MicheyMoo

Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge - "Hang In There"

2012-01-24T21:57:00.002+11:00

I know...two posts in one afternoon! How magnificent is this inspiration photo! I love, love, love that feature wall - though I'd never have anything like that at my place...it's still pretty cool.

I've had this inspiration photo for the latest Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge on my desktop for several days now and keep coming back and having a look - there's sooooo much in there. Though, of course, that feature wall grabs you and shakes you wild first!

I needed a card for a friend who is in need of some ca-ute encouragement at the moment!

And...I've been desperate to get this wee guy inky and last night (ahem...make that 3am this morning) was his chance at long last! I paired him up with a couple of SU Onsies that I coloured with Copics...the perfect therapy when one can't sleep.

These wee pegs are so tiny in real life - yet they are still massive in comparison with the size of these images. I pulled one of the arms out from the spring and then glued them down so they weren't quite so bulky on the card.

A bit of twine here and bit of PTI DP paper there....some vellum to soften it a bit and highlight the sentiment....a bit more twine...some wee, and I mean wee, black rhinies and this little fella was ready to hang it all about there.

I fiddled a little when I got home this evening and then pulled out the camera and here it is. I think I need to find my little photo tent since I seem to be doing 95% of my photographing at night. I managed to soften some of the shadows this time by reflecting some of the overhead light back in via a piece of white card stock.

And now this tired, but happy and inky crafter is going to bed.
Good night all.

Michey xxxx

CARD DETAILS:
Stamps: Paper Smooches Hang In There; Stampin Up Roller Baby Tees
Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black; Versamark
Cardstock: PTI Stampers Select White, Beautiful Blooms DP; Geographics Vellum (from Officeworks)
Other: PTI Cream Twine; The Twinery Charcoal Twine; Ranger Fine Black Embossing Powder; Tombow Mono Glue; Glue Dots - Micro and Vellum; Absolutely Something For Everyone Mini Black Crystals; CraftWorkz Ultra Mini Pegs; Dimensionals
Copics:
Squirrel: E99, E23, E13, R11
Red Onsie: R27, R17, R46
Green Onsie: YG25, YG03, YG0000, N0, N2
Grass: YG25, YG17, YG67
Posts: E77, E71, E99

Clean and Simple Card Set & RIC #4

2012-01-24T17:33:00.001+11:00

As you know from my recent posts, I participated in the Clean and Simple Online Classes. One of the last days of class was about making a card set. The classes are finished now, but I still wanted to have a go at a set of cards using the clean and simple principles.

I chose not to package these up in a nice box as a gift as they're destined to become some of the 150 or so thank you cards that I need to send out to people following Mum's passing and from all the gifts and cards I received at Christmas. I'm so far behind it's ridonkulous...but I figure better late than never, right!?

An easily mass produced design with simple two-step stamping of this stunning lotus flower directly onto the card base and the addition of some of my favourite wee dotted scallop punched in coordinating colours along the edge. Some sentiments from WaltzingMouse and there you have. I think I might need to purchase a basic sentiment set though, I really wanted to use a simple, bold thank you to match the clean lines of the lotus flower, but alas....out of the 4 squillion stamp sets I have - I don't have one matching this description.

I also dressed up the accompanying envelopes by stamping the smaller lotus flower in the single colour on the front left and adding another wee strip of the dotted scallops in the matching colour on the back flap. Easy peasy and yet so pretty.

And here they are all stacked up....not quite as vibrant as the photo from Runway's Inspiration - but I'm not really a super bright kinda gal. ;)

I've another card that I made in the wee hours of this morning when I was unable to sleep. If I can get it photographed and blogged before I finally call it a night/day/night/whatever it'll be up...otherwise I'll post it tomorrow.

Smooches,

Michey xxx

Card Details:
Stamps: Hero Arts Lotus Leaves CL542; WaltzingMouse Stamps Earth Angel and BIg Day Essentials
Inks: Memento Bamboo Leaves, Lady Bug, Tuxedo Black; Jenny Bowlin Speckled Egg, Lemon Drops, Lavender Sachet; Stampin Up Regal Rose
Cardstock: PTI Stampers Select White Notecards and envelopes
Others: EK Success Dotted Scallop punch

Hero Arts January 2012 Challenge

2012-01-23T18:14:00.001+11:00

Edited to Add: The photo's have been replaced with better images as promised. And...because I really felt the card was lacking something, I added a touch of subtle bling to the centre of each of the little background flowers with a Sakura Gelly pen - see the 2nd photo.) ;)

Here's today's card. Seems I'm in a daily create/blog pattern at the moment...this may not keep up, but I'm having plenty of fun and I'm seizing the abundance of MoJo whilst it is present.

I managed to get my hands on some of the yummy new Hero Arts stamps just before leaving on holidays in late December. This stamp is my FAVOURITE of all the new stamps and I was waiting for the right moment to get it inky. I fancy those gorgeous flowers are Rose Peonies, which are my most favourite flower in all the world! Hyperbole...possibly, but I do love those gorgeous full blooms and make sure I have at least one bunch of them during their short season each year.

Anyway a birthday card using this image for my dad's wife seemed appropriate. :)

Love, Hugs and Kisses is the theme for January over in the Hero Arts Flicker Group and the above colours are the accompanying challenge.

Not much to this card....stamped in Seedless Preserves Distress Inks and coloured with Copics (whilst watching Jane Eyre over and over again! I'm seriously addicted to this movie!) and then a sentiment added via a banner strip with a pearl finished things off.

Now am off to finish the dreaded housework. ;)

What a treat for my day off.

Smooches,

Michey xxx

CARD DETAILS:

Stamps: Hero Arts Large Flower Background CG408; PTI Enjoy The Ride (Sentiment)

Inks: Distress Ink Seedless Preserves

Cardstock: PTI Stampers Select White; Fine Linen White Cardstock (Banner)

Other: Copics G40, G82, V20, RV32, RV34; KaiserCraft Pearl; Dimensionals

Lucy's Inspiration Photo #2

2012-01-22T15:44:00.000+11:00

I'm back with another card to share. This is for one of my loveliest friends who is celebrating her birthday this weekend.

It really has been a creative week, right? Totally loving it - though this card took a fair bit of time coming together last night. I had created two different card bases before I finished up the third, which you see before you now. The others were too busy or too big and the image kept getting lost and I wanted this gorgeous artwork to take the focus. It's an image called "Gifted" and is my first of many of Leanne Ellis's images that I'll be using in the days/weeks/months ahead.

Some serious enabling happened this week via a lovely crafty friend. She showcased some of the amazing art/stamps from Leanne on her blog this week (take a peek - it's some seriously great stuff) and I just had to investigate further. I originally only looked at Leanne's Etsy store and couldn't help purchasing a couple of digi's. But I couldn't leave it at that and have now added some rubber stamps (via Funky Kits/Sugar Nellie) and they are currently winging there way here from the UK. Fly fast my lovelies.

I printed this image four times onto some watercolour paper using my Epson R290. Took me a bit of effort to do as I hadn't set my printer up since moving my craft stuff early in 2011. And I had a mad dash to the stationery store to get a couple of new inks before any action happened. Anyway, all good to go. I'm glad I printed off so many copies as I used up all of them!!

I originally started colouring with Distress Inks and an aquabrush but discovered that the Epson ink runs when you use water! I've previously only ever coloured digi's with my Copics - so that ruined the first image. Lesson learnt though.

And, since I'm still a little rusty with my Copics and because I printed the image quite small I chose to colour some of the elements separately and then pieced it all together. All is coloured with Copics except the greenish tinge to the background - this is Iced Spruce distress ink. And there is a fairly good dose of subtle Spica glitteryness added too.

I cut the image with a Label 10 Spellbinders die and then used the same sized die to cut out the matt. The matt is a sheet of lighter green embossed paper from the KaiserCraft Sweet Nothings pad and I darkened it with more Iced Spruce. Both then placed onto a Soft Stone card base with two different sized dimensionals.

Card is finished off with some Washi/Tissue tape that I've had in my stash for ever!! I've about a dozen different rolls of this stuff and this is the first time I'm using it. Expect to see much more of it as its awesome!! Some string and an altered button and pearl, a couple of rhineys and I was done.

Hope the birthday girl loves it - I'll know soon enough. Am off to a favourite cafe for dinner tonight to celebrate.

Hope your weekend is full of lovely things.

Michey xxx

CARD DETAILS:
Image: Leanne Ellis 'Captured'
Cardstock/Paper: PTI Soft Stone; Watercolour paper, KaiserCraft Sweet Nothings 6 x 6
Ink: Distress Ink Iced Spruce
Copics:
Hair - E13, E15, R17
Skin - E00
Top - YR00, YR18, YR30
Skirt & Inner of Frame - N0, N4
Frame (outer oval) - E42, E44
Spicas: Clear, Silver, Mint
Others: KaiserCraft gems & pearl; Spellbinder Label 10 die; Washi/Tissue Tape from stationery store; String (Spotlight); Random orange button from stash - darkened with Copic E44; Glue Dots and dimensionals

Another Clean and Simple Card and Lucy's Inspiration Week #1

2012-01-18T23:57:00.000+11:00

I've been on a roll this week.

Seems like my MoJo feels like it needs to make up for lost time, huh? ;)

I'm really loving how quick and easy it sometimes is to create the clean and simple cards...then other times it looks so clean and simple....but its taken a bit of effort.

I've done a bit of fussy cutting the past couple of nights. Yesterday, cutting out the tea label wasn't too bad...these paper pieced flowers...a bit more effort. :)

I used Lucy's Day 1 photo as my inspiration and then brought together some of tips/techniques learnt on Day 7/8 of the online card class to create this card, embracing the white space. I created a mask for the jar and would have left it as a OLC (one layer card) 'cept I felt those flowers needed a little embellishing and a good dose of good ol' crystal effects.

The tag is one of the die cuts included in the 6x6 pad.

I've been watching Band of Brothers again whilst creating the past few nights - I love this series, but I must say it about breaks my heart each and every time I watch it.

I'm forever indebted and grateful to those who willingly sacrifice their lives in service of God and country. And having an active serviceman as a brother....well you can imagine.

Thankfully, I'm back to my beloved (and already well watched) copy of Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre. It's beyond stunning and I'm absolutely taken with the score too.

Hope your week is going well my friends.
It's soooo good to be back.
Michey xxx

CARD DEETS:
STAMPS: PTI Friendship Jar Fillers and Summer Fillers, Mat Stack 4 Collection (tiny sentiment on label)
INKS: Memento London Fog; Distress Ink Tumbled Glass and Stormy Sky
CARDSTOCK/PATTERNED PAPER: PTI Stampers Select White; KaiserCraft Sweet Nothings 6x6 pad
OTHERS: Copics G40 & G82; PTI Buttons Ripe Avocado, Twine; KaiserCraft Pearls; SU Crystal Effects

WMS January 2012 Blog Hop

2012-01-17T22:27:00.003+11:00

Hello again.....

I hadn't planned on posting quite so quickly, but as I was blog-surfing this evening I came across Lynn's post on the Waltzing Mouse Blog about the monthly blog hop party.

The theme this month is "Sweet Things" and well I had to get inky straight away.

I immediately thought of the afternoon tea stamp set that I have and well....went from there.

And, again...my layout/card design is somewhat clean and simple for me, continuing with the current Online Card Class that I'm participating in. :)

And I thought I'd throw in a photo of me at the Rodeo in Goomeri on New Year's Eve. I really look like was I was having fun, hey. ;)

Thanks for stopping by.
See ya'll again soon.
Michey xxx

CARD DEETS:
Stamps: WaltzingMouse Afternoon Tea, Large Doily
Inks: Jenni Bowlin Speckled Egg; Tsukineko Versamark, Archival Brilliance Platinum Planet; Distress Ink Old Paper
Cardstock: PTI Stampers Select White
Others: Hero Arts Ultra Fine Embossing Powder; Copic B000; The Twinery Carribean Twine; PTI Button Spring Rain; Seam Binding

A New Year

2012-01-16T00:41:00.002+11:00

Hello my lovelies,

Are you all still here??
Thank you for sticking around during my many long absences in the past year.

As I want to give you the option to just look at my latest creation without having to read "my story", I'll post my update below.

I was quickly flipping through some challenge blogs this afternoon and happened upon this gorgeous new challenge over at Jay Gee's Nook. The picture is exquisite and I was inspired to get inky!!

I was quite taken with several of the actual photos and their contents and will more than likely create again based on this, but for today's card, I went with the overall colours represented here.

I've used one of my brand new Hero Arts 2012 stamps. I've had a love affair with all things Paris/French themed for a long time and so this stamp will see plenty of ink. I know I'm not alone in the "french" thing - there's been such an influx of parisian products on the market recently - my heart is so happy. :)

I'm a bit rusty with the ol' Blogger so am just going to list the items I used below. I'll practice using inlinkz and try that again for next time. ;)

I'm also linking this one into the Clean and Simple Classes that I'm following with Kristina, Jennifer, Julie and friends. I've joined every class these lovelies have had so far - and though I may not have participated in many of them, I've come away with valuable tips and learnt some new things. Well worth the few $$$ since I can't get to classes at any of the LSS's around here. This is based on the 3rd of Kristina's sketches from Day 1.

And sorry the photo's a bit dark - it's late at night here and I wanted to get my first post for 2012 up.

Michey xx

Card Deets:
Stamps: Hero Arts Newspaper Eiffel Tower CL417 and Paris CL325
Inks: Distress Inks: Chipped Sapphire, Walnut Stain, Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint, Old Paper, Frayed Burlap and Scattered Straw (Sentiment panel); Versamark
Cardstock: PTI White Stampers Select and Kraft
Other: Black Embossing Powder, PTI Enchanted Evening Button, The Twinery Buttercream Twine, EK Success Punch Dotted Scallop, Cuttlebug Houndstooth Embossing Folder, Cuttlebug

You know it was a challenging year for me, a year I was grossly unprepared for. But I have survived it. I am in a much better place these days than I have been for some time. And I believe that I have emerged a stronger, more compassionate person as a result.

Last year started with my family and friends being impacted in every possible way in Queensland's devastating floods in the beginning of 2011. I was also caught up in them as well as I was visiting home with my Mama. I'll never have words to describe quite how it felt to see the area I grew up in and loved ones devastated in this unprecedented manner. Nevertheless, we've just passed the first anniversaries and life goes on. Some have been able to make grounds in getting on already and have resumed building/restoration works, but there are many who are waiting and waiting and waiting on dollars (either from Insurers or the Government) and resources before any work can even begin.

Then as you know my beloved Mama became quite unwell in early April and passed away after giving it quite a fight at the end of June. She's was very peaceful and went quietly in her sleep and I'm grateful that she is no longer struggling or suffering, but I miss her bunches. It's a loss that one can never fully recover from - how can you when a parent leaves forever, but life does go on. It is coming up to 7 months since she passed and the tears don't fall every day anymore. Though they are never far away and are triggered by the slightest thing; a remembered moment, a familiar smell or sight....or even just the fact that I miss her so much.

Then some dear friends lost a much wanted baby in early August and we had the precious wee girl's funeral on the same day that my family marked 10years since my niece, Katelyn, had passed away.

And just as I was preparing myself to face my first Christmas without Mum, a very dear friend lost his life quite unexpectedly in early December. Really threw me, I have to say. Steve was like a Dad to me, I even called him 'Papa Bear', and he'd been there for me through life's up and downs over the years. His funeral, however, was such a celebration of a life lived fully that we were able to comfort ourselves in knowing that Steve loved life and all with 100% of his being and that we will see him again one day. He always had a joke and a kind word ready for anyone who crossed his path and that has challenged me to do the same.

I passed a quiet Christmas with some very dear friends. Both my brother and sister were away with their respective in-laws for the first time and though I was invited to travel with both of them, I declined. I wanted to be near home and have a low-key day. Started with a lovely service at my church where I was surrounded by some very dear, long-time friends and then the rest of my day was spent in the company of a husband and wife who have been very dear friends for well over 19years now.

I managed a trip up to Queensland for the New Year and saw in 2012 on a friend's farm, almost in the middle of nowhere. Was perfect! One of the local towns had a rodeo on during the day and into the evening and I went along with a friend. Was a hoot! Has been a very long time since I attended a rodeo and I loved every dusty minute of it. Its an annual event, though last year it was cancelled as the grounds were under inches/metres of water!!

So 2012 is here and I'm resolved to throw myself headfirst into all that it holds. I'm hoping the highs far outweigh the lows this year and I'm expecting so many good things to happen, not just to me but to all those I love too.

And I've been busy the past few weeks in re-organising my studio and am almost there! It was in such a state having been moved a few times last year. And with all that was going on I just never got my act into gear to get it sorted. I'm fairly sure I've got some serious culling to do....one of the things I did was make an inventory of all the stamp sets, dies, inks, tools, markers, etc that I have and seriously - I think I have more than one person could ever use in their lifetime. I think I'll start removing those things that I no longer use or am not likely to use again and start giving them away or selling them so I can then make room for more! Ha! It's a never-ending cycle isn't it?

I promise I'll do a studio post soon so you can see where my craft space came from and the transitions it's made to get to what it is today.

And 2012 will now see me blogging more. I started creating again late in 2011 for an advent swap I was a part of and will show you those soon.

I'm itching to get inky more and more these days and am branching out into off the page and canvas/mixed media art too. Such fun getting all inky and painty. The best possible therapy.

Hope you are all well, my sweet friends.
I'll try and pop around your blogs more often too.

To those of you who messaged me or sent me cards - I apologise for not being by to personally say thank you...I will, I promise - it's just taken me longer to get back on my feet than I thought. Thank you for your kind words and prayers and hugs sent across the miles - they are very precious to me and shall never be forgotten.

Much love,
Michey xxx

Lawnscaping Blog Hop: Celebrate The Holidays

2011-09-09T14:00:00.004+10:00

Welcome!

Welcome to the first ever Lawnscaping Blog Hop! I’m so glad you’ve made it here! You’re doing so well getting through the hop.

The theme for the hop is Holiday projects!! What’s not to love about the holidays.

You should have come my way from Samantha M’s blog. Wasn't her creation so cute!

The blog hop was open to any holiday: Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, etc. Eeek, I discovered I don’t have any Lawn Fawn sets that match any of these so I had to get a little creative and I ended up going with Valentine’s Day. Probably haven't seen too many for this particular holiday along the hop, right? :)

Will be going shopping when the hop is done to add to my Lawn Fawn collection.

The hop runs from Friday, September 9th - Sunday, September 11th! Make sure you comment on all of the blogs along the way as there are LOTS of prizes to be won! All the details can be found on the Lawnscaping home page.

There are some fabulous sponsors for this hop too. Lawn Fawn are providing some fabulous prizes and another sponsor is Mold Muse.

You’re next stop along the hop is Marie / Legojenta‘s blog. I know she’ll have something fabulous to show us as well.

If you get a little lost along the way, don't worry! Head back to Lawnscaping to see the hop order and the yummy prize information!

Thanks for stopping by.

Have a lovely weekend.

Michey xx

I stamped the typewriter from Just My Type onto white cardstock and coloured it in with Copics (see below for colours). I then created my sentiment for the typewriter and stamped it in Memento Tuxedo Black and Jenni Bowlin Cough Syrup inks onto Vellum Cardtock and set them aside to dry. I stamped the 2nd part of my sentiment in VersaMark onto the bottom of the trimmed down white top note diecut and embossed with white EP. I then stained the whole piece with Barn Door Distress Stain and set it aside to dry. Once this was done I flicked water all over the stain to create the mottled effect. Dried this with my heat gun and then attacked it with my distress tool. Wrapped Pure Poppy twine around it and tied a button on top. I used a Glue Dot to keep this in place. Then I used low profile dimensional adhesive to mount this to the black top note diecut and then used the same dimensionals to adhere this to the card base. I had swiped Barn Door Distress Ink around this prior to sticking the mat down.

I glued the vellum sentiment over the top of the typewriter and curled it for some added dimension.

Created a sentiment for the inside of the card and stamped this in Memento ink as well. Found a random love heart in my stash and added this on either side.

Ah....I love it. :)

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Additional items used:

Stampin Up Top Note Die; Stampin Up Whisper White & Basic Black Cardstock, Papertrey Ink White Notecard, Pure Poppy Twine & Button

Copics Used: W1, W3, W5 & R32, R37

Feel Better Soon

2011-09-05T13:23:00.001+10:00

Happy Monday! And I have the day off. Was planning on doing a bit of work and then off to visit with my sister and the family, but they are down with a gastro bug - ugh! Cannot imagine how much fun that must be when you have two little dudes in nappies and you're suffering as well. :( Sad Aunty face.

So instead, I've cleaned up the craft space and will now do my work so I can play later. I'm participating in a sweet little blog hop later on in the week and I have a few ideas rolling around in my head.

Spring is really starting to show itself in my neighbourhood these days. The blossom trees are full of sweet little blooms and the magnolias are bursting with gorgeous abundance. :)

And the dreaded hayfever season is beginning to make itself known. Ha!

Anyway, here's a wee card I made for a dear friend who has been suffering with a lingering injury recently.

I adore these Pure Innocence images and got a few of their big sister, a la Modes, in the post last week!

Eek, cannot wait to get them inky and play with them.

Please excuse the Copic colouring on this wee poppet, my skills are a little rusty. And I realised that I diecut the image a little bit crooked. Ah well, its the thought that counts, right?!

I hand coloured the seam binding and clear rhinestones with a Y32 Copic marker.

This photo doesn't show it, but I also used my lemon spica to add a sparkly dot to every brown spot on the paper piecing and a silver spica to colour the umbrella handle and silver tab on top of the umbrella.

Im also trialling the inLinkz tabs down the bottom. I've seen them on so many blogs and loved the idea - a wee bit of effort to set up, but not too bad. If someone can tell me how to link up Papertrey images without them turning black (which I'm sure is a security feature of their shop and I understand that, but I am linking it back to their store) then help me out, puhlease. Got a wee bit frustrated with that one.

Hope you are having a lovely day where you are.

Lots of love,

Michey xxx

Additional Info:

Sentiment is from PTI's Scattered Showers Additions stamp set; Card base is from PTI's scored notecard set (great value, though smaller than the standard Aussie C6 size); Die cut is PTI's Mat Stack 4; Patterned Paper is PTI Happy Spots 8x8 Paper Pad; Image stamped on PTI's Stampers Select White Cardstock

Copics Used: E02, E00, E13, E70, E77, Y32 + Spica: Silver and Lemon

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Male Cards

2011-08-28T00:30:00.001+10:00

Hey friends,

Just a short post to let you know I'm slowly finding my way back to this wonderful world of crafting. I have done a bit of creating recently as I needed a couple of cards. However, I think my MoJo is currently still on a break - so I'm thankful ya'll are around to inspire me and get the creative juices working.

I have a dear friend from my ol' school days who has been especially kind to me and my family during this season of grief and loss. I had lost touch with him for many, many years and we really only connected mid last year after an 18 year absence. Anywho, I missed his birthday earlier this year and then he was kind enough to host me and some of my family when we headed back to Qld for Mum's funeral, so I needed both a birthday card and a thank you card to send with his gifts recently.

The birthday card was fun - my first ever attempt at emboss-resist!! I can't believe I haven't done this before now either - but the past year I've accumulated a lot of crafting stuff (alright, hoarded) and haven't really done all that much creating. Hoping that is gonna change here on out.

This card was inspired by the final week of the recent Summer Card Class run by Kristina Werner and Jennifer McGuire. I had been so excited about participating that I signed up the very first moment I heard about the classes. Unfortunately, Mum was at her sickest and passed away right in the middle, so this was the only chance I got to participate. I've signed up for Jennifer's next Inspiration Showcase classes though and can't wait to begin.

The thank you card I made was CASE'd and inspired by Claire from Waltzing Mouse Stamps. As soon as I saw her card here, I knew I wanted to recreate it myself and I think I really need to have another go as this looks nothing like Claire's masterpiece. Still, I love this set and how she has given us all the elements needed to create the layers and depth to this card.

I think that's enough from me for now. :)

Catch you all again soon. I'll try and find some time to pop by all your blogs and leave some love soon. I do miss you my dear friends.

Hope you are all well.
Much love, Michey xxx

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CARD DEETS:
Stamps: Hero Arts Lucious Ledger CG302, Happy Definition CG269 (background); Paper Smooches Birthday Buddies (sentiment)
Inks: Distress Inks: Broken China, Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint, Old Paper (distressing); Versamark
Cardstock/Paper: SU Sage Shaddow & Whisper White
Other: PTI Banner Dies, EK Success Punch; Twinery Honeydew Twine; White EP, Misc Silver Bullet dots, Glue Dots, Ranger Blending Tools

THANK YOU CARD DEETS:
Stamps: WMS Way Out West, Back In The Saddle (sentiment)
Inks: Distress Ink Fired Brick, Aged Mahogany, Stormy Sky, Mustard Seed, Frayed Burlap (background text); SU Basic Grey, Memento Tuxedo Black
Cardstock/Paper: PTI Kraft & Stampers Select White
Other: Ranger Blending Tools, Paper Snips, Dimensional Adhesive

I'll be back soon.

2011-07-04T22:35:00.000+10:00

Hey dear friends.

I'm not apologising for not being around again as I've just reviewed my last few posts and it seems that that's all I've been doing.

You all know life has had it's ups and downs and challenges for me in recent times and I'm so grateful you've stuck with me so far.

I haven't created in the longest time and, whilst I think I will real soon, I'm taking a time out for myself now.

You'll remember from my last post that I mentioned that my Mama was ill and had herself a wee heart attack. Well, she was home for 10days before she had another on 29th April and was readmitted to hospital. She didnt really recover well from this second event and though rehab was attempted it was pretty evident that her body didn't have the strength needed to recover this time.

My heart breaks as I write these words, but my darling Mama left this life in the early hours of Sunday, 26th June 2011. I was sleeping by her side and will be forever grateful that I was able to be there as she entered into eternal life.

We buried Mum alongside her parents in Kingaroy in country Qld last week and I had my first day back at work today. I'm so thankful for the memories I have from being Mum's carer for the past 2-3 years, but this now also leaves me with a huge empty place in my life. Crafting is my sanctuary and I know I'll find my way back into my studio soon, but for now I'm going to focus on just putting one foot in front of the other and getting through each day.

It's also wee Charlie-boy's 1st birthday on Thursday and I'll try to grab some updated photos of the little dudes for you. Can you believe that little munchkin is 1 already.

So, for now, dear friends, I hope you are all well and happy. I'll see you soon.
Much love,
Michey xx

I'm Still Around

2011-04-20T21:53:00.002+10:00

Hey friends,

Sorry I haven't been back here to post for a while. Life keeps getting in the way of my blogging. :(

For those of you who haven't heard my darling Mama had herself a wee heart attack almost 2 weeks ago. She was quite poorly for a few days, but has been improving in strength again during the past week. I took her home from hospital last night and, other than being quite tired, she seems to be doing okay. The cardiac team looking after her were planning on getting some surgery organised for her, but, sadly, she has too many other complications to make this a viable option. All about keeping her comfortable and managing her symptoms these days. Sadly, her treatment is considered to be palliative as any surgery to correct the multiple problems she has would more than likely prove to be fatal. We're unsure just how many days she has left here in this life with us....could be 1, 10, 100 or more. I'm all about making the most of those moments that count and making sure I have no regrets when that day does arrive when she is no longer with us. As much as I thought I was prepared for that day, these recent events have shown me you can never really prepare yourself to say goodbye to someone you love.

Plus my gorgeous housemate got married at the beginning of last week and it was truly one of the most stunning weddings I've been to in quite some time. I had a ball and loved watching my dear, faithful friend say I do to the love of her life. They are currently lying on a beach somewhere in Tahiti adjusting to married life. :)

And now I'm sorting out my home. I haven't moved - but there are changes happening here now that my roomie has moved into her new house with her new husband. I have changed bedrooms and have ordered some new furniture and changed the layouts of the living spaces. Still a wee bit of sorting and settling to do and then the hunt for a new roomie begins. :)

In addition, our Clinic has been the busiest in these first four months of the year than I've experienced in all of my 10yrs of working there!! Great for the bottom line (ie $$$), but given I work in a Breast Cancer Clinic, bad news that we've been so busy. And its not just us, the other Breast Surgeons at our Clinic have been quite frantic too.

I have been creating and playing with some new stamp sets, just haven't had a moment to photograph them or get them up here on the ol' blog-o. However, we have a lovely 5 day weekend ahead of us here what with Easter and Anzac Day and I have nothing much planned, except for an Easter service or two and attending a Dawn Service on Anzac Day. So hoping to get plenty of crafting time and grabbing a moment to take some photos of my creations whilst the sun is up. I'll post as soon as I can.

I was fortunate enough to attend a mixed media class with Nathalie Kalbach at my LSS on Monday and I still have the glimmer mist ink under my nails to prove it!! I'm not entirely happy with my creation but I LOVED playing with gesso and mists/inks to create a canvas. Watch this space for more of this. :) Plus I sat next to a new, totally delightful friend who flew up from Adelaide just to attend this class!

Its been quite a chaotic start to 2011. But I'm still here, still have my smile on my face and a hug and kind word for anyone who happens across my path. Just need to remember that I need to look after myself too, so I'm around for the long haul as well. And crafting is my first stop for "therapy" and "me" time - so hopefully I'll be here more often than not in the days/weeks/months ahead.

Happy Easter to all of you, my lovely friends.

Blessings. Michey xxx

PS: Since I missed my 1yr Blogaversary last year and I have a birthday coming up....I'm hoping to get a "candy" post put together in the next little while too. Mwah!!

HB to my Roomie

2011-03-29T19:03:00.002+11:00

Hey lovelies,

Hope you are having a great day. Its Tuesday evening over here and I'm just about to pack up and head home from a big day in the Clinic. I know some of you have had snow recently (I wish) and are so over it and looking forward to spring/summer finally arriving, but here, our days have just started to get a little cooler and the nights a bit fresher and I'M TOTALLY LOVING IT!

I actually had to hunt out my favourite, comfy, 'home' cardigan and a pair of socks on Sunday evening. :)

Here's a card I created for my dear Roomie's birthday. She's a massive fan of GREEN and so each year I've used that as a starting place for ideas.

She's the person who introduced me to this crazy ol' cardmaking world more than 2 years ago. She's also getting married in 13 sleeps (11th April) and is moving out - so I'm gonna miss her big time, but at the same time am so mega excited for this next chapter in her life. Her husband to be is a darling and they are sooooo cute together.

I'm also entering this into Joy's current challenge. Again I've used Lucy as my inspiration and person to honour. I find myself drawn to her BLOG all the time and have used THIS as my card to focus on.

I"m also entering this into Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday Challenge #8 - Blending Technique!! My blending on the PTI doily is appalling!! I'm definitely going to give this another go this week and hopefully do better. I was pushed for time to get this card done and ready to give with my gift, otherwise I'd have binned that doily and started over. I also sponged around the edge of the dress form die and all over the stand to give it a little definition.

Anywho, that's enough from me for now. I hope to be back a little later this week with another post. I'm off to see Cyndi Lauper with one of my besties on Thursday night!! That should be fun - not that I actually know any of her latest music, I'm hoping she cracks out the good ol' classics - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun and True Colours - then I'll make sure to sing as loudly and crazily as I can. Heeeeeee.

Big hugs lovelies.

Michey xxx

CARD DEETS:

Cardstock/Paper: SU Kiwi Kiss, SU Whisper White, MME Stella & Rose

Stamps: PTI Signature Series: Dress Form (Sentiment)

Inks: Memento Rich Cocoa, Distress Inks Old Paper

Other: PTI Parisian Lace Die; PTI Signature Series: Dress Form Die, PTI Chartreuse Button, PTI Twine

Chupa's Sketchbook Saturday Challenge #3 & Jay Gees Nook Challenge #5

2011-03-25T00:13:00.006+11:00

Yes....It's me again!! Two posts in one day.

I managed to grab a few moments this week to create. I'm almost done creating my new studio/cave and my mojo is bubbling on hold until I can really let loose in there. :)

I whipped up another card on Monday using Chupa's sketch for this week which can be found here.

And I used Jay Gee's Nooks Current Challenge #5 here for my colour inspiration. (Plus I was absolutely busting to use some of my new MME paper!!)

I'm not sure yet if this is the birthday card for my sister....or one for the stash.

I'll pop back here soon and add the card deets.

Now it's time for la-la land for me. I'm supposed to be up at 7am to head to a conference and it's already 12:30am!! Eeek.

Michey xxxx

CARD DEETS:

Joy's Honouring Challenge

2011-03-24T18:15:00.000+11:00

Hey folks,

A quick post today as I'm uber busy.

The sweet Joy of Less Is More blog-o had a week of honouring some of her favourite inspiring bloggers last week. Did you stop by.

I loved it and I loved the idea.

Anyway, at the end of her week she set up a challenge for us to participate in as well.

All of the blogs that Joy highlighted last week are in my Top 10 of faves to pop on by as well. So I picked another, sweet Lucy, to honour with my creation. I love Lucy's blog and every card/creation she posts is fabulous.

This card of hers caught my eye and I used it as the inspiration behind this card I have made (because I've needed a stash of sympathy/thinking of you cards just recently, sadly).

Thanks Lucy for the inspiration....and thanks Joy for the challenge and the motivation to get creating.

See y'all again real soon.

Michey xxx

Card Deets:

Cardstock/Paper: SU Crumb Cake, PTI Vintage Cream

Stamps: PTI YOTF: Lily of The Valley (May)

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black (Image & Sentiment), SU Basic Grey (Sponging)

Others: SU Kraft Taffeta Ribbon (Retired), Button from stash, PTI Rustic Cream Twine

Copic Candy!!

2011-03-09T18:25:00.002+11:00

The lovely Lisa is about to open a brand new online store!! Heeee!! So exciting for her.

And to celebrate she is giving away a few (ie: LOTS) of Copics to a lucky candy winner.

Check out her new store blog for more details and to sign up to maybe win. xx

YAY! for Birthdays

2011-03-01T17:17:00.005+11:00

Hello again,

Thank you for all the lovely comments left on my previous post, they mean so much. The rebuilding process for Qld (both in SE and Nth Qld) following the floods and cyclone as well as the fires in the Perth area will take quite some time, given the vast area of destruction and devastation. And some fairly significant storms/showers/rain patterns continue to roll through the SE area as well. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers. Also, for our neighbours in NZ following last week's earthquake. There are still some significant aftershocks hitting the Christchurch area, hampering recovery efforts and adding to the fear and distress of those in the area.

Now...onto happier things. Here's another card I made recently for a birthday.

I purchased this Penny Black stamp from my "new" LSS and couldn't wait to get it inky.

And, I remembered to stamp this one on watercolour paper as I was planning to colour with my Distress Inks and blender pens.

I used this super cute paper from Prima's Jack'n'Jill collection as my inspiration for colours and it all came together from there. The 6x6 page already has the cream distressing printed around its borders, however, as this was cut to fit the Australian A6 card size (1/2 of an A5) I had to add to the distressing by swipping my PTI Vintage Cream around the "new" edge.

I've been guilty of hoarding several packs of Thickers for some time now....and here I have actually used them for the first time!! I likey....and need to accept that when you buy these lovely things, you need to use them and if they run out or you don't have the right letters left....you need to buy more!! Heeeee...my note to self for the day.

The only thing I'm not keen on with this card is the shadowing I added under the stool on the image. I really need to practice getting that right. I also purchased a new circle cutter, but need to start driving it a bit better. I don't tend to waste to much paper/ribbon/DSP etc, when I'm creating so I stamped this wee fellow in the corner of my watercolour sheet, however, the circle cutter really needs the paper to be 'grounded' on every side whilst cutting. The image moved a bit and ended up not being cut perfectly along the lower left of the circle. Out came the distress tool (actually I just use an old craft knife for this) and a few swipes to roughen up the edge around the entire image and voila! no evidence of crooked cutting left to be seen. Really going to have to work to overcome my reluctance to stamp in the middle of a sheet of paper!!

I'm awaiting some new stamps/papers/dies from PTI, Hero Arts, MFT and Sweet November Stamps to arrive any day now!! Eeeee.......might need to go home and clear away the items I've been using during the past week or two so I can get inky with the new things when they arrive.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs,

Michey xxxx

CARD DEETS:

Stamp: Penny Black (I'll come back and add this stamp's name once I get home)

Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa (image), Tim Holtz Distress Inks (various - watercolouring)

Cardstock/Paper: SU Kraft (base); Prima Jack'n'Jill 6x6 DSP; SU Blush Blossom (Retired - matted underneath image); Watercolour Paper (A5 pad purchased from art store)

Miscellaneous: American Craft Thickers; SU Very Vanilla Taffeta Ribbon; PTI Vintage Cream Ink; Circle Cutter

Hello Friends

2011-02-24T19:33:00.003+11:00

Hey lovely blog buddies,

Sorry its been so long in between posts. What can I say. Life has been busy and full, some good and some really not good.

All I can say is.....thank you for sticking with me in my absences.

And for those of you who have used other methods to contact me and encourage me....bless you!!

It truly means the world to me.

Last year ended in a frenzy of busyness. Work practically took everything I had to offer and then some, but I made it to Christmas with my mind and my heart intact, even if the body was a bit bruised from the stampede.

I worked through the Christmas/New Year period as I had planned my holidays for early January.

I took my dear Mama home to Queensland to visit our family and friends up there.

And we made it through five days of solid, heavy, rain at Noosa on the coast.

After all my planning and scheming to get Mama up there, we were not really able to see all that I had planned as there was so much flooding going on.

It truly did not let up. Then we ventured up to Toowoomba, which is about 20mins from my hometown of Oakey.

Yes....we were there when the floods came through. We were safe, thankfully, though our room was flooded and my suitcase was soaked through.

We were unable to leave when we had planned though as all roads around Toowoomba were cut by flood water or pavement damage.

Whilst I was incredibly stressed whilst I was there, partly because I was unable to contact my family and friends and partly because it was stressful for Mama and her frail health, in hindsight, given what my family has lost and had to endure, it was so insignificant.

Sadly, I know some who lost their lives in the floods as well as too many who lost property, houses, possessions, livelihoods!!

My heart is broken for you Queensland and, if it was truly within my ability at this moment, I'd be back up there in a heartbeat helping out.

So, I haven't had much time to create lately, though I've managed to produce a card or two when the need arises, it's usually under pressure and I don't have the luxury of sitting and creaing just for the fun of it at the moment.

My roommate is getting married in just over 6 weeks and then I'll be changing bedrooms and creating my very own little crafty cave in our garage!! I'm too excited. A space of my own to set up and leave up for crafting!! Yay. I won't have to put everything away when I'm done and will have everything there at my fingertips to use. Double Yay!!

Anyway, I'm sure you stopped by to see a card, right??!!

Here's one I made last year as a gift for a gorgeous girlfriend.

Kraft and black - does it get more elegant than that??

Be hard to imagine. :)

I've stamped the chandelier images with Versamark and then embossed with black EP directly onto some printed Kraft DP by Basic Grey.

I added some pleated Kraft coloured grosgrain ribbon I picked up at Spotlight and then wrapped this and made a bow with a thin strip of black satin ribbon.

Adhered it to a Kraft base and there you have it.

I hope to blogging a little more regularly from now on and certainly/definitely so once I've made the move and set up my new little "happy" place.

In fact, one of the reasons I haven't been blogging is that our ISP at work blocked access to Google and blogger back in late October. This meant that I was unable to log in to view my own blog, create new posts and leave comments on other blogs as well. I could have done it from home, but honestly, I get home exhausted most evenings from work and by the time I've done dinner, etc., I did not want to go sit in front of a computer again.

I've constantly checked access at work and yesterday discovered - to my absolute delight - that I can now log in again!! Whooopppeeeee!!

So hopefuly that means I'll be back to some regular sort of posting and updating of this ol' Blog-o of mine. Mind you - this is ususally done at the end of the day so we'll see. Its already after 8pm on Thursday evening here now!! Eeeee.

Thanks for sticking with me to the end of this looooooong post.

Much love.

Michey xxxx

A Card for the Blokes :)

2010-10-07T17:18:00.005+11:00

Helloooooo again :)

I'm back with another card to share. Confessions upfront first. I made this card for a birthday way back in June!!

A dear friend was celebrating 60 wonderful years of life in late June and I knew I had to make him an extra spesh card to mark the occasion. He has had a few health scares over the years and so every year he is here with us and doing well is a reason to go wild!! :)

As an "approaching mid-life" treat for himself he bought a beautiful, burnt-orange coloured Holden Monaro (GM/Opal Motors for all my non-Aussie readers) with which to transport himself and his gorgeous gal about town in.

The card took me a few days to get all the pieces together and a frantic search for the "right" buttons with which to finish the card. I absolutely loved it once I was done and the reactions from all those gathered at the party was very favourable too. More importantly the birthday boy took it home to frame and it now hangs in his study!! :)

This card was definitely a labour of love.

All I knew at the start was that it had to be in browns/oranges/rust colours and that I wanted to use the yummy car from PTI's Enjoy Your Ride stamp set. I had a look through the blog-o's and also at the PTI gallery and came upon this card by Michelle Wooderson. I copied her idea for the woodgrain stamp on some of the body of the car. Since I'd still had my heat embossing tool out from other crafty moments I decided to add lots of embossing embellishments to this card (no wonder it took me ages to get the whole thing together). The woodgrain was stamped in Choc Chip ink on Kraft paper and then clear embossed. Then I pulled out my Versamark Pen and applied it to the side mirrors and the headlight rims and bumper bar and then embossed all of these in silver. Used my neglected Copics to colour the orange panels and then, to finish off the the car (and only the car mind you...I still had the rest of the card to work on) I applied Crystal Effects to the windscreen and number plate to replicate glass. Of course, I touched the windscreen before it was completely set and had to apply another layer of CE. But wait, there's more......I touched it or 'bumped' it again!! Ha!! Three coats of CE later and I think the windscreen finally works and I left it alone out of harm's way for a whole day before touching it again. Though the CE made some of the ink run a wee bit, I reckon it just adds to the "rustic nature" of the bugmobile, doesn't it??

Some Verve Bountiful Backgrounds to the Really Rust cardstock, embossed of course, and we were gettin there.

The rest sort of all came together relatively easily but I didn't have any buttons that were "right" to finish the card. I hunted high and low - my stash, Mum's stash, Spotlight, Big W, Kmart and NADA!! Drama, drama, drama. I really felt the card needed something more so I tried Spotlight one more time and they had some new stock in!! Yippee. I eyeballed the pearlised/metallic orange buttons to be an "exact" match and hoped they were close enough to not matter. Then saw these gorgeous coconut shell buttons and grabbed a couple of packs as well!! Got them home and they were exactly what I wanted and matched colour-wise like they were made for each other.

Some PTI twine and distressing around all the edges (can't remember which ink I used, sowwy). Matted onto cream cardstock and then choc chip and onto a final base of Kraft and Bob's your Uncle, we were done.

CARD DEETS:

Paper/Cardstock: SU Really Rust, Kraft, Chocolate Chip; Basic Gray Kraft 6x6 pad (label diecut underneath the car)

Stamps: PTI Enjoy The Ride, Verve Bountiful Backgrounds

Ink: SU Chocolate Chip; Memento Tuxedo Black (tyres); Versamark + Distress Ink

Others: Copics, Clear + Silver Embossing Powders, Buttons as described, PTI Rustic Jute Twine

And just in case you made it this far, here is a picture of the birthday boy's awesome cake with a replica of his Broom-broom on top. Plus a photo of the happy fella reading his card. :)

Did Ya Miss Me??

2010-09-19T11:51:00.004+10:00

Hello my long-lost blog darlings!! Actually, I'm the long-lost one, aren't I? hehe

How are you all? I'm good, just been busier than you could ever have imagined and had my focus off of all things creative/crafty in the recent weeks/months. Forgive me??

The little fellas are doing well. I hope to pop over and have afternoon tea with the dudes and their mum tomorrow afternoon. Yay!! I haven't actually seen anywhere near enough of the family lately and can't believe wee Charlie is 10weeks old already!! What?? Where?? When?? How did that happen??

Since I last posted I have made a total of 2 cards. Yep, count them......one.....two!! That's it. Seriously, two cards in three months - that's outrageous and way tooo sad. And only one of the cards I'm about to share is one of those two. The other I'll save for my next post. It was spesh enough to need its own write-up. :)

And, for the record, just because I haven't been creating doesn't mean I haven't been buying!! I've added an air compressor and attachment for my Copics so I can do airbrushing (thankfully, some lovely peeps in my world contributed too so its part b'day pressie - phew, it was a lot of $$$).....and lots of yummy new DSP's (I actually cannot physically walk past a new 6x6 pad without purchasing it.......and am NOT interested in any 12 step programs for this, lol). And have almost the entire range of Distress Ink pads now. Three more colours to go and I'll be there. And the new SU catalogue has just launched here in Aus - so there are a couple of new stamp sets and (FINALLY) Crumb Cake (aka Kraft) ink!! WooHoo!! And now I really need to get started on this year's Christmas cards. Someone kindly (or not) shared today that it is only 96 days til Christmas!!

Anyway...that's enough words from me for now, right?? Onto a couple of cards right?!!

This is a card I made for a dear friend, Pri, for her birthday. I whipped this up in about an hour (maybe two, including all the creative processes that go on in my head before I get started....layout, colours, papers, etc....). It came together reasonably well and quickly considering how little I've been playing recently.

She is expecting her first wee bubba in a couple of months and wanted pj's for her birthday, so my roomie and I went in together to get her some truly yummy pj's that she can wear in these next "growing months" and thereafter as well.

They were in pinks and blues and lilacs, so I kinda went with that for my colour choices. And I stamped the damasky-type flourishy thingy on the envelope too to tie it all in together as well as the wrapping paper, which of course I didn't photograph. :(

The photos of this card were taken on my new iPhone 4.0 and I'm so in love with it!! The camera is soooooo much better than on my ol' iPhone 3G......as you can see in the photos of my next card below. I promise to only use my phone camera when I 'forget' to take shots with my DSLR before giving my cards away though. I was recently given a white photography tent too and I can not wait to try it out. Yay. :)

My dear ol'd friend Les has had another birthday. I can't believe I've been blogging long enough to now be showing you birthday cards for friends for a new year. Last year's card was a CASE of one of Julee Tilman's Verve creations, but this year's was a card I made way ahead of time for her. I made her card before I made her husband's, though her birthday is two months after his. (Jeff's card will be in my next post as it was rather spesh.)

I wanted a go at resist embossing and went with my ol' favourite Upsy Daisy. I paired it with Kraft and PTI's Hawaiian Shores ink, paper & ribbon. This also came together well and I was so happy that an idea I had in my head actually turned out much the way I had planned.

And there you have it. Not gonna say sorry for being away so long as I also can't promise it won't happen again. We're heading into our busiest time of year at work in the Clinic and I have a couple of "events" between now and Christmas as well. More about those later.

Love to hear from you and I'm so happy I've managed to post for you, my faithful friends.

Much love,

Michey xxxx

Pri's Birthday Card:

Cardstock: SU Mellow Moss, Pale Plum, Perfect Plum; Basic Grey Kioshi

Ink: SU Perfect Plum, Pale Plum

Stamps: Kaisercraft Lilac Avenue, PTI Signature Greetings

Others: SU Mellow Moss Taffeta Ribbon (discontinued), Kaisercraft Rhinestones, SU Top Note Die

Lovely Les's B'day Card:

Cardstock: SU Kraft, PTI Dotty Biscotti

Ink: Versamark, PTI Hawaiian Shores

Stamps: SU Upsy Daisy, Hero Arts Friends (background)

Others: Clear Embossing Powder, PTI Hawaiian Shores Satin Ribbon & Twine, Random buttons from stash. SU Top Note Die.

I've just realised that I've used the Top Note Die on both cards. Totally random and not intentional. :)

And.....just a little whisper to you, my fave peeps, I've got some candy coming up too, to celebrate my first year of blogging (even though that was a month ago). Stay tuned. xxx

I haven't been around again...

2010-07-09T10:17:00.004+10:00

...but I promise I have a really, really, really good (gorgeous) reason.

Well make that two really good and gorgeous reasons.

My baby sister (who's not really much of a baby anymore) had another gorgeous little fella on Wednesday night!!

So, introducing the newest little man in my life .....

Charlie Maverick, born 7/7/10 at 1849hrs. Isn't he just yummy. *sigh*

I think it very safe to say my heart is in a puddle at his feet. He's almost identical to his big brother, which means we have two spunkalicious dudes on our hands.

Even though it was my sister doing all the hard work having a baby (and it was hard until the labour stage), I've been anxiously waiting for the call that she was going in to hospital for the past three weeks. Charlie was due around 24-27th June but the little monkey had his own opinion about when his birthday would be. I've had an overnight bag packed and rolling around in the boot of my car for weeks!! So glad I can wear my boots again, lol. :)

I was on call because Charlie has a big brother, Cameron Henry, aka Cam, who is 19months of gorgeous, little manliness.

Jo was finally admitted on Monday night to start inducement so I had a sleepover with Cam Monday night and then spent all day Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon/night over there too. He goes to day care a couple of days each week to hang with his friends, but I loved getting there to pick him up and coming home and playing and doing the nighttime routine with him.

He loves his shower (not bath, shower!!) and I think it very safe

to say that I love him more than I ever imagined I could. His poor mummy missed him sooooooo badly as she didn't get to see him until Thursday afternoon, a total of three days without her big boy!! And I also now know what IgglePiggle, UpsyDaisy and MakkaPakka means. :)

And here he is rocking the fluffy hair thing after his shower.

Anyways, this has been my focus for the past few days/weeks/months. I never thought poor Charlie was gonna arrive, but he did and is the picture of health. My amazing sister went home from hospital last night (would have been sooner but she waited until after we had visited). Less than 24hrs after giving birth and she wants to go home 'coz she's fine and well and is bored!! Ha!! Last time I think we'll hear her say that for a while.

So there you have it. Now I have three nieces and two nephews!! There is an abundance of spunky little peeps in my world and I LOVE IT!!

I promise I'll be back soon with a few cards to share.

Lots of sloppy Auntie hugs n kisses. Michey xxx

A Girly Card

2010-06-20T14:37:00.002+10:00

Hey lovelies,

Thought I'd best keep up with some semi regular posts. I don't know how I manage to run out of hours every day....eek!! In the last 2 weeks I've made a total of 14 cards.....but then finding the time to photograph them in daylight and then edit and upload them with some text, that's what is getting away from me at the moment, I'm sorry. Forgive me?? ;)

Here's another card I made for my friend's birthday. Can you believe I still have not handed her gift over to her yet. We are both a wee bit too busy at the moment. I'm having problems firming up any plans right at this moment as my dear ol' baby sister is due to have bubs #2 any moment now (she's officially due on Thursday, 24th) and I'm on standby for looking after bubba #1 when she and her hubs go into labour. My goal whilst I have Cameron to myself, is to get his wee cute self to say Auntie!! He's almost 19mths old now and has mastered several other words, including Elmo, so I reckon being able to address is other most favourite person, ie Auntie Michey, by her title is next on the list. Wish me luck.

When I made these cards for my friend, I wanted them to all be different, some girly-girl, some more manly ones, some birthday, some thank you and some for whatever she wanted to use em for.

This is one of the more girly-girl ones and is probably suitable for just any ol' occasion, though I think it qualifies as a birthday card too.

I've grabbed a piece of my beloved BG Porcelain paper and simply matted it onto some SU Blush Blossom card. Used a PTI mat stack die to cut the sentiment panel and then stamped it with both SU Blush Blossom (floral pattern) and PTI Sweet Blush inks. Some reinker used to "re-dye" my white taffeta ribbon into Blush Blossom and a couple of Kaisercraft rhinestones and I was done.

Hope you are having a lovely weekend. Mine's been great - though I've watched more sport on the telly these past few days than I have all year so far!! Watching the mighty Maroons stomp all over the Blues on Wednesday night (Yay!! 5 in a row for Qld), then the V8's were on yesterday, followed by the Wallabies in the early evening and then I just had to stay up and cheer for the Socceroos in their redeeming game against Ghana in the World Cup last night. Wowsers!! I'm not usually one who generally watches a lot of sport, especially on TV, but it seems that there's a fair bit on right now. And Wimbeldon is just around the corner, sheesh. I can see lots of crafting and colouring happening in front of the telly in my near future. :)

Catch ya again soon. xxxx Michey xxxx

CARD DEETS:

Stamps: SU Vintage Vogue, PTI Signature Greetings

Ink: SU Blush Blossom, PTI Sweet Blush

Cardstock/Paper: SU Blush Blossom, Whisper White, Basic Grey Porcelain 6x6 pad

Others: PTI Mat Stack 1 die, SU Whisper White Taffeta Ribbon dyed with Blush Blossom reinker, Kaisercraft Rhinestones

Wowsers....really....it's been a month??!!

2010-06-15T15:31:00.000+10:00

You've all been soooooo patiently waiting there in the background whilst I go on an unannounced mini-break from blogging!!

Sorry bleeps, it wasn't my intention to ignore you for so long, I'm still in shock that its been a month since I've blogged, wow!!

Anyway, I have been creating quietly in the background. Part of my reason for not being here is that the boss is away at work so I am on go-slow....took a week off myself and rested and relaxed and it was good. We only have 1-2 clinics each week at the moment instead of the usual 9 I have to wade through. I also managed to get a bit of a shocker of a head cold there at the end of my time off and that left me feeling a wee bit blurgh!! Plus our internet was down for just over a week at home!! I didn't think I would survive it, but somehow I did.

Anyways, I do have a card to show. A dear friend has recently had a significant birthday and as part of her gift I made her a collection of cards to use. Sadly I was still a little under the weather and couldn't make it to her party, and haven't been able to organise a time to give her her pressie.....so I'll post a few pics of the cards I made as the gift but leave her birthday card until I know that she has it in her hands. :)

I was desperate to use a few of my new stamp sets, so what you'll find in the following posts are several cards that all use a different set and different papers. I tried not to repeat myself with any of them.

I love, love, love this new set by PTI. So easy to whip up gorgeous "more masculine" themed cards in next to no time.

I've stamped the clouds directly onto the Kraft die. There is a matching die for the balloons but I chose to cut this out by hand and used dimensionals to give it some 'lift'. Stamp the sentiment, add a bit of my favorite new embellie (PTI Twine) and a button and the card was virtually done.

I think that's it for now. Will try and make it back tomorrow with another card to share. :)

Hope you are all well.

Hugs, Michey xxx

CARD DEETS:

Images: PTI Up, Up and Away

Paper/Cardstock: SU Kraft, SU Whisper White, Textured Cream (Riot!)

Inks: SU Blue Bayou, SU Real Red, Memento Rich Cocoa

Other: SU Top Note Die, PTI Cream Twine; PTI Button Enchanted Evening

Happy Mothers Day & Mojo Monday 137

2010-05-13T00:06:00.001+10:00

Hey lovelies,

I just wanted to pop by quickly and share the card I made for my Mama for Mother's Day this year. Will just be a quick post now so I can get the card uploaded and entered into this week's Mojo sketch challenge.

I'll come back some time tomorrow and add the details and share with you the gift I made for Mum this year.

Hoping you've all had a lovely weekend and those of you who are Mothers were honoured and blessed and loved on by your families today.

I've been feeling quite under par since last Thursday's Copic Certification day with Marianne Walker and Lori Craig......but I'm determined to not let it stop me or truly get a hold of me. :)

See ya tomorrow.

Hugs, Michey xxx

Mother's Day CARD DEETS:

Stamps: Verve Beautiful You

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper/Cardstock: SU Pink Pirouette Textured 12x12, Riding Hood Red; Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses 6x6 pad (background matt + pieced into vertical strip); Flourishes Classic White

Copics: 0 (Blender); R00, R37, R46, RV00, RV32

Others: SU Top Note Die, Riding Hood Red Taffeta Ribbon, Crystal Effects; Glue Dots

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Its tomorrow.....plus a few days, lol.

Sorry it took me a few days to get back here....work is busy and my mojo and motivation is visiting someone else at the moment. Heheh. Good news....whilst I'm not firing on all cylinders right now, I definitely haven't succumbed to the dreaded lurgies floating around. One of the downfalls of working in the hospital - there are innumerable nasties in the air I breathe all day long. Add to that the fact that the temp has taken a nosedive in the last day or two.....I'm actually feeling cold - didn't think it was ever gonna happen. Its forecast to get down to as low as 1C in some parts of Sydney tonight.....brrrr.

For Mother's Day this year I did two things, I took my dear Mama out for dinner and to see one of our favourites perform, Alfio. He's a youngish, classically trained Aussie/Italian singer with the most incredible voice!! I've seen him live 4 or 5 times now (and again next week before he heads to the US for 3 months) and each time its been a beautiful experience. Anyways, sorry for the tangent, I also decided to make Mum a pack of cards for her to use for the birthdays, etc that she has coming up. Usually she just tells me what she wants a week or two before she needs it and I have a bit of a panic in getting something ready. Now she has ten cards at her disposal to pick and choose and send out at her leisure.

And the good news is that SHE LOVED THEM ALL!!

Here they are (in no particular order....)

Card Deets:

I've used an A5 white card folded in half and kept the layout the same for to make it a little easier for me. I then picked the paper from each of the 6x6 pads that I wanted to use and stamped the image/sentiment in matching colours and added matching ribbon & embellies.

I'll list the 6x6 paper pads and inks I used below - if there is a particular card that you'd like to know the actual breakdown for .....just leave a comment asking or send me an email (the link is just under my bio.....up there, near the top). :)

Basic Grey: Kioshi, Eva, Ambrosia, Granola, Porcelain, Offbeat

KaiserCraft: Gypsy Sisters, Peachy Keen, Devonshire, Pack Your Bags

SU: Sage Shadow, Not Quite Navy, Tangerine Tango, Basic Grey, Bashful Blue, Purely Pomegranate, Blue Bayou, Perfect Plum, Regal Rose, Chocolate Chip, Kiwi Kiss, Wild Wasabi, Taken With Teal

Memento Tuxedo Black

Thanks for staying with me to the end. :) xxxxx

Mad For Markers & The Stamp Spot Combined Candy Giveaway!!

2010-05-03T12:32:00.003+10:00

The lovely Sammi and Marcia are having a joint candy between their two online stores. Wowsers!! There's over $150 worth of booty in this lovely little pot!!

Here's a list of just what's included:

8x8 Paper Pack from Making Memories Flutterby Range
Three Packs of Kaisercraft Rhinestones (Hot Pink, Turquoise, Silver)
Inky Impressions Stamp - Lili’s Chicks
Sarah Kay Stamp – Adele Enjoying Fresh Apples
Pot of Flowersoft, Fushia
Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Textile
Prima Say it in Pearls, Style 535650
Prima Dynasty Crystal Flower Centres
A Memento Black Ink Pad
And a $60 voucher to go towards your Copic Collection!!

And to get your name on the list to win takes a couple of easy steps and is really simple, but hurry, the candy closes on 15th May. It's also open to bloggers around the world, not just good ol' Australia.

Have a look at their blogs for more information. Mad For Markers and The Stamp Spot.

Hope the start of your week has been a good one (though I personally dislike Monday....blurgh). :)

Michey xxx

WMS 1st Anniversary & New Release

2010-05-01T13:16:00.009+10:00

HAPPY 1st ANNIVERSARY TO WALTZING MOUSE STAMPS

(Congrats Claire)

Heya lovelies,

I made another card!! Yay!! After last week's extravaganza where I made 9 cards my mojo disappeared for a wee while this week. Claire posted the sketch for the challenge two days ago and I was keen to play but was absolutely stumped for ideas. Partly because I have two of her label stamps, two christmas sets and the earth angel (which I've already used in a WMS blog hop) and others which make great backgrounds yet I couldn't come up with anything. Then I thought, why don't I get a start on my Christmas cards for 2010!! Duh!! So I did. I played around a little bit with colours and layout.....and ended up with this little beauty.

I actually pulled out my heat gun and embossed, can you believe it??!! I haven't embossed since before Christmas (and funny that I was also making Christmas cards at that time too, lol).

Anyways, hope you like my little creation. I've used Claire's sketch for my layout and this week's Play Date Cafe Challenge for the colours.

Can't wait for the release tonight (Ireland time) Claire. It looks to be your bestest ever!! Check it out on her blog peeps.

Thanks for peeking.

Michey xxx

CARD DEETS:

Stamps: MWS "Secret" Set

Ink: SU Sage Shadow, Bashful Blue, River Rock; Versamark

Paper/CardStock: Random Textured Off-White Card (from art shop); SU River Rock

Others: Iridescent Embossing Powder, Martha Stewart Snowflake Punch, Stickles "Stardust"

Monday Mania with TGF

2010-04-26T08:00:00.001+10:00

I'm totally honoured to be playing hostess this week for The Greeting Farm's Monday Mania challenge.

As my country stopped to honour our brave ANZACS yesterday, I decided to set the challenge based on the colour of the Army uniform, since its something I've been surrounded by since birth. My paternal grandfather, father and brother have all served in the Australian Army, with my brother currently still serving our great country.

I had created two cards for this challenge using other images, keeping with the colour scheme I had set but I wasn't entirely happy with them. I woke Friday morning knowing that the deadline for submission of my creation was close and had a card in mind. I spent the next 24hrs planning and strategising how to make it happen. I set to it Saturday afternoon and worked on the card base for hours!! The "forest" actually comprises about 5 different stamp sets using 8 different ink colours!! Stamping and blending the forest left the Kraft base really wet so I needed to let it dry a bit before I cut out the frame. I coloured Courage Ian during this time with Copics (of course) and then smudged him with choc chip ink for effect. I paper pieced his helmet with a camouflage print design I found via Google. I changed the colours with my Copics to better fit my colour scheme and then, after carefully cutting out the "forest window", I set about putting it all together. When finished, I applied Crystal Effects to the goggles to make them shiny. Not sure if I've managed to get this in the photo.

Fussed and played until 11pm Sat night then tried - oh tried so hard - to fall asleep as I was rising at 3am to head out to a Dawn Service with my brother and the rest of the family, then back to take my Mum to hospital for an appointment and then onto church afterwards!! I was totally whacked when I got home and needed a nanna nap. Awoke refreshed and "knew" just what I needed to finish of the card. I used a mini label that I altered with an ink (who's name I can't quite recall atm, will come back to add this) to create a "dogtag" label and handwrote the inscription. The ball chain is aactually what the pricetag was attached to a couple of hairclips I recently purchased. Just shows that you should never, ever throw away anything - it was a perfect addition.

Anyway, I hope you can join me and my dear TGF friends this week in the Monday Mania challenge.

I'm also entering this card into the current Cards for Men challenge - Monochrome

Thanks for stopping by.

Michey xxx

CARD DEETS:

Image: TGF Courage Ian; Hero Arts Dandelion Frame; Verve Abundant Blessings, Forever in our Hearts, Leaves; KaiserCraft Lilac Avenue

Ink: Memento: Tuxedo Black; SU: Choc Chip, Old Olive, Wild Wasabi, River Rock; Distress Ink: Frayed Burlap, Old Paper; Versacolor: Olive, Cement,

Paper/Cardstock: SU Kraft, PTI White

Others: SU Crystal Effects, Cuttlebug Labels, Mimco Chain (used for the dogtag detail), Spica Glitter Pen - Silver,

Copics: See picture for Copics used

Inkspirations Sketch Challenge #21

2010-04-26T02:30:00.000+10:00

In the lead up to my hosting the Monday Mania challenge over at The Greeting Farm, I had a couple of practice runs making cards for my entry. This is one that I created that I just wasn't all that happy with.

However, it did mean I managed to participate in Keesh's Inkspiration Challenge last week for my very first time!! Yay!!

Hope you like it.

Hugs, Michey xxx

CARD DEETS:

Image: TGF Cute Troop

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, PTI Fresh Snow

Paper/Cardstock: PTI White, KaiserCraft Millitary collection

Others: Copics (sorry I forgot to take a piccie), Edge distresser, PTI Twine

Lest We Forget - ANZAC Day 2010

2010-04-25T08:27:00.002+10:00

They went with songs to the battle, they were young.

Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.

They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,

They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning,

We will remember them.

LEST WE FORGET.

Verve, Cupcakes & a Mojo Sketch

2010-04-24T00:00:00.000+10:00

Wow.....what a week it has been......and now the weekend is here (for us Aussies anyways). ;)

I set myself a challenge at the beginning of the year to participate in some challenges, hopefully every week. I smashed that this week. I've made 9 cards!! I'm stunned myself - and I did four of those tonight, but I'm not gonna show you until tomorrow as its already 3am and I wanna go to bed.

Sadly, I lost one of the cards on Tuesday....I took the three I had made Monday to work with me on Tuesday to get some photos done during daylight hours and somehow when I checked at the other end, I only had two. :( The card I lost had some of my new MOST FAVOURITE paper on it and I used this weeks SSSC for the layout. It was lovely, but you'll just have to take my word for it. ;)

Anyhow, here is the one of the cards I've made this week. Was for the Cupcake Inspiration Challenge and Verve's Release Challenge # 1. I used this week's Mojo Sketch as the layout guide and cracked open my pack of KaiserCraft Devonshire 6x6 DP.

Thanks for stopping by for a lookie.

Mwah!! Michey xxx

(I'm all bleary eyed now so I'll come back and add the deets a little later...)

CARD DEETS:

Stamps: Verve......

Ink:.....

Paper/Cardstock:......

Other:.....

Copics: ....

Mad For Markers Challenge 1 (Entry 2) + Copic Creations Challenge 26 + Anya Ink 2 + Cupcake Inspiration Challenge 54

2010-04-17T16:48:00.003+10:00

Just a quick post for now as I want to get this card in before the 5pm deadline with the MFM challenge and its now 4;51pm!!

Nothing like a wee bit of pressure!!

I'll be back in a second to add all the blah, blah, blah. :)

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Okay.....I'm back (I made the deadline and can breathe again!!). :)

I have been wanting to make an Easel card ever since they first started appearing on blogs, but couldn't quite work up the courage to step out and do it until this week. I started this card on Monday night with a clear vision in mind and went about creating the base and the matted layers.....then my mojo up and left home. Its not back yet, but has popped in for a moment here or two and I've made the most of those moments. (In reality, I just stamped/printed several images and coloured them in using the three colours from the Mad For Markers challenge and was not happy with any of them. They're actually coloured in quite lovely, but I wanted to make this card for one of my BFF's who's having a birthday this coming week and I just wasn't all that ok with the images I'd coloured. They were either tooo young/girlish or in the end didn't match the DP I'd already started with.) I came home after a truly frustrating day yesterday (Friday) determined to get the card finished. Looking through my out-of-control collection of stamps, I happened upon one of the very first sets of TGF stamps I ever purchased, The Anya Collection. They were perfect because my BFF is well-known for her handbag/shoe collection and her love of all things related to SHOPPING!! My roomie and I were watching the brand new BBC version of Sense and Sensibility last night as well and I think this encouraged my mojo to come home!! :)

For this card I've blended a few different challenges. Copic Creations challenge for this week is "black hair", which is perfect as my BFF has lots of gorgeous, long, black hair. I'm also entering this into the Anya Ink challenge, which is Pink and Sparkly as there is some of that going on here, plus the current Cupcake Inspiration Challenge - I was inspired to use the lace on this card because of the beautiful lacy icing pieces on these cupcakes.

Anyway, there are a couple of firsts for me here too: my first easel card; and, my first time using flowers (not entirely sure they work for me tho). Once I was done colouring last night, I pulled out my Crystal Effects and coated Anya's shoes and handbag to give them the appearance of patent leather (see the piccie above left). Then it was off to bed so they could dry. I was off to my BFF's birthday brunch this morning and had a lovely "high tea" with some other darling girlies. Thanksfully, I hadn't planned on taking the gift or card with me today, which was just as well since the card was still in a gazillion pieces. I got home (via a stop at my local scrapping store) at 3:20pm and raced to pull it all together before the 5pm deadline at the MFM challenge!! Phew....my mojo definitely likes a challenge!!

That's it for me atm. I'm off to swallow some pain meds, have had an annoying headache all day (probably related to the fact that I didn't get my coffee in yesterday - remember I did mention it was a frustrating day - plus I was a little down on my H2O intake the past few days too).

Have another project on the go as well that I want to spend some time playing with tonight.

Hope your weekend is shaping up to be all kinds of lovely. :) Hugs, Michey xxx

CARD DEETS:

Images/Stamps: TGF The Anya Collection; Verve Birthday Surprise (Sentiment)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, SU Choc Chip, Distress Ink Old Paper and Frayed Burlap

Copics: (See picture below - sorry for quality - used my iPhone)

Paper/Cardstock: SU Whisper White, Sahara Sand, Flourishes Classic White, Crate Paper Lillian Collection "Gathering"

Others: Fiskars Upper Crest Punch, KaiserCraft Rhinestones, Nestabilities (Label Eleven and Large Scallop Oval), Prima + Hero Arts + KaiserCraft Flowers (coloured with Copics to match), SU Crystal Effects, Glue Dots, Maya Arts Lace

Mad for Markers Challenge 1

2010-04-10T10:32:00.009+10:00

Heya....its the weekend and I've started mine with a lovely little lie-in.

But now I'm up and getting into my day - off to lunch with some girlies in a minnie, but just had to put up a new post. I've been pondering all week what to do for the MFM Challenge.....had to go and get me the actual Copics for the challenge (shoulda been harder than it was.....my heart gets overwhelmingly happy whenever I walk into my local art supplies store and see their wall of Copic colour!!)

To create my card, I first decided which image I would use.....and finally!! pulled out one of my new Magnolia Tilda's (not so new, I just haven't inked them up yet) and the appropriate markers and coloured away. These images are soooo gorgeous, I don't know why I simply haven't used them before now!! Maybe, just maybe, one day when I have more time to dedicate to crafting, I'll have inked up every stamp that I've just had-to-have over the past year and made something with them. I live to have such BIG dreams, lol.

Anyway, once Miss Tilda was coloured I then looked through my DP collection to find appropriately coloured paper and was immediately drawn to this piece from my Basic Grey Lemonade 6x6 pad. Cut to fit and distressed around the edge with Old Paper ink, plus a handdrawn pattern around its periphery. I used my oval nesties to cut and mat Tilda (sadly the biggest oval I have hacked into her cute little socks) and used the matching scallop oval to cut a piece from the same DP collection (I love that BG includes some distressed matching coloured papers in the 6x6 pads).

My mum has "officially" handed what's left of her sewing box over to me. Sadly her hands are too damaged by arthritis these days for her to do any sewing. One day I'll have some space created for a sewing station for myself (at the moment everything is packed away). The last little box of goodies she gave me had some gorgeous little ribbons and trims in it - including this gorgeous little white broderie anglaise type ribbon. I've layered that with some matching chiffon over the top to finish off my card. Still felt it needed something so added so dots with my white gel pen around the edges of the scalloped matt.

And there you have it. My first entry into the very first Mad For Markers Challenge. Stop by their blog and check it out for yourself. Sammi has a wonderful prize up for grabs for this challenge. I may create something else for the challenge yet. Another few days before it closes.

Thankx for stopping by for a peek. Michey xxx

CARD DEETS:

Image: Magnolia Tilda with gift

Paper/Cardstock: SU Whisper White, BG Lemonade, Flourishes Classic White

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Distress Inks Old Paper & Frayed Burlap, SU Choc Chip (Pen for detail on edging of DP)

Others: COPICS!! (See piccie for colours used); Ribbons from stash, White Gel pen, Nestabilities

Mojo Monday 133

2010-04-09T09:29:00.007+10:00

I did it!! I made a card for this week's Mojo Monday challenge!! Sorry....but I'm a bit excited about that right now!! lol!!

My roomie and I have been watching the second series of a delightful BBC show, "Lark Rise to Candleford" and it really inspired me to give the whole shabby chic/vintage look a go!! I'm even talking with a delightful English accent atm (confession: I usually have a bit of an English accent, the by-product of working with so many English/Irish nurses (and my Irish ancestry rising to the fore). Not much ocker Aussie outta my mouth, most of the time)!! Ha ha ha

I was home alone and watching Saving Private Ryan when I started making this card though.

I was pretty keen on inking up this gorgeous new Verve stamp set I have and decided to bring out my inks and aquapens and have another attempt at watercolouring. My Copics got a rest - and I'm not sure they're entirely happy about it!!

Following this week's sneaky news from the US that some of the current SU colours are going to be retired.....I had to show my beloved Sage Shadow that I will never, ever forget!! In fact I'm adding a RE-inker to my growing SU order right now!! PLUS KRAFT!! How would I ever survive without my beloved Kraft, don't even go there Michey........ And I just happened to have these gorgeous Kraft DP's in my collection too that needed to be used.

Now, I'm uploading this at work and know what most of the items I used are....but can't quite remember the name of the DP's are .....so will add those when I get home tonight.

...I've added a photo of the dimension I've used on this card.....its definitely extreme. I think, if I can pull the flower layers apart with out causing tooo much damage I might change the dimensionals to ones I have that don't have as much height. It really is quite heavy and bulky in front and I'll need a box not an envie for this one. :)

CARD DEETS:

Stamps: Verve Love's Flower

Paper/Cardstock: SU Kraft, Sage Shadow, Blush Blossom, Very Vanilla

Inks: SU Cameo Coral, Sage Shadow, Chocolate Chip, Distress Inks Frayed Burlap, Tea Dye

Others: Fiskars Upper Crest Punch, Crystal Effects, Kaisercraft Rhinestones, Nestabilities, SU Kraft Taffeta Ribbon, Aquapainter pen, Corner Chomper

Kellie's Tickled Pink about CANDY!!

2010-04-08T12:26:00.003+10:00

Kellie has recently renamed her store and made a few other changes too. To celebrate, she has an amazing candy offer available for everyone!! Here are the deets:

THIS CANDY/OFFER APPLIES TO INTERNATIONAL TO.... IT'S OPEN WORLD WIDE...

Become a follower and you could win..... Simple! Tickled Pink Stamps has some amazing things coming up in the next couple of months and to start celebrating early we are going to have a CANDY.... Not 1, not 2, but there are 3 prizes! WHOO HOO...

Also to let you know that once a month Tickled Pink Stamps will be having a random giveaway so to make sure you never miss the announcement become a follower. Also we will have random hidden candies on the Pink Ladies blogs so be sure to never miss a Tickled Pink Stamps post on their blogs ;)

In other news before I get to the CANDY details. Tickled Pink Stamps will start selling International again very SOON.... But will only be selling stamps Internationally not papers, charms, magazines etc, but with many stamps to pick from and personalised ones I am sure there is something for everyone :)

ONTO the CANDY details. There are 3 ways in which to win and if you do all 3 well then your chances are even higher.

1st - The 1st prize will go to one lucky person that becomes a follower.
2nd - The 2nd will go to one lucky person that makes a blog post on their blog advertising this candy with a link back to this here post and popping their blog post link in Mr.Linky.
3rd - The third will go to one lucky person that leaves a comment on this blog post.

For all these we will be using random.org to find the lucky winners of each prize.

What are the prizes....?

1st - Is 6 stamps of the winners choice from any stamps in stock in store.
2nd - Is 3 stamps of the winners choice from any stamps in stock in store.
3rd - Is 1 stamp of the winners choice from any stamps in stock in store.

So what are you waiting for, you have to be in it to win it and be sure to spread the word.... This candy will end on Saturday the 1st May 2010 MIDNIGHT and the winners will be announced on Monday the 3rd of May 2010.

FFF Get Well Wishes, Anya Ink #1 & Anyone for Anya

2010-04-04T01:41:00.009+11:00

My dear twin brother had some minor surgery on his foot on Thursday and I thought I'd better get my butt into gear and make him a little get well card. He's on bed rest for the first 7 days and will be off his foot for 3-4 weeks. He and his partner rearranged their lounge room so he can blob out on the couch playing x-box and/or watching the telly whilst looking out their big windows at the ocean, plus I'm pretty sure that PJ's will be his go-to fashion for much of these few weeks. Lucky duck!! lol ;)

Anywho, I used this weeks Farm Fresh Friday sketch to help me plan my card and pulled it together from there. I ummed and aahed over which image to use - the Nurse Anya or a My Guy Ian, or even the cute little dogs on the couch in the Home Sweet Home set.....before finally deciding this cute little Max fit the bill perfectly. I paper pieced his outfit so that it more resembled pj's and pulled out my Copics. I'm not all that pleased with my colouring on this card, but I'm not gonna redo it, so it will have to do. Dan won't be critiquing it anyway. This also fits with this week's challenges at Anya Ink at Anyone for Anya, which is anything goes.

Its Easter Sunday over here now and our daylight savings has finished overnight. I'm usually doubleminded about this end of DS - I love the extra hour of sleep, but hate that its dark so much earlier in the afternoon/evening. Definitely won't be leaving work with lingering light left in the sky most evenings now. Oh welll....

Happy Resurrection Sunday to all.

Michey xxx

CARD DEETS:

Stamps: TGF Twinkle Tots "Max", Stamping Bella Sentiments Grab Bag

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black; SU Choc Chip

Paper/Cardstock: SU Kraft, Choc Chip, Soft Sky, Parisienne Breeze DSP, Flourishes Classic White

Copics: Skin: E00, E42, RV32; Hair: E47, E49, E74; Socks/Controller: W00, W3 W5, W7, W9; + B0000 & B91 for highlights/shading

Others: Distress Ink "Old Paper", McGill Fancy Square Punch, PTI Twine, Nestabilities Oval

Blog Award

2010-04-03T13:02:00.003+11:00

The sweet Edna has blessed me with this darling little award.

Really made my day. Ain't she sweet. Stop by her blog and leave her some loving, k. I only happened upon her blog because we both participated in the WMS blog hop a few weeks ago - now its one of my daily blog stops. :)

I'm so loving this gorgeous blog world of crafters.

You are all so creative and encouraging.

I forward this award to ALL of you who read this post. :)

Hugs, Michey xxx

SSSC62 & LRW 22 (+ a little Flutter by Wednesday)

2010-04-02T13:01:00.009+11:00

It was my Roomie's birthday a few days ago and I've been so busy, I only managed to get her card and pressie finished last night.....thankfully, she is very gracious and patiently waited.

As with this card I made for her birthday last year, I had to make the predominant colour green (her fave). But she also loves Baja and since I still had this pack of DP out from the last card I posted....I just went with it!! I really wanted to use this darling Ketto I just received - and from there it all came together easily enough.

You can't see it in these photos - but she is super-dooper sparkley. Really hard to get that in a photo during the day - so might try and sneak in for a photo tonight. I used stickles on the heart flowers, the flower in her hair and the heart on her dress and then coloured her wings in with a Spica glitter pen.

Nice to see I have grown a wee bit in the year in between making her birthday cards. :)

Anywho, its Good Friday over here and we're having some friends over for dinner - so I better be off to clean and help with the preps.

See ya soon. Hoping your Easter is a time to reflect on all that Jesus did for us all those years ago.

I'm eternally grateful.

Hugs, Michey xxx

CARD DEETS:

Image/Stamps: Stamping Bella Phoebe Ketto, PTI Signature Greetings

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Versacolour Olive

Paper/Cardstock: Flourishes Classic White, SU Baja Breeze & Whisper White, MemoryBoxCo Glitterati

Copics: Skin: E00, E93; Wings/Shoes: YG11, YG17, YG67; Dress/Flowers: BG000, B93, B95; Hair: E41, E43

Others: SU Certainly Celery Ribbon, Kaisercraft Rhinestones, Spica Glitter Pen Melon, Stickles Stardust

TGF The Royal Battle

2010-03-28T22:57:00.004+11:00

So the Battle has begun!! My team leader kick started the challenge for my team: "Super Pink". Tina has done a great job with this interpretation of the "Retro Colour Challenge" for Week 1 of the battle.

If you have some "votes" left, we'd love for you to vote for us so we can keep challenging ourselves and all of you, our bloggie friends, in the battle. ;)

Its so much fun.....I've seen some super entries already. But I'm holding onto my vote until all entries are loaded into the gallery.

Here's the link direct to our entry in the Galleria: Team Super Pink.

Thanks gals and guys.

Hope to see you around in the challenge again. :)

Hope you've all had a superb weekend. Mine's been great - I actually got a little bit of sunburn yesterday - can you believe it. It's the end of March already - where's Autumn/Fall??

Hugs, Michey xxx

Cupcake Inspiration Challenge #51 & Color Throwdown #85

2010-03-25T23:51:00.001+11:00

I know.....can you believe it. Two posts in one night. Its a miracle and a new PB, lol!! :)

Here is my interpretation of this week's Cupcake Challenge. I loved the lace cupcake wrappers and the blues and greens this week......but am not much of a 'lacy' type of girl. Haven't embraced my inner shabby-chicness yet. Surprisingly, the colours also matched the Colour Throwdown Challenge. Double Yay!!

Anyways......I needed a birthday card for a lovely girlfriend and decided to pull out this gorgeous Flourishes peacock set that I've had for a wee while and hadn't seen ink yet!! Seriously, I think I need to stop buying as I almost have as many uninked-yet stamps as I do inked ones. I just know I'm gonna use them one day and be so glad I bought them. :)

I started by colouring my image, knowing that I wanted to use greens and blues. Out came my beloved Copics - where, oh where would I be without them? Don't even ask, lol!! After I had coloured the image I dived into my DP stash to find suitable matching papers. I found a great piece of paper in some DP I'd also received in my order from Flourishes, "Glitterati". It co-ordinated perfectly with SU's Certainly Celery and I had matching grosgrain - it was meant to be!!

Again, here's a smaller shot on an angle so you can try to see the bling and sparkle in this card. I used some silver Kaisercraft rhinestones that I coloured with a Copic and then used Baby Blue stickles on the feathers to make them shine.

I took these photos on my kitchen bench in the afternoon sunshine. I think they might be some of the best ones I've done so far - not much tweaking needed. I really need to get myself a photo tent so I can shoot at night and not have the colour temp probs I've been getting.

Anywho, almost too much past my bedtime tonight. Better retire.

Hugs, Michey xxx

CARD DEETS:

Stamps: Flourishes "Strut Your Stuff"

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper/Cardstock: Flourishes Classic White, SU Certainly Celery, MemoryBox "Glitterati", Bazzill Textured Blue, Random piece of corrugated black paper from stash (I think I purchased a multicolour pack from KMart)

Others: Copics, SU Certainly Celery Grosgrain ribbon, Deckled Rectangles Nestabilities, Kaisercraft Rhinestones, Baby Blue Stickles,

Anya Ink & Club Anya WCW Challenges - Bling

2010-03-25T18:59:00.006+11:00

This week's challenge on the Anya Ink blog was simple.....BLING!! So bling I did. :) And the colour challenge for Club Anya and Friends Wild Card Wednesday was this stunning pillow. I didn't have any paper that matched every colour so I picked out the pink and went with that.

I made this card to send to a dear family in the states that I've been praying for recently. Their gorgeous youngest daughter lost her battle with Neuroblastoma recently and I wanted to let them know they are still in my thoughts and prayers from the 'other side of the pond'. Beautiful little Layla Grace was often photographed with gorgeous little hats with huge flowers on them and so I knew this WS Dahlia would be perfect.

I hope you can tell from this smaller piccie that Miss Dahlia is absolutely blinged up. I used stickles on all the little flower blossoms and then got out a couple of my Spica Glitter pens and added some sparkle highlights in the lighter areas of her hair and around the flower in her hair. Her gorgeous skirt and stockings even have "metallic" thread in them, *thanks Spica*. :)

I also wanted to keep this card somewhat simple - not overwhelming and busy like my last card. So I simply cut out Dahlia and mounted her with some dimensionals and then wrapped some pink and silver thread around and added my sentiment on a matted punch on the bottom. (I've gone over the stamped sentiment with a Spica pen too so it has some shimmer to it.)

Anywho....that's it for this post. Mwah!! Love ya, mean it. xx

CARD DEETS:

Image/Stamps: TGF WS Dahlia, Verve Notes of Prayer (Sentiment)

Paper/Cardstock: SU Whisper White, Basic Black, Bazzill Textured Pink, Flourishes Classis White Paper (Image stamped and coloured on)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Others: Copics, Spica Glitter Pens (Clear & Pink), Stickles (Cotton Candy), Pink Thread, May Arts Metallic Cord (Silver), SU Scallop Oval & Wide Oval Punches, We R Memory Keepers Corner Chomper

Mama Update:

For those who are interested. I was blessed to be able to take my Mama home from hospital on Tuesday night. She's so much better than she was and I'm absolutely thankful for all who have been praying and thinking of us during this time. Sadly, she's fading with each month, but I'm determined to keep her as strong and as well as possible for as long as is possible too. And make the most of every moment we get without pushing both of us tooooo far trying to fit a billion things in. :) It's her 63rd birthday on Saturday and its gonna be so great to be able to celebrate with her somewhere other than a visiting room at the hospital. The weather is supposed to be stunning here over the weekend so we are going to have an early dinner at one of the local beaches with all the kiddies. YAY!! But before that, I'm heading out with her tomorrow night to see a gorgeous young Aussie Italian croon us all with his magical voice. I discovered the talents of Alfio a few years ago when randomly looking through the jazz CD's in my local Sanity shop....became a fan and have seen him perform several times since. Beautiful voice and funny, funny Italiano/Aussie fella too. Should be a great night tomorrow night. I gave Mum one of his CD's for Christmas a year ago and she fell in love with his voice too - she knows we're going out, but has no idea to what or where - though I think she suspects, lol.

M xx

St Paddy's Day!! (CIC50 + SSCS60 & Flutterby Wednesday)

2010-03-17T10:33:00.006+11:00

Hello.....I can't believe today is here......its been in my calendar for several weeks now and its here!!

Why am I sooooo excited??? Well.....how nice of you to ask. :)

One of my biggest inspirations, Dawn McVey from Papertrey Ink, is holidaying in Australia with her husband, Bartley. They're currently in Sydney and she's ever so kindly organised a get together with her Aussie "Blog friends" tonight!! Yay!! I'm beyond excited. I'm hoping a wee, small, even miniscule amount of her talent and ability will leap from her and find its home in me during the time we get to spend together tonight. LOL!!

I love Dawn's clean and simple, yet totally elegant style and was going to mimic this in a card for her and Bart...however, I think ya'll have figured out by now that is just NOT the way I roll!! I decided to stick with the "green" thing as it is St Paddy's day afterall - not that I put a single thread of green on this morning when I got dressed - my dear Irish ancestors are all rolling over in their graves!!

It took me ages and ages to decide what to do and where to go with this card - my MoJo is definitely having a lovely extended break - though I'm reasonably happy with the overall effort here. I'm feeling a little uneasy about there being NO ribbon on this card anywhere!! I can't believe it. I used this week's Cupcake Inspiration and Sweet Sunday Sketch to guide my way.

You can't see it in this photo but I've also added Crystal Effects to the wings of the butterfly sharing the spotlight with our little Miss Innocence as well as her shoes to make them nice and shiny - 'coz every Little Miss loves patent leather Mary-Janes. :)

I got my hands on some new Copics on Monday - my collection is evergrowing and I'm sooooo loving them. There were some new greens in this purchase and I really, really like them. :)

(I want to apologise for this atrocious photo too - I brought my DSLR in with me today and took some lovely photos, but forgot to bring the card reader, so had to take a quick snap with my trusty little iPhone, which has the world's dodgiest camera, and will swap this out with a 'betterer' photo later on.)

Hope the luck of the Irish is with you today. :) Michey xxx

CARD DEETS:

Images: Pure Innocence Digi

Paper/Cardstock: SU Choc Chip, Flourishes Classic White, Basic Grey Origins

Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink "Frayed Burlap" (Digi image printed with Epson Printer)

Others: Fiskars Border Punch, Martha Stewart Butterflies Punch, SU Crystal Effects, KaiserCraft Rhinestones (coloured with Copics), White Gel Pen, Glue Dots

Copics: Hair: E27 + E47; Skin E21; Dress: YG67, YG97, YG99; Grass: YG67, YG93; Y15, YR68, W00 + Blender

I'm am still around :)

2010-03-11T10:22:00.005+11:00

Hello blog friends,

A sorta quick post to let you know I'm still here!! I've been peeking in from time to time - but haven't really had the time or the energy to hang around too long.

And, just for some eye candy, here are a couple of cards I made last year. One is for a fellow crafter's birthday and the other for a friend who has been through a tough time.

If I had to pick a card stock colour that was my all time favourite, it would be Kraft!! Anything goes with it....colour or black or even Kraft on its own - its sooo versatile. I had the idea for this card floating around in my head for a little while and was so grateful it came together as well as it did. The photo isn't the bestest, sorry, but I took it at night - about 10mins before the birthday girl came over to celebrate.

And the second card used the two colours that my sweet friend Rosa loves. I'm not much of a lover of yellow. I don't have anything against it, lol, I just can't wear it (is the one colour that makes me look ill and all washed out) and so tend to steer well clear of it......fortunately it is Rosa's all-time favourite colour and I had no choice but to get creative with it.

Can you believe that I have stamped only on both of these cards - not a single COPIC in sight!! They are definitely feeling the neglect here. I haven't even been able to pick up a single one of them to colour for almost 2 weeks now!!

My mojo and motivation is currently on holiday in the UK - and I wish, oh how I wish, it had taken me with it, hehe.

Michey xxx

CARD DEETS:

Priya's Birthday Card:

Stamps: SU Upsy Daisy

Cardstock: SU Kraft, Urban Oasis DSP, SU Basic Black

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Others: SU Kraft Taffeta Ribbon, SU Top Note Die

Rosa's Thinking of You Card:

Stamps: SU Botanical Blooms (Saleabration 2009)

Cardstock: SU Whisper White, Bazill Yellow and Pink Textured Card

Ink: SU Barely Banana, Pretty in Pink

Others: Random Pink Chiffon Ribbon, Pink Kaisercraft Rhinestones

And an update: for my dear friends who have read this far and care to know, life's throwing a few too many challenges my way at the moment. My mum went home from hospital on 26th Feb, however, was readmitted as an emergency via ambulance four days later with a widespread infection. This was managed fairly quickly with strong antibiotics, but she's not bouncing back quite so well this time. She's still in hospital now and I think the medical team looking after her are doing a better job of it this time. We've come to the realisation that treatment for Mum is now palliative and, at best, we probably have 6-9 months left. Mum has loads of medical issues, which, when looked at all together are pretty significant and challenging. I'm coping with the reality much better this week, last week was all about floods of tears and making some pretty tough decisions regarding surgery/palliative care. Its Mum's 63rd birthday at the end of this month and my brother and sister and I made the decision not to tell Mum how bad things are until after then. I think she has an idea, but it's not been voiced amongst us yet. I'm still believing for a miracle and all but at the same time, want what's best for my dear Mama, and I think a new, fabulous heavenly body might be just the thing.

So there you have it....plus works insanely busy with new patients at the moment and I'm supposed to be off to a church conference for the next few days and a work conference at the end of next week, eek!! There is little time left over to play. :(

So please excuse me if I'm not around as much as I want to be at the moment. I'm desperately in need of some crafting therapy and may well pack a few Copics and a couple of images along with me to play with at the Conference I'm going to for the next couple of days.

xxx

Anya Ink Challenge & CIC47

2010-02-23T13:29:00.006+11:00

I'm back.....and have finally managed to make a card worthy of participating in Anya Ink's colour challenge and, would you believe it......it worked with what I already had in mind for the current Cupcake Inspiration Challenge. Love it when that happens.

I've been making a few cards lately as I find it such good 'therapy'. Haven't had much energy or desire to get out there and face the shops or be around crowds of peeps, and its a good thing then that I love sitting at home with my great friends, Rubbah, Ink and Copic. There's a bit of a wait and see game going on with Mama in the hospital at the moment. Waiting to see what happens after surgery last week. I'm hoping things either improve slowly (or quickly, please Jesus) or don't get any worse in the least. The options available are slim and even those the surgical team can consider come with huge, huge risks.

Anyway.....I thought it was about time Flutter Anya saw some inky goodness and I just love, love, love how she's turned out. I followed this week's Saturday Sketch from Club Anya and have used the required Blue, Grey and Cream (off-white, in my case) for the Anya Ink challenge for this week.

This dear little Anya was so cute and asked me if I wouldn't mind adding a little Crystal Effects on her wings, which is a first for me. I've had it for months now and was yet to use it on any image. So, now her darling little wings are shiny, shiny, shiny and her little skirt is all sparkly, sparkly, sparkly thanks to my dear friend, Stardust Stickles. :)

And I picked up my new Cuttlebug baby yesterday and would you believe it - she's PINK!! I'm sooooooo excited. I 'broke' my green one and got a fab-o new pink baby in return!! And the "A" plate is the usual normal white plate you've all seen before. Only sad note is I had to take in all the plates from my former Cuttlebug baby......and now am missing my "C" plate as there wasn't one included with the new one. :(

Card Deets:

Image: TGF Flutter Anya

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper/Cardstock: Flourishes Classic White; SU Bella Bleu; Bazzill Card (base) & a random sparkly silver/grey piece of card that I have recycled from an invitation I received.

Others: Copics; SU Crystal Effects; Stickles Stardust; Nestabilities (Label 8), Cuttlebug; Kaiser Rhinestones, SU Basic Grey Taffeta Ribbon, WeRMemoryKeepers Corner Chomper

I think that's it for me today. Thanks for popping by. :)

Hugs, Michey xxx

Waltzing Mouse Stamps Blog Hop

2010-02-22T08:00:00.001+11:00

Welcome to my stop along the first ever Waltzing Mouse blog hop.......if you've managed to make it this far then you have put in a super human effort and deserve a peek at my little angel. LOL :)

If you've started here because you follow my blog, etc., can I encourage you go to Claire's post at the beginning on the Waltzing Mouse blog. You won't be sorry.

I've been loving Claire's stamp designs for a wee while now and used some of her sets to make several of my Christmas cards last year. Sadly, I haven't yet uploaded any of them so don't have any other cards to show you.

For my card I've used the Earth Angel set to create my gorgeous angel. I love this set....it is so versatile - you can create angels or spring fairies or even skipping girlies using this set + the wings can then be used to create totally gorgeous butterflies!! And there are several different wing designs to choose from!! Awesome!! Such an imagination resides within Claire...I'm so glad she is sharing her creativity with us and making stamps of her darling images. I decorated the inside of my card with just such a butterfly!! And since paper piecing is my newest fad.....I just had to piece this dear little angel's dress with a co-ordinating piece of the BG Porcelain paper.

If you click on the Waltzing Mouse badge on my sidebar ------> it will take you directly to Claire's website where you can see all the stamp sets available and purchase straight away if your heart so desires. ;) Claire has even started doing templates too!! I'm gonna say it again......amazing. :)

Now, Mona's gorgeous creation is your next stop on the hop....

(Here's the web address just in case my embedded link doesn't work) http://cupcakescreations.blogspot.com/

CARD DEETS:

Image: WMS Earth Angel

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper/Cardstock: Flourishes Classic White, Basic Grey Porcelain (6x6 pad), SU Whisper White (Card base)

Others: Copics, Stickles, KaiserCraft Rhinestones, PTI Satin Ribbon "Sweet Blush", Giga Scallop Circle Punch, Fiskars Circle Template and Cutter

I also followed Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch for the layout of my card and will also be entering this in the Flutter By Wednesday challenge, which was to include hearts with our winged creations this week.

Thanks for stopping by. Hugs, Michey xxx

FFF, MTSC61, More Paper Piecing & CIC46

2010-02-20T22:51:00.008+11:00

I've done it!! Two cards made from scratch and posted to my blog in the same day!! Woot......and I got the house cleaned & ran a few errands this morning too. I'm spent now though and will be climbing into bed in another moment or two.

What a line up of challenges this next card represents. I got my colour inspiration from TGF's Farm Fresh Friday Feb Colour Challenge and used Mercy's sketch to plan my layout. The colours also work for the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge and I couldn't help but paper piece Stella's dress. I've been following Dawn McVey's technique for tying bows and then I had to dress it up a little (for the first time ever) with a button and some twine. The twine I recycled from an invitation to a party I recently received and the button is the "spare" that came with the shorts I'm actually wearing today!! This one's going in my stash...not sure what or who for atm, but I'm sure it will be used in the not-too-distant future. So glad I buy too much paper and had lots of options for guava from SU in my stash with matching ribbon on the side. :)

Thanks for having another peek.

Hugs, Michey xxxx

CARD DEETS:

Image: TGF WS Stella (by the uh-may-ZING Amy Young)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper/Cardstock: Flourishes Classic White, SU Choc Chip & Kraft + DSP Afternoon Tea (retired)

Other: SU Groovy Guava Grosgrain, COPICS!!, SU Top Note Die, Cuttlebug (cut before I broke my littel green machine), Fiskars Oval Shape Template, Button & Twine from stash.

Btw, remember how I was telling you I broke my beloved Cuttlebug!! *sob* *sob*

Well its being replaced!! Yay!! And replaced with a PINK Cuttlebug!! I'm so blessed and excited. I hope to pick up my new pink baby on Monday!! My local scrapping store is the BEST, I tell ya. I had to drop the A,B,C, plates in to them today so I can get a whole new box of goodies in return and they were dumbfounded when they saw my "A" plate. Its green...okay.....but also is really rigid and firm and whilst the bottom and sides are solid plastic, the top is hollowed out in a honeycomb pattern (the up side). They showed me their "A" plate and its white and solid and has some flexibility to it. Just wondering if anyone else has had the same "A" plate as me??? They are now thinking its rigid nature may have contributed to the "breaking" of my green baby.

Anywho....that's it from me for now. See ya later. M xxx

A little Paper Piecing, A little Colour Combo and a little Sunday Sketch following.....

2010-02-20T14:37:00.006+11:00

I'm here.....did ya miss me?? I've been around blogland, but lurking and peeking at some blogs is about all I've had time for this week. :(

I actually left the hospital a little earlier last night - I was absolutely tuckered out and needed an early night home away from anyone that needed anything of me. I know that sounds a little selfish of me....but I give 110% of myself to my job and patients and have been giving more than that to my Mama the past 2 weeks and I was just a little done in.

So I decided to come home and have an actual meal in my house and catch up with my flatmate and maybe, just maybe, get in some therapy by way of making a card or two.

I really, really wanted to participate in Pam's piecing challenge and thought this Anya would look fabo with some piecing in her uniform. Then I thought she really needed to have matching luggage & it all came together pretty well once I decided on the paper to use and incorporated another colour challenge. I also followed Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch, but have realised I missed the boat as far as uploading in time for the challenge there.

I'm also hoping to participate in The Greeting Farm's FFF colour challenge too!! A couple of challenges using Kraft + Chocolate and another colour!! I love, love, love Kraft & Chocolate....so no biggee there!! LOL. I may just post another card today.....who knows. Housework and grocery shopping are calling my name too. Bummah!! lol

Thanks for lookin. Mwah!!

Card Deets:

Image/Stamps: TGF Travel Anya

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper/Cardstock: Flourishes Classic White; SU Kraft & Chocolate Chip; Basic Grey Indian Summer (6x6 pad + 12x12 Acorn)

Others: Copics, White Gel Pen, Making Memories Edge Distresser (first time I've used this and I don't think I'll be a fan - I ran it around the white circle edge and you can see where the edge as left an indent about 1/2" in from the edge)

Lastly, a thanks to all who've left messages with well wishes for my Mum. Thanks....it is sooo appreciated as are all your prayers. She's still in hospital and will be for a wee while yet. Unfortunately, my Mama has many difficult health issues/probs and whilst the Medical team is doing everything they can to get her well again......there's not a lot of options available for them as my Mum is not well enough or strong enough for too much surgery. And its tough for me to watch her become more and more frail too, being a nurse is sometimes absolutely DREADFUL!! You know too much and understand what is happening. My mum is only 62 (almost 63) and her time left with us in this life is short. We don't know when something will happen....it could be in 3 hours, 3 days, 3 months, etc.....

Anyway, she's holding her own for now.....and I'm doing my best too. My brother and sister aren't really the support I need them to be, for both Mum and myself.....but I'm blessed to have some super amazing friends and Pastors in my world who are keeping me going. And this lovely world of crafting/stamping to escape to when I need some major therapy. :)

Get Well Card; Mojo Monday 125; FlutterBy Wednesdays again

2010-02-12T10:15:00.005+11:00

Hey friends.

Gosh its been a big week!! It seems like it's been weeks since I've posted, but its only been a few days!! Unfortunately, I've spent much of the past few days when I'm not working visiting my Mama in hospital. She's been a wee bit sick for the past few weeks, but things took a bit of a turn for the worse over the weekend and she's now lying in a bed in hospital. Luckily, she's here in the hospital I work in so I'm close by and go and spend and hour or two with her when I'm done for the day.

I had such plans to take new photos of my previous cards (see posts below) but got a call on Tuesday morning to say Mum had to come in to hospital and that put an end to all those plans. I have taken some new shots, just need a spare moment or two when I can handle staring at my computer again to change them over.

Anyway.....I needed some serious therapy by the time I got home last night and thought I'd better make Mama a 'get well' card. I wanted something bright and cheery and wanted to use another of Amy's darling Sweet November girls. I based my colours on this piece of BG DP (Ambrosia collection) and went from there. Then I remembered that I had printed off the Mojo sketch for this week and it all came together reasonably easily!! I had initially left off the bow as I had the card turned the other way - but it wasn't working. A quick turn to the right and a little bow and voila!! Magic. I know my Mum is going to say something about the PERFECT bow I managed to make for her card!! LOL!! I never, ever get them this good. Being tired and stressed clearly works for me, haha. :)

Now to go and get an appropriately coloured and lovely bunch of flowers to match.

Thanks for stopping by. Hugs, Michey xxx

CARD DEETS:

Image: Sweet November 'Fidget Goblinspider'

Paper/Cardstock: Basic Grey Ambrosia (6x6 pad); Flourishes Classic White Paper; Bazzill White Cardstock

Ink: Epson Printer Ink

Other: Copics, Stickles (yellow, red, orange/pink & Platinum); Ribbon (from my stash)

Flutter by Wednesday & more SNS!!

2010-02-09T00:56:00.003+11:00

Okay.....I'm publishing this post with this super dodgy photo 'coz I'm too excited to wait another moment.....but I'll be uploading a newer, better, more accurate colour-captured shot tomorrow once I've had a chance to photograph it in daylight. (The card is actually lying on a white background - not sure if its the same on your screen but its definitely a lilac colour on mine!!)

I had so much fun colouring the gorgeous "Ginger" in!! She 'told' me before I even started that her hair was PURPLE and her dress was green so who was I to argue. It was sooooo much fun and since PURPLE is my all-time, hands down FAVOURITE colour, it was super easy too. Again, special thanks go out to the Legendary Amy!! However....at 2am when I had finished colouring both the SNS gals in I found I didn't have any suitable green paper or DP in my stash to go ahead and make Ginger's card.

And I knew which DP I wanted to use - Basic Grey Origins!! After I got through all my chores (bores) today, I headed to one of my local scrapping shops and THEY DIDN'T HAVE IT!! Hadn't ordered it and weren't going to either!! Can you believe it!! So I got on my high horse and rode along to my other 'favourite' scrapping shop (where I am known my name, ain't that nice) and purchased 100 times more than I had planned (its why I ration my excursions to said shop!!). Should've gone there in the first place, but was a wee bit concerned they may have been closed already.

(On an aside, the owner also helped soothe my ruffled and definitely upset feathers over my drama with my Cuttlebug machine......I'm gonna drop it by sometime soon and she'll have a look and see if anything can be done!! Yay, double yay!!)

Anyways, drama aside - I came home unpacked my groceries and finalised my car rego deets (which were the priorities on my to-do list for today) and then was able to put my card together. I love it, love it, love it!! And its huge too!! Well huge by my standards. 11cm x 11cm square. I also picked myself up some Tim Holtz Distress Inks finally and have applied Frayed Burlap to the edges of all cardstock.

I'm entering this into the Flutter By Wednesday Challenge....because I can. Ginger has beautifully sparkly wings and is definitely a spritely little fairy so she qualifies!!

Thanks for dropping by for a squizz. Hugs xxx

Card Deets:

Image: Sweet November Stamps "Ginger"

Ink: Epson Printer Ink

Paper/Cardstock: SU Elegant Eggplant (Card base); Basic Grey "Origins", Kaisercraft Dear Santa Collection (Purple polkadot paper); Flourishes Classic White Paper; Offwhite Cardstock (matted under Origins square)

Other: Copics, StarDust Stickles, Kaiser Clear Rhinestones (again coloured with Copic to match); Gorgeous Purple Taffeta ribbon; Fiskars Scallop Border Punch

Darby & Bumbles & Challenge card!! SSSC55

2010-02-09T00:33:00.006+11:00

(Hey Amy!! *waving*)

I've done it.....I made my first card using a Sweet November stamp on Saturday....actually make that Sunday!! My days are getting away from me.

I made it with 5mins to spare to get a new cartridge from Officeworks on my way home from church & work on Sunday so I could print off my new digi stamps. I printed them all baby!! Every digi stamp I have on my Mac to date was printed and is ready to get stuck into.....but I chose this gorgeous little urchin to start with.

Meet the darling Darby and her dear little friend Bumbles. I love, love, love Amy's drawings/images and am having so much fun colouring them. My prob is then finding matching DP in my stash to make my card. Darby was fine - I eventually got it together....but you'll see in my next post I had to add a dash to my local Scrapping shop on my list of things to do today (my day off!!).

This is a sorry card for my sis - she's a bit cranky pants with me atm (let's put it down to pregnancy hormones & maybe, just maybe, I've been a bit naughty) and I'll pop it in the post to her once I've taken it to work with me tomorrow and had a go at a decent photo. Midnight photography is such a dreadful thing (blast these tungsten bulbs!!).

Thanks for stopping by for a peek. Hugs, Michey xxx

Card Deets:

Image: Sweet November Stamps 'Darby and Bumbles'

Ink: Epson Printer Ink

Paper/Cardstock: Flourishes Classic White Paper; SU Whisper White; SU Petals and Paisley + Bali Breeze DSP (retired)

Others: Copics (of course!!); StarDust Stickles (my new fav); Kaiser Clear Rhinestones (coloured with Copic to match); MS Doiley Border Punch; American Crafts Ribbon

Another Birthday Card

2010-02-07T00:53:00.003+11:00

I seem to have been on a card making roll this last week or two. And its great!!

Had an old College friend visiting Australia and, specifically Sydney again, this week. She now lives in the UK (London) and I hadn't seen her in just over three years, when I was in London on hols and stayed with her. She is affectionately known to us near and dear as the "Tyrant Tour Leader" as she powers us in and around London to see the sights. Its fantastic - I don't have to stop and ask for directions and she knows all sorts of interesting tidbits, its just that sometimes in her zeal for us to see as much as possible in the day or two we usually only have - she forgets to allow us to stop and revive with food and/or beverages as well!!

Anyway, its also her 40th birthday in a couple of weeks (I can't believe most of my friends are now having 40th birthdays!!) and we all pitched in to get her a lovely Pandora bracelet and a few charms for the occasion. I felt that this needed an appropriate card too so pulled out my as-yet-uninked Flapper Anya and got to it. You can't tell, but I've coloured all the tassels and the feather in her hair with Spica Glitter pens too to add a little bling.

I also followed the instructional video from Dawn McVey for tying the ribbon. I had YouTube playing it beside me on my iPhone as I did it. Still getting the hang of it - but I think I'm doing okay. :)

Thanks for taking a peek. Hope your weekend is going great. Michey xxx

Card Deets:

Stamp/Image: TGF 'Flapper Anya'

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper/Card: SU Whisper White; Flourishes Classic White Paper (for the image); Basic Grey 'Indian Summer' collection

Others: Copics; Spica Glitter 'Red'; Brown/Orange ribbon (from Eckersley's)

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2010-02-06T21:58:00.006+11:00

Wow!! Just realised its after midnight over here and I need to get my tuckus into bed as I have an early start for church in the morning.

This is a card I whipped up this afternoon (make that yesterday afternoon, lol) for one of my bestie's who has a birthday today (Sunday) - though I'm not seeing her until next weekend. Its a semi-big one.....the one before 40!!

I knew which stamp set I was going to use and then looked for the right paper before colouring this delicious Anya set in.

My dear friend is a Psychologist working mostly with children, youth and families. She's especially busy (sadly) and also has some presentations to make in the next couple of months and so is in a super busy time. I wanted to wish her a year of finding time for herself as well as everyone she cares for and these little Anya's were perfect.

I've based my card layout on Mercy's Tuesday Sketch for this week and am so proud of myself for continuing to participate in challenges atm. Hoping it will continue and I will get better at it as the year progress.

I actually decorated the inside of this card too......Cut some of the DP to fit and rounded the corners and used the "after" Anya to finish it off. I hadn't planned on distressing the edges of any of the papers, but clearly I need to replace the blade on my trimmer as it 'distressed' them all for me. :)

Yellow is definitely not my favourite colour to work with.....but I think I've pulled it off. My dear friend does great things with yellow as she has beautiful dark skin and luscious dark hair.

Card Deets:

Stamps: TGF "Me Time Anya"

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper: SU So Saffron, BG Two Scoops 'Creme Brulee'; Flourishes Classic White Paper

Others: Copics, Stickles 'Cotton Candy', PTI Ribbon "Sweet Blush", White Gel Pen, WeRMemoryKeepers Corner Chomper

CIC #44

2010-02-06T10:22:00.005+11:00

Hi there......I'm participating in my 2nd ever challenge!! Am definitely on a roll atm. :)

Firstly though, I'm apologising for the appalling photo of my card right up front!! Its definitely a shocker and I'm sorry. But the card has been given away and I can't take another photo!! It was a 3am finish and the party was that morning and my DSLR's memory card was full!! Anyways.....will be better prepared in future.

I made this card for a dear friend's birthday and since she loves cupcakes - I mean seriously loves them!! - I had to use a suitable image!! She's also a gorgeous, vibrant, often outrageous personality and so some suitable paper was necessary. Her's a glimpse into her world.....it was her 30th b'day and she decided to stage her own Sozympics with all her guests participating in various games/events in the chance of winning a gold medal!! Was a fun afternoon.

I chose a piece of BG JuneBug as my starting idea and just worked from there.

Sozzy loved it - and at the end of the day....that's all that matters.

Card Deets:

Stamps/Images: Verve 'Cupcake Affair'

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper/Cardstock: Basic Grey June Bug DP; Bazzill Card (Pink); Flourishes Classic White Paper

Others: Copics; Random Pink Ribbon x 3 from my stash; Nestabilities Die, WeRMemoryKeepers Corner Chomper

Kellie's Blog Candy - Check it out its pretty awesome!!

2010-01-29T23:31:00.003+11:00

The lovely Kellie Winnell from Magnolia Down Under has a fantabulous lot of candy going at the moment!!

It's the entire spring C.C. Designs SugarPlum kit. Included are 9 sugarplum kids, 2 accessory stamps and one set of spring sentiments.

Check out her blog post here for the deets on how to enter to win this too!! http://www.kelliewinnell.com.au/?p=4177

Good luck. :)

TGF CHA Relay Day 3: Toby

2010-01-28T10:21:00.006+11:00

Given the time difference and all (we're 17hrs ahead over here) ....I frantically photographed my card this morning after another 2hr marathon making my masterpiece last night and was just about to click to upload it when I discovered the rest of the relay has been shelved. So I've taken the pressure off myself to get it uploaded (I am at work after all, lol).

Part of me is sad.....I was enjoying participating in my first challenge, but part of me is relieved. I'm heading out to a concert tonight and was not looking forward to coming home late and sitting up making a card in the wee small hours so it was ready to go before the deadline. I'm excited about the prince digi though - will definitely get lots of use out of him. He looks a bit more like Robin Hood "Prince of Thieves" than a royal prince to me, lol.

Anyways, here's my Toby card!! I had a bit of bother colouring him in.....I couldn't get his fuzz right and the more I played and blended, the darker he became. Oh well - so he's a dark furred teddy. I think I'll get lots of use of this digi and one of my besties who's having a boy bubba soon will be getting this card.

I also followed Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge for the layout - another FIRST for me, YAY!!

On a sad note.....while cutting out my label die last night I think I killed my cuttlebug!! Actually, was while I was trying to feed it through again to get the embossing sharp that did it. Seriously bummed!! I tried to run through a plain piece of cardstock in an embossing folder afterwards and it was definitely wonky!! Shame. I had waited and waited and saved and saved to get one in the first place and it's definitely had good use since I got it...but it was still only 4 months old!! Have to wait until the next craft show and get another at a GREAT price. Any suggestions or advice on whether to get a Cuttlebug again....or is there something better on the market??

Card Deets:

Images: TGF Toby

Ink: Versacolour Cement (around extreme edge of blue mat & white base)

Paper: Flourishes Classic White Cardstock, SU Parisian Breeze, SU Soft Sky

Others: Copics!!, Copic Multiliner 0.3mm, MS Punch Train, Nestabilities Label Die, White Gel Pen

TGF CHA Relay Challenge 2: Charlotte

2010-01-27T09:05:00.003+11:00

Here I am again with Card No 2 for the TGF CHA Challenge.

I managed to get my printer hooked up to my iMac at home (finally!!) and printed gorgeous Charlotte onto proper cardstock. I did a test run to make sure the ink was colourfast with my darling Copics and, whoop-glory, it worked!!

I had a bit of a chat with wee Charlotte about papers and colours, etc. to find out what took her fancy. Wouldn't ya know it, she loves Pink Lemonade!! lol And I tried my hand at paper piecing for the first time.

Anyways, I need to get this loaded up into the gallery before work gets crazy busy this morning!!

Hopefully, I'll be back with a new card tomorrow (or tonight) for Relay Challenge 3!!

Card Deets:

Images/Stamps: TGF Charlotte (Digi), Verve 'Fairy Tales'

Card/Paper: Flourishes Classic White Cardstock, Basic Grey Lemonade

Ink: None (again)

Others: Copics, White Gel Marker Pen, Copic Spica Glitter Pens (Gold & Turquoise), Misc (yet beeyewdifull) Pink/Red ribbons, adhesives

TGF: CHA Challenge Day 1: Mer Ian

2010-01-26T04:05:00.003+11:00

Hello blog friends,

I'm finally posting a new card!! Yay!! I'm setting myself to participate in my first

ever challenges!! I'm going to try and get to as many of the digital images for TGF this week. To be honest with you I had thought I'd missed the timing for the first upload as it was......thought I'd needed to have it uploaded by 6pm Sunday and it was already an hour past that by the time I'd checked.....only to log in to blogger today to find it was 6pm Monday night!! It was already midnight here and I quickly scrambled outta bed and got my card done....Took me about 2.5hours from woh-to-go. THe colouring of the image was really difficult as I haven't set up my own epson printer up at home yet.....and so printed it at work and, of course, had forgotten to take some paper to the office with me. So its printed on our laser printer on good ol' stock-standard A4 copy paper. I went over the outline with my 0.3mm Copic liner but I still got some bleeding around poor ol' Ian's left eye.

Anyway, I've participated in my first challenge and we'll see how I go with the others for the week. At the least, I'll get a couple/few cute digi images. :)

Card Deets:

Image: Mer Ian (The Greeting Farm)

Paper: A5 White Card Stock, DSP from Memory Box (Glitterati), Regular Copy Paper

Ink: NONE!! lol

Others: My beloved Copics, Lime Green Ribbon, Paper Piercer, Basic Grey Buttons, White Gel Pen, We R Memory Keepers Corner Chomper, Adhesive (Glue Dots, ScorTape, Dimensionals

Magnolia Candy Alert

2010-01-09T15:18:00.002+11:00

Hey lovelies,

Check out Jodi's blog -------->

(See my sidebar to go directly to her post)

She has some awesome Magnolia Stamps Candy up for grabs.

Hope you are going great.....I'm seriously melting today......its a wee 35.8C in my house at the moment & its 3.30pm!! Blurgh.

Summer has finally arrived. Its supposed to be like this for the next 4-7 days......can't wait to go to back to work from my hols and be in the A/c on Monday!! :)

Still some of you lovelies are buried under snow atm, so each to their own, huh.

Lots of loving, Michey. xxx

Cards for St Judes Card Drive

2010-01-07T04:21:00.003+11:00

Hey lovelies,

I'm sorry not to have any new cards to share....I have them locked away in my camera for safe-keeping. :)

What can I say....I'm totally in relaxed holiday mode and am finding it hard to be motivated. I promise I will get better, lol.

Anyways, whilst blog surfing (instead of sleeping, oopsie) I followed a link and found a great cause.

I'm still learning this whole blogger thingy so I can't quite leave you a link to press to take you there, but I will upload their image and add their url to the piccie so you just click on my sidebar ----------> and it should take you straight to the blog post for all the deets.

I reckon its a great cause and I think some of us Aussies should do something like that for our kid's hospitals (the former paediatric nurse in me has taken a stand, lol!!).

Thanks for peeking. Hope you are staying cool or warm. Hehehe

Mwah!! Michey

Happy 2010 to you all

2010-01-01T01:08:00.004+11:00

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Hoping this new year brings new dreams,

new adventures and

new happy, happy times

to you and your loved ones.

Mwah!! Michey xxx

Birthday Cards Part 2

2009-12-17T16:29:00.005+11:00

Here are two more birthday cards I made this year.

Amy's Card:

Amy is my middle niece and is a very sporty girl. A real chip of her daddy's block (and he's my twin). I didn't think a girly girly card would fit her as well as my other niece....so hunted through my images to find the "right" one.

Rock the Farm Anya was right on the money!! Cute, but not too girly and feminine, if you know what I mean.

Amy's fav colours are purple and yellow - her football teams colours, go figure.

I didn't mind the purple - its my favourite colour too.....but the yellow, hmmmmm - well I did it - though its not in my top 10 of favourite colours or colour combos.

The photos all look a bit different in colour, I'm sorry - definitely need to think about setting myself up with some proper lighting and all for photos in the new year....can't get the right colour temp on my DSLR for night photos atm....and since that's often the only time I have to get a snap.....will have to consult my fellow photographer buddy for his opinion. :)

Jeanette's Card:

One of my Mama's dear friends needed a birthday card earlier in the year too!! She's a lovely older lady so I went with a card of lovely flowers.

I tried to remember what I had seen in Jeanette's garden when I was last there and themed my card around that. I used some of SU's past InColours. This was card was also CASE'd from someone's blog, but I can't for the life of me find the original post (if its you, please let me know so I can give credit). :)

This was also in the days before I discovered Copics....so my colouring is done by dabbing a fine paintbrush into the stamp pad and applying colour that way. Labourious and time consuming compared to my favourites, the Copics. :)

There also some razzle dazzle on this card - though its a little hard to see. I DD'd all the little blossoms on the lower panel. And made a matching envelope as well. Fancy, schmancy.

Thanks for taking a peek-a-boo.

Hugs, Michey xxx

THE DEETS:

Amy's Card:

Stamps: The Greeting Farm "Rock the Farm", Misc Alphabet stamps

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, SU Perfect Plum, Barely Banana

Cardstock: SU Whisper White, Perfect Plum, Barely Banana

Others: Spellbinders Embossing Plate, SU Perfect Plum + Very Vanilla Ribbon, Copics

Jeanette's Card:

Stamps: SU Embrace Life

Inks: SU Basic Black, Groovy Guava, River Rock, Old Olive, Regal Rose

Cardstock: SU Whisper White, Ginger Blossom, River Rock, Groovy Guava

Others: Paintbrush, Dazzling Diamonds, Random Brads, Groovy Guava Grosgrain

Club Anya Blog Hop

2009-12-15T14:11:00.003+11:00

Short and sweet....both in words and images:)

I know there's quite a list to get through in the hop.....so thanks for stopping for a peek anyways.

Here is a card I recently created for two gorgeous friends who recently got married (2 wks ago).

Sorry for the BAD photos....I forgot to take my DSLR away with me (I know, I know - what was I thinking) so had to use my iPhone.......and the sun was setting, romantic candlelight, etc....anyway they didn't turn out too badly. ;)

Card Deets:

Image: The Greeting Farm "Caketopper"

Cardstock: SU Kraft + Whisper White

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black + VersaColour Cement

Others: Nestabilities Dies, Copics, Spica Glitter Pens, SU Kraft Taffeta Ribbon

I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to make anything else for the blog hop.....life is outrageously out of control at the moment. Will promise to do much better next time. :)

Enjoy the rest of your hopping.

Hugs, MicheyMoo xxx

More Birthday Cards

2009-12-10T19:30:00.000+11:00

Here are some more birthday cards I made for some of my family throughout the year.

First up is the second card I made for my twin brother.

The first was sent to him whilst he was serving with the Army overseas.

This one was for the family celebrations we had on his return.

There were several birthdays whilst he was away and we just waited and had one big party when he was back in country.

He's an avid fan of fishing and loves to head out when he can get some free time.

This little Ian was just perfect for him.

And, then I also made this card for my brother's partner, Cutie, for her birthday.

She's not a girly-girl and I so struggled with making her a card that wasn't tooo over the top with embellies and the like.

Definitely no fluffy bits, nor kitschy pretty things and definitely no big bows or lace, BUT I did have to bling Anya up with some stickles!!

And a couple of rhinestone brads for the corners.

I couldn't help myself and I definitely couldn't give out a card with absolutely NO bling on it - esp not if it was for another girl!!

Cutie's favourite colour is blue, so I started there and it all came together.

These two are some of the cards I whipped together in a couple of hours, together with the one I made for my niece (see earlier post). My MoJo was definitely my friend that day. :)

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs, MicheyMoo

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Card Deets:

Dan's Card:

Cardstock: SU Not Quite Navy, So Saffron, Kraft, Whisper White

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, SU Not Quite Navy

Stamps: The Greeting Farm Ian "Rock the Farm"

Others: Multiple Copics, Misc Brads in Navy & Glittery Yellow; Nestabilities

Cutie's Card:

Cardstock: SU So Saffron, Whisper White, Urban Garden DSP, Vellum (over the DSP)

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black; Not Quite Navy

Stamps: The Greeting Farm Princess Anya

Others: Various Copics; Baby Blue Stickles, Misc Brads in Yellow and Blue blingey, Giga scallop punch