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Sunday, 17 May 2026

#278 LPoCF SheepSki Designs

 Hello again,

We are still waiting for all the autumn leaves to fall, our trees are about half done, I watched multiple people last week stop, hold up their phones and I guess they record a short video. I was far more interested in the large group of Gang-Gang Cockatoo, I usually hear these long before I spot them, they sound like a rusty hinge creaking and have only ever seen them in small groups of four or five, this week I counted 19 all at once, flying in to eat gumnuts on the local Eucalypts. As usual with Aussie birds the male is more brightly coloured than the female. He has a distinct red head; the female and juvenile birds are plain black to grey.

Today brings us to a new Anything Goes Challenge with my team mates at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, this challenge is sponsored by SheepSki Designs who kindly gave our team 2 images to work with, I have used Coffee and Cake #173 opting for the cake only for a birthday card. We are still on the lookout for some new members of the design team, if you would like to join us you can find out more information here.

Sheepski Designs 

Prize 3 digi Images
 

What I used:
12.6 x 17.8cm card blank (5x7)
SheepSki Designs Coffee and Cake Digital stamp
Green cardstock
Doodlebug Designs 'patchwork' paper
Green Gingham paper
Stitched scalloped border die (mft)
Circle and scalloped circle dies
Elizabeth Crafts Flowers and leaves dies
MFT pierced fishtail flags die
Versacolor Narcissus (coloured middles of flowers)
Memento tuxedo black ink
Clearly Besotted Sweet Little Sentiments
Green enamel dots

I would like to enter this card at:
Paper Rock Scissors #16 Anything goes with paper and or scissors (scissors used to trim white scalloped border)
# 216 Double Trouble 3-2-1 recipe only (6 layers, Circle and fishtail flag, one cupcake)

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

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



Wednesday, 22 April 2026

Bleached Daisies

 Hello again,

I have made a card following this month's Group of Cardmakers, using the bleaching technique. I have used a scrap of water colour card which I used dylusions Funky Fuchsia and crushed grape spray inks and one of my potluck stamps from Darkroom Door that I bought before they closed down in Australia and recently re-opened in the UK. My potluck stamps are from the scraps, when the rubber had not quite made a full set, they saved the stamps that they could and sold them at a discount.

My stamp comes from the set called Viva la Flora Vol.2 it has a script background which doesn't show on my card as the texture of the water colour card comes through. Stamped in clear ink and heat embossed in black powder. Using bleach-soaked cotton buds on the flowers, I have added a sentiment from Art Stamps Australia.  

What I used
White card blank 10.5x14.8cm
Watercolour card (Micador from Big W)
Clear embossing ink
Black embossing powder
Art stamps Australia Sentiment stamp
Dylusions Spray ink Funky fuchsia and crushed grape

I would like to enter this card in:

NBUS Challenge #85 Daisy stamps first outing
We Love Stamping 'Spring' We already have one jonquil and anemone in flower, whilst all the trees are still only just starting to get their Autumn leaves changing colour her in Aus.

We are starting to get Autumn leaves in our area, which I fully expect to be overrun with tourists as they change as some of the elegant gardens in our area are cut off after several years of extreme weather has caused damage to the roads, some are required to get permits to enter their own streets some of which are several kilometres long, some people have had weddings cancelled as the venues have had to close to the public, some are used to getting 1000+ visitors each day over Autumn. 

That does not include the still cut main highway between Sydney and greater west New South Wales where convicts built the road in 1832 and it has recently failed, almost 200 years and used to transport B-double trucks laden with coal for export or quarry materials for construction. A Blog post from one of the local librarians shows a colourised picture and a story of a grisly murder from 1842, Caroline Collit's Blue Mountain's Local Studies.

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!








Sunday, 20 July 2025

LPoCF #258 Rachelle Anne Miller

 Hello again, 

We are currently enjoying warm winter weather, the washing has dried out on the line today, although last week we had snow flying around one day and high winds and no power for 12hours the next.

Today brings us to another new challenge at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, this fortnight we are sponsored by Rachelle Anne Miller Stamps who kindly allowed two of our team to choose an image from her store, I chose Christmas Ornaments, as here in Australia we are in the midst of 'Yulefest', local hotels started doing Christmas in July to boost tourists during our cold weather back in the 80's, now most big hotels offer a similar event.

Prize $10 Gift certificate for digi stamps

Here is my Card


What I used
White 17.8cm x 12.6cm card blank
RAM Christmas Ornaments Digital image
Doodlebug patterned paper
Rectangle dies
Clearly Besotted sentiment stamp
Faber Castell coloured pencils

I would like to enter this card in:

My blog has offered to fill in my post with previous, just like it has saved my name and address, it has apparently saved my previous blog posts. Who knew? 

For those of you who have been following my treatment, I am going to be having surgery, I will be not allowed to weight bear for 8-12 weeks, as I have also got a torn rotator, my physio will be working with me on building my shoulder enough to manage crutches, purchased a knee scooter for flat surfaces, but crutches will be necessary to get up the five steps into the house... no surgery date as yet.

Thank you for stopping by

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

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

Wednesday, 6 November 2024

Christmas Emu

 Hello again,

I am attempting to join in with Beccy's Place Challenge for her annual Month of Holiday cards, I have also given myself an extra challenge of finishing one of my oldest paper pads, of which there was two whole sheets and a pile of scraps of various sizes, I have made 15 card bases using up these scraps from Lilybee Design Christmas Cheer 6" pads, now I have to get colouring and cutting.... 

E is For Emu


What I used:
MFT rounded stitched rectangle die
MFT Stitched rectangle die
MFT Itty Bitty Christmas sentiment
Faber-Castell coloured pencils
Marianne Design Star punch die
Lilybee Design Papers
Yellow and Red cardstock

I would like to enter this card in:

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

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


Sunday, 28 January 2024

Torn Edge Scene

 Hello again,

I am again joining the ladies at Group of Seven Card makers with their most recent gallery calling for torn edges, I have used two of the Woodware Clear Nativity Silhouette set and a Distress Oxide blend from Kristina Werner, Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade, Seedless Preserves, with Black Soot to stamp and ink in the torn edge. My torn edge is from the back of an old Christmas card, having used a tag die to re-use the card front for gift tags. 

Stamped images and sentiment are clear heat embossed, sprayed with a mini mister from Crafts-4-U from one of the big craft stores at the Aussie Shows, a few larger dots added.

Here is my card


What I used
White 12.6x 17.8cm card blank
Woodware Nativity Silhouette stamps
MFT Bitty Holiday Wishes (maybe retired) 
Distress Oxide inks Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade, Seedless Preserves, Black Soot
Clear embossing powder
Torn Edge (Christmas card back)

I would like to enter this card in

(edit: remove link)

We have been busy, the ceiling inside my built-in-robe got a large back flow from the roof gutters, resulting in the too high to reach shelf being infested with mould. Ceiling is down and the roofing people are coming in a fortnight to repair the outside issues, before we can even attempt to replace the plasterboard ceiling. 

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

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

Wednesday, 22 November 2023

Twin Trees

 Hello again,

Well, I am back with a pair of Christmas cards, to join in with some of the current challenges, getting ready for Christmas. 

I followed the instructions with the Group of Seven Cardmakers ladies to make this pair of cards, heat embossing the background using Kaisercraft 'script' stamp (5cmx13cm) four times for each card, I did this on a cooler night as the days before have been more like Summer, placed the Christmas tree stencil from a magazine over, inked with Mowed Lawn, Candied Apple and Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide ink. Sentiment stamped onto scraps of red card stock and heat embossed in white powder. 



What I used:
Kaisercraft 'Script' clear stamp
Christmas Tree Stencil
Stitched rectangle die
MFT Christmas Stamps (sentiment)
2 white 12.6x17.8cm card blank (5x7")
Clear and White Embossing powders 
Distress Oxide Inks, Candied Apple, Fossilized Amber, Mowed Lawn, 
Red cardstock
Adhesives:- Double sided tape

I would like to enter these cards in:

Two visitors in the garden, Australian Magpies, adult bird at the front, baby bird at the back. As sweet as some Magpies are others are extremely territorial and these birds are known to swoop, sometimes causing severe injuries to those who wander, ride, play too close to their nests. 

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

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

Sunday, 17 September 2023

LPoCF#214 Patties Creations

 

Hello again,

Well Spring has begun its slow arrival here in my part of New South Wales, the first flowering Cherry tree flowers have started opening in the last few days and, I have spotted all three of our resident Blue Tongue Lizards out sunning themselves along the front of our house.

This week bring us to an all new Anything goes Challenge with my team mates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, this fortnight we are sponsored by Patties Creations who allowed us to choose some images, I chose Roses in Milk bottle. I have gone extra clean and simple with just one patterned paper, bakers twine and some self-adhesive gems with the image and a die cut sentiment.

Prize 4 images

Here is my card:-


What I used:-
White 12.6x17.8cm card blank (5x7)
Snippet of doodlebug designs black spotted paper
snippet of black cardstock
Bakers twine
self adhesive gems x11
Elizabeth Crafts sentiment die 
Adhesives- double sided tape, glue dot

I would like to enter this card in:-

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

p.s. A Huge thank you to my blogging friends and visitors who take the time to stop by and leave me a comment, especially as my mojo is missing... 

Sunday, 20 November 2022

LPoCF #194 Joy Clair Designs

 Hello all, 

Our wild winds have arrived this week, along with giant mosquitos, apparently, they are twice the normal size and in flooded areas have been biting people through their hats.... 

This week brings us to an all new Anything goes Challenge with my team mates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, this fortnight our sponsor is Joy Clair Designs who have kindly given our team one set of Digital Stamps called Santa's Favorite Digital Set to work with.

Joy Clair Designs

Prize 1 Digital stamp set

Shop

Instagram

Facebook

Blog

I have created two cards using two of the cute little penguins on my cards, both are using ancient papers from now closed discount store.... 

First card:


Second card:

What I used:
Joy Clair Designs Santa's Favorite Digital Set 
C7 white card blanks (12.6x17.8cm)
Francheville papers
Derwent and Faber-Castell coloured pencils
White corrugated cardstock
White cardstock scraps
MFT Fishtail flags die
Sprinkled sugar stickles

I would like to enter these cards in:
Card 1 Blue

Card 2 Pink

Thank you for looking in, have a wonderful week... 

Megan

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

Tuesday, 15 February 2022

Japanese Inspired

 Hello again

Highly unusual for me to post twice in two days! I have a friend who has a Japanese daughter-in-law and asks me to create a card especially for her each year. I have been looking online and discovered a handmade card using Japanese papers which have been padded. I have gone fairly basic with my card and added an embossed background which is also seen in the patterned paper. A further search suggests this technique is called Japanese Padded Paper Quilting here is a link to another blogger Christine where I read about the technique.

Inside each square is a smaller square of cardstock which I attached a very thin layer of quilt batting, about 1/3 the usual thickness of the batting. I then wrapped the patterned paper around and stuck the paper edges onto the back. A little like covering school books.

Here is my card:-


What I used:-

White 10.5x14.8cm card blank
Embossing folder
Gold paper 
white cardstock
Couture Creations 'Asian Wave' Embossing folder
Japanese paper squares
Stitched square dies
thin layer of quilt batting
Mystery Sentiment stamp 
Clear embossing ink 
Gold embossing powder

I would like to enter this card in:-
Seize the Birthday Challenge Anything goes optional sparkle and shine (the patterned paper has a sheen and the gold layer is metallic, you cannot really tell in the photo though)

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

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

Thursday, 28 January 2021

Couple of Cards

 Hello again, 

I'm enjoying a couple of much cooler days after a week long heat wave 33C+, my poor budgies are all fluffed up trying to keep warm (14C) and have started moulting... while running back-up on my computer this morning I decided to make another Christmas card for my stash. This one is number 8 for the year... 


This card is a total scrap/snippet job I stamped the dog onto a snippet of white card stock and heat embossed in black powder before scribbling with watercolour pencils on another scrap of card and painting them onto the image. I die cut the sentiment from a scrap of silver paper and on the photo the Christmas looks a little lost against the background, not so bad IRL. The holly and berries were cut from some more scraps from Doodlebug papers.. the green leaves are from a different paper pad there are flowers on the back.... 

MFT Deck the Howls stamp set
Doodlebug North Pole/Santa Express Papers
Scrap silver paper with Adhesive sheet on back
Spellbinders 'Christmas' sentiment die
MFT 'Wishes' sentiment die
MFT Stitched inner/outer rounded rectangle die
Cottage Cutz Holly and berries die
Wink of Stella on ornaments

I would like to enter this card in:

I have also made one birthday card using my distress oxide inks smooshing them on my gelli plate, spritzing with water, heat drying before moving on to the next colour. I then using the same colours to paint the heat embossed butterfly adding a tiny drop of water so the colours are brighter inside the stamped image.

edit... not sure how but forgot to add the watermark over my card...

Katzelkraft Daisy Butterfly
Distress Oxide Picked Raspberry, Cracked Pistachio, Wilted Violet and Fossilised Amber
Clear embossing ink
Whispers Opaque and black Embossing powder
Pink, white, silver card 
MFT Essential Sentiments stamp
MFT Pierced fishtail flag die
Waffleflower C7 layered stitched dies

I would like to enter this card in:-

Thank you for looking in.... 
I hope you 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.




Sunday, 17 November 2019

LPoCF Merry Mice November

Hello again,

This week brings us to a new challenge with my lovely team mates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, where our theme is always Anything goes, this fortnight we are sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps and I have used one of Jodie's sweet Christmas images called Scene It Christmas Mice and another of my pre made scrap strips, I have tried to colour using the colours from the mixed Christmas scrap strip I made earlier this year.

Prize 4 Digi Stamps of Winners Choice


Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White 12.6x17.8cm card blank
White card for printing
Bugaboo Stamps Scene It Christmas Mice
CCD Cross-Stitched Fishtail flag die
Circle die
LOTV Sentiment Circle stamp
Green ink (color box ink)
Clear embossing powder
Deep red cardstock
polka dot cardstock
scrap strip of Christmas papers
Wink of Stella

I would like to enter this card in:-
Sparkles Monthly Challenge #122 'It's Beginning to look a lot like Christmas'
Daisy Chain Challenges #36 Christmas or Winter
613 Avenue Create Challenge #227 Scrap your stash
CCC Digi Creations #109 Christmas
Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge- optional Bah Humbug
Snippets Playground Anything goes with snippets
Merry Little Christmas Challenge #16 Anything Christmas goes
12 Months of Christmas Link-up #59 Red & Green
Beccy's Place Christmas Challenge (M is for Mice)

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 take the time to say Hi and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all...

Sunday, 18 August 2019

LPoCF Make a wish

Hello again,

I'm feeling the winter chill today, we rarely get snow that settles and this week woke to 4 inch deep snow fall which caused the Police to close the local area to all cars, which was followed up by a mini blizzard the next morning, thanks to an Antarctic blast. Just to add to all of this we have had a slow leak in the ceiling which dripped all over the book shelf I keep my card making supplies in, which means I have had to have a forced clean up and the ceiling has had to be cut open to find the location of the problem meaning our house looks like a craft bomb has hit it, my supplies are everywhere while the ceiling/roof timbers dry out and then it can be repaired... so it turns out that the hot water heater over flow pipe that runs to the outside of the house was never sealed when it was installed more than 40yrs ago and it has slowly move apart leaving a gap of 3 inches where there was no pipes connected...

Today brings us to a new challenge with my lovely team mates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends which is as always Anything goes, this fortnight we are sponsored by Emerald Faeries who generously gave the design team two images to work with, I have used the super cute image called Jewel to make a very girly card. I'm currently unable to find the digi sentiment on my pc, not sure if it is the one that appears to not want to play after my recent upgrades.

Here is my card:-
What I used:-
White 12.6x.17.8cm card blank (5"x7")
Emerald Faeries Jewel digital stamp
Sentiment not sure where it is from
Derwent and Faber Castell pencils
Clear Wink of Stella
Lili of the Valley & Nitwit Collections Bonnets and Bowties paper
Oval and lace oval dies
Kaisercraft leaves die
Jeweled flowers from stash
Adhesives:- Double sided tape, glue stick and PVA glue

I would like to enter this card in:-
Daisy Chain Challenges- #33 Summer 
CCC Digi Creations #106 Summer
Crafts Galore Encore #66 Anything goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned paper challenge August Anything goes
The Happy Craft Challenge 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 stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all...

Sunday, 19 May 2019

LPoCF Chicken Soup

Hello again,

Today brings us to another new Anything Goes challenge with my lovely Design Team mates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, this fortnight our sponsor is Bugaboo Stamps and Jodie is offering the lucky winner 4 images from her store.

PRIZE- 4 Digi Stamps

I have used an image from our sponsor called Kitchen Chicken Soup to make a get well card. I have used a variety of patterned paper scraps to create a sunburst behind the image panel.

Here is my card:-
What I used:-
White 10.5x14.8cm card blank
Bugaboo Stamps image Kitchen Chicken-soup
Faber-Castell and Derwent pencils
Scraps of paper from Shimelle 'Star Shine' paper pad
Nesting circle die
Sentiment die
MFT Simple Sayings stamp
Memento Tuxedo black ink pad

I would like to enter this card into:-
Daisy Chain Challenge #30 Anything goes
Crafts Galore Encore Anything goes
Crafty Creations Challenge #390 Anything goes
The Happy Craft Challenge Anything goes May
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned paper Challenge 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 on my creations, I truly appreciate each and every comment.

Sunday, 21 April 2019

LPoCF- Black and White and Read all over

Hello again,


Today brings us to another new Anything Goes challenge with the lovely ladies over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, we would love to see what you have been creating, all crafts welcome. This fortnight Lemon Shortbread are sponsoring us and are offering the lucky winner 3 images from their store.
Prize 3 Images

I have made two projects with an image from Lemon Shortbread called Girl with book, the card will be headed to my niece for her birthday perhaps with a gift voucher for a bookstore, the second is in my bullet journal, where I have been recording the books I have been reading on my e-reader. 



Here are my two projects: I mirrored the image for the card 




I read the quote somewhere online and trusted that the person had correctly identified the owner, unfortunately it had been attributed to Mason Codey, a further search discovered that the quote actually came from Mason Cooley. A bit late now, it is written and too hard to alter... 

What I used:-
White 12.6x17.8cm card blank (5x7)
A5 sketch book
Lemon Shortbread Girl with book digi 
Faber-Castell pencils
Gel ink pens
Kaisercraft ‘Black & White Timeless paper pad
Scraps light red, navy and black cardstock
Pebbles basics paper pad
Red enamel dots
Elizabeth Crafts Happy birthday die
Magazine freebie alphabet die
Scrap greens/yellow distress oxide background 
Quote by Mason Cooley
Washi tape, border
Single hole punch (used to punch a line of holes inside her arm to make it easier to cut out)
Adhesives:- Double sided tape, PVA glue, glue stick, glue pen


I would like to enter these creations in:-
Daisy Chain Challenges Make it Feminine (card)
Mix it Up Challenge Blog- Black and White plus one (card)
613 Avenue Create Anything goes or Wedding/Anniversary (journal page)
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge Anything goes (journal page)
The Happy Craft Challenge Anything goes April (journal page)

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

P.S. Many Thanks to all of my blogging friends and visitors who take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Wednesday, 20 March 2019

CBD Flowers

Hello again, 

Today brings us to a new Challenge for Crafting by Designs, we would love you to join in our challenge and this week the challenge is Flowers or Floral, we have one fabulous sponsors this week Beccy’s Place will be giving the lucky winner a $10 gift certificate for their store.

PRIZE $10 gift certificate

I have used a stamp from the Beccy’s Place Waratah set, being an Aussie I love to find Australian stamps and images. The Waratah is the floral emblem of NSW, the state that I live in, according to local Aboriginals the Waratah was a flower seen from afar, which the warriors of the tribe used to remove from the plant and soak the flower head in water and drink the resulting sweet drink for an energy boost. We have them growing in both the front and back garden. I am also sharing two pictures from our garden, the first one has begun opening and the second is still closed up. 


Here is my card:-


I coloured the image using Derwent and Faber-Castell pencils, die cut with an MFT stitched oval die teamed with some papers from the Kaisercraft paper pad called Open Road which features Australian flora, fauna and iconic images of our country. I have used the coloured border (which looks like bark of a gum tree) from the spine to stamp my sentiment onto to make a card for my Mum for Mother’s Day.


This challenge is open until March 26th, 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.

What I used:-
White 12.4x17.5cm card blank 
Faber-Castell and Derwent coloured pencils
Gold embossing powder
Clear embossing ink
Kaisercraft Open Road papers
Kaisercraft Mini Clear Stamps ‘Occasions’

Adhesives: Double-sided tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

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!