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Sunday, 17 December 2023

LPoCF #220 Hetty Clare Christmas Penguins

 Hello again, 

Well, we are in the midst of a severe heatwave here in my part of Australia, as we live in a cool climate air conditioning is not usual for any homes! Sydney siders asked us to put the air-con on and were very surprised that we don't have it. 

Today brings us to another all new Anything goes Challenge with my team mates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, this fortnight we are being sponsored by Hetty Clare who kindly allowed us to chose two images for the design team. I chose Christmas Penguins, I am using up another of my scrappy paper strips, all stuck onto snippet of white card and trimmed, I have an envelope on the back of the paper pads to store the snippets from other projects that are too nice to throw away.

Hetty Clare

Prize 2 Images

Here is my card-


What I used-
Hetty Clare Christmas Penguins 
Faber-Castell Coloured Pencils
White cardstock
Scraps from Bo Bunny 'Elf Magic' paper pad
Art Stamps Australia Sentiment Stamp

I would like to enter this card in:-

Thank you for stopping by,
Have a wonderful week...
Megan

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

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Sunday, 18 July 2021

LPoCF Christmas in July

 Hello all,

We are expecting Snow here today! A real Christmas in July or Yulefest here in the mountains outside Sydney... We are also entering our fourth week of lockdown due to the Delta variant getting out of hotel quarantine, only one person is allowed out to go to the supermarket each day... masks are mandatory except for whilst exercising and at home.... so the local tour operators won't be celebrating Yulefest for the second year running...

Today brings us to an all new challenge with my team mates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends and we are celebrating Christmas in July. I have used an image called Kitty and the Ornament from our sponsor Fred She Said who kindly gave the DT Five images to work with, our second sponsor is Fabrika Fantasy

Fabrika Fantasy

Prize 3 Images

Facebook Fabrika Fantasy

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Pinterest Fabrika Fantasy


Fred She Said

Prize $10 voucher

Facebook Fred She Said

Instagram Fred She Said

Pinterest Fred She Said

I have made two cards to add to my stash of Christmas cards which is falling far behind my intended target... I have used the pre-coloured design on both cards. The first one is a 14cm square card with papers from Kaisercraft 'Letters to Santa', the second is using a freebie snippet of paper from a magazine cover.


What I used:-
White 14cm and 12.6x17.8cm (5x7") card blanks
White card for printing
Waffle Flower nesting 5x7" dies
MFT stamp set 'hand lettered holiday greetings'
Memory box sprig die
? Holly and berries die
Clear embossing ink
Gold embossing powder (+heat tool)
Wink of Stella on baubles
Kaisercraft 'Letters to Santa' paper pad
MFT Cross-stitched rectangle die

I would like to enter these cards in:-

Card1



Card 2

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... 


 

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Wednesday, 3 July 2019

CBD Magnolia

Hello again, 

Well I thought I'd never get this card done in time for the challenge, freezing cold weather, mist bound, poor light for photography, multiple mistakes that ended up in the WPB. My sentiment panel is a little skewed but not so badly that I tossed the lot... this card is decidedly clean and simple for me.

Today brings us to a month long challenge with the lovely ladies over at Crafting By Designs this month we have been sponsored by Fred She Said Designs and I chose to work with the pre coloured set Magnolias, to make a birthday card for one of our family history friends who loves her garden.


Here is my card:-
What I used:-
White 12.6x17.8cm card blank
Navy leather grained cardstock
Polka dot paper
Fred She Said Designs Magnolia Pre Coloured Set LINK
Memory box Tessatina border die
Mpress Crafts nesting die
Sentiment stamps from craft magazine gift
Clear embossing ink
Wow! metallic super fine silver embossing powder
Kaisercraft adhesive pearls
Adhesives:- Double sided tape, glue pen

I would like to enter this card in:-
Crafts Galore Encore #65 Anything goes
Aud Sentiments Challenge #230 Anything goes with a sentiment
Crafty Creations Challenges #393 Anything goes
The Sisterhood of Crafters Any Occasion
The Happy Craft 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! 
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Wednesday, 20 March 2019

CBD Flowers

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 Flowers or Floral, we have one fabulous sponsors this week Beccy’s Place will be giving the lucky winner a $10 gift certificate for their store.

PRIZE $10 gift certificate

I have used a stamp from the Beccy’s Place Waratah set, being an Aussie I love to find Australian stamps and images. The Waratah is the floral emblem of NSW, the state that I live in, according to local Aboriginals the Waratah was a flower seen from afar, which the warriors of the tribe used to remove from the plant and soak the flower head in water and drink the resulting sweet drink for an energy boost. We have them growing in both the front and back garden. I am also sharing two pictures from our garden, the first one has begun opening and the second is still closed up. 


Here is my card:-


I coloured the image using Derwent and Faber-Castell pencils, die cut with an MFT stitched oval die teamed with some papers from the Kaisercraft paper pad called Open Road which features Australian flora, fauna and iconic images of our country. I have used the coloured border (which looks like bark of a gum tree) from the spine to stamp my sentiment onto to make a card for my Mum for Mother’s Day.


This challenge is open until March 26th, 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 12.4x17.5cm card blank 
Faber-Castell and Derwent coloured pencils
Gold embossing powder
Clear embossing ink
Kaisercraft Open Road papers
Kaisercraft Mini Clear Stamps ‘Occasions’

Adhesives: Double-sided tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

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!
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Tuesday, 30 October 2018

Friends


Hello again,

I needed a couple of cards for my Mums friends who celebrate their birthdays in the next couple of months, I won a stamp from Naughty or Nice Challenge (now closed) which features four ladies and as mum and her friends get together and there is just four of them this stamp is very fitting, I have stamped and heat embossed in black and used some of my many scraps to make clothes for them, I decided to use water colour pencils to colour/paint their pants and then paper pieced each of their tops. The sentiment is from darkroom door stamps and is heat embossed in silver before I cut it up. The inside has obligatory Happy Birthday and also one of the included sentiments from the set which says ‘here’s to another year of laughing at our own jokes’

Here is my card:-


What I used:-

White 12.6x17.8cm card blank 5x7”

White card scraps

White card stock

All patterned paper from My Minds Eye ‘Happy Day’ Paper pad (one of my first paper pads)

Pink cardstock

Lots of Love  Art Impressions stamp set

Friends stamp Darkroom Door

Black and Silver super fine embossing powder

Faber-Castell and Prismacolor pencils

Rectangle die

Fussy cutting scissors and Stanley knife

Adhesives:-Double sided tape, foam tape and PVA glue



 I would like to enter this card in:-
Pause Dream Enjoy Challenge  October card challenge
Sisterhood of Crafters a little bit of humour
Snippets Playground must use snippets 

Thank you for dropping by,
Have a wonderful week...
Megan

P.S.  A huge Thank You to all my blogging friends and visitors who take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!
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Sunday, 2 September 2018

Rose Birthday

Hello again,

Seems like ages since I was last out here on my blog, I have had a much easier recovery post repeat surgery in mid August, so hopefully I get good news when I got back to the specialist this week... One of our family history friends is celebrating her birthday today and we gave her this card along with a new azalea plant which we happily found out will replace one that recently died in her garden.

I messed around with some scraps of card deciding on just which colour to make the rose, once I had settled on Raspberry versa color, I inked the stamp up carefully cleaning off the ink from the leaves and stem. Stamping first the flower portion before cleaning and reinking the leaves and stem in Olive versa color and stamping. I used MFT pierced fish tail flag die to cut the rose out then dug around in my large scrap file for the gold mirri card, found some deep pink cardstock and a wide striped paper from my stash.

I managed to smudge the ink on the rose, thankfully it blends in though. Apologies for the photo quality this one is the best of a bad bunch...

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White 5x7" card blank (12.6x17.8cm)
Heidi Swapp Marquee love paper
Darkroom Door Rose stamp (Full Bloom Vol 1)
Rasperry and Olive Versa Color ink pads
Gold mirri, black, white and deep pink cardstock from scrap files
Lawn Fawn Happy Birthday sentiment die
Tiny self adhesive gems
Fiskars Corner rounder punch
Wplus9 Scalloped border die
MFT pierced fishtail flags die
Adhesives:- Double sided tape, adhesive sheet, PVA glue

I would like to enter this card in:-
Always Happy Birthday Challenge
Snippets Playground #334
Crafting with Dragonflies #112 Spring has Sprung
The Sisterhood of Crafters Bloomin' Flowers
Seize the Birthday optional topping Rainbow

 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 comment, I truly appreciate them all!
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Wednesday, 4 April 2018

Thinking of you

Hello again,

Well our weather has turned in the last two days, from 27C to 18C, my poor two little budgies don't know if they are coming or going, they have moulted much more often over summer as the weather changed. The leaves on our autumn trees have only just begun to colour randomly here and there an orange or yellow leaf but still mostly green.

I am back today to share a card made for this months Anything goes challenge over at Crafting By Design, we would love to see what you are making, the challenge is open from now until ANZAC Day 25th April, we have two sponsors for this challenge

$15 gift certificate

Winner Choice 3 digi images

I have used an image from our sponsor Sparkle and Sprinkle called Stained glass rounds, there is two in the set, they come as black and white, coloured and there is a sentiment included. 

Here is my card:-

 What I used:-
White 14.8 x 10.6cm card blank
Striped design paper (I think I've had this since I began card making 16 years ago) From scrap file
Sparkle and Sprinkle Stained Glass Round image
Printer
MFT Pierced circle die
Derwent and Faber-Castell pencils
Magazine stamp 
Memento Tuxedo Black ink
Flowers from my stash (about 5years old)
scrap white cardstock
adhesives:- UHU glue, PVA glue

I would like to enter this card in:-

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

P.S. Many thanks to my lovely friends and visitors who take the time to leave me a message, I truly appreciate them all. 
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Tuesday, 19 December 2017

Trio of Christmas cards


Hello again,

Back to share a few more Christmas cards, these three cards all feature images from DigiStamp Boutique, the first has three of the cutest and fluffy penguins which I coloured brightly to go with some of my Doodlebug Designs Paper, adding a die cut sentiment and a few stars to finish off.
Note:- DigiStamp Boutique are having a sale at the moment 50% off all in store.... apologies for enabling you 😁

The second card has a super cute Pug decked out in some reindeer antlers, teamed up with a sentiment from Memory Box set ‘Here comes Santa Paws’ a very clean and simple design for me.


My third card features a little robin carol singing, with a corner holly die and a poinsettia to finish off the card, the sentiment was embossed in 32C heat and the embossing ink was much faster in drying out, at least I didn’t have the heat gun on for long.


I added plenty of sparkle to each of the cards, on the first and third card with Glitter paint and on the little Pugs antlers and star ornaments a liberal coating of Wink of Stella.
What I used:-
5x7" card blanks (12.6x17.8cm)
Cardstock-teal, red, white, olive green
Patterned papers from my stash-various brands, Kaisercraft, doodlebug designs, some magazine freebies
Derwent and Faber-Castell Pencils
Marianne Design Star punch die
Marianne Design Poinsettia die
Impression Obsession Holiday Top word Edger
Impression Obsession Holly Flourish
CCD Scalloped border die
CCD Pindot Rectangle die
MFT Merry Christmas Sentiment die

I would like to enter the Penguin card in:-

the Christmas Pug card in :-
the Carolling Robin card in:-
Merry Monday Christmas Challenge- Tic Tac Toe Top Row Stamping (sentiment), Patterned Paper and Embossing (heat set sentiment)
613 Avenue Create Optional Theme Christmas/Winter
Come and Get It Final Challenge- Christmas
Crafts Galore Encore Merry Christmas Anything goes
The Sisterhood of Crafters All about Christmas

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

P.S. To those in the northern hemisphere please send cool air south, for those in the southern hemisphere I'll happily send you some of our hot weather 35C today and I live in an area where hot days are few and far between, no air conditioner as it is not worth it. 
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Thursday, 14 December 2017

O Holy Night


Hello again,



Well not making enough of my Christmas cards all year long came back to bite me on the you know where, I think I have made about fourteen cards this week (and still have a couple more I need)👀, some were batch makes of the Aussie Santa in Sydney, I didn’t even worry about taking pics of them.

I had bought a new die from the recent craft show I attended, from a shop who has begun creating their own designs Catchy Crafts are also one of the biggest stall holders at the craft shows, the new die is called Bethlehem Town and I made two cards with the die, one is winging its way to my 94 year old Great Aunt who lives in far north Queensland and the other a hop across the road.

I must say that I have been severely influenced by Shaz in Oz in these cards, love the embossing with the scroll like sentiment on the first and reminds me I should dig out embossing folders more often. Thank you for the inspiration Shaz!


Here are my cards:-



What I used:-

White card stock to make card blank measuring 11cm x 17.5cm


White and Black AC card for embossing

Kaisercraft Lattice 5x7 embossing folder

Kaisercraft Damask 5x7 embossing folder

Silver Embossing powder

Clear embossing ink

Silver embossed paper

Spray ink background

Rainbow cardstock

Memory Box Parker Upper Case Alphabet Die

Impression Obsession Stamp ‘Jack Frost’ sentiment stamp

MFT stitched inner and outer oval

Adhesive:- Double Sided Adhesive sheet, Foam tape, double sided tape



I would like to enter these cards in:-









I think all our Christmas cards have been written and will get popped in the post tomorrow, minus a couple of hand deliveries and two to my friends who seem to move around a lot. Holding theirs in reserve until one of them confirms an address or two.

Thank you for looking in...
Have a wonderful weekend...
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!

P.P.S. Could someone in the northern Hemisphere send some cool air this way, looking at the fourth day above 27C and no end in sight, I don't do heat well!






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Sunday, 3 September 2017

Born to Stand out


Hello again,

I recently discovered Darkroom Door Stamps are a smallish Aussie company and purchased three sets of the same stamps… one for me and the other as a small thank you to Di for running the ever popular Snippets Playground, with an extra set for the toy box… spreading some love for one of our Home grown stamp companies in the process. Miss Di was unaware that I had posted anything and I received an excited email after the surprise package arrived, with a huge thank you from Di.

I think Di does an amazing job running Snippets Playground and giving away so many prizes to all of the class mates all over the world. A Huge thank you to Di for all the fun and giggles and encouragement to use up those little bits and pieces from my scrap box along the way, and a huge Thank you for having me as a Guest Designer again.

On to my card, my Sister-in-Law started off my collection of spray inks a few years ago and I have of course added to them and spent some time making a mess, I mean creating a few backgrounds with them in various colours to set aside for later use making various sizes based on how much white paper and card I had laying around, from small 3 inch squares to whole A4 sheets. I used two spray inks for the main background Crushed Grape and London Blue and I’m guessing Cherry Pie and Lemon Zest on the butterfly all from Dylusions.

I stamped the butterfly directly onto one of the smaller pieces of cardstock and the sentiment onto another two white snippets (do they breed when I’m not looking???) and heat embossed them both with Black glossy embossing powder. I fussy cut the butterfly and sentiment out, laying them on the card before deciding to get out one of my stencils and some white ink to add more interest in the background, carefully inking directly on the card with the ink pad. Moving the stencil around so the pattern would be a little random. Another CCD die arrived around that time that I thought looked perfect for more interest and I used yet another white snippet to cut one, which was then cut in two pieces and placed behind the butterfly. I finally stuck everything down adding foam dots behind the butterfly to give some more dimension finishing off the card with a few sequins from a local discount store.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White C7 card blank

Spray ink background paper x2 some scraps 

White card stock from scrap box



Black glossy embossing powder

Clear embossing ink

My Favorite Things Stencil Petal circles

White Colorbox ink pad

CCD Rings (no longer available... at least with the store I got it from)

Sequins from stash

Dylusions spray inks used:- London Blue, Crushed Grape, Cherry Pie and Lemon Zest

Adheisves:- Foam tape, Double sided tapes/sheet and Diamond Glaze

 I would like to enter this card in:-
Crafting by Designs September Anything Goes
Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge- Optional twist Spritz
Crafts Galore Encore September Anything goes
Love to Craft Challenge Blog #14 Anything goes
Emerald City Crafts Challenge #3 Anything goes
Sisterhood of Crafters Anything goes
Butterfly Challenge Y is for you choose and W for Wedgewood Blue  (Y you choose, Heat Embossing)

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!
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Tuesday, 29 August 2017

Hello


Hello again,


Long time no see! I haven’t been feeling very creative of late but last month I had to have a go at the lovely prize I won from Miss Di over at  Snippets Playground earlier in the year, I have been planning this post for the last few days, planning on showing you the two cards I made with the same die, using the scraps from one for the other and vice versa, but I took one of the cards along to show the bank teller I talk craft with while doing my banking and have mislaid the opposite card and the most recent DT card… never mind it will turn up.


I knew what I wanted to do with the lovely MFT die when it arrived, complete contrast with black and white with a bright sentiment and a pop of a colour. As I’m fairly new to real stamping I have only a minimum of stamps and small collection of ink pads, so I went with pink. If I had thought about it I could have inlaid the sentiment, but didn't think and added it on top...


I love that the pieces are uniform sizes, it means I don't have to worry about getting them in exactly the right spot.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White card stock to make a card blank

Black, white and pink card from the scrap box

Metallic Pink sequins

MFT Diagonal Cover-up die

MFT Hello die

MFT Beautiful Butterflies stamp and die set



I would like to enter this card in:-



Crafts Galore Encore 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!
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Tuesday, 1 August 2017

Teen Boy Birthday


Hello again,

Today I am sharing a card I made for my neighbours eldest son, who shall we say is a typical teenage boy, grunts for answers, sleeps all he can etc. I often see him coming home from work with his headphones on so I used my new CCD headphone set and also a set of stamps from China.

I used a sanding block to distress the black cardboard, then having decided where I wanted the main panel to go I worked my way around the card stamping various splatter stamps in Versamark ink and heat embossing in clear ink to give some extra interest to a fairly plain card. I used my rectangle dies to create the frame and raided my scrap box to die-cut and fill in the pieces in the headphones. The sentiment is a combination of a CCD and MFT stamp set, I finished off my card with some paper stars cut with Marianne Design Die Star Punch.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 5x7” 12.6x17.8cm card blank
Couture Creations nesting rectangle set
CCD Headphones
CCD Happy Birthday set
Cheap Chinese Stamp set
MFT Label maker Stamp
Marianne Design die Star Punch
Pebbles Basics Paper pad
Black card stock
Silver, red, black paper from scrap box
I would like to enter this card in:-
Pixie's Snippets Playground weeks 291-292
Craft-a-holics R Us #29 Anything goes
Seize the Birthday Optional topping Splatter

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


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