This Little Piggy......

....believed she could!

Earlier in the piece SU put out  a stamp set called This Little Piggy

As soon as I saw it I had to have it

So, it has sat on my shelf for all this time and only used for the first time for this card!!!

Who else does that?

Hilde at Crafting with Dragonflies has asked for a card with ANIMALS

so this was the chance to use my little piggies!

Out came the stamps and the Copic pens......

The background is a piece of card that has been floating about for a while, used to mop up some spritzing and paint and stuff.....

Some careful fussy cutting and pop ups and a mount

Inside I continued the theme but more muted....

Looks like I need to retrim the right hand mount....

There you have it

We are having a rainy, snowy, cold winter's day with a touch of sunshine

Thought this view would suit....almost looks like a painting

Something else believing it can - so it does!

Dove Lake at Cradle Mountain.

Snowing as I'm walking ❄️😊❄️! Such a beautiful experience. Love this tree and it's intriguing roots .... wondering what's holding it upright !! 

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Challenge #81 at Unstampabelles: Fancy Frames and Borders

The twist is to be edgy!

We all have those gorgeous border dies floating in our stash or beautiful embossing folders with fancy frames or diecuts with fancy edges

Get them out and play!!!

I am going to have so much fun with this challenge

Remember, at Unstampabelles there are NO STAMPS to be used

For the first week I made a card but you can make anything really as long as you follow the theme and twist and it is a paper-based craft.

I saw several people on Pinterest had used a leaf die to create a border so I  tried it  - I only used  a single leaf die (from SU's new Stylish Stems set) and a sentiment die from Memory Box. 

These two colours are two new ones also from Stampin' Up 

These are returning to the collection - Mossy Meadow and Flirty Flamingo

I cut and glued these  two sheets together to create a duel mount and then die cut along the join line five times with my leaf die. I used the three complete leaves under the flowers later. I initially cut five leaves to insert into the left-over spaces and then cut another two from the same new Granny Apple Green card stock for the flowers . I also cut the sentiment from this.

I layered the mount onto a white card base.

I also used a white pen to create another border.

I added some Tara flowers and the aforementioned leaves.

The bottom photo was taken in the shade and it changed the whole colour scheme!

The first three are the better colours.

Here is another type of border for you

Remarkable caves located in the Tasman national park, explore the small cave system or head out the main cave to find a secluded hidden beach!

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Why not pop over to Unstampabelles and checkout the fabulous cards created by the DT.

You have a month to enter!

Red, White and Blue for Eclectic Ellapu!

Hello - as the new July Challenge at Eclectic Ellapu, Elaine has announced the theme is to be:

RED, White and BLUE

I made a card

Using washi  tape for the background

and adding a die overlay

I have several packets of these Australia buttons

so I was to glad to use one

This sentiment is a new one from Stampin' Up

The base is a commercial card (blue)

Simple to make really when you have the idea

It's a bit of a mash-up from stuff on Pinterest

The crisp winter mornings around here leave you looking a bit red, white and blue lately......

Sometimes you've just gotta take a minute to appreciate your surroundings. What a magic morning this was, on the edge of Devil's Gullet, in the Northwest of Tassie.

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Unstampabelles Final Week

Had one of those weeks when you need a sympathy card or two......

So, for Unstampabelle's final week of the June challenge

I used a piece of the new Stampin' Up Vellum DP and coloured up the back with Copics

I layered it with a frame onto a yellow piece - one of the new SU colours  - and a white card blank

A rub-on and some extra flowers completed it

My bling here is the pretty stained glass effect

Another view

A close up

The edge of the world 🌏 The Tarkine drive is a must when in Tasmania. I loved it 😍

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Using Baker's Twine for Crafting with Dragonflies

Hello Peeps - welcome back to sunny COLD Tasmania!

What an interesting week it has been in the world. Winter solstice here in Tasmania with Dark Mofo and lots of food and wine and fun and controversy. Lot's of visitors too - some even human! This one wasn't though - so magnificent and so endangered. Look at the power in that lift.......

Hobart & Beyond shared a post.

June 20 at 2:21pm · 

Ange Anderson has the perfect job for flaunting her talent and my oh my is she a fine photographer! Check this incredible shot out😍 Can you imagine how exciting it must have been to bear witness? The passengers on Pennicott Wilderness Journeys Tasman Island Cruise were treated to this very sight near Tasman Island today.

Bet that gets the creative juices flowing! 

Good because Crafting with Dragonflies has a new challenge for the fortnight!

Hilde set us a task to use bakers twine on a card

I use it often but I wanted to use it in a different way for this challenge, so .....

...off to Pinterest!

I was obviously not the only one who wanted to use it in different ways as

I got some fabulous ideas there and combined two of my favorites to create my card

Firstly I used brads and gold twine to make a track across the background

and create a bit of backgroundinterest

I took an old SU punch and punched out three scalloped circles from waste card

- love that |I could use waste up!

I followed a tutorial I found to wind the bakers twine around the edges - you can see in the black one I went several spaces over and got a tighter (smaller) centre

The black twine is one less and the white twine is less again

Really it was all serendipitous!

My button centers were the hardest to complete as I wanted to get the right ones

That is why the pink one has two bits - a button and some bling 

I embossed my sentiment (SU) and added some extra bits of sparkle (SU)

The mount looked a bit bland so I ended up ruling a black line around and it just completed it for me.

Hope you enjoy seeing these and want to make your own flowers!

Why not try new ways of using bakers twine - OR, just use bakers twine and 

enter your work at the challenge at

Crafting with Dragonflies

I will enter this in the following challenges:

Crafty Calendar: Three of anything

Crafty Katz: Weekly challenge with twist - blooms

Southern Girls: Anything Goes

  Yahoo!

Week Three for Unstampabelles

The challenge this month at Unstampabelles is

Challenge#80: Flowers and more flowers 

TWIST Bling it up!

Yes,there is a random number draw for a give-away

Today's DT piece is another card

My daffodils are just pushing their heads through the soil and are a long way off flowering but these from Joanna Sheen are nodding their heads already. 

The die set and embossing folder came with a Joanna Sheen card kit and were good value.

Included in the kit were sheets of paper and lots of ideas and as my mojo has been angling for retirement lately I made good use of it all. 

Photo's at various angles to give you the idea of the dimension

Hope to see you playing along with us at Unstampabelles. 

I am not sure who to this shot of the new Hotel at the Wharf and of the Mawson statues but it is fabulous and it wasn't me. Love the soft colours - from memory it was taken on the last day of autumn. 

Week Two for Unstampabelles

Just a quick post with photo's of the card I made for week 2 at Unstampabelles - the challenge goes for a month and the theme is Flowers and more Flowers! The twist is to bling it up a little!

Got to love a freebie - this flower die and butterfly and the embossing folder set were with a magazine I purchased last week and made into a quick card!

The sentiment is a rub-on

I used scraps to make the flowers......

A bit of mix and max......

I like the way the butterfly stands up

Also the embossing has been swiped gently with ink...

I added some bling!

Here is a quick look at the lovely winter days we have been having.....

The mountain, the Brewery (Cascades) - this is where the floods started last month!  Can you tell now? The stone facade is the only thing left standing of the brewery after the 1967 fires. 

Ribbons and Lace for Crafting with Dragonflies

I am so late with this. I didn't do anything crafting yesterday but  gardened, lay on the couch, read and played with the cat. It was a beautiful day too - Weasley and I went for a walk on his lead - he leads.

Today I was running around catching up! It was also a beautiful day but I didn't get much time outside as I was washing and cleaning and cooking and then trying to craft in a hurry. The problem is I didn't do anything all last week either so I had no fallback! Dreadful!

Here is my card for Hilde at Crafting with Dragonflies. Photography is terrible as it was after sunset and in twilight outside using the reflected light through the kitchen window to try and get a good shot.

Ribbon, lace and gold twine

.......layering and layering......

Mounted on gold and then the shimmer card

The porcelain button from the stash!

There you have it - hope you can join in the fun for the fortnight at Crafting with Dragonflies. 

Here is a photo I didn't take of a prickly little fellow - you would have seen him on Attenborough the other night perhaps?

WOW… a gorgeous echidna lunching on ants, in bushland just near Hobart, thanks to Kelvin Ball.

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Flowers for Unstampabelles

Hello Peeps - it's June and it's winter already. I am keying this in while sitting over a heater trying to keep warm despite wearing a jumper (sweater).  It is a calm, blue day outside. There will be a pretty sunset tonight I think.

This photo was taken by Kate Sice, the owner of Botanical, my favorite flower shop in Hobart. 

This is the outside of her shop one day last week, with the reflection of the old building over the road in her window. 

Unstampabelles June challenge is Flowers and More Flowers

The TWIST is to bling it up!

I made a card....

I used my foil machine to create the fame and the sentiment

Commercially made flowers - not sure who made these or where I got them - I have drawers full of flowers and containers full of flower dies........ obsessed? Perhaps......these are made with white lace and tulle and are very pretty. The little pink ones came from D'Lish.....

The gold frame was foiled first and it embossed too as I had a thick  piece of card in the mix. However, when I tried to get the same result with the sentiment it didn't quite work as well. 

Out of the direct light and taken with a flash the gold looks almost black in places

On to a Weasley tale (tail?)........

Last night about 9.30 he escaped outside when I foolishly opened the laundry door thinking he was not around. He leapt over my foot and ran down the back stairs to the garden. I did initially go after him but realised it was hopeless - I could not see in the dark! 

However, I know he is a scardy-cat so I came back upstairs and closed the door a bit and waited - sure enough, five minutes later he is skulking at the bottom of the stairs and when I went and picked him up there was little resistance! I went to the laundry again this morning and he was at the door in a flash - trying to get out! He tried to tell me he was not planning an escape again.........

...I didn't believe him!