Life is quiet again.

Well, family is gone. My cousin has headed off to Fiji, miss her already. Next time I want to go to Fiji!! I've never been but at the same time I am 21 years older than her! I'm sure to be asked if i was there with my daughter!! LOL

Below is a couple of photos of us roaming around. I would highly recommend going to the Melbourne Show (but who needs my recommendation to go there! :) )  We also had a walk around the city and thru the street art alleys. Some were sooo good!

Today I have 2 cards. The first one is the end result from me playing to make a background for my website. I think I showed you the original art.

Stamps Used: Lovely Florals

Viva Lettering English 

Versamark

Clear Embossing Powder 

Copics:

RV99, R56, RV34, R83, R81

Number 2

I had the Delightful Dangles from Woodware out for the last card.
 I'm working through older stamp sets and trying to give them some love.

While I was in the mood to do some sponging I cracked out some Stormy Sky, Faded Jeans with a little Dusty Concord to finish off. I left sponging as is no water splatter or anything! Shock horror!

The sentiment moved slightly at the very end! GRRR I was not starting again. I did pretty good you can only just see it in a few places! 

Stamps Used: Delightful Dangles

Cardstock : Highland Heather

Versamark 

Gold Embossing Powder

Copics:

B99, B97, B95

BV08, BV04, V02

Thank you for taking the time and stopping by.

Take Care

I've had enough!!

I have really had enough of this season. I been ill... again! I'm looking forward to some warmer weather. Of course this means Christmas which is a whole other problem lol.

Today however is going to be a lovely 25degrees (c) outside and we will be heading off to the Melbourne show on Sunday to take my cousin from England to have a look.

Now the tickets are paid for (early bird special) and I'm over that shock, I'm really looking forward to it! The boys have never been before either. I know, I failed them as a mum to never take them to the show when they have lived here their whole life. At least now I won't have to deal with tired tantrums and them wanting to get on every single ride there is!

It is great when they are young, to take them, but there is also something about taking them when they are older and can appreciate it at a different level. Young, mine anyway, would of just wanted rides and stuff and now... I said, "Ok, you can have a ride pass or that money in show bags!" They chose the show bags.

I will show you some photos next week.

Anyway, today's card is using an old The Greeting Farm set called Xmas Sweeties. It is old so may be harder to find.

The background was sponged with Stormy Sky and Black Soot. After splashing abit of water over the background I decided it wasn't good enough. So in a mister bottle I added Rubbing Alcohol and some ink from Stampin Up called "All purpose Shimmer Inks" They are actually from Tsukineko. There is Vegas Gold, Bright Copper, Frost White and Champagne Mist.  I have used Frost White.

Google All Purpose shimmer inks and there is alot of things you can do with them.

You can see looking at the background it has a very speckled appearance. In life it is very sparkly and pretty but of course it isn't easy to photograph that! I did go abit heavy handed, I was expecting some splatter but .... that didn't happen.

The stars are from Stampin Up called "Carols of Christmas"

 

Sentiment is Woodware called ":Delightful Dangles"

Copics Used:

Skin; E000, E00, E11, E04 R20

Hair; E29, E25, E21

Fluffy Bits and snow; C5, C3, C1

Red; R35, R46, R59

Mouth; R22, R20

110

Buckle N3

Quick Card...

Soo.... AGAIN the horrible bug got me! I can't explain how bad it was cos, well that would be very gross! Lets just say it was a extremely bad flu and which within days caused other problems! Second round of antibiotics and (fingers crossed) that will be it!!!! Girl can dream! It has been a very bad flu season, It has gone thru work like nothing I have seen for quite a while! This was also after I had the flu shot in May and I take auto immune tablets, cos I work in a school as one of my jobs and they LOVVEEEEE to share bugs!

So today we have a quick and simple card. Last time I posted I gave you a card using the Santa Elves by MFT  Super cute set, so today I continued with that theme. Due to being in bed I didn't get much done. I did get another thing done, which I will show you later.

I was going to mask and sponge on the background but.... the energy levels said "NOPE!!" so a soft BG10 it was!

Copics Used:

Skin: E04, E11, E00, E000, R20

Hair: E57

Reds: R59, R46, R35

Olive Green (for something different): G99, YG95

White: C5, C3, C1
Shoes: 110, C9, C7, C5

Gold: YR23, Y17, Y13

Background: BG10

Ground: W5, W3, W1

I mounted up the sentiment and used some white embossing powder. I used my favourite red for Christmas by Stampin Up Cherry Cobbler. 

Bonus... not really a card.

I have a business I recently started. I wanted to do my own background for the page. My business cards have Magnolia's and I wanted this to flow onto my page. I sent an email to Paperrose who make the set asking for what the requirements were and if I could use my image. I'm yet to hear but I'm now thinking I'll go back to my original image, oh well it was fun while doing it!

I love it but I think it is too dark for what I want.

I have to think of a sentiment to use.

Copics Used

Background: BG10

Pinks: RV99, R56, RV34, R83, R81

Thank you for stopping by.

Christmas cheer

So Book week! Was soo much fun! I was sick in bed for the days before but I was not going to miss out. I spent too much time in making it! lol

I will completely say I was VERY warm that day!

So that is why I have been MIA with sickness!

It's been soooo cold I needed some warm thoughts! Well, for Aussie peeps Christmas is warm.   Work school, Mum's taxi is off and running again.

 I had a chance to play with an older My Favourite Things set. Called Santa's Elves.
Check it out here. It is very cute. I've been wanting, I think it is called, Bad Elves and there is another called Good Elves/Elf. But I could never find it here in Australia last year.

As usually Copics were my colouring choice. I'm nothing but dependable! ha ha

I started colouring this for The 30 Day colouring challenge, of course I didn't get around to finishing it! Story of my life! Too many U.F.O's ha ha.

I had a play with the texture on the tree.

 Copics Used:

Skin: E04, E11, E00, E000

Reds: R39, R29, R35

Browns: E30, E33, E35, E37

Background tint: BG000

White shadow: C1, C3, C5

Gold: YR23, Y17, Y13

Tree: YG67, YG63, YG25

Other tree: G07, G05, G03

Teal: BG09, BG07, BG05, BG01

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I do hope you have enjoyed my card. Thank you for stopping by.

Natalie

BLOG HOP

I am super super excited to be involved in my first ever blog hop... Well Encouragement Hop.

Three awesome ladies and come together to organize a hop with a difference. You could be involved through YouTube or a blog post or even sending a card into Courtney. Find Courtney can be found here.
Mary can be found here. Third awesome person is Jen from Scrapping Of Creations.

The idea was to help people be involved in a Hop that may not usually be able to be involved in and most importantly encourage each other too by visiting and seeing each others wonderful creations.



For my Card I used an Australian company called Uniquely Creative. The name of the set is 'Dreams r 4 chasing'.

 

I love this set. It is soo cute and I will be doing more with it!

 

I stamped out the dog and grass. I masked the dog so I could do the background using the MFT cloud stencil and Stormy Sky Distress Oxide Ink, When I did the sky, I didn't want patches of white. It was abit too strong of a contrast, so I went over the whole sky again with the Stormy Sky. I masked off the ground in the process to do the grass. I didn't think about the ink clouding up the black ink of my stamped grass. Brain fart moment! lol So to fix that I went over it with a pen. 

It can be difficult to get a masked outline close so any little white patches were colored using a Copic marker that matched the stormy sky. I did the same for the ground, which was sponged with Peeled Paint and Mowed Lawn. For the sky's 'oop's' I used B93 or 91 and the ground was a mix of YG45, 17, 06 and G14.

Copics I used were:

E37, 35, 33, 31

R17

C9,07, 05, 03

When I did the tongue and inside of the mouth I used C3 (I think) to go over the tongue to dull it down. So you can use your grays to tone things down! I wanted to leave small strokes to give texture to the fur. You have to make sure they are only small otherwise it just doesn't work. I have found.

Thank you for stopping by. Please subscribe to my newsletter and head on over to Jamie from Not to Shabby to to see her awesome design. I love her work. Can't wait to see what she has done!

Crazy People Do Crazy Things

Crazy People Do Crazy Things. Ask me how I know this!

One of my jobs ( I have 3! Other... crazy... thing!) is at a school working with a child using Auslan to help him learn. It is awesome! But as a part of that they decide to do activities to promote, I suppose moral and engagement with the students.

Book week is coming up.... Do I need to say anything more??

The staff book is 'Harry Potter', pretty cool really. Previous years there was 'Where's Wally?' and  last year was 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory'. For that one all the aides that were working that day came as Golden Tickets!

Harry Potter..... we are owls!

So today I have a non papercraft thing to show you. I made myself into a owl.

I had some material and some felt in my stash.

I made myself a little template to cut out the ‘feathers’

This was just the beginning! I got about 4 out of each piece of felt. I soon realised... I needed more felt!

 

I roughly cut a square of material and folded it diagonally and cut a hole for the head. Which... I cut too big!! That worked out well in the end as during the time trying to fix it I made myself some detail for my owl's chest. It worked out well really.

Using my sewing machine I pinned then sowed the feathers on in a row. Towards the end I had to hand sew the feathers as I made 'sleeves' so I didn't want to sow these closed!

I cut abit off the bottom at the front and sowed it on like a hood. This I will pin onto the hood of my jumper on the day.

After the event I will post a photo of the finished look. Hopefully with the rest of the dress ups!

Thanks for stopping by. Take Care

Angelic Thank you

So, How is the school holidays going for those of you lucky enough to have them. I think most of Australian states are now on holidays and of course lots of others are on Summer holidays across the world.

Here, in Melbourne it is mighty cold. Where I am we don't get snow but we have just had an Arctic blast come thru with rain and cold cold temperatures. One year I want a white Christmas. Once, would probably be enough... I'm a warm weather girl.

Today's card was me thinking of warmer spring weather. She is an old image from a now gone company in the USA, I believe.

Don't to crook at me if I'm wrong.

Friends had contacts years ago and we got our hands on them. Apparently, we weren't suppose to... oh well!

The 30day coloring challenge is still going for a few more days. I coloured this image for that a few days ago.

Copics Used:

BG01, 05, 07, 09

Skin E000, 00, 11, RV10

V17, 15, 12, 01

E39, 37, 35, 33

I found a sketch (I need to figure out how to add these pictures to my blog, one day hee hee) in a book I had.

 

It is full of good ideas, which of course are great when you are stuck for ideas. 

I decided to have her like she was siting on the edge of something. I had to trim a little bit off the sides as the image I had didn't quite go the length of the card base.

I used a piece of High Heather cardstock from Stampin Up and black embossed a Thank you. I used abit of Nuvo crystal drops in Morning Dew for some accents and popped my little girl up with form dots for dimension to a fairly plain and simple card!

That is all today. Thank you for stopping by to check out my little blog.

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