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Feathered Friends

I really love birds, birds of all kinds but most especially owls.  They are the most amazing creatures and if at any time asked "whats my favourite animal"?  Owls are always the answer.  Having said that I could never own a bird in a cage, to me they should always be free to fly.When I think of lazy summer days I think of the sound of the waves against the shore and chatter of the birds. So when I looked at the image supplied by The Shabby Tea Room as this weeks inspiration I immediately thought of sitting in one of these chairs with the windows open listening to the birds in the trees.

So with that in mind I created this card and as something should have it, luck maybe, when I changed the pillowslip on my pillow out flew all these little feathers, yes indeed I have a little hole in my pillow. So being the good crafter that I am I collected them up to use.

Otto the Octopus

I have discovered a new digital stamp designer by the name of Gerda Steiner.  Her stamps are very cute and whimsical.  Gerda has just started a challenge blog and she offers a freebie for you to create and enter with. You should pop on over and take a look. The August image is this adorable little Octopus called Otto. He was really fun and easy to colour.  I cut him and his little bubbles out and mounted him on this fishy paper I had a scrap of, I think it is from Jillibean Soup.

Here's a little closeup of Otto

This is another image from Gerda that I turned into a quick card using the Happy Mail sentiment from Tiddly Inks, Quick and easy yet oh so cute.Who wouldn't like to get mail from this little sweetie?

Make sure you visit Gerdas etsy store as well as her blog, You won't be dissappointed if you like cute little images with a touch of whimsy.

I am also entering Otto into the Southern Girls Challenge something starting with F (F for Fish)
Make It Monday Always Anything Goes.

Shades of White

I have never really had much call to make baby cards so when The Shabby Tea Room challenge called for a baby card I thought now thats something I don't make every day.  I have this cute litte onesie die that I have never used before so I decided to somehow incorporate it to make the card subtle "baby". This photo is the one you were given for inspiration. 

This is what I came up with for my card.  I guess you call this monochromatic, in shades of white.

  

I have also entered this into Eclectic Ellapu  challenge Anything Goes

Tiddly Inks Challenge #114 - Summer TREATS! YUM

Well I do know summer won't be far away and whilst we have have some cold days winter generally has been pretty mild.  The blue bells and daffodils are showing their shoots so spring is just around the corner.
Tiddly Inks challenge this week is summer treats so I have made this little card using Fairy Wryn and one of her sentiments. The ice-cream is a little freebee from "Janes Doodles".  Coloured in pencils as although the afore mentioned markers have arrived the fact that I have reverted back to my pencils should be a clue as to how successful that purchase was.!!!!! Suffice to say "you get what you pay for". I am not sure what the people used that reviewed them but in no way do they come close to Copics or Promarkers.  All is not lost though as I am sure the kids will enjoy them.

Animal Antics...

The sun is shining on this cool winters morning.  Its the last day of the school holidays.....tut sigh....I love the holidays but not all bad as in 9 weeks time we shall be having holidays all over again.  I wonder how we ever managed with only 3 terms when I was at school.

Yep times have changed as the kids will be off to college next year armed with a Think Pad (new word for a lap top??) in their back packs.  Going are the days of exercise books and text books.  This is the first year for the college my kids will attend that a device will be part of the stationery requirements.  The kids are excited thats for sure. My reaction was more like yikes!!! "I have to buy two".

Anyway Southern Girls Challenge this time around has the theme "Animal Antics".  I have made this little card using a House Mouse image.  The papers are from Bazzill Basics, I fussy cut the diamonds to cover the paper join. I really like the colour combination of grey and red its very clean yet quite striking.
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Colour Throwdown #252

Have you heard of Color Throwdown?

I hadn't till recently, if you want to take a look you'll find them HERE.  They host a weekly challenge where you need to create a card using primarily the colours they post for that week. Its really interesting to see how everyone interprets the colours. 

This week the colours are Coastal Cabana, Crisp Cantaloupe, Strawberry Slush and Rich Razzleberry.  Well as it happens I have none of those colours, although they all sound like names of smoothies to me, yummy ones I would like to try.. I wonder who has the job of coming up with such lavish names for hues of pink, blue and yellow.  Fascinating huh! Anyway I used what I thought came close to create this little card. The floral paper is from October Afternoon and to finish it off I added a cute Tiddly Inks image from the Wryn collection.

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