New Sponsor at Crafting From the Heart Challenge 79

It's been a lovely day for the first day of the school holidays. I had our 3 oldest grandchildren to look after today and we decided to take a picnic lunch over to the school playground near us so we could enjoy the sunshine and also for the kids to have fun on the play equipment. We came back home and the two girls decided they wanted to be creative. The youngest stamped and coloured with Marvy Markers and the oldest girl decided to draw a character and colour her in. Young Isaac also did a colourful drawing after we all told him how to use my markers without damaging them!!!
Now it's time for me to let you know about the new challenge starting today at Crafting From the Heart. It is as usual an Anything Goes Theme and we have a new sponsor as well. Fab creations from:  The Fantasy Art of Nikki Burnette .
Here is my creation using one of her images.......

Recipe:
SU Tempting Turquoise cardstock for the cardbase, matte and punched label
SU Burnt Brown Sugar cardstock for the mattes
DP from
Image from The Fantasy Art of Nikki Burnette - Shelby - Version 3
Sentiment from SU -
Copic Markers
SU Night of Navy inkpad
SU Ballet Blue inkpad (to create the cloudy sky background)
SU label punch
D/S tape roller and foam dots

My fellow teamies and I would love to see your creations this week and with an Anything Goes theme you should have no trouble coming up with something to share. Once you link up, you will be in the running for the prize from our sponsor this week.
Thanks for stopping by,
Take Care,
Hugs, Sandy

My second post for today - Challenge 5 at Crafty Girls Creations

Another post for today, please check out my previous post to see my latest Christmas card and get the challenge details.
This post is to share my DT card for Crafty Girls Creations - the challenge is run fortnightly and is an Anything Goes Theme, so get your supplies out and create something to join in with us. If you head over to the challenge blog you can see all the fab makes from the DT. Our sponsor for this challenge is a new one for us - it's Dmitry of FabrikaFantasy
Here is my card.........It was a bit dull outside when I took the picture so I brightened it up slightly. In both pictures(the untouched one and the brightened one), the colours aren't quite true. Take the treasure chest for example I used a couple of shades of brown copic markers and it came out purple, lol and the DP should be a duller blue as well.

Recipe:
SU Hello Honey cardstock for the cardbase
Black cardstock from stash
White cardstock from stash to print images and to stamp the sentiment
DP from SU 12x12 paper pack ~ High Tide
Image from FabrikaFantasy ~ Pirate Parrot 1 - I made lots of copies so I could cut pieces from each to 3 D the parrot. You can't really see that in the picture but I think it looks ok in real life. I used the precoloured image with the background and just cropped it to create the extra images - that way I already had the size of the parrot right!!!
Sentiment is from Close to My Heart set - Kaboom
Punches - two different sized circle punches
Copic Markers
SU Pacific Point inkpad
D/S tape roller and Foam Dots

I am entering my card into the following challenges:
Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Hope to see you popping in to the challenge blog and joining the challenge this fortnight. Another easy Anything Goes Theme......No hardship creating something for the challenges.
Thanks for stopping by,
Take Care,
Hugs, Sandy

Challenge 141 at Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog

Another busy day trying to sort out some things for our youngest granddaughter's first birthday party. Our daughter has placement in a hospital next week as her final part of her EN course and the party is on the next Saturday so she won't have much time to do anything next week.
So......here I am with my first of two posts for today. This one is for the new challenge that started today at Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog and has the theme of: Let's Get Started on Christmas Projects....with a sentiment.
Our sponsors are Lacy Sunshine Stamps and Stitchy Bear Stamps. I got to play with this cutie from Lacy Sunshine Stamps.
Here is my finished card......... I cased the sketch from a magazine that I recently purchased and altered it slightly

Recipe:
Burgundy card from stash
White card from stash
Gold matte finish card from stash
SU Pear Pizzazz cardstock
DP from Francheville 12x12 paper pad ~  Christmas Basics and Kaisercraft 12x12 paper pad ~ Holy Night
Image from Lacy Sunshine Stamps ~ Twinkles Boo
Sentiment from SU
Punches - Martha Stewart border punch and SU Large Oval and Scalloped Oval
Die - Die-namics Double Stitched Oval
Copic Markers
Wink of Stella (on the stars)
Memento Tuxedo Black inkpad
D/S tape roller and Foam Dots

I am entering my card into the following challenges:
Addicted to Stamps and More - Challenge #163 ~ Addicted to Holidays
Fab 'n' Funky Challenges - Challenge 274 ~ Cute Critters and/or Christmas
Inspiration Destination Challenges - Challenge 52 ~ Anything Goes
A Snowflakes promise - Challenge 6 ~ Christmas or Winter Theme
Paperminutes - Challenge #401 ~ Christmas in September
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Christmas
Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

My fellow teamies and I would love to see your Christmas creations, so why not pop over to the challenge blog and check out all the DT creations and join in the fun. There's a freebie sentiment as well from our own
Ginny H.
Thanks for stopping by,
Take Care,
Hugs, Sandy

Women's Friendship Day and Free Sentiments at 613 Avenue Create

Hi, it's time for a new challenge at 613 Avenue Create and the theme is Anything Goes  with an Optional Twist of Women's Friendship. We also have some free sentiments for you to use. If you use them on your project please give credit to our own Kathi Silvia. Our sponsors for this challenge are: Lacy Sunshine Stamps and Oddball Art Stamp Co. I've used an image from Oddball Art Stamp Co to make my card this week.
Here it is....... I've also used the Anything Goes Theme.

Recipe:
SU Hello Honey cardstock for the cardbase
SU Night of Navy for the mattes and diecuts
White cardstock from stash
DP from Kaisercraft 6 1/2x6 1/2 paper pad - Tea Break
Image from Oddball Art Stamp Co.  - Skylar & Friends Signs of Spring #204
Sentiment from Close to my Heart
Dies - Quickutz die - Nesting Frames 10
        - Memory Box  - Elegant Swirl
Copic Markers
SU Ballet Blue inkpad
Pearls are from SU
D/S tape roller and foam Dots

I am entering my card into the following challenges:
Crafty Calender Challenge - September ~ Anything Goes
Hiding in My Craft Room - Challenge #217 ~ Freestyle
Chocolate, Coffee & Cards Challenges - Challenge #100 ~ Celebration of any kind
Crafting With Friends - Challenge 6 ~ Anything Goes
Daring Cardmakers - Fashion Week ~ Feature a whole outfit
Simply Papercraft - Challenge 13 ~ Anything Goes
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Challenge 329 ~ Add some bling
Crafting with an Attitude - Challenge 7 ~ Anything Goes


Well that's it from me, a bit late as we've been out for a last minute organised family dinner at a Chinese restaurant and I've kept our youngest granddaughter as she is not settling for our daughter and she got no sleep last night. She'll hopefully sleep tonight and at least our daughter and her fiancee will get an uninterupted sleep. They also have his grandmother living with them and I think my daughter stresses about everyone not getting any rest. It won't hurt me for one night.
Please come and join us this week for the challenge. Get out your crafting goodies and make something to link up this week. We would love to see your entries.
Thanks for stopping by,
Take Care,
Hugs, Sandy

Challenge 6 starts today at Crafty Girlz Challenge Blog

Good afternoon, it's time for another challenge at Crafty Girlz Challenges and our theme is Anything Goes or you can play the twist which is: Bring in the Harvest. Our sponsor for this challenge is Rick St. Dennis and I chose this wonderful image of Dave the Diver to make my card.
Here it is.........

Recipe:
White cardstock from stash
SU Crumb cake cardstock for the sand and sentiment
DP from stash (this was already out of the pack and I don't remember what company it was)
Image is from Rick St. Dennis - Dave the Diver
Sun die from La La Land Crafts -  8006 ~ Cloud set dies
Sentiment stamp - wooden stamp that has Judith written on the side.
Copic Marker
SU Pacific Point inkpad to make the sky background
Memento Tuxedo Black inkpad
Bling from stash
D/S tape roller & foam dots

That's it from me, I have to go and organise Christmas music books for choir tonight. Yep, we just finished all our rehearsals for Mozart Requiem Mass and performed the work on Sunday afternoon and now we will be preparing our Christmas Music and maybe starting on a couple of Japanese songs for our concert tour in Japan next year. Looking forward to going, I've been in the choir for nearly 16 years and this is my first overseas trip with them. They did several before I started and some of the choir went last year to America but I chose not to go for financial reasons. There have been several planned trips that have fallen through for various reasons over the years, but this one is going ahead and we are all just waiting on a few more group arrangements to be finalised before we have to start paying! 

We would love to see you stopping by the challenge blog and entering a creation into the challenge. Don't forget to check out all the DT cards and maybe pop into our personal blogs and leave a comment as well.
Thanks for stopping by,
Take Care,
Hugs, Sandy

Challenge 77 at Crafting From the Heart

Another busy day sewing doilies onto the curtain for my daughter's vintage style wedding next year. It is very time consuming. She left several hours ago and I continued sewing till about 30 mins ago. Even forgot that my grandson was asleep still. If you don't wake him up he just sleeps on!!! I don't think he is 100% we;; at the moment. So, this is my first chance to pop in and write up today's post. (Still have to cook our evening meal, it's going to be a late one!)
Anyway, I've made another male card. I don't do a lot of them so thought it would be good to boost my stash. Our sponsor at Crafting from the Heart this week is Deedee's Digis and I chose this fab image to design my card with.
Here it is........I enlarged the image and printed straight onto the cardstock so I could fold it into a square card. I then cut around the image reducing the front of the card. I added an embossed panel on the inside which you can see behind the tool box. Coloured with Copic Markers and added some black bling for the studs on the hammer and pliers. I think it turned out fairly well.

Recipe:
White cardstock from stash
Image is from Deedee's Digis ~ Tool Time
Sentiment was computer generated straight onto the image
Die'sire Embossing folder - Gun Metal
Nestie Die - Deckled Rectangle for inside the card
Copic Markers
Bling from stash

I am entering my card into the following challenges:
Craft Your Passion Challenges -  Challenge 279 ~ Anything Goes
Not Just Cards Challenges - Challenge #24 and Blog Hop September
Without Words - September ~ For the Boys

My fellow teamies and I would love to see your creations this week and as it is always Anything Goes at Crafting from the Heart Challenge I'm sure you'll agree it won't be hard to make something for the challenge.
Thanks for stopping by
Take Care,
Hugs, Sandy

(edited)     ~ I won at Without Words with my card.....

It's a Man's World Challenge #140 at Aud Sentiments Challenge blog

As promised, here is my second post for today. If you are just seeing this one, please scroll down and check out my other DT card in the post below. I'm scheduling this one as I'm out to craft at a friend's place today and might not get home in time to write it up. Our challenge this fortnight at Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog is an Anything Goes theme, but don't forget that all important sentiment as well. Our sponsor is Great Impressions Stamps
The DT were allowed to use anything they wanted for this challenge, so I chose a set of Stamps that I've had for a while and never used (right....we've all got those, haven't we!!!)
Here is my card.......

Recipe:SU Crumb cake cardstock for the cardbase
White cardstock for the images and sentiment
DP is from Kraftyhands ~ A6 paper stack - Distressed Metals ~ Textures (just right for the front of the card)
All Images from Kaisercraft card set ~   Konstrukt Collection
Sentiment is from Close to my Heart set ~ Wonderful Friend
Punch from SU
Memento Tuxedo black inkpad
Copic Markers\
D/S tape roller and foam dots

I am entering my card into the following challenges: (back later)

The machine is once more beeping this is after a longer cycle and a few text messages etc. My friend and I have decided to forgo the crafting afternoon and head out for lunch and rummage through the craft shop. Oh watch out for the pocket maybe an expensive afternoon, lol
Love to see you popping in and entering a creation this fortnight.
Thanks for stoppping by,\
Take Care,\
Hugs, Sandy

Challenge 4 begins today at Crafty Girls Creations

Good afternoon from Oz. I hope you are enjoying your day. The sun is actually shining today and I think I will get a couple of loads of washing done and possibly dried outside. (Oops, I'll just go and throw the towels in the machine!)
It's another double post day today so please check out my other post later today. I'm trying to split them up by putting this one a bit earlier (not sure if the challenge has gone live yet)
Our theme is as always, an Anything Goes Challenge and our sponsor this challenge is Lacy Sunshine Stamps.
Here is what I came up with....... A birthday card for a friend who enjoys watching movies

Recipe:
SU Basic Black cardstock for the cardbase
White cardstock from stash
Paper is from Bo Bunny 12x12 paper ~ Modern Miss
Image is from Lacy Sunshine Stamps - Rory's movie snacks - http://lacysunshine.weebly.com/new.html
Sentiment was from a rubber stamp that a friend let me use at her place and I can't remember who made it!
Copic Markers
D/S tape roller and foam dots
Memento Tuxedo black inkpad

I am entering my card into the following challenges:
4 Crafty Chicks - Challenge #263 ~ Birthday
Addicted to Stamps and More - Challenge #161 ~ Anything Goes


The washing machine has finished and is now beeping at me. Doesn't time fly - the cycle takes 18 mins to run through and it's taken me that long to write this up and do all the links as well. Never timed it before, lol.
My fellow teamies and I would love to see you linking up a creation for this challenge and also popping in to our personal blogs and leaving a comment. It's nice to get some feedback.
Thanks for stopping by,
Take Care,
Hugs, Sandy

Add a tag Challenge #23 at Get Creative Challenges

Hi everyone, had a busy day today pinning old doilies to a sheer curtain and then hand stitching them on. My daughter is getting married in Feb next year and wants to have a vintage wedding theme. So we've been searching for old doilies to buy and now we have enough to start the sewing process. We have got quite a few on but there are lots to go. She is going to use it as a backdrop for photos. In between I've looked after our grandson who stayed overnight and is going home in about an hour. A long day for him but he's had fun and a couple of hours sleep so he is happy.
We have a new challenge starting today at Get Creative Challenges and this fortnight we are asking that you include a tag on your creation. Our sponsor is The Stamping Boutique.
Here is my card......

Recipe:
SU Pacific Point cardstock for the basecard
SU Real red cardstock for the tag and diecut
White card from stash
DP from Crafters Choice, 12x12 paper pad - Primary Basics
Image from The Stamping Boutique - AJ the Race Car Driver
Sentiment is from a freebie set of stamps included with a magazine
Tyre and tread are from Kaisercraft stamp set
Copic Markers
Nestie Die - Deckled rectangles - large and small
Circle Punches
SU Tag punch
Memento Tuxedo Black inkpad
Black gel pen for faux stitching
Star Bling from stash
D/S Tape Roller & Foam Dots

Love to see you stopping by the challenge blog and linky up an entry. Come and join in the fun and be in the run for this fortnight's prize.
Thanks for stopping by,
Take Care,
Hugs, Sandy

Charlie Chaplin has made an appearance on my 613 Avenue Create DT card

Hi all, Sorry I'm a bit late with my post today. It's Father's Day here in Sth. Australia and the family have been here all afternoon. We had planned an outing to the beach and a barbecue with people bringing bikes and skateboards to ride, but the weather plotted against us and it has been wet and really windy. Hubby did have a rain free period to get the meat and fish cooked on the barbeque in our back yard and after lunch most of them went off to have a play at the local school basketball court. So......a good time had by all. Even me now that I can use my front teeth to bite with. Our youngest granddaughter has been taking a few steps so we enjoyed trying to get her to walk a little bit further as well.
Well better hurry up and share my post for the new challenge at 613 Avenue Create. It's an Anything Goes theme with an optional twist which this challenge is a Create Your Own Challenge using the chart shared on the challenge blog. I will put it further down in my post for you to look at.
Our sponsors are: A Day For Daisies, The Cutting Cafe  and Di's Digi Stamps.
Here is my card using an image from A Day For Daisies
I've used Col #1 - image, Col #2 - sentiment Col#3 - embossing Col#4 - stitching Col#5 - paper punch

Recipe:
SU Basic Black cardstock for the cardbase and matte
White cardstock from stash
Image from A Day For Daisies ~ Silent Film A
Embellishments from Sugar & Spice 12x12 Paper pad-  Hollywood (I cut the film strip, camera and tickets from the DP
Nestie die -
Embossing Folder
SU ticket paper punch
Sentiment from SU set ~ One of a Kind
Copic Markers
D/S tape roller & Foam Dots
Black fine roller pen for the faux stitching.
Memento Tuxedo black inkpad

I am entering my card into the following challenges:
Crafting When We Can - Anything Goes and 5th Birthday Blog Hop (this is my 2nd entry)
The Corrosive Challenge Blog - Challenge #232 ~ Head Shots
Allsorts Challenge Blog - Week 327 ~ Lots of Layers
Crafty Calender Challenge - Anything Goes
Crafty Friends Challenge Blog -  Challenge 13 ~ Use a Sentiment (my 2nd entry)
Di's Digi Designs Challenge Blog - Include a Sentiment
Crafting with Friends - Challenge 5 ~ Anything Goes
Crafty Catz Challenge - #291 ~ Anything Goes
Morgan's ArtWorld  - Challenge #6 ~ For the Men
Simply Papercraft - Challenge 12 ~ Anything Goes

Here is the chart for you to look at or pop by the blog and check out the fabulous DT inspiration and get a look at the chart there too.

 I hope you will come and join in the fun of the challenge at 613 Avenue Create. I always enjoy seeing all the different entries that are dropped off at the neighborhood.
Thanks for stopping by,
Take Care,
Hugs, Sandy