Yum! Gingerbread!

Hi everyone!    Time for me to play with some goodies I've had for quite some time ( like a year or more)  and never quite got around to playing with....the Base chipboard house and the Gingerbread decoration kit. Zoe has done a wonderful job creating these chipboard 3D kits and I certainly wouldn't want to make one from scratch!  Eeek! Too much like hard work!

The directions are great too, I  found it so easy to follow, no chance of left over bits or things going wonky! LOL

First I put together the basic house and painted the whole thing with gesso. I use this in preference to acrylic paint as it gives good coverage and dries heaps faster and I'm impatient.  The roof additions from the Gingerbread house kit were painted the same way and then plastered with Aleene's Glitter snow , its gives a great textured effect.

The base of the house I painted with a bronze acrylic paint as it was all I had that was in the right shade.....I think it turned out to be quite a good choice in the end too! A lucky accident...hehehehe.

Once I had this together I added the  snowy bits (technical terms here people...) and some more glitter snow to the roof cos this is a snowy scene of course.  Now time to decorate.

I made a base our of card and covered it with paper, stuck the house on it and added the painted fence, some buttons for colour then printed and coloured a tree and some dancing gingerbread men. These are attached using some acetate, to make them stand.

 Now I'm thinking, where is the snow on the ground?!!!!!!! Hmmmmmmmmm........

Make it Crafty Products

Base House Chipboard

Gingerbread Decorations Kit 

Gingerbread Man Dance Digi

Gingerbread Dancing Digi

Large Pine Tree Digi

Animal Crackers

Ok, so this fortnight at Southern Girls we are going Animal Crackers.. yep we want to see those four legged,  winged... any type of animal project

This round we have 3 lovely sponsors:

Marianne Design 

 Meljen Design

 The Paper Shelter

This was my excuse to get another Christmas card done, as I've been really slack lately, no inspiration , can't be bothered, blah, blah, blah......!But its spring and we finally have some nice spring weather and I'm feeling much more inspired....hope it lasts! LOL

So I've use Prancer from Meljen Designs, and in case you son't know who Prancer is, he's one of Rudolph's buddies! Looks like there is a sale on over at Meljens, 20% till the end of October, so why not check out some gorgeous digital images.  

The paper is Pink Paislee I think, the poinsettia and christmas tree dies are from one of our other fab sponsors, Marianne Designs

I'm entering this in Fab'n'Funky Challenge- Animals

Perfect Sentiment- Christmas critters

How many sleeps?

Well I don't know , but I do know that Christmas is creeping ever closer so what a great time to get started on some chrissy cards. And it just so happens that Zoe has some great new steampunk santa images just released !  And the new chipboard coming out is to die for....gotta get my paws on some of that!! LOL

Now he's kind of untraditional so I've gone for some untraditional colours, to match the Bo Bunny paper I've used.

I used some Glitter snow  on the edges and the snowflakes,  and some gilders paste on the mini decorations. They're actually nice and shiny IRL.

MIC products used

Christmas Eve Countdown Digi Stamp

Christmas mini decorations chipboard

Snowflakes chipboard

I'm entering this in Digital Tuesday- Steampunk

and Ooh La La Creations-Santa

Time for some FLY!

Had a great time on Sunday helping out at the Flygility tournament our club held on Sunday, down in Wanganui .  I was official photographer and managed to get quite a few very cool shots. Its a crazy sport and the dogs LOVE it! They run a course of obstacles ( jumps, tunnels etc)  hit the box at the end that releases the tennis ball, catch the ball and race back over the obstacles to the start/finish line. And what makes it more exciting is that they seem to know they are racing another dog in the lane beside them  and  can get quite hyped up, while the owner is shouting at them to GOOOOOO!!!!

                Nie doing her seal impression, go little girl!

Toonie on the turn...even little dogs can go fast!

Shaylar hoofing it out of the tunnel

Ted E about to inhale the ball!

My lot don't do this however....Vinnie has no teeth to catch a ball, Riley WON'T catch a ball in case Brodie tries to take it off him, and Brodie....well Brodie has started fly training, but hasn't yet progressed past the       " Cheat and miss most of the jumps , steal the ball and run away" stage...hehehehe.....