CBD Bathing Beauty

Hello again,

Today brings us to a new challenge with my lovely team mates over at Crafting By Designs, this week we are sponsored by one of our own team members Sharon is offering the winner a lovely stamp set from Unity Stamps. This weeks challenge is Summer Fun, I have used a Tiddly Inks image called Bathing Beauty and have teamed it with a sentiment from Create with TLC. Feels quite odd celebrating Summer on a day when it has snowed for the first time this winter here and the winds are awfully cold and strong...

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White 12.6x17.8cm card blank
Tiddly Inks Bathing Beauty Digital image
Derwent coloured pencils
Red cardstock ?mystery colour
Polka dot paper Crafters Choice Pastels
Black and white snippet
Nesting oval dies
Nesting circle dies
Sentiment from Create with TLC
Adhesives Double sided tape and Xyron Create a sticker

I would like to enter this card in:-
Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Challenge Anything goes
Crafts Galore Encore Anything goes
Creative Craft Cottage Eileen's Anything goes Challenge
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned paper Challenge June Anything goes
The Happy Craft Challenge June 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 take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all.

A for Angelic

Hello again,

Today brings us almost to the end of the alphabet and since I didn’t start off well I have leapt all the way back to ‘A’ is for Angel, I made this card into a simple easel card as it seems quite plain.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 14cm square card blank

Silver embossed cardstock

Tiddly Inks image Wryn Angelic Wishes 

Faber-Castell pencils

Circle and apron lace circle dies

Wink of Stella clear

MFT sentiment strip die

Memory Box Typewriter holiday sentiments

Lili of the Valley Sentiment circle

Silver embossing powder

Patterned paper from Kmart

X-Press-It silver glitter tape

Adhesives:- Double sided tape and foam tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

Beccy’s Place month of Holiday cards A is for Angel

Back to basics and Beyond- Basic easel card

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge 

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' Anything goes
The Happy Craft Challenge Anything goes

Thank you for looking in...
Have a wonderful day...
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 truly appreciate them all!

V for Vintage

Hello again,

Still working my way through the alphabet now getting to the sticker end of things, yesterday brought us to the letter V and my card is V is for Vintage, I have used paper from 12” ‘Yuletide’ Kaisercraft paper pad which has been in my collection for many years 6 or more, and an image from Tiddly inks called Wryn Caroling. I was having a lovely time playing catch up yesterday that I ended up losing the natural light to take my photo.... 

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 12.6x17.8cm card blank

Maroon cardstock from stash

Kaisercraft ‘Yuletide’ papers

Fiskars scalloped border punch

Tiddly Inks Wryn goes Caroling digi stamp

Tiddly Inks digi sentiment from Holly Jolly

Faber-Castell pencils

Musical Note punch

Tag die

Cross stitched oval die

Gold glitter paper

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

I would like to enter this card in:-

Beccy's Place Month of Holiday cards V for Vintage
CCC Digi Creations Christmas or Winter

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, I truly appreciate them all!

F is for Fairy

Hello again,

I am still working my way through the alphabet, today I have bounced backwards to make a card using the letter ‘F’ I have gone with fussy cut fairy. The Tiddly Inks Willow the Christmas fairy was one of the images I have had coloured and saved at some point and as I had squashed 6 images to one page it meant she had to be fussy cut out. 

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 12.6x17.8cm card blank

Magazine freebie paper

Kaisercraft Christmas sentiment stamp and die set

Tiddly Inks Willow the Christmas Fairy

Fiskars scalloped border punch

Scraps red, white, silver and cream card

MFT Stitched inner and outer oval die

Clear embossing ink

Silver embossing powder

Silver glitter star stickers

Adhesives:- Double sided tape, foam dots 

I would like to enter this card in:-

Beccy's Place Month of Holiday cards F is for Fairy and Fussy cutting

Daisy Chain Challenge Winter/Christmas

The Happy Craft Challenge Anything goes November
Crafty Creations Challenges #378 Anything goes
Tiddly Inks Challenge Divine dimension (fairy popped up on foam dots)

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 take the time to leave me a message, I truly appreciate them all!

Christmas Carol

Hello again,

 

I’m back with my second Christmas card of the month, using one of the gorgeous images from Tiddly Inks, coloured up so I can continue using some of my vintage-y papers, these ones come from Kaisercraft two different collections, the music sheet comes from their ‘Timeless’ collection and the other from a magazine freebie Christmas paper pack from several years ago.

 

Here is my card:-
 

 

What I used:-

14.5cm square Kraft card

Brown cardstock (two different)

Kaisercraft papers

White cardstock (printing)

Kraft paper (printing)

Digital Stamp Wryn goes Carolling from Tiddly Inks

Faber-Castell and Derwent coloured Pencils

Two digital chalkboard images from The Shabby Creek and The Cottage Market set  Two

CCD Cross-Stitched Ovals (Cheap China Dies) WARNING this Website sells lots of Crafty goodies. I will not be accepting any responsibility for enabling any of you! 😉😉😉

Fiskars scalloped border punch

Generic music note punch
Sand-it tool

Silver snippet

Black fine-line pen

Kaisercraft Christmas Quotes Stamp

Clear embossing ink

Black embossing powder

Bling from my stash

I would like to enter this card in:-

Rudolph Day March-Christmas Anything goes

ABC Christmas Challenge E-for Edge, F- for family and G for Girl

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #326 Inspired by a song
 

12 Months of Christmas Link-Up # 27 Optional Theme Angels

The Holly and the Ivy Challenge #2 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 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!

Fairy Merry Christmas

Hello again,

Well Christmas is just one week away and I'm finishing off my cards, I got busy colouring in this one and then realised that I really didn't need any more Christmas cards, so this became the tag on my sister-in-law's gift, but is large enough to cover a card front (well it was going to be card). Which was posted to them in time for Christmas only to have my niece announce two days later that she was getting two Christmases this year one at the beach and one with us a week later!! My brother plans to pack our posted gifts in the car and drive them back (a mere 13+ hour drive) he will arrive before my niece. 

As this is a Tiddly ink image I have decided to link it up over there, even though I used completely different colours than, traditional reds, greens and golds requested. Please feel free to delete if unacceptable... 

Here’s my Card:-

What I used:-

White card

Digi image from Tiddly Inks ‘Willow the Christmas Fairy’

Faber-Castell and Derwent Pencils

Fairy Krystal Glitter paint

Lifestyle Crafts nesting rectangles

Glitter paper

Cascade card stock

Pink Paper from Doodlebug Christmas Pack

Dark pink Ribbon

Purple Brads

Purple bling

Black ink (Memento Tuxedo Black)

Kaisercraft 'Home for Christmas' clear stamp

Fiskars Eyelet setter, Stanley knife, cutting matt and steel ruler

W Plus 9 Scalloped border die

Adhesives:- Double-sided tape and foam tape

I would like to enter this card/tag in:-

Tiddly Inks Holly Jolly:- Christmassy Reds, greens and golds (delete if unacceptable) 

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra:- Anything goes

Di's Digi Design:- Anything Christmas

QKR Stampede Challenge #170:- Christmas

Beccy's Place December Challenge:- Anything goes

Many thanks 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 really appreciate them all!

To those who celebrate... Wishing you a Merry Christmas  and Happy, Safe and Healthy 2016 ...Megan

Gift Bag

Hello again,

Well this month there are quite a few of the Christmas challenges encouraging us to spread some glittery cheer around, does it count when I drop some glitter on the Physio’s carpet, after a two and a half hour train trip to get there? I think it must have come out of my shoe ;-))

I used three separate images from Tiddly Inks Digi store Winter Wryn, puppy love and a gift pile from Williow the Christmas Fairy and merged them together to create a Christmas scene, as this was planned to be for a gift bag the images are quite a bit larger than usual and I was able to add my sentiment into a text box directly under the images.

I have had some trouble getting the design papers to stick to the yellow glitter card and I may have to adjust the bag and add more brads to help hold the whole thing together, PVA just doesn't seem to hold well enough, maybe the second coat will have helped.

Here’s a close up of the gift bag:-

and the whole gift bag, I picked up 10 gift bags in various colours from Riot art while they were having a 50% off Sale, I also picked up some plain white and kraft bags at the same time!!

What I used:-

Tiddly Ink Digi stamps gifts, puppy love and Winter Wryn

Faber-Castell & Derwent Pencils

White card

Gift bag (Riot Art for those in Australia)

Ribbon from Stash

Yellow glittered cardstock

8mm coloured brads

Glittered large Self-adhesive rhinestones

Doodlebug Design bracket (generic Christmas pack)

Doodlebug Design ‘Santa Express’ paper pad
Lifestyle Nesting Rectangle Dies

Adhesives: - PVA glue & double-sided tape 

I would like to enter this gift bag in:-

ABC Christmas Challenge:- V is for Very Cute

Catch the Bug:- November Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge:- #254 Bright and/or Sparkly

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra:- Anything Christmas Goes

Come and Get It:- Lots of Sparkle

Di's Digi Designs Challenge:- Tic Tac Toe-  both vertical and horizontal centre lines

Glory of Christmas Challenge:- # Glitter and Shine

Many thanks 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 comment, I truly appreciate them all...

Case-ing Ourselves

Hello again, 

Well this fortnight over at Case-ing Christmas challenge they have been celebrating Christmas in July with a fabulous blog hop featuring some gorgeous cards made with stamps in both real and digital form from a very kind group of sponsors.

The challenge this time is to case ourselves using a card we have made for another occasion, not Christmas, which I have a limited supply. I eventually decided on this card which was made for a lovely friend whom we met whilst doing our family history, her other hobby is quilt making hence the stitchy make. I have stuck with the layout of the card altering use of washi tape, egg braid and buttons to two ribbons (I rescued the sparkly red one from a present last year) and as none of the buttons in my stash are quite so small I switched them for some star sequins. I recreated the style of the sentiment on my computer, the original Happy Birthday one came from Scrap-al-icious-times. The bingo card is from Sweetly scrapped art.

Several blog challenges are also celebrating Christmas in July this week and today's Bugaboo Stamp challenge is a recipe challenge:

Three embellishments: Star sequins

Two Designer papers: Musical Script, Striped paper, also third which can barely be seen behind the image

Ribbon: two ribbons- red and green

Here’s the card I decided to Case:

Here’s my Christmas version of my Case card

What I used:-

White card blank 12.7cm x 17.8cm (5”x7”)

Tiddly Ink image: Christmas Cutie Emma

Faber-Castell and Derwent Pencils

Sweetly Scrapped digi bingo card

Digital sentiment created on Word

Tiddly Inks Paper pack from Australian Simply Card magazine 2013

Musical note paper from Papercraft Inspirations magazine

Ribbons from stash

Star Sequins from stash

Kraft card scrap

White card

Paper scraps to create poinsettias

MFT-Stitched Circle die

Lifestyle Crafts/ QuicKutz nesting scallop circle die

Marrianne Creatables –Poinsettia with veins

Adhesives- Helmars Tacky craft glue & double-sided tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

Case-ing Christmas #27- Case ourselves

Bugaboo Stamps Christmas in July Tuesday Recipe- See above

Tiddly Inks Challenge #161- Anything goes with Tiddly Image

Sparkles Christmas Challenge #54- use lace, ribbon or twine

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge Extra July- Anything Christmas

Crafting by Design- Anything goes July

Digi Choose-Day week 27- Christmas in July 2nd entry

Beccy’s Place Challenge- Christmas in July

A Snowflakes Promise #1- Christmas and Winter Theme

Di’s digi stamps- Celebration 

Thank you for looking in

have a good one...

Megan

P.S. A big Thank you to all the wonderful ladies who take the time to leave me a message, I really appreciate each and every one of them!

Santa is Near...

Hello again…

Well I had a very Happy surprise when I turned on my PC today, discovering that I was chosen as Santa Supreme from Case-ing Christmas’s 13^th Challenge. Thank you ladies for being so very kind.

Okay its not very often that you hear non-card makers talk about Christmas at this time of the year, but this morning when heading out I caught the bus to do some shopping and when boarding the driver had to write the date on the other passengers ticket, he commented “Look it’s nearly Christmas again” I had to smile, as I had left my card at home drying…

This week at Case-ing Christmas Rocky made this gorgeous card with an embossed ornament front and centre, as you can see her colour scheme is red and white, and this is what I took my inspiration from.

Here’s my take on Rocky’s card

What I used:

14cm Square Card blank

Lily Bee Designs paper

Rhinestones

Memory box die Beloved snowflakes (but it broke! I just rescued the tiny snowflakes)

MFT Pierced Circle dies

Tiddly inks digi  Christmas Cutie Emma

Create with TLC digi sentiment

gold card from my scrap supplies

Red glitter card

Faber-Castell and Derwent pencils

Fairy Krystal Glitter paint- on hat and fur trim

Lawn Fawn Stitched label die

I would like to enter this card in:

Case-ing Christmas Challenge #14

ABC Christmas Challenge G is for Glitter (card and paint)

Winter Wonderland- Let it Snow (only a little snow)

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Extra- Anything goes April

Crafty Hazelnut's patterned paper- Anything goes covered in patterned paper- April 

Catch the bug Challenge- Anything goes

Tiddly Inks Challenge- Anything Tiddly Goes

Glitter and Sparkle- Anything goes #131

Pile it On- Dies or Punches- snowflake dies, pierced circle dies, lawn fawn stitched label die
Polkadoodles Challenge- Use a die
Digi Choosday Crafting Challenge Week-14 Use a Die
4 Crafty Chicks- #241 Die Cuts
Sister Act Card Challenge #100 Anything goes
Paper Nest dolls- #4 Anything goes
Crafting by Design- Getting ready for Christmas

12 Months of Christmas- Challenge #4 -not following colour challenge this time ;-)

Thank you for looking in...

Have a good one...

Megan

ps Thank you for all the lovely comments you have all been leaving me :-)

Baa, ram, ewe

Hello again,

Happy Easter to one and all

I have made another Christmas card in between making two wedding cards, which I will post after the big event, this week I have combined a couple of challenges, Jingle Belles are in the mood for some Christmas Songs, Holly Jolly Christmas Crew would like us to ‘Feature a Creature’, Crafty Hazelnut Christmas would like to see some cute and cuddly,  and as always I am up for using up my piles of scraps.

I have used a Spellbinders embossing folder to create the musical background for my card, using white cored card pack from DCWV and distressing the embossing with sand paper, the design paper is from my scrap bags, some mulberry paper flowers, I coloured the digi stamp with Derwent pencils and the digi was from Tiddly Inks last year. 

By the way you should hear this sung by 3-6 year olds!

I would like to enter this card in:

Jingle Belles – Feliz Navidad

Holly Jolly Christmas- Feature a Creature
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge 223- Cute and Cuddly Sheep

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge Extra- April
Tiddly Inks Challenge 154 Anything goes with Tiddly
Creative corner Challenge-Animal Fun
Polkadoodles Challenge- use a die MFT pierced nesting circles and pierced fishtail flags

Thank you for looking in…

Have a good one

Megan

Joy to the world...

Hello again...

Today I have created a card for the current challenge over at Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge, "Christmas Singing" over the last few nights I have been colouring some Tiddly Inks digi stamps while watching TV. I just happened to have the perfect image, ready to go.

I have used Wryn goes Carolling which I coloured with Derwent pencils. I have used a layout I had saved from somewhere on the web, origin unknown. Flowers and leaves die cut from scrap papers.

What I used:

White 5x7" card blank

Wryn goes Carolling Digi

La Carta paper and craft- Bubble texture Kraft

Bo Bunny Silver and Gold Collection (magazine cover gift)

Gold Glitter Card

Musical note punch

Wplus9 tag die

MFT Pierced Oval dies

Memory Box Fancy Blossoms

MFT Royal Leaves

Gold glitter

adhesives- PVA glue & Double sided tape

I am entering this card into:

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas- Christmas Singing

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Extra- Always Christmas

Sparkle Creation Christmas- Anything goes

Christmas Stampin' All year long- Dies to Die 4

Rudolph Day- March Any thing goes

ABC Challenge- F is for Festive

Thanks for looking in...

have a good one

Megan

Tiddly Ink

Hello again...

Here's a not so little card I have made for two of the current Christmas Challenge blogs, Crimbo Crackers requests no patterned paper and over at Christmas Card Challenges this week is Anything goes.

My card  is a 5x7" white card blank which I picked up at craft online as a set of 50, kraft paper, printed sentiment from Pink Petticoat, a strip of washi tape and a Tiddly inks digi stamp 'Christmas Pixie' I also have this as a clear stamp from a magazine but alas it has never seen ink as I never seem to get a complete image, but I am getting better.

I am entering this card into:

Crimbo Crackers- No Printed paper

Christmas card Challenges- Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Extra- Always Christmas March

Thank you for looking in

have a good one

Megan