A Day to Scrap - GOING HOME Layout.

I finally got back into doing some scrapbooking thanks to the

Scrapbook Challenge 20 - 06/20/13

over at http://mfpspeedytv.ning.com/ this week. 

Our challenge is an Anything Goes but we must use stamps on our page.

I must admit I had started on this layout and has been on the

  to finish list for a little while. 

My card making seemed to have overtaken lately. 

But not yesterday. It was a dreary cold wintery rainy day

 - perfect to get my head in and finish my layout.

This will be the last double page of my 

Homecoming Scotland Trip 

I took with my sister/husband my niece and cousin.

I stamped the top page with a Kaisercraft travel stamps and

 the bottom with a grunge stamp from Tim Holtz.

Added lots of memorabillia from the airline we flew with.

Photos were taken at Heathrow and Dubai Airports.

Hope you like it and Thank You for visiting.

Sketch Time over at The House that Stamps Built.

It had been a long time since I have had a chance to enter my cards over at 

The House that Stamps Built 

and is so nice to be able to get back there for one of their current challenges - 

A SKETCH.

http://www.thehousethatstampsbuilt.com/sketch-challenges/what-if-wednesday-sketch-challenge-j1213/

Please go over and check out what 

The Rock Stars have made for our inspiration.

I was at a Papercraft Convention in Brisbane last week end 

and I was eager to try out some new Spellbinders dies 

I had purchased and thought this was a perfect time to do so.

My base card stock is white and topped with Geometric Circles embossing folder 

which was spritzed with SU Rich Razzleberry.

Top dies used were - Floral Ovals Opulant Ovals and Radiant Rectangles.

Inked the Repeat Impressions Stamp Flowering Vine 4314 -K 

in Rich Razzleberry. Finished with a Carl punched flower and Liquid Pearls.

Thanks for popping in to see my latest creation.

It's a new Colour Challenge over at The Outlawz

It is Colour Challenge time again over at The Outlawz. 

As you may know I was recently asked to be on the 

Design Team for the Colour Challenge Group. 

Each week one of the Design Team gets to choose the colour palette and twist. 

This week was my turn and below is what I came up with. 

I loved the soft colours of these roses  - a perfect colour combination.

Of course there is always a twist and I love layering  - so there too is my Twist.

Again our generous sponsor is

https://www.redonkulousdesigns.com/

Here is what I made

I used a creamy pearl paper throughout embossing the background and sponging in pink and apricot ink for the first layer. The second layer I used a MS punch attaching my own apricot ribbon to it - second layer then added one of my favourite Spellbinder dies - the poinsettia cut out with mottled dp. 

The leaves are also from the cream card stock - more layers. 

Added a bit of glitter with a gel pen to the centres of the flower and leaves 

and finished off with a pearl brad and a tag with sentiment from GinaK

Hope you get a chance to pop over to The Outlawz and check out all the

 different challenges there - one for every day of the week 

and also see what the other talented Ladies from the 

Colour Challenge have made for inspiration. 

Thanks for popping in to see my work. I  appreciate you taking the time to do so.

New challenge at Crafting with Dragonflies - Make a Box.

Our challenge for you over at Crafting with Dragonflies 

this fortnight is to

  Make a Box - any theme.

but before I get into the details I would just love to say how awesome it was to see 
SO MANY enter our 'One for the Girls" Challenge.
 It was enormously popular and so rewarding to see you uploading them to our blog.

Just a word about our challenges. 
To be eligible for our Sponsored Prizes you need to be a follower.
and our simple rules are here
 http://crafting-with-dragonflies.blogspot.co.uk/p/challenge-rules.html

Our sponsor QKR was generous in giving the Design Team
 a digi image to work with.
 I chose QKR1705 Rose.

I decided to make a box for my cards to fit nicely inside and is perfect as a gift 
for someone who likes handmade cards and just adds that personal touch.

Here is what I made.

My box with cards displayed

- cards inside

close up of QKR1705 Rose highlighted with gold gel pen.

This is the Tutorial on how I made it.

and the items I used to do so - 

All papers used are from American Crafts - Purple Haze

Spellbinders Fancy Labels 2 behind Rose

Spellbinders Labels 20 

Spellbinders Blossoms 3

Martha Stewart & SU punches

Marianne Die LR0139

Gina K stamps - Dogwood & Butterflies & Country Roads

Kaisercraft pearls

Own ribbons

Our prizes for this challenge are sponsored by

QKR - 5 Digis of winner's choice

Sassy Studio Designs - 4 Digis of winner's choice

Don't forget to pop over to the other Design Teamies to see their gorgeous boxes on their blogs.

Barb

Hilde

Judith

Kelli

Susan

Tania

Thanks for visiting my blog and hope to see your creations over at

 Crafting with Dragonflies.

Outlawz Challenge Cards

It is that time of the week and I have made a couple of cards for the current challenges over at The Outlawz

http://outlawzchallenges.ning.com/

This weeks CAS challenge is 'Pillow Fight' - all about Feathers 

so my card is really CAS

As you can see it is really just that.

I have used black and orange card stock for the base.

I cut out a circle to use as a mask and coloured the white card stock with 

Memento Peanut Brittle

The swan image is from GinaK as is the sentiment. 

The swirl is one from my stash.

I finished off my card with a gold gel pen 

around the swan to give it a bit of shineand there you have it.

I am a Guest Designer this month for the Greeting Challenge and 

here is what I have made for that one.

We had to create a Wedding or Anniversary project in gold or silver.

What I used - 

Cream card stock MS punch Spellbinders Labels 20 

Kaisercraft pearls and own ribbon

Sentiment is from GinaK

I am also on the Design Team for their Colour Challenge 

and this week our colours and twist were chosen by Roxann

and Ursula posted this challenge which is sponsored by

 

https://www.redonkulousdesigns.com/

I made a CAS card for this one as I had been away on holiday for a few weeks.

I used the Honeycomb Embossing Folder from SU with Spellbinders Labels 20 

some ribbon from Kazazz and added a little bit of bling.

Thanks for coming over to check out my latest cards.

New Challenge over at Crafting with Dragonflies

Our next challenge over at Crafting with Dragonflies 

is one you will all love to be a part of.

Our Dragonfly Leader Hilde asked us to make a

'One for the Girls' card.

How easy and awesome is that! Endless ideas for this one.

The sponsor for this challenge is

and the winner will receive 4 digi's of their choice.

and

who are giving away a $12 gift certificate to their shop

Delicious Doodles were also generous in supplying 

the Design Team with their favourite digi image.

I selected - 

    Hydrangea and Butterfly.

- and here is my card

I chose 2 different colours of pink for my backing. 

The darker pink at the front was embossed with Couture Creation - Royalty

I cut out the focal background with Spellbinders Fleur de Lis

Hand cut the Delicious Doodles digi and coloured the surround in pink.

The butterfly was coloured in a variety of colours 

and the leaves I added gloss with Dimensional Magic.

The hydrangea was then covered in lots of little flowers 

punched out from a floral designer paper 

with the MS hydrangea punches. 

Start Dust Stickles was added to the centres. 

Finished with Kaisercraft pearls and own ribbon.

and here is a closer view of the flowers.

Please pop into

 http://crafting-with-dragonflies.blogspot.com.au/

to see what my other Design Teamies

  Barb

Hilde

Judith

Kelli

Susan

Tania

 have created for you and

I am looking forward to seeing what you create with this fabulous challenge

I have also entered this card in the following challenges - 

http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com.au/

http://crazychallenge.blogspot.com.au/

Thanks for stopping by 

Current Outlawz Challenge Cards

Just a quick post to show you a couple of cards I made for 

this weeks colour challenge over at The Outlawz,

Penny is hosting this challenge and the colour choice and twist below 

was chosen by Ursula.

 

You can find it at HERE

Our sponsor for this month's challenges is

http://www.littlescrapsofheavendesigns.com/

Here are my cards. Firstly I decided to go with the blingy butterfly card as my Design Team choice.

Thanks for popping by. Ina.

Creating with Dragonflies Challenge 2 UPDATE

After a LONG train trip I am home and back to catching up on DT duties.

As I said in the previous post I tried to upload my page for our

Crafting with Dragonflies Challenge 2 

Scrapbook Page - Mother

from my tablet while on holidays but was unable to do so.

so here is what I made...

Our generous sponsor for this challenge is

and I chose to use their rose tag digi image as part of my layout 

and added to it a bit of bling and a centre rhinestone.

I started my layout with a base of white then topped it with blue and pink paper. 

I tore a few of the edges to give it an "old feel" 

The main design paper is from Grace Taylor's Family Time.

The butterflies are from Marianne Designs 

and the bird and flower are Cherry Lynn Designs.

Both photos were taken when we still lived in Scotland. 

I am the youngest of the 3 girls in the photos.

I cut out the letters - My Mother with my cuttlebug and 

the alphabet I used is Hippie Chick. 

I used a MS punch for the bottom edging of the backing mat.

Hope you like what I have made and inspired you to make a page 

for the "Special Mother" in your life 

and enter it in our latest challenge.

Till next time again thanks for popping in - Ina.

Crafting with Dragonflies Challenge 2

I have been trying to update my blog with our new Crafting with Dragonflies challenge on my tablet as I am on holidays but haven't had any luck.
Please go to our blog http://crafting-with-dragonflies.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/challenge-2-scrapbook-page-with-theme.html to see what the Design Team 

 have created for your inspiration.

I am heading home tomorrow and will update my blog  from there.
Looking forward to seeing some lovely Mother Layouts.

It's LIVE!!!

The time has come and our new 

Crafting with Dragonflies is LIVE!

I am so excited to be a part of this new and exciting Blog 

and I hope that you all enjoy what we have in store for you.

First of all  - Below are our wonderful sponsors for this Challenge. 

Please support them when you can.

First Prize Sponsor
5 digi's -  Winner's Choice.

and a mystery Magnolia Tilda Stamp kindly given by our Leading Dragonfly - Hilda.

and 3 runners up

Prize
4 digi's - Winner's Choice

Prize
3 digi stamps

Prize
2 digi stamps

Now let the fun begin.

The Design Team have been busy this last month making you some 

fabulous cards for inspiration. 

Fitting for our First Challenge - you are asked to make a card with a 

DRAGONFLY.

Perhaps you don't have a stamp or image you can use - Hilda has thought of that and would be pleased if you used her Free Dragonfly Image

I made a few cards and couldn't decide which one I like the best 

so I am posting them all.

This is the first one...

This was a simple card using matching designer paper and popped the Glittered  

Free Dragonfly Image . 

The sentiment is from Gina K Assorted Greetings and finished of with a few pearls.

My Second

I had recently purchased the embossing folder (Honeycomb) at the back from SU so was eager to try it out. 

The dragonfly stamp is an Animal Spirit Stamp and I stamped 2 images. The first one I inked before embossing and then popped the second one on top after heat embossing it. Added some twine and button. The small stamped flowers on the embossed paper is from SU Beyond the Basics and sentiment from 

Gina K's Stippled Nature.

This photo just shows the dragonfly was popped.

and last

Again I was playing with my new SU embossing folder. I inked the background from SU Vintage Vogue in  Peacock Feathers Distress Ink. The main flowers are also from the same stamp set and inked in Rich Razzleberry. I cut out a few small scraps of DP for the back of the popped centre image. The dragonfly stamp is from Hampton Art and I used a gel pen to add some sparkle. The flower centres are glittered.

Please pop over to the our other Designers 

to see what lovely cards they made for you to be inspired by. 

Hilde - our LEADER

Barb

Judith

Kelli

Susan

and Tania

Thanks Ina.

Dragonflies are getting ready to fly....

Just a REMINDER that you only have a few days to join our new craft challenge blog and hope you have already pinned our blog candy on yours 'cause we are checking to see who is in the running to win this AWESOME CANDY. 

Our first challenge goes live on Wednesday morning 

Sydney Australia time as you know. 

We are all getting excited and I personally can't wait 

to see how many lovely cards will be uploaded. 

It has been a long month waiting for this day.... soon be counting the hours.

See you there Ina.

A quick upload.

This weeks challenge over at The Outlawz Sketch Challenge HERE 

there is a nice simple one so I thought I would go ahead and have a play with it. 

Since I am now on the Design Team for their Colour Challenges 

I can no longer enter my cards for any of their fabulous prizes. 

This doesn't stop us entering our cards for any of the other Challenges they have 

and I had a bit of fun putting my simple sketch card together.

I also noticed that over at http://mfpspeedytv.ning.com/ 

their Simple Salutations Challenge 42 is 

Spring is Here and you needed to create anything that came to mind for spring like flowers or showers that bring May flowers.

This is the stamp set for the Winner of this Challenge.

What a fabulous Male Stamp this would be to win.

 

Here is the card I made for both these challenges.

As I said it is a simple card using designer paper Spellbinder dies - Lotus in white and Floral Ovals in black. The single flower is a Memory Box die called Fuchsia Sprig. Added some multi coloured twine to the back and rhinestones to the corner and centre of flower. 

Thanks for looking. Ina.

The Latest Colour Challenge over at The Outlawz and Blog Candy Reminder

Hello again - and welcome back to my blog.

The latest colour challenge over at The Outlawz is up and below was our colour combination and twist for this week chosen for us by DT member Penny. Aren't they lovely?

Our sponsor for this month is Digi My World 

and the winner will receive a $10 gift certificate.

Here is what I made.

I love to do a bit of distressing so I did that around the edges of the coloured card stock and designer paper. I inked up one of my favourite SU stamp sets - Vintage Vogue with Versa Colour Olive for the leaves and Magenta for the flowers.

 I ghosted the top flower to make it lighter. 

I spritzed lightly over parts of the flowers added Avocado liquid pearls 

to the centre of the small flowers and a brad smudged with silver 

on the popped bigger flower. 

The sentiment is from Gina K's Assorted Greetings here.

and A REMINDER

that there is blog candy on offer at Crafting with Dragonflies

There really is some awesome goodies to be won here. 

This is a new challenge blog and I am excited to be part of the TEAM. 

Please go and check it out - join up and maybe you will be 

the WINNER of the candy.

You can't win it if you aren't in it.

Our 1st challenge will go live on 1st May Sydney time Australia.

Hope to see you there. Ina

Some more GOOD NEWS.

A few good things have happened to me since I was last here.

I was recently invited by Colleen to join the Design Team over at The Outlawz. I am one of the team for their Colour Challenges.

As you would have read I was a Guest Designer there in March and am so excited 

to now be a part of the team 

If you haven't been there check it out HERE

There are challenges for every day of the week and we have 

so many fabulous sponsors with great prizes to win.

Here are a few more cards that I made for these challenges.

I also entered the card above in the Inspirational Challenge at MFP SpeedyTV HERE 

after the challenge had gone live.

Each week there is a different colour challenge 

and a twist you need to add to your card. 

There will be another colour challenge go live later today
Tuesday (Australian Time)
so I hope you can go and check it out - perhaps join us at The Outlawz and enter your cards for a chance to win some lovely prizes.

Hope to see you there ......  Ina