Southern Girls Challenge - Black & White with a POP

At Southern Girls this fortnight we want to see your black and white cards with a pop of one colour. We have a couple of awesome sponsors, Pink Cat Studios and Sassy Studio Designs. The image I have used is from Sassy Studio Designs and I think is called Hippy Chick. I really enjoyed getting my yellow copics out for this card, I really don't use them enough and yellow really is a happy colour on cards and never fails to make you feel happy.

The sentiment was made in MS Office Word (yes I replaced the missing edition from my harddrive, and yes it cost ALOT! Especially when I had to replace PSE as well) using Caviar Dreams font and punched out using oval punches from SU.

I sure hope we see you over at SGC playing along and thanks for visiting my blog.

The Paper Shelter - Stitching (faux or real)

YAY!!!!! My first card as part of the Design Team for The Paper Shelter, I am so stoked! Anyone that has been a regular visitor to my blog over the past year or so will know that I am a huge fan of TPS images and Digi papers and use them ALOT! So to get the nod for the DT is a total dream come true.

This weeks challenge is STITCHING and it matters not if you would like to use the real thing or your reamer, as long as we can see stitching of some description we will be happy as. I have used the fake type, very easy with my stitching guide, although I need to practice corners by the looks of this card. The image I have used is "Love Cats" and is available along with the cute papers (Enchanting Dancing) in the SHOP.

Hope you will come along and join us and remember if you use a The Paper Shelter image on your card you could win a $15.00 gift Voucher from TPS..... AWESOME!

I am also entering this card in the following Challenges.......

Cupcake Crafts - Stitching

Paper Creations Ink -- Stitching

Sparkles Forum Challenge _ One For The Girls

ASFOS - Birthday Card - and it was quick and easy :)

This Birthday card for our "Birthday Challenge" at A Spoonfull of Sugar was a nice easy one to make using precoloured "Cool Waitress" from The Paper Shelter and honeyscript from www.dafont.com . I had lots of fun making this in PSE9 but you could really make it in any good photo program. It is nice to have some flat birthday cards to send overseas that aren't going to cost me a fortune in postage to send. All I added as embellishments are some dewdrops in the cornersjust to break it up a little and the cardstock is Melon Mambo from Stampin Up.

Thanks loads for visiting and hope to see you linked up at ASFOS.......

Here She Is

I realised today how long it has been since I have put some up to date pics of Jodie on here, so for those of you that are interested, here she is!

Jodes is now 1year, 7 months and 12 days.... still refusing to talk, although managing quite nicely to boss everyone into doing exactly what she wants.

She loves nothing better than rumaging through her Mums crafty pretties, as you can see from the utter joy on her face at getting her little hands on some dew drops in the top picture. She is also fascinated by copic markers, but that is more likely to be due to the fact that I just about have a coronary when she goes near them.

She dislikes the zippy bump (baby bump) and pokes it at every opportunity.

She loves My Little Pony, fairies and baby dolls (definitely not the real thing) and likes to be pampered eg Moisterized after her bath, have her hair blow dryed and brushed and to be dressed in pretty dresses. She also enjoys playing in the mud with her brothers, the sandpit and the wind blowing in her face. So there you have it, that's my baby girl in a nutshell.

CSAYL - Give Me The Bird!

Awesome challenge this week at Christmas Stamping All Year Long, Birds, we want o see birds on your Christmas card or project. Our sponsor is Pink Cat Studio for this challenge which is where this awesome image came from, aint it sweet! And super quick and easy to colour in too :)I have added some interest with smooch paint, stickles and liquid pearls. The papers are from Papermania and were a release for Christmas last year. The lace is from my stash and the sentiment is "Basic Phrases" from SU.

Hope you will came and join in the challenge and check out what the other super talented DT members have been up to.

I am also entering this card in the following challenges........

Clearly I Stamp - Things with Wings

Fussy & Fancy - Christmas in July

Glitter Geeks - Furry & Feathery Friends

The Poodles Parlor - Round & Round the Garden

Raise the Bar - Anything Goes

Stamp Something - Use a Digi

Emerald Faerie Garden - Lace Challenge

Time for another challenge at Emerald Faerie Garden and this fortnight we challenge you to use lace on your card. The image I used is the digi version of "Kenz & Tilly" and cropped so I just got the top then resized, turned out pretty cute I think. That is the joy of digi images I guess, being able to manipulate them to what you need. The papers are again Digi ones and again from The Paper Shelter, this time "Pepe L'Souris in Love" I love the pinks in this set. The sentiment is an Emerald Faeries one, from the Flourish Sentiments set

The flowers are a mix from Wild Orchid and Debs and the organza ribbon is old SU stuff. The gorgeous lace is from Spotlight. I am quite excited as now I am over the bout of Pneumonia I had and the boys are back to School and Kindy Mum and I are off to Palmerston North next week shopping, first stop Spotlight!!!! YAY!!! I see they also have cardstock on special for .80c a sheet so I will be stocking up on that too, plus lace, ribbon, papers, glitter, pearls, thickers etc..... I can't wait! I am also going to go to Noel Leeming and get Photoshop Elements 7 for my laptop since the dork that fixed the harddrive deleted EVERYTHING and then told me it was up to me to replace the programmes, gah they came on the fricken computer. DICKHEAD!!!!! So yeah PSE7 plus Office 2010 should put quite the hole in my (read Andrew's) bank balance. Then off to get a few things for baby no#4 after all we all deserve new stuff and it can't live in handme downs ALL the time.

I am thinking of dyeing some of Jodie's merino baby stuff that we got her as the colour has faded and I would like to spruce it up a little, if anyone has any suggestions on the best way to do this I would appreciate any help.

Well I guess that is a wrap, what a hugely longwinded post this was. Have a great day and don't forget to go see what the rest of the A Team on EFG have up with.........