LPoCF #260 Polkadoodles

 Hello again, 

I hope your weather is being much nicer than ours, we have been stuck inside due to daily rain, on the days it does not rain it is still too cold to dry the washing on the line. A town about 20mins away had a large sandstone cliff give way, 200,000 tonnes, thankfully not at a time people may have been rock climbing. We are expecting snow in the area, in towns at a higher elevation.

I have a few exercises to do to build my shoulder in the hopes I will be able to manage crutches so I can have my ankle surgery, we have 4 steps to get onto the porch, one extra to get into the house, physio has also suggested shuffling up the stairs on my backside, getting moveable stairs to raise me high enough to sit on a chair, then manage only the step into the house, this will still need a degree of shoulder stability.

On to my card, Today brings us to another all-new Anything goes challenge with my team mates at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, this fortnight we are sponsored by Polkadoodles, who gave the team two digi stamps to work with. I have used Parkie Polar Bear and Theo Penguin to make a Christmas Card.

Polkadoodles

Prize 3 Digi images

What I used:

Polkadoodles Parkie Polar Bear and Theo Penguin pre-coloured image

14cm Square card blank 
Doodlebug paper 'Santa Express'
Red and green AC cardstock
14cm Square card blank

White card for printing and die cutting
Nesting lacy edge square die
Nesting square dies
Lawn Fawn Fa-la-la-la-la die cut three times and layered together
Impression Obsession Holly and Berries die

Adhesives; Double sided tape and PVA glue (my precision glue bottle broke) :(

I would like to enter this card in:
Polkadoodles Challenge 9 week 3 Anything Goes
Di's Digi Design Challenge Die cuts or Punches
Crafter's Cafe Anything goes optional use patterned papers
Digi Choosday Challenge 8 week 3 Anything goes 
ABC Christmas Challege P- Pastel, Q- Quick or R-Robins (Q-quick made in under 20mins)
The Holly and The Ivy Challenge #189 Anything goes Christmas
As You Like It Favourite Season Christmas- As an Aussie, Christmas time comes at the end of the school year and the beginning of the summer school holidays add in End of year/ Christmas parties at groups and clubs and family get togethers. Christmas time always mean fun and parties. 

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Have a wonderful week...
Megan

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Butterfly Thank you

Hello again,

As a part of the set of cards I was requested to make for a friend she wanted four Thank you cards included this is the first of them I am sharing a super quick, clean and simple design. This uses some pretty pearlised design paper from the paper mill, scraps of salmon and black cardstock, looking at it now I think I should have made the butterflies more centred in the main panel... I have made one of these before using different colours as a quick thank you card for the ladies at a cemetery where we had been doing some family history research.

Here is my card:

What I used:-

White 10.5x14.8cm card blank

Salmon and black scrap cardstock

Pearlised butterfly design paper

Lawn Fawn sentiment die

Adhesives:- Double sided tape, adhesive sheet

I would like to enter this card in:-

Crafty Creations Challenge blog Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned paper Challenge Anything goes

The Happy Craft Challenge

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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!

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

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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 

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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!

U is for Unicorn

Hello again,

Still working our way through the alphabet now getting to the stickier end of things, today brings us to the letter ‘U’ apart from Unicorns and the colour Umber I’m lost… but I bought a tiny stamp and die set featuring the first of the two I could think of, I found the Doodlebug speech bubble in my bag of Christmas scraps and decided it would work.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White 10.5x14.8cm card blank
Striped paper from scrap bags
Circle die cut from scrap bags
Left over strip of Distress Oxide ink background (faded Jeans, broken china, peacock feathers)
Lawn Fawn Winter Unicorn stamp and die set
White card
Clear embossing ink
Silver embossing powder
Derwent Pencils
Wink of Stella Clear
Star hand punch
Silver and glitter cardstock scrap with adhesive on back
Doodlebug and typed sentiment
Adhesives:- Double sided tape and foam dots

I would like to enter this card in:-

Beccy’s Place Month of Holiday cards ‘U’ is for Unicorn

Daisy Chain Challenge 25 Christmas or Winter
ABC Christmas Challenge W is for Wishes, x for Xmas
Merry Little Christmas Challenge Anything goes

Many thanks for looking in...
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 message, I truly appreciate them all!

Rose Birthday

Hello again,

Seems like ages since I was last out here on my blog, I have had a much easier recovery post repeat surgery in mid August, so hopefully I get good news when I got back to the specialist this week... One of our family history friends is celebrating her birthday today and we gave her this card along with a new azalea plant which we happily found out will replace one that recently died in her garden.

I messed around with some scraps of card deciding on just which colour to make the rose, once I had settled on Raspberry versa color, I inked the stamp up carefully cleaning off the ink from the leaves and stem. Stamping first the flower portion before cleaning and reinking the leaves and stem in Olive versa color and stamping. I used MFT pierced fish tail flag die to cut the rose out then dug around in my large scrap file for the gold mirri card, found some deep pink cardstock and a wide striped paper from my stash.

I managed to smudge the ink on the rose, thankfully it blends in though. Apologies for the photo quality this one is the best of a bad bunch...

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White 5x7" card blank (12.6x17.8cm)
Heidi Swapp Marquee love paper
Darkroom Door Rose stamp (Full Bloom Vol 1)
Rasperry and Olive Versa Color ink pads
Gold mirri, black, white and deep pink cardstock from scrap files
Lawn Fawn Happy Birthday sentiment die
Tiny self adhesive gems
Fiskars Corner rounder punch
Wplus9 Scalloped border die
MFT pierced fishtail flags die
Adhesives:- Double sided tape, adhesive sheet, PVA glue

I would like to enter this card in:-
Always Happy Birthday Challenge
Snippets Playground #334
Crafting with Dragonflies #112 Spring has Sprung
The Sisterhood of Crafters Bloomin' Flowers
Seize the Birthday optional topping Rainbow

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have a wonderful week...
Megan

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Easter gift bags

Hello again,

I hope you all have had a wonderful Easter long weekend, indulged in some Hot Cross Buns and some delicious eggs or bunnies.... strangely I didn't miss the eggs but the smell of the hot cross buns was great, still sticking to my AIP and low histamine diet so my treats were coconut butter melted down and made into chick and Easter egg shapes with the help of a silicone mould.

Apologies for not being around much, or commenting often the last few weeks, I've been unwell with my pain issues and spent time digging in the family tree, helping Mum sort some of the families out that I have progressed with at a faster pace than she could keep up.... and Mum helping me with people she has been working on that I haven't done yet.

I made two bags for Mum and Dad who of course can eat both chocolate and hot cross buns. Filled with a few eggs and a bunny for each, the heat started to have an effect of the consistency of the eggs and some ended up in the fridge.

Here are the two bags:-

What I used:-
White and kraft paper bags
Pink and blue card and paper scraps
Checked paper from stash
Pastel Basics paper
Derwent and Faber-Castell pencils
Bugaboo image Easter egg basket
Freebie Bunny stamp from Magazine website (not sure if still available)
Clearly Besotted sentiment
Hero Arts Happy die
Lawn Fawn Riley's alphabet
Pink bow from stash
Flowers from stash
Mini Apron lace border die from China (a Highly addictive and cheap supplies for craft) 😉
Cross stitched oval die from China
MFT grass die

I would like to enter these gift bags in:-
Aud Sentiments Challenge Easter or Spring sentiment
Crafts Galore Encore #50th challenge Anything goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned paper challenge anything goes
Little Miss Muffet Challenge #185 anything goes
Love to Craft Challenge blog #21 Anything goes
Southern Girls Challenge-Diecuts

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Have a wonderful week...

Megan

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Joy to the World

Hello again,

I have a super quick and easy pair of cards to share today, made with non Christmas papers for a couple of gentlemen, I made two at the same time one will be headed north to Dad’s uncle and the other locally to a gent that runs the Family History centre at the local church where Mum likes to hang out with other family history buffs.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 17.8x12.6cm card blank (5”x7”)

Dylusions London blue spray ink

Scrap of metallic silver and green card

CCD Globe

Circle die

Lawn Fawn ‘Joy’ die

Lawn Fawn Riley’s ABC

Clear embossing ink pad

Silver embossing powder

Teal and cream paper (no idea) 50c/sheet at craft show

Adhesive sheet

Wink of Stella Clear liberally all over the globe

Bling from my stash

I would like to enter this card in:-

613 Avenue Create Optional Christmas or Winter 

Aud’s Sentiment 194 Christmas and a Sentiment

Christmas Cards All year round December anything goes 

Come and Get it Christmas card 

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge optional theme quick and easy

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge Extra Anything goes

Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge Optional Stencil 

Snippets Playground Anything goes with snippets

12 Months of Christmas Link up #36 Optional theme Christmas cupcakes 

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Have a wonderful week…
Megan

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Happy Bird-day

Hello again,

Well, long time no see! I’ve had a few big trips to the city to see specialist doctors and physios leaving me exhausted for a few days after each one, the doctor has altered my diet again so now off all grains, seeds, nuts, nightshades, dairy and fermented foods, trying to see if I am reacting to natural histamines in foods along with plant proteins that I’ve been off since April.

I did find some time to make a few Christmas cards for my stash and I’m only just finding the time to blog them along with todays card, a birthday card for my niece who turned 12 late last month

featuring three of Bugaboo Stamps images– Birthday Bird 2, Birthday Bird 3 and Birthday Bird 4 which I won during their birthday celebrations last year and coloured at some point in time, found them sitting with a bunch of images I have coloured… 

I dug into my scraps box and unearthed some brightly coloured card stock pieces which worked well with the colours I had used then hit one of the Sugar ‘N’ Spice paper pads from Spotlight and found a nicely and co-ordinating striped paper, finished the card off with two orange flower brads from my stash, wink of Stella over the cupcakes, shine of the balloons and for fun on all the little birds eyelids. I backed some blue cardstock with double sided adhesive sheets and cut Happy Birthday sentiment with a Lawn Fawn die.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White C7 card blank 12.6x17.8cm or 5x7”

Orange, yellow and blue cardstock from scrap box

Bugaboo Stamps Birthday Bird 02

Bugaboo Stamps Birthday Bird 03

Bugaboo Stamps Birthday Bird 04

Derwent and Faber-Castell coloured pencils

Sugar ‘N’ Spice paper pad

Brads from stash

Wink of Stella

Lawn Fawn Happy Birthday die

I would like to play along with
Catch the Bug October Anything goes
Bizzy Becs Store blog October anything goes
A Gem of a challenge- #204 Birthday Card
Crafting by designs October Anything goes
Little Miss Muffet Challenge #173 Anything goes

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Have a wonderful week...
Megan

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Fathers' Day

Hello again,

The last weekend was Father’s Day here in Australia, so I made this easel card for my Dad who is often to be found in his shed, tinkering with whatever it is that day.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 5 x 7” card blank 12.6x17.8cm
Design paper from Amy Tangerine paper pad
Leather grain card stock
Dark green, brown, white, metallic grey and dark red from scraps box
Faber Castell and Derwent Pencils
Lili of the Valley image- The workbench

Lili of the Valley Digi tag Set 24 Sentiment Tags

CCD pin dot rectangle die
CCD tiny tools die
MFT Woodgrain fence die
MFT Freshly cut grass die
Marianne Craftables Nuts and Bolts
Kaisercraft Die from Handmade Labels
Lawn Fawn Riley ABC stamps
Darkroom Door Simple Sayings Vol2
Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad
Ranger Clear ink pad
Colorbox Queue Chalk ink Olive Pastel
Primary Ebony Super Fine embossing Powder
Hemp cord twine
Adhesives:- Double sided tape, foam tape and PVA glue
Core dinations sanding tool, scissors to distress edges

I would like to enter this card in:-

Aud Sentiments Challenge Anything Goes + Sentiment

Crafting from the heart 173 Anything goes 

613 Avenue Create Anything goes optional twist Distress it

Bizzy Bec's Store Challenge 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… 

Hedgie Christmas

Hello again,

I had my last session of physio for the year today in Sydney, no point taking my camera with me to show you anything exciting, except maybe the strange giant matchsticks we saw as the train whizzed by… here is a link to the Matchsticks a sculpture…..

On the way back to the station we stopped off at Westfield and I couldn't stop myself from going in to Riot art store, just for a look... I came out with a bead storage box, soon to house a myriad of sequins and tiny bits, and a set of 23 sentiment stamps which were 50% off making them just $3 and it included a thin stamp block... 

On to todays card the challenge for day four was to make a card keeping it simple and using no design papers.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

Bugaboo image

Faber-Castell and Derwent Pencils

White 12.6 x 17.8cm card blank (5x7”)

Lavender and Amethyst AC cardstock

Scrap card

Mauve seam binding

Sequins

Craft concepts Christmas Vine 5x7” embossing folder

Nesting rectangles

Nesting scalloped rectangles

Lawn Fawn Merry Christmas Sentiment die

I would like to enter this card in:-

Catch the Bug Holiday Chaos Day 4

Creative Craft Cottage #77 Use die cuts

Crafting by Designs Here come the holidays

Christmas card Challenges #1 Candy Canes

Christmas cards all year round Anything goes

Incy Wincy Designs Tic Tac Toe (candy cane, use the word Christmas in sentiment and ornament)

Craft-a-holics R us Cards for girls

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge Vintage or Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge extra Anything goes

12 Months of Christmas optional theme Welcome to the North Pole

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Have a great week...

Megan

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For the Chef

Hello again,

Today I am sharing another card I made for my Mum's friend who requested a card for her daughter in law who enjoys cooking, after thinking about things for awhile I decided to use a chef's hat as the focus with some great paper from my stash of Doodlebug designs. I have elongated a chef's hat pattern from an old Cards for Men mini magazine from Papercraft Inspirations.

I did not have to attach any sequins exactly where they ended up because of glue issues ;-) not at all!

Here is my Card:-

What I used:

White card blank 10.5cm x 14.7cm

Doodlebug Design Papers from stash

Iridescent yellow sequins

MFT stitched circle die

MFT pierced fishtail flag die

Various scrap papers to create hat and egg lift

Yellow Ochre Color box inkpad

Black fine line pen

Memento Tuxedo Black inkpad 

Lawn Fawn Riley’s Alphabet to create sentiment

Adhesives:- Double-sided tape, Diamond Glaze & foam tape

I would like to enter this card in

Snippets Playground week #241 Anything goes with snippets

Craft your passion #323 Anything goes

613 Avenue Create #188 Anything goes (now monthly challenge)

Bizzy Bec's Store Challenge August Anything goes

Lil Patch of Crafting Friends #39 Anything goes

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enjoy your weekend

Megan

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Bugaboo Christmas in July Recipe Day 5

Hello again,

Well we are past the half way mark in this years annual Christmas in July celebration and challenge week, today brings us to Humour me Wednesday and a recipe challenge.

Recipe:

Make it Funny (Crabby Cat and Sentiment)

Use scallops (Lawn Fawn Stitched scalloped border)

Bling (sequins)

Layers (four)

I chose Crabby Cat Christmas from my collection of Bugaboo images simply because I had to use this hilarious sentiment from Create with TLC from last years Christmas Digi Club, my Uncle will probably receive this card and it will give him a laugh… Paulette has relaunched her store this year and right now only a fraction of the Christmas sentiment kits she has in her collection are available with more to come undoubtedly as the Festive season approaches. This month Paulette has join forces with Desire from her Design Team to host an all new Challenge- Anything goes with a TLC image or sentiment challenge.

Here’s my card:-

What I used:-

White 5” x 7” card blank

Bugaboo image Crabby Cat Christmas

Create with TLC 

Faber-Castell and Derwent Pencils

Rouge Cardstock (AC)

DCWV Glittered Christmas stack

Brown, Green & White card scraps

Lawn Fawn Stitched Scallop die

Memory Box Grand Merry Christmas

MFT Inside & Out Stitched Rounded Rectangle STAX

Poppy Stamps Die Peaceful bird

Sequins from stash

Fine Line black pen

Adhesives:- Double-sided tape, foam tape and Diamond Glaze

I would like to enter this card in:-

Bugaboo Christmas in July day 5 Humour me Wednesday and Recipe

Create with TLC Challenge #1 at Doing life Anything goes with TLC 

Glory of Christmas Challenge Use two patterned papers

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge Extra July Anything Christmas

Poppystamps Challenge #22 Fly away with me (must use Poppystamps die or stamp) 

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #37 Anything goes

Crafting circle July Challenge Anything goes

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Have a wonderful week

Megan

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Cupcake anyone?

Hello again,

I was asked to create a card for a friend’s grand-daughter who loves to cook. Not having much in the way of cooking stamps or images I grabbed my dies and created this card:-

What I used:-

White 14.8cm x 10.5cm card blank

Red card from generic card stack

Freebie paper from magazine

White, pink, red and blue card from my scrap bags

White glitter card

Lawn Fawn sequins

Black fine-line pen

Magazine cover gift stamp

Lifestyle Crafts Nesting lace circle die

Lawn Fawn Stitched border dies (from Bizzy Becs)

MFT Pierced fishtail flags die

Marianne Design Creatables Cupcake die

Adhesives:- Double sided tape, foam tape & PVA glue

I would like to enter this card in:-

Bizzy Becs Store Challenge June Anything Goes

Craft your Passion #316 Anything goes

HIMCR Super Scraps Saturday

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge June Anything goes

613 Avenue Create #Anything goes or Create your own Challenge

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Have a great week…

Megan

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Get well

Hello again,

I had some grand plans today, but spent way more time asleep than I wanted, still recovering from my trip to the big smoke, so I have only one card ready to show you. 

I decided to make a card for this weeks FTHS Sketch with a tWist challenge using one of the images I coloured early in the week.

I promise that I have coloured a shadow and ground but it's not that obvious in the photo, the sun was setting and I used a light to take the photo

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
FTHS Birdbrain
Faber-Castell and Derwent Pencils
White 14cm square card blank
orange card stock (generic)
cascade card stock (AC) 
Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid
Lawn Fawn Riley's ABC's
scrap paper (doodlebug, bobunny dots & magazine)
Memento Tuxedo Black ink
MFT Pierced Circle Die
Diamond Glaze on syrup drip and spoon
Stanley knife, steel rule, craft mat

I would like to enter this card in:-
FTHS Sketch with a tWist #153

Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Challenge May Anything goes
Crafting with Dragonflies #58 Animals
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge May Anything goes
Snippet's Playground week 231 Anything goes with snippets 

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Have a wonderful week...
Megan

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