Birthday Clown Card and Pay it Forward

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 to correct this.  I found this lovely spotted paper from a magazine giveaway and used those colours to colour my clown.  I used my Aquamarker pens and a touch of Kindy Glitz.  I then dug out my Stampin Up card which I still so love for matching colours.  Started with SU Tangerine Tango and SU Taken with Teal.  Finished with these wonderful letter stickers from the Sticker Store.

Just had a discussion with my daughter on how lucky I was that I had the right amount of circles to place the letters and the all the letters to spell the words.  Would be nice to say that was the plan.  However, I did panic when I discovered most of my alphabets are missing 'happy birthday' letters.  The fact that I have right amount of circles was shear luck. :-)

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Now on to something different.

"Pay It Forward" is the idea of blessing someone with a random act of kindness without expecting anything in return. It’s passing on a kindness, hoping that your recipients will do the same, and forming a never-ending chain of goodwill. But it isn’t only kindness, it is also a means to connect and share instead of just keeping it to ourselves.

Fun right?

Recently I entered into Corry's Whopping Candy (closed now).  Corry added a extra little challenge for this candy.  She offered a sketch to complete a card to win a seperate prize.  This is my entry here.  Now the sketch was a 'Pay it Forward' gift from Claudia and Corry kindly sent everyone that used this sketch a 'Pay it Foward Gift'  some lovely papers and a beautifully coloured Tilda on a tag.

So now it is my turn take part in this 'Pay it Forward' chain.

I have these two, envelopes which will be filled with some papers, something from me and something from my area, envelopes ready for:

- TWO PEOPLE WHO COMMENT ON THIS POST.  
I WILL USE ONE OF THOSE RANDOM NUMBER CHOOSING THINGS AND PICK TWO COMMENTS ON WEDNESDAY, 28TH APRIL.

You do not have to continue this chain of Pay it Foward but would love it if you did.
I sure hope you all take the time to pay it forward. 

There's nothing better than sending, sometimes a complete stranger, a little something to say hi! 

Wedding Card - Tying the knot

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 getting hitched.

I would like to enter into these challenges:

Totally Gorjuss - Not Patterned Paper ends 23rd April

Frosted Designs - Homemade Embellishment ends 22nd April

Polka Doodles - #15 Tying the Knot ends 24th April

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Challenge - A Recipe - DT Card

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 the supermarket.

Now it is your turn to share in the fun.

I can't wait to see your creations.

Be sure to check out the Cardmadfairy Digi Days blog as there are a couple of changes this time around regarding the winner of the challenge.  We are also adding a Top Three to show appreciation of the work you put into your creation.

Almost forgot the import info:

Our sponsor this month is Wax Fruit Company.  

Be sure to pop on over and see the wonderful items they have available.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Simon Says - For a Child ends 20th April

Make It Monday - Anything Goes ends 18th April

Wedding Card and Bukuro Bag

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 Craft World - Love and Marriage ends 26th April

Scrapbook Sisters - Wedding or Anniversary ends 26th April

Here is another Bukuro bag that I made.  I used slightly smaller pieces of material on this one and it has turned out so cute.  I hope everyone is having fun creating these bags.

Flashback Friday Challenge #10 - Stitching

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.  Lol....it was this same card.  Can you believe it!!  

You can see it here....it wash Flashback Challenge 4.0 and asked for your first ever Christmas card.***************

Sorry I haven't been around much....I have caught up on a couple of blogs I like to follow but not all.  The kids and life are once again keeping me busy.

Work experience for my daughter which she is loving but this means two hours out of my day driving.  But hey, I get chatting time with her.

Our son is dealing with a passing of friend from school.  They were not best buddies but in the same year level and have spent time together in the past four years.  Some our sons mates have known this boy since they started school.  So seeing them so upset is also affecting our son.  

Personally, I didn't know this boy but it just puts you in a quieter mood and I have been doing lots of thinking.  My heart so goes out to the family that has to deal with this.

On another note....kids start school holidays this Friday for ten days.....so either will have time at home while they are off with their mates or we will be tripping around.

Take care....and I will catch up with you soon.

List of Fours

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 with a friend
4. drove to Cairns and back twice

4 Things you are looking forward to:
1. Relay for Life 18/19th June
2. Travelling to Brisbane with our son for an Open day at a Media College
3. The possibility of another trip with my hubby
4. The weekend

4 Things you love about spring:
1. The weather
2. Flowers
3. Playing in the garden
4. Butterflies

Tag 4 people to play along:
1. Kaye
2. Alisha
3. Thearica
4. Paola

Thank You Hound Card

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 - Collie and Dogs

Design Paper - Blue Edge - Rosewillow Green Sqaures

Sticker - gold Border Sticker

Brads - Star Antique Metallic

Mouse Clown

Morning everyone, we have a sunny day here today...... Yay!!! Well it was as I started typing this post.  An hour later as I finish, it is now cloudy. :-(

I am having so much fun creating clown cards at the moment.  Actually, I am surprised and how very few images are available and the fact that clowns are not used that often.  I only have the one image in my collection and that is the Clowning Around Molly I used the other day.

I am not too keen to go out and buy anything for my little challenge so thought I would look at what I have and adapt.

So I grabbed this little mouse stamp I have.  He normally is juggling some words but I decided to add some brads as balls for him to juggle.  I coloured him with my watercolour pencils and hope to give him a little clown costume with a red nose.

I have cut three sections of the background paper and purposely put them on a little wonky.  Finally got to have a go at adding a banner....I have seen these around forever and always love the effect.  So cut out  ten triangles....five blue and five white slightly smaller.  Then added rub-on letters.  I added to blue brads to the card and tied kitchen twin between each of them.  Then adhered the little flags next to the twine.

Another clown card for the When I Grow Up Challenge at Stamping Vacation.

Ends 3rd May.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes ends 12th April

When I Grow Up Challenge - Clowns ends 3rd May

Craft your Passion - Anything Goes ends 11th April

Make it Monday - Anything Goes ends 11th April

Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Old/Neglected Stamp ends 11th April

Supplies:

Cardstock: Blue Bazzil Bling

Paper: ***** NEW*** Easter Pastel Patchwork - Blue Edge Papers

Image: Stampin Up - Nice and Easy Notes

Embellishments: Kitchen twine, rub-on letters, misc split pins/brads

Colouring: watercolour pencils.

Origami Clown and Craftmad Create and Chat Night

Isn't this card terrific.  I received this from one of the members of Craftmad when I did one of their first swaps back in 2005.  This lady, Sherry, I now call a friend.

I remembered I had this card and that it is perfect for the current 'When I Grow Up Challenge' at Stamping Vacation. Theme - Clowns.

Next Create and Chat night over at Craftmad is to make Mother's Day card is on 15th April.

Guessing Game Winner

I am pretty sure this is the image that my daughter used to sketch off.

Yes, we have a winner.

The wonderful Miss Annmaree guessed Pierce Bronsan straight off.  

Well done ...... the Bukuro Bag will be on it's way to your house soon.

Thanks everyone for your wonderful comments and taking the time to have a think of who this might be.

Clown Birthday and a Guessing Game

As promised here it is....another clown card.  I decided to dig through my stickers for this card and found these three amazing clown stickers.  Some beautiful purple for the base card and this fun spotted paper from a magazine giveaway.  Finished by layering up this multi coloured 'Happy Birthday' sticker.

Supplies:
cardstock - Stampin Up Orchid Opulence
paper - magazine giveaway
stickers - $2 store
sentiment sticker - Sticker Store

Challenges I would like to enter:
Make it Monday #31 - Anything Goes ... not a challenge but a place to showcase your creations.
Stamping Vacation - When I Grow Up - Clowns ends 3rd May
I Did It Creations - Anything Goes ends 11th April
Stampin'Sisters in Christ Challenge - Something for a Child ends 9th April
Card Ideas - Spotty Dotty ends 8th April

Time for a guessing game......

This is a (well I think) fantastic sketch by my daughter.   She brought it home from her art class last week.

Question is ...... who is it?

For the winner.

But......... you need to be a follower of my blog to be able to win.

So the first person to leave the correct answer in their comment will be the winner.

Good luck!!!!!!

Bukuro Bag

Morning everyone, a start of a new week.  Wonder what this one has in store for us all.

I am sharing another Bukuro Bag that I have made.   These are so much fun.  I have another three to share over time.  The lovely fabric on the outside of this bag I received from Mandy in one of our Fat Quarter Swaps at Craftmad.  Isn't it lovely.  I teamed it up with a small flower print fabric I picked up from Spotlight.

I also made another clown card to share with you but discovered my camera is out of battery.   So that will have to wait until tomorrow.  

Denise of Stamping Vacation has set us Design Team members a challenge.  

We are seeing who can get the most entries for their challenges.  

So my plan is to make a clown card a day until my next challenge and hope to inspire many of you to enter in this fun challenge.

When I Grow Up Challenge - Theme is Clowns which could be clowns, red noses, big shoes, clownlike hair.  So enter your wonderful creations here so I can visit and see them.  

You will be entered to try and win the $25.00 gift voucher to the store of your choice drawn 1st May.

Have a wonderful Monday.....off to hang out some more clothes.

Stamping Vacation DT - When I Grow Up Challenge - Clowns

Time to get out all your clown stamps, stickers and embellishments.  

Our When I Grow Up Challenge this month at Stamping Vacation is all about clowns.   

You have until the 3rd of May to enter.

For my card I started with a base card of bright green.   Layered with yellow which I have run through the Cuttlebug using the Diamonds in the Rough embossing folder.  Finished with with two thin strips of red card along the bottom.   I have used this terrific clown image called 'Clowning around Molly' .  I coloured her with my watercolour pencils and gold metallic pen.  Finished with some Dimensional Magic on her shoes and balloon.

The prize this month.....drawn 1st May is a $25.00 gift certificate to the store of the winner's choice.

Also remember there is a $20.00 gift certificate to be drawn when we reach 400 followers. 

I see this slowly creeping forward daily.   Last time I looked we were 361.

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Challenge - Easter - DT Card

Another amazing fortnight.....it is so wonderful seeing what everyone does with their Digital Stamps.  Thanks for joining in over at Cardmadfairy Digi Days and congratulations to this challenge winner.

This challenge...Number 5 (I lost count last challenge :-) ) it is all about Easter.

So we would like to see how you use your digital stamps on an Easter creation.

Remember if you use one of the Cardmadfairy Digi Images this counts as two entries.

This challenge we are sponsored by Chi Chi Memories.  Be sure to check out their store they have some of the cutest images.

For my card I have used this lovely Chloe image from Cardmadfairy Creations.

I started with a pink base card and layered with this lovely patterned paper.  Coloured Chloe with my watercolour pencils and copic pens and added a touch of Kindy Glitz to her skirt.  I found this cute little sticker basket in my collection and cut little egg shapes from scrap papers.   The sentiment was printed off my computer.

Now it's your turn....challenge ends 15th April.

Baby Boy Cards

Today I have Baby Boy cards using the same Cardmadfairy digital image that I used yesterday.

This time I have used some paper that had sailing boats and anchors printed on it.

Lesson learnt....look at what way the images print on the digital image.

I started with a blue base card and then added this lovely patterned paper that I have had for years.  Grabbed my fine tip black pen and doodled around all the edges.  I coloured his face and hands with my copics pens and added some chalk for rosy cheeks.  Layered up a gold 'Congratulations' sticker from Sticker Store.  Shhh......don't tell anyone but that is covering the bow in the hair as this is the girl digital image by Cardmadfairy. ;-)  Finished with four gold square bling.

Started again with a blue base card.  Layered with Shimmer Quartz paper (Blue Edge Crafts) which I have run through my Swiss Dots embossing folder.  Used this lovely white wire edged ribbon to frame the image.  Finished with a gold 'A Baby Boy' sticker and bling.

Wishing you all a terrific weekend.