Merry Christmas

 Hello again, 

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas, I hope you all have a wonderful time spent with family and friends and some delicious food... I will be back online after Christmas hopefully before New years...

Well Christmas is upon us, after lunch today I am starting to make the dessert for tomorrow... we are expecting summer highs of 27C tomorrow and getting warmer as the weekend approaches. 

I need to print off some gift tags today as I have run out and so has the local store, I made this card for a friend who is travelling to see his parents for Christmas at the beach... the top seems to lean a little forward and perhaps the sentiment should have been placed down one side... 

scraps from cutting

What I used

White cardstock card base and printing 

Beccy's Place Sandy Christmas

Faber-Castell coloured pencils

Kaisercraft 'Sandy toes' paper

scraps of red, kraft card and some scrap Distress Oxide card (candied apple, twisted citron, antique linen and wild honey) 

Craft magazine sea horse and shell stamp and dies

Kaisercraft tree die

Impression Obsession ocean border waves and Sentiment dies

I would like to enter this card in:

Beccy's Place December Challenge

Little Red Wagon #787 Merry Christmas

Allsorts Challenge 812/3 Use your Dies or anything goes 

Digi choosday Challenge Anything goes week 50

Peace on Earth Challenge #78 Anything goes

Colouring with pencils Anything goes

Christmas Kickstart Challenge Anything goes #93

Snippet's Playground #496 Anything goes

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

p.s. a huge thank you to my blogging friends and visitors who stop by and take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

I is for Inchies

 Hello again,

Today I am sharing three more cards made using some of my scraps from Lilybee Designs I grabbed a pile of slightly larger scraps and used a 1" square die to cut as many as possible. I then worked out the layout and decided to make three cards all the same adding a large sentiment and a strip of glitter washi tape to one side, finishing off with some plain cardboard scraps in holly and Christmas stockings.

This set started out with 36 pages, here they are all dwindled down to two whole sheets and many many scraps, current count is 15 card fronts, most of which just need some finishing touches.

Now that these ones are finished, the cards with the holly and berries remind me of Christmas puddings with the decoration sitting on top.

Inchies

What I used: -

3x card blank 12.6x17.8cm
Red and White cardstock
MFT pierced square die
Lilybee Designs paper pad
plain cardstock scraps
MFT sentiment stamp
Clear embossing powder
candied apple and broken china distress oxide inks

Cottage Craft Holly and Berry die

Memory box or Poppystamps Stocking die

Xpress it glitter tape (I've had this for so long it no longer sticks down well)

I would like to enter this card in

Beccy's Place Month long Holiday card Challenge

Snippet's Playground Anything goes with scrap

Merry Little Christmas Challenge 59 Anything Christmas

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan 

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

LPoCF #180 All Dressed Up Little Bookworm

 Hello again,

Autumn has well and truly arrived here in Australia, the trees are beautifully coloured and dropping all their leaves. I hope those of you who celebrate have a Wonderful and Happy Easter.

Today brings 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 All Dressed Up who are giving the winner 2 digi stamps of choice. All Dressed Up kindly gave us two images to use and I chose Little Bookworm I printed the image in two sizes and ended up colouring both and making two cards in two different sizes. 

All Dressed Up

Prize 2 Digital Stamps

The first card is a smaller card A6 (10.4x 14.8cm) size using the image and some paper snippets to add to the sides, I printed the sentiment from my pc onto the darker pink cardstock and die-cut with MFT fishtail flags set, finished off with a trio of hand punched flowers with tiny gems added, the ribbon and bow on the flower were paper pieced with snippets of patterned paper on both cards.

The second card is C7 size or (12.6x17.8cm) I added the large sentiment from Inkylicious (I won from Snippets Playground) using Versa color Cyan ink cube and some clear embossing powder and another striped snippet, finishing this one off with three pre-made flowers which have a green gem in the centre, one flower is also glittered. 

What I used:-
White card blanks Aussie A6 and C7 size
White card for printing
All Dressed Up Little Bookworm Digi image
Faber-Castell and Derwent coloured pencils
black and white striped paper
kraft, plain pink, blue and pink polka dot paper snippets
MFT stitched border die, MFT fishtail flag die
Hand punch- tiny flower
Inkylicious sentiment stamp
Versa Color ink Cyan
Pre-made flowers

I would like to enter this card in...
Pixie's Snippets Playground #426 Anything using snippets (paper pieced hat ribbons, striped, pink and kraft paper)
Polkadoodles week 16 Anything Goes
All Dressed Up Anything Goes
Seize the birthday (pink card) Anything Birthday or Optional topping Signs of Spring
Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Challenge Anything goes

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

P.S. Many thanks to all my blogging friends and visitors who stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all! Apologies I've not been around much, my 12yo pc appears to be on the last legs, and has started randomly shutting down, usually when I'm in the middle of something. I changed the 'watch/button battery' inside the tower and all appears well at the minute. 

Rockin' Robins

 Hello again,

Well, we are still enjoying a wet summer here in Aus, our dams are full to over flowing. Having allergy to environmental moulds is no fun during Covid, my doctor tells me that so long as I don't have any other symptoms of Covid I am safe to go about my business. 

During the most recent wet spell I got my Christmas gifts out and made six cards with paper pieced robins, all the scraps came from my scrap bags and boxes, I had intended to stamp the included sentiment in the top corner but for some reason the embossing powder did not stick, so covered up my mistake with little signs.

Here are my cards:-

What I used:-

10x21cm card blanks
white card stock
Woodware stamp Robin Stack clear stamp
Brown, red, orange, and green paper scraps
Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad
Clear embossing ink
Gold embossing powder
Scraps of kraft paper, narrow strips design papers
white loose glitter 
Double sided tape, Helmars tacky craft glue
single hole punch (conveniently fit the size of the berries)

I would like to enter these cards in:-

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #581 Cute

Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge Optional Snowflakes

12 Months of Christmas Link-up Anything goes optional hearts

Snippets Playground #421 Anything goes with snippets

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. I truly appreciate them all!!!

Christmas gift holders

 Hello again,

Well I'm not sure about you but Christmas seems to have come around very quickly now it is all over for another year. We had summery Christmas and boxing days here in Australia 26C for Christmas day and 24C yesterday, today the weather has turned back to winter and it is only 10C and wet and drizzly outside. I hope you have all had a lovely Christmas and got to spend time with those that you love, we are heading back into restrictions from today with rising case numbers and over 400 told they were negative when they were actually positive for covid-Omicron. 

I am sharing the last two Christmas cards I made, these were for Mum who I gave some digital books to, nothing to wrap so I came up with gift card holders and printed the book covers and put them inside adding numbers to ones that came from a series, nothing drastically exciting I'm sure these have been seen around online in varying degrees over the years, apologies for the black looking buttons on the Santa suit, they are gold mirri card and are hard to photograph.

Santa and elf card holders:

What I used:-

9.4cm scrap pieces of 12" cardstock red and green scored at 2" and 7"
White, silver, gold, patterned card, red and black cardstock scraps
Scalloped rectangle, oval and border dies
circle and square punches
belt buckle die

Hole punch to add ribbon ties to the back

I would like to enter these gift card holders in:-

Pixie's Snippets Playground Annual Christmas- all made with scraps

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #574 Anything Christmas

Christmas Kick Start- If it is Christmassy link it up

Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge Anything Goes

613 Avenue Create -Any holiday

Wishing you all a very Happy, safe and healthy 2022! 

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

P.S. A Huge Thank you to my kind blogging friends and visitors who take the time to stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all! 

Two Christmas cards

 Hello again,

I've managed to make two Christmas cards still using the scrappy bits of one paper pad from Doodlebug Designs 'north pole' there is maybe enough scraps for another card or two, a few squares I've die-cut in the past and then some narrow strips. 

I am booked in for my first covid vaccine tomorrow, I was not able to book an appointment until early July and then the wait for the two nearest practices offering the jabs was the last few days of October, my local GP clinic finally got offered some of the vaccine for my age group and I was able to bring my appointment forward by one month. With the current lockdown (3months) rules lifting for vaccinated Sydneysiders before our area had access to the vaccine, locals are not happy that tourists will be able to visit our area when we have had less opportunity to have the vaccine. One of the two clinics actually wrote in to the local newspaper that there had been no vaccines offered for three weeks due to the doses being redirected to Sydney. whinging over.... 

Here are my two cards:-

What I used:-
White 17.8x12.6cm card blanks
Doodlebug Design 'north pole' paper pad
CCD quilt die
Oval, circle and scalloped circle dies
Red, grey and green cardstock
Green brad
MFT 'hand-lettered holiday greetings' and 'Hand-lettered Christmas' stamps
Colorbox Ruby ink pad
Clear embossing powder
Adhesives:- DS tape, PVA glue

I would like to enter these cards in:-

Christmas Crafts All Year Round Q is for Quilt

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Anything goes

Merry Little Christmas Challenge Anything goes

Snippets Playground Anything Goes with snippets

Scraps of Life Rudolph Day Anything Christmas

Thank you for looking in... 

Have a wonderful week... 
Megan 

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

Hexagon Mad

 Hello again,

We are currently having a warm winters day and the washing is getting a good blow through, before an expected cool change later this week. I have been busy during our current lockdown using up a couple of ancient paper pads, one a Christmas pad from Doodlebug Designs called 'North Pole' which has maybe a whole 6" square left to use up, if you join all the little bits together and it is definitely not going back in the box for use again next year. I have used a magazine subscription stamp set 'Pretty Patchwork' to make several cards one is a birthday card the others Christmas.

Here are my cards:-

This birthday card is on the way to a quilt making friend, she is currently under her first lockdown after a person infected with covid-19 went into her regional area, so hopefully this brings a smile for her birthday over the weekend.... 

As you can see I stamped and cut out many hexagons and made them into tree shapes on the card fronts adding a bow (store bought) to the top of the tree and the sentiment at the bottom, I was a little high on the first one the next two worked out well...

My last card features a MFT stamp called Pure Innocents Elf Girl along with some larger hexagons

What I used:-

4x 12.6x17.8cm card blank

1x 10.5x14.8cm card blank

doodlebug design inc paper pad 'north pole' (double-sided)

My Mind's Eye 'Happy Day' paper pad (double sided)

Pretty Patchwork stamp set (magazine cover)

Lace and seam binding

Lacy edged die ? Couture Creations

Memory Box Tilda Swirl small

Mystery butterfly die

Rosie's Studio 'Birthday circles' stamp

Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad

MFT Fishtail flag die

Pure Innocence MFT Elf girl stamp

Clear embossing ink

Gold and silver embossing power

Ranger Letter it Christmas stamp set

Black and gold gel pens

Fiskars border punch scallop

Kraft, green, white and red cardstock 

I would like to enter these cards in:-

Birthday card:-

Happy little Stampers Anything goes with Dies

Digi Choosday Crafting Challenge week 32 Anything goes

Seize the Birthday- Optional topping stripes (does it count there are stripes on some of the hexies)

Bizzy Bec's Store Blog August, Anything goes

Christmas cards Hexies:-

Pixie's Snippets Workshop #409 Anything goes with snippets

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #554 Anything Christmas

Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge August- Optional Wonderland

ABC Christmas Challenge P-for Pudgy, Q-Quality Street, R-for Ribbon (Bows)

Christmas Card Elf:
12 Months of Christmas Link-up- Optional theme Warm Winter wear

Merry Little Christmas Challenge Anything goes

Thank you for looking in..

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

LPoCF #160 Twinkle Lane Designs

 Hello again, 

In the last week we have had a light dusting of snow here in the mountains, which always brings Sydneysiders out to look and photograph themselves in the snow, much closer than a 3+ hour trip to the snow fields nearer to Canberra. One week on there is still a snowman in a street round the corner, and of all the days my birds chose the snow day to bathe in their water bowls in their cages. 

Today brings us to the latest Anything Goes Challenge with my team mates at Lil  Patch of Crafty Friends, this fortnight we are sponsored by Twinkle Lane Designs, who kindly gave the Design team two images to work with, I have used an image called Hot Chocolate Girl to make a card for a coffee loving friend, I'm planning on adding a birthday sentiment stamp to the inside.

Twinkle Lane Designs

Prize £8 voucher

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/twinklelanedesigns/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twinkle_lanedesigns/?hl=en

Here is my card:

What I used:

White 14cm square card blank

Twinkle Lane Designs Hot Chocolate Girl

Faber-castell and Derwent pencils

Kaisercraft Black and White Timeless paper pad

Create with TLC sentiment 

Scraps of cardstock red, beige and kraft

Fiskars border punch scallop

Black fine line pen

Pierced Fishtail flag MFT die

Memory Box die 'Coffee on the go'

I would like to enter this card in:

613 Avenue Create Anything Goes optional challenge Paper Piecing 

CCC Digi Creations Anything Goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge Anything Goes

Crafts Galore Encore Anything goes

Pixie's Snippet's Playground Anything goes with snippets

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...
Megan

P.S. We are still having lots of follow up appointments with Mum after the stroke, off to see cardiologist and a dietician in the next couple of weeks... 

Thank you to my lovely blogging friends and visitors who take the time to stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Happy New Year!

Hello again,

Welcome to 2021, may this year be a Happy, safe and healthy year for all of you and your loved ones. I hope to be able to spend more time crafting and in blogland this year, although that may depend on the physio and how my body reacts to it and the travel involved getting there and back.

We have begun this year with new Covid rules here in NSW, we all must wear a face mask in any indoor places, shared cars, public transport etc. with a $200 fine for no compliance. I think today in the Sydney basin there were 3 cases of community transmission, related to a patient transport worker who transported a returning passenger from overseas. I don't think that I would have believed if someone told me that I would enter a bank wearing a mask and get served without the security screens being activated.

I hope you have all had a wonderful, if quiet Christmas and New Year. I have already made a start on this years Christmas cards, with some lovely new Australian papers and dies. These will be kept aside to head over to our English and Scottish relatives at the other end of this year. I have used up several scraps of various silver papers, I think I like the mirror card ones best. Birds featured- Pink Galah, White Cockatoo, Laughing Kookaburra and Currawong

I have also found and had the time to ink up the Clearly Besotted stamp and die combo I won in Di's Snippets Playground Christmas draw in 2019, it went missing when our ceiling leaked all over my craft cupboard and I only found it again in the last few weeks.... so my Christmas card count is off to a good start, 5 cards in one week... 

What I used:-
4x 12.6x 17.8cm (C7) card blanks
Francheville Designer Squares 'Jocelyn Proust' Australian Wildlife paper (Spotlight)
Silver paper/card scraps

Various scrap papers to co-ordinate with the patterned papers
Spellbinders Shapeabilities Die D-Lites Holiday Sentiments
Paper Rose Die Gum leaf border die
Double sided Adhesive sheet and tape
DL card blank 10x21cm
Clearly Besotted 'Jingle Bells' stamp and Die
Cocoa Colorbox inkpad
Sand and Cardinal Versacolor ink pads
Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad
White and red scrap cardstock
Scrap of Doodlebug striped paper
Black Fine line pen
CCD Pin dot square die

I would like to enter these cards in:-

Gum leaf Christmas card:
613 Avenue Create Use your New Crafty Goodies
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #523 Anything Christmas Goes
Crafts Galore Encore #83 Anything goes
Make My Monday Challenge #139 Use something New (New papers, New gum leaf die)

Clearly Besotted Reindeer:
Christmas 24: #25 Anything Goes
Merry Little Christmas Challenge Anything goes
Snippets Playground (snippets of white card, striped and red cardstock)
12 Months of Christmas link-up- #73 Anything goes or Clean and Simple

Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge Anything Goes or Stockings

Thank you for looking in, I hope you are all safe and well in your part of this world.

Thank you for any comments from my blogging friends and visitors, I truly appreciate your visit.

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

LPoCF #130 LeAnn's World 101

Hello again,

I think my crafting mojo has taken off (somewhere nice I hope), I was able to choose one of the images we are using on the Design Team over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends from our lovely sponsor LeAnn's World 101 to work with, the variety of projects from my team mates is stunning. Don't forget we welcome any handmade craft, pop in and share with us what you have been making!

LeAnn's World

Prize 2 images

I have used LeAnn's World 101 image Bouquet to make a Mother's Day Card for my Mum, I have paper pieced the image using various scraps of papers, mostly they have spots on them. I have added White Opal Liquid Pearls to the centre of the Forget-Me-Nots, the pink daisies are raised up a little to add some dimension.

You can find LeAnn's World in many places, 

LeAnn's World Facebook

LeAnn's World 101 Facebook Group

Stamps by LeAnn's World 101 FB Group

and LeAnn's World Challenge Blog

What I used:-

LeAnn's World 101 Bouquet

White15cm square card blank

Scrap papers

Pink daisy paper from Crafters Choice Pastel Paper pad

Mauve Stripe paper is Doodlebug Designs (halloween series I think)

Yellow and Pink cardstock (also scrap box)

Stitched Square Die (CCD)

Scalloped Stitched Square Die (CCD)

White Opal Liquid Pearls

Adhesive Pearls

Darkroom Door Happy Mother's Day stamp Simple Sayings Vol 2

Clear embossing Ink 

WOW! embossing powder Silver pearl

I would like to enter this card in:-

Make My Monday Challenge #120 Spring Flowers

613 Avenue Create Anything goes optional geometric papers

Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Anything goes

Crafts Galore Encore #74 Anything goes

Snippet's Playground Anything goes with Snippets

Has anyone else noticed that they seem to have way more neighbours walking the neighbourhood than usual? I don't think I've ever seen so many Mothers pushing strollers, kids on bikes, families walking their dogs in our street before. Were they really all going to local gym's before or is being stuck at home meaning they are exploring the local streets from boredom? I'm still not up to walking around on anything but perfectly flat even surfaces due to my injury, I have however progressed with exercises with the local physio (thankfully still available for appointments) every little step forward feels like a huge step of progress.

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

Aloe Birthday

Hello again,

I hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas and you are looking forward to the new year. 

Summer is in full swing here in Aus, it is extremely hot and very smoky courtesy of the large bushfires burning either side of the mountains I call home. The now named 'Monster' Fire has burnt through 846,391Hectares of land, the fires on the other side of the mountains has burnt through 240,911hectares of land and as you can see the size of the land burnt out would eclipse the whole of the Sydney area. The fire at the bottom of the picture has burnt around the Warragamba Dam, which is Sydney's drinking water catchment. (Please note the greyed out areas represent where the fires have been, I have been unable to find a map which shows active fire burning- It is not all alight)

Blue diamonds represent fires burning at a Watch and Act stage
White diamonds represent grass fires, Vehicle accidents etc.
(also have yellow and red diamonds with the flame in it when fires are at a higher level)

One of the fires is called Grose Valley Fire and a video was recorded of the fire running up a 200m high cliff face which can be viewed here at the Guardian Website I have also heard that the area the fires have burnt in NSW is equal to the land size of Wales, the two fires above total 1,087,302 hectares, NSW has burnt through a little over 3million hectares.

Okay, no more fires for now on to the card I have made today, this one will be headed to my next door neighbour who loves succulents and cacti, her son has made her a little wooden train using scrap timber which she has planted out with a variety of succulents. I had started to draw a line inside the die before removing it, but it came out and I was left with scribbled lines I couldn't fix, so I coloured it all in... so much for my doodled edge...

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White 12.6x17.8cm card blank
timber design paper
Vera Lane Aloe Vera digi image 
Kaisercraft texture die 'Geo Lines'
Kaisercraft Hexagon die
various scrap papers
MFT Label maker sentiments
Colorbox Black ink pad
Derwent coloured pencils
Black fine line pen


I would like to enter:
Christmas Snippet's Playground- any crafts using snippets
613 Avenue Create Anything goes option of zentangle/doodling
Crafts Galore Encore Anything Goes
Make My Monday Challenge #112 A Female Birthday
Southern Girls Challenge Anything goes

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

Megan 

P.S. a Huge Thank you to all my lovely blogging friends and visitors who stop by and take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

LPoCF Merry Mice November

Hello again,

This week brings us to a new challenge with my lovely team mates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, where our theme is always Anything goes, this fortnight we are sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps and I have used one of Jodie's sweet Christmas images called Scene It Christmas Mice and another of my pre made scrap strips, I have tried to colour using the colours from the mixed Christmas scrap strip I made earlier this year.

Bugaboo Stamps

Prize 4 Digi Stamps of Winners Choice

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White 12.6x17.8cm card blank
White card for printing
Bugaboo Stamps Scene It Christmas Mice
CCD Cross-Stitched Fishtail flag die
Circle die
LOTV Sentiment Circle stamp
Green ink (color box ink)
Clear embossing powder
Deep red cardstock
polka dot cardstock
scrap strip of Christmas papers
Wink of Stella

I would like to enter this card in:-
Sparkles Monthly Challenge #122 'It's Beginning to look a lot like Christmas'
Daisy Chain Challenges #36 Christmas or Winter
613 Avenue Create Challenge #227 Scrap your stash
CCC Digi Creations #109 Christmas
Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge- optional Bah Humbug
Snippets Playground Anything goes with snippets
Merry Little Christmas Challenge #16 Anything Christmas goes
12 Months of Christmas Link-up #59 Red & Green
Beccy's Place Christmas Challenge (M is for Mice)

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

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

LPoCF Chicken Soup

Hello again,

Today brings us to another new Anything Goes challenge with my lovely Design Team mates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, this fortnight our sponsor is Bugaboo Stamps and Jodie is offering the lucky winner 4 images from her store.

Bugaboo Stamps

PRIZE- 4 Digi Stamps

I have used an image from our sponsor called Kitchen Chicken Soup to make a get well card. I have used a variety of patterned paper scraps to create a sunburst behind the image panel.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White 10.5x14.8cm card blank
Bugaboo Stamps image Kitchen Chicken-soup
Faber-Castell and Derwent pencils
Scraps of paper from Shimelle 'Star Shine' paper pad
Nesting circle die
Sentiment die
MFT Simple Sayings stamp
Memento Tuxedo black ink pad

I would like to enter this card into:-
Daisy Chain Challenge #30 Anything goes
Crafts Galore Encore Anything goes
Crafty Creations Challenge #390 Anything goes
The Happy Craft Challenge Anything goes May
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned paper Challenge Anything goes

Thank you for looking in...
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 on my creations, I truly appreciate each and every comment.

CBD- For the Boys

Hello again,

Today brings us to a new Challenge for Crafting by Designs, we would love you to join in our challenge and this week the challenge is For The Boys, we have one fabulous sponsors this week Crafty Sentiments Designs will be giving the lucky winner their choice of 3 Digi stamps from their store.       

Crafty Sentiments Designs 

PRIZE 3 Digi Stamps

I have used a stamp set freebie from my magazine subscription to make a birthday card, the set includes a few flowers and pretty vase and a mason style jar which I have used here. I have stamped and heat embossed the mason jar, fish and sentiment in silver, gold and black. Using up some scrap distress oxide background pieces to make the jar and the fish, I die cut the circle background with some adhesive sheet attached to a scrap of black card, cutting it in two to make it fit across the width of the card front. Not that you can see them but I also heat embossed some extra fish in clear on the card front, before doodling in the border.

Here is my card:-

This challenge is open until March 19th, you can add your project by using the Linky tool over at Crafting by Designs. Please be sure to link your project back to us. 

What I used:-

White 10.5x14.8cm card blank 

Scrap distress oxide card and black card stock

Clear, Silver, gold, and black embossing powder

Clear embossing ink

Magazine freebie stamp set

Black fine line pen

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

I would like to enter this card in:-

Mix It Up Challenge blog Anything goes +optional inked background

Snippets Playground Use your snippets

Southern Girls Challenge- Flora and Fauna

The Happy Craft Challenge March Anything goes

Thank you for looking in….

Have a Wonderful week…
Megan

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

Twofer Birds

Hi All,

I have been following along with the twofer challenge, but have never before joined in with the ladies, I had been making a mixed set of cards for a friend and had finished them all off and I need a thank you card to post out this week... so with the die set still on the table I decided to join in...

The set is a CCD which came with the two birds, cages and a stand, I have used scissors to cut into the lantern shaped cage to make it look like the birds are out and about. 

What I used:-
Two 14.8c10.5cm card blanks
Silver paper
Japanese paper
Dark grey metallic card
Silver peel off stickers
CCD Bird Cage, Birds dies
Label Shaped die (not sure)
Pink gel ink pen
Close to my Heart Happy Birthday Sentiment stamp
Memento Tuxedo Black ink
Kraft card 
Kaisercraft 'Blue Bay' paper pack (mostly snippets)
Kaisercraft 'Blue Bay' sentiment sticker
Darkroom Door 'Simple Sayings'
Clear embossing ink
Black super fine embossing powder
Adhesives:- Double sided tape, adhesive sheet, 2 way glue pen and foam dots

I would like to enter this card in:-
Twofer Challenge January Birds
Snippets Playground #344
Southern Girls Challenge Anything goes
Crafty Creations Challenge #382 Anything goes

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

PS. Stay cool in all this extreme summer heat we are having down under.
 Many thanks for all the kind comments, I have tried adjusting the settings as some are unable to comment unless it opens in a new window...