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How could I not share this as this would be a perfect mini mag for me as I just received my order of 14 Copics on Thursday.  So I really need to learn a lot about how to colour with these pens. Sammi over at M4M (Mad for Markers) is putting together this A5 sized mini mag full of Copic colouring ideas.  She is looking for submissions for the magazine here some of the details......also here is a link to her blog for all the details. Copicendium will be an A5 booklet ... scheduled to be available in late June... We will therefore be accepting Submissions* and Advertising* up until 20th May! * Submissions We are looking for creations using Copics .. from beginners to advanced colourers! This first issue - we are particularly looking for: - creations using Copic coloured digi images - pictures of your Copic storage solutions - Scrapbooking projects incorporating Copics. Please email your submissions to sales@madformarkers.com.au * We do ask that you only send NEW creations th...

What amazing creations you came up with for our Recipe challenge over at Cardmadfairy Digi Days . I had such a wonderful time going around and checking all your entries out. Congratulations to the very lucky winner and top three entries. This challenge is all about Weddings.  This was a first for me as I have never made a Wedding Card before.  However, I did enjoy the challenge. I started with a blank white square card and then added a layer of this beautiful pink heart vellum that I was given.  Next I used Cardmadfairy's 'Heart Vase' .  I kept it simple and coloured the vase a light blue and added Kindy Glitz to the heart flowers.  Much more glittery in real life.  To finish I drew two black lines along the left and bottom of the topper.  To finish the card off I added a silver Congratulations sticker from and this lovely heart brad . Now it is your turn. :-) This challenge is open until 13th May.   Please remember you must use a   dig...

Hi everyone, I did have a card to share with you but the photo is on my daughters camera and I think she must have it with her.  However, I will be posting a card later today for the new Cardmadfairy Digi Days Challenge.  Wedding is the new theme. :-) But now without further ado........I am very sorry to be so slow in posting these names.....the winners of my Pay It Forward envelopes are........... Random Integer Generator Here are your random numbers: 3 7 Timestamp: 2011-04-28 23:25:29 UTC I had seven lovely people comment on my post here ....  so lucky No. 3 is.......... Ilo and lucky No 7. is Lesley.  Could these two ladies please email me with their snail mail addresses.  Thanks so much. Thanks to everyone who takes the time to comment on my blog.  It really makes my day reading your comments and then popping over to your blog to see what you have been up to.   See you soon with my Design Team card . Oh, and I had a wonderful start to my...

Sorry, forgot to add details to this post. Better late than never....it has been a busy day. I used my scalloped edge Spellbinder die for the base of the easel card.  Using Bazzill cardstock - Heather.   The paper tole is Happy Birthday Girl and Rabbit ...isn't she so sweet.  I like all the flowers in the background.   There are nine layers to this image.  Once again I have used a envelope from Mel Stampz wonderful template collection. I will be back in the morning with the two names of people I will ' Pay it Forward ' to.  Again just have run out of time.

The house is mine, all mine.  :-)  Yes, everyone has gone back to school and work.  Now it is so (too) very quiet....never happy hey! Another card for my April Swaps over at Craftmad .  I found a template for this card in one of the magazines my Mum had given me.  I cut the shape out using Bazzill card - Parakeet . Then I cut some gold foil out for the top section of the card and embossed the cork line.  I cut some strips from my Celebrate Dandelion Wishes patterned paper.  I wrapped this around the bottle then created the seal by using my circle Spellbinder.  The top layer is a bronze foil which I embossed free hand by drawing swirls on the back.  Next I needed a label so I added another piece from the patterned paper and printed out my own label  on the computer.  Once again I had to create my own envelop....this one was a little more challenging as I had to use an envelope I had here as a template and adjust the sizing. Don...

Morning everyone, last day of our long, long weekend.  Yes, today, Tuesday was appointed a public holiday as a substitute for Easter Monday due to Anzac day falling on that day.  This is also the last day of school holidays.  So everyone is out of the house tomorrow.... Wednesday. :-)  We have had such perfect weather over the weekend.  It was a pleasure to be out and about catching up with friends and family and at home giving gardens some much needed attention.  I even grabbed my cuppa, craft mag and towel and sat up the back yard in the shade of a tree.  Pretended I was on holidays for a moment.  Also took the time to watch the white puffy clouds get blown across the sky. Okay, time to talk about my card.  This is one of the cards I have made for my Swap partner over at Craftmad .   This month we swapped cards that were not rectangle or square.  You can check out the other creations in the gallery at Craftmad . I dug out my Oc...

Morning everyone, I just have to share these absolutely amazing cards.   These cards were created by the very talented Laura over at Mi Sello Personal. I have been following her blog for a little while now and seeing her amazing work. So way back in January I sent an email and asked if she would make four cards for my wonderful school friends. (Known each other 30 + years now, omg!) :-0 The plan was to give them one each on their birthdays. Well I think that the work that has gone into these cards is too fantastic to hold on to so I gave them to my friends on the weekend. We had a get together for a farewell. As one of our friends is taking a once in a lifetime journey to Italy for 6 months and leaves at the end of the month......we are all just a tad jealous. Anyways, I sent Laura a couple of photos of us all together and told her a few details about ourselves and this is what she came up with. This is while her sister was seriously ill and herself not well at all.  That is ...

Oops....forgot I had these photos scheduled with the plans to come back later and add details.  blushes. These two cards are for the Sticky Situation challenge over at Stamping Vacation . This month Denise has asked us to use 'Baby Stickers'.  This can be baby bottles, dummies, etc. I thought, this would be so easy as I have lots of baby stickers.  How wrong could I be.  I had plenty of stickers that said 'Baby Boy' or 'Baby Girl' but no images. No problems I headed off to the shops and in the third shop I found these which I do love and a bargain at .76c a sheet. After shopping I visited my Mum a mad keen crafter.....thought she would have a baby sticker for sure....nope...same as me, only words. lol  Hope that is not the case for you. Anyways I started both of these card with blank white card then a layer of (boy) Bazzill - Jet Stream and (girl) - Bazzill - Quartz .  Then I used some new papers from Blue Edge Crafts . (boy) -   Sweetiepie Stripe...

Morning everyone, the day before the Easter long weekend.  Hope you all have some relaxing plans planned.  We are catching up with friends Saturday and the rest of the time doing day by day. I just had to share these wonderful cards.  I received them from my swap partner over at Craftmad .  This month we had our first ever 'blind swap'.  Which means we have no idea who we are getting our cards from....they just appear in the mailbox.  Brilliant.   The theme of this swap was two cards that were not Square or Rectangular shaped. I think my partner definitely achieved the challenge of the swap.  The circle card is so pretty with the papers, flowers and flourish.  The shoe card is even prettier in real life.   The red shoe really glitters and is so elegant. While I am talking Craftmad I would like to let you know that our next Create and Chat night is coming up next Wednesday, 27th April .  This time Kaye is going to show us how t...

Hi everyone, I have another Design Team card for you.  This time it is for the Fountain of Youth challenge at Stamping Vacation  this closes 20th May. This month it is all about Zoo's. I dug through my digital images and came across this wonderful Hippo which I received from Alison over at Free Digital Stamps. I remembered that I had this fantastic water background paper.  So I printed the image out on the water paper also added the 'Hello' word.   Then I printed the hippo out again onto some textured grey paper from DCWV.  I then cut the hippo out and paper pieced the image.   Finished by adding three bling.  A nice quick card but I so love the results. So now it's your turn to show me all your zoo related creations.  I can't wait to visit and see them all. Remember every time you enter a challenge (a different challenge everyday of the month) you go into the monthly draw for a $25.00 gift certificate to the store of the winners choice. Anothe...

Allison G put me on to this cute little image over at MelonHeadz . So glad I found MelonHeadz...there are lots of wonderful images available there. Another card for the When I Grow Up challenge over at Stamping Vacation .  This month it is all about clowns.  I am really enjoying using all my stripes and spots for these cards.  Also all the wonderful bright colours.  This challenge ends the 3rd May and all that enter go into the draw for a $25.00 Gift Certificate to the store of the winners choice. Supplies: Cardstock - Stampin Up Paper - DCWV Image - MelonHeadz Colouring - Aquamarkers, Copics and Watercolur Pencils Brads - Stars - Blue Edge Crafts Oh....great news, I was the lucky winner of Annette's Mini Candy .......big grin from me!!!

Morning everyone, another wonderful day here in North Queensland.  Although the clouds are creeping in....but that would be good timing as the gardens are starting to dry out a little.   Some rain would be great for the vegie garden I rediscovered on the weekend.   The 1m high weeds are gone....found three pineapple plants, garlic chives and two types of mint.  Oh, and lots of lots of worms.  The most I have ever seen in my garden so this made me very happy and keen to plant.  I planted some corn seeds and six tomato seedlings that my wonderful mother had given to me the weekend before.  My motivation. :-) Now on to my card.  Finally found another clown image to made up a card for the the When I Grow Up challenge at Stamping Vacation  closes 3rd May.  Yes, it's all about clowns .  I printed off this fantastic clown image.  Sorry not sure where I got this from....something called Make and Share?  If you know I would love...

Morning everyone,  how is your Monday going so far.  Mine is wonderful, another day of school holidays, so a few plans have been made.   This is the second card I made for my friend who asked for a wedding card. (Made three all up) I have to admit this is my favourite.   The couple that are getting married are sailors and apparently they made their own invitations.  On the invites they had attached lots of different sailing knots. So I decided to follow that theme. I started with a plain white card, added some gold vellum paper.  Then used this lovely pearlised white paper which I ran through my 'Victoria' embossing folder.  I printed out the sentiment on my computer.  and tied this 'Clove Hitch' on to some bamboo skewers which I cut short.  My husband helped me choose the knot as I did want one you could use in sailing....and yes, he enjoys his sailing too. Plus we both like the fact that the name is 'Clove Hitch' and this couple are getti...

Once again, I had so much fun tripping around blog land seeing all your wonderful creations for our last challenge - Easter.  You are all so very creative.  Congratulations to our lucky winner. The new Cardmadfairy Digi Days challenge is a: Recipe:  1 image (remember this must be digital), 2 papers and 3 embellishments. So for my card I have used Cardmadfairy's fun 'Joey ' image which I coloured with my watercolour pencils and aqua pen.  I chalked around the edges and even remembered to put a shadow under the skateboard so it didn't look like he was floating on air.  I started with a blank white card, some blue paper  and then a layer of this wonderful new Blue Edge paper called Sweetiepie Diamond Check .  I added some Stampin Up ribbon across the bottom and added three star brads .  To finish I printed out the greeting using a variety of fonts.  Tore the shape I wanted and attached it with this little paper clasp I picked up cheap from ...

Morning all, it is such a beautiful Autumns day here.  Clear skies and touch of coolness in the air.  The kids are sleeping as it is the first day of school holidays or officially a 'pupil free day'.  :-)  Bliss. Today I am sharing with you my first ever wedding card.  A friend has asked me to make a wedding card for her to give to some friends.   It's an okay card....I have made another two that I much prefer but one is for DT so can't share yet. I have started with a blue base card as the couple getting married are sailing people....so I was thinking water.  I rounded the corners and added a layer of this beautiful vellum paper with roses on.  This is the last piece. :-(  Then I added the ribbon and attached a bow.  Finished by adding some gold wedding stickers from the Sticker Store .  I added a bling to each heart. I would like to enter this into the following challenges: Crafts and Me #30 - Ribbons ends 20th April Creative C...

I so love this challenge although I have only entered it once before.  Silly me forgot to follow so that I could remember the name.  Thankfully a blog I follow mentioned this challenge and here I am again. It's called Flashback Friday and they challenge you to go back on your blog and find the first card you posted that is relevant to their challenge.  This time it is the first project with stitching on.  Here is mine.  I really do like to stitch around the edges of my cards.  Shame I can't leave my machine set up as I think I would do it more often. When doing the challenge you have to remember to repost the card into a current post. Here is the link to my original posting back in November 2008 ....omg, have I been blogging that long. ******Sorry to edit this so many times.  I was just sitting here rereading what I had typed on the post.  Then trying to remember the card that I had entered in my other one and only Flashback Friday challenge. ...

Stacie from All Things Crafty   has tagged me to play along and after I am done I will be passing this on to 4 other people! 4 Shows you watch: 1. Project Runway 2. Cold Case 3. Warehouse 13 4. Hotel Inspector 4 Things you are passionate about: 1. Our kids 2. Crafting 3. Exercising (but not overly passionate....can miss doing any for a couple of days) 4. Food 4 Words/phrases you say a lot: 1. It's your turn to take the rubbish out 2. Set the table 3. Any dirty clothes in the wash now 4. OK 4 Things you've learned about the past: 1. Try not to worry as it will work out. 2. All smudges on cards can be covered by a butterfly 3. Get your wheels align early otherwise it could mean four new tyres...ouch!! 4. Buon giorno is for the morning and Buon sera is evening. 4 Places you would like to go: 1. Back to Italy 2. Finland 3. Canada 4. Places in Australia I haven't seen 4 Things you did yesterday: 1. played tennis 2. swept the floor 3. coffeed w...

No clown card from me today.  I tried to find inspiration and the time but the two just did not come together at the same time.  Plus my kids were keeping me busy helping them find some work experience.  Thankfully that is all settled now. So here is another project I am working on.  Mandy from over at Craftmad has asked for donations of cards with Cats or Dogs on to donate to a Charity Event in aid of Animals (16th April).   See more info here. Thought it was time to do another 3D paper tole embellishment.  This guy looks so regal and faithful so I made him the star of the card.   I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.  I am hoping to find some time to do some more dog or cat cards so hope to have them to show you next week.  Also have family coming for morning tea so that will be lovely to catch up with everyone. Take care and catch up with you next week. Supplies: Cardstock - Bazzill - Leapfrog and Pine Cone 3D Paper Tole - Col...