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Thursday, 3 November 2016

Red Red Wine...

Hello again,

What a week…. I headed to the first Papercraft show I’ve been to in several years even though I knew it would cause me to be in pain for a few days after over the weekend, then decided the next day that getting up and down on a dining chair to clean the fan/heater/light in bathroom with the vacuum was a good idea then I added cleaning the inside of the skylight and bathroom walls to it too… needless to say doing it all in one hit was a bad idea and I’ve been paying for it since. I’ve just started to unpack my goodies from the show today…

A couple of bonuses taking my Mum with me to the Papercraft show, I got to pick some of my own Christmas presents, Mum held onto my bag and sat down for a bit while I entered the busiest stall, I would love to go to their shop one day, but I think I would get into too much mischief and spend way too much...

Today I am sharing a birthday card made for one of my Mum’s friends from Kindergarten, who after losing touch for so many years have reconnected and now enjoy regular get togethers, lunches and long phone calls. They are lovely ladies and I grew up on stories about them and the mischief they would get up to… At Mum’s Request I made my third card featuring Bugaboo image called Glass of wine a day and coloured it as red wine, I had an idea in my head as to which papers I would use and it ended up being completely different.

Not sure what happened in the photo, all the bling are plain silver, the flourish in the corner seems a little yellow...

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 5 x 7” card blank folded to an easel base

Blue leather grained cardstock

Patterned paper from magazine A4 paper pack

Flowers from stash

MFT Cross Stitched rectangle die from Christina

Bugaboo image Glass of wine a day

Derwent Pencils

Inkylicious ‘Wonderful Day’

Clearly Besotted Sweet Little Sentiments

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink pad

Scrap of ribbon

Sullivan’s Bling Flourish

Kaisercraft Bling strip

Adhesives:-Double sided tape and glue dots

I would like to enter this card in:-

CCC Digi Creations #60 Happy Anything

Craft your Passion #336 Anything goes

Hiding in my Craftroom #273 Freestyle

Crafting By Design November Anything goes

Crafts Galore Encore November Anything goes

Snippets Playground week 253 Anything goes with Snippets

Crafty Sentiments Challenge Anything goes

Creative Crafts Cottage #74 Use Ribbon

Simply Papercraft for all Occasions #39

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

P.S. A huge thank you to all the lovely ladies who take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all

Thursday, 20 October 2016

Howzat!!

Hello again,

Today I am sharing a card made for another young neighbour who loves to play cricket and has recently joined the local high-schools Duke of Edinburgh Award, so he is always off doing one thing or another. He and an uncle are planning on riding a 50km charity bike race as part of the Duke of Edinburgh award...

This is the closest I've come to a CaS card!

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White cardstock to make card 17.5 x 11.5

White cardstock

Just inklined Cricketer Digi stamp

Faber-Castell and Derwent pencils

Dark grey card stock

Studio Calico ‘Here + There’ collection scraps

Adhesives:- Double sided tape

Couture Creations nesting rectangle die

Steel Ruler and Stanley knife

Happy Birthday stamp from magazine cover gift

Memento Tuxedo Black Inkpad

I would like to enter this card in:-

Crafty Sentiments Anything goes #18

Creative with Stamps #7 Add a Sentiment

Di's Digi Designs Anything goes

Polkadoodles Craft Challenge Anything goes #41

613 Avenue Create Anything goes

Simply papercraft for all occasions Anything goes

Crafting Circle Anything hand coloured goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Thank you for looking in...

have a wonderful week...

Megan

P.S. A huge thank you to all the lovely ladies who take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Monday, 4 July 2016

Butterfly Wishes

Hello again,

My friends Daughter in law is having her birthday soon and I was asked to create a card and use some Japanese Paper on it if possible. Metallics seem to be in at the minute with crafters and decorators and I raided my stash of scraps for some gold card, I found two suitable pieces, in separate places (I keep big scraps in an A4 display book, little scraps are in zip-lock bags by colour)

I haven't tried using both an embossing folder and die together on same card I wasn't really sure whether I should be embossing or die cutting first, I tried both ways and eventually decided that the Piestra tile die was delicate and embossing after cutting made the fragile joins break away, so emboss first cut second in this case, I can see this working the other way round for other less delicate dies and shapes.

I’m also wishing I had covered the card blank in black paper or card stock to give the card more definition or oomph…

I finished this card on Saturday afternoon and this morning discovered over in Snippets Playground Brenda had created one incredibly similar which you can see here, I promise I haven't copied her work Miss Di...

This card is currently winging its way all the way to Japan while my friend takes some time off to visit her family...

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White card blank 10.5cm x 14.7cm

White card stock

Memory Box Piestra Tile die

Elizabeth Crafts Butterfly die overlay #2

Elizabeth Crafts Butterfly Silhouette die

Gold mirrored card stock

Japanese Paper

Elizabeth Craft bunch of flowers 2 die

Poppystamps Classic Ribbons Die

Spellbinders m-bossabilities Folder EL-005

Black and white scrap card

Paper Smooches Sentiment sampler stamps

Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad

Adhesives:- Double-sided tape, P.V.A. glue & foam tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

613 Avenue Create Challenge 183 Anything goes with a twist American Beauty- use a Rose

Crafting by Designs July Anything goes

Crafty Sentiments Challenge 28 Anything goes

Creative Fingers Challenge 112 Anything goes

Snippets Playground week 236 Must use snippets

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends 37 Anything goes

Simply Paper craft for all Occasions 32 Anything goes

Poppystamps Challenge 22- Fly away with Me---must include one stamp or die (Poppystamps Classic Ribbons)

Thank you 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 truly appreciate them all.... Megan

Sunday, 3 April 2016

Red or White

Hello again,

Another gorgeous yet hot Autumn day and apparently we are now going to have a week longer of summer, before the temperature finally starts dropping, I really don’t like the heat and much prefer the cooler months.

Today I am sharing a quick post for the From the Heart Stamps current sketch challenge which I made quickly this morning; I planned this as a male card and went with brown papers from my Amy Tangerine Ready Set Go paper pad, which I bought on special many moons ago while on a trip to the big smoke.

This card is very Clean and Simple for me, I couldn't decide on any embellishments so left it plain and simple. The sentiment comes with the image and is popped up on some foam dots.

Here’s my card:-

What I used:-

From the Heart Stamps Birdbrain Wine image

White 12.7cm x 17.8cm card blank

Design papers from Amy Tangerine Ready Set Go paper pad

Faber-Castell and Derwent Pencils

MFT Pierced oval Die

Lifestyle Crafts Nesting Rectangle Dies

Stanley Knife, Cutting matt, Steel Rule

Double sided tape, foam dots

I would like to enter this card in:-

From the Heart Stamps Sketch Challenge #145

Lil’ Patch of Crafty Friends #31 Anything goes

CCC Digi Designs #46 Anything goes

Crafting by Design April Anything goes

Craft your Passion #305 Anything goes

Creative Craft Cottage #60 Anything goes

Simply Papercraftsfor all occasions #26 Anything goes

and new to me
Little Miss Muffet Challenge #134 Anything goes

Thank you for looking in

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

P.S. A huge thanks to all the kind and lovely ladies who take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all...

Sunday, 27 March 2016

Hello Monday

Hello again,

Happy Easter to all, don’t eat too much Chocolate…

A quick post as my PC is hurting my eyes, I have updated it to 10… my screen does not have the resolution it wants and cannot update; perhaps I’ll be going back to good old 7…. Anyone else had upgrade problems?

I made a quick card for this weeks From the Heart Stamps Sketch Challenge #144 with the option of the sketch or making a masculine card, using Birdbrain Coffee which I have coloured to represent one of my little budgies, sometimes he really does look at us like this, usually when we wake him too early or disturb one of his naps, usually turning his head upwards glaring at us with one beady eye.

Here’s my card:-

Why the cut off corner, some may ask, a design decision naturally, I certainly did not cut the card off short and get left with a bit missing from the corner, never not me…. :-) I altered my mistake by measuring and evenly cutting the corner off with the die.

In real life the coloured budgie is not quite as fluorescent green as it appears on screen, possibly just mine.... it is also distorted in shape...

What I used:-

White card blank 10.5cm x 14.8cm

From the Heart Stamps Birdbrain Needs Coffee

Faber-Castell Pencils

Bella! Droplets

Lifestyle Crafts Nesting Rectangles Die

Bo Bunny double Dots Very Vintage & Soft Shades

Papercraft Paper pad ‘Masculine’

Navy checked ribbon scraps

Paper and card scraps

Coffee on the Go Die –Memory box

Stanley Knife, Cutting mat, steel ruler

Adhesives:- Double sided tape, Xyron Create a sticker, foam dots

I would like to enter this card in:-

From the Heart Stamps Sketch Challenge #144 I have rotated and flipped the sketch

Crafting with Friends Challenge #17 Anything goes

Pixie’s Snippets Playground- week #222 Must use snippets

Craft your passion #304 Anything goes

Creative Craft Cottage #60 Anything goes

Cute Card Thursday #418 to Die For

Simply Paper Craft for All Occasions

Many Thanks for looking in...

Have a Happy Easter and Long Weekend for those who get to enjoy one

Megan

P.S. a huge Thank you to all the kind and lovely ladies who take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all...

Sunday, 20 March 2016

For you...

Hello again...

Hope you are almost ready for Easter, I'm not.... at all ready, apart from posting my niece's little present off last week...

Today I am sharing a card for the current From the Heart Stamps Sketch Challenge #143 with a tWist. I was lucky enough to win twice on the last blog hop and chose this image called Mixed Bouquet as one of my prizes.

Here's the Challenge Sketch and the tWist this week is to use an embellishment from our stash, which was not that difficult to add in, I have added one of my special mulberry paper flowers, which was bought at the last craft show I was well enough to attend.

I have rotated my card and swapped the fishtail flag with a square, my fishtail dies were not wide enough to fit the image. I printed the sentiment and used a mini tab instead of the scallops.

Here's my card:-

What I used:-

From the Heart Stamps image 'Mixed Bouquet'

White 14.8 x 10.4cm card blank

'Merci' brand patterned paper

Faber-Castell pencils

MFT Pierced Square Die

MFT Mini Tabs Foursome die

Font KG Strawberry Limeade

Pink & Sea Breeze card scraps

Mulberry Paper flower

The Craft stall enamel dots

Couture Creations Large Retro Flower Embossing Folder

Fiskars and EK Sucess corner rounder and photo corner punches

I would like to enter this card in:-

From the Heart Stamps Sketch Challenge #143

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #30 Anything goes

QKR Stampede #183 Add a Sentiment

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned paper Challenge March

Polkadoodles Spring Colours week 10

Simply Papercraft for all Occasions #25 Anything goes

Ruby's Rainbow The Earth Laughs in Flowers

Craft your Passion #303 Anything goes

Thank you for looking in...

have a wonderful week...

Megan

P.S. a HUGE thank you to all the Lovely Ladies (& some times Gents) who take the time to leave me a message, I truly appreciate them all...

Thursday, 21 January 2016

Monkey Cakes

Hello again,

Well looks like I'm on track to finish the week long 6^th Birthday Jungle/Zoo celebration with the lovely ladies over at Bugaboo. Today’s challenge is Make it Funny & use an animal, today I coloured Monkey in and cut him out very carefully with my Stanley knife (so I could cut all the inner parts) finishing him off with a pair of scissors, I then tried to hide the cut marks with a black marker, but had a few slip ups :-( leaving a couple of extra marks here and there.

I have turned the cute little monkey into a bookmark and had I thought of this earlier could have made him flat, never mind I will probably end up using him myself.

My Uncle gave me the monkey, as I was born in the year of the monkey which also happens to return again this year, Monkey is still around, minus one eye which was dutifully sewn up by Mum many years ago, I remember making Monkey give cuddles to everyone, pulling his arms around their necks and closing his Velcro hands! Little did I know at the time Monkey was in fact strangling everyone….

Find your Chinese Zodiac Sign here:-

Here’s my book mark:-

What I used:-

Bugaboo image Monkey

White Card stock

Faber-Castell Pencils

Glossy green card stock 5cm x10cm

Scrap green papers including scalloped oval

Poppy Stamps Lorelai Leaf

Poppy Stamps Gentle Leaf

TLC Creations Digi Word art

PC generated speech bubble

Black marker

Adhesives:-PVA glue, foam tape, double sided tape

Magnetic strip (self-adhesive)

I would like to enter this card in:-

Bugaboo 6^th Birthday Challenge Day 5:- Make it Funny & use an animal

Simply Papercraft for all occasions #21:- Anything goes

Not just cards:- Anything goes

Thank you for looking in...

Enjoy the weekend (I can almost smell it)

Megan

P.S. A huge thank you to all the kind ladies who take the time to leave me a message, I truly appreciate them all!

Wednesday, 20 January 2016

Indian Elephant

Hello again,

Well I'm slowly catching up to the Bugaboo team and their challenge days, today is day four of their seven days of challenges to celebrate Bugaboo's 6th Birthday.

Today's challenge is a noughts and crosses board, I chose the line down the middle:- Twine, Easel Card and Ribbon. I hope that it does not matter that I have added extras too.

I found another challenge today which is Australian Based Incy Wincy Designs, looking forward to playing along with a new to me challenge, these ladies were also playing tic, tac, toe/noughts & crosses and I have chosen the top line. Embossing, Sentiment and Rhinstone~~/Pearl.~~

By the way photographing easel cards is slightly difficult, I'm never sure which picture will actually show the lower portion better, one straight over the top or an oblique shot. So I have two for this one. I hope you can see everything well enough.

Here's my card:-

What I used:-
White 14.8 x 10.5cm card blank
scoring board and bone folder
pink card stock
Bo Bunny double dot paper
Bugaboo image Silhouette Elephant Paisley
Sheena Douglas 'India' embossing folder
Sheena Douglas 'India' coordinating stamps
Black handmade paper from stash
Black card stock
Couture Creations nesting Scallop rectangles
Couture Creations nesting rectangles
Pink brads
Orange grosgrain ribbon
Lace
Memento 'Tuxedo Black' ink pad
Orange twine
Hot Pink rhinestone
Adhesives:- Double-sided tape, foam tape, Diamond glaze, P.V.A. Glue

I would like to enter this card in:-
Bugaboo's Birthday Challenge Day 4
Incy Wincy Designs Tic Tac Toe:- Embossing, Sentiment & Rhinestone
Simply Papercraft for All occasions #21 Anything goes
Craft your Passion #295 Anything goes
613 Avenue Create:- Anything goes
Come and get it:- Embossing

Thank you for looking in...
Wishing you a wonderful end to the week...
Megan

P.S. A huge thank you to all the very kind & generous ladies who spend some of their precious time leaving me a message, I truly appreciate them all!!!

Thursday, 1 October 2015

Butterfly Birthday

Hello again,

I was asked to create a special Japanese card for a friend’s Daughter-in-Laws upcoming birthday which needed to be posted to Japan where her and her family are living and working, the request included keeping it as flat as possible and using Japanese paper of which I have several designs my Aunt having bought them in you guessed it Japan while on holiday many years ago (about five years or so ago)… this is what I came up with…

Here’s my card:-

I was lucky enough for my birthday this year I was gifted a year’s subscription to Australian Simply cards and my brother selected an extra gift as part of the subscription, a set of 5 dies including this lovely background die from Ultimate crafts called Jadene: Free Flourish, I used the die a second time to cut the silver butterflies to make them pop out a little more.

What I used:-

White card blank 10.4cm x 14.7cm

Ultimate crafts die Jadene: Free Flourish

Ultimate Crafts die Invali: Vintage label set

Black card stock

Red and gold Japanese Silk paper

Scraps from stash in metallic silver and white

Glitzee Silver glitter glue

Foam Pads

Sentiment stamp from stash

Memento ‘Tuxedo Black’ Ink pad

Black fine line pen

Adhesives:- P.V.A. glue, double-sided tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

Digi Choosday- week 39 Use something new (both dies used are new)

Eureka Stamps #160 Anything goes

Simply Papercraft for all Occasions #14 Anything goes

Crafting with Friends #7 Anything goes

Come and Get it Challenge # Clear it out-use a stash item (Japanese Paper)

Creative Craft Cottage #48 Anything goes

Craft your Passion #281 Anything goes

613 Avenue Create #143 Anything goes or use ~~Sapphire~~

Thank you for looking in…

Have a great week

Megan

P.S. A big thank you to all the kind and lovely ladies who take their time to leave me a little message, I appreciate each and every one of them!

Sunday, 20 September 2015

Hello Pumpkin...

Hello again...

Today I am sharing a card featuring From the heart stamps monthly challenge image called Pumpkin Patch girl which is ever so cute you can purchase her from the shop for $3.50 or buy $10 worth of stamps and enter this months code found here on the main page, I have used some Doodlebug Design paper from my stash called 'Nature's garden' and several sparkly blue glittered and blinged up flowers from my stash

Here's my card:-

What I used:-
Pumpkin patch girl Digi (From the Heart Stamp of the Month- September)
White card blank 10.5cm x 14.9cm
Doodlebug Design paper 'nature's garden'
blue flowers from stash
white cardstock
brown cardstock
Faber-Castell and Derwent pencils
My Favourite Things Die Pierced squares
My Favourite Things Die Stitched circles
Adhesives:- Double sided tape and P.V.A. glue

I would like to enter this card in
From the heart Stamp of the Month Challenge- September
C.R.A.F.T.- #329 Add some Bling
CCC Digi design- Anything goes
Crafty Sentiments- Anything goes
Hiding in my craft room- #217 Free style
Simply Papercraft for all occasions #13 Anything goes
613 Avenue Create #142- Anything goes or use a free sentiment

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

p.s. Many thanks to each and every one of the kind ladies who take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!!

Wednesday, 16 September 2015

Thank you

Hello again...

Well I was asked to create a thank you card for a friend to give a physio she has been seeing for many years. As always I made two cards so she had a choice, and also because I looked at the first card and decided it needed something a little bit more, it was just to plain for my liking.

I used a freebie embossing folder for the first card and cut away the bottom section and filled it with patterned paper, before adding the flower stamp to the central oval.

So here's my first card:

I added the border from my stash and some bling to finish it off, and then I was happy.

As I was unhappy with the first card I created a second one which I had a basic plan for. I went with a completely different colour scheme and this one looks like the club colours for a team of some sort.

my second card:

As I had a plan for the second card it came together much more quickly than the first one which lay on my table for several days while I thought of some way of finishing it off.

What I used:- Card 1

White 14.8 x 10.5cm card blank

Fancy Flourish Embossing folder and Stamp set (Australian Simply Cards issue 81 cover gift)

Pink card stock

patterned paper from stash

scrap of lilac card

Memento Tuxedo black ink

bling from stash

Thank you stamp from a Bebunni stamp set

Paper border from stash

Adhesives: P.V.A. glue, double sided tape, foam tape

Stanley knife, craft matt, steel rule, scissors

What I used:- Card 2

Blue card blank

yellow card stock

Spellbinders Embossing folder 'splendid'

Bling from stash

MFT pierced Oval die

Butterfly die from Ultimate Crafts Jadene: Happy Thoughts Butterfly set

White card stock from scraps

Printed sentiment

Corrugated card

mulberry paper flowers from stash

Adhesives: P.V.A. glue, double sided tape, foam tape

Stanley knife, craft matt, steel rule, scissors

I would like to enter these cards in:-

Craft your Passion-#279 Anything goes

Crafting from the heart #77 Anything goes

Simply Papercraft for all Occasions #13 Anything goes

Aud Sentiments #140 Anything goes with a sentiment

Crafting with Friends #6 Anything goes

Beccy's Place September

Crafting by Design September Anything goes

Thank you for looking in...

have a wonderful week

Megan

p.s. Many thanks to all the kind ladies who leave me a comment on my cards, I appreciate each and every one of them...

Wednesday, 9 September 2015

More Wine...

Hello again…

Today I am sharing a card I made for my Mum’s birthday later this week, I again coloured first and then had to find papers in my stash suitable to use, I had envisaged a more bold colour scheme but like how it has turned out…

Here’s my card:-

What I used:-

12.7cm x 17.8cm white card blank

Bugaboo digi ‘Glass of Wine a day’

Derwent pencils

Lily of the Valley ‘Bonnets’ and Bowties’ paper pad (by Nitwit Collections) from Magazine

Lily of the Valley Birthday stamp from Magazine

Fiskars daisy border punch

Pink border from stash

White card from scraps

Bella! Droplets enamel dots

White brads from stash

Sullivan’s Paper flowers

White Self-adhesive pearls

MFT Stitched Rectangles die

MFT Royal leaves die

Circle Die brand unknown

Adhesives:- foam tape, double-sided tape, P.V.A. glue

Stanley knife, Steel ruler, Craft matt, scoring board

I would like to enter this card in:-

Craft your Passion #278 Anything goes

Beccy’s Place September Challenge

Bugaboo Catch the Bug September Anything goes

613 Avenue Create- Create your own Challenge take one from each column 1. image/patterned paper, 2. Die-cut/Sentiment, 3. Solid coloured paper, 4. Flowers, 5. Paper Punch

CCC Digi Creations #32 Include a Sentiment

Crafting by Design September Anything goes

Simply paper crafts for all occasions

Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge September

Thank you for looking in…

Have a great week…

Megan

Many thanks to all the lovely ladies who take the time to leave me a message, I truly appreciate them all!

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Thursday, 3 November 2016

Red Red Wine...

Thursday, 20 October 2016

Howzat!!

Monday, 4 July 2016

Butterfly Wishes

Sunday, 3 April 2016

Red or White

Sunday, 27 March 2016

Hello Monday

Sunday, 20 March 2016

For you...

Thursday, 21 January 2016

Monkey Cakes

Wednesday, 20 January 2016

Indian Elephant

Thursday, 1 October 2015

Butterfly Birthday

Sunday, 20 September 2015

Hello Pumpkin...

Wednesday, 16 September 2015

Thank you

Wednesday, 9 September 2015

More Wine...

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