Let's Play Dress Up!!

I had planned to have this post done earlier today but my son tripped over in his classroom this morning and split his head open!! Not too serious but enough for a doctors visit and the rest of the day off school!
So anyway, it's time for a new challenge at Craft your Passion and this week our theme is "Let's Play Dress Up" - You must include an image of a person or an animal dressed up as something else.
We are sponsored by The Stamp Fairy and we got to play with a couple of cute images. I used Lenny Ladybug 3!

I coloured him in with tria markers. His ears are a bit darker than the rest of him cos I coloured them on a different day and forgot what colours I had used on the body!! oops! I used glitter pen on head band and on the dots of his outfit and his little ladybug. I kept the decoration simple just using some scraps of paper and buttons, then added a simple sentiment!!!
I hope that you can join us this week at Craft your Passion!!

Pearls and Swirls at Paper Crafting Journey!!

Time for a new challenge at Paper Crafting Journey and this fortnight our challenge is pearls and swirls - pretty easy one huh? And we are lucky enough to be sponsored by Elisabeth Bell.. She has the most adorable images -you can check out her digital collection here.

I have used the most recent addition to the Elisabeth Bell digital collection - Little Mama - you may have noticed I just love creating with her! I coloured her in with tria markers and added some glaze to her heart on her dress, bracelets, shoes and pearls. The papers are from my paper stash, then I die cut some flourishes (swirls) and added some pearls to those. Then I added some string of pearls to the corners and finished the card off with the flowers!!
I hope that you can join us this fortnight at Paper Crafting Journey!!

Elisabeth Bell's Apple Bake!

Hello all my fine followers, how are you? Hope the weather is warm where you are, it's absolutely freezing here in Melbourne today, perfect weather for crafting!
So it's my turn to post on The Digi Bell's blog and I decided to use Apple Bake from Elisabeth Bell's digital collection .

I coloured Apple Bake in with tria markers, I die cut her out and die cut a bigger shape behind it. I used some sentiment washi tape and rik rak. The finished off the card with some die cut flowers and rhinestones!! I always like leaving my cards uncluttered when it comes to Elisabeth bell images cos I like them to be the focus of the card!!!
I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
* Elphine House - Happy Birthday
* Bearly Mine - Anything Goes
* Deep Ocean Challenge- For a Girl
* Crafting when we Can - Mad for Markers

Sketch 41 at Seems a Little Sketchy!

It's my second post today, time for a new challenge at Seems a Little Sketchy!! We are sponsored by My Grafico and Eureka Stamps!

I used the dolphin from a set from My Graphico and just duplicated it and made a mirror image of it!

The papers are from my scrap stash and I also embossed some bubbles and inked the paper with distress inks!! I coloured the dolphins in with Tria markers, inked some white ribbon purple and added some dew drops to fnish it off!

Hope that you can join us this fortnight at Seems a Little Sketchy!

Celebrating Father's Day at Craft Your Passion!!

We are just winding down a from a 4 day weekend here as the kids had a curriculum day on Friday and today is the Queen's Birthday Public Holiday!! We've had a home day today, just watching movies and getting the house tidied up and all washing caught up on! House still looks like a bomb went off but I feel like I've achieved something! Will get the house back into some sort of order tomorrow when the boys are back at school!! What have you been up to on your weekend?
So it's time for a new challenge  at Craft Your Passion and this week our challenge is Fathers Day/Masculine. We actually don't celebrate Fathers day till September here in Australia so I never have to think about making a card for this special day at this time of year but hey now I won't have to worry in September!!
We are sponsored by Eureka Stamps and The Robin's Nest this challenge!! I used this sentiment from Eureka stamps:

I got some white card stock and inked it up with some distress inks then put it through the printer to print out the sentiment!! I then added some sparkle and glimmer to it (not that you can really tell). I then just added the stars diecut from the same paper and finished it off with some rhinestones and buttons!! Simple but perfect for my dad for fathers day!!
I hope that you can join us at Craft Your Passion this week! I look forward to stopping by your blogs!!

A Scrappy Birthday!

Before I share my creation today, I just wanted to welcome my new followers. I hope that you like what you see on my blog! Also thanks to all my loyal followers who stop by on a regular basis and leave me comments... it always makes my day!
So it is time for a new challenge at Polka Doodles and this week we want to see you create a birthday card using your scraps - there is a stipulation with this challenge - you can't use any single piece of paper bigger than 2 x 2"!. There are always wonderful prizes up for grabs and Polka Doodles is full of wonderful goodies that you can use for endless amounts of creations!

  I absolutely loved this challenge!!! Now I didn't have any Polka Doodle paper scraps because I always print off the size that I need  but I loved creating this card with some of my scraps... (I have a lot) So you know that the papers are scraps, the image is pre-coloured and is Molly from the Fredericka mini CD collection. The flowers and dragonflies are also pre-coloured and are from the Sundae of Seasons CD rom. I punched out some circles for the flowers to sit on so they stood out a bit then distressed around the edges! To finish off the card I added some Dew Drops and a bit of kindyglitz.
I hope that you can join in the challenge this week... Don't forget if you want to create something with these fabulous digi images (that I have used) from Polka Doodles or other digi images in store then you can go to the Digi world where you can download images immediately or you can order the many CD Roms that are in store!
I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
* Southern Girls Challenge - Tic Tac Toe (Left side - down)
* Pile it On - Stripes and/or Plaid
* Allsorts - Here Come the Girls

Little Mama...

I was supposed to have this posted a lot earlier than now but I could not get on the internet last night.. It was so frustrating s I didn't know if it was my modem or the server but as it turns out it was my server.. thank goodness!! So I do apologise to my DT.. I really do hate letting people down but sometimes some things are just out of our control!!
 So today it's my turn to post on The Digi Bell's Blog so I have used Little Mama which you can get from Elisabeth Bell's digital collection right HERE!! She is the latest addition to the digital collection and I think she is just gorgeous!!

Little Mama is coloured in with Tria markers. I also added some chalk to the heart on her dress but you can't really see that. I also added it around her!! I decided to try a few new things (for me) on this card, the first being that I partially die cut the image and partly cut it - I followed the tutorial over on the Polka Doodles blog. I also used my new Nottingham border die and used in within the paper rather than adding it as a new element!! I then utilised that to decorate around the image. I also added rhinestones for some bling and sparkle. I added the flowers (inked up the white one's purple) and added the pearls ad I recently bought my first pack of washi tape and had this happy birthday one which was just perfect to finish off the card!! Thanks for stopping by today..

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

* Crafting with Dragonflies - One for the Girls

* Inky Impressions - Birthday or anniversary

* The Paper Shelter - Flower Power

* Penny's Paper Crafty - Birthdays

* Bearly Mine - Dies and/or Punches

* Papertake weekly - Anything Goes

* A&T Emerald Faeries - Dies/Punches

* Pile it On - Stripes and/or Plaid

* Allsorts - Here come the Girls