LPoCF#238 Mirtillamente Flowerz Flow 4

 Hello again,

The weather is beginning to warm up as Spring arrives in full force, I have already spotted one of our local blue-tongue lizards sunning itself in the yard, we have three regular blue-tongues who stop by, each has a tail of a different length as a defence mechanism they can shed their tails if threatened, leaving the predator with a tasty snack whilst they crawl away. One likes to be placated with fresh strawberries... the others are happier to be left alone.

I will am off to see an orthopaedic specialist who will hopefully be able to perform surgery on my ankle... and for a turn up for the books I don't have a three month wait to see a specialist, which would have brought me close to Christmas/summer holiday closures, I am being seen this week, likely to need mri on ankle and hopeful that something can be done... I have at some point (I know when) sprained my ankle with such force that I have ripped a ligament off the bone and brought several pieces of bone with it....

Today brings us to an all-new challenge with my team mates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, this fortnight we are sponsored by Mirtillamente Digital Stamps who kindly gave our team three images to work with, I have used Flowerz Flow No 4 to make a pretty birthday card.

Mirtillamente Digital Stamps

Mirtillamente Facebook

Mirtillamente Challenge Blog

Ampolix Facebook 

Prize two images

Here is my card:

What I used:

White 12.6x17.8cm card blank (5x7")

Mirtillamente Flowerz Flow No 4

Faber-Castell Coloured Pencils

Lavendar cardstock

White cardstock

LOTV circular sentiment clear stamp (a Digital version available here)

Crafts too embossing folder

Memento tuxedo black inkpad

scalloped edge punch

Poppy stamps Tilda swirl die small

scalloped circle die

Memory Box Pippi and Isabella Butterfly dies

Silver mirror card strips

White flat backed self-adhesive pearls

Adhesives: Double sided tape, pva glue, foam squares

I would like to enter this card in:

Mirtillamente Challenge Blog #35 Anything Goes September

Polkadoodles Anything goes week #37

Seize the Birthday Anything goes optional Stripes

Creative Knockouts #530 Embossing Delights

Colouring with Pencils Anything goes

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

J is for Joy and Jewel

Hello again,

Well there are only a few Christmas cards left for this years current month of Holiday cards challenge at Beccy's Place, I am still flitting back and forth as I complete the alphabet, today I have gone back to J is for Joy, I have used WPlus9 stamp and die combination to create the sentiment and decided to try out my Poppystamps Poinsettia Peace set, I heat embossed the stamps and coloured them with Prismacolor water colour pencils and painted them in pinks and red ending up with two cards, the first is a pretty purple using Kaisercraft 'Jewel' paper pad, the second has a more natural colour palette with the poinsettia in red, with some rescued ribbon from a present.

The photo's have turned out not as bad as I thought, today we are having one whole months of rain according to the weather predictions, an estimated 100ml or close to 4 inches throughout today. People in Sydney have had severe flooding and a number of accidents on the roads. A good day to stay warm and dry inside making cards....

Here are my cards:-

What I used:-
White 12.4x17.5card blanks
Poppycrafts Poinsettia Peace stamp and die
Kaisercraft 'Jewel' and 'Letters to Santa' paper pads
WPlus9 Hand lettered holiday stamp and die
Silver mirri card
Clear embossing ink
Silver, black and white embossing powders
Prismacolor water colour Pencils (+water)
Apron lace edge die
ribbons and silver thread
MFT Hand lettered Christmas sentiment
Sequins and tiny flat backed rhinestones

I would like to enter these cards in:-
Beccy's Place J is for Joy and Jewel
12 Months of Christmas linkup all tied up
Make My Monday Challenge Non traditional Christmas
Merry Little Christmas Challenge Anything goes

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

P.S. Huge 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!

S is for so many things

Hello again, 

I am back with another card for this years month of holiday cards with Beccy from Beccy’s Place, today the challenge is to make a card using the letter ‘S’ I had planned on making a card using one of my found coloured images (Santa), but then digging through my supplies I rediscovered my swaggie die, so today my card has Silhouette, sunset, Swaggie (swagman), Santa, sleigh, stars, Southern Cross and Sentiment.

I made a distress oxide ink background spraying lightly with water, then inked the bottom with Black soot ink, die cut the swaggie and Santa using some double sided adhesive sheet, added them to the card, heat embossed the sentiment from Kaisercraft in white embossing powder and added the panel to a card covered in Kaisercraft Basecoat corrugated iron. I would have loved using a die I saw recently which is Aussie made with Kanagroos pulling Santa’s sleigh, but will have to save it for next year… when I added the southern cross to the card with the star stickers I realised one needed to be slightly smaller, I had no more tiny gold stars and used my hand held star punch to make a tiny star from the middle sized one you can see, fiddly but it did the job…

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 12.6x17.8cm card blank (5x7”)

Kaisercraft Basecoat paper

Crafts 4 U Aussie Camper die 

Poppystamps Santa’s Sleigh die

White card stock

Black soot, wild honey, Antique linen and festive berries distress oxide inks

Black cardstock scraps

Adhesive sheet

Gold star stickers

Star Hand punch

Kaisercraft Sentiments-Traditional

Clear embossing ink

Seafoam white embossing powder

Adhesives:- Double sided tape, Adhesive sheet

I would like to enter this card in:-

Beccy’s Place ‘S’ is for Silhouette, sunset, swaggie, Santa, sleigh, stars, Southern Cross and Sentiment

Southern Girls Challenge Inks and Sprays (distress oxide inks + water spray)
Creative Craft Cottage Christmas is Coming
Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Anything goes
Cards Galore Encore Anything goes

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

P.S. Many thanks to all of my lovely blogging friends and visitors who take the time to stop by and leave me a comment... I appreciate them all!

Birthday Wishes

Hello again,

Well I'm back with my second floral card in as many weeks, this one was for my Mum's birthday last week and it turned out better than I expected... as I am only just beginning to use stamps, they still scare me a little... one annoying thing... the tiny flower had no corresponding die so they were all hand cut, no Springtime hayfever out bursts please!

The peach and pear trees are in blossom, the flowering Cherry trees, the cherry and apple trees are still holding out on us, maybe they think better than to flower early as we are expecting snow later this week, of course on the day I have an appointment in the city, I hope it will not be heavy enough to close the roads, have to get across them to get to the train.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White 17.8x12.6cm card blank (5x7")
White card stock
Poppystamps Flower Patch stamp and die set
CCD Stitched in and out circle dies
Merci paper (Big W for those in Aus)
MFT Birthday sentiment die
MFT LJD Celebrate with Cake (wishes) masked
Black embossing powder
Snippets of Gold Mirri card and white card stock
Versacolor Petal Pink, Orchid, Opera Pink, Heliotrope, Green and Fresh Green ink pads
Colorbox Yellow ink pad
Liquid Enamel white- tiny flower centres
Fine tipped Scissors
Adhesives:- Double-sided tape, foam tape, PVA glue, adhesive sheet.

I would like to enter this card in:-
Snippets Playground weeks 296-297
Naughty or Nice Challenge Framed
Happy Little Stampers Anything goes with Dies
Seize the Birthday Anything goes- Optional Topping Ocean Colours
Cuttlebug Mania 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!

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!

Teen Christmas

Hello again,

I’m back with another Christmas card this one is off to my neighbour’s eldest son, to prevent any arguments over the cards as I made my second double ‘z’ fold card having made this one for his brother earlier this year, the card ended up being more plain than I had planned on account of me making multiple mistakes when cutting the gap at the back of the card to hold some cash. I thought after the first mistake (I cut a piece of paper with a pattern going across the page upright) I’d just trace and cut the hole onto the next piece, only this time I did it in mirror image ;-(( to rescue the paper I’d wrecked I picked a second and third piece from the same paper pad and used the first paper on the ‘z’ portion of the card.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 14cm Square card blank

Pale green cardstock

My Mind’s Eye Mistletoe Magic 6” pad (including the paper I cut the wrong way)

Kaisercraft nesting star die

Lifestyle crafts nesting circle die

Poppystamps Clarissa ornament

Poppystamps Avondale ornament

Sentiment Die from Australian Papercraft Essentials 45

Star paperclip

Silver and white card scraps

Silver and red bling

Bella Droplets

Sentiment circle from TLC

I would like to enter this card in:-

Snippets Playground week 254

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge # 306 Vintage or Anything goes

Create with TLC- Anything goes with TLC element

The Merry Christmas Challenge #5 Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra Anything goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #45 Anything goes

613 Avenue Create Anything goes

Thank you for looking in... 

Have a great week...

Megan

P.S. Thank you to all the lovely ladies who take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all...

Peaceful Poinsettias

Hello again,

Another catch-up post for my quota of Christmas cards for the year, I dug out my older Marianne Design Dies Poinsettias, layering them up with my newer larger Poinsettia dies, also from Marianne Design. I grabbed a few little flowers from my stash to finish off the card, which could have been a little better placed as they ended up in a row… never mind we are our own harshest critics…

Here is my card:-

Not sure whether bad photography or poor lighting, the ribbon and flowers are almost the same colour in real life...

What I used:-

5” x 7” white card blank

AC Vanilla Cardstock

My Minds Eye Collectable ‘remarkable “smile” grin paper’

Gold Paper scraps from my stash

Kaisercraft ‘Yuletide’ Paper

25mm ribbon

MFT die Leaf filled flourish medium

Memory Box die Sketchbook Peace

Poppystamps die Garden Sprig

Fiskars Corner Punch

Marianne Creatables –Poinsettia with veins and mini Poinsettia

White paper flowers from stash

Clear sequins from stash

Flower sequins from stash

I would like to enter this card in:-

Christmas Card Challenges #42 Anything goes

12 Months of Christmas Link-up Nature of Christmas

Crafting by Design Get ready for Christmas September

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' Christmas Diecuts

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #300 Use a sentiment

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra Anything goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #42 Anything goes

Before I leave you today I thought I'd show you one of the flowers in my garden, it is a New South Wales Waratah and the floral emblem of our state, these two images are from the same bush (called Shady Lady) one is only just beginning to open (taken from above) and the other is already open, attracting nectar feeding birds to feast...

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

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

Thank you for looking in…

Have a wonderful week

Megan

P.S. A huge THANK YOU to all the lovely ladies for taking the time to leave me a comment, your kind words are truly appreciated.

    

Butterfly Wishes

Hello again, 

My friends Daughter in law is having her birthday soon and I was asked to create a card and use some Japanese Paper on it if possible. Metallics seem to be in at the minute with crafters and decorators and I raided my stash of scraps for some gold card, I found two suitable pieces, in separate places (I keep big scraps in an A4 display book, little scraps are in zip-lock bags by colour)

I haven't tried using both an embossing folder and die together on same card I wasn't really sure whether I should be embossing or die cutting first, I tried both ways and eventually decided that the Piestra tile die was delicate and embossing after cutting made the fragile joins break away, so emboss first cut second in this case, I can see this working the other way round for other less delicate dies and shapes.

I’m also wishing I had covered the card blank in black paper or card stock to give the card more definition or oomph…

I finished this card on Saturday afternoon and this morning discovered over in Snippets Playground Brenda had created one incredibly similar which you can see here, I promise I haven't copied her work Miss Di... 

This card is currently winging its way all the way to Japan while my friend takes some time off to visit her family...

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White card blank 10.5cm x 14.7cm

White card stock

Memory Box Piestra Tile die

Elizabeth Crafts Butterfly die overlay #2

Elizabeth Crafts Butterfly Silhouette die

Gold mirrored card stock

Japanese Paper

Elizabeth Craft bunch of flowers 2 die

Poppystamps Classic Ribbons Die

Spellbinders m-bossabilities Folder EL-005

Black and white scrap card

Paper Smooches Sentiment sampler stamps

Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad

Adhesives:- Double-sided tape, P.V.A. glue & foam tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

613 Avenue Create Challenge 183 Anything goes with a twist American Beauty- use a Rose

Crafting by Designs July Anything goes

Crafty Sentiments Challenge 28 Anything goes

Creative Fingers Challenge 112 Anything goes

Snippets Playground week 236 Must use snippets

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends 37 Anything goes

Simply Paper craft for all Occasions 32 Anything goes

Poppystamps Challenge 22- Fly away with Me---must include one stamp or die (Poppystamps Classic Ribbons)

Thank you for looking in...

Have a Wonderful week...

Megan

P.S. A huge Thank you to all the kind ladies who take the time to leave me a message, I truly appreciate them all.... Megan

Christmas Village

Hello again,

Well I've been a little slack on keeping up with my Christmas card making this month and finished this easel card off last night… 

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

Bugaboo image ‘ Fancy Sunbonnet Christmas Stuff'

Derwent and Faber-Castell Pencils

Pale grey cardstock (generic)

Leaf cardstock (AC)

Yellow, red and dark grey scrap cardstock

Kraft cardstock

Green paper from Carta Bella ‘Christmas Time’ paper pad

MFT Dienamics Wood grain Fence

Memory box Festive lights

Memory box frosted spruce

Memory box Christmas lights set

Poppystamps Fremont Pine landscape

Marianne Design Horizon Village

Cuttlebug Swiss Dots & Tiny Bubbles embossing folders

Star stickers from stash

Sand, Cocoa, Brown and Black ink (versa fine, Memento and colour box)

MFT gift tag greetings stamp set (I have masked off sections of two sentiments for the greeting)

Fiskars Corner Rounder punch

Adhesives:- PVA glue, double sided tape and foam dots

I would like to enter this card in:-

12 months of Christmas Challenge #17 optional theme non-traditional colours

Jingle Belles Banish the Holiday Blues

Crafting by Design Get Ready for Christmas May Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnuts #283 Use a Sentiment

Hiding in my craftroom #252 Any holiday

52 Christmas card throwdown May Stash Challenge Use punches or Dies 

Christmas Card Challenges #26 optional Challenge- Colour Challenge

Thank you for looking in...

have a wonderful week...

Megan

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

Many Thanks

Hello again,

Today I am sharing the card I made using the Stamp of the Month From the Heart Stamps, this set contains several images and sentiments. I have used two of the images and one of the sentiments for my card. I have also used this weeks From the Heart Stamps sketch with a tWist challenge and even managed to include the twist which is to use washi tape.

I am also joining in with a few other challenges including an all new challenge blog called Creative with Stamps, their first challenge is butterfly.

I have also discovered a new to me challenge called Crafting for all Seasons where this challenge is a Tic Tac Toe board.

Here’s my card:-

unfortunately none of the photos show the iridescent glitter effect on the butterfly from the ink spray:-( 

What I used:-

White A6 card blank

From the Heart Stamps Stamp of the Month ‘Time to Bloom’

Metallic grey pinstripe textured card

White card for printing

Washi tapes

X-Press it Glitter Deco tape

Green, pink & cream card scraps

Liquid Pearls in Buttercup & Rouge

Poppy Stamps Die ‘Lorelai Leaf’

Lifestyle Crafts Nesting Circle Dies

Dylusions ‘cherry pie’ spray ink

Lindy’s stamp gang ‘tea pot purple’ starburst spray ink

Kaisercraft 2mm self-adhesive bling

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

Craft Mat, steel ruler, Stanley knife, scissors, corner rounder

I would like to enter this card in:-

From the Heart Stamps Stamp of the Month Challenge April

From the Heart Stamps Sketch with a tWist #148

Snippets Playground #226 must use snippets 

Suzy B’s Bloomin’ Challenge: #127 Anything goes with a Twist: For a Lady

Crafting for all Seasons #124 Tic Tac Toe: top line Sparkle,Die cuts, flowers

Crafty Sentiments Anything goes

Creative with Stamps Challenge #1 Butterfly

Thank you for looking in

have a wonderful week...

Megan

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

Dig it…

Hello again,

On the computer front my screen is functioning a little better, although still a little blurry, I've changed font sizes, it has a better functioning driver and at least my images no longer look like one of those crazy mirrors squashed down from the top and squeezed in from the sides....

I am joining in with this months stamp of the month challenge over at From the Heart Stamps, this is a progressive challenge and each month that you enter you will receive the following months stamp for free. This months image features a gorgeous little dog and is called Digging Dog. If you would like to join in the challenge you can purchase the image from the store here, if you spend over $10 on some of Faiths other stunning Digi images, you can enter this code: Digging Dog to receive the image free found here.

My card has taken a little longer to make than I planned as I haven't been able to find something I know I have in my stash, you can bet that sooner or later I will rediscover the tiny wooden lady bugs in the most unlikely place and probably remember why I put them there in the first place. One bonus has been tidying up and sorting some of my stash as I looked. Since I didn't find the little bugs I have altered my card as I went

Here’s my card:-

What I used:-

Digging Dog image and sentiments by Faith at From the HeartStamps

Derwent and Faber-Castell pencils

White 14cm square card blank

White cardstock

Dylusions London Blue ink spray mixed with water

White Colorbox inkpad mixed with water

Daisy Punch

Tiny flower single hole punch

Poppystamps Garden Sprig die

Elizabeth Crafts Bunch of Flowers 2

Poppycrafts Nesting Square Die

MFT Pierced circle die

Stanley Knife, cutting mat, steel rule, brush

White Opal Liquid Pearls

Adhesives:- PVA Glue, double sided tape, foam tape

Doodlebug Design Paper

Create with TLC sentiment

I would like to enter this card in:

From the Heart Stamps Stamp of the Month Challenge March

Creating in a Beautiful Mess Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned paper Challenge March

Poppystamps Challenge March- must use one Poppystamps die or stamp

Come and Get it Challenge- In the garden

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week

Megan

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