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I made a quick card last night as I remembered it is my nephews 21st tomorrow.  :-0  Well I knew it was his birthday but forgot I had to make a card.  Guess the card won't arrive quite on time. Oops! I decided to try and incorporate Unstampabelles latest challenge of ' Dare to get Dirty ' and attempted the added twist of photographing the journey.  So I started with a piece of Stamping Up Very Vanilla, my glitter tray, one bouncy ball and my two refill inks for my Copics. I attached the card stock with a little double sided tape so it wouldn't move about then dotted the inks around the edge of the card. Then the fun began.  I rolled the ball through the inks and over the card to create the background. Next I used my gold spritz spray on the base card of SU Soft Suede…this is definitely messy. Decided that I would spray the ball rolled background too. I found some keys that I have had in my stash for many a year. Thought this worked we...

Just popping in to say I am still alive and well.  A few changes to my routine and I just have not quite figured out what I am doing when. :-)  I am still trying to fit everything into my life and blogging seems to be taking a back seat at the moment until I can find a slot for it.  Which I will defintely do as I can't miss out on all your stories and inspirations. :-) I shall return.

The anniversary cake made it across the river.  The bridge didn't go under until last night luckily.  Thanks to Helen for icing and decorating this cake which everyone enjoyed. The cake is cut which my 4 year old nephew was very delighted about.  Thats all he wanted all night even before tea. "Is it cake time". We had a lovely night as family, laughing, chatting, teasing, annoying.

Today 50 years ago my parents were married.  How fabulous is that they are still together and supporting and loving each other.  Had four wonderful kids…the oldest is the best  ;-)   of course. I received this Concertina Card from Blue Edge Crafts to have a play with and I knew I had to make something for Mum and Dad with this.  So I went through all my gold stash…I wish that was real gold. :-)  Gold papers and embellishments.  Borrowed my parents wedding album and had photos of my siblings and their families emailed to me.   I did all the base work on this great design of card with the paper layers, adding the photos and the frames.  Then I had to work during the week so asked our daughter who had a day off if she would embellish the card.  I am so happy with what she did, she used embellishments I had not thought to use which I have had in my collection waiting for the right project. :-)  I was thinking more along the l...

This month I am trying a new angle at Unstampabelles ….I am going to enter the latest challenge. :-)  The challenge is ' Dare to get Dirty'.  Not something I do a great deal when making cards but since Tracey's projects at the Craftmad get together last year I have enjoyed using a little more ink.  There is an added twist to this challenge which is to document your dirty adventure but I forgot to take photos so will have to do another project later in the month. Again I have finally completed a kit that Kaye made for us at the Craftmad get together .  I loved putting all these pieces together.  The 'dirty' part….. I inked around all the edges of the tag, and the body form. I also inked the bobbin as that started as Kraft card, so I did get messy fingers with this one.  I then wrapped the thread around the bobbin and attached all the wonderful bits and bobs. This is the card I made with the tag.  I found this very appropriate backgroun...

Sometimes it takes me a little bit but I do get there.  This is a card I made from a card kit that Kaye made up for us at the Craftmad Get Together back in October 2013 .  Yes, it only took four months but I did it.  :-)   I really enjoyed putting all the wonderful parts of this card together.  The window and window box are a wonderful die. Have a great day.  Still raining here.

We have started on our Quilt Block swaps over at Craftmad ……and are always looking for more people to be part of these.  Our group is open and taking names for the February swap which is a Calico Puzzle Block….more details here. Calico Puzzle I really enjoyed getting behind the sewing machine again and the fact that I had enough fabrics in my collection to complete three Buck-eye Beauty Quilt Blocks.  This year we have decided to use Traditional Christmas Fabrics for all our blocks this year. I have added a photo of each of the blocks as they vary slightly.  This block has the red square on the corner with christmas teddies. In the centre of this block is a cream fabric with stars and green spotted fabric on the corner. This one an extra bit of christmas tartan and green spotted fabric. Thanks for dropping by.  It is wet, wet, wet here today.  We just got the mower back in the shed yesterday afternoon before it bucketed do...

Hi I thought I would share this wonderful tutorial with everyone.  I found this easy to follow, well as easy as anything can be that deals with HTML. :-) You will find the tutorial on the Digital K blog .