Floating Frames

 Hello again,

We are having a late heatwave here in New South Wales, this week has been 27C to 30C a little too hot for me. I am again joining the lovely ladies over at Group of Seven Cardmakers this month's technique is Floating Frames I chose some lovely new stamps for my Christmas present from Paper Rose called Sketchy Rose, I stamped them in Memento 'Tuxedo Black' and coloured them with Faber-Castell coloured pencils before die cutting them.

I rolled up pieces of washi tape (sticky side out) to temporarily position the flowers over a 12x17.2cm piece of white card stock.  I added foam circles to the backs and replaced each flower, before die cutting the hexagon from the centre adding the first piece to a card blank covered with black paper.  

The second card uses the die cut hexagon, I have added an Inkylicious sentiment which I won from Snippet's Playground on a snippet of black paper. Adding some clear (no silver backing) flat backed gems, packet says it is meant to be 'shaker mix' also from Paper Rose. The black layer behind the die cut was traced and cut by scissors.

The two cards together

What I used:

Paper Rose 'Sketchy Roses' stamp and die

White A4 cardstock

Faber-Castell coloured pencils

Memento Tuxedo black ink

Clear embossing ink

Gold and white embossing powder

Inkylicious sentiment

Kaisercraft Hexagon nesting die

Kaisercraft Roses embossing folder

MFT Happy die

Scraps of black and gold papers

Magazine freebie stamp 'birthday' and butterfly die

Flourish of gems clear silver 

Adhesives: Foam dots, Double sided adhesive, pva glue

Other: Stanley knife, scissors, steel rule, heat gun.

I would like to enter these cards in:

Group of Seven Gallery Floating Frames

First Card

Creative Knockouts #242 Birthday Wishes

Cut it Up Challenge #325 Happy Birthday 

Beautiful Blossoms #27 Anything Floral goes 

NBUS #72 Anything goes with Never before used schtuff (flower stamps and dies)

613 Avenue Create March Anything goes optional Any Occasion 

Second Card
Love to Craft Challenge Blog #84 Anything goes
Make My Monday Challenge #247 Use die or punch

Crafts Galore Encore #133 Anything goes

Crafters Cafe #317 Anything goes optional CAS

Can You Handle the Pressure? Optional Lucky, St. Patrick's Day

A Cut Above Anything goes with a die cut

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Have a Wonderful Week...

Megan

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

LPoCF #180 All Dressed Up Little Bookworm

 Hello again,

Autumn has well and truly arrived here in Australia, the trees are beautifully coloured and dropping all their leaves. I hope those of you who celebrate have a Wonderful and Happy Easter.

Today brings 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 All Dressed Up who are giving the winner 2 digi stamps of choice. All Dressed Up kindly gave us two images to use and I chose Little Bookworm I printed the image in two sizes and ended up colouring both and making two cards in two different sizes. 

All Dressed Up

Prize 2 Digital Stamps

The first card is a smaller card A6 (10.4x 14.8cm) size using the image and some paper snippets to add to the sides, I printed the sentiment from my pc onto the darker pink cardstock and die-cut with MFT fishtail flags set, finished off with a trio of hand punched flowers with tiny gems added, the ribbon and bow on the flower were paper pieced with snippets of patterned paper on both cards.

The second card is C7 size or (12.6x17.8cm) I added the large sentiment from Inkylicious (I won from Snippets Playground) using Versa color Cyan ink cube and some clear embossing powder and another striped snippet, finishing this one off with three pre-made flowers which have a green gem in the centre, one flower is also glittered. 

What I used:-
White card blanks Aussie A6 and C7 size
White card for printing
All Dressed Up Little Bookworm Digi image
Faber-Castell and Derwent coloured pencils
black and white striped paper
kraft, plain pink, blue and pink polka dot paper snippets
MFT stitched border die, MFT fishtail flag die
Hand punch- tiny flower
Inkylicious sentiment stamp
Versa Color ink Cyan
Pre-made flowers

I would like to enter this card in...
Pixie's Snippets Playground #426 Anything using snippets (paper pieced hat ribbons, striped, pink and kraft paper)
Polkadoodles week 16 Anything Goes
All Dressed Up Anything Goes
Seize the birthday (pink card) Anything Birthday or Optional topping Signs of Spring
Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Challenge Anything goes

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Have a wonderful week...

Megan

P.S. Many thanks to all my blogging friends and visitors who stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all! Apologies I've not been around much, my 12yo pc appears to be on the last legs, and has started randomly shutting down, usually when I'm in the middle of something. I changed the 'watch/button battery' inside the tower and all appears well at the minute. 

Wonderful Day

Hello again,

I know I was complaining of all the summer heat before but we have had every single day of this month has been wet, wet, wet. Current local rainfall for the month stands at 333mm that is one entire school ruler worth and some (13.11inches), we don't have proper storm water drains around here but could use some when the weather is like this, cars quickly become aqua-planes due to the amount of water flowing down streets. Much safer to stay inside and play with craft supplies I mean keep tidying my supplies! 😉

This card was made for one of my Mum’s friends, pretty, purple and anything you like was the request, I am still loving cute little hedgehogs and have coloured a few the last couple of weeks, so one found a home.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 12.6 x 17.8cm card blank (5x7”)

Amethyst & Pool AC cardstock

White card for printing

Digi image from Di’s Digital Images

Design papers from Sugar and Spice Studio’s (Spotlight store for those in Aus)

Purple bakers twine

Fiskars scalloped border punch

MFT pierced Oval Die

Inkylicious Sentiment stamp (from the Playground)

Clear embossing ink

WOW black embossing powder

Enamel like stickers (Reject Shop for those in Aus)

Apologies for the photo, due to the weather I had to photograph with a light on, balanced in my hand along with the camera.

I would like to enter this card in:-

Crafting by Design:- March Anything goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends:- Challenge #54 Anything goes

CCC Digi Creations:- Challenge #69 For the Girls

Incy Wincy Designs Challenge:- Happy Birthday

Love To Craft Challenge Blog:- March Anything goes

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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!

Red Red Wine...

Hello again,

What a week…. I headed to the first Papercraft show I’ve been to in several years even though I knew it would cause me to be in pain for a few days after over the weekend, then decided the next day that getting up and down on a dining chair to clean the fan/heater/light in bathroom with the vacuum was a good idea then I added cleaning the inside of the skylight and bathroom walls to it too… needless to say doing it all in one hit was a bad idea and I’ve been paying for it since. I’ve just started to unpack my goodies from the show today…

A couple of bonuses taking my Mum with me to the Papercraft show, I got to pick some of my own Christmas presents, Mum held onto my bag and sat down for a bit while I entered the busiest stall, I would love to go to their shop one day, but I think I would get into too much mischief and spend way too much... 

Today I am sharing a birthday card made for one of my Mum’s friends from Kindergarten, who after losing touch for so many years have reconnected and now enjoy regular get togethers, lunches and long phone calls. They are lovely ladies and I grew up on stories about them and the mischief they would get up to… At Mum’s Request I made my third card featuring Bugaboo image called Glass of wine a day and coloured it as red wine, I had an idea in my head as to which papers I would use and it ended up being completely different.

Not sure what happened in the photo, all the bling are plain silver, the flourish in the corner seems a little yellow...

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 5 x 7” card blank folded to an easel base

Blue leather grained cardstock

Patterned paper from magazine A4 paper pack

Flowers from stash

MFT Cross Stitched rectangle die from Christina

Bugaboo image Glass of wine a day

Derwent Pencils

Inkylicious ‘Wonderful Day’

Clearly Besotted Sweet Little Sentiments

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink pad

Scrap of ribbon

Sullivan’s Bling Flourish

Kaisercraft Bling strip

Adhesives:-Double sided tape and glue dots

I would like to enter this card in:-

CCC Digi Creations #60 Happy Anything

Craft your Passion #336 Anything goes

Hiding in my Craftroom #273 Freestyle 

Crafting By Design November Anything goes

Crafts Galore Encore November Anything goes

Snippets Playground week 253 Anything goes with Snippets

Crafty Sentiments Challenge Anything goes

Creative Crafts Cottage #74 Use Ribbon

Simply Papercraft for all Occasions #39

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge

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Have a wonderful 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

Triple Time by 2

Hello again, 

Today I am sharing two Triple Time stamping cards I made for my sister in law and a family friend, they are in two different colour palettes to suit the ladies preferences.

Here are my cards:-

There is two subtle differences between the two cards, can you see them?

What I used:-

White 5” x 7” card blank

Art paper torn from sketchbook

Chianti, amber and Lime Pastel Colorbox inkpad Queue

Warm Violet, Lavender and Aquamarine Colorbox inkpad Queue set

Rouge AC Cardstock

Amethyst AC cardstock

Ribbon from stash

Stamp set from Australian Simply cards magazine

Inkylicious Stamp ‘Wonderful Day’ (won over at the Playground)!!!

Memento Tuxedo Black

Adhesive:- Lots of Double-sided tape

I would like to enter this card in:

613 Avenue Create #188 Anything goes

Crafting by Design August Anything goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #39 Anything goes

Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Challenge Anything goes August

Cards Galore Encore- Use a Digi or Stamp

Thank you for looking in...

have a wonderful weekend (it's almost here)

Megan

P.S. A huge Thank you to all the lovely ladies who leave comments, I truly appreciate them all!