Welcome and yes I am still here

Welcome to all my new followers its great to have you aboard. Only 2 days left until I draw my candy, how exciting. Well I have been busy crafting but it hasn't been making cards. I have been busy basting a quilt to be stitched and I am trying to finish "A Boys Story" that I started a looooong time ago. I was managing a block a month then they had a hold up on fabric and I lost my mojo. Oh well I do have two cards that I would love to share. The first card is one that a lady at work asked me to make and here she is.

and here is a close up

I was also very excited yesterday to have my custom rubber stamp arrive from Whimsy Stamps. I love ordering from these guys, always excellent service, well here is my stamp.

I have also made a card for the Magnolia-Licious Challenge Blog. We don't celebrate Halloween in Australia but I have loved this Tilda image for such a long time and managed to pick her up when someone was selling off their unused Tildas. I also love the colours that I have used, purple, orange, green and black. They look AMAZING together, well I think so take a look what do you think?

Here are the Copics I used

Here is a close up of Tilda. I cut out the cobwebs from the DP and stuck them around Tilda. I then covered the card in Smooch and Glossy accents. The green paper was punched with SU scallop punch and the ribbon was perfect with the cobwebs. I also wanted to share a photo of my boys from the Kaiser Craft kids carnival day last weekend. I am lucky enough to live near a Kaiser Craft outlet and the carnival day last week was lots of fun. I got to shop and never got harassed once about when we were going to leave which usually happens with the two boys and this is why, yes the boys got to play with the reptiles!!! Snakes, crocodiles, lizards, frogs a dream day out for all!!!

It's my Blog-aversary

My Blog-aversary
It's my blog-aversary!! Yay, I have now been blogging for over a year, gee time does go fast. I still love it as nuch as when I first started and would also like to thank my 18 followers too!!! My dear friend Alethea over at Lilo designs was telling me about blogland one night while we were crafting. It sounded like a great way to save money (we used to text each other photos of all our projects) well I don't know if we've done that (we still text, lol) but Leath is now a member of many DT's and has won a load of candy along the way. So its a double celebration to celebrate the beginning of both our blogs. Here is my candy pack

It consists of
Three Kaszazz chipboard packs
10 sheets of 12 x 12 DP (Kaiser, Stampin' Up, Heidi Grace)
Two sets of Kaiser Stamps

4 embellishment packs

Now head over to Alethea to see her awesome pack

If you would like the chance to win this candy then all you have to do is:

* Become a follower of mine and Aletheas Blog (Only enter if you are going to stay a follower)

* enter your name in inlinkz below

* and add a pic to your sidebar

feel free to leave a comment too, we always love to hear from you!!

And that's it!!! Candy will close on the 29th September and we will announce the winners on the1st October.

Good Luck

Butterflies Flutterby

I have been so busy at work that I haven't posted for quite a while. I hope the wait has been worth it with the following card I made for a lovely lady that I work with, Heidi.

I have used Tilda with Hawaiian flower and have mounted her on the stone path. I only have the colours for Tilda which were

Skin- E000, E00, R20

Hair- E41, 43, 44

Dress- YR00, 04, 07

Sleeves- YR21, 23, 24

Flower- Y00, 08, 17

Socks- W1

I love the butterfly paper which is from BoBunny and is called 'Gabrielle'. I actually have cut a circle in the DP paper and then used accetate to attach the path and Tilda to. I then used Magic Mount to create a foregroung and background. This seemed to work so well. The sentiment is from Whimsy Stamps and I love the beautiful metal butterfly I picked up from my local scrapbooking supply store. I am entering this card into the following challenges.

Make It Crafty-Grounded

Mad for Markers- Create a Scene

MDUC- Flutterbys

Luka with Truck

I'm not sure how this happened but I actually colured this Luka in when I visited the Copic stand at The Melbourne Paperific Show with my friend Alethea. However I went to put this card together and I realised that its coloured the same as the one on the La- La Land packet. I am asuming that because Copics are also the main distributor that they provided the colours to match the image on the packet so I am not taking the credit for colour selection but I did do the colouring. I made this card to celebrate my son James' sixth birthday. He has a red fire truck that he loves and this Luka reminds me of him. I am not sure who the DP is but it works so well with this image, I also love the little truck brad. I have also shown you the inside of my card, can you see the super cute bolt stickers? I hope James loves this card as much as I do. I am also entering it in the La- La Land Birthday card celebration competition.

I have used the following colours to colour Luka
Pants- B24, B32
Jacket- YG91, YG95
Shoes- B95, B97
Shirt- YR21, YR23
Truck- R35, R37, W3, W5
Hair- E31, E33, E35
Skin- E00, E50

Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay

I love this song by Otis Redding and when I saw that this was the challenge over at MDUC I was very excited. I saw Kaiser had realesed a new range last week called "Hunt and Gather' one of the papers is covered in fish and I knew I had to track it down to go with Fishing Edwin. I started colouring him last night and when I saw this challenge this morning, well it all fell into place. So here is Edwin sitting on the dock of the bay!I am also entering this card in the Just Magnolia challenge which is Holiday Fun. Fishing is my eldest sons favourite thing to do when we are camping so I am actually going to give this card to him.

I have used the following Copics to colour Edwin

Pants- B95, B97

Button- E43

Skin- E000, E00, R20

T-shirt- C1, C3

Rod- E25

Float- R27, R37

Water- B000, clear Spica

Poles- E31, E33

I used the new Kaiser paper Fossick and the DP behind Edwin is also from the Kaiser 'Bird Society'  Paper pad. The tickets are also from Kaiser. I asked my husband for a fishing hook and he had silver, but Tom had red in his fishing box, perfect. I was also really pleased with the pier that I drew myself for Edwin to sit on. I also loved the way my water turned out it looks like ripples!! I also added clear Spicas which is really hard to see on the photo but it looks amazing in real life. So I am also entering this card in the Mad For Marker Challenge which is to use Spica.



A New Challenge Blog

How exciting a New Challenge Blog over at Whimsy Stamps beginning August 10. Come and check out all the details over here.

La- La Land Crafts Blog Candy

Head over to Rosemary's creations where she is offering followers the chance to win the Luka with truck stamp.

If you enter a card on the La-La Land Blog you also get a second chance to win. So head on over and good luck to everyone!!!