Classic Cars

Hello again,

Well this card is one I have had in mind for my Uncle after making this one with one of my new CCD dies, I had planned on using multiple of the cars on the original card, but they didn’t fit. I had a minor slip up when making this card and ended up adding a thin layer of PVA glue to each of the cars to add some sheen to them after a slightly too large a drop spilled on to the VW Beetle, leaving it looking obviously shinier than the other two.

Here is my card:-

What I used:

White 5x7” card blank 12.6 x 17.8cm

Kraft cardstock
Design papers from a $2 shop (Rosie’s Studio Transit Lounge)
Black, white, green, red and blue card from scrap box
Marianne Design VW Die
CCD Car Die 1
CCD Car Die 2
Ranger Liquid Enamel
Colorbox Charcoal ink pad
Black fine line pen
MFT pierced fishtail flags die
Typed sentiment
Foam tape, Double sided tape, PVA glue

I would like to enter this card in:-

Pixie's Snippets Playground weeks 293-294 Anything goes with snippets

Come and Get it Challenge - use die cuts

A Gem of a Challenge Birthday Wishes

Craft-a-holics R Us #30 Use die cuts

Crafting by Design August Anything goes

Crafts Galore Encore Anything goes

Thank you for looking in…

Have a wonderful week…

Megan

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

Angelic Wishes

Hello again,

Well have you ever had one of those I must clean up moments, only to get part way through and get distracted? I have been trying to clear some of my mounding craft supplies and get them back to where they belong or in some cases put away for the first time. What has been my distraction? More lovely dies arriving every few days as I made an order for some Cheap China Dies- CCD (a term I first came across with Shaz in Oz of Calligraphy Cards, courtesy of RosA at Paperchase) and they have started arriving and needed a place to live, as they came I tried them through my machine and left feedback for each piece (required) which only added to the mess I was trying to get through.

I decided to keep my CCD separate to my other dies and have been making mini magnetic folders for some of the nesting sets using advertising magnets and plain Manila folders, the nesting sets are residing in an old VHS box and I’m wishing I hadn’t torn the plastic cover from the boxes so I could poke a list of what is in each box clearly down the spine or on the front of the box. 

Here is a picture of the doily die which is behind my image:

I have made a Christmas card for this years stash using a Tiddly Inks digi image called ‘Angelic Wishes’. Still on my plan to use some of my vintage-y papers I coloured the image to suit.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 12.6 x 17.8cm (5 x7”) card blank

Angelic Wishes Digi stamp from Tiddly Inks

Cream cardstock

Freebie papers from a magazine

White cardstock

Faber-Castell and Derwent pencils

Wink of Stella on wings

WOW! Embossing powder Metallic Gold Sparkle

Ranger Clear embossing ink

Heat tool

Paper Mill Christmas stamp

CCD Doily die 😊 😊 WARNING THIS SITE IS ADDICTIVE AND SUPER CHEAP and they have lots of crafty bits!!!!! 😊 😊 **I will not be accepting any responsibility for enabling any of you**😉😉

Lifestyle- Nesting Oval die

Deep red seam binding

Adhesives:- Double-sided tape and PVA glue

I would like to enter this card in:-

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #54 Anything goes

ABC Christmas Challenge E- edge, F- family, G- for girls (G is for Girls)

Season’s Greeting’s Christmas Challenge #3 Anything goes or Optional twist heat or Dry Embossing (heat embossing, I have finally got my heat gun and powders out to play with!)

Christmas at Sweet Stampin’ Anything goes

Come and Get it Challenge Anything goes

12 Months of Christmas Link-up #27 Optional Theme Christmas Angels

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge #325 Anything goes or No Patterned paper (Anything goes)

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra- March (Anything goes)

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 comment. I truly appreciate them all!

In a Pear tree

Hello again,

Today brings us to day six of this weeks Holiday Chaos Challenge over at Bugaboo Stamps Challenge blog, today the challenge is to use our old stash and an old image. The first digital stamps I bought were from Jodie and I bought this Christmas set, long before I had the courage to create a blog so I could enter cards and creations of my own. I dug through my stash and found one of the first patterned paper packs I received with one of the Australian card making magazines, a set called Christmas Collections from Kaisercraft…

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 14cm square card blank

Bugaboo Image from 12 Days of Christmas set 

Faber Castell and Derwent Pencils

At you Spica clear pen

Black fine line pen

Nesting rectangle and oval dies

MFT Framing Flourishes

Tim Holtz kraft core cardstock

Sanding tool

Kaisercraft Christmas Collections paper

Scraps of ‘olde gold’ glitter card

Icicle Stickles

I would like to enter this card in:-

Bugaboo Holiday Chaos Day 6

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge Extra 

12 Months of Christmas Link-up

Come and get it Challenge Christmas

Holly Jolly Christmas Anything goes

Crafting by Design Here come the Holidays

Snippets Playground Use your snippets

Thank you for looking in...

Have a fabulous weekend...

Megan

p.s. a huge Thank You to all the lovely visitors for your kind comments, I appreciate them all!

Clyde's Christmas

Hello again,

Well I’m back today to share my second entry into this years Holiday Chaos week with the team at Catch the Bug yesterday’s challenge was a sketch which you can see below.

I have used one of Jodie’s digi images called Clyde’s Christmas, he reminds me of the St. George bank Dragon in Australia.

Here is my card:

What I used:

Card blank 12.6 x 17.8cm (5x7”)

Cricket and Rouge AC card

Green polka dot paper

Nesting rectangle dies from Lifestyle crafts

Bugaboo Stamps Clyde’s Christmas digi 

Faber-Castell and Derwent pencils

Diamond glaze

Stickles Sugar sprinkles

Rub on sentiment from Sullivan’s craft

I would like to enter this card in:-

Catch the Bug Holiday Chaos Day two

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge Extra anything goes

Come and Get it Challenge Christmas

Craft your Passion Anything goes

Christmas Cards All year Round Anything goes

Thank you for looking in...

Have a great 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! 

A slice of Summer

Hello again,

Today I am sharing a card made for my niece’s birthday later this month, it is already on its way in a parcel full of Lego as requested and not 'girls' Lego either! She spent a lot of time playing with her Dad’s old Lego when she last visited us in NSW and took it all home with her, she told us she didn’t have any and she really really liked it! 

Some other things she really really likes is pineapples and watermelons so much so that at her Mum’s she has all pineapple “stuff” and at her Dad’s when they decorated her new bedroom she got all watermelon “stuff like pillows, a mat and even a doona cover!”

That made things easy to decide she got Lego and her birthday card from my parents was to be a watermelon card, I made my card earlier this year using one of From the Heart Stamps Stamp of the Month images, Faith (From the Heart Stamps owner and designer) is very unwell at the moment and is having treatment for a brain tumour, Please keep Faith in your thoughts and Prayers.

This is probably the easiest card I've made in a long time, four circle dies, adhesive tape and sheets, a flag and a few punched hearts cut in two.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White card blank

Dark green cardstock

Cabbage AC cardstock

Tomato AC cardstock

White cardstock

Black scrap card

Diamond Glaze on the Pips

Heart punch

Wooden ladybug (ladybird on the pack)

MFT Pierced Fishtail flags

MFT Penguins in Paradise stamp

Nesting circle dies Lifestyle crafts

Memento Tuxedo Black inkpad

Black fine line pen

Adhesives:- Diamond glaze and double-sided tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

Snippets Playground week 247 must use snippets

Come and get it Lots of Layers 

Craft your Passion #330 Anything goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Anything goes

Naughty or Nice #31 Challenge food or drink

Many thanks 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 comment I truly appreciate them all!

What Can you Play.... I can play

Hello again,

Today I am sharing another card I have made for my Mum's friend from Family History group she attends, this card is for her grand-daughter who likes music, after further clarification I found out she is learning to play the trombone and after a search online I found a black and white outline of a trombone and printed it to fit a card (it was A4), I used some silver card scraps for the trombone and mounted it with foam tape over an embossed panel. I used my new MFT stamps and die set to create a banner and knowing that this card was being packed in luggage it was safe for me to add some chunky embellishments, so I grabbed a tiny peg and broke it in half to hold the ends of the banner in place.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White card blank

Silver card stock

Pink Chevron paper Pebbles basics paper pad

Pink, silver, metallic silver, white and musical script card scraps

Trombone pattern downloaded from internet

Spell binders M-bossabilities (EL-011) Musical

MFT LJD Bitty Banners Stamp and Die Set

Blue Lagoon Colorbox ink pad

Darice blue and white twine

Kaisercraft blue rhinestones

Tiny blue peg broken in half

Musical note punch

Impression Obsession Greeting top edgers

Four tiny black brads

Adhesives:- Double sided tape, foam tape, diamond glaze and P.V.A. glue

I would like to enter this card in:-

Lil patch of Crafty Friends #38 Anything goes

Creative Craft Cottage #68 Anything goes

The ABC Challenge M is for Maiden (for a young girl)

Craft your Passion #323 Anything goes

Incy Wincy Designs Anything goes

Polkadoodles week 30 Anything goes

Creative Fingers Challenge #113 Anything goes

Come and Get it Challenge- Lovely in Pink

Thank you for looking in...

have a great week...

Megan

P.S. A Huge THANK YOU to all the kind visitors who take the time to leave me a message,  I truly appreciate them all!

Friends Birthday

Hello again,

I’m sure that many of you are asked to make cards for friends by relatives and today I am sharing a card I made for one of my Mum’s friends birthday, Mum and her friend met many years ago when my older brother started at preschool, think early eighties, both recognised the other but it was not until they got talking that they realised why… They had both worked pre-kids in the centre of Sydney, my Mum in a bank and her friend at a supermarket nearby, one serving the other back in the day when shoppers were handed the goods they asked for, not just picked them off the shelves themselves; they have remained friends since they met all those years ago.

Mum's request was for something feminine as her friend had four sons and her hubby, girlie is something she doesn't get often. 

Here’s my card:-

What I used:-

White 5” x 7” card blank

Bugaboo Fancy Rose Vase image

Derwent & Faber-Castell pencils

Pearlescent Black & white chevron paper

Pink card stock

Grey card stock

Merci vintage woodland textured paper

Impression Obsession Border Duo set 1

MFT Pierced fishtail flags

MFT Pierced circle die

Ultimate Crafts Jadene: Happy Thoughts Butterfly

Marianne Design Craftables Basic Round with lacy edge

Wild Rose Studio Birthday Circles

Spell binders m-bossabilities Splendid 5x7”

Silver Stickles

Black Colorbox cats eye ink pad

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

Stanley knife, steel ruler, craft mat

I would like to enter this card in:-

Catch the Bug May Anything goes

Crafting by Design May Anything goes

Come and get it Challenge For a Woman

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #33

Bizzy Bec's Store Challenge

Thank you for looking in...

Hope you have had a wonderful weekend...

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...

Dig it…

Hello again,

On the computer front my screen is functioning a little better, although still a little blurry, I've changed font sizes, it has a better functioning driver and at least my images no longer look like one of those crazy mirrors squashed down from the top and squeezed in from the sides....

I am joining in with this months stamp of the month challenge over at From the Heart Stamps, this is a progressive challenge and each month that you enter you will receive the following months stamp for free. This months image features a gorgeous little dog and is called Digging Dog. If you would like to join in the challenge you can purchase the image from the store here, if you spend over $10 on some of Faiths other stunning Digi images, you can enter this code: Digging Dog to receive the image free found here.

My card has taken a little longer to make than I planned as I haven't been able to find something I know I have in my stash, you can bet that sooner or later I will rediscover the tiny wooden lady bugs in the most unlikely place and probably remember why I put them there in the first place. One bonus has been tidying up and sorting some of my stash as I looked. Since I didn't find the little bugs I have altered my card as I went

Here’s my card:-

What I used:-

Digging Dog image and sentiments by Faith at From the HeartStamps

Derwent and Faber-Castell pencils

White 14cm square card blank

White cardstock

Dylusions London Blue ink spray mixed with water

White Colorbox inkpad mixed with water

Daisy Punch

Tiny flower single hole punch

Poppystamps Garden Sprig die

Elizabeth Crafts Bunch of Flowers 2

Poppycrafts Nesting Square Die

MFT Pierced circle die

Stanley Knife, cutting mat, steel rule, brush

White Opal Liquid Pearls

Adhesives:- PVA Glue, double sided tape, foam tape

Doodlebug Design Paper

Create with TLC sentiment

I would like to enter this card in:

From the Heart Stamps Stamp of the Month Challenge March

Creating in a Beautiful Mess Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned paper Challenge March

Poppystamps Challenge March- must use one Poppystamps die or stamp

Come and Get it Challenge- In the garden

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...

Indian Elephant

Hello again, 

Well I'm slowly catching up to the Bugaboo team and their challenge days, today is day four of their seven days of challenges to celebrate Bugaboo's 6th Birthday. 

Today's challenge is a noughts and crosses board, I chose the line down the middle:- Twine, Easel Card and Ribbon. I hope that it does not matter that I have added extras too.

I found another challenge today which is Australian Based Incy Wincy Designs, looking forward to playing along with a new to me challenge, these ladies were also playing tic, tac, toe/noughts & crosses and I have chosen the top line. Embossing, Sentiment and Rhinstone/Pearl.

By the way photographing easel cards is slightly difficult, I'm never sure which picture will actually show the lower portion better, one straight over the top or an oblique shot. So I have two for this one. I hope you can see everything well enough.

Here's my card:-

What I used:-
White 14.8 x 10.5cm card blank
scoring board and bone folder
pink card stock
Bo Bunny double dot paper
Bugaboo image Silhouette Elephant Paisley
Sheena Douglas 'India' embossing folder
Sheena Douglas 'India' coordinating stamps
Black handmade paper from stash
Black card stock
Couture Creations nesting Scallop rectangles
Couture Creations nesting rectangles
Pink brads
Orange grosgrain ribbon
Lace
Memento 'Tuxedo Black' ink pad
Orange twine
Hot Pink rhinestone
Adhesives:- Double-sided tape, foam tape, Diamond glaze, P.V.A. Glue

I would like to enter this card in:-
Bugaboo's Birthday Challenge Day 4
Incy Wincy Designs Tic Tac Toe:- Embossing, Sentiment & Rhinestone
Simply Papercraft for All occasions #21 Anything goes
Craft your Passion #295 Anything goes
613 Avenue Create:- Anything goes
Come and get it:- Embossing

Thank you for looking in...
Wishing you a wonderful end to the week...
Megan

P.S. A huge thank you to all the very kind & generous ladies who spend some of their precious time leaving me a message, I truly appreciate them all!!!

Cool birthday

Hello again,

Well, since I've skipped out on blogging for the last few weeks I've now got two posts on one day! Definately not the norm...

Okay so today is day two with the lovely ladies over at Bugaboo Stamps and they are celebrating their sixth birthday with some Jungle fever (or Zoo Fever). 

I love watching the little fairy penguins when we are at the zoo, which is not very often, these little penguins live up and down the coast of Australia and now frequently run into trouble with dogs, cats and foxes hunting and killing them :'( A recent movie called Oddball tells a tale of some Victorian Penguins who were being killed by foxes at low-tide. It's a great family movie we watched it one night while my niece was visiting. The Little Fairy Penguins who call the zoo home are usually rescued and once rehabilitated cannot be return to the wild.

On to my card, I have chosen a very relaxed and cool Poppi Penguin inner tube  from Bugaboo to create a card for my neighbours sons birthday. 

Here's my card:-

What I used:-
White card blank 10.5cm x 14.8cm
Blue cardstock
Sixxiz Embossing folder Tim Hotlz 'Retro Circles'
Digital Sentiment from Birds Cards
Green and Blue paper scraps (Ssshhh don't tell!!! they came off the spine of some 12" papers)
Black fine line pen
Adhesives:- Double sided tape & foam tape
Fussy Cutting Scissors (fiskars)


I would like to enter this card in:-
Bugaboo's 6th Birthday Challenge Day 2
Beccy's Place January Anything goes
Crafting from the Heart #95 (2nd entry)
Craft your Passion #295 (2nd entry)
Crafting by Design January Anything Goes
Snippets Playground week 212
Come and Get it Challenge: Embossing wet or Dry

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

PS A huge thank you to all the lovely ladies who take the time to leave me a little message, I truly appreciate them all...

Gift Bag

Hello again,

Well this month there are quite a few of the Christmas challenges encouraging us to spread some glittery cheer around, does it count when I drop some glitter on the Physio’s carpet, after a two and a half hour train trip to get there? I think it must have come out of my shoe ;-))

I used three separate images from Tiddly Inks Digi store Winter Wryn, puppy love and a gift pile from Williow the Christmas Fairy and merged them together to create a Christmas scene, as this was planned to be for a gift bag the images are quite a bit larger than usual and I was able to add my sentiment into a text box directly under the images.

I have had some trouble getting the design papers to stick to the yellow glitter card and I may have to adjust the bag and add more brads to help hold the whole thing together, PVA just doesn't seem to hold well enough, maybe the second coat will have helped.

Here’s a close up of the gift bag:-

and the whole gift bag, I picked up 10 gift bags in various colours from Riot art while they were having a 50% off Sale, I also picked up some plain white and kraft bags at the same time!!

What I used:-

Tiddly Ink Digi stamps gifts, puppy love and Winter Wryn

Faber-Castell & Derwent Pencils

White card

Gift bag (Riot Art for those in Australia)

Ribbon from Stash

Yellow glittered cardstock

8mm coloured brads

Glittered large Self-adhesive rhinestones

Doodlebug Design bracket (generic Christmas pack)

Doodlebug Design ‘Santa Express’ paper pad
Lifestyle Nesting Rectangle Dies

Adhesives: - PVA glue & double-sided tape 

I would like to enter this gift bag in:-

ABC Christmas Challenge:- V is for Very Cute

Catch the Bug:- November Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge:- #254 Bright and/or Sparkly

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra:- Anything Christmas Goes

Come and Get It:- Lots of Sparkle

Di's Digi Designs Challenge:- Tic Tac Toe-  both vertical and horizontal centre lines

Glory of Christmas Challenge:- # Glitter and Shine

Many thanks for looking in...

have a wonderful 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...

Spring Cornucopia?

Hello again,

I had planned on entering this card in both the stamp of the month and the from the heart stamps sketch with a twist challenge but I unfortunately had a mishap with the original digi that I coloured and had to re-print and colour missing the end of the sketchy challenge, so having already made the card using Imke’s sketch I duly re-coloured and completed the card all be it a little late for one challenge.

This image is the stamp of the month challenge which you can buy here if you would like to enter the challenge and next month Faith will send you another challenge image free! 

It feels slightly odd to be entering a autumnal inspired card in the middle of a spring heat wave, it's going to be 28c today way above the norm for here and as a bonus the pollen count is very high... (I hate hay fever)

Here is Imke’s sketch:-

Here’s my card:-

What I used:-

From the Heart Stamps Cornucopia Stamp of the month- 

Faith Skrdla both image and sentiment

White card blank

Brown card from generic card pack

White card

MFT Pierced circle die

MFT Pierced fishtail flags

Derwent and Faber-Castell coloured pencils

Pebbles Basics Paper pack design paper

Scrap of glitter card from my very messy table

Adhesives: double-sided tape

Stanley knife, craft matt, steel rule

I would like to enter this card in:-

From the Heart Stamps Stamp of the Month Challenge October 

Eureka Stamps Challenge #162- Pumpkins 

Come and get it Challenge- Happy Fall y’all 

Di’s Digi Designs Challenge 

Thank you for looking in…

Enjoy the rest of the week…

Megan

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