Shopping Our Stash Challenge #69 EMBOSS IT

Hi there!

It's time for another Shopping Our Stash challenge and this week, we're asking you to EMBOSS IT!

SO here is my card :)

I've had that coloured image sitting in my scrap basket for over TWO YEARS. I found her and coloured her in when I was FIRST trying digital images and never found quite the right card to put her on. I'm so happy to have used her! Not sure where she's from. If anyone knows, please let me know--I'd love to give credit where credit is due!

The white embossed cardstock is actually a fail from another project, but flip it over and voila! A new lease on life.

The ribbon is again, from Chari's etsy store. The button is from A Flair for Buttons.  The card base is an old one I had lying around, I think it's Hero Arts. LOVE using bits and pieces I've had sitting in my scrap basket for TOO LONG.

I hope you like it!

Please pop over to the Shopping Our Stash blog, to see the rest of the DT's projects! And be sure to link up your own!

See you again soon~!

Linda x

Neat and Tangled

Hello!!

I'm over at the Neat and Tangled Blog today with a special extra post for you.

Why not pop over there and check it out! While you're there, take a look in the store-I'm POSITIVE you'll find something (or lots of somethings!) you'll love!

*crafty hugs*

Linda xx

Challenge #12 at ABNH

Hiya there chickadees!

I'm here to share with you the new challenge over at A Blog Named Hero!

tags!! YAY!! I'm a huge fan of tags, they're smaller, easier to fill, and you can make them beautiful JUST for fun. They don't have to have a theme or story behind them :) so fun.

And so, here is mine :)

Gorgeous, no?! I love it :) (another YAY!)

Ok, so here's how I made it.

1. I diecut some Neenah cardstock and 2 pages of vintage book paper, using a Tim Holtz die.
2. On one bookprint tag, I stamped the Hero Arts Maple leaf image multiple times (having 'inked' the stamp using my Distress Markers, then lightly spritzing with water). I just love the watercolour effect using the markers achieves.
3. Once the ink was totally dry (on the paper), I covered both sides of the tag with Multi Matte Medium and adhered it to the neenah cardstock (which was also a tag), to give it added strength. (The bookprint paper is quite fine and tears EASILY--ask me how I know :))
4. I dried both sides with my heat gun (I'm impatient). The GREAT thing about the Multi Matte Medium, is it dries COMPLETELY matte, so you can't even tell its there--genius I say!
5. Next I adhered a doily to the side of the tag, then a label, which I'd stamped with my sentiment.
6. I took some Hand-dyed Seam Binding and a hand-made button from my gorgeous friend Chari's etsy shop (GO THERE!) and added them to the tag.
7. Through the button, I 'threaded' a teeny tiny office supply tag's string, and I loved how the tag looked dangling there from the button, so I adhered that down to the tag too, leaving the twine to 'hang free'. It looks really organic up close :)
8. Finally I added an old-and-no-longer-available Prima butterfly that I've been hoarding, keeping for a special occasion.

I love love LOVE this tag. I was going to give it to someone, but I might have to keep it. It gives me faith in my own ability lol. It's so nice to like something you've made!

OK!

That's it for me! Be sure to head over to ABNH, to check out the rest of the DT's gorgeous creations, and enter the challenge too! You could be our winner!

Thanks for stopping by!
*crafty hugs*

Linda

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Leibster= Beloved!

Hello lovelies!

I was surprised (and delighted) to find out that a fellow crafter (and Melbourne-dweller) Cecilia had nominated me for the

Thank you Cecilia! Your cards are truly a delight to see :) You're so sweet to nominate me!

ABOUT THE AWARD

This award was designed to be a blog award in the pay it forward fashion. Once you've been nominated, you award it to blogs that you like that have fewer than 200 followers, to encourage new visitors to visit these new blogs.

RULES FOR ACCEPTANCE

Thank the person who gave you the award and link back to their blog. Post the award onto your blog. Give the award to five bloggers whom you appreciate that have fewer than 200 followers. Leave a comment on their blog letting them know that you have given them this awesome award!

It was hard for me to choose only 5, but here they are (and a little sentence or two about why I chose them!):

Danielle-- I'm so glad I've become friends with you! Being on your DT is such a dream come true (not just because I love your stamps!). I love your sense of humour, your honesty, and how much faith you've put in me. Your creativity and elegance blow me away.

Elizabeth-- My alternate universe twin (I wont explain that to y'all LOL) I'm so happy to have you in my life for more than one reason :) You're so supportive and lovely, I'm lucky to have found you.  I love your perseverence, your style and your unwavering strength.

Mel- You're the sweetest girl, so giving and helpful. You're a wonderful team member and you make me laugh out loud every time we 'talk'. You have NO idea how crazy talented you are :)

Leslie Your wit and honesty has me guffawing daily--which is a real treasure. I love your cards and the hysterical commentary on your blog about how they came to be. You're sweet and loyal and awesome :)

Carla-   Lola (haha!) I've only recently "met" you, but we've become fast friends and I'm so glad. Thank you for bringing me onto your team, I'm so happy to have had the opportunity to meet and become friends with you. Your creations are wonderful.

 As for everyone else I know, I'd nominate you too if I could, but I thought I'd better limit myself and follow at least one of the rules :)

Thank you again Cecilia! What an honour!


I'll be back soon!

*crafty hugs*
Linda

Shopping Our Stash Challenge #68 3-2-1!!

Hello Hello!!

How is it Tuesday again already?!

I'm here with this week's Shopping Our Stash challenge!

This week we're challenging you to use 3-2-1. That's 3 of something, 2 of another thing and 1 of another!

Here's what I came up with:

 

 It's a very crooked photo but I was in a rush to get out the door with my parents who were visiting for the weekend!

The 3--three stamps :) 

the 2-- two "patterned" papers (well, one patterned, one glittery, but I think that counts!!)

the 1-- one piece of neon twine. Darn you Lisa Spangler for showing me those!

Super simple! Stamped the ADORABLE stamp from Lawn Fawn (love) coloured him in with new copics--thanks Steph!! Edged the piece of cardstock with Distress Ink, mounted it onto stripey Lawn Fawn paper (wish I could buy that by the ream!), cut a little notch out of each side for the twine (used my crop-a-dile), the added the twine.
Mounted that onto some GAWJUSS glittery AC paper (thanks Chari!!) then mounted THAT onto some Bazzill Card Shoppe cardstock. 

Oh, and I added some stickles to his wings and horns...coz, well it makes him more magic :) (yes I know it's supposed to be magiCAL but I like it that way better :))

 SO CUTE.

This one will be going to my beautiful nephew who is far away from me but always in my heart.

OK loves!  Now head on over to the SOS blog and check out the rest of the DT's creations!!

Enter via the inlinkz linky tool on the blog too! We'd love to see what you create.

*crafty hugs*

Linda xo

Shopping Our Stash Challenge #67 WOODEN IT BE NICE

Hello!

It has been THE prettiest Spring weather here and I can't get enough of the sunshine. We've spent most of the weekend in the garden, pulling out weeds and making room for our soon-to-be-improved front yard, I can't wait!

I'm here with another

This week's challenge is WOODEN IT BE NICE--Use anything that reflects wood: woodgrain, wood embellies,  trees, etc.

So here is my card:

These are the rest of the diecut butterflies I made for Kelly's birthday card HERE. I just love them.

This one is VERY self explanatory :) It's super pretty in real life! Love those Studio Calico Wood veneer words. GAH. I cant. stop. using. them.

Be sure to stop by the blog and check out the other cards the DT made--they're amazing! And upload your project to the inlinkz tool to enter the challenge!! We'd love to have you join.

Thanks for stopping by! I'll be back soon :)

Linda

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Happy birthday Kelly!

Hi there!

I'm here today to say a very big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my sweet friend and fellow DT member Kelly.

Kelly is just the loveliest girl and I'm so blessed to have her in my life (and on my team over at ABNH!)

A few of the girls at the blog got together to make her some bee-day cards...

Here's mine.

 

I'm in love.

So I grabbed a handful of Distress Markers and scribbled a little patch of colour from each of them (in a line obviously!) covering the entire length of my piece of watercolour paper.

Next I took a mini mister and added a few scoopfuls of Perfect Pearls into some water. I shook it up well (after I closed the lid LOL) and then I sprayed the bejiggety--thats a lot-- out of the paper. I tilted it on an angle so I would get a nice 'drippage' look (and that way the colour would spread over more of the paper).

When I was happy with it, I dried the whole thing with my heat gun, dabbing at the excess pools of liquid that appeared. Then I sprayed it some more :) I heat-set it again.

Next I ran it through my Big Shot and diecut using the GORGEOUS Memory Box die. I added a few of the butterflies that had been diecut out, onto the side of the panel and added my sentiment.

Finally I adhered it to a Shallows notecard using THICK dimensional adhesive so that I'd get a pretty shadow beneath those butterflies.

Love Love LOVE

Here are the goodies you'll need to make this card (and you really do need to make it, it's so purty in real life!!)

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Thanks for stopping by!! Be sure to head over to the blog to see the other UH-MAZING cards that have been made for sweet Kelly :) and if you can, go to her blog to leave her some beeday lovin :)

*crafty hugs*

Linda xx

Neat and Tangled SALE!

Hi there!!

A quick post today, as there will be one again in a few hours. I just wanted to pop in to let you know there's a Labor Day SALE going on over at Neat and Tangled Stamps!! Free shipping (INTERNATIONAL TOO!!)

 so be sure to get over there and grab your favourites!

Linda xx

Shopping Our Stash Challenge 66 My Favourite Things

Hello!!

It's time for another Shopping Our Stash challenge and this week the theme is My Favourite Things--

"Make a card that features your favorite things. It could be brads, pretty paper, ribbon, a certain shape, stickers, rub-ons ... anything you love to put on a card."

 Now, I had a bit of trouble narrowing down exactly what my favourite thing would be--stamps for sure, but I also love glitter and ink, so I thought and thought and THOUGHT. Then I realised my absolute favourite thing about crafting is the COLOUR it brings to my world.  So I went with that.

In true Shopping Our Stash style, everything on this card has been sitting around in my (as my good friend Leslie would call it) 'heaplet' (it's like a heap but a wee bit smaller...or in my case, not)  for at least 6 months. (Some of them almost 2 years *eek!*)

The pink/rose coloured cardstock is OLD and is from American Crafts, the blingy-border is AC glitter tape (thanks sweet Chari! I love this stuff!), the 'sentiment' is from a Studio Calico kit from around 2010 (oh my...)

The central panel: SUCH a fun, quick technique and you want to know how easy?! SO FREAKIN' EASY!!

All you do is this:
Take some watercolour (or thick) cardstock
Choose some Distress Stains, open them, turn them upside down and SPLAT--let the stain bottle almost fall onto the cardstock.
Repeat with all the colours, moving around the cardstock in a random pattern.


Quick Tip: 


*When you go to SPLAT the Distress Stain, let the bottle slip through your fingers so the weight of the bottle (and the stain inside it) will make it hit the paper--this helps you to get an even splatter effect all over and gives that great starburst look. If you do it too purposefully/carefully the splatter tends to look quite circular and neat.

(told you it was so easy!)

SO fun!! I can't wait to do blog this again.

Be sure to stop by the and check out the rest of the DT's projects and make something yourself if you can :)

Thanks for dropping by!

*crafty hugs*

Linda xx

Neat and Tangled special project!

Hi everyone!

I'm over at Neat and Tangled today to show you a special project :)


Here's a sneaky peek :)

Be sure to pop by and leave me some love! (I'm desperate for love you know LOL)

You'll even get to check out the colour I picked for our hallway walls--I know, you're excited, me too!!


Linda xoxoox

Meeting Hello Sandwich

Hi hi!!

Public Service Announcement: this is a wordy post. :)

A couple of months ago I stumbled across a blog post that offered 101 ideas for ways to use Washi Tape (or something like 101)...on the list of links and suggestions, was a url for the blog Hello Sandwich.

Hello Sandwich is the 'stage name' (I guess you could call it that!) for an amazingly talented crafter named Ebony. She's Aussie, she lives in Japan and she loves Washi tape. (Hello Mirror more like it! lol)

AAaaanyhoo, I stalked followed her blog and watched her super cute youtube videos, (in-chair-danced to the music on the videos lol) even bought her e-zine which is choc-a-block full of CUUUTE ideas for washi (among other items).

Everything about her blog is UBER-Japanese. Lots of white space, LOTS of cute graphics, lots of splashes of colour in delightful ways. In short--I'm in love.

I digress.

So a few weeks back I found out she was going to be holding a class in Australia--MELBOURNE!!! I looked into it but unfortunately it was on a day when hubs works, so there was no chance to go...until she decided to add on an extra class on the following Monday (hubs' day off!!)... so I went.

Long story short, it was madness and I made the hour+ trip into the city, got hopelessly lost, came home distraught that I'd missed out. I contacted the workshop venue and left a message explaining how disappointed I was to have missed it but that I couldn't find the place ANYWHERE...

Then I got a call from Hello Sandwich herself asking if I would come back to craft with her for whatever time there was left of the class. So I did. I drove back into the city (another hour+ travel plus crazy traffic!) I got there FINALLY *phew*

and boy am I glad I did...I'll give you the rest in photos :)

class in progress :)

 Those are my things on the bottom :) The class made the bags at the top of the photo (and you can see everyone holding in the photo below. Hello Sandwich was SO lovely and gave me the ones she made as demonstration for everyone, so I'd have something to take home :)

Some of the adorable things on display made by Hello :)

I can't wait to sit down and make make make after this class I'm bursting full of ideas.


I've never crafted with other people before and it was SO fun. I can't wait to do it again!

If you would like to buy Hello Sandwich's zine or new book--go to her blog www.hellosandwich.blogspot.com.au/  I recommend it--such cute ideas!

Thank you SO much to Hello Sandwich for not only holding a fun, fabulous class, but for taking the time to contact me personally and asking me to come back. I'm so glad you did!

Love love

Linda xx