Mygrafico challenge ~Dinner/Cleaning

We have a new challenge!  Our theme is Dinner/Cleaning. Enter for a chance to win this Vintage Appliance Stamp set by Zenware Designs. Entries will be accepted until December 2nd, midnight. Our design team came up with some wonderful inspiration using this set. 

Check it out.

I had great fun making my sample for this one....I know some of the other DT struggled but there are some beauties .

Here's what I came up with....a Hybrid card.

I started by recolouring the coffee pot in Word and masked around it and stamped a tiny flower from a Hero Arts set.  I then used a Spellbinders die to cut out the coffee pot and matt onto a scallop die cut.  The tag is a Spellbinder one, cutting out a computer generated sentiment.  The background is Hero Arts Dots and Flowers and some distress inks.  Added some ribbon and flowers to finish.

Do have a go with this challenge.....

Thanks for visiting today.... have a great week

Dawn

A Critter Christmas

Penny Black Saturday Challenge blog are having a Christmas challenge.... it's week 3 and the theme is Green + Trees.  I have a cute little Hedgie stamp called " to have and to hug".... a little hedgie holding a Christmas tree.  So I dug him out.... coloured and cut him with a spellbinders oval die...and here's what happened.



I co-ordinated three patterned papers from Hot of The Press "Forever Christmas Cards" paper stack.  The sentiment tag is also from this stack.   I added a little red and green ribbon and hey presto, my card was done.  Now looking at it, I think I need to add some gems somewhere...what do you think? 

This card is also being entered into:
Wee Memories ~ Woodland Animals
Penny Black and More @ Allsorts ~ All creatures Great and Small
and maybe pushing the window a bit.... City Crafter Challenge ~ four legged friend.  

I've had a great day... started the morning working on some projects for an upcoming Mygrafico Feature and then made a card for a friend who is turning 40 in the weekend... will share later in the week.... and then finished with this one.... now it's time to do the ironing so we can have some clothes to wear to work next week...:(  my least favourite job!

Hope your weekend has been good for you.  Take care

Dawn 

Upheavel and chaos

that's our place today.... our son is moving home... just him as he and his girlfriend have called it quits..... so my half of the garage (where my car usually lives) is full of furniture.... I'm sad for him but as long as he is happy all I can do is be there for him.... I will enjoy having him home again for a while.  His intention is to start looking for a flat after the Christmas break and holidays.

Had a very successful sale at the School Gala last evening.  Sold about 2/3's of the cards I took and the school benefited from over $120.  I sold cheaply as I really had too many on hand.  I got there around 1.45 to set up and helped the other stalls get set up too.... The usual suspects.... White Elephant, Books, Home and Garden and the Used clothing.  I was supposed to be outside next to the books, but it was very windy and all my cards kept flying away, so had to move inside next to the raffles and across from the Cake stall.  Managed a quick look around before it started at 4.30~ then it was all go... hundreds and hundreds of people everywhere.  Last year the Gala netted over $30,000.  There is always lots of lovely food for sale too.... I had a hot ham sandwich - totally scrummy  and the bonus was at the end of the night, hubby bought the half a ham leftover for $20.

Have been working on some special stuff....something to do with a special blog and a special post.... you'll have to wait till the 24th to see what!!!!!!!!  so today's share is a little tag I made last Saturday and a mini card I made for Penny Black Saturday challenge.



My tag has some Hero Arts stamps and some Inkadinkado stamps and lots of distress inks and some Shimmer Spritz.



My mini card is only 4 1/4 x 2 7/8 inches although it looks bigger here... The presents are by Penny Black, PP by My Mind's Eye and sentiment by Hero Arts.  Isn't great when stamps from many companies work well together.  The challenge was "Presents and Gold"

And this week I was thrilled to find that my Thanks card made Spotlight Artist over at City Crafter challenge blog.  Nice to get the recognition.

Off now to get the son's bed made for him and get myself ready to head out to some friend's place for dinner.  I did some handmade chocolates.... using a mixture of dark and milk chocolate buttons and cranberries.  Hopefully a nice combo.   I have a few moulds I use to make them.

Hope your weekend is going well.

Cheers

Dawn 

More Variations on a Theme.

A few weeks ago I got a Hero Arts stamp set called Merriest Christmas Wishes.  I have done a few cards with it... and on Saturday, I did two more.

For this one, I inked the stamp with Sahara Sands pigment ink, cut out and edged with a punch and mounted on red. Made the red ribbon feature and added a hand made poinsettia. 

For this one I brayered the stamp with Kaleidocolor Blues.  Added a Spellbinders edge, some ribbon and a white flower I bought last Christmas and didn't use!  Love the graduated colours of the blues.  I like this set as it has a choice of sentiments with the main image.  So versatile.

Can't believe the week is halfway through... they seem to be flying by.  Less than 6 weeks till Christmas and 5 weeks till my Mum and Dad arrive for a three week stay.   So much to do... so little time....

Dawn

Vintage Christmas.

Saturday's Stamp Group saw me buying a new stamp ~ a Christmas one... despite me telling myself I didn't need any more!  This one is by Rubadubadoo - a New Zealand company - and is a vintage image....



I stamped the lovely candle stick onto card stock and coloured with watercolour pencils - keeping with the vintage look. Background stamped with HA Flourish in Scattered Straw distress ink. After taking the photo I've added some Stickles Star Dust on the yellow halo round the candle.  The sentiment is from Stamp-it.   I used my finger nail to distress round the edge.

I also made another vintage style card as well.... borrowing stamps from Sue and Linda....



This one started with a music sheet from My Minds Eye "lost and found Christmas" pack.  I overstamped with a Holly stamp (borrowed from Sue)  I then cut a cream panel and distressed with Tea Dye and Vintage Photo inks.  I then stamped (2nd generation to get the right shade) an Inkadinkado swirl in Forest Moss ink.  The Stamp-it sentiment was stamped on white card and distressed with vintage photo.  Added a fussy cut Holly ( borrowed from Linda) Finished with some gems.  Thanks ladies for sharing....

and here is a photo of Sue working away on Saturday... very industriously.

Thanks for stopping by today...

Dawn

Monday Feature at MyGrafico ~Hippy Days

Mid way through November and this week's feature  is Love Bus Clip Art by DreAmLoft.  You can get groovy with these adorable love buses and bugs! Check out the inspiration from our Design Team this week.

 

My card is going to a special person, who is turning 50 soon.... more about that in a later post..... but here it is for now

I printed the love bus onto my card stock and then used my computer to make the sentiment.... the font is called Chick and can be found at here at dafont.com.  I changed the colours on each letter.  I then printed out some of the flowers and the Feelin' Groovy and fussy cut.  I distressed the edge of the card with ink.   Added some glossy accents to the windows and wheels. 

Do pop over and see what the other's have come up with using this set.  

Thanks for stopping by... 

Take care

Dawn

Happy Birthday Kieran

13th November 1988.... the day my baby boy was born........ so today he is 23.  Where does the time go?  It only seems like yesterday and he was being born.  There's a bit of a story to his birth.   Due to previous complications it was decided that I would be induced.  So I headed off to hospital on Thurs 10th to have the induction first thing 11th Nov.   Well, the morning arrived and I lay in my hospital bed waiting for the doctors....and waiting, and waiting.... finally they came round and said that Delivery suite was busy so I was to go home and come back for an induction on Monday morning.  Oh well, I thought.... just as well MIL was planning to stay a few days.   So Sunday morning, I'm having a nice rest in bed when the phone goes at around 9.00am.... "Mrs Turley, it's Delivery suite here, we're not busy today, how would you like to have your baby today?"  Yelled out to hubby who was just about to start mowing the lawns.  To this day, he says, if he's started mowing he'd have said WE ARE TOO BUSY!  So off we went, induction done and labouring started.  My Dad was in Wellington (where we lived at the time) so he came over after his conference finished at lunch time.... he had a flight back south later in the day.  Once he left, the nurse broke my waters and at 6.00 Kieran James Turley made his way into the world.  I had to ring my Mum and tell her that when she picked up Dad, tell him his Grandson came 30 mins after he left.  We did have a little scare as he got a temperature as he was being born and they raced him off to the neo-natal unit... all 8lbs of him... in with a set of 4lb twins... he looked a monster.  Still a day or so later, all was back to normal. 

And now here he is....

This morning, his Dad and I went out to breakfast with him to celebrate. Here are my two boys...



I made a card for him relating to his work.... he's a builder.

Used an image from Mo Manning ~ perfect for him.  A nice CAS card... no fuss, just right for my boy.

I had a really neat day yesterday at Stamp Group.... will share more later in the week.... but getting home at 6.45pm and not finding that hubby had got anything organised for dinner... was feeling a bit hard done by.... till he said " I think we should go out for dinner..." which we did... to my favourite restaurant.... a local eatery called Zavito.  It's about 1/2 km from home and I really enjoy the atmosphere and the food.   So a great weekend all round.

Thanks for sharing this  mostly non-crafting post with me.

Cheers

Dawn 

Thanks and Giving....

That's the challenge over at City Crafter Challenge Blog this week.... to celebrate Thanksgiving coming up in the USA.

As we don't have a celebration like this here in New Zealand, I went just with a Thanks card.



I used my newest stamp set "Borders" from Hero Arts/Basic Grey and and old set "Antique Engravings" ~a very well used set I can tell you....
I started with a piece of an old book and after trimming to size, used a mixture of Vintage Photo and Faded Corduroy distress inks to stamp the border and some mixed sized butterflies onto it.  This was matted onto wine card and then onto a cream textured square card.  I stamped the biggest two butterflies from the set onto some of the book page without text and using a mixture of distress inks and watercolour pencils, coloured them in and cut out.  I used dimensionals to pop them up and some glossy accents on their bodies.   I stamped the Thanks from a Sparkle Clear set, after carefully wiping off the ink for the tiny words under it.  Matted again with the wine card and popped up on the card.  A sprinkling of gems.... ( so I could enter into this months Hero Arts challenge!) and it was finished.    I used a sketch I had from a long time ago to inspire me with this one.

Just been spending the evening trying to decide what to take to Stamp Group tomorrow.... I think I'll just do Christmas cards.  I have one design that is all PP and only one stamp.... so have cut out all the pieces so will just have to do some assembly tomorrow.   Looking forward to catching up with everyone... I made some little bacon and egg savouries for lunch tomorrow... we usually have lots of sweet stuff so some savoury will be good.

Wishing you all a very happy and productive weekend

Hugs

Dawn