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Hi everyone we have a new challenge happening over at Cardmadfairy Digi Days. This is challenge #17 and called "Is it too early for Christmas?"   We in the Design Team were lucky enough to have the chance to play with Jenni's new images. I chose the image called "Just Elfing Around". I decided to make a criss cross card for this creation as I have seen a few around in blogland and have never tried one before.  So I used some blue Bazzill bling as the base card then some wonder Christmas Brights Combo paper.  So love the wonderful colours.  The elf I coloured with my copic pens and gold metallic pen.  Behind the first elf I have used another of my new Spellbinder dies - Labels 18.  I then ran the die shape through a Merry Christmas embossing folder. I can't wait to see what christmas creations you all come up with so hurry and enter. Don't forget to use a digi image and if you use a Cardmadfairy image you can enter as many times a...

Hi everyone, I have decided to add a Sympathy card to my collection.  Theory being I have never had any on hand and I have needed way too many in the past couple of years.  If I have one on hand I shouldn't need it.  Hope it works that way. I started with one of the wonderful new shaped cards from Blue Edge Crafts and also one of their lovely Rose pre cut paper tole images.   These are lovely and thick and have a nice shine to them   I went around all the edges of the undersides of the image with my embossing tool just to give a bit of shape to the rose.  The sentiment I printed out from my computer.  I found some wonderful grey metallic card and this lovely silver and white patterned paper in my stash. Well I hope you all have a happy Friday.  I will be back later today with a card for the new Cardmadfairy Digi Days challenge.  Yes, two weeks are up already.   Supplies Used:

This card is for the winner over at Unstampabelles.  Normally my original creation for the challenges has been a Thank You card but I had so much fun making the owl I almost forgot this month. I decided to use this month Craftmad Card Sketch Challenge to start the card with. The card started as a plain white card to which I added a layer of red Bazzill cardstock then a layer of paw print paper which I have had forever.  I added black border stickers around the bottom section of the card.  I made the 'Thanks' sentiment from random letters off a rub-on sheet.  This rub-on sheet of greetings has gotten all scratched and some letters coming away. Disappointing that I can't use the sentiments on the sheet properly.  Maybe it is old. I then cut out these three Spellbinder Crown Circles.....new to my collection and first use.  Then added the three black dog stickers.  Finished to of the circles with little black leftover sticker dots around the ed...

Middle of the week. :-) Yes, my stash of Christmas cards are starting to grow.  Today I have used this fun Holly Tree image from Cardmadfairy .  So much fun to colour with my Copic pens.  I attached some flatback pearls to finish off the tree. I have attached it to this wonderful shaped card on top of a layer of torn mulberry paper.  The inside of the card I found this lovely diamond patterned green paper and attached the vertical Merry Christmas sticker.  The off cuts of the sticker I thought nicely finished the front of the card. Happy Wednesday everyone, a really slow day planned here.  If my teenage son gets up in time we may go in search of a suit for his up and coming graduation (November). I would love to enter into the following challenge: Craft Room - Christmas ends 4th October Inspire Me Friday - Always Anything Goes ends 30th September Supplies Used:

Hi everyone, today is so much slower and nicer.  :-) Todays card came about as I wanted to do my second 'Pink' entry into the CraftMad Girls Night In competition.  Also I spied a challenge over at Mad for Markers all about the Copic Blender Pen and thought I should try that as I really don't use my blender pen much.  I use it for my mistakes. My friend Helen was kind enough to lend me her Annie's Attic Copic Colouring Guide book which I read the same night as I discovered the challenge.  It has a lot of handy info about colouring and using the Blender Pen.  I discovered the Copic Blender Pen is full of alcohol solution and no pigment.  When you use it near a colour it actually pushes the colour away from it.  Here I was thinking it was sucking my mistakes up.  It was actually pushing them back over the line. Ok, my card.  I started with the sketch from over at Sketch Saturday .  Out came my white base card which I layered ...

Hi all, I am just a tad late today.  Started the day slowly with a nice walk with our dog.....then it seemed to get busier and busier.  Just finished organising an excited husband to fly to Sydney to watch his favourite Rugby League team Manly in the Grand Final this coming Sunday.  This now means there is an excited Mum down in Newcastle that will be keen to catch up with her son for the weekend.  Possibly a not so excited sister that has to spend time with both brother and Mum as they will be staying with her.  :-) and......she will be accompanying her brother to the Grand Final and she doesn't go for either team. lol Okay, time to get on to my card.  A little bit more christmas.  I was so keen to use this beautiful holly paper.  I do like holly at Christmas time. I started with a white card then a layer of red cardstock, then this lovely patterned paper.  The sentiment is a gold rub on.  I cut the image out with my new oval...

Hi everyone, I will have to be using my scanner for the next week as my daughter has taken my camera away on Guide camp. I have never used the scanner before...it's not that bad. I have made a start on some more Christmas cards. This one I started with a blank white card then a layer of purple Bazzill card.  Next came this wonderful new combo Christmas paper from Blue Edge Crafts .  I just love the colours.  The blue strip is sandable Bazzill Card each comes with an embossed shape....this has a star shape which I thought was perfect for the card.  I used my emery board to sand it back a little.  I cut three pink trees from a scrap of the combo paper to add to the blue strip.  I have tied some twine across the top .....this twine is all the way from my friend Ilo in Germany.  Thanks Ilo.  Added a silver rub-on sentiment.  Now the image is a Mo Manning design....I so love colouring her artwork.  I have used my copic pens, a touc...

Morning everyone,  I am having a love, hate relationship with this card. :-) One moment I like all the colours then the next there is just too much happening. The daffodil paper tole is the other image that came on the same sheet as the roses I did earlier here .   I do really like the gloss on this paper as the flowers come up so lovely and yes, it is a diecut sheet so makes me smile even more.  I embossed around all the back side edges of the image and then layered it up with my silicone glue.  Which I like as I can control the height between the layers.  I then attached it to this corrugated card which I attached to the card front.  I added some yellow spots to the card front, rub on Thanks and a couple of black sticker flowers.  The inside I layered up with Stampin Up More Mustard and patterned paper. We have been having a fun, relaxing time so far this school holidays. I love not having to be anywhere at a certain time.  Bee...

This card today will be perfect for those standby cards at Christmas time.  Or if you are new to card making and would like to send a little something special that has been handmade by you. This card all comes in one sheet that has been die-cut this includes the actual card that has this terrific snow scene printed on the front with all the wonderful silver highlights. So I just pressed out the card from the sheet and then pressed out the layers of the Pyramid image.  Used my silicone glue to layer them up and attached to the card.  Next I had four sentiments I could choose from......I like the way Seasons Greetings fit on the card. There are few more kits available too that I wouldn't mind trying.  There is one with a robin on the front and another with polar bears, oh and of course santa. Click on images for supply links:

Hi everyone, just want to share with you Sandra's wonderful candy that she has on offer to celebrate her blog having 21000 hits.  Be sure to visit as there are other prizes on offer and Sandra has such lovely creations to show. Sandra's Crafty Corner. ends 18th October.

This morning I have so many new things to share with you.  I am so lucky to be able to play with these new embossed shaped cards and StudioLight Paper Tole Christmas Sheets from Blue Edge Crafts. How lucky to have Sarah Kay images as Paper Tole for Christmas.  Even better these sheets are all die cut so they just push out really easily.  I then go around with my craft knife and cut the little nodes off.  Not really necessary, just me being a neat freak.  I then layered this image up using my silicone glue and attached him to this wonderful shaped card.  It's hard to see in the photo but the rectangle front is embossed. I added the stickers to each corner and wonderful patterned paper to the inside with a gold sticker border. Just showing the layers. My other exciting news is the new InLinkz Tool that you can use to display links to all your supplies. I visit Kathy on her amazing blog ' The Daily Marker '.  Kathy does the most amazing colou...

Hi everyone, can you believe it is time for a new challenge at Cardmadfairy Digi Days. Thanks to everyone who joined in our last challenge it was so much fun visiting everyone and seeing your terrific creations. This time our challenge is " Lots of Layers " and our sponsor is the terrific Bugaboo Stamps . We hope you will play along with us this week but please remember that you  must  use a digi stamp although it's not necessary to use a  Cardmadfairy  one  although it would be fantastic to see how you would use our images . Please remember though to only enter the challenge  once  unless you are using Cardmadfairy images ,  we will have to delete any extra entries which don't comply with our rules . For my card I have decided to start with the sketch from over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday #119. I started with a blank white square card .  I then used a patterned paper from a magazine giveaway.  Created a frame from Sta...

Friday is here an end to a very hectic week also and end to the kids term three.  They are now on holidays for two weeks so if I come and go over that time we will be out keeping them from being 'bored'.  :-) Today I have a card that I was asked to make for a friend, for her friends 75th Birthday. I so enjoy these Joy Fold cards as they are just a little different from the normal card and I can use more papers. I started with a square blank white card ,  cutting the front panel in half and then creating a smaller pink card for the right hand side.  The green background is Bazzill card stamped with a flourish from my Stampin Up Priceless set.  Front left panel has some Pink Bazzill Bling and a lovely white cross grain ribbon from Mei Flower .  The front of the little card the patterned paper is a magazine giveaway which I have hand stitched around the edge.   The sentiment is computer generated.  And lastly and by no means least th...

Cards I have created with Cardmadfairy Digital Stamps Hi everyone, just wanted to remind you that Jenni over at Cardmadfairy Digi Days is looking for three new members for her Design Team.  Jenni, has some wonderful images that you will have a chance to play with and I can tell you the current Design Team are a lovely group.  So be quick to email Jenni here with your blog address so she can check out your work.  DT Call closes UK time 16th September.

Morning everyone.   What a lovely Thursday we have here....still a little cool to start with but heating up during the day.  The dog and I have been for a walk and now time to get those kids up and moving. :-0 The card I have to share with you today was the card that my MIL chose to give to her friend for her 70th Birthday. I started with  a square white blank card and cut the front panel in half to create the Joy Fold card.  I made a smaller white card to add to the other side of this panel.  The bottom section I lined with the lovely patterned paper that I am sure came from a magazine giveaway.  The left hand side I covered with this wonderful brown glitter paper .  Inside this panel I have added a piece of white card embossed with my Victoria embossing folder. The smaller card I layered with brown paper then this fantastic Flannel Flower image from Beccy's Place .  I have coloured it with my Copics and once again at how wonderfu...

Hi everyone, I have been wanting to do this card for the past week.   Craftmad are having a Girl's Night In on the Friday, 22nd October.  As a lead up they have two competitions running.  First comp is to discover all the Pink Words being posted now and up till 17th October.  Second comp is the " PINK competition " where you can enter twice with your "PINK" craft projects.  So today I sat down to make a start on one of my entries.  I found in my collection this lovely 3D Helene Pyramid  so next I went in search of a sketch for the card and found this fun looking sketch #121 at Midnight Madness  . Next thing was to put the card together.  So out came my Stampin Up Pink Pirouette to make the base card.  Then a layer of Stampin Up Rose Red next a layer of this pretty floral patterned paper.  I then added columns of Rose Red which I have embossed in my Stylised Flower embossing folder.  Added square bling to the bot...

Morning everyone!  My MIL asked if I would make a card for one of her friends 70th birthday.  I always make two cards so that people have a choice.  So I am afraid this was the loser.   However, I really like how it turned out. It is an easel card and I started with a blank white card then a layer of Blue Edge Combo paper .  I layered up the image panel with Stampin Up Almost Navy and wrapped some binding thread under the gerbera's.  I threaded beads on also.  Finished with all these wonderful sticker sentiments. Now the gerbera images. ...they are three different images and all from the talented Beccy over at Beccy's Place .  Beccy kindly offers her images free.  I have coloured these with my Copic Pens. I would like to enter into the following challenges: Liz Stampz - #2 Birthday ends 15th September Make it Monday - #54 Always Anything Goes ends 19th September The Crazy Challenge = #84 ends 19th September Inspir...

The challenge this time over at Flashback Friday is the first Fall card  that you posted. I am totally amazed that I even have one on my blog.  I don't normally do cards by season as here in tropical northern Australia we have a Wet Season and a Dry Season.  Apr to Sep is cooler than the remainder of the year which is hot and humid.  Thanks to a challenge I have this card to share it is from my post here.  (5th October 2009) Have a great Monday everyone.

Well Thursday disappeared in a flash, didn't even get a chance to post.   Today I have the last two of the chocolate boxes I made. I started with Stampin Up Pink Pirouette and Kaye's wonderful tutorial over at Craftmad .  Next I added this cute Blue Edge Owl Combo paper and the diamond patterned paper. I teamed the papers with this cute Owl image from Whimsy Stamps.  I am so happy with how she turned out.  I coloured her with my Copic Pens and finished with a touch of Kindy Glitz.  Then added a silver sticker sentiment . I would like to enter this card into the following challenges: Crafty Purple Frog - Birthdays ends 15th Sep Hanna and Friends - #110 Little Gifts ends 15th Sep I really like how this one turned out ....so much fun for a kids birthday. This time I started with Stampin Up Orchid Opulence and teamed it up with Blue Combo papers - Past Spodia.   I layered the image up with some Stampin Up Pumpkin Pie.  Is...

I was asked to make an engagement card for my friends daughter.  How exciting, I have watched this girl grow up from Primary school and she has grown into such a lovely person. I decided to make two cards and gave my friend the choice and whichever was left I would give to the happy couple. So the top card is the one I gave to the couple.  I started with Stampin Up Very Vanilla as the base card then a layer of Stampin Up Rose Red.  Next was this lovely paper from a magazine giveaway.  The side panel I layered up and pin pricked both edges of the Very Vanilla panel.  I created two hearts from red wire and stitched them to the panel.  Finished with some bling and a gold sticker sentiment . I would like to enter this card into this challenges: Deep Ocean - #7 Hearts ends 13th September This is the card my friend chose to give to her daughter and future son-in-law. :-) I started with a white square card which I cut the front panel in h...

Hi everyone, I have been cleaning out my scrap box that seems to be growing faster than my paper collection at the moment.  I really enjoy the challenge of just using the papers that are in my box and then adding mostly sticker embellishments.   A busy day for me.....hope you all have a good one and I will catch up with you again tomorrow. These wonderful horse stickers are from the Sticker Store .

Goodmorning everyone, today I have a paper bag owl as my DT creation for our new challenge over at Unstampabelles .  This months challenge #3 it is all about ANIMALS and the bonus technique challenge is dry embossing. We are looking for all types of papercrafts with NO STAMPING. Challenge closes 30th September and Winner announced 3rd October This is the wonderful prize on offer from one of our very own DT members Cathy at Cathy's Creative Corner . I felt like trying something other than a card and happened upon these paper bag owls at here  and here which I used as my guidelines. So I started with a plain brown paper bag that I used to use for the kids tuckshop lunches in primary school.  Firstly, I crumpled up two pages of magazines to put in the bottom of the bag. I started by cutting down each side about 5cm.  I cut away the front section of this flap then on the back section I cut the flap into a triangle shape.  This triangle fla...

Nothing like last minute..... Yes, it is Father's Day right now and I have just finished my card for my Dad.  So glad he lives nearby and that there are sketch challenges to help me with the layout. :-)  Thanks Sketch Saturday for your sketch at #171. Wishing all Dads a lovely day and may it be full of special treats. See you all tomorrow with my Design Team creation for our new Unstampabelles Challenge. Card Ingredients: Card Blank - Blue Edge Crafts Stampin Up cardstock - Cherry Cobbler Patterned Paper - Blue Edge Combo paper Image - Free....sorry can't remember the site if you do please let me know Glitter Paper - Blue Edge Crafts Bookbinding Twine - Boundary Press

Hi everyone, I am back.....with my DT card for the new Cardmadfairy Digi Days challenge .  This time we want you to add some flowers .  I have used one of Jenni's brand new digi images.   This is called Imogen and she is so much fun to colour.   I have coloured her with my Copic pens.  I started the card with a blank white card .  Then added a layer of Stampin Up More Mustard.  Next was a layer of this lovely orange flower patterned paper that has come from a magazine giveaway at some stage.  The bottom section of the card is Bazzill card which has been run through my Bloom Dots embossing folder.  I punched out a small flower in each corner of the topper and added a small bling centre to each.  It's hard to see in this photo but I have added more white punched out flowers to the background of the image.  To the side I have used these lovely new metallic flowers from Blue Edge Crafts .  I have layered them up and finished w...

Friday is here and the second day of September....time is speeding along. Todays card I created for my friends sons 15th birthday.  He has been known to sit in front of the computer or xbox for a little while each day.  So I thought this image from Mo Manning was very apt.  I have coloured him with my Copic pens and really like the end result.  Although I did colour in a little too much ..... can you spot my mistake? To make the card I started with a blank white square card . Then a layer of Stampin Up Perfect Plum.  Next is a layer of paper I received as a prize.  I have attacked the edges of all the paper and card stock with the edge of scissors to give them a distressed look.  Even tore the green patterned papers a couple of times.  Thought it could not look too neat for a 15 yo boy.  Finished with the card with these wonderful brass looking star and square brads.  Also a quiet little Happy Birthday sticker . Wishing yo...

Hi everyone....wow...a new interface here at blogger.  It is just like going into a motel room for the first time and you have to open every drawer and door to see what hides in there. :-)  So far I am liking what I find. I have more chocolate boxes for you today.  You can find the tutorial  here at Craftmad .  This time i have started with Stampin Up Pumpkin Pie and then added Blue Edge Combo paper s.....they match so well.  Next I coloured with my Copic pens this fun little image I have had in my collection for a while but never used.  Sadly, I don't know where I have gotten him from....if anyone knows can you let me know so I share the link. Thanks.   Finished this card with the gold sentiment sticker . I would like to enter this card into the following challenges: Creative Crew - Anything Goes ends 19th September Die Cut Dreams - #97 Gift Box or Bag ends 11th September This card I started with Stampin Up Chocolate Chip ...