Challenge #77 Birthday Fun for SAS4Kids

 

It's time to make some Fun Birthday Cards over at

 

SAS4Kids

 

Our GENEROUS SPONSOR'S 

for this Challenge are

 

Dollar Graphics  - $15 Gift Certificate

Bugaboo  - 7 digi images of Winner's Choice

QKR Stampede - 5 digi images of Winner's Choice

 

 

Now what can be more fun than to

eat yummy cake?

My image is from Bugaboo. I didn't need to colour

too much of this great image just a little pink

with some Kindy Glitz on the cupcake

Star Dust Stickles around the frame

and the frosting I used Snow White Flower Soft.

I also scored the back and bottom frame.

Added Glitter Matt Stack paper

Buttons and Sentiment is from

Inspired by Stamping - A Lovely Birthday.

 

 

 

I loved looking at all the gorgeous images over at Dollar Graphics

and finally decided on a pre coloured digi (my favourite kind)

I used

Coloured Card Stock

Scrap piece of DP

Spellbinders Circles/Lacey Circles

Corner Punch

Pearls

Sentiment is Heat Embossed and from

Inspired by Stamping - Chalkboard Stamp Set.

 

Since I only used one of the images for this challenge

I made another because I loved them so much.

 

 

That's it for me for now.

Don't forget to pop over to the rest of  the SAS4Kids Team

to see what they have created for our

 

FUN BIRTHDAY CHALLENGE.

 



For Mother's Day or a Special Lady - Challenge #24 at Crafting with Dragonflies



My card below is for a Special Lady - My Daughter.

I am SO EXCITED that in a few months I will get to

celebrate 2 very special occasions.

My granddaughter is getting married and my younger daughter

is flying over from Perth

(which is over the other side of Australia from where I live)

She is the baby one on my Baby Blog Hop post.

 

 

It just so happens we will be able to celebrate her birthday

while she is here so I am a pretty Happy Lady.

It will be a memorable get together as we are flying north

to Cairns for this Special Time.

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On to our CHALLENGE. -

As the heading states it is a CARD

 for Mother's Day which is 11th May in Australia

or you may have a Special Lady like me

that you can make your card for.

We would like you to go ALL OUT

with this one and make it REALLY SPECIAL.

 

Our sponsors for this challenge are

 Heather Ellis with the Winners receiving 3 digi's from the website

and Meljens Designs who will be able to pick 4 digi's.

 

I chose the Daisy Pitcher digi from Meljens Designs

and used the following items -  

Cream and rose pink card stock

DP from my stash

Own ribbon at the top

Kazzaz Ivory Seam Binding inked with

 Iced Spruce Distress Ink to match the Pitcher

Coloured the Digi Image with Monte Marte Pencils

Dimensional Magic on Pitcher

Sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping - Fancy Sentiments

Gold Pearl Liquid Pearls

Antique Linen Distress Ink

Own Pearls

Kaisercraft Teal Pearls

Spellbinders Fancy Labels 2 for Sentiment

Digi is cut out with Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles

Carl Punch for small flower on Pitcher

Main flower was sponged with Distress Inks

and Iridescent Medium

Butterfly is from Marianne Designs.

 

I am sure you will want to check out the other

Dragonfly Designers on the right hand side
to see what beautiful cards they have made for our

 

Mother's Day/Special Lady Challenge.

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And on a sadder note

This is my last post for Crafting with Dragonflies.

For the present I need to cut back a little on my Crafting time.

 

I would like to say the biggest Thank You to Hilde

who had faith in my work and invited me

to be part of her Design Team when this blog started.

Some of the Challenges we shared over the last 10 months

 certainly took me out of my comfort zone

several times but loved the fact that I got to

try out new ideas.

Next I would like to say Thank You to my

Fellow Design Team Friends for all the

help and encouragement we shared.

It has been an amazing journey.

 

I am just cutting back on some commitments for now 

and will still be sharing my work when time permits.

So stay tuned

 Thank you so much for stopping by..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Are you my WINNER for our Baby Blog Hop?

 

 

Today is the day we announce our WINNERS

of our Baby Blog Hop.

We got to pick a favourite COMMENT on our blogs and

mine was from 

Pia S

who wrote

 

LOVE the curvy border with baby carriages and your card is so beautifully sparkly.

Really cute:)
 

 

Pia - could you contact Judith on

 craftingwithdragonflies@gmail.com
for your PRIZE.
 

Thank you so much for all those who commented did the whole blog hop

worked out the Rhyme and entered a card as we really do

 appreciate you taking the time to participate in our

 BABY BLOG HOP.
 

 

 



Happy Mother's Day at SAS4Kids Challenge #76

Our Latest Challenge over at Send a Smile 4 Kids is to
 make a card from the kids for Mother's Day.

In my haste to get my blog schedules ready ahead of time
because I am away from home due to hubby
 having a hip replacement -
I missed this one so please excuse me if I miss something out.

My first card is from Doodle Pantry
and again I chose a pre coloured digi.
I loved this Poppy image and just added Dimensional Magic
to one of the flowers as a feature.
Also used the Doodle Pantry paper.
Embossing folder as a backing
Sentiment is computer generated.
 

My second card is an image from A Day for Daisies

I have used coloured and white card stock

Butterfly embossing folder

Spellbinder Dies

Own ribbon and computer generated sentiment.

Again I apologise for the lack of information on

products I used.

Our sponsor's are

Doodle Pantry - $10 Gift Certificate

A Day for Daisies - $12 Gift Certificate

Stitchy Bear - 2 dig's $6 value.

Don't forget to pop over to the other SAS Team to see what

great cards they have made for 

our Mother's Day card from the Kids.

 

I am also entering my Doodle Pantry Poppy Card

into their current challenge which is

DPDC #45 and you can find their Blog

HERE

Thanks for dropping in

 

 

We're thinking EASTER for Challenge #23 at Crafting with Dragonflies

 

 

Easter is coming around fast and as we have seen

Hot Cross Buns in the Supermarket since

can you believe just after Christmas?

So for this special occasion we thought it perfect to

 

Challenge you to make your Easter cards/Anything.

 

We have 2 great sponsors for you and they are

 

SQUIGGLEFLY - with 3 images for the Winner

and

 

BUGABOO with 7 images for the Winner

 

With 2 generous sponsors for this challenges

you will see some of the Design Team have made 2 cards.

 

Here are mine

 

 

I used a Squigglefly image for this one

hand cut and paper pieced several glittered eggs

to fill my basket which is from Marianne Designs CR1208

I cut my base card from Spellbinders Scalloped Ovals

Topped with Spellbinders Ovals

Added a variety of punched and glittered flowers with a few sprigs

from a MS punch.

 

This time I used a Bugaboo Image - Egg Peekers

Aren't they delightful?

I decided to do something a little different by putting the image

on the inside and topping the white card base

with DP and cutting it out.

Added Spellbinder circles around the

inside image and also the front.

I again paper pieced but just the egg and added Kindy Glitz

to the dots on the Easter Egg.

Added a little ribbon bow from Flourish with Bling

some punched out flowers and

 added the Kindy Glitz to the centres.

Sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping All Year Wishes 2

and cut out with Just Rite Antique Tags.

 

Hop on over to the other Design Team Members

to see what lovely Easter Inspiration they have made.

 

Hope you all have a Great Easter Break.

 

till next time Cherrio from

 

 

 



It's a BABY BLOG HOP

Before we start you may need  COFFEE and CAKE

as this is a long posting

 

READY?

 

WE are having a BLOG HOP 

as well as a Challenge this fortnight!

 

This year our theme is - BABIES!

We have some wonderful sponsors who have

generously donated lots of goodies

for you and our wonderful Hilde also

has a freebie to give to you

 to use for the challenge if you want to - 

You can find it HERE

Our Sponsors for this Blog Hop are listed below

 but the twist is that they are associated
with each individual member of the Design Team's blogs,

so you need to go to their blog and
follow the instructions to be in a chance to win.

There is a prize for the Challenge winner as well
 and our normal TOP THREE awards.

You do not have to go in the BLOG HOP
as well as the Challenge,

but what else have you to do with your time?
Of course you will enter both!!

 However, you do have to be a member of this blog
to be eligible for the

Challenge and Blog Hop prizes.

Before I forget Hilde has another one of her wonderful digi's
and so suitable for this challenge so
pop on over to OUR BLOG and check it out. 

 

OUR WONDERFUL SPONSORS

 

Sponsors: Digistamps4Joy Prize: 

$10 to spend in the store  - on Tania's blog

Sami Stamps Prize:

 

$12 to spend in the store  - Judith has this one

Flourish with a Bling Prize:

 

$15 dollar to spend in the store - 
you will find this one on  Ina's blog

Handmade Harbour prize: 

six digis for the winner  - hiding away on CG's blog

Pickled Potpourri prize: 

 $7 to spend in the store  - Hilde's  blog

Meljens prize: four digis for the winner  

 

Sammy, Susan and Wynn are being sponsored by Meljen's
but Susan and Wynn are generously donating a prize of their own.
  

The way you can hop is by thinking of numbers!
Go to each Design Team's blog,

read the clues and THINK OF NUMBERS while you do this! Remember -

our theme is BABIES, so what do Babies have related to NUMBERS?

 

There may be a small amount of poetry in there.......
.but I am sure you will be able to work that all out!

You collect a word or maybe a whole phrase from each blog

 along the hop and you need to make sure that

1 - You leave a comment on that blog to be eligible for the Blog Prize

2 - You DON'T mention the word/phrase in your comment

 

Once you have completed your hop send an email to me (Susan)
here with the assembled clues

 into the POEM  Ten Little (Whoops, nearly...)
about BABIES related to NUMBERS!

 Please put Baby blog Hop in the subject line.  

Leave a comment on this blog as well as entering
your own Baby themed project into the Challenge below

But before you finish hopping here is my card for this challenge.

 

Isn't it such a 'dreamy' image from Meljen's

I had the base card with the cute prams left over from

a class I did last year at a Craft Convention.

Just knew it would come in handy one day...

It is a lovely cream colour and decided to add blue for colour.

I cut up a flourish which was supplied by 

Flourish with a Bling - Thank you

which I lightly coloured to match the blue

(and just happens to be from my winner's prize)

Cut 2 different coloured DP from Spellbinder's Lacey Circles

and the digi from Spellbinder's Circles.

Added Startdust Stickles to part of the image

Coloured the hat and pants in 2 different shades of yellow

and finished that off with glossy accents.
Added a little bit of blue paper to the inside
to show off the pram border on the front. 

Punched out and glittered 3 stars and added

yellow pearls to the flourish.



 

I know most of you will be Mother's and know that feeling when our tummies

start to  grow and grow and GROW

and we start getting uncomfortable and can't wait

for that bundle of joy to come into the world.

Our lives are never the same again.

 

Here are my 2 bundles of joy that came from my grow - ing tummy.

 

Now that you have no doubt finished your coffee and cake -

or did you sneak away for another?

Maybe you did that from the start as I am at the rear end of the hop...

I hope that we have inspired you with all the baby talk cards and photos

to send you goo goo and off to create

some sort of baby project of your own.

Sure hope so.

 

If by chance you didn't start at the beginning of the hop please

do so in the order of the hop below.

 

Order of the HOP
 

Start here

Tania

Hilde

Wynn

Sammy

CG

Judith

Ina
 Susan

Crafting with Dragonflies 



Looking for Pastel Coloured Cards at SAS4Kids - Challenge #75

 

For our latest challenge over at Send a Smile for Kids

we are going softly with Pastel Colours.

 

I loved the Peeking Cat from http://crackerboxrubberstamps.com//

and sure had fun with it.

Thanks so much for supplying us with this fabulous stamp set.

 

 

I used cream card stock & DP

Tim Holtz Embossing Folder inked and tore the edges

for the peeking cat (which was heat embossed) to look through.

Added a picket fence from a MS Punch

The sentiment from Crackerbox Palace

Own flowers inked and added Liquid Pearls.

 

 

 

For my second card I used a digi image

from KennyK called Girl Fish

I coloured her with a glitter pen after embossing

 the background with

a Couture Creations Embossing Folder called Ambrosia

a little distress ink on the coral

then added splashes of iridescent medium

Glossy Accents on the eyes

SU stamp on background 

and paper pierced around the edge.

A little glitter on the bubbles.

 

Please visit the other DT blogs to see what

they have created.

 

Hope you can get the chance to play with this challenge

and look forward to seeing some pretty pastels.

 



A Challenge in The House DCC #226

Over at The House that Stamps Built

one of their challenges going on at the moment is their

http://www.thehousethatstampsbuilt.com/designers-choice-challenge/dcc226-black-white-and-one-other-color/

Of course I went to my favourite again and used purple.

 

 

I used black and white card stock and a

small piece of Designer Paper

Darice Embossing Folder

CB Embossing Folder on black card stock

The stamp is from Repeat Impressions #1309

Scoring

Sentiment is from the All Occasions stamp set from GinaK

Kaisercraft Pearls.

 

And that's it from me for now.

Thanks for stopping by

 

 



A Shaped Card for Challenge #21 at Crafting with Dragonflies

Our regular visitor's know we nearly always do different things over at

Crafting with Dragonflies

and for this challenge we want you to

 

MAKE A SHAPED CARD.

 

Nothing hard about that is there?

I certainly had fun making mine. I even did a trial run by making a

baby sized one first.

 

 

Then I made the Mother one lol

 

My cute digi image is from

MilkCoffee who are generously giving the winner

a choice of 5 digi's

 

We have our other sponsor

All Dressed Up and some of the DT will be

using an image from them

and they are generous too by given the winner

2 digi's of their choice.

 

I used a few different coloured card stock and dp

Doily

MS Punches for the flowers and sprigs

Spellbinders Circles

A little bit of bling and glitter.

 

Hope you will pop over and see what the other

Dragonflies have made as inspiration and

look forward to seeing yours.

 

 

 

 

 



Inspired by Stamping Monthly Challenge # Flowers

 

Over at Inspired by Stamping

the current challenge is to make a card with flowers.

Now don't we all LOVE them.

You can find the details HERE

 

I have made my card for a special friend's birthday and had to get it posted quickly as

it is this week and is going over the sea to Scotland.

She is a very talented quilter and loves sewing

and the perfect stamp was the

Vintage Thread Stamp Set from IBS.

 

 

I got my inspiration from Colleen Dietrich's card HERE

and loved her layout so decided to case it.

 

I used cream iridescent card stock and layered it by inking

with the thread stamp to cover the background

I then inked that with distress ink added lace

flowers from IBS and a hand made flower by

Die-namics - Mini Hybrid Heirloom Rose.

and

Spellbinder flourish

Kaisercraft Pearls

Mouline Jewel Effects shimmery cotton E316

Scissors Charm

Sentiment is  from IBS - Just Because.

 

I was really happy how it finished and I am sure

 she will be too.

 

I am also entering this in these challenges -

 

http://sugarcreekhollow.blogspot.com.au/ - Sew Fashionable Challenge #81

Sunflowerfield Designs March Challenge  - Birthdays and/or Flowers

Totally Gorjuss - Happy Birthday Challenge #225

 

Until Next Time

 

 



Send a Smile 4 Kids Challenge #74 Easter/Spring Card

 

It's that time of the month again for our New Challenge over at

Send a Smile $ Kids

 

and this time it is for Easter/Spring cards.

Our sponsors for this challenge are

Squigglefly - 3 digi's of the Winner's Choice

QKR - 5 digi's of the Winner's Choice

Oak Pond Creations - 1 digi of the Winner's Choice

 

Here is what I made from a digi image kindly supplied by Squigglefly

 

 

 

A pretty simply card using some card stock and dp

Image is lightly coloured

Spellbinders Circles Die

Sentiment from Inspired by Stamping

Own ribbon

Scalloped edges is from SU Edgelits

and I pierced around the circle.

 

and this one from QKR

 

 

Again I used basic card stock and some DP

Inked background

Spellbinder Circles

MS Punch

Sizzix butterflies

Glossy accents and glitter

Ribbon from my stash

 

Hope you can pop along and make some great

Easter/Spring card and it would be

lovely if those cards could go to

put a smile on those children in hospital.

If so please read the Guidelines  HERE

 

Thanks for stopping by and hope to see your creations

over at our blog soon.

Don't forget to check out what the

rest of Team SAS have created for you.

 

 

 



It's all about the MUSIC

This week over at The Outlawz

 the colour challenge is a great one.

 

 

 You can find details HERE

Now I am from this great era and my idols as a teenager

were THE BEATLES. My favourite was PAUL

I loved the inspiration photo that Laurian put up for us

who chose the colours and twist.

 

This is what I came up with

 

 

I must admit I got my fingers in a very inky state but had

a lot of fun putting it together.

I started off with black card stock and topped it with

an emboss resist technique

with a CB embossing folder.

I distressed the edges and added some twine.

 Now this is where I got inky after I stamped

my guitar from Inspired by Stamping using various distress inks

I tore the inked edges and attached to my card.

The back has a small bit of mesh which I also inked.

 Cut out a pick from the Guitar stamp set and attached it.

I finished off with colouring some Western Boots

which is a digi kindly supplied to the DT

by Roxann Suits from Outlawz.

 

I am also entering this card in the

 

 'ALL BOY' challengeover at Cuttin & Stampin

 

Card 4 Guyz Challenge #7 - MUSIC - HERE

 

Anything goes at - Through the Craftroom Door

Anything Goes at - Tuesday Throwdown

 

Thanks for coming to check my latest work out.

 



Friends of Speedy TV Challenge 113 - Tissue Paper

I came across this fun challenge over at Friends of Speedy TV

and knew I had to make a card for it.

I love using paper napkins which to me is the

 same as tissue paper so I got out my drawer full of ideas

and here is what I made.

 

 

It was super easy to make.

I started off with white card stock and inked it with a

 texture waive stencil from Memory Box.

Added 2 coloured mats at the back.

The dolphin napkin has been scrunched up and then glued

to paper. I added a little glossy accents to the coral at the bottom

and to the dolphins eye. And that is all there is to it.

 

A super quickie for today.

 



Another JUGS card

 

 

Here I am with another card for the current

Inspiration Challenge over at

JUGS

 

 

 

I love this Penny Black stamp and thought it time I

inked it up again. Suited the colour combination

especially with the pretty daffodil.

 

A very simple card with some scrapbooking paper

a bit of embossing with a CB folder and sentiment is from SU.

I embossed the lovely little hedgehog in black coloured his body

a bit and added glossy accents to the daffodil and his cheek.

The tiny butterfly is from Sizzix.

 

Thanks for popping in today. Hope to see you back again soon.

 

 



JUGS Photo Inspiration Challenge #229

 

 

A friend of mine found this great idea HERE 

called Petite Petals card by Dawn

and knew I just had to case it.

As it turned out I thought it perfect to make for the

current Photo Inspiration Challenge HERE

 

 

So here is my take on Dawn's card.

 

 

Products I used are -

Basic card stock

Stampin' Up - Vintage Vogue for flowers

Inspired by Stamping - Birthday Wishes for sentiment and flourish

Distress Ink - Peacock Feathers

Memento -  Peanut Brittle

Kaisercraft Rhinestones

 

Thanks for stopping by. Hope to catch you here again soon