LPoCF #220 Hetty Clare Christmas Penguins

 Hello again, 

Well, we are in the midst of a severe heatwave here in my part of Australia, as we live in a cool climate air conditioning is not usual for any homes! Sydney siders asked us to put the air-con on and were very surprised that we don't have it. 

Today brings us to another all new Anything goes Challenge with my team mates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, this fortnight we are being sponsored by Hetty Clare who kindly allowed us to chose two images for the design team. I chose Christmas Penguins, I am using up another of my scrappy paper strips, all stuck onto snippet of white card and trimmed, I have an envelope on the back of the paper pads to store the snippets from other projects that are too nice to throw away.

Hetty Clare

Prize 2 Images

Here is my card-

What I used-
Hetty Clare Christmas Penguins 
Faber-Castell Coloured Pencils

White cardstock
Scraps from Bo Bunny 'Elf Magic' paper pad
Art Stamps Australia Sentiment Stamp

I would like to enter this card in:-

Happy Little Stampers Christmas Anything goes optional Festive Animals

Christmas Crafts All Year long Anything Christmas Goes

Creatalicious Challenges #273 Anything Goes last minute Christmas

The Sisterhood of Crafters Christmas

Christmas Kickstart #81 If it is Christmassy link it up

Little Red Wagon Merry Christmas

Christmas with the Cuties Something Cute and Christmassy

ABC Christmas Challenge Your Choice or Zebra

Thank you for stopping by,

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

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

Christmas In July

Hello again,

This month we are celebrating Christmas in July over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, each week we will begin a new challenge. We have one lovely sponsor each week, this week we are sponsored by Ching-Chou Kuik who have  kindly given the design team two images to work with. I have used Gingerbread Man Parade to make a very quick and easy Christmas card. 

I don't know how many of our local businesses are having Yulefest this year due to Covid-19 and associated restrictions, it is usually quite popular, especially if we have snow predicted for people to enjoy a traditional hot Christmas dinner, with carols and other festivities. While we in the Southern Hemisphere are enjoying traditional hot meals, gathering around a fireplace etc., I guess that those in the Northern hemisphere are enjoying a summer style Christmas ? 

Ching-Chou Kuik

Prize:- Same two images Design Team have used

You can see more of her amazing work via any of the below channels

Etsy Shop

Facebook

They also run a Facebook challenge in their group

Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps Inspiration and Challenge Blog 

Instagram

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 12.6 x 17.8cm card blank

Gingerbread Man Parade (flipped)

Derwent and Faber-Castell pencils

Gold gel ink pen

Clear Wink of Stella (snowman)

Diamond Glaze (lollipops and carrot nose)

Kraft paper

Strip of Christmas Create Foil and Glitter (Hunter Leisure)

Pinking blade on We R Memory Keepers Twist trimmer (magnetic)

Freebie Christmas Gingerbread stamp Magazine

Scrap brown paper

Clear embossing ink

Opaque Whispers embossing powder

Bright circle stickers

Sentiment from Create with TLC 

I would like to enter this card in:-

12 Months of Christmas Link-up Optional twist Flip a Coin-

Merry Little Christmas Challenge Anything Goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #498

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

Cocky's Christmas

Hello again,

I'm still working my way through some Christmas creations and this one is all Aussie, Merry Cocky is from Ericraft on Etsy the paper on the box reminded me of one in my stash. I have used a sketch from Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 as inspiration..

White Cockatoo's are notorious for their destructive nature, if they can chew it chances are they will... you can always tell where they have been feeding due to the mess left behind. They are not at all against chewing things that are not food including the mortar on rooftops...

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White 14cm card blank
Green, kraft, gold and Christmas tree papers
Circle, stitched square and tiny star dies
Merry Cocky Digital stamp Ericraft Etsy store
Derwent Pencils
Black fine line pen
Wink of Stella on baubles
Beccy's Place Sentiment stamp Aussie Christmas
Memento Tuxedo black ink pad

I would like to enter this card in:-
Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Anything goes optional sentiment as focal point
Cute 'N' Crafty Christmas Challenge Anything goes
Happy Little Stampers October Christmas Challenge
12 Months of Christmas Link up Anything goes optional theme Sensational Santa
Merry Little Christmas Challenge Anything goes

Many thanks for looking in...
Have a wonderful week..
Megan

P.S. Many thanks to all my lovely blogging friends and visitors who stop by and leave me a comment, I appreciate them all!

Christmas Joy

Hello again,

I have a Christmas card to share today, featuring one of Faith Skrdla's images from her store, From the Heart Stamps (closed) I decided to use up one of the strips I made up earlier this year to use up some scraps of paper this set is from My Mind's Eye 'Mistletoe Magic' paper pad.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White 12.6x17.8cm card blank
From the Heart stamps 'Holly Jolly Christmas'
Derwent and Faber-Castell pencils
Sentiment from Pink Petticoat
Circle die
MFT pierced fishtail flags die
Enamel dots
Wink of Stella
My Minds Eye 'Mistletoe Magic' papers
Deep red cardstock

I would like to enter this card in:-
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' Optional Christmas Ornaments 
Southern Girls Challenge Anything goes
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge (plaid, check or Gingham paper)
Cute N Crafty Christmas Challenge 17 Anything goes
12 Months of Christmas Link up Optional Kraft paper
Merry Little Christmas Challenge September Anything goes

Thank you for stopping by...
Have a wonderful week...
Megan

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

CBD Get Ready for Christmas

Hello again, 

Today brings us to the popular Get Ready for Christmas challenge with my team mates over at Crafting by Design we would love to see what you are creating for Christmas time, I have made an easel card using an image from our sponsor Colour of Love, named Peace on Earth Angel. 

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White 14cm square card blank
Colour of Love Peace Angel digital stamp
Derwent Coloured pencils
AC Leaf cardstock 
First Edition Christmas Village paper pad
X-Press it glitter gold tape
My Favorite Things sentiment 'hand lettered holiday greetings'
CCD Cross Stitched oval dies
Wink of Stella Clear brush pen
Clear embossing ink
Gold embossing powder

I would like to enter this card in:-
12 Months of Christmas link-up Anything goes Optional Plaid
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge
Cute 'N' Crafty Christmas Challenge
Merry Little Christmas Challenge

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

P.S. Many Thanks to my lovely blogging friends and visitors who stop by and take the time to leave me a comment, I 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!

LPoCF #96 Christmas Rosey

Hello again, 

Today brings us to a new Anything goes Challenge for Lil Patch of Crafty Friends the last of 2018( and I am running late!), we would love to see what you have been making, all comers and crafts are welcome, we have a lovely sponsor this fortnight Fred She Said Designs will be giving the lucky winner a $10 gift certificate. 

Fred She Said Designs 

PRIZE $10 gift certificate

I have used an image from our sponsor called Christmas Rosie to make a Christmas card for my stash; this card is off to a lady who adopted a new dog earlier this year after its owner had to go to a nursing home. I have used pre-coloured images and my paper roses Merry peek-a-boo die with the sentiment heat embossed in white.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White cardstock 

White 12.6x17.8cm card blank

Fred She Said Designs Christmas Rosey 

Hero Arts Merry cut and stamp (stamp only)

Paper Roses Merry Peek-a-boo die

Whispers Seafoam White embossing powder

Clear embossing ink

Tiny red circle stickers

Adhesives:- Double sided tape and foam tape 

I would like to enter this card in:-

Christmas Crafts All Year Round December Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #416 Optional things with wings
12 Months of Christmas Link-up Anything goes

Thank you for looking in….

Have a Wonderful week…

Megan

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Z for Zebra

Hello again, 

Well today brings us to the last letter of the alphabet with the current month long challenge with Beccy’s Place to make our holiday cards, I have gone with ‘Z’ is for Zebra. A very quick card from me today, with the little zebra taking centre stage. 

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 10.5x14.8cm card blank
Christmas sentiment paper
X-Press-It gold glitter tape
Memory Box Typewriter Holiday Sentiments
Memento Tuxedo black ink
White card for printing
Scrap of red card
Faber-Castell pencils
Oddball Art Digi Kawaii Christmas Zebra Zeddy as Santa 

I would like to enter this card in:-

Beccy’s Place Month of Holiday cards- Z is for Zebra


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. I appreciate them all!

J is for Joy and Jewel

Hello again,

Well there are only a few Christmas cards left for this years current month of Holiday cards challenge at Beccy's Place, I am still flitting back and forth as I complete the alphabet, today I have gone back to J is for Joy, I have used WPlus9 stamp and die combination to create the sentiment and decided to try out my Poppystamps Poinsettia Peace set, I heat embossed the stamps and coloured them with Prismacolor water colour pencils and painted them in pinks and red ending up with two cards, the first is a pretty purple using Kaisercraft 'Jewel' paper pad, the second has a more natural colour palette with the poinsettia in red, with some rescued ribbon from a present.

The photo's have turned out not as bad as I thought, today we are having one whole months of rain according to the weather predictions, an estimated 100ml or close to 4 inches throughout today. People in Sydney have had severe flooding and a number of accidents on the roads. A good day to stay warm and dry inside making cards....

Here are my cards:-

What I used:-
White 12.4x17.5card blanks
Poppycrafts Poinsettia Peace stamp and die
Kaisercraft 'Jewel' and 'Letters to Santa' paper pads
WPlus9 Hand lettered holiday stamp and die
Silver mirri card
Clear embossing ink
Silver, black and white embossing powders
Prismacolor water colour Pencils (+water)
Apron lace edge die
ribbons and silver thread
MFT Hand lettered Christmas sentiment
Sequins and tiny flat backed rhinestones

I would like to enter these cards in:-
Beccy's Place J is for Joy and Jewel
12 Months of Christmas linkup all tied up
Make My Monday Challenge Non traditional Christmas
Merry Little Christmas Challenge Anything goes

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

P.S. Huge thanks 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!

Y is for Yeti or Yowie

Hello again,

In an effort to keep on track with my Christmas cards I have been trying to join in with each of this years month of holiday cards with Beccy from Beccy’s Place, each day bringing a different challenge, todays challenge is …. Y is for Yeti or Yowie, I did contemplate making a yellow Yeti but decided that it looked much better in plain white.

The Yeti or Yowie (Australian mythical creature) is holding on to his Christmas wish list which I added from the Lawn Fawn Baah Humbug stamp set, I found the sentiment online and typed it up to create my own for the card.

I have made a total of 28 cards for the month long challenge a couple of days I made two similar boosting my total for the year.  Beccy is aiming for more than 743 entries this year to blitz last years total… just 10 more cards until we reach that mark.... 

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 12.5x17.8cm card blank

Lawn Fawn Yeti Set Go stamp and die set

Lawn Fawn Baah Humbug stamp and die set 

Sentiment from MFT Jingle all the Way set

Derwent Pencils

White cardstock

Clear embossing ink

Black embossing powder

Paper twine

Striped paper 

Scraps- blue, white, silver

I would like to enter this card in:-

Beccy’s Place Month of Holiday Cards Y is for Yeti or Yowie
12 Months of Christmas- optional theme all tied up (twine)
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #413

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

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

X for Xyron

Hello again, 

Today has brought us to perhaps the most difficult letter of the alphabet for Christmas, the only thing I could come up with from my collection was from the Baah Humbug stamp set which has a xmas list included, alternatively using twine or similar to form an 'x', then this morning on checking  on the Beccy’s Place blog she had suggested Xyron and X-Press-It, so I used my tiny xyron sticker maker to adhere the sheep to the card and added a single strip of gold glittered X-Press-It tape. My card is slightly skewed on the card, handmade, it some times happens.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 12.6x 17.8cm card blank

Lawn Fawn Baaah Humbug stamp and die set

Lawn Fawn Trim the tree stamp and die set

Derwent Coloured Pencils

Circle die

MFT pierced fishtail flags die

X-Press-It glitter tape

Scrap green cardstock

Doodlebug Design paper 

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Clear embossing ink

Black embossing powder

Adhesives: Double sided tape, Foam dots and Xyron Sticker maker

I would like to enter this card in:-

Beccy’s Place Month of Holiday cards ‘X’ for Xmas, X-Press-It and Xyron

ABC Christmas Challenge W is for WISHES and X is for XMAS 

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, I truly appreciate them all!

N for Navy and Nativity

Hello again,

Well I have skipped a few days with the challenges here and there and today I am returning to the letter ‘N’ I have gone with N is for Navy and Nativity. I had a few problems making this one, I had it all finished when I realised that the main panel was skewed which lead me to rescue the panel and attach it to another card, it was then to narrow to fit the same card blank and I had to come up with something else. Out came a tent fold card (spine along short side) and you guessed it the panel was too wide which lead to trimming it off bit by bit.. I then decided it looked too plain and dug around in my white scrap bag and found the embossed panel which I cut in half and added to each side.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 12.4x17.4cm card blank

White embossed card (Embossing folder from Snippets Playground)

Impression Obsession Nativity and shepherd dies

White, silver and navy cardstock all from my scrap bags

Memory Box Typewriter Holiday Sentiment stamp

Silver embossing powder

Clear embossing ink

Check ribbon

Adhesives:- Double sided tape and adhesive sheet.

I would like to enter this card in:-

Beccy’s Place N is for Nativity and Navy
12 Months of Christmas optional theme All tied up
Aud Sentiments Challenge Winter or Christmas Sentiment


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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!

V for Vintage

Hello again,

Still working my way through the alphabet now getting to the sticker end of things, yesterday brought us to the letter V and my card is V is for Vintage, I have used paper from 12” ‘Yuletide’ Kaisercraft paper pad which has been in my collection for many years 6 or more, and an image from Tiddly inks called Wryn Caroling. I was having a lovely time playing catch up yesterday that I ended up losing the natural light to take my photo.... 

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 12.6x17.8cm card blank

Maroon cardstock from stash

Kaisercraft ‘Yuletide’ papers

Fiskars scalloped border punch

Tiddly Inks Wryn goes Caroling digi stamp

Tiddly Inks digi sentiment from Holly Jolly

Faber-Castell pencils

Musical Note punch

Tag die

Cross stitched oval die

Gold glitter paper

Adhesives:- Double sided tape, foam tape and adhesive sheet

I would like to enter this card in:-

Beccy's Place Month of Holiday cards V for Vintage
CCC Digi Creations Christmas or Winter

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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, I truly appreciate them all!

U is for Unicorn

Hello again,

Still working our way through the alphabet now getting to the stickier end of things, today brings us to the letter ‘U’ apart from Unicorns and the colour Umber I’m lost… but I bought a tiny stamp and die set featuring the first of the two I could think of, I found the Doodlebug speech bubble in my bag of Christmas scraps and decided it would work.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White 10.5x14.8cm card blank
Striped paper from scrap bags
Circle die cut from scrap bags
Left over strip of Distress Oxide ink background (faded Jeans, broken china, peacock feathers)
Lawn Fawn Winter Unicorn stamp and die set
White card
Clear embossing ink
Silver embossing powder
Derwent Pencils
Wink of Stella Clear
Star hand punch
Silver and glitter cardstock scrap with adhesive on back
Doodlebug and typed sentiment
Adhesives:- Double sided tape and foam dots

I would like to enter this card in:-

Beccy’s Place Month of Holiday cards ‘U’ is for Unicorn

Daisy Chain Challenge 25 Christmas or Winter
ABC Christmas Challenge W is for Wishes, x for Xmas
Merry Little Christmas Challenge Anything goes

Many thanks for looking in...
Have a wonderful weekend...
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 message, I truly appreciate them all!

Case it

 Hello again, 

Well, today has brought us to another bonus challenge during the month of holiday cards challenge at Beccy’s Place, we had to CAS(E) ourselves, I found one of the scrap cards I made last year a quick and rather clean looking card (for me anyway) and decided to case it. All of the papers came from my scrap boxes and the image is one of the many I have had coloured ready to go.... 

Here is the 2017 card:-

Here is my Christmas card:-

What I used:-

White 12.6x17.8cm card blank

Bugaboo Digi stamp Bobblehead Santa

Faber Castell and Derwent Pencils

Unknown card stock strip (just fitted the square die on)

Background has faint characters on it not showing up though

Beige cardstock

Magazine sentiment stamp

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Sequins from my stash

Adhesives:- Double Sided tape, foam dots

I would like to enter this card in:-

Beccy’s Place Month of Holiday cards Cas(e) it

Fabrika Fantasy Christmas or Winter
Snippets playground #339

Many thanks for looking in...
have a wonderful week
Megan

Many thanks to all my lovely blogging friends and visitors who take the time to stop by and leave me a message, I truly appreciate them all!

S is for so many things

Hello again, 

I am back with another card for this years month of holiday cards with Beccy from Beccy’s Place, today the challenge is to make a card using the letter ‘S’ I had planned on making a card using one of my found coloured images (Santa), but then digging through my supplies I rediscovered my swaggie die, so today my card has Silhouette, sunset, Swaggie (swagman), Santa, sleigh, stars, Southern Cross and Sentiment.

I made a distress oxide ink background spraying lightly with water, then inked the bottom with Black soot ink, die cut the swaggie and Santa using some double sided adhesive sheet, added them to the card, heat embossed the sentiment from Kaisercraft in white embossing powder and added the panel to a card covered in Kaisercraft Basecoat corrugated iron. I would have loved using a die I saw recently which is Aussie made with Kanagroos pulling Santa’s sleigh, but will have to save it for next year… when I added the southern cross to the card with the star stickers I realised one needed to be slightly smaller, I had no more tiny gold stars and used my hand held star punch to make a tiny star from the middle sized one you can see, fiddly but it did the job…

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 12.6x17.8cm card blank (5x7”)

Kaisercraft Basecoat paper

Crafts 4 U Aussie Camper die 

Poppystamps Santa’s Sleigh die

White card stock

Black soot, wild honey, Antique linen and festive berries distress oxide inks

Black cardstock scraps

Adhesive sheet

Gold star stickers

Star Hand punch

Kaisercraft Sentiments-Traditional

Clear embossing ink

Seafoam white embossing powder

Adhesives:- Double sided tape, Adhesive sheet

I would like to enter this card in:-

Beccy’s Place ‘S’ is for Silhouette, sunset, swaggie, Santa, sleigh, stars, Southern Cross and Sentiment

Southern Girls Challenge Inks and Sprays (distress oxide inks + water spray)
Creative Craft Cottage Christmas is Coming
Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Anything goes
Cards Galore Encore Anything goes

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

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

M is for Monkey

Hello again, 

Still working my way (out of order) due to my multiple medical appointments that knock me around, on this Beccy’s Place month of Holiday cards, I've rewound the alphabet to the letter ‘M’ (I still haven’t done ‘A’ yet…) I have gone with M is for Monkey!

I am still undecided on the striped paper, it doesn’t seem at all Christmassy but there it was with all the others in the paper pad. The silver stars in the top corner are just part of the sheet.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

12.6x17.8cm Card blank

White card

Unbranded paper pad from (Kmart) 

LMMS Star Chester image 

Kaisercraft nesting hexagon

Kaisercraft sentiment stamp ‘Sentiments Traditional’

MFT pierced fishtail flags die

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

I would like to enter this card in:-

Beccy’s Place M is for Monkey

LMMS 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, I appreciate them all!