This One's A Bit Bright!

This is unheard of for ME - I've managed to fit 3 challenges into one small card - woohooo! But apologies if you feel the need to pop on your sunglasses - LOL. I was lucky enough to stamp this cutie off when I had the TPS girls over - thanx Kristy! She is just sooo adorable! I think she looks like she's holidaying on some tropical isle - just where I'd like to be as we head into Winter here in Oz! I've cut her floral headband out and popped it up for some extra fun! And if the sun were shining here - you'd see how much this sparkled!

Now onto the challenges I'm entering...

The wonderful new look Anya Ink asked for an easel card - tick (I love easels - LOL)

The Pink Elephant ask that you use the colour orange - tick  ( I actually love the colour orange but I know lots of people don't - poor orange!!!)

Mad for Markers ask you use feathering - tick (I used copics Y00 and YR00 for her dress and flowers - and thanx for the tutorial - it's such a fun technique)

The DP was from Kristy's Delicious Papercrafting store - if she doesn't have papers you'll LOVE you are just toooo darn fussy - LOL. This one is from October Afternoon's Thrift Shop, the 8x8 pad. I computer generated the sentiment - and my son and I were trying to remember the words to this song all morning - it wasn't very pretty for anyone's ears - LOL

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Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge #30 - How Charming

I'd like yo introduce you to the wickedly cute Pure Poison from Kraftin' Kimmie. Kellie has just got her instore at Tickled Pink Stamps and I just couldn't wait to colour her up after she landed in my mail box! Now I'd like to hope she was whipping up a love potion - but who knows! That deliciously sinister smile could be holding onto all sorts of secrets - LOL.

I thought I'd add one of my fabulous pirate charms so that I could enter this into this week's Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge - How Charming! The DP is Pirate Princess by Rusty Pickle and the ivy stamp is from SU. The charm and the rhinestone flourish are also from Tickled Pink Stamps.

The colours don't quite pop here like they do IRL - but then my camera is on the fritz so I'm lucky that I can take any pics! Am trying to figure out whether to repair or replace! Wish me luck!!!

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Burtonesque Dolls Challenge #4 - An Affair to Remember

This week's challenge from The Burtonesque Dolls is "An Affair to Remember" - you need to create something based on The Corpse Bride. Our marvellous sponsor this week is Busy Beauties Boutique - and we are honoured to be using their recently released images designed with The Corpse Bride in mind.

I've used Victor the Groom on my card - and have given him a bit of an Andy Warhol treatment - LOL! I came up with this idea recently but it's taken me a while to be able to use it on a card - Victor and TBD challenge gave me the opportunity to see if it worked out . The sentiment is computer generated and I haven't added too many embelishments because I think the bright colours are enough - AND it's a male card - LOL.

So hop on over to see what the rest of The Burtonesque Dolls have come up with and hopefully it will inspire YOU to experiment with your dark side - LOL

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It Wasn't Me!!!

I just LOVE Mo Manning's kids! And the grumpy little gal on the left is just toooo adorable - maybe it's because as a mother I can relate to a cross-armed grumpy little thing pouting at me - but at least this one I don't have to deal with once I print her out and colour her up - LOL.

The idea if playing with mum's things also holds fond childhood memories - and the trouble my sisters and I would get into - hahaha. My mum was never really one for make-up - but I do remember she loved building models and we would play car crashes with them - oops - sorry mum! And my dad's things didn't survive intact either - you should have seen his face when he discovered us soaking the stamps off his limited edition first day covers for our own humble stamp collections!

So these cuties are not only fabulous images - they also make me reflect back to when I was a child - and when my own kids were younger! These gals are Two Jill (left) and Ella in Trouble (right) and can be found at Mo's online store - HERE.

The DP is Basic Grey and the sentiment was computer generated - but something I remember hearing once or twice - LOL

BUT WAIT - are you a watercolourist and didn't think you could USE digis - well one of the lovely lady's from Mo's Dream Team had some fabulous hints for watercolouring digis HERE - thanx Mina - I know at least one friend of mine who is over the moon!

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Magnolia Down Under Challenge #47 - Shaped Cards

This week's challenge at Magnolia Down Under will get your creative juices flowing for sure - you need to make a "Shaped Card" - and trust me when I say I'm in awe of some of the AMAZING work our DT has come up with - even if there does seem to be a strawberry theme no-one told me about - LOL. Go check out the DTs work HERE.

I had a very special little lady in mind when I made my card. A good friend of mine had a sweet baby girl last week - 8 weeks prem and some extra challenges to face - but she's a fighter and I wanted to make something extra special for her. When I first thought of making a baby carriage card I wasn't sure if it would be for a boy or a girl - but the arrival of baby Maeve meant out came the pink papers, flowers and glitter.

I used THIS tutorial for inspiration - such a simple yet effective idea! I used one of my rectangular nesties to take out the "wedge" shape though - instead of cutting with pattern scissors. The DP is from Magnolia.

It's going to be such a fun and inspiring week of fun shaped cards - I can't wait to see what you guys come up with!

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Simply Betty Stamps

I'm just sooooooo excited to let you know that due to popular demand - and heaps of emails - Simply Betty Stamps has just opened for Pre-Orders - woohooooo - Go Betty!

But before you rush off to check them out make sure you stop by the blog  HERE  more information!! (HINT - you definitely want to visit the blog first - trust me!)

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Tickled Pink DT Challenge

Kellie often sets her Tickled Pink DT a little challenge - and this week she's asked us to use one of her FABULOUS Lil Lolita range of stamps and some "tickled" pink mixed with black or brown and cream or white. I've gone with black and white with the pink and the gorgeous Lylah. I've also used one of the square doilys Kellie is now stocking at Tickled Pink Stamps. The patterned acetate was sooo much fun to use and I was lucky to "pinch" a piece from Kristy last weekend. Some stickles around the edges and Lylah is all ready to party!

And the exciting news - Kellie now has these gorgeous stamps INSTORE and ready to ship....so what are you waiting for????

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Busy Beauties Blog Hop with The Burtonesque Dolls

If you've stopped by to see my Mo Manning Blog Hop Cards please scroll down to the next post!

Busy Beauties are releasing some marvelously macabre new images today and have asked The Burtonesque Dolls to celebrate! Their new images are inspired by the Tim Burton classic, "THE CORPSE BRIDE", and BBB illustrator Thomas Goins has really outdone himself with these amazing images! These fabulous images are right up the Dolls' alley, so we were invited along for the hop *and* are super excited to announce that Busy Beauties will be sponsoring our challenge next week too!

Check out all the hop stops for today beacause there are prizes so fab, it's freaky! Be sure to hop along and leave lots of comment love, because there are TWO Secret Beauties or Dolls along this Burtonesque inspired hop… and TWO winners will be selected from their blog comments to receive 5 (yep, FIVE) Busy Beauties images of his/her choice! So whether you are in the mood to be beauty-ful or get funky, we've got you covered.

 If you're following the hop you should have dropped in here from Rachel's blog. 

 

For my card I've used this fabulous marionette puppet image by Busy Beauties and a wonderful sketch by the very talented Catherine. The marionette is from a previous release but suits the new images fabulously. I did squish the sketch up a bit but all the elements are there - LOL. The DP was from some I bought a long time ago. I used my craft robo to cut the black framework on the side of my image and my nesties on the striped layer. I've cut out and toled the marionette for extra dimension - the picture on the left shows this better. I've used my black spica pen on the black details on the puppet - I just wish it showed up in photos!

The next stop on your blog hop is Barbara's blog. I hope you enjoy hopping around the world with the slightly twisted teams from Busy Beauties and The Burtonesque Dolls.

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Mo's Dream Team Blog Hop

YAY - as Miss May for Mo's Dream Team I get to play along on their monthly Blog Hop - woohooo! This month's theme is FLOWERS and was set by the lovely Mina. If you arrived here from Lori's blog you're heading in the right direction. I was sooo excited to be a part of this hop that I ended up making TWO cards - LOL. I've used 2 of Mo's gorgeous baby fairy's - I LOVE fairys!

My first card is an circular easel card and I've used Baby Fairy Yuriko. I wanted it to look like she was flitting around the garden so I made an extra large flower for the base of the easel. I've used my Lauren Meader rambling rose cut file and enlarged the pieces before cutting out with my craft robo. Some scrunching, glue and stickles and my flower was done! The card is created using my largest circle nestability. I used WordArt to create the sentiment to wrap around my image. This glitters sooo much IRL - there's dazzling diamonds on her wings, stickles on the large flower and around the scalloped edge - and I used my clear Spica pen on Yuriko's hair and dress.

I used Baby Fairy Flora for my second card - with her chubby little legs and sparkling wings she makes me wish there really are fairies playing in the back of my garden - and how SWEEEET would it be if they looked like this cutie! I've given Flora her own floral "playpen" using my MS punch and some sweet daisy lace trim I found. A mix of flowers for her to hide amongst adorn the top of the card with the honey bees buzzing around.

All the images on the hop, and sooo sooo many more, are available from Mo's Online Store HERE - and don't forget to join Mo's Facebook page too for all the news and chats!

The next flowery stop on your hop is Kerttu's blog. So off you go - hope you enjoy it!

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News From Delicious Papercrafting And General Goings On

Before I tell you the news I have for you wanted to apologise for being MIA in my blogging visits this last week. I've been struggling with a nasty cold and haven't had much of a voice. I've also had to organise quite a few things too at home. I've was lucky to have had my DT work done ahead of schedule so it's been popping up regularly while I've been "creatively challenged" - LOL.

Last weekend I had some of the Tickled Pink Stamps DT come to my place for the weekend. I was lucky to have recovered my voice for the weekend as there was plenty of chat and laughter to be had. As it was the first time some of us had met - and Kellie had recently launched her own line of gorgeous stamps - I decided to give Kellie a little gift to celebrate the occasion - after all she put the team together!!! I stamped the range of Lil Lolita's into a "group shot". I then gave them all red hair in honour of Kel - and they all have a touch of "Tickled Pink" somewhere too. Apart from that I coloured them in B&W and framed them in a simple back frame. I'm glad to say Kellie LOVED it - phew!

During the course of the weekend Princess (aka Kristy) asked us if we would all be a part of her Delicious Papercrafting DT - well of course we all said YES!!! Kristy has some AMAZING paper pads on sale - as well as Sweet Pea and TGF stamps, and other fabulous papercrafting goodies. Kristy has also started a blog to showcase some of the products she has on offer - check it out HERE and  don't forget to become a follower to keep up with any specials and news.

Here's a group shot of the DT we took on the weekend. Am just wishing we'd taken this on Saturday morning when we were all feeling a little less sleep deprived - LOL.
From Left to Right we have the Delicious Pink Ladies - Kellie, Fran, Kristy, ME and Kylie C.

As a special welcome to the DT and with the launch of the blog Kristy was feeling extra friendly - LOL - and has decided to have a store wide sale of 15% off store wide from Today 20/5 to 22/5. So make sure you pop over to the store HERE to check out the bargains! Don't forget to check out the 2nd hand sell off section too where Kristy has some used stamps and Prisma pencils etc.

Wishing you some delicious papercrafting that leaves you feeling tickled pink - LOL.

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