A Year in Review

I have chosen my favourite creation from every month of this year to show you my year in review. Hope you like.

January

Feb

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

Nov

December

Merry Christmas

Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas.

May it be a safe and happy one.

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This card was made for the Copicendium December issue.

So late. So Sorry.

I seems in the Christmas madness I have forgotten my Friday Sketch Challenge post. Sorry. I forgot all about it. No excuses. At least I got a card made huh. lol Just feel busy busy at the moment and can't wait for the madness to end. The kids will be stoked with their presents so hoping after the initial excitement it will keep them quiet for a little while. To change it up a bit I did this card instead of a Christmas card. Enjoy. Make sure you join in our challenge. It is running for four weeks instead of two.

Monster anyone....!!!!

If you would like to know more about my little monster - go here.

Teachers plant.....

...seeds of knowledge that grow forever.

I did it. I managed to get the needle felted apple finished for Tyler's teacher Miss Spano. He loved it so am hoping she will too. It is the second one I completed. The first one I was unable to give as a gift - at least to a Grade 1 teacher (that is what grade she is teaching next year) as I broke a felting needle in the middle of it. Oops...!!!! So back to the start. But it turned out well. I made the 'box/stand' although am thinking that I should have made it so the apple stays there but any person/child can pick it up and play with it. We will see I guess. If she has it at school who knows but I made an effort and that is the main thing - Right....!!!!???

Cheating

This year I have found that I have a bucket load of cards to send and give out so in my exhaustion to try and get them all finished I decided to cheat. I took two Mo Manning Little Elf Finn stamp and coloured them up (the same). I photocopied them all on another piece of card, two images at a time. Phew....!!! That in itself was time consuming but I did it and it was quicker that colouring 14 images by hand. The top two cards (see below) used the original coloured images that I photocopied. The following cards use the photocopied images. They turned out really well and if you are in a hurry or have lots of cards to do this is the way to go.

These cards were given to the Kinder girls at Ashley's

occasional care and the other will be given to Lachi's

kinder teachers.

These will be sent or given out to people.

My baby's 4 today

Hard to believe that my baby girl is four today.

I feel like she has grown up so quickly. She will be

off to Kinder next year and boy is she so ready for it.

Here is just some photos of her over the last couple of years or so.

My pretty girl.

Having a dingly dangly Xmas

Morning everyone. It is hump day. Woo hoo. Ahhh I feel exhausted. Just want the silly season to be over. All these activities we are doing this year are very tiring. No matter. I am sure we will get through it in one piece.

Today I have a card made for Mad for Markers using the sketch from The Sweet Stop. I used this gorgeous elf stamp from Digital Pencil. I do love Mo's stamps. This card was made especially for Tyler Prep teacher Miss Spano. He really loves her and he wanted me to make a special card for her. If I have time (yeah right) I might be able to manage a needle felted apple.

Copics used:

Skin: E0000, 00, 11, 02

Bauble: BG10, 11, 23, Kindyglitz

Clothes/Hat: W1, W3, blender, R17, 24, 22, 29

Boots: BG13, 15, 18

leaf: G21, 24, 26 (my own blend)

Background: BG11, 23, clear Spica pen.

Aussie Santa salute

Oh man...!!!! Phew....!!!! I don't know about anyone else but this year I have lagged so behind in my Christmas cards and I keep receiving more so have to give out more. It was so much simpler when it was just friends and family - now it is the kinder and school community. Ahhhh...!!! I am not gonna get enough cards made.

This one has to be the one I enjoyed making the most. This fabulous Santa stamp and beach background stamp were purchased from Make it Crafty. You can buy these and a lot more from the store. Santa was printed on white card but background was printed on Kraft card. I wanted Santa to stand out. Enjoy your day.

Friday Sketch Challenge #7 by Genevieve

Good morning. I am so late with this post. So sorry. This fortnight at Friday Sketch Challenge we have a wonderful sketch from the very talented Genevieve. I love this sketch. At it the bomb....!!!! Anyway. I used one of the new images from Spesch that came out on the 8th. If you go to the store you can purchase them now. Enjoy. Make sure you pop by the FSC blog and see the creations by the talented DT.

Blog candy alert

The gorgeous Mindy has this awesome candy to give away. Be quick it ends the 10th December. Go here to read more about it.

Red, Purple, Blue

It is Wednesday - so that means it is time for my Mad for Markers post.

Christmas is only a little over a month away and I have not yet finished my cards. How aobut all of you....??? I definately do not want to be leaving to the last minute - in fact I normally try and get my cards out the first week of Christmas. Phew - and then I wait for cards to arrive in case I forgot someone - which happens quite often.

As I am not in a very creative mind at the moment I decided to print out multiples of the same image and colour them in different colours. So here they are. Hope you get some inspiration.

Skin: E0000, E00, E11, E02

R20, 22, 24, 29, 89, blender, R000, 01 (background)

W9, 7, 5, 3, 1, blender

Skin: E00, 00, 11, 02

V09, 12, 15, 17, V0000, 000 (BG)

W9, 7, 5, 3, 1, blender

Skin: E000, 00, 11, 02

B39, 29, 24, 21, 95, B0000, 01, 02

W9, 7, 5, 3, 1, blender

This little elf is available at Make it Crafty.