Bits & bobs

Hi Lovelies,

How are you all going?  I know I haven't been around as much as I'd like.  Unfortunately this is due to a few things.

Firstly my laptop which isn't even two years old has decided it's lost the will to live & the hard drive is going to crash.  Unfortunately it's going to cost more than we paid for the laptop to fix (how stupid is that!).  Which means I going to have to get creative at night again when no one is around so I have access to a computer.  As the desktop is being constantly used by my family for their things.  Plus with Lils I have to keep an eye on her.  Remember the old quote "Silence is golden"?  Well around here it's "Silence is what the hell is Lilly up to now & what kind of mess will I be cleaning up?"  For a three year old she can get herself into a lot of trouble!  Hence creating at night.

I've also temporarily stepped down from Try Stampin' on Tuesdays due to my computer woes. Only because I can't get to the computer to regularly keep up with everything.  I'm still on board with Die Cut Divas.  I think being on only one DT is all I can handle at the moment.  Which is why I've been neglecting this poor blog :(.

Emsy turned seven the other week, I can't believe she is that old!  Where did all that time fly to?  She had a party in the park & invited seven friends, only six could make it.  Everyone had a great time & Emsy seemed to be enjoying herself.  Even is she was feeling a little under the weather.  Poor thing ended up with a bacterial infection of Strep Throat, which meant a week off school & penicillin.  She still has a few more days on the meds but her school is really good with that kind of thing.

Well the housework is a calling so had better go.  

Try Stampin' on Tuesday sketch#129

Hi Lovelies,

I'm happy to share with you this week's sketch & my take on it.  I really like this sketch & am really happy with my card.  Well that was until one of my girls decided to have a look with their fingers & got sausage grease all over it.  Oh well, I will have to figure something out.  Any way back to the sketch & card.

I love the simple lines of this sketch & this Eureka digi stamp is just the cutest don't you think?  Emsy thought I had made this for upcoming birthday.  I went for a different colour combo to what I am use to.  I wanted to challenge myself to make a nice card with colours I'm not comfortable with.  In this case it is the orange.  I paired it up with aqua.  I really like the combination.   

Lilly's Tree

Hi Lovelies,

I'm here today to share a picture I made last night on Gimp 2.8 after looking at various You Tube  "How tos" on how to use Path Tools.  But as with everything in my life this is also kid related.

It all started when Lils decided she didn't want to eat tea (I cooked spag-bol)  she just wanted her taco with cheese.  Yes my girls are strange they have just recently discovered taco shells.  The other night it was a sausage in a taco shell with tomato sauce & cheese.  Kids gotta love 'em.  

So after being sent to her room to calm down (imagine the loudest screaming kid) she eventually brought herself back out & sat next to me to watch me make a practice picture.  This is the picture we made.  Emsy helped as well.  It was fun to make with the girls telling me what I had to do.  

Lil's wanted the tree, bug, blue sky & grass.  Emsy wanted the tree's lines, hole for the bird, bird (owl) & sun.  I'm really enjoying learning how to use Gimp 2.8.  Eventually I want to make over my blog using stuff I've made in Gimp.   

Try Stampin' on Tuesday sketch #128

Hi Lovelies,

Today I'm back with another sketch & card to share with you all.  I hope that they inspire you to play along with us over at Try Stampin' on Tuesday.  Lately I have really been getting into sketch mode!  I find them fun to create as well as follow.  As always I also love seeing what you all come up with as well.  I get so many wonderful ideas from see what you all create from these sketches.

This card is so simple to make.  I used Washi Tape Cars & then fussy cut out the wheels & Car after stamping them onto a pp (it's has a very faint design on it).  Added a sentiment (got it straight this time) & gems.  How simple, is that.  Best bit is it's a "Guy" card & we all know how hard they are to make! ;)

Happy crafting everyone xoxoxo

Daisy Chains & sketches

Hi Lovelies,

This particular story starts about 6ish weeks ago.  I was in my LSS Daisy Chain Scrapbooks chatting to the owner Barbi about how I had just started doing my own sketches, which I was doing for Try Stampin' on Tuesdays.  So you can imagine how surprised I was when Barbi asked me to do one sketch a month for her & some examples of each sketch.  So now that I've finally gotten organised sort of.  I thought I would share them here with you each week.  I am going to put up a link to Daisy Chain on my sidebar as well, so if you are ever on the Sunshine Coast or see something from my sketches & want it you know where to go.  As all my stuff for Barbi is from her wonderful shop.  I swear I'd live there if I could!

Here is the sketch for July:

Here are some of the cards I have made for this sketch.  

Sorry about the blurry quality of the Alien photo (I will replace it later).  I used the fantastic "Blast Off" 6.5" pad, "Aliens" 12 x 12" pp & Gems from Kaisercraft.  The sentiment is by Hero Arts called CL139 "Birthday Messages".

This card is so sweet, the Purple/Aqua colours pop in real life.  I used some of my newest items on this card.  They include Chicken Wire - by Die-namics, Pennants by Spellbinders, Pure Innocence for My Favourite Things - An apple for you & lastly Mini Hexagons 6 x 6" template by Balzer Designs for The Crafters Workshop.  If you look closely at the Aqua bazzil you will see I've lightly gone over it with Peacock Feathers distress ink, using the template.  (I've been inspired by Anne Gaal & her use of templates).  

This last card I made today using another Kaisercraft range called Enchanted Garden.  You will probably see me using this a lot in the near future.  The colours are just gorgeous, the stamps wonderful & I even brought the matching Rub-ons!  I don't normally have a lot of sucess with Rub-ons so if you have any tips on how to apply them let me know please.

I did make another card with this sketch.  It was a guy card, I can't share it with you though as Norma (she teaches the most wonderful card/cuttlebug classes) wants to use it in a class.  So I hope to share it with you all at a later date.  

Christmas in July - yes please!

Hi Lovelies,

Today I thought I would remind you all about Bugaboo Digi Stamps.  Not only are they sponsoring Die Cut Divas this month & you have a chance to win seven digi images.  Bugaboo is also having a Christmas in July sale!  

How cool is that!  Plus don't forget every Friday you get a freebie digi stamp.  I absolutely love this store because the stamps are so easy to use & are fantastically priced.  Now you can get twice as much, the only problem I can see is narrowing down what you want ;-p

Here are just a few reasons I love getting Bugaboo stamps

Try Stampin' on Tuesday sketch #127

Hi Lovelies,

This week I am a little late with my Post for Try Stampin' on Tuesday.  So you may not see it over on the Try Stampin' blog.  School hols, have finally come to an end.  I must admit the girls & I had a blast over this last break.  Not a lot of blogging was done or I was just managing to get it done in time.  Hence my "tardyness" today.  

I had a blast making this card.  It was quite fiddly with all the fussy cutting I did.  The banner, plane & senditment are all stamped.  The rest was fussy cut from pp's.  I also added some grey Copic colouring to the bottom of the plane just to give it a little something extra.  I do hope that you can come & play with us this week.  Thanks for stopping by & happy crafting to you all.