My Merry Card Corner

Hello again,

I'm extremely late posting this, we have been inundated with water at our place this last week. My neighbour has a rain gauge and had 640mm or 25 inches of rain in just two days which is close to half our yearly rainfall. I was upto my calves in water in our garden trying to clear leaf litter and debris coming from the properties above us, trying to let the water in our yard out to run to the lowest point down the road. Then I looked under our house and amongst the support pylons was a dry patch of earth bubbling up as water came up, as if a spring had started beneath our dining room. We have had another 8inches (20cm) since

The local waterfall had an immense amount of water going over it for the following days as it filtered through the creeks, sadly the amount of rainfall also caused significant damage to many local bushwalks, washing a $750,000 bridge away (again). Waterfall at end of Charles Darwin walk and in usual weather National Parks and Wildlife Service

The local railway line had a large landslide which has seen the cancellation of all train services for the foreseeable future whilst the engineers and track maintenance crews work out how to repair the line and communication requirements.

On the plus side grateful that all the bushfires that have caused severe damage to our state are now out and the Warragamba Dam (Sydney's water supply) has reached over 81% of it's capacity meaning the water restrictions brought in during the last six months will be relaxed (the dam was around 40%) and our local dams are at 96% capacity.

On to the card making...
Sunday brought us to another all new Anything goes Challenge with my lovely Team mates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, this fortnight our sponsor is Patties Creations who is offering the lucky winner 2 digi stamps

I was able to choose this lovely digi stamp from our sponsor Pattie's Creations to make my card, I had already decided what I wanted to do when I picked it out. I have used a DL card and paper pieced the birds using some scrap papers and coloured their feathery hair. Pattie has even got her own Challenge Blog which you can join in with here Pattie's Creations Design Challenge

My card:-
Southern Girls Challenge Anything goes with Team Lou

Hello again,

Today I have two Christmas cards to share for this fortnight's new Anything Goes challenge with my lovely teammates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, this fortnight our exclusive sponsor is Fred She Said and we got to choose our own images to work with I have chosen Poinsettia & Pine Boughs Pre-coloured.

Here are my cards:-


What I used:-
2x 14cm square card blanks
Fred She Said Poinsettia & Pine Boughs Pre-Coloured
plain kraft card
Crafters Choice kraft checked paper (spotlight for Au)
White cardstock for printing
White cardstock
Stampendous Detail gold Metallic embossing powder
Clear embossing pen
Clear embossing ink pad
Stitched Square CCD
Stitched Scalloped square CCD
MFT Scalloped circle with stitched ring die
Liquid Pearls Ruby Red and Buttercup
Sentiment stamps from magazines

I would like to enter these cards in:-
Crafts Galore Encore Challenge #68 (first card)
Crafty Creations Challenges #400 Anything Goes (first card)
Merry Little Christmas Challenge Anything goes October (first card)
The Happy Craft Challenge Anything goes October (first card)

Alphabet Challenge Blog One word sentiment (second card- Noel)
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas challenge Anything goes optional add a flower or two (second card)
12 Months of Christmas Link-up Anything goes or Optional theme Sensational Santa (second card)

Many Thanks 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 stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Hello All,

Oops, this one should have been posted yesterday...

Spring has well and truly sprung in my corner of the world, our street trees are severely lacking in flowers this year, perhaps the drought as we don't water them, the bulbs are flowering profusely under them though. Today brings us to a new Anything goes month long challenge with my lovely team mates over at Crafting By Designs, this month we have three terrific sponsors each offering a prize to one of our three lucky winners.



I have used two images from two of our sponsors, the first is Blunder Woman from Doctor Digi to make a funny card for a friend of Mum's who will get a giggle from it. I have used a sentiment from Create with TLC on this card.

Faber-Castell and Derwent pencils
Gel Ink Pens
Sentiment stamp magazine freebie
Organza ribbon
Enamel look and pearl stickers
Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad

I would like to enter these cards in:-
Blunder Woman
Alphabet Challenge N is for Naughty
Crafts Galore Encore October Anything goes

Country Rose Girl
Crafty Creations Challenges #399 Anything goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge October Anything goes

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

P.S. A Huge Thanks to all my lovely blogging friends and visitors who stop by and leave me a comment, I appreciate them all!

Hello again,

Today brings us to a new challenge with the lovely ladies over at Crafting By Designs, this weeks challenge is Easter, the challenge runs from the 10th to the 16th and you can enter using Mr. Linky over at Crafting by Designs. I decided to make my niece a card using one of the images that I have hanging around my table top, not specifically an Easter image but will hopefully suitably impress a 14yo.

This weeks sponsor is Lunagirl and is offering the lucky winner a $15 gift voucher to the store.



I have used an image I coloured before the physios told me to lay off with the repetitive movements, it is from the now closed From the Heart Stamps- Spectacular Birdbrain.

Here is my card:

What I used:-
White 12.6x17.8cm card blank
Black cardstock
Patterned cardstock (unknown brands)
From the Heart Stamps Spectacular Birdbrain digi
Faber-Castell and Derwent Pencils
Poppystamps Glasses die
Scrap metallic paper
Tiny 1mm red bling
Diamond Glaze
Sentiment typed on pc
Stitched square die

I would like to enter this card in:-
Alphabet Challenge Blog-A is for Animals
Aud Sentiments Challenge-Easter or Spring sentiment
Crafts Galore Encore Anything goes
Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper challenge Anything goes
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 take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all! 

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Sparkles Christmas Challenge Embossing Heat or Dry
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Anything goes or optional beginning with 'H'
Alphabet Challenge Blog Q is for Quad

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

P.S. Many Thanks to all my charming blogging friends and visitors who take the time to leave me a message, I appreciate them all!