Little Red Wagon #215 - Christmas Birthday.

Good morning on yet another freezing cold day in these parts.

I'm definitely NOT a Winter person so it's about now I start getting grouchy and dreaming of hibernation!

To make matters worse, our puppy has decided he LOVES snow, so what  used to be a quick dash outside to do what needed to be done (!), has now turned into an epic journey of discovery, rolling around and frolicking in the white stuff every time we venture out there!

Thermals will be added to the Christmas list me thinks........hope I've been a good girl otherwise the dogs gonna loose out.

Anyhow onto the purpose of today's post, (but just in case you're wondering, no I have not succumbed to any nasty bacteria my kiddo's may feel the need to share.......yet!).........it's Little Red Wagon Day........

Tammy's leading the charge today and as she's a December baby, she'd like to see some Christmassy kinda Birthday cards.

Don't think I've ever made one to be honest, but what I can gather from anyone I've ever come into contact with who has a Birthday within the close vicinity of Christmas, they usually get the 'double up' kinda card/prezzie. This in turn might peeve them, I'm guessing, just a little.......rightly so!

Now as I'm not one to rub salt in the wounds I thought I'd make a sweet, perfectly appropriate Birthday card with no hint or suggestion of recycling, or anything Christmas!

I love the look on this girls face - the kind you see when they find the dreaded Christmas sweater under the tree, and perfect for our topic of conversation!

Digi is from Saturated Canary and coloured with Copic's, while papers are a 2012 winter collection from We R Memory Keepers.

That's about all so head on over to the Little Red Wagon blog for some Christmassy Birthday inspiration from the rest of the Girlfriends.
You can wish Tammy a Happy Christmas Birthday while you're there too!

Have a great day and I'll see you Friday,
Jayne.x.
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Challenges entered:
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday - #116 Snowflakes
Crafting From The Heart - #2 Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion Challenges - #192 Let It Snow
The Crafty Bloggers Network - Girly
Created With Love Challenges - #70 Anything Goes
Incy Wincy Designs - Let It Snow
Lexi's Creations - #105 Snow
Make It Monday - #170 Anything Goes
Glitter n Sparkle Challenge Blog - Blue
Lacy Sunshine Stamps - #23 Celebrations (Mine is Birthday obviously!)
Opus Gluei - #171 Brrrrrring It On

A Birthday Tradition......almost!

Good morning, thought I'd hop on here bright and early for a change.

Time for a layout today, one that's been sitting there since I completed it some time in April!  It's documenting my hubby's Birthday last year, so I'm just scraping in under the wire by blogging it before this years event.

We seem to quite often end up at The Keg for his Birthday celebration......definitely no complaints from me cause if someone else is cooking dinner, I'm happy!

This one's actually a double too.....Wow.......certainly exceeded my twice annual production of doubles for this year!

Here goes:

So I guess technically this is two singles, because I completed them both as individual layouts.  However the papers are obviously from the same line (S.e.i) and the photographs are of the same event......so I'm claiming a double!

I covered some chipboard shapes, used a little hardware and got to work folding a chevron strip.

There's a little more metal on the second page.......a Maya Road heart, a charm, more hardware and a stapled, folded paper strip.

I'm guessing this page was during my 'rediscovery' of that old favourite.....eyelets!  Certainly got rid of a few on here.

And that's all.

I'll be here again tomorrow as it's Wednesday.....Little Red Wagon day!

Hope to see you then so enjoy the rest of your day,
Jayne.x.

Little Red Wagon #195.....Tag you're It!

Good mornin'!

I'm being a very responsible 'Blogger' right now so here I am, on time for once with my Little Red Wagon post!

It's Regan's turn to host this weeks challenge and she'd like to see a 'tag' somewhere on your creation.

Here's my effort :

Ever look back at a card you've made and can't quite decide if you actually made it, or an overly energetic kindergartner dived in at the last moment and did the deed?

This is one of those cards!

Add to the fact that I've probably created a new card size.........this is the 5"x6", you know that common card size that everyone has an envelope for.  It began as a 5"x7" whilst I was sticking everything on there, then decided I didn't like it and chopped off the top!

Oh when am I going to learn that when you begin a card, then leave it half finished so that you're forced to complete it the following night at 11.00pm after a work shift, and it just happens to be the night before your daughters Birthday, which incidentally you need the card for...........the 'mojo' has an entirely different plan as to how the evening is going to pan out!

At least there's an abundance of tags on there.

The stamp (yes, stamp!) is from the Greetings Farm and coloured with Copic's.

Papers are For the Record 2 by Echo Park and the layout was inspired by last weeks sketch over at The Deconstructed Sketch.

Thanks for stopping by, why not go check out what the rest of the Girlfriends created over on the blog........you might even have an easier time with your own 'tag' adventure!

Enjoy the day and I'll be seeing you Friday,
Jayne.x.

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Challenges entered:
The Deconstructed Sketch - Sketch #110
Anything Goes Challenge Blog - #97 Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments Designs - Bling It On
Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - #56 Blue
Ladybug Crafts Ink - Birthday
LEJ Designs - #63 Cute
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Happy Birthday Dad!

Good morning.....here I am bright and early for a change!

Sheesh did we get a nice little storm yesterday, and a power outage to match.  You can guarantee these things always seem to happen around dinnertime!  Yesterday's 4pm till 9.15pm was no exception so by 7.30pm we were dining on sandwiches for dinner.......couldn't even brave the thunder/lightning and winds to crank up the BBQ. 

Anyhow, hopefully it has cleared the humidity a little.

The reason I'm here on this bright, early Saturday morning (well actually I'm still probably lying in bed........you know very well I scheduled this post!) is to wish my dear Dad a very Happy Birthday........the BIG 70!

Couldn't let the occasion pass by without some recognition, and of course a card posted on here, so here goes:

Another 'Maurice' image from Pollycraft - I can't resist him when it comes to male cards!

Papers are from Pebbles Inc. and colouring is of course with Copic's.

That's about it for today - short and sweet.

Happy Birthday Dad........have a fabulous, relaxing (toothache free!!) day.......love ya!

See you all soon,
Jayne.x.

The Happy Wanderer.

Good morning, pull up a pew and put your feet up for a little while!

I plan on doing just that today as a result of the abandoned teachers protest........kids are at school and I just might do......nothing!

Except for chatting on here a little and posting pictures of pretty things of course.

A card today with a coloured image - Saturated Canary, and Authentique papers no less.........I guess things are pretty much back to normal around here, can't let go of my faves!

Here goes.

This little lady will be heading into the current challenge over on the Saturated Canary Challenge Blog........song inspiration.  My song irritation inspiration is as follows:

I made the card for a girlfriend at work who's Birthday was yesterday, and who happens to make the 5 hour train journey back home  to see her folks quite frequently.  She just happened to be taking said journey yesterday on her Birthday, so I thought this image was quite appropriate.

As I was making it, for some reason that really annoying song from my childhood 'The Happy Wanderer' popped into my head.......know the one......."I love to go a wandering along the mountain track".........yep wander them every day........."and as I go I love to sing, my knapsack on my back"......never leave home without one!........."Valdereee Valderaaaah Valdereeee Valderaah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha"........I really should end it there.....it gets no better!

The reason it's so annoying (apart from the obviously irritating lyrics!) is that as a child, I was forced to learn and sing this song at school during music class for a whole hour.  It's one of those that permanently lodges itself into the deep, dark recesses of your brain and resurfaces at every opportunity, so you find yourself humming it!  After 3days when you finally thought you'd banished it, music class rolled around again and you were back to square one!

Anyhow enough of that......I'm already starting to hum in my head.

The layout for this card is inspired by Sketch #83 over at The Deconstructed Sketch, and colouring of the cutie is with Copics.

That's about if from me.  I'm off to find some creative inspiration floating around here somewhere, in the hope that I can make something worth showing on here next week.

Have a great weekend,
Jayne.x.
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Challenges entered:
Saturated Canary - #34 Song Inspiration
The Deconstructed Sketch - Sketch #83

A 'Manly' Birthday.

Good morning.

Time for another card today and this time it's the 'manly' variety!

I don't colour too many male images because they're usually not cute.....obviously (!), and you may have guessed by now, I like cute.  However, one image I quite often colour up, because he is cute in that 'want to rub his bald head' kinda way is 'Maurice' from Pollycraft.

The male members of my family are probably getting a complex by now, wondering why they're quite often sent cards of a man sporting very little hair and a well rounded tum.  No offence to my Dad (although if the cap fits.........), this latest version was given to him for his Birthday.

I did try to soften the blow a little via the sentiment, printed from Word.

Maurice is coloured with Copic's and papers are from a My Minds Eye 'Six by Six' pad.

That's all for today, but I'll be back in a day or two, with scrapbook pages I think.

Till then, have a good one,
Jayne.x.

At your age!

Hi there, it's Wednesday so we've already made it through half the week!

Just a quick visit from me today....things to do, places to go etc. I have a quirky little card for you, and this one will eventually be making it's way to my brother. Not until April though.....am I on the ball or what?

Anyhow, here goes......it's Maurice from Pollycraft again............

I think I luuuurve Maurice! He's so darn cute.

He is of course coloured with Copic's with a touch of Glossy Accents added to his spec's.............



Papers are from a Cosmo Cricket 6"x6" pad I've had forever, the sentiment is printed using Word and the layout was inspired by the current sketch from The Deconstructed Sketch.

As mentioned, it's headed to my brother, so I'll show you the inside of the card........just a sampling of sibling banter..........brotherly/sisterly love and all that!


That's all from me, but I will be back on Friday as there will be a fun 'On-line Crop' starting over at the Two Scrapbook Friends forum . I have my challenge prepped and ready to go with a cute little scrapbook page too.

See you then
Jayne.x.
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Challenges entered:
Pollycraft Monday Challenge - #128 Ribbon and Buttons
The Deconstructed Sketch - Sketch #39

Meoooow.........

Good morning. I meant to drop in on Friday with this post but didn't make it here, so I thought I'd make an appearance today.

I've been joining in with challenges again on the Two Scrapbook Friends Forum, and this week we started our brand new 'Sketch' challenge, drawn by members of the DT. Sharon created an awesome sketch this week and beautiful Scrapbook page to go with it, but I decided to create a card............

Like I said "Meoooow"!

Here's the sketch.........



I condensed it a little by using the main central elements for my card LO.

The digi is a freebie (I think or I could have won it....not sure!) that I picked up ages ago from Karber. This sexy lady is coloured with Copic's, and she either really needs to eat more, or next time around I need to print the image a little larger........talk about making things difficult for myself!



Paper's are from the Basic Grey 'Little Black Dress' 6"x6" pad (appropriate I thought!) with a little tulle, trim, bling and flowers added from my stash.

The sentiment is a stamp from the $1.50 bin at Michael's.

So that's it, I'll be back during the week sometime.......I'm trying to behave myself by being a regular blogger! Enjoy the rest of your day
Jayne.x.
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Challenges entered:
Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge - Polka Dots
Hotshot Craft - #3 Flowers
Lily Pad Cards - Patterned Paper
Shelly's Images Blog - All Tied Up
Inky Impressions - Use Pearls and/or Bling
Little Darlings Challenges - #16 Polka Dots
Digital Tuesday Challenge - #145 Use Red, White and Black

#1!

Good morning, hope you're having a Happy Monday.

It's my hubby's Birthday this week, so I finally got myself into gear over the weekend and made a card.......makes a change from me rushing around the night before!

I love this little guy (as well as my husband of course!) and I've been waiting for just the right card to put him on, so here he is, my #1............

This is Lewis, another of my winnings from Prairie Fairy Designs and I love these images. I've just coloured up another Gillian, so you can expect to see her in the near future.

Papers are from my new Authentique 6"x6" pad and I have to say, the quality of them is awesome. The LO is inspired by a sketch from The Deconstructed Sketch and the ticket sentiment is actually a rubber stamp (from Michael's), to which I've added text using Word. Almost forgot to mention......I added a fair amount of Glossy Accents to his specs....perfect!

That's all for today, so have a good one
Jayne.x.

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Challenges entered:

Inky Impressions - #26 Punches or Dies
Ruby's Rainbow Challenges - #13 For the Boys
Paper Crafting Journey - #20 Die Cuts and/or Punches
Crafty Purple Frog Challenge - Lots of layers
The Poodles Parlour - Birthday's, Buttons and/or Brads
Stampin' For The Weekend - #17 What a Cutie
Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog - #89 Lots of Layers

I'm this many!

Nope, I'm definitely not telling how many I am, but this little card made it's way to my Nephew, and I'm sure he won't mind telling you how 'few' he is!


This image was a freebie I've had for quite a while from Torico's Digital Gallery, and I've coloured with Promarker's. Papers are from Jillibean Soup.

That's it for today....short and sweet!

See you later in the week

Jayne.x.

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Challenges entered:

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - #9 Happy Birthday

Sassy Studio Designs - #91 Hip to be Square

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Challenge - #17 Lots of layers

Simply Create - #52 Let's eat some cake

Card Makin' Mama's - Punches

Our Creative Corner - Numbers

The Corrosive Challenge Blog - #133 Punches/Dies

Ooh La La Creations Challenges - #89 Punches/Dies

Lexi's Creations - #49 Card for a Child

Paper Cupcakes - Punches and Cuts

Hey Amigo's........

Good morning.....hope you all had a good Easter break. Hubby is finally back from his trip to Europe, and kiddies are back at school, which means I can finally get some crafting (and blogging) done!

I'm posting a card today, which I hope is making it's way across the pond to my brother, who's Birthday was........well let's just say I'm (un)fashionably late (as usual!). The image I've used makes me smile - no particular reason, just one of those things. So here's 'Mexico Phil'............

The inside reads.........'Go easy on the tequila my friend!'

So another reason I like this image is that it was e freebie from Just Inklined Stamps, gotta love that.

Phil is coloured with Copic markers and papers are from the Prima 'Paisley Road' 6"x6" pad.....I knew I'd find a use for that extremely loud zig zag paper some day. I added a Nestie 'sun' look-a-like, a Martha Stewart border punch and some ribbon, which was also a freebie from Scrapfest.

Yep.....that is one bright and very loud card!

Have a great day

Jayne.x.

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Challenges entered:

Paper Crafting Journey - #8 Use a 'Freebie'

Meljen's Designs - #55 Masculine

Delicious Doodles - #22 Anything Goes

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - #108 Pile It On (use at least 5 layers)

Bows and Berries - #4 Bold and Bright

Pear Tree Designs - #46 Colourful

A White on White Birthday.....

Hello, me again with my second post of the day.......another creation for the OSAAT Birthday Bash!

You can read all about the details in my previous post, but to continue our theme of celebrating with 'Girlie' things, I thought I'd make an ultra feminine, classy, but still fairly girlie, white on white card. Plus the fact that it's my MIL's birthday in a couple of weeks, so why not kill two birds with one stone. I used a beautiful image from Blackberry Lane Designs, which you can find of course at the Stitchy Bear Stamps Store , called 'Tulips in Vase'.............

.........outside view..............

.......and inside............... ......close up...........

Did I add enough photo's, do ya think? lol.

So to celebrate one of our awesome sponsor's this week......'Copic'........this image is most definitely coloured with the afore mentioned. I gotta tell ya......I'm lovin me the Copic's right now. I'm still no expert, but it's definitely true that the more you use them.....the better you become (I hope!). Well I certainly feel more comfortable with them, and at least have a feel for
what I should be doing. Practise makes perfect they say.

The deets are fairly basic on here......it's a gate fold card with an extra 'flappy piece' in the center.....YES, that's a technical term! I used basic embossed white card stock together with pink for matting. A Martha Stewart punch creates the border, the stick pin is Maya Road, flowers and pearls are $$ store and the yummy ribbon has been recycled from the packaging on the PJ's I received at Christmas! The sentiment is actually a freebie I picked up quite a while ago from Devilish Designs.

That's it folks, so get yourselves over to the OSAAT challenge blog and join in the fun!

I'll be back a little later with challenge entries.....til then......have a good one.

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Challenges entered:

Little Red Wagon - #67 White on White

Paper Sundaes - #56 Pick your toppings (I chose flowers and pink)

Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes

DYSU challenge Blog - #6 Ribbon

Totally Papercrafts Challenge - #53 Clean and Simple

Simply Betty Challenges - White Out

Pattie's Creations Design Challenge - #14 Recycle ( Iused the ribbon from my PJ packaging)

Bugaboo Stamps - Different fold

A Double Blog Hop!..........

Hi everyone.

Today I have a very special surprise for you! A DOUBLE BLOG HOP!!! That’s right, Baby Bud Designs and By LORi Designs have teamed up to bring you a big ol' blog hop! We’ve got a fantastic line up of extremely talented designers, showcasing some pretty adorable images.

You’ll find a ton of inspiration, and of course a hop isn’t a hop without some prizes right? So be sure to leave comments on every stop!

Sit back, relax and enjoy the wonderful creations that both of these wonderful Design Teams have created for you! You won’t be disappointed! If you get lost along the way the whole list will be posted at each of the Main blogs.

For my part in today's activities, I got to play with yet another new image from ByLori Designs called 'Happy Birthday Annie'. Here she is, all ready for the party..............


Now, I hope you can tell I put in a little effort here.....there were quite a few fiddly bits let me tell ya! I'll get through the 'deets' pretty quickly, so that you can be on your way.

Annie is coloured predominantly with Prisma pencils and Copics for her skin. I paper pieced and popped the balloon and 'glittered' cake (NB. 1st fiddly bit!), and added my new bakers twine for the string (NB. 2nd fiddly bit!). Here's a close up...........

Paper is from Pine Cone Press and the 'Bingo' card is Jenni Bowlin. I made the banner using a heart shaped Martha Stewart punch, more bakers twine, added alpha stickers from my stash, and 'popped' (NB. 3rd fiddly bit!). Ribbon is from Michaels and tied in that lovely bow, using my new 'Bow Easy', and around the candle (NB.4th fiddly bit!). Oh, and lastly, although it's no doubt obvious, I paper pierced around the image, and glued onto my new lacy 'Nestie' (NB. not quite so fiddly!) OMG, only 4 'fiddly bits'.......it felt like more, believe me. Maybe I just need smaller fingers!

Wow......all this 'newness'...........can you tell it was my Birthday last week? I like this card......even my eldest DD said"Wow Mom, this will have to go to someone really special!" which is basically her 'royal seal of approval', so there ya go........mustn't be bad!

OK, so that's about it from me, although I'll probably be back a little later with some challenge hopefuls. I'll send you off for now, to the lovely Margie's blog, to go have fun in 'Blogland, and here's that magic list of awesome inspiration I promised you.........if you're joining us 'midway', head on back to the By Lori Designs blog:

BY LORi Designs Blog
Baby Bud Blog
ANDREA
CALYPSO
ANGELA
ILDIKO
ARIELLE
JENN
HANNAH
JENNETTE
JACQUIE
KERRY
JANE
LISA
JAYNE (you're here!)
MARGIE
JENNIFER
MARIA
LINDA
TAMMYLEE
MERCY
TANYA
SHERI
STEPHANIE
SHERRYANN
SILVIA
DEBBIE
KRISTA
LORI

Have fun

Jayne.

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Challenges entered:

Paper Playtime - #35 Anything Party related

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Anything Goes

Do You Stack Up - #4 Patterned Paper

Paperplay Challenges - Week 4 Layer It Up

Meljen's Designs - #43 Hearts

Delightful Challenges - Have A Heart (put a heart on your project)

Totally Papercrafts Challenge - #51 One For The Kiddies

Look......a BOY'ish' card!!!!!!

Happy Tuesday everyone. I'm quite proud of myself today, as I have a card to show you which doesn't have one single scrap of pink, lilac or red and no girlie images. I know this doesn't sound that astounding, but it wasn't until recently that I realised most of my cards turn out......well.......a little 'girlie'. I don't take blame for this, as living in a home with a 75% female population..........this is bound to happen. Besides, you have to admit - 'girlie' things are much cuter! (Have I started something there?)

Anyhow, with all that said, I am loving today's card, mainly because I think the image is seriously cute (and could be used for boy or girl!) and I love this line of paper. So let's get down to business...........here's a very generous (or very lucky) mouse............

So, I'll tell you another thing I like about this card..........the image was FREE ! Can't get much better than that. I don't know about you, but I find most of my 'freebie' digi's through Free Digital Stamps, (you can also find their link and latest post in the right sidebar of my blog) which is an awesome site that does all the hard work for you ie. hunt down digi's. Today's digi is no exception, as I got it through them, from a site called Torico's Digital Gallery.

Onto the rest of the details. I coloured predominently with Copic's, but used Prisma pencils for the mouse fur. I used a Nestie to cut around the image, leaving the gifts poking through the top, and sponged chalk ink around the edge. Papers are from Basic Grey's Marjolaine series (love em!) and the ribbon is from Autumn Leaves. The buttons and natural Hemp tied through them, were $$ store finds, and I stamped the sentiment using one of those stamps you find in the $1.50 bin at Michael's......'G Studio' I think. Lastly, I stapled in various places......just had to get those in there as another 'manly' element! lol

So, there we are. This little fella will be heading into a few challenges I'm sure, so I'll be back with those shortly.

I will be here again tomorrow, as there are more exciting things happening over at the Lollipop Shop. Be sure to check back around midday to find out what's going on - Clue......there are prizes involved!

Have a great day......I hear there is snow heading into these parts later, so keep warm.....keep safe.

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Challenges entered:

Do You Stack Up - #1 Cute as a Button

Cooking It Up With Katie - #43 Button me a ribbon animal

Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog - #19 Use 2 words

Delightful Challenges - Buttons

Paper Cutz Challenge - #73 Use metal (I used staples)

Stamp Something - Use a Digi

The Crafty Pad - #103 Happy Birthday

Gingerloft Challenge - #9 Celebrations

Incy Wincy Designs - #76 Go Dotty

The Crazy Challenge - #49 Animals

OSAAT DT creation(s)..........

Good morning everyone, hope you're having a good day and enjoying the cold weather.....if you're on this part of the globe anyhow. Today's post will be relatively short and sweet as I'm scheduling this, which means as I'm typing, it's Saturday night (or I should say Sunday morning!) and way, WAY past my bedtime. So, sorry to disappoint, but no ramblings today.

Sunday means of course, a new challenge over at the OSAAT Challenge Blog, and the theme this week is to celebrate in style, meaning dig out the glitz, glitter, bling or whatever else you think you might need to give it the old 'razzle dazzle'! We have another great sponsor this week.........


..........Digi's With Attitude are offering a $10 voucher to one lucky winner but you know you've got to be in it to win it!

I actually have 2 cards to show you today, the first, using some very pretty digi papers from Panda Bear Designs.............

So as you can see, the front of the card is acetate which I've used many times but never actually like this, so there's a first for me. The Birthday cake was made using a paper piecing pattern I found online at Scrapbooks etc. I did emboss the frosting using a Cuttlebug folder, and ran the cake case through my paper crimper. There's glitter on the cake and candle flame, and of course, some bling which I dug from my stash. The ribbon and punch I used are from Martha Stewart.

Think that's all for that one, so let's move on to contestant number 2............

For this card, I used an image from Kelley Kids. Both this and the Panda Bear papers are included in a mega freebie pack you could get from the Stitchy Bear Stamps Store with any $10 purchase. I coloured again with Copic's and added glitter here and there, and I believe DP's are from Imaginisce. I also 'blinged' the 'Nestie' die cut and embossed using another Cuttlebug folder. The sentiment is printed from my PC.

I now have to show you the inside which I'm pretty proud of. Full credit goes to Sharon over at The Pixie Cottage, who did a great tutorial for this a couple of weeks ago........you can check it out here. When I saw it, I knew I'd be trying it out at some point, so here it is.........

.......does that look cool or what.........and believe me, it was fairly simple.....honest! I coloured the tree with Copic's and again, added more bling.

Well, that's all for now folks........don't forget to head on over to the OSAAT blog to check out the rest of the lovely DT creations. I'll be back later with challenge hopefuls!

Enjoy the rest of your day.

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The challenges one or both of these cards will be entering are:

I Did It Creations Challenge Blog - #31 Surprise Me

Gingerloft Challenge - #7 Bows

Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog - Merry Christmas

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Cut It Out

Artful Inkables - #34 Punches and/or Die Cuts

For Fun Challenges - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - #88 Red/Green/Gold

Crafty Creations Challenge Blog - #95 Christmas

Inktegrity Design Team Challenges - #24 Anything Goes

Totally Gorjuss - Oh Christmas Tree

Stamp Insanity - Challenge Yourself (try something new)

Order up!

Happy Sunday folks! You know what that means...........time for a new challenge (and new DT creation) over at the OSAAT Challenge Blog. We have a great sponsor this week.........Joanna Sheen, who is offering a 10GBP voucher to her store. If you'd like to get some ideas as to what you could spend your possible winnings on, you can check out the store right here.........



So, the theme for the challenge this week has a few possibilities..........you have the choice of opting for a Season or an event (ie. Christmas, Birthday, Graduation etc., anything worth celebrating). I took the easy route and went with............Birthday, mainly due to the fact that I have a girlfriends Birthday coming up next month and require a card. So here it is.......complete with a gal after my own heart!

You've got to admit she's pretty cute! The image called Al la Mode is from Stitchy Stamps (which you can find at the Stitchy Bear Boutique) as is the cute little Birthday sentiment ticket. I completely love these things right now, so be prepared, you'll be seeing more of them.

Did ya notice my colouring? No Prisma pencils......again! Only Copic's for this little lady. I'm practicing right now, and I don't necessarily prefer the look of markers, I'll probably always be a pencil gal, but OMG I can colour so much quicker with them. Only problem is, my favourite fleshy colours E0000 and E000 are absolutely on their last legs, almost mummified they're so dry, so if my images start to look a little ghostly white in the near future......you'll know why! Why couldn't this have happened last month......Halloween season and all!

The DP's I've used here are from Cosmo Cricket's Nutmeg line........I love em, takes me back to the 70's baby......we probably had curtains like that in our house. The note paper tucked in behind there is from a Jenni Bowlin pad and the wording on there is printed from my PC.........my further attempt at a little humour! I used a punch from Martha Stewart and bling and ribbon, I believe are a $ store find. There's also paper piercing and faux stitching on there, and lots of Tim Holtz Distress Ink.

I think that's about it, so why not head on over to OSAAT and check out the other DT creations.

This card will be entered into the following challenges:

Freshly Brewed Challenges - #23 Show Off Your Style

Frosted Designs - Distressing

Enjoy your day.

No point in hiding........

............Happy Sunday everyone, hope you're having a slightly better one than me! As I'm typing this, I have, I guess, a touch of the old laryngitis............absolutely no voice whatsoever, just a very friendly cough and sore throat to go with........Yummy! Anyhow, good job the typing fingers are working OK, as I'm sure you didn't drop in to listen to my list of ailments, so let's move on shall we?

It being Sunday and all, means of course that it's time for a new challenge over at the OSAAT challenge blog. Our theme this week is 'Celebration'............could be Birthday, anniversary, new baby, a particular holiday.............you name it, if it's worth celebrating, it's included. The prize given to one lucky winner will be your choice of 5 digi's from the Stitchy Bear and I Did It Creations Store.........you can check them out here

I got to play around with an image from Barbara Jenson this week, so without further ado, here she is...........Lady Bug..........

Now, I don't mind admitting that this card took (what felt like) a zillion crafting hours to create.
I wanted to have a relevant link between the image and a celebration, so I decided (in my wisdom!) to create a window, and have Ms Lady Bug peeking through the foliage, with the sentiment.........'No point in hiding.......' on the outside, and .......'we know it's your Birthday!' on the inside. So, that's what I did! Here's a view of the inside.......

Most time, I guess, was spent on cutting, firstly, the window, which I cut into the front of the card, then made a slightly larger frame and sandwiched a piece of acetate between it and the card. Secondly, on the rather large amount of fussy cutting.........the image, and then foliage, which just had to match the DP exactly (just had to!), so was cut from a coordinating sheet. The sentiment is printed from Word, DP's are from BoBunny's Kitchen Spice line, and I ruffled a touch of burnt orange ribbon to finish off.

She is of course, coloured with a combination of Copics and Prisma's, with just enough ultra fine glitter added to her wings, to make them sparkle. Here's a close up.........

So, if you'd like to check out what the other lovely ladies of the OSAAT DT have been up to, hop on over and take a look. You have until next Saturday to enter this weeks challenge.

This little lady however, will be joining the following challenges:

Paper Sundaes - #41 A Natural Woman

Crafty Hos' Challenge Blog - Inspiration Picture Challenge (large tree in fall colours)

I Did It Creations Challenge Blog - #26 Surprise Me

Riley and Company - The colours of Autumn

Flutterby Wednesday - #127 Anything Goes (plus angel, fairy or butterfly)

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog - #40 As long as it flies

Rainbow Lady's Challenge Blog - #123 Autumn Foliage

Daring Cardmakers - Autumn Leaves

Stamp Something - Digi Day

Creative Inspirations - #45 Halloween/Fall

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Totally wicked............

It's Sunday, and that means it's time for a new challenge over at OSAAT. The theme this week is 'Go crazy with your stamps', so pretty much an anything goes with digi or otherwise. The sponsor this week is a first........the acclaimed artist Rick St Dennis (whose work adorns the collections of the rich and famous) will be sharing some of his images with us, to celebrate his launch into digital.

My little DT creation, may not be up to Ricks standard just yet (lol), but I think I made a decent effort, using some deliciously wicked images you can find at Stitchy Bear Stamps.............

So, the images I used are from the 'Which Witch Silhouette Pack', and I'm not sure if I actually went wild with them, but I did get quite a few on there..........17 to be precise! I wanted a little break from the whole Halloween deal, so as these ladies appear to be deliciously 'wicked', I thought I'd use them for a 'Wicked Birthday' card.

I'm not really sure where my mind was when I created this (probably in the gutter!), but I had this idea that I needed to create some sort of fishnet stocking and garter............hence the eons of embroidery floss and frilly trim! You know when you have what seems like a good idea? Well 30 minutes into sewing a fishnet background................maybe not such a good idea! Anyhow, I'm pleased with how it turned out so I can't complain.

No colouring on this card obviously, so I made the effort elsewhere with the sewing. The flower is also handmade by using the trim, and adding a little bling and a pin. The DP's are from Martha Stewart and the sentiment is printed from my PC.

Go check out the other wonderful DT creations at the OSSAT Challenge Blog, some using Rick's images. You won't be disappointed, and if you wish to join in the challenge, there are of course goodies up for grabs.

I am now off to hunt down some challenges, as I seem to have lost the list I'd already made (duh!)

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and a Happy Thanksgiving to those of us in Canada.

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OK, found my list.

This card will be sneaking it's way into the following challenges:

The Crafty Pad Challenge Blog - #92 Something for a friend

Cowgirl Sunday Stamp'en Challenge - Girly Girl

Lexi's Creations - #24 Spooky

Digital Tuesday Challenge - #79 Ribbon,Buttons or Bling (plus a digi)

Party Time Tuesdays - #15 Anything Goes Birthday

Creative Inspirations - #81 Birthday

Paper Cutz Challenge - #62 Use Red Black and White only

Your Next Stamp Challenges - #26 Grow your own (make your own flowers)

Crazy 4 Challenges - #58 Birthday

Elephantastic - #15 Anything Goes

Another Birthday in da house..........

Well, I'm a little slack blogging today, but I thought I'd better post while it is still officially 7th September (here in Canada at least!). That means that a few thousand miles across the pond, my nephew celebrated his 5th Birthday today..............Happy 'B' Day! This is the card, I hope, is making it's way across that pond to find him. Meet 'Megabot'............

So, I obviously didn't have to worry too much about picking my DP's first, in order to match up to my colouring...........shades of grey sort of works with anything! Funny enough though, as soon as I chose this image, I knew which papers I wanted to use. I believe they are October Afternoon's Nightlight collection. I've used them a few times now for various projects and still have a few scraps left over. Nothing like getting your monies worth!

Now, there isn't too much excitement in the range of colours needed to produce a robot......as mentioned previously, grey pretty much does it.........so I decided to layer him up a little, to create some interest. Here's a closer look..........

I coloured with all the grey shades of Copic's and Prisma's I could find, along with my Gamsol of course. I also added a little Glossy Accents to the monitor on his chest. All in all, I think he's pretty cute! You can find the image, and a few versions on a theme, which are drawn by the talented Christy Croll, over at Tiddly Inks.

Last but not least, of course, there are challenges involved, so here's what this baby will be heading into:

Meljens Designs challenge #23 - Stripes..........to use them somewhere on your card.

Incy Winsy Designs challenge #58 - Celebrate............anything you feel the need to!

Crafty Cardmakers challenge #29 - Clean and Simple...........no flowers, frills and general 'frou frou' (not sure if that's a word.......think I made it up!).

That's all for now.

DP2 Challenge........

........over at Mo Manning's Challenge Blog this week, the call is 'Thank Heaven for Little Girls'. I think I can find an appropriate image, living in a household that has a 75% female population! It also worked out very nicely, as my niece has a Birthday coming up very soon....she'll be turning the grand old age of 7. So with her in mind, here is one of my favourite little girls, Bella and her dog Bronte in 'Celebrate', for another of my favourite little girls! Happy Birthday EG.............

So, if you happen to be reading this Auntie Emm, I am technically on time (or even early!) for the Birthday celebrations....yes? Unfortunately, by the time I get it mailed 'across the pond', I probably should have sent the 'white rabbit "Am I Late?"' instead!

I had a little play around with this card. The colouring is done predominantly with Prisma's and just a touch of Copic's for skin. There's also lots of super fine glitter and silver gel pen on her dress. I really wanted Bella to be jumping out of the 'Nestie' so I played around with that.......are 2 arms any more substantial than the 2 antennae from my previous post?.....I think not! Because I wanted her to leap out, this meant I had to mask the main portion of the image, and print again onto the solid DP behind, in order to get the confetti in there. Are you with me? I guess I could have just dotted glitter there, but I wanted to stick to the true Mo Manning image. DP's are from Basic Grey's Kioshi line.

So other than all the other 'bells and whistles' on there, that's it for today's creation.

Before I leave, I just wanted to take a moment to share a little love with all you wonderful 'Followers' and 'Commentators' out there in Blogland. You would think it creates the same effect as a double espresso, from the bounce in my step, after I find 'new activity' on my blog. You have certainly made me welcome in this new little venture. From my Mom, who is single handedly recruiting half of my family (sorry guys!) and anyone she knows to check 'it' out. To my Dad, who has probably never done anything 'crafty' in his life (no offence!), and shared with me on the phone the other night, that he had sat and read my blog from start to finish.........ahhh a proud moment. I also received a comment the other day from Lori Boyd.....the Lori Boyd, creator of those gorgeous 'Lollipop' images I luurve so much..........Oh I'm a happy gal! So once again, thanks to everyone who has taken the time to visit, comment, follow etc.

That said, here is my challenge to each and everyone of you out there in Blogland.............share the love!

Visit a blog + leave a comment = make someone's day!

You know you want to........you'll feel better for it!