Birthday Bear

Good Morning,
Another beautiful day here in the land Downunder.  Here's a card I've coloured with Copic markers and used Liquid Pearls to highlight the cake and candle.  The bear and cart is an old retired SU stamp set, the border at the bottom is Spellbinders Shapeabilities - Lattice Accents.  This card is going into the challenge over on http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/challenge-me-monday-130.html - Birthday with a candle.

Have a gr8 day
Julie

Toowoomba Flower Carnival 2012

Every year for last 63 years, Toowoomba holds their Flower Carnival and the town comes alive with just the most gorgeous blooms.  Private gardens are pruned and nurtured to show natures best.  Here are some of the pics show casing the public gardens.  Mother Nature at her best...

Christmas 3

Hi everyone
The last week has been full on with work .  I got to go and work amongst good live music, gorgeous flowers and have the best yeast donuts for breakkie.  So finding out I won the challenge over at http://especiallymade.blogspot.com.au/  using 3 specific items.  Woohooo I'm feel so honoured considering all those wonderful cards that were entered.

Here's a card I've made for http://especiallymade.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/gatefold-card-challenge.html
I've not made a gate card in years so it was a gr8 challenge to think of what I could bring to the table.  I've dug around in the old drawer and found a very old Magenta Christmas Stamp Set (special edtion).

Stamps  -  Magenta Christmas Stamp Set  (special edtion)
Water colour paper
Tim Holtz -  Distress markers, stain
Candi Brads
SU  - ds paper (retired) , stamp, marker
Memento ink
Tattered Angels - Glimmer mist

Have a gr8 day
Julie

B & W + 1

Well, another beautiful day in sunny Down Under.
Wasn't  too sure about the layout of this card when I did it last nite, but I think it's growing on me.  So it's going into the challenge over at http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.com.au/




Cricut - Lyrical Letters
Black netting ribbon
Rub on sentiment
SU - cardstock, dazzling diamonds
DCWV - cardstock

Have a gr8 day
Julie

King for the day

Heya
Days are going way too faast.  I should go and hang the washing out and not sit at my craft desk thinking of all these challenges that I want to join in.  So here's the first of many for the day, I hope.
http://especiallymade.blogspot.com.au/p/weekly-challenge_9002.html

The challenges will adhere to the following schedule each month:

1st Week: Create a card for the theme of the month using a certain item/product

2nd Week: Create a card inspired by the provided sketch

3rd Week: Create a card using three of the specified item

4th Week: Create a card using the specified technique
http://craftspotbykimberly.blogspot.com.au/

This Week's Challenge:  Wild about you

(include a wild animal somewhere on your project) 

 

Cricut - Create a Critter

Spellbinders Shapeabilities and Nestabilites - Pendants and Labels One

SU - water colour crayone, ds paper, card stock

Liquid pearl

Rub on sentiment

bling

Snowflake emboss folder

\paper from the stash

Have a gr8 day

Julie

Hfave a cuppa

G'day bloggers
Life just keeps getting faster and faster.  Maybe I'm just getting older and slower.
Well life does get more interesting and colourful.  Here's a card maded for the challenge over at http://celebratetheoccasion.blogspot.com.au/ #79 Getting in Shape!

(Any occasion, must be a shape card, no square or rectangle)

 

Cricut - Rock Princess

Spellbinders Nestabilities - Circle

SU - punches, ds paper (retired), watercolour crayons

embossing folder

Liquid Pearl

Copic pens 

Tea set and flowers stamps

 

mojo #258

Good evening blogger friends
Tonight we took the fam out to celebrate a special event in our lives.  Japanese was the pick of the nite.
Should of taken some pics of the plates of food we ordered.  They were so well  presented...  We definitely had more than enough to go around...  Fresh seafood just tastes like sea  (lol that doesn't make sense, but for all you lovers of raw seafood - you'd know what I meant).
Anyways, back to the card above.  I made this cute fairy for a friend's birthday this week.  So I'll be entering her into the challenge over at http://mojomonday.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/mojo-monday-258.html


Whimsy fairy stamp
Cuttlebug embossing folder
Spellbinders Shapeabilities and Nestabilities
Copic pens
Prima flowers
Jewel brad
ribbons

Have a gr8 nite
Julie

Thinking of You

Heya,
It's amazing how quickly it cools down when the sun starts setting.  Out comes the fufu pants.  The cookies are in the oven so fingers crossed the come out delish.
Here's a card made with the challenge over at http://craftspotbykimberly.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/my-craft-spot-challenge-67-hope-is.html .  I thought of the butterfly that could symbolise new life/beginnings.

Cricut - Ultimate Cricut Sampler
Spellbinders Shapeabilities
SU card stock, stamp, inkpad,  marker, ribbon, cropadile
paper from the stash
dimensional tape

Have a gr8 nite
Julie

Happy Holidays

Yet another beautiful day.
Homemade almond cookies about to be baked by the family.
Here's a card made with the required Cricut diecut need for the challenge over at http://www.cookingwithcricut.com/search/label/cwc%20challenges






Cricut - Winter Lace
Netting lace ribbon
Spellbinders Shapeabilities and Pendants
My Mind's Eye - Twinkle Twinkle Little Girl
SU - cardstock, stamp and inkpad

Have a gr8
Julie

Celebration time

Golly Gosh, I'm on a roll today...  The stars are align and the moon is on the right course.  Well there's nothing better then getting a head start with Christmas cards.  This one fits into a few challenges happening right now http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.com.au/ CFC69 - Embossing
 
   and http://www.cookingwithcricut.com/search/label/cwc%20challenges



Do'h I just realised I didn't use the Cricut for Cooking with Cricut, so will have to go back to the drawing board and make another card for this challenge, even though I got the colours correct.

Spellbinders - Shapeabiliities  and Pendants Blossom Tags and Accents, Splendid Circles
SU - card stock, stamps, inkpad, markers
Tim Holtz - Distress inks
Candi brads
card stock from the stash

Have a gr8 nite
Julie

LaLa Christmas

What a beautiful day.
So much to do and too much time procrastinating.  So here's a Christmas card with LaLa Stamp used.
Copic and Spica pen was used to colour her. SU punch, stamp and ink for the gretting , Spellbinders Shapeabilities Pendants are also used.  I'll be entering her into the challenge over at http://lalalandcrafts.blogspot.com.au/p/customer-gallery.html
 http://blog.markerpop.com/2012/09/07/holiday-hop-sog-mp/

Hello and welcome to the Holiday Hop presented by Some Odd Girl & MarkerPop! Today we are teaming up to share some amazing holiday inspiration created with Some Odd Girl’s new release along with some of our favorite coloring tools from MarkerPop.com. If you are just joining us on the hop, you are going to want to start back at the beginning at the Some Odd Girl Blog so you can see why we are hopping & what amazing prizes are up for grabs! This is the LAST STOP on the hop so don’t miss out all of the inspiration along the way!
You’ve seen all our holiday projects, so for our challenge, now it is YOUR TURN to make a holiday project!

THE CHALLENGE:
Make a holiday themed project using either Some Odd Girl Stamps or a product found in the MarkerPop Store. Even better, if you have something from both, use both   This must be a NEW creation created specifically for our hop challenge, no backlinking! Please make it clear that you are playing along with our challenge my mentioning/linking to our hop. Easy enough, right?  I can’t wait to see what you create!

Have a gr8 day
Julie

Friends

Evening one and all,
A beautiful 27 degrees today and the sunny was shining.  Here's a quick simple card that fits the challenge over at http://sunnychallenges.blogspot.com.au/  SC05612 with the dimensions of 10cm x 10cm.

SU - cardstock, stamps present and retired, ink
Spellbinders Shapeabilities and Nestabilities
Embossing folders
Tim Holtz - Distress markers

Have a gr8 nite
Julie

Domenic

Woohoo 2 challenges in a night...  What am I thinking.  :D  I made this easel card for a good friend's nephew who loves all things to do with the ocean.  http://www.cookingwithcricut.com/2012/09/pcw9412.html  - Colour combo challenge

Cricut - Elegant Cakes, Splish Splash
Spellbinders Shapeabilities - Fleur De Lis Accents, Damask Accents
SU - cardstock (retired)
Tim Holtz - Distress ink pads and stains
rub on sentiment
glitter

Have a gr8 day
Julie

Blondie

Howdy Dowdy everyone
I can't believe we're nearing the end of Term 3.   I've been really slack with all these challenges lately.  Family, work and life has been hectic and the mojo decided to take a holiday as well.
So here's one that will fit into the challenge over at http://blog.markerpop.com/ #5 - Yellow

The image is from a http://sureya.deviantart.com/gallery, Copic markers, SU cardstock, Spellbinders Shapeabilities - Lattice Accents

Have a gr8 day
Julie

Time Flies

Wowww it the end of August...
The last few days have been glorious, sunny and just this side of warm.  Today I got to spend some time with a lovely Tracey who has the blog http://trace-elementz.blogspot.com.au/  talking about all things crafty... Next time we'll get down to some actually Copic colouring.  Time does fly when your having a good time.
I got to drool over her lovely craftroom and dream that one day I get to have a room like that too...
Well back to the card above.  I made the main image a few weeks ago and never got around to putting it together, so with the challenge over at http://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.com.au/  Sketches #48 it's come in handy.  I had the background strips in a lighter lilac but ended up colouring them with some Tim Holtz distress ink. Wasn't too sure about the card after I created it, but it's slowly growing on me.  :D

D'OH  I missed the deadline, never mind  here's to better time management.

Spellbinders Shapeabilities - Ornate Artisan Tags and Accents
SU - stamp, cardstock and ds paper
Prima flowers
Candi brads
brads from the stock
rub on sentiments

Have a gr8 day
Julie