A Lightbulb Moment

For a special someone...

This is the second Granddad card finished today, this one is for my Dearest Dad and this freebie Meljens image was just perfect for it, Dad inspires my in every thing I do and I love him very much.

Materials Used;

Meljens Designs Freebie; Little Lightbulb, Copic Caio Markers, SU Kraft, Pumpkin Pie, YoYo Yellow & Ballet Blue card stock, DP from KaiserCraft Class of '87 Collection, SU Buttons and white twine.

Challenges Entered;

Meljens Designs: Recipe Challenge - 3 colors, 2 patterned papers and a bow

UR Such An Animal!

Sweet Little Friend

Inspired my this weeks challenge at Meljens Designs; UR Such An Animal!

I used Cuddle Dragon and Little Stitched Cloud from Meljens adorable digis, the french sentiment means sweet little friend, the card was made for our au pair Cassy, who flew back to her family in France today.

Materials Used: Cuddle Dragon & Little Stitched Cloud (freebie) from Meljens Designs, Copic Caio markers, SU Wild Wasabi & Elegant Eggplant card stock, unknown DP scrap, SU buttons and SU ribbon.

Challenges Entered:

Meljens Designs: UR Such An Animal!

Stamptacular Sunday; You Lucky Duck (best wishes) 
Pile It On; Up Up and Away (a cloud)

Stamp Something; Digi Day (digi stamp from Meljens Designs)

Another First!

Lets do an ATC!

Two posts in one day, who was a busy girl yesterday??  To be honest its been to darn hot to do anything here in Perth this week and it feels lovely to sit in my craft room under the air-conditioning vent to cool down which made it a perfect opportunity to visit my favorite blogs for some inspiration!

Melissa at Meljens Designs have a challenge to create an ATC card, an ATC card or Artist Trading Card, is a miniature piece of art that showcases your style, and they can be traded around the world between artists. I had to look this up!

This was a fun card to make, its sooo cute and what a perfect size to use some of my scraps!

Materials Used; Meljens Designs Digi; Dragons Little Friend, SU Sentiment from 'Picture This' set, Copic Caio markers, SU Wild Wasabi & Melon Mambo, DP, ribbon, rhinestones from my stash pile.

Challenges Entered;

Meljens Designs; Artist Trading Card

Party Time Tuesdays; Anything Goes
Crfazy 4 Challenges; C4C76 Flowers (on the dragon)

Wishing for SNOW!

It's sooo HOT I wish it would SNOW....

Christmas is Perth is always HOT HOT HOT, it is lovely to be able to spend the time relaxing in the air-conditioning or splashing in the pool but sometimes I just wish it would snow, just one white Christmas is all I want!

Here is another card Christmas card this is my youngest son's Jake and he just loved getting this Rudolf Bot card with all his nut n bolts!

Materials Used: Rudolf Bot from Tiddly Inks, Jingle All The Way sentiment from Meljen's Designs, Copis Caio markers, SU Kraft, Riding Hood Red & Chocolate Chip cardstock, Kaisercrafts DP, glitter, nuts bolts brads & snowflakes from my stash pile.

Challenges Entered:

Stamptacular Sunday - Snow Much Fun

Meljens Designs - Cold & Snowy

Crazy 4 Challenges - Celebrate Something

xxx Bernadette

flowers, flowers, flowers

My Love...

This little card is inspired by this weeks recipe challenge at Paper Sundaes: 4 Flowers, 3 Buttons and 2 DP.  I have used my Love Birds digi from Meljens Designs.  It was a great excuse to use some of my SU felt flowers.

Materials used; Love Birds digi from Meljens Designs, Copic Ciao markers, SU Rich Razzleberry, Soft Suede and Whisper White card stocks, 2 x DP's from Kaiser Craft Hey Birdie collection, SU Felt Flowers, SU Brad, 3 x matching buttons and rub-on sentiment from my stash.

Challenges entered; 

Paper Sundaes; A Recipe! 4 Flowers, 3 Buttons and 2 DP
Fab 'n' Funky Challenges; Flower Power 
Stampin' for the Weekend: Anything Goes!

I See Double!

Monkeying Around

This card was inspired by another great challenge at Meljens Designs; I See Double - You just have to use the SAME image twice on the one card.  I used the adorable Monkey Toes digi from Meljens for this challenge and I had my own personal challenge getting the baby monkey to look like he was sitting in his mummy's lap, but after a bit of snipping here and reattaching there I seem to have the two of them snuggling happily together.

Material Used; Monkey Toes digi from Meljens Designs, Copic Ciao markers, SU Kraft, Chocolate Chip and Gable Green card stock, DCWV Animal Crackers DP, SU Baja Breeze Grosgrain ribbon, SU sentiment stamp, buttons from my stash pile.

Challenges entered;

Meljens Designs; I See Double

Wee Memories; Buttons, Brads or Bling

Wild About You!

Wild About You!

I used this cute little Lion from Meljen's Designs for this weeks sketch challenge over at Meljens blog.  

He may be running wild on the open Savannah, but he's a real softy at heart and likes nothing more than a big cuddle!

Material Used; digi stamp from Meljens Designs, Copic Ciao, SU Chocolate Chip and Pumpkin Pie, DP DCWV Animal Crackers, SU sentiment stamp, ribbon and buttons from my stash pile.

Challenges Entered;

Meljens Designs; Sketch Challenge #18
C.R.A.F.T; Challenge #61 Hot & Spicy Colors

A Note of Thanks

Patience is a Virtue

For the last two weeks at work I have been in a training group getting some much needed upskilling for our new position.  The lovely lady who has been taking us through our new skills has the patience of a saint, so I have made this card for her from all of us.

Inspiration has come from the latest challenge at Meljens Designs, make an easel card,  and I have used one of her new releases; Penpal Mouse, which is just perfect for a thank you card, isn't he the cutest!  The sentiment is one I made up on the spot to go with him.

Material Used; Digi from Meljens Designs, Copic Caio markers, SU cardstock Basic Gray, Pixie Pink, Pretty in Pink, DP from Kaiser Craft Christmas Carnival Collection, plain notepad paper, binder punch, SU Fire Square rhinestone brads, Kaiser ribbon and flower from my stash pile.

Challenges entered;

Meljens Designs; Challenge #17 AN EASEL CARD!

Stamp Scrap & Doodle Saturdays; The challenge - DIGI's

Crazy 4 Challenges; C4C47 Photo Inspiration

I Scream....

...you scream, we all scream for ICE CREAM!!

This by far the most fun I have had making a card and it marks so many firsts for me! First bookmark, first matching set and first Party Time Tuesdays challenge.

This card was inspired my the Party Time Tuesdays Challenge #6; Outside in, create a birthday card and decorate the inside too! but it is also entered in
Crazy 4 Challenges C4CC4; Use 2 or more ribbons
Meljens Designs Challenge #15; Circles Galore (hundreds if you count the embossed bubbles)
Craftalicious Challenge #3; Cute
Pile it On Challenge #26; My Favorite Things
The last Dietrich Dare challenge
C.R.A.F.T Challenge #58; Cake and Ice-Cream
Fairy Fun Fridays; Anything Goes
Wee Memories Challenge #13; Free For All

I had printed out two of my new double scoop ice-cream digi from MelJens Designs and was having so much fun that I coloured in both, I was half-way through putting the card together when I decided to make the matching bookmark.

I am extremely happy with the way this card has turned out and very chuffed with myself too!

Materials Used; Stamp from Meljens Designs, Sentiments from SU, Copic Ciao; E57, E47, R00, Y21, Y06, RV02, RV06 and RV13, SU Card stock Very Vanilla, Close to Cocoa, Pretty in Pink, DP from doodlebug design, SU embossing powder, glitter, buttons and ribbons from my stash pile.

au revoir

Spaghetti and Meatballs all covered in Cheese!!

This card was made for a special friend and it is also entered in the latest challenge at the I Love Digi Challenge Blog; Emboss It!

Materials Used: Digi's from Meljen's Designs, Copic Ciao markers, Sakura embossing pens, SU card stock and DP, Cuttlebug Script embossing folder, Spiral folder punch and buttons from my stash pile.

The free digi's I found on Meljens designs blog for this card are just adorable and perfect for making this thank you card for our au pair Aude, who left us to day to finish her travels around Australia.

Aude has been living with our family since the beginning of February and after five months it was sadly time for her to leave today to finish her journey before flying back home to France in October. At this very moment she is driving her way up the north coast of Western Australia through Geraldton, Monkey Mia, Exmouth and Broome (to name just a few) then she will visit Darwin and Alice Springs before heading back down the East Coast through Queensland, Sydney and finally finishing in Melbourne.

Aude has been a wonderful addition to our family and our two sons have adored having her around, growing up in a large family with lots of brothers she was all to happy to play and wrestle with them and has the patience of an angel.

The reason I chose the stamps I did for this card was because of Aude's love of cooking, she is a qualified pastry chef and spoiled us rotten with some gorgeous deserts and her dinners even had my youngest loving his vegetables!

from left to right; Nicholas Aude and Jake

Aude I know you will visit my blog when you get back to a computer, we miss you already and hopefully one day we will all travel to France to see you and some of your delicious deserts!

Au Revoir!!!

Leaving it to the LAST minute!

A challenge and something extra...

I promised myself this week that since I had time off to do little more than relax, I would get into my craft room and do some serious card-making.....well I don't know where that week went, I was busy doing anything and everything except crafting!

Today is Sunday, tomorrow I am back at work, nothing like cramming it all in during the dying hours!

I have three cards too show you in this post , one for a challenge and the others are using characters I had manged to colour during the week, but were never mounted!

SMILE - it's a Sketch Challenge

This first card if for the this weeks FFF Sketch Challenge at Splendid Stamping. I have used a digi stamp; Country Anya for this one and added one of the farm animals from the McSplendid Farm set.

Materials used: Copic Ciao markers, SU Soft Suede Card stock, paper stash off-cuts, DP Kaiser craft Hey Birdie, ric-rac ribbon and other various embellies.

Small Wonder

This card was inspired by a card I saw on Meljen's Designs DT Blog, and as I had the same digi stamp and Cuttlebug embossing plate I had to give it a go.

This sweet puppy is already very cute but the embossing really makes him POP! He is coloured first, then cute and embossed.

Materials used: Copic Ciao markers, SU Riding Hood Red and black card stock, Cuttlebug Tiny Bubbles embossing plate, Daisy Bucket DP, SU Whimsical Words stamp, various embellies.

A Monstrosity!

The third card off the rank features one of my favorite new monsters from Pollycraft designs, his name is cuddly! He is great fun to colour. The sentiment is one that I have made up myself.

Material Used: Copic Ciao markers, SU Elegant Eggplant and Riding Hood red card stock, Daisy Designs DP, Cuttlebug Tiny Bubbles embossing plate, ribbon and brad from the stash pile.

If you made it to the bottom of this Monsterous post you have earned yourself a break, thanks for visiting, until next time....

Meljens Designs Challenge

Challenge #4: For The Little Ones

This is the first design challenge that I have entered at Meljen's Design DT blog, but I don't think it will be the last as I have totally fallen in love with her images.

This challenge was too make a card for someone little, I used 'Cuddle Dragon' not just because it is well suited for a little ones birthday card, but he is just sooo darn cute!

I coloured the image with my copics and mounted him on some matching designer papers from 'Lili of the Valley' and Kaiser Craft La-Di-Da ranges and the card stock is SU Almost Amethyst and Rich Razzleberry.

I have finished the card with an SU sentiment from the 'Best Yet' set, some Grosgrain ribbon, a little bling and a craft number one rubbed with silver.

A cute little card for a child's first birthday!

Lifes Sweeter......

lifes SWEETER when shared with friends...

Today I finally got around to mounting some of Meljen's designs that I had coloured over a week ago, I know, I know, very slow, but I just love colouring her gorgeous images so I printed out a few last week and just spent time alone with the digi's and my copics, colouring in my craft room!

This one is my favorite out of the four cards I finished today, 'Turtle and Friend', this little guy is just tooooo cute, and very fun to colour, I have mounted him using some designer paper from Kaiser Crafts La-Di-Da collection on some SU Orchid Opulence which matches perfectly. I have then finished with the sentiment on some Kaiser Craft ribbon Grosgrain ribbon.

I think this card is very simple yet very SWEET!

Getting Back To Basics!

Getting Back To Basics!

With all of the layering, embellishing and copic-colouring I have been doing lately I thought it was time I got back to some basics and re-acquaint myself with my SU Stampin Pastels.

I found some fantastic new digi stamps from Meljens Designs and they were perfect for my chalks. The first one that I have coloured is this gorgeous Giraffe, to adorable to resist, so here he his. Coloured with my blender pen and chalks and simply layered on some SU designer paper with a matching button.

I have a whole range of Meljen's stamps in my collection now and I can't wait to chalk them up too!