Challenge #78 - SAS4Kids Happy Father's Day from the Kids

Our latest challenge over at Send a Smile 4 Kids

is to make a card for Father's Day from the Kids.

 

Father's Day here in Australia is in September

so there is plenty of timefor us Aussie's to get creative -

 but why wait till the last minute

Get crackin' and make it for this Challenge.

You could send it/them over to some sick children

 http://sendasmile4kidschallenge.blogspot.com/p/guidelines-for-donated-cards.html

and make another for later on... They will be greatly appreciated.

 

Here is what I made for this challenge.

 

 

I so love pre coloured digi images and this cute guy is from

Fred She Said who is one of our generous sponsor's

who is giving the Winner a $10 Gift Certificate

 

I used the following on this card
Black White Blue & Red card stock

Tim Holtz Embossing Folder

Cuttlebug Embossing folder

Spellbinders Circles

Variegated Twine and Brads

Added a dot of Dimensional Magic on the heart.

 

 

Our second sponsor is Stitchy Bear who is giving the Winner

3 Images to a $10 value. The digi image I chose is Flat Tire 

 

I used the following items on this card

Black Brown & White card stock

Memory Box Texture Waive for the background

Petite Ovals

Sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping Masculine Things

Iced Spruce Distress Ink

Flower Soft Polar White for the snow

Glitter

Starform Sticker

 

I had printed out a couple of images and the card below

 was the first one I made.

While I was waiting for the snow to dry

(I used Stickles Frosted Lace)

 I decided to play around with the image and make a second one.

Because the image is small I added some glitter

 instead of flower soft to the snow.

 

 

We do have a 3rd sponsor with a generous prize of a

$25 Gift Certificate

and is Kitchen Ink Stamps 

 

That's it for me for this challenge.

Hope to see you again soon -

 



For the Guys - Challenge #DCC43 at The House

Over at The House that Stamps Built their

Designer's Choice Challenge is For the Guys

 

 

It is nice to get away from all the girly card we like to make

and do something for the Males in our life -

whether they are relatives or just friends.

 

The products I used for this card are -

 Black and orange card stock

The brick wall is from Farm House Paper Company

The grunge effect on the orange paper is Kaisercraft

The great truck image is from Mark's Finest Papers

Sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping

Image is heat embossed in black

Jute String

I used a gold Sakura Pen for highlights

and the truck is coloured with Faber-Castell watercolour pencils.

 

I would also like to enter this card in

Colour Challenge #20 over at mfpspeedytv

The colours there are Orange Black & Brown.

 

That's it for now - thanks for stopping by

 



Guitar Pickin' Invitation

 

 

What perfect timing the Colour Challenge from

Just us Girls was for me to practice

making a quick and easy Invitation for my hubby's 70th birthday.

I had made him a birthday card with this stamp set last year

and in the same colours - which got me thinking....

 

 

Not much in making this which is good for mass production.

 

I used White and Orange card stock

The guitar and grunge is from Inspired by Stamping - Guitars

The background is stamped with Kaisercraft Grunge

and Stampin' Up Beyond the Basics

The sentiment is from my stash

Inks are Memento Broken China & Peanut Brittle

Guitar is heat embossed with Blue Pearl Powder

 

I would like to enter this in the current Designer's Choice Challenge

Here for their For the Guys Challenge.

 

Thanks for poppin' in

 

 



Inspired by Stamping Challenge #81

 

I was over at Inspired by Stamping

checking out their latest Blog Challenge

Here and was impressed with the colour choice so decided to

find some pretty paper and stamp and see what I could make.

 

 

from this

 

 

I found this fabulous paper at our local office supplier

Officeworks called Crazed.

 I love the look of it as it is an iridescent paper.

I adhered it to white card base after I inked the

Graceful Hydrangea stamp from Inspired by Stamping.

AND

Sentiment is also IBS - Big Wishes II

The DP is from Gina K 's Victoria Garden

Ribbon is Stampin' Up

Kaisercraft Pearls finished it off.

 

That's it for this posting so till next time

Cherrio from

 



Colour Challenge #237 at JUGS

It's that time of the Month that JUGS hold their Colour Challenge.

This time round it is

 

Nice choice eh!

 So I went delving into my craft supplies to see what I could make.

 

 

I went for something simple for this one.

 

I used the following items on my card

Basic coloured card stock

Kaisercraft Prickled Pear Stamp which I shadow stamped

Cuttlebug Houndstooth Embossing Folder

Memento Paris Dusk Ink

Sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping - Just Because

SU ribbon

Iridescent Medium

Rhinestones on centre of flowers.

Till next time - Cherrio

 

 

 



It's a 'House' Sketch Challenge #A1614

 

 

It's been a long time since I got to enter one of the great challenges over at

The House that Stamps Built

and when I saw their latest sketch challenge

and the great inspiration

from the Rock Stars I knew I had to

get in my craft room and create.

 

Here is what I made

 

 

 

from this sketch

 

 

I saw Cheri's embossed background Here 

and knew I had the same folder.

I have been going to use it for ages and it fitted perfectly

for the background of my Daffodils. Thanks SS

 

I used the following items on my card -

Basic white yellow and black card stock

Spellbinders ovals/scalloped ovals

Sizzix butterfly die

Sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping -

 Trendy Circle Sentiments

and that beautiful Daffodil is

904W from Repeat Impressions.

Daffodil and Sentiment are popped.

Added a touch of dimensional magic to the centre of the Tulips.

Tulips coloured with Faber-Castell water colour pencils.

 

I had a hard time picking which flower stamp to use

as there are so many gorgeous ones (don't have them all)

 and wanted to use one that the Rock Stars hadn't.

 

I would also like to enter this card in the following challenges -

http://acreativeneed.wordpress.com/ - Signs of Spring

http://chocolatecoffeecards.blogspot.com.au/ - Spring

http://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com.au/ - #227 B is for

http://fairytale-challengeblog.blogspot.com.au/ - #89 Butterflies

http://stampingwithdragon.blogspot.com.au/ - Spring Time

 

Thanks for stopping by

 

 



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