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

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Have a wonderful week...
Megan

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Cricket

Hello again,

Since I’ve been busy with my family tree of late I haven’t had time to post my brothers birthday card. He is currently into playing cricket with his local club, I used this image from Just Inklined for my neighbours son last year too.

I added a few 'cherries' to the cricket bat when growing up my brother and his friends liked to play mini cricket inside the house when it was too wet or cold to be outside with one of those little high bounce rubber balls, which they liberally coated in red paint pen, for the specific purpose of making 'cherries' on the tiny bats, the stairwell has still got red paint marks down it as they hit a six and the ball bounced from side to side... 

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White card blank 12.7 x 17.8 (5x7”)

White card (printing leftovers for fence)

Just Inklined Cricketer Digi Stamp

Faber-Castell and Derwent Pencils

Dark and light grey card stock

Red cardstock

MFT Woodgrain fence die

Spellbinders Seth Apter Maze Embossing folder

Lili of the Valley Happy Circular Sentiment stamps

Nesting dies circle dies

Nesting rectangle dies

I decided to fussy cut the cricketers knee pad making it protrude from the frame, I probably should have only cut one part out and left the red frame intact, never mind my brother won’t have noticed…

I would like to enter this card in:-

Digi Choosday week 5 Anything goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #50 Anything goes

Incy Wincy Designs for the men in your life

613 Avenue Create #193 Anything goes

Cardz for Guyz #155 Something beginning with C-- Cricket

Crafting by Designs February Anything goes

Crafts Galore Encore February Anything goes

Love to Craft #5 February Anything goes

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Have a wonderful weekend...

Megan

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Howzat!!

Hello again,

Today I am sharing a card made for another young neighbour who loves to play cricket and has recently joined the local high-schools Duke of Edinburgh Award, so he is always off doing one thing or another. He and an uncle are planning on riding a 50km charity bike race as part of the Duke of Edinburgh award...

This is the closest I've come to a CaS card!

Here is my card:- 

What I used:-

White cardstock to make card 17.5 x 11.5

White cardstock

Just inklined Cricketer Digi stamp 

Faber-Castell and Derwent pencils

Dark grey card stock

Studio Calico ‘Here + There’ collection scraps

Adhesives:- Double sided tape

Couture Creations nesting rectangle die

Steel Ruler and Stanley knife

Happy Birthday stamp from magazine cover gift

Memento Tuxedo Black Inkpad 

I would like to enter this card in:-

Crafty Sentiments Anything goes #18

Creative with Stamps #7 Add a Sentiment

Di's Digi Designs Anything goes

Polkadoodles Craft Challenge Anything goes #41

613 Avenue Create Anything goes

Simply papercraft for all occasions Anything goes

Crafting Circle Anything hand coloured goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Thank you for looking in...

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!

Shifting Gears or Years?

Hello again, 

Well still t-i-r-e-d after a big trip to the big smoke to see the physio and an attempt at intentionally making myself sick so she could see, slept the two hour train trip back home and most of yesterday too.

As promised I am sharing one of the cards I made this month, this one went to my Uncle who in his spare time likes riding his road bike and often does charity rides and in the past ridden from Brisbane to Sydney or was it the other way round? (a distance of about 1000km or 622 miles) along with various other 'short' distances... 

Here is my card:-

and on the inside:-

What I used:-

White 14cm square card blank

Grey card stock

Faber-Castell and Derwent Pencils

Studio Calico ‘Here + There’ collection papers

Just inklined digistamp ‘Spinning Sid’

White card stock

Orange brads from stash

Memory box die antique gear set

Impression Obsession Greeting top edgers

Orange and bronze cardstock scraps

Black fine line pen

Adhesives:- P.V.A. glue, double-sided tape and foam tape

I would like to enter this card in:-
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper challenge August
Snippets Playground week 240
Aud Sentiments #160 Anything Goes with a Sentiment
Incy Wincy Designs- Anything goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #38 Anything goes

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

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