Winnie and Walter First Birthday Challenge 2

I'm on a roll here. Got a bit of time and love inking up my neglected stamps! This one is for two challenges:
- Winnie and Walter First Birthday Challenge - Mood Board
- Fusion First Anniversary Challenge
- Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
I used my new MFT Dienamics Blueprints 13 set to create the background pieces. The sentiment and stars are from Winnie and Walter, the flower is Memory Box (I think). I've incorporated elements from the two trigger photos to create the card. Thanks for dropping by!!

Winnie and Walter Mood Board

Winnie and Walter 1st Birthday Challenge 1

Another quick card today for a few of my favourite challenges.
- Runway Inspired#174 - Escada Spring 2014
- Retro Sketch #146
- Winnie and Walter First Anniversary Blog Challenge - One (Colour) Challenge
- Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
I chose distress inks Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade and Ripe Persimmon to make up this beautiful background. I then used my Winnie and Walter star stencil with the Ranger Texture paste to make the starry background. The die cut and sentiment are both Winnie and Walter.
Thanks for dropping by!

RIC#74 - Escada Spring 2014

Happy New Year 2015!

My first blog post for 2015 is a Happy New Year card I made on the first day of the year. We've been out for lunch and when I saw Virginia's View New Challenge posted, I knew what I wanted to make! This card is based on the Papertrey Ink Make It Monday #195 A La Carte Challenge. The challenge is to re-visit all the challenges from 2014 and make something based on one of the ones that we have not had a chance to do. This one is based on Laura Bassen's #193 Camouflaging Die Cuts. I left plenty of white space so that it qualifies to be an entry for Virginia's View #11 Clean Slate Challenge. Did anyone see the results of the last challenge? My only two entries during this very busy month in December got a highlight and a Top Ten Spotlight!! Thanks Virginia!! Here is my card and the triggers below it. HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Thanks for dropping by!

MIM #193 - Camouflaging Die Cuts

Virginia's View Challenge photo

Favourites from 2014

This year has flown by so quickly! I don't believe it is nearly over. Here are my favourite cards from 2014, in no particular order. Happy New Year!

My only publication in 2014!

Love the new Mama Elephant Pandamonium stamp set!

French wine labels from Jacqueline de Groot

Old Hero Arts Stamps with fun techniques

MFT Floral Fusion combined with Lil Inkers Stitched Square die

MFT Floral Fusion on PP

Love the new Altenew Painted Roses!

AlteNew Painted Roses 

Penny Black Bed of Roses

Penny Black on Watercolour paper

WPlus9 Fanciful Feathers with Winnie Walter sentiment

WPlus9 Fanciful Feathers and PTI Birthday die cut

Hero Arts and Winnie&Walter sentiment

Hero Arts stamp with watercolour

Paper pieced Botanical Notes

Penny Black Botanical Notes and Winnie&Walter sentiment

MFT Dienamics Die cut - so easy and simple to use!

Christmas 2014 Wrapped

I've been MIA for the last two weeks due to a very busy period in my life. I have not had a chance to blog any cards or tags, let alone take photos of them! Here are a few of the cards that I've made during this festive season. Some of these cards were started at a recent craft retreat and all of them were quick to made. If you wish to know what products were used, please email me.
I hope everyone had a great Christmas! We hosted my family dinner on Christmas Eve for 13 people, our new table arrived just the day before! We spent Christmas Day with my partner's family and extended in-laws. A small Italian affair with only 27 people! Boxing Day Sales is a tradition with my sister and niece - we picked up some great bargains! We hosted another dinner on Saturday for 13 people at our place! I'm now glad that it is all over and I'm back at work on Monday!
Did anyone see that this card with spotlighted as one of the Top Ten in Virginia's View Challenge?

Christmas Eve Dinner

Christmas Eve Dinner

This was a special project for a child's Christmas present using Kaisercraft alphabets and PP.

A lovely gift I received from my staff made by a staff member who is a famous graffiti artist

Paper Crafts & Scrapbooking Magazine Special Thanks Blog Hop

This is a special post for a magazine that I feel rather close to. It was announced recently that the Paper Crafts and Scrapbook magazine will cease publication after January next year. It is sad to see a lot of magazines heading in this direction. You would have reached this blog post from Jennifer Cuthbertson's I'm Crafty blog. I have been inspired to create beyond my comfort zone with the submission themes for the magazine. I have also been lucky to have four of my cards accepted for publications in the last two years since I started blogging. I've made these two cards for the blog hop and below that are the cards that were published in PC&S. Thank you for dropping by and the next stop is Laura Sterckx's Making Cards is Fun. There are 212 links in this fantastic blog hop (links at the end of the post), enjoy them all! 

The second card was made for a PCS publication but was not picked up. The challenge was to use multiple inks for the one card. Since I used mainly distressed inks, I'm submitting these to Virginia View's challenge #10 - All things distressed and the second one to Addicted to CAS -#33  Code word 'dots'.

My published cards on PC&S!

I would like to thank Susan Opel and her team for giving me the great opportunity to see my cards in print. Thank you for liking them in the first place!

Sep2014 - Paper Crafts and Scrapbooking 

Geek is Chic Category, pg 56
September Gallery Challenge - Make a Nerdy Card

Nov2013 - Paper Crafts Magazine

Sketch Category, pg 25

24Sep2013 - Paper Crafts Magazine - Handmade Cards
Basics Category, pg15

Mar2013 - Papercrafts 'Card Creations' magazine:Volume 11 Pg32. 

Here are the rest of the blogs, enjoy hopping!!