Bleached Daisies

 Hello again,

I have made a card following this month's Group of Cardmakers, using the bleaching technique. I have used a scrap of water colour card which I used dylusions Funky Fuchsia and crushed grape spray inks and one of my potluck stamps from Darkroom Door that I bought before they closed down in Australia and recently re-opened in the UK. My potluck stamps are from the scraps, when the rubber had not quite made a full set, they saved the stamps that they could and sold them at a discount.

My stamp comes from the set called Viva la Flora Vol.2 it has a script background which doesn't show on my card as the texture of the water colour card comes through. Stamped in clear ink and heat embossed in black powder. Using bleach-soaked cotton buds on the flowers, I have added a sentiment from Art Stamps Australia.  

What I used

White card blank 10.5x14.8cm

Watercolour card (Micador from Big W)

Darkroom Door Daisy stamp 'Viva la Flora' Vol.2

Clear embossing ink

Black embossing powder

Art stamps Australia Sentiment stamp

Dylusions Spray ink Funky fuchsia and crushed grape

I would like to enter this card in:

Group of Cardmakers Bleaching Technique

Allsorts 847 In the Garden

Beautiful Blossoms Anything Floral goes optional mood board

Daisy Chain Challenge #106 No Design papers

Aud Sentiments Watercolour and/or Spring + Sentiment

NBUS Challenge #85 Daisy stamps first outing

We Love Stamping 'Spring' We already have one jonquil and anemone in flower, whilst all the trees are still only just starting to get their Autumn leaves changing colour her in Aus.

We are starting to get Autumn leaves in our area, which I fully expect to be overrun with tourists as they change as some of the elegant gardens in our area are cut off after several years of extreme weather has caused damage to the roads, some are required to get permits to enter their own streets some of which are several kilometres long, some people have had weddings cancelled as the venues have had to close to the public, some are used to getting 1000+ visitors each day over Autumn. 

That does not include the still cut main highway between Sydney and greater west New South Wales where convicts built the road in 1832 and it has recently failed, almost 200 years and used to transport B-double trucks laden with coal for export or quarry materials for construction. A Blog post from one of the local librarians shows a colourised picture and a story of a grisly murder from 1842, Caroline Collit's Blue Mountain's Local Studies.

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Have a wonderful week...

Megan

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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

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Have a wonderful week...

Megan

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Floating Frames

 Hello again,

We are having a late heatwave here in New South Wales, this week has been 27C to 30C a little too hot for me. I am again joining the lovely ladies over at Group of Seven Cardmakers this month's technique is Floating Frames I chose some lovely new stamps for my Christmas present from Paper Rose called Sketchy Rose, I stamped them in Memento 'Tuxedo Black' and coloured them with Faber-Castell coloured pencils before die cutting them.

I rolled up pieces of washi tape (sticky side out) to temporarily position the flowers over a 12x17.2cm piece of white card stock.  I added foam circles to the backs and replaced each flower, before die cutting the hexagon from the centre adding the first piece to a card blank covered with black paper.  

The second card uses the die cut hexagon, I have added an Inkylicious sentiment which I won from Snippet's Playground on a snippet of black paper. Adding some clear (no silver backing) flat backed gems, packet says it is meant to be 'shaker mix' also from Paper Rose. The black layer behind the die cut was traced and cut by scissors.

The two cards together

What I used:

Paper Rose 'Sketchy Roses' stamp and die

White A4 cardstock

Faber-Castell coloured pencils

Memento Tuxedo black ink

Clear embossing ink

Gold and white embossing powder

Inkylicious sentiment

Kaisercraft Hexagon nesting die

Kaisercraft Roses embossing folder

MFT Happy die

Scraps of black and gold papers

Magazine freebie stamp 'birthday' and butterfly die

Flourish of gems clear silver 

Adhesives: Foam dots, Double sided adhesive, pva glue

Other: Stanley knife, scissors, steel rule, heat gun.

I would like to enter these cards in:

Group of Seven Gallery Floating Frames

First Card

Creative Knockouts #242 Birthday Wishes

Cut it Up Challenge #325 Happy Birthday 

Beautiful Blossoms #27 Anything Floral goes 

NBUS #72 Anything goes with Never before used schtuff (flower stamps and dies)

613 Avenue Create March Anything goes optional Any Occasion 

Second Card
Love to Craft Challenge Blog #84 Anything goes
Make My Monday Challenge #247 Use die or punch

Crafts Galore Encore #133 Anything goes

Crafters Cafe #317 Anything goes optional CAS

Can You Handle the Pressure? Optional Lucky, St. Patrick's Day

A Cut Above Anything goes with a die cut

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Have a Wonderful Week...

Megan

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Flower Power

 Hello again,

In my effort to join in some of the techniques shown over with the lovely ladies at Group of Seven, I have made a mostly white on white card for technique of Textured backgrounds using die cuts. I have used a floral die cut which had a variety of sized flowers glued them down to the card front and added triple cut sentiment dies inside a golden frame. 

What I used:

White cardstock

Mystery dark pink cardstock

12.6x 17.8cm card blank 

Cheery Lynn Shasta Daisy strip die

MFT Happy birthday sentiment die

Butterfly die (mystery brand- let me know if you recognise it) 

Gold glitter card stock

Stitched rectangle dies

Clear crystal flat backed gems

I am adding this card to 

Group of Seven Gallery Textured background with die cuts

A Cut above December anything goes

Allsorts Challenge Blog optional Use your dies

NBUS Challenge 69 I am not sure how long this flower die has been in my stash! First outing, it even left some of the colour from the metal die behind (Cheery Lynn purple)

I hope you are all recovering after the holidays, we woke to an early morning storm which has started a bushfire from a lightning strike a couple of hours away.... the middle of a heat wave and high winds make storms more dangerous to the Aussie bush.

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Have a wonderful week

Megan

LPoCF#240 Polkadoodles

 Hello again, 

Summer is definitely on its way, we are currently being serenaded (deafened) by thousands of Cicadas, I have seen several of the different varieties all (males) of which are noisy.... maybe not as loud as a few years ago when there was an abundance of double drummers, the local electricity company was around pruning plants away from overhead wires and stopped long enough to complain about the noise. I am off this week for my scans which will hopefully see my ankle repaired for the second time. 

Today brings us to an all new Anything goes challenge with my teammates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, this fortnight we are sponsored by Polkadoodles who kindly allowed two of our team to choose images for us to use. I chose Polkadoodles new Pretty Poinsettia and made a non-traditional Christmas card. 

Polkadoodles

Prize 3 Digi images (no bundles)

Here is my card:- 

What I used: -
White Card blank 12.6x17.8cm (5x7")
Polkadoodles Pretty Poinsettia Digi image
Faber-Castell Coloured Pencils

Colourless blender pencil (Prismacolor)
American Crafts Bubble-gum cardstock
White cardstock
Darkroom Door Sentiment strip Christmas
Picked Raspberry Oxide ink
Silver and white paper scraps
Holly die (can't find the name anywhere) 
Self-adhesive pink rhinestones

I would like to enter this card in:-

Polkadoodles Digi Choosday week 41 Anything goes

Polkadoodles Anything goes Creative Craft Challenge week 42

A Place to Start October Anything goes optional Pink

Colouring with Pencils Anything Goes

ABC Christmas Challenge U is for Unusual Colours or V is for Velvet

NBUS first time getting inky with the Darkroom door sentiment stamp

Jingle Belles Pink Christmas

Sparkles Christmas Challenge #165 Use the word Christmas (sentiment stamp)

12 Months of Christmas Link up Anything goes optional Chevrons

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Have a wonderful week...

Megan

p.s. 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.

Cover Die Eclipse

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Twice in one week, very unusual for me. Today I am joining the Gallery of Group of Seven Card makers, with a technique challenge- Cover die Eclipse. I will admit the first one jumped in the cuttlebug and I have ended up putting one beautiful card aside, and trying again with a more simple stamped image. 

Darkroom Door African Tree stamped in Black soot Distress oxide ink, die cut with a MFT cover plate,  and sentiment stamp from Clearly besotted. I think I should have stamped the image a little higher on the card, then the image would have been more evenly centred within the cover die. Definitely a technique to come back too. Another layer was cut out of the waste from the other card to layer up the diecut background

The stamp was in a 'scrap' set, when the rubber does not make a full stamp set or something was wrong with some part of a set, they sell the stamps that are suitable for use at a discount. I think this might look good as a jacaranda tree in purple.

What I used

Blue Edge Crafts Top fold 12.3x17.4cm card blank 

MFT cover plate die 

Darkroom Door African Tree stamp

Clearly Besotted sentiment 'Sweet little sentiments'

Distress Oxide black soot, candied apple

fine tipped pva glue 

I am sharing this card with:

Group of Seven Gallery Cover plate Eclipse
NBUS today is the first time the tree has seen ink....
Crafter's Cafe #307 CAS 
Creative Inspiration Challenge #13 Anything goes  CLOSED
Simply Clean and Simple April Anything goes optional Weather

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Have a wonderful week... 
Megan

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Santa in the sun

 Hello,

 I am back with a second Christmas card for my new stash, trying to join in with Rudolph's Day, kindly taken over by Helen and joining Darnell and her I.D.E.A.S challenge, Santa has been in my stash for two years and this is his first stamping, so NBUS too. Each week is different.

Here is my card;-

What I used;-

12.6x 17.8cm (5x7") card blank
Crimson cardstock
white cardstock
Paper Rose Summer Santa
Clear embossing ink and pen
Black, White and clear embossing powder
Derwent Watercolour pencils and water brush
Faber-Castell pencils
Nellie Snellen Christmas love sentiment stamp (unavailable)
Antique linen, tea dye, tumbled glass, stormy sky Distress oxide inks

I am joining in:

Darnell's A for Anything goes

Rudolph's Day Anything Christmas goes

NBUS #59 

The roof has been fixed now just waiting for some rain to confirm no further leaks....

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

p.s. A big thank you for my kind blogging friends and visitors who stop by and take time to leave me a comment. I truly appreciate them all!