A little bit of Carfting

Wow I think I may have been carfting up a storm I have 4 cards to post.........

This first one is a stamp by LaBlanche coloured in Inks and aged,  I then added a simple double bow using seam binding and added some gold bells both from Wild Orchid Crafts.  Thats it apart from the background paper.  It just didn't seem to need anything else.



I would like to enter this in Wild Orchid Crafts "Santa" Challenge

This one is  a Sassy Cheryl image coloured in pencils except for the skin which is using copics.  The challenge stipulated using pink and also there was a picture that was to be used as inspiration.  Cheryl has a new range of super cute images that you must go check out.

This one I would like to enter into Sassy Cheryl's Challenge #106



Okay onto number 3 This one is a Mo Manning image and I made this as a thank you card for Abbeys dance teacher.  I was going for dramatic hence the colour combination of purple. orange and black. I'm actually really pleased with this one.  Again coloured in pencils.


I would like to enter this one into Mo's Challenge # 106

Last but by no means least is a little LOTV image again coloured in pencil with embellishments and ribbon and some bling added/  I used these little tear drop beads for leaves which I am liking a lot.  This one fits nicely into the lilac and green colour challenge at the Ribbon Girl.



This one I would like to enter into the Colour Challenge # 12 at The Ribbon Girl



I also made a couple of Christmas cards in an effort to be organised........yeah good luck with that.

Catch up time!

Well I don't know how it could be possibly a month since my last post..........whizzzzzzz.....what was that ....oh another month.  They tell me only 9 weeks till the big "C".  Yikes can that possibly be true.  Anyway we are on school holidays and last week we were at the beach,  The weather was ok, Nick did swim a couple of times, in a wetsuit mind you.  The rest of us watched.  Its always so nice though to walk on the sand and to just be near the ocean.  We also went whitebaiting on the river, which was very "Huckleberry Finn" like.  We had a lovely time and this week we have just been hanging around really, restoring ready for a busy last term of school. 

Whangamata Surf

Whitebaiting on the river - very tranquil spot.

I had a really great crafting day yesterday, caught up on lots of stuff that needed to be finished, sealed and addressed envelopes with a great feeling of satisfaction (maybe its something they put in the glue).  Unfortunately the photos I took are a bit washed out as I now realise I hadn't changed the setting on the camera.  So here are just a couple.

This one is made using a stamp from the Angel Company called exotic birds and you will just have to trust me that it looked way better than this up close.  This is a bit different for me but I really enjoyed doing this more cleaner style and was pleased with the result.

These two are more my usual style and are LOTV images sent to me by a friend, again sorry a bit wishy washy but I really like the girl with the butterfly on her head, she really pops off the page in real life(so to speak).

Thanks for stopping by, have a great week.  Oh and the All Blacks are in the Rugby World Cup Final against France, playing this weekend.  "Go the AB's".