Q is for Quilt

 Hello again, 

I am again sharing a card made using up some of those scraps, I layed out some of the larger scraps to die cut using pierced squares and stitched rectangles adhered them to another plain card back, embossed using houndstooth embossing folder (Aliexpress) adding two tiny tags from LOTV Christmas stamps on some twine. 

Here is my card: -

What I used: -
White 13cm square card blank
Lilybee Designs Christmas Cheer paper pad
Houndstooth Embossing folder
LOTV Tiny Tags Christmas 
Clear embossing ink
Red embossing powder
Twine
Adhesives double side tape, pva glue

I am entering this card in: -

Beccy's Place Month long Holiday cards

Peace On Earth Challenge #76 Anything goes

Thank you for looking in... 

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

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

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 

Facebook

Blog

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

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

Merry Fishmas

Hello again,

Many thanks to those of you who have asked if we are safe from the Bushfires currently burning in NSW, the nearest fire to us is about 50km away and is mostly burning in deep bushland where there are few houses and settlements, it has currently burnt through 189,980 hectares of mostly bushland. We did have a smaller fire closer to home, three towns away which unfortunately started after a house fire, it burnt through just 77 hectares of bush they lost two sheds and a caravan, (information courtesy of my neighbours 17yo son, who is a bushfire fighter with our local brigade) before it was extinguished. Thankfully this fire was in a southern valley which doesn't tend to burn during the summer months when the winds are mostly from the north.

I have been a little naughty, doing some extra colouring (and gardening, but that's another story). I bought this digi from Just Ink lined ages ago with the intention of making a Christmas card for my Uncle who always asked if he could go fishing in our now empty/broken fish tank, a standing joke each time he came to visit... Just Ink Lined appears to have closed down.... I have hidden the hanging hole in the paper pad under the sentiment

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White 12.6x17.8cm card blank
blue polka dot paper
Just Ink Lined 'A Christmas Fish'
Faber-Castell and Derwent coloured pencils
scraps of black cardstock
Fiskars scalloped border punch
MFT pierced oval and pierced fishtail flags dies
Pebbles Home for Christmas paper pad
Sentiment from Create with TLC
Wink of Stella (over the fish bowl)

I would like to enter this card in:-
Scrappy Mo's Rudolph Day
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge
12 Months of Christmas Link-Up #59 Optional Twist Red and Green
Beccy's Place November Holiday cards
CCC Digi Creations Challenge #109 Christmas

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...

CBD September Anything Goes

Hello again,

Well our ceiling repairs are well underway and then comes putting everything back into the usual spots, where I will hopefully be able to lay my hands on more of my supplies than just now, I managed to make two Christmas cards using my Christmas supplies which are in a storage tub under the drawers at the desk I sit at for this months Anything goes Challenge with the lovely ladies at Crafting By Designs. I have used two images from two of the four sponsors who are each offering a prize for one of four lucky winners.

LeAnn's World 101

Prize Winners Choice of Two Digi Stamps

Ike's Art

Prize $20 gift certificate for Store

Lunagirl

Prize $15 Gift Certificate to store

Oddball Art

Prize $10 Gift Certificate

I have used Going home from our first sponsor LeAnn's World 101 to make the first Christmas card, using a sheet of double sided paper and a strip of Christmas striped paper

Card One

For my second card I have used a super cute little puppy digi from our fourth sponsor Oddball Art called Santa's Pup to make a card for one of our family history friends who sadly had to have her rescue dog of 5 months put down late last month due to the dog having severe medical issues that the vets were unable to treat.  I used the reverse side of the cardstock from the card above for this one...

Card Two

What I used:-

White 13.6x17.8cm card blank

14cm kraft card blank

Double sided paper (cannot remember brand)

LeAnn's World 101 Going Home digi stamp

Oddball Art Santa's Pup digi stamp

Faber-Castell and Derwent Pencils

Cottage Cuts Holly leaves and berries die

Stitched Circle die

Pierced Oval dies

Kaisercraft star die

Kaisercraft Christmas sentiment stamps 'Home for Christmas'

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Green, red and silver scrap papers

X-Press it glitter tape

White gel pen

Fiskars Corner Rounder Punch

Tiny self adhesive gems

Adhesives:- Glue stick, PVA glue and Double sided tape

I would like to enter these cards in:-

Card 1- 

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge #67

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge September Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #453

Card 2

12 Months of Christmas Link Up- Optional Twist Kraft paper

Cute N Crafty Christmas Challenge #17 Anything goes

Merry little Christmas Blog Challenge #14

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!

CBD Anything Goes

Hello again,

Today brings us to a new challenge for Crafting by Designs, we would love you to join in our challenge and this month the challenge the ever popular Anything goes, we have two fabulous sponsors this week will be giving the lucky winners their choice of 3 stamps from their store.

                       

Eureka! Stamps  

PRIZE 3 Digi Stamps

Crafty Sentiments Designs  

PRIZE 3 Digi Stamps

I have used a stamp from our sponsor Eureka! Stamps called Elf Digital Stamp to make a Christmas card for my stash, I had a plan for the card out but it has turned out completely different owing to the colours not quite working with the paper pad I had planned using.

This challenge is open until June 25th, you can add your project by using the Linky tool over at Crafting by Designs Please be sure to link your project back to us. 

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
12.6x17.8cm card blank (5x7)

White card for printing 

Eureka! Elf Digital Stamp 

Faber-Castell and Derwent Pencils

CCD scribbled circle with stars

Scrap gold cardstock

Hero Arts Merry Christmas cut and Stamp

Single circle hole punch

Gold embossing Powder

Clear embossing ink

White embossing powder

Clear embossing pen

Fussy cutting scissors

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

I would like to enter this card in:-

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge 440  Anything goes optional include a bear
Merry Little Christmas Challenge Anything goes
12 Months of Christmas Link Up
Cute N Craft Christmas Anything Christmas goes

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 message, I truly appreciate them all!

Christmas in January

Hello again,

Well we are well and truly melting (all week long again) our usual summer temperatures here don't often get above 30C but the heat is coming from the Aussie deserts to the mountains and the coast, roll on Autumn. Can you tell I don't like the heat? The native birds are sensible, out early and then they disappear during the heat, likely down the valley where it is cooler, my poor budgies are not enjoying the heat either, one is quite happy to have a fine mist bottle sprayed all over him several times a day, the other quite likes to come out and get put in the hand basin in the bathroom for a splash around to help cool him down.

I have been working on getting a few Christmas cards done for this years stash and want to try and get 4-6 done each month, I made this card earlier in the month for a DT challenge and had such a nice time creating the scrap edge that I made more and tried out a starburst background which I didn't quite pull off correctly.

Here are two more cards:-

What I used:
White 12.5x17.8cm card blanks
Scrap Christmas papers and card
Faber-Castell and Derwent pencils
Mo's Digital stamp Christmas sheep dog with hat
Make it Craft Floppy Digi Stamp
Impression Obsession Top Edger sentiment die
Naughty or Nice die (not sure of brand)
MFT Pierced oval die
Stamp It Australia 'Wonderful Christmas' stamp
Versa Color 'Raspberry' ink
Kindyglitz red glitter
Gold gel ink pen

I would like to enter these cards in:-
ABC Christmas Challenge A for Anything goes
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' 
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge
Merry Little Christmas Challenge 
Sparkles Forum Christmas Challenge #96 Add some Sparkle

No Rudolph Challenge this month while Mo is recovering from knee surgery, sending good vibes for a speedy recovery....

Thank you for looking in...
Keep cool to those down under, stay warm for those in cooler climes 
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!

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

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

Do what you love

Hello again,

Well I have finally finished all 30 days of challenges for this years month of holiday card making challenge with Beccy of Beccy's Place, Beccy has been one very very busy lady commenting on every entry and there are currently 792 entries for the month. 

Today's final challenge is to Do what you love... this year I have fallen in love with using distress oxide inks and creating pretty backgrounds for cards with either stamped or die cut detail, so out came the distress oxide inks and I created a coloured background to stamp some until now unused Christmas stamps from a magazine, inked in clear ink and heat embossed with white powder.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White 12.6x17.8cm card blank
Seafoam Kaisercraft cardstock
Mauve cardstock ? AC 
Magazine Freebie stamps
Clear embossing ink
white embossing powder
Darkroom Door 'Season's Greetings' sentiment stamp
Silver star stickers
Silver self adhesive flat backed gems (Kaisercraft)
Distress Oxide Inks broken china, picked raspberry and wilted violet +mini mister
Adhesives:- Double sided tape and foam tape

I would like to enter this card in:-
Beccy's Place Final day Do what you love Month of holiday cards
The Happy Craft Challenge Anything goes
Crafty Creations Challenges Anything goes
Make my Monday Challenge Non Traditional Christmas Colours

I laid all of the Christmas cards out on our carpet and took a two pics as I couldn't get them all in one go, I made a few extra's along the way and finished with a total of 33 card made in the last 30 days, I think I will still have a few more cards to make and some of those are semi made already..... I thought I was going quite mad when I checked through the gallery by finding my name and discovered that one of the my mobile phone entries had kept my blog name as entry name, so here's the alphabet and extra challenges for this year! 

A-J plus extra challenges

K-Z

Many thanks for dropping by...
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 comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Colour Challenge

Hello again,

Well today brings us to the end of the month long Holiday card making challenge with Beccy from Beccy's Place, I have managed to play along with most of the days but was a little stuck with the colour challenge from day 5, custard, cocoa, moss and bisque. I was digging around looking for a particular stamp and came across an old paper pad from First edition, which I knew had the cocoa and moss colours covered, peering through I had a narrow strip of plaid paper which appeared to have three from four of the colours or as close as I was going to get anyway.

Beccy's Challenge was also to surpass last years card record which was 743 cards made during the month, I still have one more card to make for todays final challenge and the total currently stands at 791 with several more hours to go.... and I still have the final day to type up.... 800 or more here we come!

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White 12.6x17.8cm card blank
First Edition paper pad Christmas Village
FTHS Birdbrain 'Deck the Halls' digi (store closed)
MFT gift tag greetings
Colorbox 'cocoa' inkpad
Clear embossing powder
Faber-Castell and Derwent pencils
Stitched square die
Circle punch
Adhesives:- Double sided tape, foam dot

I would like to enter this card in:-
Beccy's Place Month of Holiday Cards challenge Day 5 colour challenge

Many thanks for dropping 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!

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


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!