Southern Girls Mid Winter Christmas

A big welcome to the new Design team at Southern Girls.  I am staying on yay!!!  I have some amazing team mates, check out this link for details on all the new Girlies.  I am sure your are going to be blown away by all the inspiration coming your way.

Ok talking about Southern Girls...... a new challenge has just gone live at Southern Girls Challenge and we are having a Mid Winter Christmas. Our wonderful sponsors for this challenge are  Make It Crafty and Iva Nova Chest
                                                                                                                                                             

I used the lovely Make it Crafty digi stamp Bethany Winter Jacket.  The papers are Kaisercraft from past collections.  The snowflake was punched using a Martha Stewart punch.  I added glitter, ribbon and bling to finish.  Make sure you check out all the other DT projects for inspiration and we look forward to seeing your entries in the challenge.

Red, black, white and teal....

HI there and welcome to my two new followers this week thanks for joining me.

Over at the The Card Concept the current challenge is a colour combination of red, black,white and teal. Probably not a combination that comes naturally but actually works really well. This is my card and whilst the intention was to make it shabby I think its maybe somewhere in between shabby and elegant...

Polka dot love...

This weeks challenge at The Shabby Tea Room Is another beautiful picture inspiration.  Your project was to contain flowers and polka dots. Here's my entry using Cora from Pretty Little Studio

Mishievious kitty

Thanks for stopping by and welcome to my new follower Dorothy who joined me this week.

We are on school holidays this week.Its pretty cold and miserable but yesterday I took the kids and a friend each into the city on the train.  Which was delayed by 40 minutes due to someone deciding to take a stroll on the tracks in the Britomart tunnel.  We sat wating with only 2 stops to go "trapped" in the train.  Wasn't all bad as we were entertained by a Universtity student (late for class) he had us in stitches with various scenarios and stories.  We all came to the conclusion that if a person decides to take a stroll on the train tracks that they actually deserve some consequence for distrupting potentially thousands of peoples lives.  Who knew that there was such a thing as a train jam.  Anyway despite a shakey start we had a great day.

This image Mischievious Cat is new in the store at Gerda Steiner Designs.   I knew as soon as I saw it exactly what I wanted to do with it.  Its just perfect for a card in a box and being a digi image of course I could resize it and copy it as I liked. I added a LOTV stamp which was perfect for the image "A birthday recipe"  Don't forget to check out Gerda's challenge too.

I am entering this into the Dog and/or cat challenge at Animal Friends Challenge
Challenge #79 at 613 Avenue Create and animals at A Gem of a Challenge

In the spotlight....

Hi hope you are having a great day.

First off a warm welcome to Kathi who started following me this week.

I was thrilled to receive a spotlight award of 2nd place in the challenge at Magiczna Kartka for my little notebook a couple of posts ago.  There are some amazing projects entered in their challenges so I have to say I was really thrilled.

Funny little story before I post my card for today.....At school the kids do daily fitness.  At the moment they are running the cross country course but as the weather has been dreadful this week they have moved to the auditorium and have been doing jump-jam.  One of the songs they use is "Who let the dogs out" (you know the one...right?).  Well one of the kids I work with came running into class today, actually he burst into class, and proceeded to tell me he didn't want to work today as he had a very important question he needed to ask. Just so you know this little 7 year old fellow is not one out of the box. I could see he was about to "pop" so I said ok whats your question (imagining all number of things he could be about to ask).  Anyway not able to contain himself he just blurted out..."Mrs Oliver I really need to know who DID let the dogs out..." Well I tried really hard to contain myself but I just had to laugh out loud. He looked at me and realised it was pretty funny  and the two of us just laughed and laughed. It was pretty priceless.  How kids minds work hey???

Anway, sory told, here is my creation for the Current Challenge at Magiczna Kartka Colourful Birds.  I love the soft colours of the papers and I love birds too.