Special Friend & Wedding

Hi all,

Thank you for stopping by, sorry it's been a while the last few weeks have been a little hectic with having sick children, the usual for this time of the year colds, coughs etc, and Harvey managed to pick up hand, foot and mouth but trust him not to get the usual he had very large blisters on this feet and ankles as well as a sore throat, thankfully for now we are all back to normal, just need Charlie to get rid of his cough!!! 

The boys and I did painting last week which was great fun, laid large sheets of brown paper on the floor and they just stamped and painted  which is great to use as wrapping paper - especially with so many birthdays coming up!!  The Occasional care that Harvey goes to had a Mum's night where I had a table selling my cards which was very good, and have since started taking them to my local playgroup for people to purchase and place orders, one of the orders was for a 'Special Friend' card which I will show you, as I just adore it, using the beautiful Tiddly Inks Wryn and Emmy - BFF, the papers are from Prima - Songbird Collection, the banner I made by printing the words onto cream cardstock then folding and inking, the die cut behind the image is a spellbinders cut, fold and tuck - Floral Burst. The image was coloured using copics.

Copics used: E000, 00, 02, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 13, 17, 27 BV000 YG91, 93, 95 YR000, 00, 02, 04, 20 W02, 03, 05, 07

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge:

Tiddly Inks Challenge #86 - MOM

The other special card that I have created is for our lovely neighbours who are getting married this June, so I would like to wish them all the very best and hope they have a fantastic day. Once again have used another beautiful Tiddly Inks image You & Me, the papers are BoBunny Gabrielle Collection which I have had in my stash for a while along with flowers & pearls, again the tag was printed from the computer and cut out using spellbinders Labels Seventeen and of course the image was coloured using copics. 

Hope you all enjoy the remainder of your weekend, must say I am looking forward to dinner out this evening with a group of friends!! Thank you so much for stopping by x 

Anita x 

Easter!!

Hi everyone, hope you all had a safe and happy Easter, we had a quiet one at home with a couple of BBQ's to friends.  The boys loved their mini Easter egg hunt I did on Sunday morning around the house, with Charlie waking us up at 6.45am saying that the Easter bunny had been!!!  Then on Easter Monday we went to friends where Charlie got to have a ride on a horse for the first time and he was so excited and loved it!!

The boys checking out their goodies!!!

Charlie ready for his first horse ride on Crystal!

 

Charlie and I also got to spend sometime together and enjoyed a morning at the movies whilst Harvey was in Occasional Care, so we watched Dr Seuss - The Lorax which we both thoroughly enjoyed. Thankfully, I still managed to get some me time so I went to the Paperific show where I managed to pick up some good bargains as well as spend some time catching up on ordered cards and having a play and colouring with copics!!!! Here is an Easter card which I created using the beautiful Murray from Saturated Canary , my apologies as did not keep a note of the copic colours used, although the daffodil is one from Hooked on Craft which was just perfect for this card!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Copic Oz Easter Challenge 

Hooked on Craft Easter Challenge 

  

Thank you for stopping by.

Anita x

Drummer Boy!!

Hi everyone,

Sorry it's been a while since my last post, it has been a bit hectic and really not sure where the time has gone let alone the month of March!!

Had a few appointments with my little man Harvey, one was to see an eye consultant as he is long sighted and his left eye turns in, they were hoping to change his current lenses and make stronger to try and correct this unfortunately they are the strongest they can go, so it is a case of keep a close eye on him (pardon the pun!) and the possibility that he may have to have an operation.  Then, the other appointment was for his Kidneys, as when I was 20wks pregnant with him they picked up that he had Left Renal Kidney dilation, they have been checking this with ultra sounds and unfortunately at the last checkup it had grown so we were referred to a consultant who requested a Renal Scanning to look at the blood supply, function and excretion of the kidney, this was something that I would not like to go through again nor see my little man go through it was heartbreaking, he had to have a cannula put in which took two attempts eventually getting this into his arm with 3 people holding him down as well as him being strapped to the scanning bed, where he then had to stay for almost an hour before having to go back on their twice for further photos.  We are awaiting an appointment with the consultant for results. 

Hence, my mind has not been in crafting mode, this is probably why my craft desk is currently all over the place with half finished projects on it!!! Although I did get to make this card just prior to all of this for my partners nephew's birthday, he is a mad keen drummer in a band that's why I thought this Metal Drummer image appropriate from Kenny K.

 The image was coloured using copics (sorry cannot find the list), I did say I was in a mess!!

Thank you for stopping by and hopefully I will be back soon.

Anita x

Purple Lil Little Lolita Willow

Hi all,

Am I glad it has cooled down somewhat here in Melbourne as the weekend was so hot!!! Friday evening we had a family night in the Park for Charlie's Kinder which was lovely meeting up with other mum's and dad's and seeing all the Children enjoying themselves!! Then Sunday Charlie went for a drive out with daddy, Harvey went for a sleep, so lucky for me I got to play in my craft room!!! 

It seems I need a tap on my nose as unfortunately, I have picked up the boys cold and my nose has not stopped running today:-( At least it is this week and not next as we have lots of appointments for Harvey next as well as a class and finally getting my hair cut and coloured!!

Over at Tickled Pink they are having their last challenge which is USE A LOLITA and they have some great prizes up for grabs:

  1st  - 5 DIGITAL Stamps of your choice!

2nd - 3 Digital Stamps of your choice
  3rd - 1 digital stamp....

 

So why not pop over and join in.  The card I have created for this challenge is using Lil Little Lolita Willow then coloured her using copics, the papers are an old Kaisercraft range: Lilac Avenue then added a doily, lace, ribbon, flower and rhinestones.

 

 

Copics:

E000, 11, 13, 17, 71, 77, 79 & 53

V000, 01, 04, 06, 09, 12, 15 & 17 

 

Have also been working on some other cards using the new Kaiser 'These Days' collection for a Seniors card class I will be taking at my LSS next week, and samples to display in the shop.

 

I will be entering this card into the Tickled Pink Challenge #57 - Use a Lolita

 

Enjoy the rest of your week, take care.

Anita x 

Hi everyone,

Hope you are all well and enjoying your week so far. Today I bring you a card which I have made using the beautiful Teen Fairy Mia from Mo's Digital Pencil, I included hearts as it was valentines this week and yes I did receive some flowers and Charlie and I made chocolate muffins for daddy with punched out hearts made into little tags using cocktail sticks and put names/words on each of them!!!

 I just loved how the colours worked on this card, it came about from the Mad for Markers challenge which was to use Pink/Red R's or RV copic colours. Below is a close up of the image and this time I used Nestabilities Labels Seventeen for the sentiment inside the card!

 The papers are an old Kaiser collection 'Made with Love', pearls which I coloured using copic Y35, and also Kaiser lace. The boarders were created using a MS boarder punch and of course Kindy Glitz for her wings!!

Copics: 

E000, 00, 11, 25, 33, 41, 43, 49 

Y00, 32, 35, 38 28 

CO, 1, 2, 3, 5

RV000, 02, 14, 29, 69

YG93, G00, G21

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Mad for Markers - February use R or RV Copics in your creation

Mo's Digital Challenge - Bingo w/a Mo Image (I chose to use Lace/Glitter/Pearls)

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Anita x

All White except Image!!

Hello bloggers

Hope you all had a lovely weekend, can't believe it has been and gone already!! Took the boys to Kaisercraft at the DFO on Saturday morning, mum got to have a wonder and purchase just a few things, whilst Charlie had his face painted for the first time with a spiderman theme:

 He was so proud of it that he did not want to take it off before going to bed, but I can assure you this was not staying on as I did not want red & black bedding!!!  Anyway, Friday evening I managed to do some crafting and I made a card to fit in with a few challenges:

This was something that I had never tried before using all white except the image, which was a challenge but good fun, this image is from D'Arcy's Diaries part of the Teddy Bo & Co Group, the large heart was cut out using nestabilities as was the image using mega ovals LG and the tiny hearts were punched using a 'personal impressions' punch the sentiment was a stamp that I had in my stash and then embellished with pearls and ribbon.

If you have not done so already it is worth checking out http://www.hookedoncraft.com/ as for the month of February they are having a Birthday Sale and it is FREE postage worldwide on retail orders over $75, and also not forgetting over at Bizzy Becs she has lots of new and exciting goodies for 2012.

 Copics:

E000,00,11,13,30,31,35

W0,1,2,3,5,7

R59, G00

RV10,13,14

 

The challenges I would like to enter this card into are:

Bizzy Becs February Challenge  - All White except Image

Hooked on Craft Challenges 17 - Hearts

By the Cute and Girly - February Love is in the Air

Have a great week everyone, thank you for stopping by.

Anita x

1st Day at Kinder

Well today it was my sons first day at Kinder, he was so excited we had everything ready the night/day before including his snacks in the new lunch bag, which he was so proud of, we had labelled everything which he helped by putting his name into the label printer!!!  For his first day I made him a special card and included $5 to do as he wished (his choice to put it in his money box!) When he sat down for breakfast, I gave him the envelope to open and his face was priceless, he was so pleased that he wanted to take it to show his new teacher. Here is the card:

As well as our words, I included stickers inside the card that read remember: enjoy, shine, laugh & friends x

Charlie

Charlie & Harvey

When I collected Charlie from Kinder we went for a special lunch together where he got to have a Chino with chocolate sprinkled on top and a marshmallow (his favourite) and an extra large cookie, which he did share a small piece with his brother, so all in all a good day was had. So proud of you Charlie x

The card was made using the Kaisercraft 'Class of '87 Collection' along with Kaiser stickers for wording some ribbon from my stash and a button which I coloured with copics to match the image.

The image is one of the many digi images from Mo Manning, I just love her images.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge

DP2 Challenge - #120 Anything Goes with a Mo Image

Copics Used: 

E30, 31, 33, 35, 11, 13, 71, 77, 79

C2, 3, 5, 7

B000, 00, 12, 93, 95, 99

R00, 32, 35, 37, 59

YG91, 93, 95, 99

YR00

Thank you so much for stopping by, would love for you to leave a comment so I know you have been.

Take care.

Anita x