Pansies

Hello again, 

Two posts in one day! It has been a while since I have managed to do this... 

I recently brought home two new baby budgies who are seemingly the easiest to finger tame to date, once they have settled in and are less scared, I will try and get a photo of the two of them, Pip has a lovely lilac body and dark wings, and Dusty has a powder blue body and white wings... they weigh less than 35g and it is like playing with a little butterfly, once they are able to come when needed, I let them out to stretch their wings and play outside their cages.

Tourists abound as the schools have broken up for the Easter holidays, they have the next two weeks off. Living in a tourist zone means we get busy roads, add to that our area has been advertised on television as a wonderful place to view Autumn leaves... cue the tourists stopping traffic to grab the perfect photos.

My second card with homemade embossing paste uses a new set of dies from Paper Rose Australia called Etched Pansy 2 and Nesting Arches, I was pleasantly surprised that the embossing paste survived being die cut. I chopped the rounded edge off the arch to make a vase shape for the pansies with my trusty scissors; some are glued flat others have some foam dots added to lift them.

I had planned on adding a sentiment, but the set I was looking for has gone AWOL. I will add it later, when I find them... 

Here is my card:

scraps I used (some for the earlier card)

What I used
Embossing folder Kaisercraft Flourish
Yellow silk paper, purple, green x2, off white, and pale blue card
Paper Rose Etched Pansy 2
Paper Rose Nesting Arches
Memory box Lorelai Branch
My Favorite Things Stencil (I cannot remember the name)
Homemade embossing paste
Clear flat backed round gems
Adhesives: Double sided tape, PVA glue and Foam dots
12.6x17.8cm card blank

I would like to enter this card in

Group of Seven Gallery Embossing Paste

Snippets Playground Anything goes with snippets

I.D.E.A.S with Darnell D is for Dies

NBUS 73 arch and pansies dies are NBUS

Addicted to Stamps and More 490 Die cuts and/or Stencils

613 Avenue Create Anything goes with a touch of colour

Paper Rocks Scissors 3 Anything goes using paper and scissors

Thank you for looking in... 

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

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

Trio of Snippets

 Hello again,

This fortnight Miss Di and Miss Sarn are Celebrating the 500th Challenge for Snippets Playground, with a request for Celebratory Snippets makes, I have been working on diminishing some of my snippets and cut an A5 piece of card stock in half and covered them in snippets, I have made three cards and as a bonus I cut one of the pieces in half again and now have an extra piece. I only managed to remember to take a photo of one partially assembled set of the 'before' pieces.

Pink snippets

Purple and Black snippets 

Neutrals

What I used

3 x 12.6x17.8cm card blanks

Snippets, lots and lots of Snippets straight cut (various widths)

2 A5 sheets

2 different CCD (Ali Express) on first card 

Star hand punch

Pink, purple, and brown snippets (larger pieces to layer and cover cards)

Fiskars Eyelet setting tools (they make perfect circles for the cars wheels, flower centres and dots over each 'i')

Waffle Flower C7 scalloped pierced die

Square stitched die 

MFT Happy Birthday sentiment die

Flower punch

Magazine Car die 

Elizabeth Crafts Happy Birthday die

Adhesives DS Tape and PVA glue in fine tipped bottle

I would like to enter these cards in:

Pink Card #1

Crafters Cafe #316 Optional Spots or Stripes

Snippets Playground Celebrate 500th Challenge

613 Avenue Create optional twist Lots of Love 

Purple Card #2

Neglected Stuff Challenge (I dug out my old flower punch) (second entry)

Vintage Car Card #3

A Cut above Anything goes 

Paper Rocks Scissors Challenge #1 Scissors used to cut off all the overhanging snippets, also to cut car so the black layer showed in tyres and canopy

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

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

LPoCF#214 Patties Creations

 

Hello again,

Well Spring has begun its slow arrival here in my part of New South Wales, the first flowering Cherry tree flowers have started opening in the last few days and, I have spotted all three of our resident Blue Tongue Lizards out sunning themselves along the front of our house.

This week bring 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 Patties Creations who allowed us to choose some images, I chose Roses in Milk bottle. I have gone extra clean and simple with just one patterned paper, bakers twine and some self-adhesive gems with the image and a die cut sentiment.

Patties Creations

Prize 4 images

Patties Etsy Store

Patties Creations Blog

Patties Creations Facebook 

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

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

Patties Creations Roses in Milk bottle digital stamp

Snippet of doodlebug designs black spotted paper

snippet of black cardstock

Bakers twine

self adhesive gems x11

Elizabeth Crafts sentiment die 

Adhesives- double sided tape, glue dot

I would like to enter this card in:-

Patties Creations Blog- #210 any stamped or digital image

Snippets Playground #463 Anything goes with snippets
Sheepski Designs #78 Make it Feminine 
Ally's Angels #74 Anything goes

Creative Inspiration Challenge #6 Anything goes

Daisy Chain Challenge #78 Dots and/or Stripes

613 Avenue Create September Anything Goes (**edit I had wrong link)

HLS Birthday Challenge 

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan 

p.s. A Huge thank you to my blogging friends and visitors who take the time to stop by and leave me a comment, especially as my mojo is missing... 

LPoCF #156 All Dressed Up

 Hello again,

Autumn is well and truly here in my part of Australia, we are picking Granny Smith apples from the tree and cooking them with rhubarb for desserts and the possums have been eating the leaf tips from same tree. This morning we had our first frost and I think my calendula plants are starting to die back already, time for something else to grow in the old wheelbarrow... 

Today brings us to our new Anything Goes Challenge with my team mates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, our sponsor this fortnight is All Dressed Up who kindly gave us a choice of two images to work with, I have made a card in Autumnal colours with the image called All Dressed Up Spring has Sprung.

All Dressed Up

Prize 2 Images

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

All Dressed Up Spring has Sprung

Derwent and Faber-Castell coloured pencils

Kaisercraft pens yellow green and french vermillion
White A4 cardstock folded to make A5 card blank
Kraft cardstock
White card for Printing
Create with TLC sentiment

Stamps and Pot die from Magazine cover pack

MFT Pierced Oval dies

MFT Fence die

CCD Stitched Square dies

Small  branch die

Flower dies

Mystery Papers (?)

Scrap papers in orange, green, silver and black

Silver adhesive gems

I would like to enter this card in:-
Aud Sentiment Design Anything goes
613 Avenue Create Anything Goes optional In the Garden
Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Anything Goes
Snippets Playground Anything Goes with snippets

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

P.S. Apologies for not being around much Mum has been in hospital after a stroke, she only spent two days in rehab before she was sent home due to her being so well.... 

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

Couple of Cards

 Hello again, 

I'm enjoying a couple of much cooler days after a week long heat wave 33C+, my poor budgies are all fluffed up trying to keep warm (14C) and have started moulting... while running back-up on my computer this morning I decided to make another Christmas card for my stash. This one is number 8 for the year... 

This card is a total scrap/snippet job I stamped the dog onto a snippet of white card stock and heat embossed in black powder before scribbling with watercolour pencils on another scrap of card and painting them onto the image. I die cut the sentiment from a scrap of silver paper and on the photo the Christmas looks a little lost against the background, not so bad IRL. The holly and berries were cut from some more scraps from Doodlebug papers.. the green leaves are from a different paper pad there are flowers on the back.... 

MFT Deck the Howls stamp set

Doodlebug North Pole/Santa Express Papers

Scrap silver paper with Adhesive sheet on back

Spellbinders 'Christmas' sentiment die

MFT 'Wishes' sentiment die

MFT Stitched inner/outer rounded rectangle die

Cottage Cutz Holly and berries die

Wink of Stella on ornaments

I would like to enter this card in:

Scrappy Mo's Rudolph Day Challenge

Snippet's Playground #395

12 Months of Christmas Link-up Anything Goes optional CAS

I have also made one birthday card using my distress oxide inks smooshing them on my gelli plate, spritzing with water, heat drying before moving on to the next colour. I then using the same colours to paint the heat embossed butterfly adding a tiny drop of water so the colours are brighter inside the stamped image.

edit... not sure how but forgot to add the watermark over my card...

Katzelkraft Daisy Butterfly

Distress Oxide Picked Raspberry, Cracked Pistachio, Wilted Violet and Fossilised Amber

Clear embossing ink

Whispers Opaque and black Embossing powder

Pink, white, silver card 

MFT Essential Sentiments stamp

MFT Pierced fishtail flag die

Waffleflower C7 layered stitched dies

I would like to enter this card in:-

613 Avenue Create Anything goes

Daisy Chain Challenge Blog 'Happy Birthday' Challenge

Mix it up Challenge blog Anything goes with option of bleaching

Happy Little Stamper Watercolour challenge

Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Challenge Anything goes

Thank you for looking in.... 
I hope you 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 comment, I truly appreciate them all.

Christmas Leftovers

 Hello again, 

Summer is in full force here in NSW again, I've finally had to swap pants for shorts, we have had temperatures down as low as 9C here up until now (31C), less summer more winter. Glad that there are only 4 fires currently burning in NSW, not like this time last year with the number of Bushfires and how close they were to our home. 

I've been trying to use up the ends of a 6" paper pad currently sitting on my desk, it has just one sheet that is whole, the rest are bits and pieces of varying sizes, I have used up some of the strips to cover two pieces of pre-cut card to fit a C7 card blanks, I did the same with some bits from a second Christmas paper pad that also had many bits where I'd die cut shapes from leaving narrow pieces to make two more Christmas cards for my stash for 2021....

Doodlebug Design 'North Pole' paper pad

Couture Creations 'Be Merry and Classic' paper pad

What I used:-

Doodlebug 'North Pole' Paper pad

CCD Merry Christmas die

Clearly Besotted 'Jingle Bells' Stamp and die (sand, cocoa and cardinal red ink pads)

black fine line pen

White card scraps

Couture Creations 'Be Merry and Classic' paper pad

Black, cream, gold and distress oxide scrap papers 

MFT Little town of Bethlehem Die

MFT Bitty Holiday Wishes stamp

MFT sentiment strip die

MFT Stitched circle die

Clear embossing ink

Gold Embossing powder

I would like to enter these cards in:

Reindeer Card-

A new to me Christmas Kickstart Challenge #46 Such a Deer

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #524 Feature a Creature

12 Months of Christmas Link-up #73 Anything goes optional Clean and Simple

Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Challenge Anything goes

Christmas 24 Challenge #025 Anything goes

Bethlehem card:

Christmas Crafts All Year Long A is for or B is for Bethlehem, black, blue

Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge Anything goes optional Stockings

Merry Little Christmas Challenge #30 Anything goes

Snippets Playground #394 Anything goes with snippets

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful weekend..

Megan

P.S. A huge Thank You to all my blogging friends and visitors who stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate you all!

Second 5th Birthday

Hello again,

Well, here's a surprise, not only is my Design Team celebrating 5 years of challenges but a little dig into my own blog history and I am also celebrating 5 years of blogging today. Now I had grand plans of a little giveaway however the post bag containing the gifts has gone AWOL with the mess made when the roof leaked, I will have a little dig around and try and get something organised for my regular visitors later on. I think from memory there is enough for a couple of prizes, some are Aussie based companies others are international companies...

The very first card I posted was a Christmas card as that was one of the main reasons I began blogging, I was making my own cards and wanted to be a part of something bigger than just sitting here creating on my own... so here is the first card I posted (must have had the flash on the camera and look no watermark...) and a new one I created this morning using up scraps of Kaisercraft Design papers left on my table...

First card:-

Today's card:-

I have stamped and embossed the trio of trees onto both the plain white cardstock and the scrap papers, I then coloured the stars in with the clear embossing pen and added more embossing powder to the stars

What I used:-
17.8x12.6cm card blank
Kaisercraft Christmas papers (various scraps)
Gold and white scrap cardstock
We Are Memory Keepers Twist trimmer (deckled edge blade-busted out of the package today)
Paper Roses Merry Christmas text
Stamp-It Australia Tree-O  rubber stamp
Clear embossing ink and pen
Stampendous Metallic Gold embossing powder
CCD Stitched square die
White glitter enamel dots
Adhesives:- Double sided tape, Xyron sticker maker

I would like to enter this card in:-
Pixie's Snippet's Playground- Anything goes with snippets
Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge- Anything goes or Trim the tree
ABC Christmas Challenge A is for Anything Goes- B is for Bingo 
-Bingo Patterned Paper, Christmas sentiment and Embossing

Christmas Crafts All Year Round- Anything Christmas or Holiday related

Merry Little Christmas Challenge Anything Goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge- Anything Christmas or feature a creature

12 Months of Christmas Link-up optional Old fashioned Christmas 

For updates on the NSW fires:- Website Fires Near Me- 

Map 1- the whole of NSW there are currently 120 incidents recorded on the map

Map 2- Showing area surrounding Sydney- note no fires in the Sydney Basin

Map 3- Closer to home- red arrow is pointing at area being back burned near me-

the length of the back burn/containment line will reach 50km once complete and connected to each other, areas that cannot be burnt will either have heavy earth moving equipment bulldoze the bushland or have people working on hand tools to clear the fuel load. 

In the middle of the burnt area you can see Lake Burragorang- also known as Warragamba Dam- Sydney's water catchment and drinking water supply

Katoomba next to the red arrow is approximately 100km (63miles) from Sydney

On a happier note all the fires in my area are now listed as Under Control, whilst they may still be burning they are not causing any problems for the Firefighters, even the fire called Gosper's Mountain which started on 26 Oct 2019 via a lightening strike and has burnt over 512,000 hectares is under control. May the forecast rains come and douse the last of the fires and begin the regeneration of our bushland... 

Many thanks for looking in... (and making it this far through the post)
Have a wonderful week...
Megan

P.S. Many thanks to all my lovely blogging friends and visitors who have taken the time to stop by and leave me any comments over the last 5 years, may my card making continue for many more years.

Birthday for a builder

Hello again, 

Well, my trip to the city specialist (even had to cross the Harbour Bridge) has yet to have an outcome, I need to keep seeing my physio('s) regularly for treatment, he told me to keep seeing Liz- which is fine but both my physios are called Liz and they are friends, so he hadn't talked to the Liz I saw last week and I hope he has talked to the other Liz I see this week... (did I just confuse you all)… 

Today I am sharing another card I made for my friends card order which I finally sent to her in Northern NSW, this is a card I have 'Cased' from Maxine of Kiwime's Kreations as my friends father-in-law was a builder and he is now into his nineties so any cards with tools are appreciated. Many Thanks for the inspiration Maxine! This would also be a great Fathers day card.... I had to die cut the drill from the opposite side to make it fit.

Here is my take on Maxine's card:-

What I used:-

White 10.5x14.8cm card blank

CCD Tools dies

Washi tape

Scraps, white, black and gold

MFT stitched rectangle die

Wood grain paper

MFT Happy Birthday sentiment stamp (Essential Sentiments)

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Adhesives:- Double sided tape, PVA glue

Thank you for stopping by...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

P.S. Many thanks to all my kind blogging friends and visitors who take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

7 Years

Hi again,

I was looking through my blog posts the other day and discovered a rather nice surprise blog hop for Miss Di who is celebrating 7 years at the helm of Pixie's Snippets Playground  were we are encouraged to use our snippets and scraps, the blog hop hosted by Darnell of dj Kard Kreations…

I will admit to stalking the playground for sometime before I took the plunge to create my own blog and I finally joined in the fun in October 2015 when Di was celebrating her 200th Week and challenge, I was one of 5 new students starting that week and a lovely welcome followed the next challenge around... The playground is a fun space to play using up all our snippets, spurred on by class mates, Miss Di and Parsnip and now little Dudley, who I hope can swim once the duckpond has defrosted... A huge Thank you to Miss Di for all the fun, games and prizes she offers each fortnight... 

The stamped flower was stamped in three colours and fussy cut and put back together onto an extra white snippet

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White card blank 10.5x14.8cm

White card snippets

Darkroom Door Eclectic Daisy stamp

Yellow Snippet (Kaisercraft)

Pin dot Square die

Stitched scallop border die

Black Liquid enamel 

Black super fine embossing powder

Darkroom Door Sentiment

Clear embossing ink

Scrap of twine (grey) 

I would like to enter this card in:-

Darnell's Thank You Blog Hop for Di

Aud Sentiments Anything goes + Sentiment

Crafty Creations 383 Anything goes

Have a wonderful week...

Thank you for looking in...

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!

Final Christmas cards for 2018

Hello again,

 Well I didn't anticipate that it would take me this long to make a new blog post in December, but with all the goings on and attempting to avoid the heat box I craft in during the hot summer weather today is the first time I have managed to find some time to blog. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and are looking forward to the New Year, Sydney is already on countdown for the big fireworks display, people already staking out their vantage points. Christmas Day down under was a hot day very much like Santa in the scene on the two cards below and there is no apparent end to the hot summers days we are having which are unusually hot for our area.

I have been making some changes to my blog in the wake of Google+ closing down in the next few months and as that was the only comment system available when I started my blog, in a simple click to swap to the now available blogger commenting system all previous comments have vanished, never to be seen again.

Two final Christmas cards which went to my city physio and local acupuncturist, this was my bank tellers favourite card last year and she has spent all of this year trying to find the red rubber version of the Aussie Santa from Make It Crafty which she found in November at a craft show.

Here are my cards:-

What I used:-
White 12.6.17.8cm card blanks
Cloud papers from 6" paper pads
Distress Oxide ink background (Broken China, Peacock Feathers, Faded Jeans)
Kaisercraft sand and boardwalk paper
Sugar Crystals Stickles
Ultimate Crafts Sydney Harbour and Opera House dies
Scrap papers, grey, off white (metallic sheen), sandstone and Christmas patterned
Make It Crafty Aussie Santa Digi
Beccy's Place Sentiment stamp (Aussie Christmas)
Fiskars corner rounder
Faber-Castell and Derwent pencils
Wink of Stella (liberally over beard and tinnie)
Clear embossing ink
Black embossing powder

I would like to enter these cards in:-
ABC Christmas Z is for Zero Embellishments
Christmas at Sweet Stamping Anything goes
Christmas Crafts All Year Round Anything goes
Happy Little Stampers December Anything goes with Dies
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge 418 Anything Christmas or a New Year card
Merry Little Christmas Challenge Anything Christmas
12 Months of Christmas Link-up Anything Christmas
Snippet's Playground #342- must use snippets

Wishing you all New year full of peace, good health, happiness, love and craft time

Have a wonderful week...
Megan

P.S. A Huge Thanks to all my lovely blogging friends and visitors, I love to read your comments. Thank you for visiting today...

Friends

Hello again,

I needed a couple of cards for my Mums friends who celebrate their birthdays in the next couple of months, I won a stamp from Naughty or Nice Challenge (now closed) which features four ladies and as mum and her friends get together and there is just four of them this stamp is very fitting, I have stamped and heat embossed in black and used some of my many scraps to make clothes for them, I decided to use water colour pencils to colour/paint their pants and then paper pieced each of their tops. The sentiment is from darkroom door stamps and is heat embossed in silver before I cut it up. The inside has obligatory Happy Birthday and also one of the included sentiments from the set which says ‘here’s to another year of laughing at our own jokes’

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 12.6x17.8cm card blank 5x7”

White card scraps

White card stock

All patterned paper from My Minds Eye ‘Happy Day’ Paper pad (one of my first paper pads)

Pink cardstock

Lots of Love  Art Impressions stamp set

Friends stamp Darkroom Door

Black and Silver super fine embossing powder

Faber-Castell and Prismacolor pencils

Rectangle die

Fussy cutting scissors and Stanley knife

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

 I would like to enter this card in:-

Pause Dream Enjoy Challenge  October card challenge

Sisterhood of Crafters a little bit of humour

Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Challenge

Snippets Playground must use snippets 

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned paper challenge

Thank you for dropping by,

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

P.S.  A huge Thank You to all my blogging friends and visitors who take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Trio of Christmas cards

Hello again,

Back to share a few more Christmas cards, these three cards all feature images from DigiStamp Boutique, the first has three of the cutest and fluffy penguins which I coloured brightly to go with some of my Doodlebug Designs Paper, adding a die cut sentiment and a few stars to finish off.

Note:- DigiStamp Boutique are having a sale at the moment 50% off all in store.... apologies for enabling you 😁

The second card has a super cute Pug decked out in some reindeer antlers, teamed up with a sentiment from Memory Box set ‘Here comes Santa Paws’ a very clean and simple design for me.

My third card features a little robin carol singing, with a corner holly die and a poinsettia to finish off the card, the sentiment was embossed in 32C heat and the embossing ink was much faster in drying out, at least I didn’t have the heat gun on for long.

I added plenty of sparkle to each of the cards, on the first and third card with Glitter paint and on the little Pugs antlers and star ornaments a liberal coating of Wink of Stella.

What I used:-

5x7" card blanks (12.6x17.8cm)

Cardstock-teal, red, white, olive green

Patterned papers from my stash-various brands, Kaisercraft, doodlebug designs, some magazine freebies

Happy Penguins DigiStamp Boutique

Christmas Pug Set DigiStamp Boutique

Cute Robin Collection DigiStamp Boutique

Derwent and Faber-Castell Pencils

Marianne Design Star punch die

Marianne Design Poinsettia die

Impression Obsession Holiday Top word Edger

Impression Obsession Holly Flourish

CCD Scalloped border die

CCD Pindot Rectangle die

MFT Merry Christmas Sentiment die

Barbara Anne Williams Digital Stamp- Christmas Tickets

I would like to enter the Penguin card in:-

Christmas Cards All year Round

A Gem of a Challenge #209 Anything Christmas goes

CCC Digi Creations #87 Happy Christmas

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge Extra

12 Months of Christmas Link-up Optional theme Christmas Cupcakes

the Christmas Pug card in :-

DigiStamp Boutique December customer challenge December

Snippets Playground weeks 311-312

Crafting By Design December Anything goes

Christmas at Sweet Stamping Anything goes

The Merry Christmas Challenge #47 Anything Christmas

the Carolling Robin card in:-

Merry Monday Christmas Challenge- Tic Tac Toe Top Row Stamping (sentiment), Patterned Paper and Embossing (heat set sentiment)

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Anything goes

613 Avenue Create Optional Theme Christmas/Winter
Come and Get It Final Challenge- Christmas
Crafts Galore Encore Merry Christmas Anything goes
The Sisterhood of Crafters All about Christmas

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

P.S. To those in the northern hemisphere please send cool air south, for those in the southern hemisphere I'll happily send you some of our hot weather 35C today and I live in an area where hot days are few and far between, no air conditioner as it is not worth it. 

Sydney Santa Summer

Hello again,

Well I’m still making some more of my Christmas cards, as I haven’t made anywhere near enough, knowing that Mum had requested extra Aussie Christmas cards for our UK relatives I printed out four Aussie Santas from Make it Crafty on both plain paper and card, then paper pieced the singlet and shorts from my Christmas scrap bag before recreating the Sydney harbour I made on this card here using up more paper and card scraps to form the scene.

I used my spray inks to create the sky and water on separate pieces of card and watercolour paper the ocean turning a little greener than intended, but still looks ok.

These two cards were finished off with some 3D Crystalina Kindy glitz to the waves and the edge of the sand before I popped Santa up on foam to add dimension. Sentiment was added using clear embossing ink and some black embossing powder.

Here are the two Sydney Santa cards:-

What I used:-

White 5x7” card blank (12.6 x 17.8cm)

London Blue and Cut grass ink spray-Dylusions

White card 

Make it Crafty Aussie Santa Digi

Sights of Sydney Die Ultimate Crafts

Scrap card and papers

Kaisercraft Base Coat papers

Wink of Stella Clear (added to Santa’s beard) 

Derwent and Faber-Castell Pencils

Kindy Glitz 3D Crystalina 

Adhesives:- Double sided tape, Double sided sheet, foam dots

Stamps- Magazine Freebies

WOW! Ebony embossing powder

Ranger Clear Embossing ink pad

I would like to enter these cards in:-

Southern Girls Challenge Lets get inky (inky sky and ocean)

Snippets Playground week numbers 307-308 Anything goes with Snippets

Crafts Galore Encore Anything goes

Beccy’s Place Month of Holiday cards ‘S’ Summer, Sydney and Santa

Crafting by Design Get ready for Christmas November edition

 Daisy Chain Challenges- Christmas/winter

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' Anything goes
Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge November- Optional Tag

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Anything goes
12 Months of Christmas Link up optional theme Star Struck

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! 

Classic Birthday and Wedding Anniversary

Hello again,

I’m still working my way through some of the dies I have bought online from China and have made two cards with a more masculine theme to them, a birthday card and a Wedding Anniversary card. I still have some more ideas in the mix and several more dies to use too. Please note I am not accepting any responsibility for enabling any of you ;-)

Wedding Anniversary

Classic Birthday

What I used:-

White 14.7 x 10.5cm card blanks

Amy Tangerine Ready Set go papers and journaling card (cut from 12” sheet)

CCD Globe

CCD Anniversary

Elizabeth Crafts Wedding die

Silver, black, red, blue, grey and white cardstock from my scrap box

Typed sentiments

CCD Car die

CCD mini banner from this set

White Liquid enamel

MFT pierced fishtail flag dies to cut sentiment

Adhesives:- PVA glue, double sided tape, foam tape and adhesive sheet

Distress tool

I would like to enter these cards in:-

Snippets Playground Weeks 285 286

Crafts Galore Encore Anything goes

A Gem of a Challenge Wedding or Anniversary

613 Avenue Create Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge Anything goes with Patterned paper

a new to me challenge The Sisterhood of Crafters Anything goes

Thank you for looking in today....

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

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