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!

Christmas in January

Hello again,

Well we are well and truly melting (all week long again) our usual summer temperatures here don't often get above 30C but the heat is coming from the Aussie deserts to the mountains and the coast, roll on Autumn. Can you tell I don't like the heat? The native birds are sensible, out early and then they disappear during the heat, likely down the valley where it is cooler, my poor budgies are not enjoying the heat either, one is quite happy to have a fine mist bottle sprayed all over him several times a day, the other quite likes to come out and get put in the hand basin in the bathroom for a splash around to help cool him down.

I have been working on getting a few Christmas cards done for this years stash and want to try and get 4-6 done each month, I made this card earlier in the month for a DT challenge and had such a nice time creating the scrap edge that I made more and tried out a starburst background which I didn't quite pull off correctly.

Here are two more cards:-

What I used:
White 12.5x17.8cm card blanks
Scrap Christmas papers and card
Faber-Castell and Derwent pencils
Mo's Digital stamp Christmas sheep dog with hat
Make it Craft Floppy Digi Stamp
Impression Obsession Top Edger sentiment die
Naughty or Nice die (not sure of brand)
MFT Pierced oval die
Stamp It Australia 'Wonderful Christmas' stamp
Versa Color 'Raspberry' ink
Kindyglitz red glitter
Gold gel ink pen

I would like to enter these cards in:-
ABC Christmas Challenge A for Anything goes
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' 
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge
Merry Little Christmas Challenge 
Sparkles Forum Christmas Challenge #96 Add some Sparkle

No Rudolph Challenge this month while Mo is recovering from knee surgery, sending good vibes for a speedy recovery....

Thank you for looking in...
Keep cool to those down under, stay warm for those in cooler climes 
Have a wonderful week...
Megan

P.S. A huge thank you 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!

CBD Layered Birthday

Hello again, 

Today brings us to a new Challenge for Crafting by Designs, we would love you to join in our challenge-Layers, we have one fabulous sponsors this week Fred She Said will be giving the lucky winner a $10 gift card for their store.  

Fred She Said

PRIZE $10 gift card

This challenge is open until January 29th, 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. 

I have used a new stamp from my collection called Beautiful Bouquets- Dahlias to create a birthday card for a friend who loves purple, I had to look and see if Dahlia's actually come in these colours and happily they do. I added an extra layer to the card using the outside edge of the MFT die to trace and cut a rectangle slightly larger, it was cut from the center of the larger plain purple cardstock piece

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 12.6x17.8cm card blank 

White card for stamping

Prismacolor Watercolour Pencils + water/brush

Clear embossing ink

Gold embossing powder 

WPlus9 Beautiful Bouquets- Dahlias stamp

Darkroom Door Brushed Sentiments stamps

Purple cardstock (AC Amethyst)

White cardstock

Check paper (Sugar and Spice) 

MFT Cross Stitched Rectangle Die

Adhesives: Double-sided tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

613 Avenue Create optional challenge Watercolour

Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Challenge Anything goes

Crafts Galore Encore #59 Anything goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge
Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge Optional texture

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!