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A new week....with a few showers of rain to get that humidity up for us.  I really like the end results with this card that I am sharing with you today.  I started with this lovely honeysuckle image from Passion for Stamps .  I noticed that Ruth has coloured her image pink and has photo of pink honeysuckle.  Where I live, I know honeysuckle as orange so dug out my Aquamarkers and started colouring.  Finished with a touch of Kindy Glitz for sparkle.  Next I used the sketch from Stamping Vacations Sketchy Therapy Challenge and turned it sideways.  I have used a blank square white card for the base then a layer of this fantastic vellum.  I backed the image with SU Cameo Coral and Glorious Green which I ran through the Swiss Dots embossing folder.  Made the little tag with my Spellbinders.  Finished the card with the wonderful silver corner stickers and greeting from the Sticker Store. I would like to enter this card into a couple more c...

Thank you to the lovely Annmaree over at Emu Creations for thinking of me and sharing this wonderful award. 1.Thank the person who gave it to you. Done!....Check out Annmaree's terrific blog....her post today is about skydiving. 2.Put the award on your blog. Done! 3.Tell everyone three things that you love. My Family, Rainforest Smell, Snorkelling 4.A picture you love.   This is my nephew who has the cutest dimples. 5.Pass the award on to five blogs you love.     I am going to cheat here as it is too hard to choose only five wonderful blogs.  So I would like to share this award with you all. :-)

Card by Sandy over at Lycan Art Cards Card by Sandy over at Lycan Art Cards Morning everyone, I don't normally post on a Sunday but I have the time and I was asked an interesting question by one of my followers.  Hope you can add to my answer.....any suggestions welcome.  Sandy of Lycan Art Cards is new to blogging and would love to know how to get people over to see her blog. Sandy has been visiting my blog and become a follower and I enjoy going over and seeing her wonderful creations like the above examples. As for getting people to visit......I have suggested joining in Card Challenges.  As the people that organise these challenges will more often than not come and visit your blog and comment on your creation and thank you for entering.  You never know one of these people may like your blog and return as a follower.  Plus entering these challenges often other people entering follow the other entrants links.  I do.....to see how other people interpre...

Stamping Vacation Challenge blog is hosting it's first Blog Hop!! It is called   Homemade with a HOP!   Yes, a blog hop featuring homemade embellishments! Will there be prizes?  You bet there will! So far we have a winner's choice stamp set from   Practicing Creativity Designs , 2 gift certificates from the   Sticker Store , 2 digital images from   Glitterbabe's Art , L15 gift certificate and free digital image from   Ooh-la-la Creations , prize from   Sunflowers and Dragonflies , prize from   Meljen Designs , prize from   Sky Blue Pink , from   DieCut Dreams , digital images from   Prairie Fairy Designs , four $10.00 gift certificates from   The Stampsmith  and a stamp set from   Lawn Fawn   , $10.00 gift certificate from   Really Reasonable Ribbon , a $25.00 gift certificate from   Victorine Originals  a prize from   The Cutting Cafe a stamp set  from...

Morning everyone....the end of the week is here.  :-)  A beautiful sunny day, will probably be a little on the warm side.  25C right now but heading for 30C Todays card was inspired by the lady I volunteer with at our local Museum.  She is in her 70's and an amazing seamstress ( she made the handbag in this post ), great cook and an artist.  In the past she has done folk art and was selling her artwork at the local markets.  She brought in some examples of her work....a small painting and a coaster with Walsh's Pyramid painted on them.  This is our local landmark which stands 922m high and looks like a pyramid.  After seeing her wonderful work I came home and played with a photo that my daughter took and you can see here .  I found a program that turned it into a sketched image which I printed onto watercolour paper.  Then dragged out my Aquamarkers and aqau brush and started colouring.  I need a lot more practise but had fun usi...

Once again thanks to Sticker Store and Letraset Aquamarkers for the wonderful prizes for this giveaway.  Also thanks to everyone for taking the time to create a card to enter this giveaway. Okay.......with out further ado I will announce the winners ........isn't this exciting. :-) I have used Research Randomizer to randomly choose the following winners: Research Randomizer Results 1 Set of 4 Unique Numbers Per Set Range: From 1 to 12 -- Unsorted Job Status: Finished       Set #1: p1= 7 , p2= 11 , p3= 3 , p4= 9 First place number 7 - gail K Second place number 11 - Trexxie Third place number 3 - Annmaree (Emu) Fourth place number 9 - Kez20 Congratulations everyone......please email me with your snail mail address so I can send these prize out to you. I haven't finished yet as there was one more prize on offer.  A pack of 25 stickers to the follower that had left the most comments in the past 6 months.  I must say a hug...

1st Prize (1 set of 5 Aquamarkers , 25 Sticker Sheets , from me... a Penny Black Sticker Sheet, Mettalic flower stickers, 10 pink paper flowers  and 7 crocheted flowers by me.) Yes, I have finally have everything together.   Thanks to the wonderful people at Letraset I have two sets of five Aquamarkers to give away.  Please go here to find out lots of colouring techniques. I also have some wonderful sticker packs to giveaway from the Sticker Store . I have also added a little of me to the 1st and 2nd prizes. 2nd Prize (1 set of  5 Aquamarkers ,  25 Sticker Sheets , from me... 10 cream paper flowers  and 9 crocheted flowers by me. 3rd Prize and 4th Prize 25 Sticker Sheets To enter this giveaway I do have a little requirement from you.   I would like you to link up with a creation from you that includes a coloured image (any form of colouring) and some form of sticker.  You  must enter a creation to be eligible for one of these p...