Happy 2020! May we all get 20:20 vision in this year before it is too late!

What a week!

Well, what a few months really but the last week was such a terrible time for so many.

My heart is bleeding for those who have lost loved ones, homes and animals 

in the country I love so much.

It is also so sore dealing with the loss of so much wildlife especially the now endangered koala.

Please keep safe Peeps.

🖌: @kassiisaac

We are currently safe and cool and look like remaining so for a while. 

The 30th Dec. was not so good - temperatures here in Hobart got to 41 degrees

I was hosting a birthday party for my husband - boy was it hot!

Now we are into January 2020

A New Year - so, new beginnings!

I am happy to announce that I am on a new Design Team

A Place to Start

The January challenge is:

Anything Goes 

with Optional Twist: CAS

This challenge is being sponsored by Bugaboo

It's a long time since I used one of their gorgeous and quirky digi stamps

but they are still of great quality and price!

This one is called 

Cat Love

Of course, I went to Word and using Insert, put the image onto a blank sheet 

and make it the size I wanted to play with by enlarging it a little

Once I had the printed off image, I used a die from Memory Box to create a

sentiment across the top.

I also cut a piece of SU Bermuda Bay card to fit behind the sentiment.

Once this was done I joined the two together with some double sided tape

Next, I added colour using my trusted Copic pens.

They are all there - I only used 6!

Next I stamped using Archieval Black ink and a sentiment stamp

from Stampin' Up - new from this year's Sale-A-Bration (starting February) Sending You Thoughts.

I then added the topper to a blank card, leaving a white margin

Well - simple, CAS I hope and fun to make!

(My cat currently has a sore tail - how funny is that!)

You have the rest of the month to have a go and enter this challenge

See you there!

A Place to Start

I will enter this in the following challenges:

2 crafty critter Crazies: have a critter (Jan challenge)

Southern Girls: Anything Goes

Crafty Catz: Anything Goes with a Twist of having an animal

Thanks is such a simple word!

Thanks to the Firies and all the work they have been doing for the last three months. Thanks to the people who gave up their Christmas and New Year to help others. Thanks to all Volunteers everywhere. Thanks to the Armed Forces for being there too now and helping. Thanks to the ones out there trying to save our beautiful wildlife. Thanks to the ones at home caring for the sick animals and babies animals. Thanks too to all the Nurses and Paramedics and Doctors for going above and beyond day after day.

There is so much to be thankful for at the moment.

Thankful Tassie is being spared most of the heat and wind and fires

although as I key up this post the air outside is overcast with smoke

blown in from over Bass Strait and from local fires.

We need a good shower of rain to wash the sky clear again.

If it wasn't 30 degrees C outside I would think it looked like a cold winter's day.

So, I made a Thanks card

It is for Bizzy Bec's January Challenge - Anything goes!

I chose to work in the colours of a summer rain storm

Hopefully we will see one or two of them this year.

I was half way through when I realised I need to take photo's!

This is when I was making a flower 

You can see the sheet the flowers were die cut from 

I had fun playing with powdered inks and water sprays to create this sheet and my flower has a beautiful sheen on it as a result. 

I started with these three for the base card

I added in the Prussian Blue for the flower sheet

You can see the base card above, with a die cut - it is a sheet of w/c card cold pressed

My flower was also give some foliage using SU Blueberry Bushel card

Once I had all the bits I put it together. 

The SU BB card went behind the die cut and the flower was then added, with it's foliage

Plus some bling!

I then added this topper to a blank card

I used

Spellbinders  Shapeabilities Die D-Lites Blooms Three (S2-046)

for the flowers

Sizzix Thinlits Tim Holtz Alterations Mixed Media 2 (661185)

for background swirls

Watercolour card

White card blank

Elizabeth Craft Designs: Leafy branch 2 (1315);

Pair of leaves 1 (1314)

Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Powder: Rich Gold; Peppermint; Teal Wash

Brusho's Prussian Blue

Bling

You have a month to enter Bizzy Bec's challenge

Anything Goes!

Last Week for Challenge at Unstampabelles for 2019

Merry Christmas Peeps!

Keep safe, keep cool (or warm) and keep ploughing on!

We are travelling well in Tasmania atm as the temp is only around the early 20's with some days getting to close to 30.  We have had minimal fires as well although it has been very windy.

Two day's to go until Christmas Day!

However, there is still time for you to make something for the 

current Challenge #96 at Unstampabelles

You have until Friday the 27th at midnight.

I needed another tag or three, and made this one up using a die from 

 Papertrey ink die set

Bethlehem Die

(contains three scene dies)

I used DP left over from Christmas cards; circle dies, ribbon from SU; and scraps of card

from the stash.

There is gold mirror card behind the stars and gold Stickles inside the biggest star

Some layered die cuts and a bit of white card behind it all for strength and so I can write on it.

I made another style for Bizzy Bec a few days ago (last post before this) and stamped that, but of course, no stamps for Unstampabelles. 

Cheers, and have a lovely day with family and friends on Christmas Day!

Bizzy Bec's December Challenge - second post

Hi to all my Peeps!

Merry Christmas to you and yours!

This is the time of the year you are scrambling for tags for all those parcels. 

I know I am - so......

.....I made myself some using a Papertrey ink die set

Bethlehem Die

(contains three scene dies)

I used a circle die to make the big base (using left over DP from Stampin' Up)

 I didn't cut all round - leaving a small piece to form the top of an ornament

I cut a second piece at the same time in white card

I glued them together, with the gold string between the two pieces

I could use this then as a tag or as a tree ornament

I stamped the second die cut with black ink  using a sentiment from an old

freebie stamp set from a magazine I got back in 2017 - it was chosen for the size of the sentiment and that it fit the scene.

I used three dies to create the scene, cutting the first two in white card
and the last in white sparkly card!

Papertrey Ink Dies - Scene It: Bethlehem Die

Circle dies for base  lots of different ones available, try these

Bling and string from my stash

I used papers from my stash to complete the tag 

plus the sentiment is from a freebie set in a magazine. 

I cut a circle of gold card and glued it behind the first white one so the stars showed up.

I layered the three layers with dimensionals so they sat up from each other.

They are really quick to make once the pieces are all die cut - you can assembly make them easily.

Now, I got these and another set (Skyscapes) from Bec, ordered in September,

but I know they took a while to come.

They no longer appear on Bec's website but I am sure she will order them in for you.

Have a peaceful life before and after Christmas and enjoy the day with family and friends!

Starry, Starry Night: Challenge#96 for Unstampabelles

Hello Peeps!

Hope you are all travelling well?

I am seriously better now although still quite tired at times

My word being ill is not for Sissies, is it!

So, with my Big Girl pants firmly in place, I have entered the craft space again.....

The middle of the December challenge at 

Unstampabelles

Star Struck Starry Night 

TWIST Use Sparkle Pens and/or Glues

(or make it sparkly!)

is here and I have created a gift bag - one of a few I need in the next week or two.

Wonder why?

Do you ever get beautiful Christmas cards and think they are too good to throw away?

Each year I carefully cut them up and put them away until next year.

Every year I pull out last year's cards and wonder what I can do with them.....

Sometimes I recycle them into new cards.....

Sometimes I use them for tags....

Lately I have been using them on recycled bags for gift bags....

The white bag was given to me with a purchase at some time - 

it is a bit thin so I added a background gold card

before I added the reused card front

This card was so pretty and has so much gold embossed onto it I could not throw it away

I added some bits of bling, a die cut gold star and the ribbon tie

Then I remembered the TWIST

use pens or glues to create more sparkle

So I added dabs of Stickles to some of the stars and made it even more sparkly.

It will not take a big weight but it will handle a book or calendar or coffee mug.

What are you making for this challenge?

You have until midnight on the 27th to enter

Week 2 at Unstampabelles Challenge#96

Hello Peeps

Hope everyone is doing fine and keeping warm/cool and safe from fires and floods.

I have not been well for the last two weeks and on top of Christmas prep and cards, I have found life a bit of a struggle but I must say today is much better. Might be related to the weather too - we regressed to Winter for the last two weeks but today is Summer again with NO WIND.

I have had time to play in my very messy craft space today - and to do a bit of gardening as well!

The challenge over at Unstampabelles this month is to create a Starry, starry night

- the TWIST is to make it sparkly with glues or similar.

I cheated today and used glimmer paper.

I used some die cuts from last year's catty at Stampin' Up

Starlight Thinlets

I started with four small white tags

Using inks from SU and a sponge, I coloured them up

I used Seaside Spray, Terracotta Tile and Blueberry Bushel

to create a starry night sky and sprayed them with the water bottle 

to give a starry sky background.

I die cut four detailed stars from glimmer paper and four plain stars from gold

Using Tombow I glued the detailed star to the plain

I found the blue ribbon in my stash

 - from the various clothing pieces I have purchased I assume.

A small star sticker at the top finished them off.

I simply wrote on the back of them

They do look so pretty

especially in the sun!

What are you going to make for this challenge?

Remember, no stamps and you have three weeks to go!

Merry Christmas for Bizzy Bec

Hi Peeps - hope all is going well with you and yours

Today a new challenge opens over at Bizzy Bec's

It is as always 'Anything Goes'

but the TWIST is to be sparkly!

I used a stamp I have had for a while now, saving it for this month,from Penny Black

I used my Promarker's to colour - haven't used them for months but they were out so I used them!

I used Tim Holtz inks to create a moody background

Penny Black - Pointsietta Spiral

(If not there, ask Bec to order it in)

Tim Holtz inks - Stormy Sky and Old Paper

Coloured with ProMarkers

Front covered with Pan Pastel (coarse) white for shimmer effect

Stickles added for glitter effect

Other inks, gems and background paper from my stash

The poinsietta flower was stamped twice, coloured twice and then one was fussy cut

to be layered on top for some dimension

You can also in this shot sorta see the shimmer the white Pan Pastel gave the image

It is soft but lovely

I used old stash for background papers and some gems as well

The sentiment is from one of last years SU sets

I also painted on some Stickles (Icicle) to give some glimmer points of gold sparkle

It looks all soft and pretty

Happy Stamping!

Final Week for the Challenge #95 at Unstampabelles

The challenge blog Unstampabelles is nearly over the current monthly challenge #95: 

 Paradise Pretties and/or Tropical Delights  

TWIST  Into the Wild

There is the usual prize for the Random Number Draw

$15 Aust

(Paid through Paypal or as a voucher in a store of your choice)

I made another card

I used up lots f left-overs with this in an attempt to clean up my working space

 so I can get to the task of making Christmas cards

I cleaned up some bits but am still working in a miniscule space as I have "stuff'" everywhere.....

too important to throw out apparently!

Anyone else do this to themselves?

Anyway, first photo was taken in the daylight but out of sun

Second photo in the sun so the colours are soooo bright...

Still have some flamingo's die cut out but used all the flowers and embossed card up.

Obviously the flowers are going wild around the flamingo's as they do in the tropics!

Let's see what you can make from the scraps around. 

You have until Friday at midnight to enter!

Stampin' Up 3 ONLINE Extravaganza

Check what is being sold 

HERE

Email me if interested in papers, inks or any of the 8 bundles on sale. 

If I get the email before 6.00 pm  on the 22nd (this Friday)

I will order for you.

I will be doing an order for myself around then.

(Australian customers only  - sorry)

Happy Birthday Jack

Jack is my only Grandson

He was born in Colorado 14 years ago on the 18th

- however, it was the 19th here, so I always think of his birthday on that date!

Teenage boys become pretty proficient at 'Grunt" in the early teens, so I am assuming he will understand the sentiment....... 

I made this for both Jack and Bizzy Bec's Store Blog

as it was my turn to present.....

I used Kraft card and coloured with Copics - but it didn't show that well

The bird is done on XPress card and fussy cut and the colours are clearer - as in not as muddy.

I do love Time Holtz!

Inside the card I used these images from a freebie stamp set.

The sentiment is SU

Jack plays hockey and goes to the gym.......

I used: 

Tim Holtz Bird stamps and dies

Dies 

Stamps

Momento Ink

(as I coloured with Copic pens)

The hat and balloon are also Tim Holtz - Crazy Things Collection

(just ask Bec to order them for you)

The card base is Kraft card

I used a fine black pen to outline

The two stamps - bag and hockey stick - are from a magazine freebie set (Practical Publishing)

 called A Good Sport

The sentiment is made from lettering stickers

- but could have been stamped with alphabet stamps

Don’t forget to play along in our current challenge, the theme is always anything goes 

and you could win five digis of your choice.  

For more inspiration follow us over at Instagram at BizzyBec3