Squawk!

Pluto is here with a pressie for you! Wish my dogs could wrap like this.....their talents lay in unwrapping and shredding however!   

The new releases for this week are out at Little Miss Muffet today and tomorrow.  I've used the cute Pluto today and  made a fairly simple card, well for me it is anyway! 

As always, the lovely LMM ladies have made some beautiful projects for this release so go have a looksee at the LMM challenge blog. 

And check back tomorrow for another gorgeous new release!

Punch it!

Hi guys Are you all ready for a new challenge at the Emerald Faerie garden?

The challenge for this fortnight is "Punches/Dies"

I've used the gorgeous Isabella and put her in front of Pond-a-lily from MIC.  I also dug out punches I haven't used in ages, including the retro flower punches .  Coloured with copics, lots of stickles and pearls and voila! 

Now off you go and create

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She's rude!

This week's challenge at Make it Colourful is to colour sheer clothing...I think I went overboard!!!!!!  She should have something more substantial on under that blouse! LOL!

I've used some Websters paper, my new wreath die from Memory box ( LOVE it!!!!) , chipboard butterflies from MIC and some pearls to finish.

From this challenge onwards, Make it Colourful challenges will be fortnightly....gives you more chance to play with techniques and join in the challenges! Yay!  And once a month there will be a special challenge also.

I'm entering this card in Scrap Creations - Its a girl thing

Animals and Monsters

This weeks challenge at Little Miss Muffet is to use an animal or a monster on your project.   I've used the adorable Adela & Dida ...why...cos it has a cute puppy of course! LOL!
The gorgeous stitched paper is a sheet of Prima  which I chopped up after much gnashing of teeth and I love it!

Check out the cool signature Barbara designed for me, she has made one for all of the Dt members. Thank you Barbara!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZOE!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZOE!!!

To commemorate this joyous occasion, we're so excited to bring you a Birthday Blog Hop disguised as a Christmas Blog Hop!! We wanted to celebrate Zoe's Birthday in style so there are lots of inspiration, prizes, freebies and even a gallery album for you to express your own birthday greetings. This is one hop you don't want to miss and it only goes from now until October 12th!

The general theme for this hop is Christmas and what fun would a hop be without some new images?! Zoe has released some fabulous new holiday themed images and they are a must on anyone's holiday list - but the best part is you get 15% off ALL the Christmas digis from now until Sunday, October 2nd.  Click on this link HERE to see them all and the discount will be automatically deducted from the cart. Please be aware the discount is only for this week even though the blog hop is for two weeks - so make sure to grab them at this sale price while you can!

Before we get to the hop, there's more details and a surprise in order... Everyone in this blog hop is giving away Blog Candy!!  Whoohoo!! You'll have two weeks, until October 12th, to visit each member in the hop below and winners will be announced on Friday, October 14th on their individual blogs.  Feel free to grab the badge below and display it on your sidebar to spread the word about Zoe's Birthday and Blog Hop!

My blog candy !!!

I'd ask if you're ready for some inspiration yet, but wait... we've got yet another surprise for you!! We contacted one of Zoe's artists (S.H.) who also wanted to participate and drew us this gorgeous party girl for the occasion. Thank you!!

This is "Party Girl Zoe" and isn't she ca-ute! We wanted to make sure everyone was included in our celebration so we're giving away Party Girl Zoe as a freebie to everyone who wants to join in and spread some birthday cheer!! All you need to do is create a new project using a Make it Crafty image or chippies and upload it into the gallery HERE by October 12th. Then email  Barbara, at ForgottenScraps@gmail.com with a link to your project to claim her!

Now are you ready for some Christmas inspiration? Grab a cuppa, sit back and relax, and get ready to enjoy a plethora of inspiration from the design team. 

I used these gorgeous naughty elves from MIC called Crackerd Elf and they are available as digis from the store .   The paper is Kaisercraft  Dear Santa, the sentiments from Whimsy.  And I made a card for Zoe too, with who else but Zoe Celebrates!  

Happy Birthday Zoe!!!!!!!!!!

Make it Colourful
Jane
Jen
Viv -- you are here
Angela- Head on over here now!
Annika
Delphine
Elaine
Tracy
Debbie
Maria
Beccy
Carole
Barbara

We hope you've enjoyed the hop and make sure you head on over to Zoe's personal blog and wish her a Happy Birthday! Grab the Christmas Blog Hop badge and display it on your sidebar to spread the word about Zoe's Birthday and Blog Hop! Until then, happy coloring!

I stole Solly's toy!

And look at me! Rar!  I keel it!

MINE!!!!!!

Thanks Janie for taking the pics!!!!

Southern Girls Birthday Blog Hop

Woohoo! Time for the winners!   The Southern Girls birthday bloghop was sponsored by a multitude of companies and my blog post was on behalf of Zoe and Make it Crafty!  

The winning commenter and gorgeous card entry for my blog prize is Ike.  

   You need to contact Lou or Tracy at

southerngirlschallenges@gmail.com to collect your prize!!! 

More new releases!

Barbara has been busy again this week and has 4 new images for this release from Little Miss Muffet.  I've only had time to make one card but I'm happy with this one, it just came together easily. I've made an easel card, with some yummy papers from memory Box.

The big white flower I made from crinoline ( from The Funkie Junkie Etsy shop)  cut with sizzix dies and scrunched up and held together with a fab brad from SU. 

I've used the gorgeous Megan from Little Miss Muffet Stamps and put her on a bench from MIC and the tree is also from MIC. 

Now pop on over to the challenge blog to see what the others have done with these gorgeous new images. 

Anything goes!!

Woohoo!  How easy is that! Anything goes, you choose. 

Southern Girls Challenge this week is being sponsored by Robyn's Fetish and Paper Pretties.   I saw this cute christmas mouse called Swisserland, at Paper Pretties and decided to get started on my christmas cards. OK, I know some people have done heaps already , I'm a bit slow as always......

Anyway, I had this yummy paper from Websters Pages so it was no hard decision what to use, I love thses colours. The xmas tree is a Marianne Die, the snowflakes are lasercut chipboard from MIC covered with frosted lace stickles. The sentiment is from Catslife Press.
 Right now go check out the gorgeous cards and layouts from my teamies and why not join in our challenge!

Scared?

Its time for the Make it Colourful challenge again and this week we want you to use orange and black. Well, with all the spooky backgrounds and gorgeous halloween characters Zoe has released recently this was an easy scene to create!

I've used this soooo cute Mini Dracula and put him into the Spooky Graveyard . The card is pretty simple, just some scary branches and black mesh and a couple of bats I cut out and popped up.
If you want to see the rest of the DT projects, head on over to the gallery .

Now I am three!

Yep, its was my birthday yesterday and I am 3 years old, only 2 more years and mum says I can go to school! Had a fun day, played with Solomon, ate a yummy tea with my very own icecream to finish with!  Yum!

Winged Things

This week at Little Miss Muffet Challenges, we want to see your winged things!   I've used the sweet Butterfly Kisses and seated her on the Whimsical Log background from MIC.   The paper is Prima. I didn't want to cover too much of the paper, I love it!  

Now check out the gorgeousness created by my teamies over at the challenge blog. 

I was late finishing this, and I hate being late, but I've been cuddling my wee boy Vinnie. He is now officially a gummi bear! No teeth!! At all!  None!    Hopefully removing them all will stop the continual infections in his jaw and prevent heart problems later on. Poor baby........ he's got a very sore mouth at the moment......
 

Its a Man/Boy thing!

I've been having a tidy up in my craft room today and finding all sorts of stuff I'd forgotten I had.....hehehehe! Now I can go and make another mess and lose stuff again. Ahhh bliss!


For once I am entering a card in a challenge and its not a DT card!   I was asked to make 6 boy cards.....great...don't we all love them!   This was one that I was happy with, using a Mo Manning image.

I'm entering this in Praire Fairy Fridays - Snips & snails

and Totally Gorjuss- Its a man thing

Birthday pressie

Its not his birthday till next month but would he wait? Oh no!  This is the other half's pressie, which I saw in a shop in Palmerston North last month.  Thought it was pretty cool myself, so had to buy it of course! Most of the VW stuff ends up in the man cave but this can stay inside ......

Colour with Purple

Hi ya everyone! Its another Make it Colourful challenge tonight and we want you to colour with purple. And for those of you who haven't heard, the challenges are now being posted in the Make it Crafty Gallery, to make it easier us to check out your gorgeous entries.
Once again I dug out my BG Wisteria paper and tried to match my purples to those on the paper. And her hair had to be that shade to blend her in completely! LOL!

The girl is Bloom Mae from Some Odd Girl who are sponsoring this challenge.  I've used MIC Peaches of Plenty and Daffodil dell   The chipboard leaves and butterfly are also from Make it Crafty and they are just perfect for finishing off a card.   The sentiments are from Whimsy.

New release time again!

Barbara has been busy again and this weeks release over at Little Miss Muffet Stamps is four gorgeous girls for you to play with . On my card I have used Kaitlyn, and she looks like she is so enjoying summer. We've just stepped into spring here in NZ so I'm feeling the warmth!   I've used another background from Make it Crafty- called sunflower garden .

The paper is DCWV Citrus , cardstock is SU, and the ribbon leaf stuff from my stash. 

Blog Hop Birthday Celebration!

Can you believe we are a year old?, and what a fantastic year it has been with the support from all our wonderful sponsors, and to be on the best Design Team anyone could wish for. In celebration of this, we have an amazing bloghop with some of our fantastic regular sponsors giving away fabulous prizes. You should have arrived from the lovely Bettina  if not, head back to Southern Girls  where there is  a full blog hop list.

I have used a sentiment and  two  digital images from Make it Crafty,  called Alvida the Pirate  and Treasure Chest .  Also the gorgeous lasercut chipboard pieces I have added ( covered in Viva pearl pen)  are from Make it Crafty . The lovely Zoe  is giving away a $15 store voucher to one lucky lady who 1) - comments on my blog and 2) - enters the challenge at Southern Girls.

So, to recap.... the rules are simple, make sure you make a card and enter on Southern Girls Challenges, also leave me a comment, and on the 20^th of September I will draw a random name, that will be a winner of the sponsor that I am showcasing.

Now head on over to  Nik,    have fun......

No Lines?

No black lines is the the challenge this week at Make it Colourful and this is the first time I've tried it, though the facebook group have been playing around with this technique for a few weeks.  I used a light ink to stamp Tilda, (London Fog Memento) , stamped off on paper first to remove some of the colour , then stamped on card.  The Mushroom background was altered in photoshop by reducing the transparency to about 20%.    Difficult to colour?  Certainly more challenging and you do need to think about it a lot more, we really rely on those lines. It helps to have a copy of the image in full strength to follow when you get lost! LOL! 

The background is Whimsical mushroom from MIC and the chippie dragonflies are  also MIC and I love these beasties for embellishing , they seem to go with so many things.   

The paper is BG Wisteria  and cardstock is SU river rock . 

If you aren't aware, Make it Crafty has a new gallery HERE for entering the challenges so we can see the cards and leave comments easier. 

Purples, Blues and Greens!

This week over at Little Miss Muffet we want you to show us your purples, blues and greens!  I had to use my new cheery lynn butterfly dies just cos they're so pretty! LOL!

I've used the adorable agent cupcake from Little Miss Muffet Stamps and another background from MIC.

The paper is Kaisercraft Lilac Avenue, cardstock is SU and the swirly corner is a cuttlebug die. 

And yes, my guest DT spot is over, but the lovely Barbara asked me if I would like to stay on and play some more so of course I said YES!!!!  so it looks like you're stuck with me for a while now ! Hehehehe!

Buttons!

Hi everyone!  Time for a new challenge at the Emerald faerie  garden and this fortnight  we want you to use buttons! 

I've used Ashee cos he's so cute and thrown him onto some BG wisteria paper that I've  painted with gesso. The chipboard from MIC has been painted with gesso also.  The buttons are from my stash .

now off you go and create

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