Southern Girl Challenge DT call

Tracy and Lou are looking for new DT members for their new Challenge blog. You can find the blog here. This is what they had to say:

Do you like to inspire others? Do you like to have fun? Well then... we want you!!!!

Southern Girls are putting out a DT call for 6 amazing crafty individuals worldwide...(yes if there are men out there... you can apply too!!!) Its as easy as 1, 2, 3!!!

1 – you will be required to make one craft project a month – card, sb layout or 3d or anything else that takes your fancy as long as it meets the challenge requirements. (SG is a fortnightly challenge blog but we will be split into two teams)

2 – you must leave comments on all entries.

3 – Have fun!!!

What do you have to do....

Make a card/project for us using your favourite things, (could be a stamp, or glitter even flowers!), put on your blog and say it's for our DT call and email your project to

southerngirlschallenges@gmail.com

Also include......

• Name

• Blog (if you have one)

• Tell a bit about yourself, where you are from, what your hobbies are, fav products, anything you would like to share with us. Yeah just call us nosey.lol.

Also any Dts you are currently on (please dont be put off if you havent any DT experience.. we are on the look out for fresh new faces also)

If you dont have a blog, dont let this put you off, still send in a photo of your project.

The Design Team call ends 27th August 2010.

See... I told you it was easy!

Look forward to seeing you all apply!!!

Tracy and Lou

Sweet Pea with Friday Sketchers

Good morning everyone. Hope we are all well. We are good here apart from me feeling not 100% and having no idea why. No matter.

I made this simple. I didn't want to put too many embellishments on here as the DP and image are all very busy already. As some of you already know this DP by Amy Butler will always be my favourite and I am nearly out of it :( boo hoo. LOL. Thought I would give it a go with a Sweet Pea image and the sketch from Friday Sketchers. I actually forgot about the ribbon/strip through the middle of the card so had to put on top and it actually looks better that it would if it were underneath. So I guess your mistakes make things look better sometimes. LOL.

It is a miserable Sunday here in Melbourne. It is raining has been raining all night and you would think it were Winter LOL. My hubby thinks it is Spring rain as the drops are so big. Meh we are nearly there. Not too long until the end of the month. Man I just don't know where the time goes. Have a good one.

Joy

Another Christmas card.

I must admit that the card I posted yesterday wasn't exactly a nothing card.

I made that and this card for the TGF Critter Crew DT call.

Hmmm as you can tell I didn't get on the team but I

will keep trying.

Hope you all have a great Saturday. My folks are coming down for a visit.

I really hate being so far away from them but hubby wants to stay in Melbourne

so not much I can do about it.

Have another headache today. Getting a bit annoying having them constantly again.

Ahhhhh I don't know what is wrong with my body. I need a new one.

Once upon a time...

Good evening everyone. Yep it is evening here. 11pm to be exact. I am most likely in bed by now that is why this is scheduled LOL. Anyway. No babbling.

This card is for Stamp Something Challenge of 'Fairytale Something'. This week our wonderful sponsor is Magnolia-Licious. Ohhhh my favourite place to shop. LOL. I left it pretty simple as I just love this DP from Magnolia. Pretty cute isn't it. This and the two stamps used on this card can all be purchased from Magnolia-Licious. Hope you get some inspiration from my card.

Critter Xmas

This card is pretty much a nothing card. I just made it.

I love these cuties from TGF so thought it was a good opportunity to

get some more Christmas card made.

Dec 25

Good morning Copic lovers. Hope you are all well on this fabulous Thursday. Yes I am in a super duper mood. Thursday is not only my Mad for Markers post day but also my day off from my three kids. LOL.

I thought I would get a head start on my Christmas cards this year and bought myself some Lili of the Valley xmas stamps and this is one of them. Isn't he just the cutest. I decided to give him a fur look. Hope you get some inspiration from my card.

Tip for colouring 'fur': Make sure your fur strokes barely touch the card otherwise your lines will be too thick.

Copics used:

Hat & ribbon: R20, R22, R24, R27

Fur: E50, 51, 53, 55

White: C1, C0, Blender

Shading around image: B000, B0000.

Products: Lili of the Valley stamp; Bo Bunny DP; kaisercraft xmas stamp; embossing powder; Versamark ink; SU RHR ink; Snowflake Shapabilities; Ice Stickles; White gel pen; Pearl brad; Distress ink

WOYWW & Tiddly Ink

Hello everyone. Sorry for such a late post but am trying to get things organised for my day at the Melbourne Paperific Fair at the end of this month. The fabulous Sammi from Mad for Markers is having a stall at the fair and was generous enough to give me a little space so I can sell some of my clear stamps. If you are in Melbourne on the weekend of the 27th August come and visit me and Sammi. We would love to meet you all. I will only be there on the Friday but Sammi will be there the whole weekend.

As you can see in my WOYWW photo I have lots of Spesch stamps stamped out and in the process of masking and airbrushing them all so I can make my own little tabs/flags (so to speak). I received a fabulous package in the mail yesterday (of which I didn't realize I had won). I won one of Amy Young's candy's for her new Halloween stamps for ATS so that was a wonderful surprise.

I made this card for the Tiddly Inks challenge of 'Fit for a Princess' cards but I didn't realize it ended on Monday so I missed the cut off. Ooopppssss....!!!! Will try and fit in another card for the current challenge which is 'Windows'.

Copics used:

Skin: E000, 00, 21

Dress: R00, R0000, R11, R12

Tie: C9, C7, C5

Crown/staff: C1, C3, C5, YR21

Acetate fun

Morning all. Is it Friday already....???? LOL. The weekends go so quickly and the weeks so slowly. Oh well at least I have my card making to keep me occupied.

Okay on to my card. This month at Just Magnolia we have been asked to use Acetate on your creation. I couldn't figure out what to do and then a light went off. I hadn't used my Magnolia Doo-hickey Peony's yet so here they are in their glory. I love die cutters. They are just so easy to use. I thought I would go with an easel card. The card size is 4"x6". I find it hard to find 6x6" envelopes and I do not have a scor- pal so this size will have to do.

The whole image was coloured with Prismacolor pencils. I do like using the pencils but just can't seem to get the skin colour quite dark enough. If anyone has alternatives to Light Peach, Peach and rosy pink let me now - that would be helpful.

This stamp is one of my first and still favourite Magnolia stamp. She is gorgeous. I just love how shy and loving she looks.

Close up of the Peony's.

Products: magnolia stamp; Cosmo Cricket Ever After DP; SU ribbon; Lace; Magnolia Doo Hickey; SU Glue Dots; Flourish with a bling; SU Great Friend stamps; SU ink;

Bikkie the Platypus

Morning all. Will make this quick as not feeling 100%.

This card was made with the gorgeous Bikkie platypus from the Stamping Bazaar. He is so so so cute. I just loved colouring him up. I used the sketch from Friday Sketchers . Nice and simple. I didn't make the tag so it can be pulled out. Thought there was no point - I just like the look of it. My card is also quite simple. I find it hard to put many elements on to a male card.

Fairytale Release Day by Sylvia

Good morning good morning. Oh my I am so super excited. The very talented Sylvia has designed some fabulous stamps for us at Spesch Stamps. I just love them. They really are gorgeous. Sylvia has been designing childrens illustrations for a while and when I asked her to design for us at Spesch she was rapt. She is very talented. You need to check out her work here.

Today I am showing you two of the four stamps available.

Birdy in Love (my fav)

Princess with cake

These really were fun to colour but the best thing about these two is you get two for one for each design. Can you see it....??? The Birdy in love can be cropped to have just the gorgeous little bird and the cake stamp can have the little dog cropped and used as a stand alone stamp too. Cool huh....!!!!

The four new stamps will be available later this morning. Make sure you check out the DT's work on the Spesch blog. You won't be disappointed. The girls have done a fabulous job.