Kraft With Me!

A Happy Birthday

Inspired by Tiddly Inks latest Challenge - Kraft With Me

WOW! two cards in a day I'm on a roll.  This card is for our families newest au pair, Lisa, who is from Germany, so therefore the Happy Birthday sentiment is in German and a tricky one to pronounce for an Aussie family!

Materials Used; Who Loves You from Tiddly Inks, Copic Caio markers, SU Kraft & Wild Wasabi card stock.

Challenges Entered; 

Tiddly Inks Challenge; Kraft With Me

Pile It On; Up Up and Away (an owl)

Stamp Something; Digi Day (digi stamp from Tiddly Inks)

Take a LOOK at this Candy!!

Got Candy!

If you haven't been to visit Tiddly Inks yet you'll be crazy to wait any longer, you will not only see some of the cutest digi images you'll ever set your eyes on, Christy is also giving everyone a chance to win this awesome blog candy as well!! 

This blog candy has a bit of everything:

3 sets of acrylic stamps, stacks of paper, cardboard, bits and pieces of goodies, mirrors and magnets, some card stock and envelopes, a few finished cards and most important a CD of Tiddly Inks images worth $50....you pick the ones you want up to $50!!!

 

So hurry on over to Tiddly Inks now and take a look around you wont be disappointed!

Another Musical Card...

You Rock my World!

As promised here is my second Kenny K card using Download Diva, and like me she loves her music.  I have paired her with some of my new Stephanie Fizer; Take Note digi paper which I absolutely adore.

Material Used;  Kenny K digi, Bugaboo digi  sentiment, Stephanie Fizer digi paper, Copic Ciao markers, SU Basic Black, Basic Gray and Core'dinations Raspberry Cordial card stocks, Tattered Angels Pink Taffy Glimmer Mist and some Kaiser Craft rhinestones for the bling.

Challenges Entered;

Crazy 4 Challenges;C4C50 Music 

Wee Memories; Buttons, Brads or Bling

It's A Girl Thing!

My very first 'Kenny K' Challenge

Here it is, my very first Kenny K image made for my very first Kenny K challenge, why did it take me soooo long to find these little gems?

I have used 'Troublemaker' and isn't she just!  Looking like butter wouldn't melt in her pretty little mouth.  The card style is inspired by Kenny K's Kraft Girlz challenge - Bold and Bright.

I bought two images to start with and I am in the middle of constructing my second Kenny K card but I know there will plenty of shopping going on soon to get more!

Materials Used; Kenny K Troublemaker digi, copic ciao markers, SU Melon Mambo and Gable Green card stock, core'dinations raspberry cordial card stock, Doodlebug DP, SU Sparkle Brad, star paperclip, SU sentiment

Challenges entered;

Kenny K's Kraft Girlz; Bold & Bright

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge; What Are Little Girls Made Of?

Simon Says Challenge; Summertime Blues!
Party Time Tuesdays; Anything Goes

Happy Birthday DH!

Happy Birthday!

Today is my DH's birthday and he was woken up with our two wonderful boys beaming and ready for school (of course DH was not ready to wake up yet!)  While the young bots are at school we will both be relaxing at home after being able to co-ordinate our days off together which seems to be a very rare occurrence.

As you can see by looking at earlier card posts I had a theme going on with his birthday cards this year and this is the one from me.  I am loving the fact that I have been able to add some real hardware to my embellishment stash!

Materials Used; Pollycraft Designs Digi - Cog Girl, Copic Ciao's, SU Basic Grey, Pacific Point and some other generic green card stock, DP from Kaiser crafts Konstruct Collection,  Sakura Glaze pens, metal flower bead spacers, twine and hardware from my new hardware stash.

Challenges entered;

Pollycraft Monday Challenge; Photo Inspiration 

Paper Sundaes; Metal  

Bee Crafty; All About The Image (alternative craft item is the hardware) 

Creative Inspirations Challenge; Recycled Element (that would be the nut and washers)

Ooh La La Creations; Spots and Dots

Big, Bad, Dad!

Big Bad DAD!

It is my DH's birthday this week so I have been busy making his cards while he is at work, then hiding the evidence again when he is home!  This is his card from our two boys...

This fantastic stamp and sentiment set is from Tiddly Inks, isn't he the coolest Dad you ever saw.  I even made a quick rummage with the kids in the garage for some shiny nuts and washers!

Material Used; Digi stamps from Tiddly Inks, Copic Ciao's, SU Kraft, Basic Black and Riding Hood Red card stocks, DP 'Be A Man'  and Rub-Ons from Creative Imaginations, nut and washers from the garage.

Challenges entered;

Meljen's Designs; Clean and Simple
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge; It's A Mans World
Bee Crafty; All About The Image (alternative craft item is the hardware)
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge; Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails!
Creative Inspirations Challenge; Recycled Element (that would be the nut and washers)
Paper Sundaes; Metal 

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

Flash your FREEBIES! Part Two

think GREEN!

Part two of Pollycraft's Flash your Freebies challenge was to use the free digi we received by email and to think GREEN!  Awww! This pair of turtles are just adorable...

I am so excited, because now that I have made this card all I need to do is add the link and I will get a choice of any digi FREE from Pollycraft's shop, thanks to the wonderful generosity of Paula, how sweet a deal is that?

I am not to sure of my choice of colour, now that I look at the photo, for the little blue bird sitting on the fence (another free digi from Pollycraft) but overall I am happy with the way the rest of the card turned out.

Materials Used: digis from Pollycraft Designs, Copic Ciao, SU Old Olive card stock, DP from Kaiser Hey Birdie collection, Kaiser paper flowers, SU Certainly Celery ribbon, green brads from my stash pile.

Fly me to the moon...

Fly me too the moon...

Tonight I made my first ever moving card!  I searched for what I thought I was looking for as far as a tutorial went, but went completely blank on what the technique I had in mind was called, so I went with the same technique for making a spinner card that I had seen a while back.

This card is for my nieces new baby boy Tyson who was born this week and I though these digi's from Inktegrity where just perfect.

Materials Used; Inktegrity digi's, Copic Ciao markers, Sakura Glaze pens, SU Riding Hood Red cardstock, American Crafts DP, buttons and ribbon from my stash pile, two Aussie 5c coins for the spinner.

This card is entered in the following challenges;

Meljens Designs challenge #16; A Long or Tall card

Bee Crafty challenge #33; 3D (add a dimension)

Stamp Something; Something Digital

C.R.A.F.T challenge #59; Babies and Children
Pollycraft Monday Challenge #52; Bold and Bright

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.

Red, White and Blue

Red, White and Blue

Challenge # 11 at Tiddly Inks must use the colours red, white and blue. I chose to use my newest freebie from Tiddly Inks ( thanks so much ) for this challenge and incorporated the colours into her kimono and then used paper and embellies to match.

I have also entered this card in two other patriotic challenges at Meljens Designs and also Pixie Dust Studios.

Materials Used; Tiddly Inks Digi, Copic Ciao markers, SU Real Red and Basic Black card stock, other DP, Kaiser paper flowers, brad and ribbon from the stash pile.

I tried the shiny black hair technique after watching Lysa's awesome tutorial on the Tiddly Inks blog, but I definitely need some more practice with this as I just seemed to end up with stripey hair!

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!!!

How Many Bolts?

My first Tiddly Inks challenge.

I found the Tiddly Inks Blog for the first time yesterday, which took me to the Tiddly Inks Shop which took me to this delightful little Robot who jumped straight into my shopping cart!

Robbie, as I have affectionately named him, is a joy to colour and I am sure he will be having a few friends join him soon from the Tiddly Inks Digi shop.

I have entered Robbie in my first Tiddly Inks challenge - Challenge 9 - Bleep, Bleep Boys and their Robots and I am sure it will not be the last.

Materials Used; Copic Ciao markers, SU Soft Suede, Kiwi Kiss and Black card stock, Memory Keepers Geo Hectic DP, Creative Imaginations Impress-ons.

It's been awhile!

Finding my MOJO!

It's been awhile, I know, after looking after a house full of unwell children, including my DH, over the past two weeks, I thought I had lost my stamping MOJO! It's really hard to get any inspiration surrounded by sniffling noses, coughs and an endless trail of used Kleenex!!!

But thankfully, they all seem to be well over their cold's and I had some time to myself after work to sit down and work on a long awaited card, using the latest FFF sketch challenge from the Splendid Stamping blog for some much needed inspiration.

So here she is, my new HG Classy digi is all her splendor, she is coloured with my copics and mounted on some SU card stock and designer papers from Kaisers new 'Hey Birdie' collection. I have also used some of Kaisers classical lace and pearls from the 'Devonshire' range, which is very fitting for a Classy Gal like her!

I also had some other very exciting news when I got home from work today, my package from TGF had finally arrived with my new ROLL CALL Sprouts snuggled inside!

What a way to kick-start my inspiration straight into top gear!!!

Handy Dad's Birthday

Happy Birthday Dad!

Tomorrow marks my Dear Dad's 78th Birthday and this is the card I have made for this special occasion. I have used the new Handy Ian digi from TGF as he represents the memories I have of Dad as we were growing up.

Dad was not a handyman by trade but he was certainly handy around the house and has always had a unique way of fixing things. Still today when I visit him I will notice one of his special contraptions around his unit.

Dad has been known to make his own tap washers from drilled out coins, plastic bottle lids to cover a light switch which really does not need to be turned on; that's to save power! and other various ways to recycle everyday items into useful objects.

I have coloured Ian with my copics and given him grey hair, to be honest due to the age difference between my Mum and Dad I can only ever remember him with grey hair!

I am really happy with the way this card has turned out and I hope Dad just loves it too...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!

Going Green for a FFF Challenge

Going Green

The challenge this week at the Splendid Stamping blog was a great excuse to get my behind into gear to make a card for my young nephew.

The challenge; 'Going Green', and I had just the stamp, Chibi Punk has been in my collection for a while but apart from actually printing him out all he had done is sit in my to-do pile!

So finally I coloured my little punk with my copics and gave him some wild green hair, which really suits his wild style, he is mounted on some papers from 'lily of the valley' and finished the card with the sentiment and some star brads out of my stash.

He is looking very cool in green and I think he will make my nephew smile!

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!

Time for some GIRL power!

Girl Power!

I love to watch my nine year old, Nicholas train at the Dojo, I take him three times a week, twice for his Zen Do Kai and once for Muay Thai, but it's a very masculine place to be most of the time, lots of sweat and testosterone as the kids go through their karta's and kick routines it's great to watch but sometimes I really feel the need for some girl time!

Time to hit the craft room and print out my Karate Anya and Ian digi stamps from The Greeting Farm, this time Anya is the star, I just borrowed Ian's body for some modifications...lol!

I made two cards using these images, the one in the background is the more serious of the two, I have left her belt white so it can be personalized when ever I need the card for a special birthday occasion.

The one in the foreground is a more fun card, it is not so formal! They have both been coloured with my copics and I have used a mix of papers from my off-cuts for these cards. All of the sentiments have been made on my computer using publisher (once I am happy with the design I save them as a png file so they are ready for next time).

Well that's all I have for now, time to go back and help build some Star Wars Lego with the boys, I think they have let me have all the girl time I am going to get for today!

The Battle Begins!

The Greeting Farms Battle Challenge Begins!

This Saturday marks the beginning of the Battle Royal at TGF, about 60 teams will battle it out for votes to see who will stay in the running and have the opportunity to win the ultimate stamp set once the dust has settled at the finale.

Introducing.....

The Happy Stampy team;

Nancy (leader)
MrsK
stampabilitys
Sinihilkka
Bobbi

The first challenge is to create a Retro card using inspiration from this image.




GOING RETRO - WEEK ONE

After submitting all of our individual samples to our team captain, Nancy, my card was voted into the first week of the challenge, talk about pressure, the first week of voting is set to eliminate half of the teams!

I used Charlotte as my view of Retro is the sixties, and I think she is a very Retro looking 60's chick, ready to take her bicycle out for a ride and enjoy the first days of spring in her matching headband and scarf.

Charlotte is coloured with my copics and layered on some SU card stock and Dear Lizzy designer paper, the card has been finished off with some matching Kaisercraft flowers and buttons.

All Charlotte needs now is enough votes to keep us in the competition, we are not allowed to vote for our own teams cards but you can VOTE for her HERE by leaving your comments.

If you are not a member of The Greeting Farm Gallery it is very easy to sign up and a great place for some inspiration!

VOTE NOW!

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!