Sentiment Time!

Hi to everyone out there in Blogland

Today the Emerald Faeries Garden is extremely proud to annouce the Release of 2 brand spanking NEW SENTIMENT RUBBER STAMP SETS!!!! We are so excited to be proudly bringing these special new stamps onto the the world wide web & are now for sale at THE EMERALD FAERIES ONLINE STORE

These gorgeous Sentiment Stamps have been designed by 2 of the Emerald Faeries Garden Design Team ladies- how Brilliant are they!!!!

The Beautiful Flourish Sentiment Rubber Stamps have been designed by the very Talented DONNA SMITH & the most Awesome Ticket Rubber Stamps have been designed by the vert Talented ANITA MARIE BOWNDS I am sure you are going to Love these new sets & they have been specially created to co ordinate with the Emerald Faeries Garden Stamps!

Proudly presenting Donna Smith's Flourish Rubber Stamp Sentiments-:

Proudly presenting Anita Marie Bownds Ticket Rubber Stamp Sentiments-:

Be sure to check out what The Emerald Faeries Garden Design Team A have created with this Gorgeous New release Peeps- here is their Blog List for you-:



Tracy Jackson's Blog-: http://stampingseasons.blogspot.com/
Louise Forsyth's Blog-: http://punknscrap.blogspot.com/
Viv Pert's Blog-: http://doggonecrazy-viv.blogspot.com/  Dats Me!!!!!
Natalie Z's Blog-: http://fifishobby.blogspot.com/
Anita Marie's Blog-: http://neat-n-crafty.blogspot.com/
Debbie pamment's Blog-: http://debbiepsplace.blogspot.com/
Nela's Blog-: http://nelasbasteleien.blogspot.com/
Sandie's Blog-: http://sandieshores.blogspot.com/
Carol's Blog-: http://carol-mylittlepieceofheaven.blogspot.com/

Now here is my Card I made for this wonderful new Release  using one of Anita Marie's sentiments and Boo & Snookie

Don't forget to pop on  over to The Emerald Faeries Design Team B to see what gorgeousness they have created with the New release too!

Deb Mitchell-: http://atouchofdeb.blogspot.com/
Donna Smith-: http://bearlymine.blogspot.com/
Vicki Bailey-: http://vicmbeescards.blogspot.com/
Tracey Manderson's Blog-: http://traceyscountrycraft.blogspot.com/
Julie Hill's Blog-: http://juliehillscrap.blogspot.com/
Iulia's Blog-: http://juliesadorables.blogspot.com/
Debra James's Blog-: http://james-ee.blogspot.com/
Suzi MaManus's Blog-: http://wwwsuzies.blogspot.com/
Mona's Blog-: http://monasbittelillescrappekrok.blogspot.com/

Ladies ,also check out the New Challenge on the Emerald Faeries Garden Challenge Blog for this fornight's brilliant challenge-: SUGAR & SPICE- ALL THINGS GIRLY!!!

Here is my card for this fortnights challenge at the Emerald Faerie Garden-  Sugar & Spice.  Ok, not your typical girly colours but then I'm not really a pink person !  I've used Ally & Beeble and one of Donna's new sentiments . These colours remind me of my favourite chewy ginger bikkies  ( lots of sugar and spice!LOL!)

I'm entering this card in Truly Scrumptious- Things with wings

and 2 sisters Challenge- Fairies

Party Time!!!!

Make it Crafty is turning ONE!!

Woohooo – The celebrations have begun at Make it Crafty!!!

We are excited today to be sharing this celebration with Quixotic Paperie, who were the very first company to take on the Make it Crafty line of stamps, laser cut embellishments and now the Make it Colour blending card.

Quixotic Paperie are celebrating too! It has been their two year anniversary celebrations for the month of June!

To celebrate we thought, rather than a blog hop we would set a CHALLENGE using Make it Crafty products!!

To get inspired, hop on over to the Make it Colourful challenge blog where you will see the amazing creations our fabulous DT’s have created for this event! PLUS find out all the details on how you can play along!

OF COURSE THERE ARE PRIZES!!

There are FIVE challenge categories and there will be FIVE GRAND WINNERS!

PLUS, PLUS, PLUS

There will be random winners throughout the whole month.  The numbers have been pre-selected and as soon as an entry is added that matches that number they WIN! Winners will be announced soon after entry on the sidebar of Make it Colourful.

PLUS there’s MORE!!

Quixotic Paperie have a little something for you too!! Make sure you pop on over to HERE to enter your name for a chance at MORE Make it Crafty Goodies!!

PLUS THERE’S MORE!!!

Zoe, the owner of Make it Crafty has a super duper HUGE Candy give away – choc-a-block FULL of Make it Crafty goodies!! AND I have heard a whisper that she is planning on having random giveaways on her blog throughout the month of July! All you need to do is leave her some love as she’ll randomly be choosing people who have commented on her posts throughout the last year!!

PLUS THERE’S EVEN MORE!!!

You’ll also receive a set of steak knives when you...  hahaa ONLY Joking BUT... for THREE DAYS ONLY you’ll be able to get 40% off Make it Crafty Digi Stamps when you enter the coupon code: CELEBRATE

(Ends June 28^th)

So I do hope you will celebrate with us this month and get into the Make it Crafty spirit of FUN!!  The challenge is to follow one of these categories:

1.       Merge as many images as you can

2.       The most creative combination of images

3.       Rubber stamps only

4.       Chipboard Only (no image)

5.       Colour using the MiC Logo colours – blue/mustard/yellow and brown

Now onto my card , where I have attempted to merge as many MIC digi images as I could.  Ok, my first attempt had so many in it I would've been able to wallpaper my craftroom with it so I had to cut it back to a manageable size. guess I won't win the prize for the most images merged now..... : (

The images I've used are Notti , Vixie, Daffodil Dell ,Hilly Lane twice, Park bench for two, Wonky House on a hill  and Whimsical Mushrooms three times!!!

Anything goes

Ever have one of those weeks when 

nothing goes your way?  I'm having so much fun  ,NOT! trying to recover lost digi downloads , photos etc as our brand new computer poo-ed itself over the weekend.   Apparently they call it infant mortality in the electronics business. If the hard drive is going to fail, it usually happens in the first six months, so we got the cot death of computers! Bah!!! Of course, being new, I hadn't bothered yet to do an external backup anywhere....grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

The good news is that Vinnie is feeling much better and is almost his old self again. Check up on Friday and fingers crossed we wont have this problem again.

And my little gingernut Riley did so well at the agility champ show over the weekend. He got faster and more confident with every run.  Three clear round certificates with a 5th place, a 6th place and an 8th.  Go the Ginga!   Howvere, we wont talk about Brodie, as one of the judges said to me...." He's a typical goldie , they are BLONDE!"   She's allowed to say that, she has two of them! LMAO!

Now on to my card for the Southern Girls Challenge for this fortnight. Anything Goes! Yay!  Our sponsors are Stamp Fairy and Simply Betty.

I've used a Simply Betty image called  Prezzies for Lola you can find HERE.  

Paper is basic gray, that I've had for years, with a Whimsy sentiment, hand dyed seam binding , some chipboard hinges I found in my stash and coloured with copics.

How about a bit of blue....

OK, blue mushrooms and blue hair? Well, its possible I'm sure!!!!!

  This weeks challenge at Make it Colourful is to use blue , with other colours.   We are sponsored by Tiddly Inks and I've used the gorgeous Briar - Dogs R Fun and merged it with Make it Crafty  Mushroom house .

I've used Make it Crafty chipboard for the flower centre, the butterfly and the leaves. I love these leaves!

Around the edges I used distress crackle paint , a magnolia label die, a heart cut with my silhouette,  SU sentiment and hand dyed seam binding. The flower is made with crinoline and tulle, dyed with distress inks.  The paper is MME Stella Rose Hattie and I love these colours ! 

I'm absolutely shattered after working all week, and stressing about poor wee Vinnie the Poo.  He has recurrent infections in his jaw so had to have four teeth pulled out under anaesthetic yesterday after an xray to find the problem spots. Poor baby is so sore, he cried quite a bit during the night, even with pain relief, wouldn't eat yummy soft food offered last night and all day today.  I did manage to feed him some cat food off a spoon tonight so I think he must be starting to feel better!  He'll probably insist on cat food now! LOL!  Hopefully tonight we might get some sleep........

Turtles are it!

Just back from a fantabulous weekend at a Dog Training conference with some amazing speakers and I'm all inspired about how I'm going to fix my problems ! LMAO!   Met some great people, spent lots of money , now I'm not looking forward to a whole 4 days of work! EEEK!

I was asked a while ago to make a card for a friend's auntie who loves turtles. That was the only direction I got....hmmmm.....but luckily I had this cool image from Crissy Armstrong so I managed to make her a card which she apparently loved.

I'm entering this in Corrosive Challenge- Summer colours
                            My Creative Moments- Tails

Bling it!!!

Its a new challenge over at The Emerald Faerie Garden Challenge blog  and we are challenging you to BLING it!  How easy is that!   I've used the darling Ebony from  The Garden Emerald Faerie ( Deb's Creations) .

I have to admit this card went through several transformations. Gorgeous paper but what i first put together was so horrendous I almost keeled over in shock!  EEEEKKKK!  LMAO!

Anyway, after much ripping of paper and gnashing of teeth I managed to alter it enough that I didn't feel too embarrassed to show it in public. Why is it that what you see in your head to start with turns out nothing like you imagined?

So, the paper is Kaisercraft Gyspy Sisters, and the tag comes in a sheet at the back of the pad with other designs. I just stamped on to it .

The corner flourishes are from Make it Crafty , covered in stickles , with no help from the cat this time.  The gorgeous lacy ribbon I bought goodness knows where, and the 

eyelet was added with a crop-a-dile thingamijiggy.

I'm entering this in Allsorts Challenge- things with wings

Delicious Doodles- lovely lace