LPoCF #62 Sasayaki Glitter

Hello again,

Today brings us to another brand new challenge over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friendsand as always the challenge is Anything Goes, so come along and join in with whatever you have been working on, we have two lovely sponsors this fortnight Bugaboo Stamps and Sasayaki Glitter offering a prize to two lucky winners.

Bugaboo Stamps

Prize 4 images of your choice from the store

Sasayaki Glitter

Prize 1 image of your choice from the store

Don’t forget to stop by my team mates blogs to check out some more fabulous inspirational projects.

I am using an image provided by Sasayaki Glitter called Balloon Hedgehog, I grabbed a cut piece of stripy paper and coloured my image with a focus on those colours (or so I thought ;-)) Colouring in front of the TV I made one small mistake with the colours, one balloon is far more red than pink…. I grabbed some snippets from my overflowing box and made up a simple background with blue and green cutting out the various elements and adding them on popping the main image up on foam tape. A layer of some pink card also from the snippets box and a file tab cut from a snippet of white for the sentiment.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 10.5 x 14.8cm card blank

Sasayaki Glitter Image Balloon Hedgehog

Scrap papers from my stash

MFT Stitched rectangle die

CCD File tab die

Penny Black Snippets Sentiment stamp

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Black Liquid Enamel

Faber-Castell coloured pencils

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

Stanley knife, fine tipped scissors

I would like to enter this card in:-

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge July

Crafting By Designs July Anything Goes

Thank you for looking in…

Have a wonderful week…

Megan

Wildflower Doodles- LPoCF #60

Hello again,

Today brings us to another brand new challenge over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends and as always the challenge is Anything goes, so come along and join in with whatever you have been working on, we have one lovely sponsors this fortnight Miss Daisy stamps offering a prize to one lucky winner.

Miss Daisy Stamps

Prize 4 images of choice one from each of the following artists

Jennifer Nilsson Art * Mari Digis * Miss Daisy’s Collection * We Are 3

I am using an image from Miss Daisy Stamps called Wildflower Doodles 1, I had an idea in mind for this card and I have managed to pull it off. I have used an inky background created with Dylusions Spray inks Cherry Pie and Lemon Zest, I have also sprayed some Lindys Stamp Gang Pearlescent white ink over the top of the others once they had dried.

I printed the image onto plain paper and then taped down my papers I wanted to use for the various layers reprinting onto the coloured and patterned papers, in the mood for some fussy cutting I used fine tipped scissors to carefully cut the image out from the various papers and glued them straight onto the image printed on to the spray ink background, I was very careful not to drop, sneeze or breathe the tiny pieces :-)

Not satisfied with the finished product, I used an embossing pen to add some shine to the flower centres and the butterfly, heat embossing in some clear powder, stamping and adding more clear powder to the sentiment.

Don’t forget to stop by my team mates blogs to check out some more inspirational projects and leave them some love!

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 13cm square card blank

Page from sketch book (for the inky papers)

Miss Daisy’s Wildflower Doddles 1

Black cardstock

Dylusions Spray inks Cherry Pie, Lemon Zest, London Blue and Cut Grass

Lindys Stamp Gang Pearlescent spray ink

Scrap papers from my stash (leftover spray ink paper and dictionary paper)

Black fine line pen

CCD Nesting stitched square die

Black 3mm pearls

Ranger Emboss it pen

Clear gloss embossing powder

Clearly Besotted Stamp Sweet Little Sentiment

Versa colour Charcoal ink pad

Adhesives:- Diamond Glaze, PVA glue and Double-sided tape

Stanley knife, fine tipped scissors and heat gun

I would like to enter this card in:-
Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Challenge
Crafting by Design June Anything goes
Polkadoodles week 24 Anything goes
Love to Craft Challenge Blog #11
The Flower Challenge #9 Anything goes

Thank you for looking in…

Have a wonderful week…

Megan

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

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!

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!

Hedgehogs

Hello again,

As I mentioned before I printed off an few images onto one sheet for upcoming birthdays, it was our neighbours birthday over the weekend and her and her son headed down the coast for a couple of days giving me some extra time to finish off her card  so rather than being a fairly simple one I went all out and made some rolled roses to embellish her card… 😊 and just as they were ready to leave we arrived home from the shops and her teenage son brought me in a tray of card board scraps quite possibly from their love of heading out to garage sales, one of the scraps worked perfectly with the colour scheme of the semi completed card and I couldn’t help myself I used it for the roses, so some of what she gave me is heading back into her home.

If I didn’t want the scrap card stock she said to dump it into her recycling bin (What!!!) as even if I can’t use it I try to pass it along to someone who will, I have shared it out some for me in colours I need or use lots of,  some has made its way to one of the friendly bank tellers, who will also pass along any she’s not interested in and the remainder will be headed to a card making lady who after retiring returned to the nursing home to teach card-making to the residents, they have loved the other bits and pieces I have passed along and will undoubtedly get some enjoyment from this lot. (box is a bit over 30cm square)

 

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

Diane Carubia Blooming lovely Hedgehogs digi stamp
Faber-Castell and Derwent Pencils
My Memories cardstock
Green, cream and peach coloured cardstock
Fiskars Lace border punch (almost all hidden)

Peach lace

MFT Medium rolled rose die

MFT Royal leaf die
MFT Stitched Scalloped die
MFT Medium Leaf filled flourish
MFT Stitched line square frame (fitted perfectly behind the scalloped square)
Lili of the Valley circle sentiments
Clearly besotted Sweet little sentiments stamp
Lifestyle Crafts Nesting Circle and Scalloped circle die
Memento Tuxedo Black ink
Tiny pearls in flower centre
Pearl strip
Sullivan’s Bling flourish
Adhesives:- PVA glue, Foam tape, double-sided tape
  I would like to enter this card in:-

Di’s Digi designs challenge- Include an animal

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #51 Anything goes

Bizzy Bec’s Store blog February anything goes
Crafting with Dragonflies One for the girls
Craft’s Galore Encore Anything goes

Thank you for looking in today…

Have a wonderful week…

Megan

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

P.P.S Have had internet issues and specifically privacy and similar on one browser, using a different browser and it has played havoc with Blogger reading list, I can only scroll down a certain amount and cannot access all of the blogs I follow, my apologies if I don't get around to comment so often until I work out what went wrong (please read, I have tried every thing I know to fix problem and have referred problem to family tech support)

Soccer Fan

Hello again,

I had a brief phone call requesting a quick card for Saturday, for an 8 year old boy who likes soccer and plays the violin, I knew I had a Polkadoodles soccer digi stamp so headed straight for it, then decided that while I was at it I would save time and print out a few extra images for upcoming birthdays all on an A4 sheet and sat as the weather finally started to cool and coloured them in.

Not knowing if the young lad has a team he follows I decided to colour the uniform in the colours of the nearest Soccer (aka Football) team.

Anyone got a huge fan? I want to send you some of our Aussie Heat, so long as you share some of your cooler weather.  Below are the forecast and current data from the top of our local council building which is home to an Automatic Weather Station

 Below is the forecast for tomorrow a drop of 15C and a welcome relief (but it won't last long another heatwave offering us 35C again will be back before the end of the week) Roll on Autumn!!!!

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 10.5 x 14.8cm card blank

Kraft paper

Polka Doodle Image 'Footballer'

Faber-Castell and Derwent Pencils

Black gloss paper

Doodlebug design Boys only paper

Red, black, silver and white card from scraps

Silver star Stickers

Happy Birthday sentiment sticker from stash

Kaisercraft nesting hexagon die

Free download soccer ball (sorry I didn't take notice of where it came from)

Darice Honeycomb embossing folder

Adhesive:- Double sided tape, Foam tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

Aud Sentiment Challenge #172 Masculine

Seize the Birthday optional topping felt

Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge Anything goes

Love to Craft Challenge February Anything goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #51 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 message I truly appreciate them all!

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

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!

Gifts

Hello again,

So my trip to western Sydney went well but was extremely hot, I arrived in plenty of time for my appointment to discover I was seeing a different Doctor, who made the announcement that my usual specialist had passed away almost 12 months ago... he was a lovely man and my parents first met him when my older brother was six. 

I have almost reached the magical five years of desensitisation and the new doctor said I do not have to have more needles for now! Yippee!!!!! but if my allergies flare up again I will have to start up again (hopefully not back to the beginning, it means going back to weekly injections at my local GP office)

On to more interesting things

Today I am sharing a few of the gifts made for Christmas for my Mum, niece and sister-in-law and an extra owl calendar for a friend from my school years as a moving in gift…, I’ve noticed on Pinterest so many different ways to use the little calendar tabs, I first saw the oh so cute Owl calendar over at Sarah’s blog Mallows Crafts and fell in love with it, so as we tend to get UK craft magazines up to three months after the issue is released I was happy to find the pattern inside and headed straight to the Papercraft Inspirations website to download a full size pattern… then I just had to wait until the 2017 calendar tabs were available. Expect to see a few more calendars popping up here soon, as a they come in packs of ten… 

Mum’s calendar is the blue owl and it sits on the fridge, she was quite impressed when she opened it on Christmas day. The green owl will be headed north to Queensland for my friend, every year at Christmas when I hear from her she has moved again and she’s on the move again in mid-January, so I’m holding on to the owl for a bit longer, I resized the template to make it a little smaller to fit in the post.

I also made two note pad and calendars for my niece and sister-in-law using supermarket mini note pads and managed to find some ‘Retro’ pens in miniature to accompany them. For some reason I managed to reverse the pattern

For my niece I went with bright papers and picked out some scrap card and paper that went well with those colours

For my Sister-in-Law I used her favourite colour and some scraps from making a wedding card along with the black and metallic purple paper from my scrap box

What I used:-

AC Wave, Cricket, Amethyst and Leaf Cardstock

Shimelle 6” paper pad

Tiny Brads from stash

Scraps of black, white and stone cardstock

Foam dots

Couture Creations Calendar tabs

Recycled Magnet and chipboard

Calendar and notepad

Mini note pads

Couture creations Calendar tabs

Memory Box Madeline Bird die

Memory box Parker Numerals

Elizabeth Crafts Butterfly overlay one die set

Butterfly die from China

Googly eyes

250 and 300gsm card for bases (white and silver)

Bling from stash last swirl on sheet!

Scraps of paper and card in various colours

I would like to enter the Owl calendars in:

Crafting by Designs January Anything goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #50 Anything goes

Love to Craft #6 Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge January

I would like to enter the Easel note pad and calendars in

613 Avenue Create Totally Technical-Use your favourite technique (Using up scraps)

Mrs. A’s Butterfly Challenge #70 J is for Jewels and/or Jade (Butterfly set)

Hiding in my Craftroom Super Scraps Saturday

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

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*I would love to send some of our excess heat to those who are experiencing the extreme cold just now, if only I had a fan big enough... or swap places (if only I had a passport)* the other day in NSW we had temperatures ranging from 8C to 44C in various parts of the state!

Hello 2017

Hello again,

Hope you have all had a wonderful Christmas (and got lots of Crafty pressies) and enjoyed the beginning of 2017, I’m still yet to have a play with most of my gifts, a heat embossing tool does not sound like something I want to use in the middle of our heat wave, this week we are expecting temperatures between 29-36C or 86-97F add in a trip to the inner west of Sydney to see a specialist on the day the area will hit 42-43C (109F) I will be officially melted down to a puddle… time to try one of the elimination diet cold ‘treats’ I think… Strawberry Coconut Cream with fresh berries sounds alright...

Wow have you all been busy! I don't think I'll be able to get around to all your lovely posts since I have three weeks worth of posts to catch up on... but I will be looking through them

I think I’d better share the last of my Christmas cards from 2016 since I fell short on the quantity I needed, I stuck to a couple of super easy fuss free cards with a very similar design to the Scottie Dog card I had made earlier which I also made a second time using different papers same layout.

Here are some of my extra cards:

What I used

White 10.5 x 14.8cm card blanks

White 12.7 x 17.8cm card blanks

White card stock from scrap box

Music script paper (Kaisercraft I think)

Magazine freebie paper

Red, green, gold metallic card (some scrap pieces)

MFT cross-stitched rectangle die

Marianne Design Poinsettia Die

Poppystamps Gentle Leaf die

Hero Arts Merry Stamp and Cuts

Black and gold paper from stash

Memory Box Leaping Deer

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Magazine cover gift die set

Elizabeth Craft 'Peace' sentiment die

Blue card plus some from scrap box

Pearlescent silver card 

Lili of the valley Christmas tags stamp

Penny Black holiday snippets

Colorbox Midnight ink pad

White gel pen

Kaisercraft Lattice Embossing folder

Double sided adhesive paper

I would like to enter these cards in:-

Snippet’s Playground weeks 263 & 264  (cards 1,2 & 5)

613 Avenue Create Anything goes with a twist totally Technical (favourite technique using up scrappy bits and pieces) (card 1, 2 & 5)

Crafting from the heart Challenge #142 (card 1 & 2)

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends challenge #49 (card 3)

Crafting by Designs January Anything goes (card 4-5)

Thank you for looking in…

Have a wonderful week…

Megan

P.S. Wishing you all a Happy, safe and Healthy 2017.

P.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!

O Christmas Tags

Hello again,

Christmas is almost here, is everyone busy getting things organised or are you all sitting back relaxing with your favourite tipple? I’m still planning Christmas lunch; the elimination diet threw a spanner in the works, still trying the new recipes out getting used to different flavours.

I spent most of last week busy making the extra 10 cards I need and now I just have one more left for one of my neighbours. I used some of my earlier designs to create some of the cards including my little Scotty dog card using a different paper from the same pack. Using the same layout and a poinsettia die for a change which I layered up. I will post these in the next few days...

I also got my box of leftover diecuts, scrap papers etc. out and diecut many tags out of the larger scraps and plain Christmas shapes out of smaller ones to create this years gift tags. There are many more than you see below... should have some leftover for next Christmas!

I first joined in with the lovely ladies and Miss Di over at snippets playground last year with my Christmas gift tags, using leftover card to make these tags, which my local friendly newsagent passed on rather than tossing them in the bin. 

Here are my tags:-

What I used:-

Lawn Fawn Tag die

Scrap paper/card in various colours

Penny Black Clear stamps holiday snippets

Leftover small images, Bugaboo Stamps, Di’s Digital Delights

Faber-Castell and Derwent pencils

Memory Box leaping reindeer die

Impression Obsession Small Reindeer

Marianne Design Punch Star die

Marianne Tree Die

Cottage Cutz Festive Owls die

Marianne Design Scotty Dog Die

Impression Obsession Holly leaf cluster die

Mama Elephant Reindeer games stamp and die set (leftover from previous project)

Kindy Glitz Red glitter glue

Noel Washi tape

Printed sentiments

Adhesives: Double sided tape, PVA glue

Memento Tuxedo black ink

My apologies for the photo quality but we have gone from a bright hot sunny summer night to a grey, wet, misty mountain day… the temperature has dropped over 10C over night, but we are expecting Christmas Day to be around 27C here…

I would like to enter these tags in:

Snippets Playground week 260

Lil Patch of crafty Friends #48 Anything goes

Creative Craft Cottage #78 Anything goes

Avenue 613 Create #192

Sparkles Christmas Challenge #71 Anything but a card

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge Cute or Anything goes

Crafting by Design Anything goes December

 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 message, I truly appreciate them all!

Christmas wishlist...

Hello again,

Well after a full week of Holiday Chaos with the Design Team over at Catch the Bug would you believe I’m still short on Christmas cards??? Just as well I always colour extra images and have a few leftover. Today brings us to the final day of this years Holiday Chaos challenge and today the challenge is to create a card using a nine square bingo chart. I have used Bugaboo’s latest freebie, Crabby Cat Christmas.

Are you all ready for the big day yet? We’ve packed a box of presents to go to my brother, sister in law and niece my Dad will be driving some of my brothers possessions left in ‘storage’ at home along with most of the Christmas gifts for them, unfortunately a few gifts are still on their way we will have to post them once they arrive. As for the Christmas day lunch plans were made a while ago, before I met a new doctor, who has placed me on an elimination diet for the foreseeable future, thankfully I’m already used to some of the diet having intolerances to a third of the food eliminated… I have already requested Christmas post elimination diet…

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 12.6 x 17.7cm card (5x7”)

Candy stripes embossing folder

Bugaboo Image Crabby Cat Christmas

Derwent Pencils

Printed Merry Christmas sentiment

Doodlebug designs paper

AC Pool and Rouge cardstock

Martha Stewart white glitter

Memory Box Sweet Candy canes die

MFT Pierced Square die

Stamps from magazine

Fiskars scalloped border punch

Aqua sequins

Black fine line pen

Diamond glaze (eyes and bauble)

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

I would like to enter this card in:-

Bugaboo Holiday Chaos day 7 Bingo challenge (Candy Canes, Freebie, Glitter/bling and Candy canes, embossing, three layers)

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge extra

12 Months of Christmas Link-up Welcome to the North Pole or Anything goes

Crafting by Designs Here come the holidays

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #47 Anything goes

Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge Anything goes

Merry Monday Challenge #225 Candy Canes

Thank you for looking in…

Have a wonderful weekend

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!