered him a little switching his single Lily for a small bouquet of punched flowers.

Here’s my sachet:-

What I used:-

Cascade Card stock American Crafts

Martha Stewart Scoring board

Fiskars Corner Rounder

MHK Designs ‘Bunny Love’ Digi set (image and sentiment)

Faber-Castell Pencils

Memory box Flying Birds Die

MFT Wood Grain Fence Die

MFT Fresh cut grass Die

Joy Crafts Clouds Die

Cuttlebug

Multi pack mini punch set:- Flower

Carl Crafts Egg Punch

Scrap papers and card

Kindy Glitz ‘Lilac’

Glitzee ‘Silver’

Adhesives:- PVA Glue, Foam tape, Xryon create a sticker

‘Fussy cutting’ scissors 

I would like to enter this craft in

MHK Designs Challenge #2

CRAFT Challenge #354 Spring or Easter

Bizzy Bec's Store Blog- March Challenge

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #29

CCC Digi Designs #59 Let's get Sentimental

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 little message, I truly appreciate them all...

Holly's Tree

Hello again,

Today I am sharing a larger card I have had sort of half started in a box on my table found whilst tidying up my bit's, I found the picture called Holly’s Christmas Tree (from Di’s Digi Stamps) I had coloured while my niece was visiting last month and decided that this would finish off my half-finished model in the box. Time to be honest…. I had made the card for a completely different image which I then wrecked with a mess of double-sided tape and an extra layer of matting to make it super fancy, but the image ended up torn almost right through, it made its way to the recycling box… leaving me with the basic card already embellished and all.

Here’s my card:-

What I used:-

Holly’s Christmas Tree- Di’s Digi Stamps

Derwent Coloured Pencils

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

Christmas Village paper from First edition

My favourite things Pierced oval die

Lace from stash

card and paper scraps

Marianne Design Poinsettia Die

White card for Printing

Fiskars Scalloped border punch

Cottage crafts Mini Holly Die

Self-adhesive pearls

Button from stash

White Opal Liquid Pearl

Memento Tuxedo Black

Sentiment stamp from Magazine

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

I would like to enter this card in:-

12 Months of Christmas Link-up- #14 Winter Scene (Optional)

Catch the Bug February Bingo Challenge Pearl, Flower,Designer paper

Crafting by Design February Anything goes Challenge

CRAFT Challenge #351 Christmas

Creative Craft Cottage #58 Lace &/or Pearls

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge #269 Cute or Anythinggoes

Lil’ Patch of Crafty Friends #28 Anything goes

Pixie’s Snippet’s Playground #217 Anything goes

Sparkles Christmas Challenge- Winter landscape

Sparkle Creations Christmas Card Challenge #12

Thank you for looking in today...

have a great week...

Megan

P.S. I felt very silly sitting making a wintry Christmas card in a pair of shorts and a singlet top, this week summer appears to have planned a last hurrah this weeks minimum will be 22C. To those who are cold stay warm and those like me stay cool.

P.P.S A huge thanks to all the lovely ladies who take the time to leave me a message when they visit, I truly appreciate them all!

Christmas Kittens

Hello again,

Well after several weeks away from my blog, I have shared seven birthday cards for the coming year in Bugaboo’s sixth birthday celebration and now it must be time to get a head start on the year’s Christmas cards.

I have combined the Stamp of the Month stamp from From the Heart Stamps a really cute pair of kittens and a sketch challenge from the 12 Months of Christmas to create my card and I'm using up some paper which I've had for ages.

If you would like to join in with the From the Heart Stamps, Stamp of the Month Challenge you can purchase the Cozy Kittens image and sentiment set and the next challenge image will be emailed to you for free alternatively buy $10 worth of digi's and enter the code found here to receive the digi for free!

I have cut and scored my own card since I have a stack of envelopes I bought and no cards actually fit, so dimensions are 11.5cm x 17.5cm to fit a 12cm x 18cm envelope… you will probably be seeing several more cards in this size until envelopes are gone…

Here’s my card:-

What I used:-

Stamp of the Month Image From the Heart Stamps

First Edition Paper Pad:- Christmas Village

White Card stock cut to 11.5 x 17.5cm

My Favourite Things Stitched Rectangle Die

My Favourite Things Pierced Fishtail Flags

My Favourite Things Sentiment Strips

Bella! Droplets

Tiny Christmas Sentiment Pink Petticoat  (closed 31 Dec 2015)

I would like to enter this card in:-

From the Heart Stamps Stamp of the Month Challenge January 2016

12 Months of Christmas Challenge #13 Sketch (used in mirror image)

Scrappy Mo’s Rudolph Day Challenge

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge #265 Use a Sentiment

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge Extra
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge Anything goes with Patterned paper

The Glory of Christmas Challenge #76 Silver or Gold or Anything goes Christmas (gold droplets)

CRAFT Challenge #347 Christmas

and a new to me Australian based Challenge blog...

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #26 Anything goes

Happy Australia Day!!

Thank you for looking in…

Have a wonderful week…

Megan

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

Happy Bird-Day

Hello again,

Well the  last day of the year has arrived and there are just four hours until the huge fireworks in the city, my brother and niece have arrived for a late Christmas and were delighted to have a serve of my Mum aka Gran's Christmas pudding with ice cream and custard for dessert after dinner tonight and are looking forward to heading up to the railway bridge to watch the fireworks a 9pm (the fireworks are about the size of a beach ball and maybe a few golf balls and there's no loud bangs as a bonus, 100kms from Sydney, but can still see the skyline!) so while they wind down from a long drive (12hrs) before they head up town I'm writing my final post for 2015.

I love peeking in at everyone's cards and stopped by the From the Heart Stamps blog to check out all this months fabulous creations with the Stamp of the month challenge and came across Larissa's card which used the very same designer paper! 

I also found an extra Birthday challenge and decided to use this extra cute Birdbrain image to participate, the image is called Birthday Candle and comes with a huge variety of sentiments too. 

Faith (owner and designer) and Imke of the DT at From the Heart Stamps are celebrating their birthdays and so is the From the Heart Stamps Shop! They would love to see a Birthday card... I unfortunately missed their blog hop at the beginning of December :-(

Di is also celebrating over at Snippets Playground it's Di's 4th Year as Principal of the Playground!! She does a wonderful job keeping everyone  in line although I hear word of some mischief makers behind the bike shed....

I'm not sure who the recipient will be, perhaps my neighbour who celebrates her birthday in early February...

Here's my card:-

What I used:-
White 10.5 x 14.8cm card blank
Pink jewelled core'dinations cardstock 
patterned paper from my scrap box
pink flowers
bling from stash
White card
Digi Image Birthday Candle 
Derwent and Faber-Castell pencils
two pink twine from stash
MFT stitched rectangle die
fairy krystal glitter paint
Adhesives:- Double-sided tape & PVA

I would like to enter this card in:-
From the Heart Stamps Birthday Challenge
Snippets Playground
CRAFT Anything goes
Bizzy Becs Store Blog Challenge

Thank you for looking in...
Wishing you all a Safe, Happy, Prosperous and Healthy 2016
Megan

P.S.
A huge Thank you to all the kind and lovely ladies who take the time to leave me a message I truly appreciate them all, thank you for all being so very kind during my first year of blogging and welcoming me into the blogging world...Megan 

Elves

Hello again,

Well I'm back again with another card for the current Christmas Chaos Challenge a week full of fun Challenges with the lovely team over at Bugaboo.

Today's challenge we had to pick a treat and make our card based on that treat, I chose 'Gingerbread Cookie Biscuit' (sorry we don't eat cookies in Australia, although some people are likely to toss them, but that's another story).

* Gingerbread Cookies - Use 2 Stripes, 3 Brads or Bling, 4 Layers

* Sugar Cookies with Sprinkles - Make your card a shape other than Square or Rectangle, 3 pieces of Bling & Ribbon

* Homemade Holiday Chocolates - Use ONLY cardstock, no designer papers, Embossing & 2 Layers

* Spiked Egg Nog - Use a Border Punch, Glitter & Polka Dots

* Candy Canes – Stripes & BLING

* Fruit Cake – Make it Funny & use ONLY scraps to create your card

My card recipe included 2 Stripes, 3 Brads or Bling and four layers. 

I went a little overboard with my bling, never mind... my brother won't notice...

Here's my Card:- 

What I used:-
Square card blank 14cm
white card
black paper from scraps box
black glitter card 
doodlebug design paper 'north pole'
pebbles paper pack 'home for the holidays'
Make it Crafty digi image 'Floppy'
Derwent and Faber-Castell pencils
black fine-line pen
two red enamel brads
6 black self-adhesive bling
typed sentiment the original came from (whimsie doodles, I altered it)
Fiskars scallop border punch
Adhesives:- double-sided tape, glue stick, glue dots, PVA

I would like to enter this card in
Bugaboo's Christmas Chaos Day 5
CRAFT Challenge #341 Christmas
Holly Jolly Challenge:- Merry Christmas Anything goes
Case-ing Christmas- #32 Final Challenge Anything goes
Crafty Sentiments Design:- Christmas Card Challenge
Cardz 4 Guyz- Traditional Christmas Colours
CCC Digi Creations:- #38 Anything goes
Eureka Stamps:- #170 Christmas is Coming
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas challenge extra:- December Anything goes

Many thanks for looking in...
Have a great weekend...
Megan

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

Deck the Halls Birdbrain

Hello Again…

Today I am sharing my creation with this month From the Heart Stamps Stamp of the Month Challenge, which is one of my favourite little characters ‘Birdbrain’ Faith draws. This month’s new image is called Deck the Halls Birdbrain; I used the image three times in increasing sizes and made my card on a DL card blank. As I went to put my card together, thinking of a layout, along came Imke's sketch with an optional twist which happened to work with my DL card, thanks for a well timed and great sketch Imke!

Each month Faith’s dedicated design team create a wonderful selection of cards to provide us all with a little inspiration and if you join in this month, next month you will receive the new challenge image free! You can still join in this month if you like by buying the image here OR spending over $10 on Faiths gorgeous digi’s you can enter a code to receive the image free found on the Stamp of the Months blog entry.

Here’s my Card:-

What I used:-

From the Heart Stamps Deck the Halls Birdbrain

White card & Printer

Faber-Castell & Derwent coloured pencils

White DL Card blank (10cm x 21cm)

Doodlebug Design Papers All Wrapped up and Generic Doodle Bug Christmas Pack

Glittered card stock scraps blue, green, pink and purple

MFT Fishtail Flags die

Nesting bauble die (name/brand currently eludes me if you know let me know in the comment section)

Stanley Knife, Cutting mat, steel rule, Fiskars eyelet setter

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

I would like to enter this card in:-

From the Heart Stamps Stamp of the Month Challenge November

From the Heart Stamps Sketch challenge #127 sketch only (I hope it makes the cut)

CRAFT Challenge #337 Christmas

Sparkles Christmas Challenges- #59 November- Decorations

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra Anything goes

12 Month's of Christmas link-up Optional Challenge #11 Sparkle, sparkle everywhere (I hope that the baubles are enough sparkle)

Ants in my Pantry Challenge #11 Anything goes

A Snowflakes Promise #10 Anything goes

Pile it On #95 Any Holiday/Celebration

Di's Digi design tic tac toe (Die Cut, Digi image, Hand coloured)

Thank you for looking in...

Have a fabulous week...

Megan

P.S. A huge thank you to all the kind ladies who take the time to leave me a message, I truly appreciate each and everyone of them...Megan

Pink Christmas

Hello again,

This fortnight over at Jingle Belles the lovely ladies invited us to all make a card in Pink for Breast Cancer awareness, my card has been in the pipeline and I finally got time to make my card. 

For every card entered both ladies Steph and Lauren will each be contributing $2 to Breast Cancer Awareness. 

Over at 12 months of Christmas link up this month's challenge is to make a card for a child under 12 years so this pink creation will be off to my cousin who has two little girls. 

Here’s my card:-

What I used:-

White 14cm square card blank

Pink check paper from stash

Pink star paper My Mind’s Eye Happy Day Paper pad

White & Pink card scraps

Di’s Digi Design Stamp- Holly's Penguin Kiss 

Sentiment from Pink Petticoat 

MFT stitched circle die

MFT Pierced fishtail flag die

Memory Box Die Frosted Spruce

Marianne Collectables Eline’s Santa

Three Bella! Droplets

Silver glitter glue

White Glitter on hats and trim

Adhesives:- Double-sided tape, P.V.A. Glue

I would like to enter this card in:-

Jingle Belles- Deck the Halls in Pink Christmas 

12 Months of Christmas link-up For a Child 

A snowflakes promise Anything goes

Sparkle Creations Christmas Card Challenges #46 Photo Inspiration

ABC Christmas Challenge U for unusual colours –I hope Pink is unusual enough

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge-For a Child or include a child

CRAFT Challenge #333 Christmas 

The glory of Christmas- #70 More than one fold or Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge extra- October Anything Christmas
Crafting by Designs- Get ready for Christmas October

After a kind suggestion from Diane I am also entering this card in 
Classy Card's 'n' Such Challenge Pretty Pink Christmas 

Thank you for looking in...

enjoy the remainder of your week

Megan

P.S. Many thanks to all the lovely ladies who take the time to leave me a message, I truly appreciate them all 

Robot Girl

Hello again,

Today I am sharing the card I made for my niece's birthday, she has turned 10 this week! She celebrated with a special breakfast at home with her Dad making pancakes for breakfast... pancakes were not classified as breakfast when we were kids, pancakes where lunch time fare usually a school holiday treat...mmm maybe tomorrow for my lunch ;-)

Anyhow back to the card I made, my niece is currently enjoying science-y things and I decided to create my second shaker card featuring Bugaboo's Robot girl digi image and some patterned paper which I thought looked like radio waves.

Here's my card:-

What I used:-
White 12.7cm x 17.8cm card blank
Bugaboo Digi 'Robot Girl'
American Crafts Cascade cardstock
Dark yellow cardstock (generic)
Echo Park 'style essentials' paper pad
acetate
Fiskars scalloped border punch
Silver sequins and stars from stash
Balloon Punch
Black pen
Adhesive backed bling
Memory box Parker Number set
scrap silver glitter card
Lifestyle crafts nesting circle dies
Impression Obsession Happy  Birthday top edger die
Double sided tape, Foam tape, scissors, craft mat, P.V.A. glue
I drew around the inside of a washi tape to round the corner

I would like to enter this card in:-
Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Challenge- September Anything goes
C.R.A.F.T. #329- Add some bling
QKR Stampede Challenge #157- Three's a crowd- Three Balloons
Craft your passion #280- Anything goes
Glitter n Sparkle Challenge #155- Use Punches and Die cuts Border and balloon punches, circle, number and sentiment dies

Thank you for looking in...
enjoy the rest of the week...
Megan

P.S. Thank you to all the lovely ladies who take the time to leave me a message, I truly appreciate each and every one.