Six Fold Baby Card, Baby Blanket and Irina's Awesome Project class

Hi all, just a quick scheduled post today, hope you are all well, I really can't believe how fast time is flying by.  Sorry my post is a little picture heavy but pictures are better than lots of words lol!  Made this card for a lovely blogging buddy.  Kept it fairly simple as I love the paper.

Chipboard sentiment and lots of little brads

I used BOO, B02, silver and baby blue spica and sponged the edges with SU ink

How cute is this baby pram brad

CHALLENGES

Make It Monday Linky Party #89 - Anything Goes

Inky Impressions #59 - Use lace or trim

Creatalicious Challenge #34 - Bingo (Anything but a square card, ribbon, monochromatic

Inspire Me Friday #58 - Anything Goes

and this is the baby blanket I knitted using pom pom wool, what a challenge that was lol!  Had a few false starts but was happy with the finished result, Rosanna and Morgan both want one now lol!  As it has a lovely soft feel to it

My lovely DH unknotting the wool, tip don't use from the middle lol!

happy in her work lol!

Copics, spicas and a huge selection of stamps all available from our Mad for Markers Store

We would love to see your creations in our Mad for Markers It's Raining Men Use Masciline colours Challenge.

JUST A REMINDER

IMPORTANT DATES

Sammi is coming to Werribee in Melbourne (2nd June) for a copic colouring day details here

Copic Colour Conference 21st-23rd September in Sydney full details here, Rosanna and I has so much fun last year.

As you know Rosanna and I are super excited about going to Sydney to take Irina Blount, LaLa Land Crafts project class (16th June).   This is the AWESOME project we will be making (photos borrowed from Irina) Details here.

This gorgeous album

with a gorgeous matching trinket box to store it in

Can't wait lol!

Thank you for stopping by, happy crafting, keep well and have a lovely weekend, take careX:)

Mooey Wobbly Topper Slippers and a Baby Jumper and Beanie

Hi all, where is April going, hope you are all well, we have been super busy at work, so not had too much time to play lol!  First I would like to say hello to my new followers over the last few weeks.

For my inpsiration over at the Mad for Markers Store Blog I would like to show you this cute fun image 'Mooey' from Some Odd Girl and is available from the Store here.  I spotted these slippers on the way to get the groceries and the idea popped into my head to make these wobbly toppers, I have used velcro to fasten them on.

I reversed stamped the image, coloured using copics and lots of spica, though it was hard to get a photo due to them being laminated

a closer look, couldn't get a picture of their heads wobbling lol!

Copics and Spics used

Copics, spicas and a huge selection of stamps all available from our Mad for Markers Store

We would love to see your creations in our Mad for Markers April Showers Challenge. To colour something to look Wet.

IMPORTANT DATES

Sammi is coming to Werribee in Melbourne (2nd June) for a copic colouring day details here

Rosanna and I are super excited as Sammi has the lovely Irina Blount, LaLa Land Crafts taking a project class in Sydney (16th June) and guess what we are going WOO HOO!  Details here.

Copic Colour Conference 21st-23rd September in Sydney full details here, Rosanna and I has so much fun last year.

Challenges

Some Odd Girl Challenge #4 - Colour Inspiration
Simon Says Challenge # - Anything Goes
Pile It On Challenge #17 - Sparkle and Shine
Creative Inspirations Challenge #160 - Anything Goes

Rosanna and mines combined effort for Dawny's Jumper and Beanie appeal link at the top left in my sidebar.  Yes we had to have a purple one lol!  Very hard to photograph purple always looks blue, why?

Last photo lol!  Our garden is super busy with lots of birds coming to feed, thought I would show you this Wattle Bird

Took this the other morning after the night rain, would so love to be able to colour this.

Off to work now, thank you for visiting, happy crafting and have a wonderful weekend. Take careX:)

Knitted Jumper with Beanie and Hunny Bunny Marci Easter Card

Hi all, hope you are all well, things have been a little busy here so not had much time for blogging but will be catching up with you all soon.

First I would like to spread the word from Dawny's blog who is asking crafters to knit these special knitted jumpers and beanies for babies in India (called the newspaper babies) full details on her blog.  So Rosanna and I got our knitting needles out and this is the set I made and we are still knitting Rosanna's set together (working from each end of the ball of wool lol!) which hopefully will be finished soon.  So girls if you have time please get those needles out. 

Here is Annabel modelling the Jumper and Beanie

Here is what the look like off the model

Now onto my inpsiration over at the Mad for Markers Store Blog I would like to show you this wonderful fun image from LaLa Land 'Hunny Bunny Marci' I was lucky to win her in Karen's Easter Candy, but she is available from the Store here. 

Rosanna and I were crafting and the Big Shot came out.  Rosanna had a go at embossing alsorts of things and embossed the purple foil paper from her Easter Egg for me, I then glued it to some card (very carefully lol). 

A closer look at the spicas and special effects and the lovely embossing

Gorgeous copics, spicas and multiliners used

Xpress It Double sided tape, Xpress It foam mounting tape, copics, spicas and a huge selection of stamps all available from our Mad for Markers Store

We would to see your creations in our new challenge Mad for Markers April Showers Challenge.  To colour something to look Wet.

Challenges

Copic Oz Challenge - Easter
LaLa Land Crafts Blog - Unusual Hair Colour - http://lalalandcrafts.blogspot.com/p/customer-gallery.html
Make It Monday Linky Party #84
The Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge - Recycle, Reuse, Renew - (Easter Wrapper)
Scrapbook Sisters Card Challenge #79 - Anything Goes
Secret Crafters Saturday Challenge #180 - Easter
Prairie Fairy Friday's Challenge - Anything Goes
Anything Goes Challenge Blog - Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting, happy crafting and have a wonderful weekend.  Take careX:)

Finally finished the bolero and fundraising for Lyndall and Alopecia

Hi all, where does the time go!!!  Hope you are all well.  Still no card making in my free time I have been knitting and FINALLY finished Rosanna's Bolero/cardigan, not the fastest of knitters lol!  Got it finished in time for her to go out to a party on Saturday night.

 

On my beautiful DD

A closer look at the knitted lacey edge, I think I should have stretched it more when sewing it to the cardigan, was going to undo it but Rosanna likes it how it is PHEW!

FUNDRAISERS

Whilst trying to catch up on blogging (a couple of weeks ago, sorry for not getting posted sooner) I visited the gorgeous Cheryl's blog and read about a lovely lady called Lyndall who is battling Cancer yet again!! Cheryl is organising a fundraiser event, if you could send Lyndall a card or would like to help with the fundraiser evening, please go see Cheryl's post for full details and whilst there have a look at her beautiful creations. 

Lyndall and her three year old son

This is the link to the fundraising blog where you can also buy some fantastic digi's that are for sale.

Also Mandy on her blog 'A Sprinkling of Glitter' has some blogaversary candy and surprise candy also to people who send Lyndall a card.

Also over on Kellie's blog I read about Heidi (her five year old daughter) and herself having their hair chopped to raise funds for Alopecia.

More garden news for those who are interested.  This is why I haven't got much crafting done lol!

Finally got all the sand down and the boys had fun using the wacker to make it firmer, added more stone/rocks and changed the colour of the path, put some flags down but found when we put the different colours together they are slightly different in size, so having to start again and leave a 2mm gap on some and not on others, gonna be fun lol!

Enjoy the rest of your week, happy crafting and take careX:)

Delia - lets help cheer her up by sending a card

Hi all, just found this out about this little girl via Dustin Pike's site,

This is an email Dustin received from his friend Jennifer:

On Friday, December 11th, 2009 my friends daughter Delia was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. She is 10 yrs old and is currently being treated at the Denver Children's Hospital.

She loves art, photography and really loves owls. I was hoping that there would be some wonderful women or men out there that would love to send her a card of encouragement. I thought it would bring a smile to Delia's face to be inundated with cards as a special Valentines Day gift from people around the world. Please find it in your heart to bring hope and love to this beautiful spirited girl. Any card will do..but if you have an owl that would be a bonus. Please pass this information around so we can thrill a little girl in her time of hardship!

She is on her second round of chemo and its been a struggle for her, although she is doing better today.
An address for her mail is here.

Att: Delia Cadwallader
2048 Sandhurst Dr.
Castle Rock, CO 80104

IF you are willing to make a card/something for this little girl email me dustin_pike@yahoo.com and I will send you the above owl images to use for her and whenever else you'd like consider it a small payment for a small set of Digi's... Dustin.

So my owl card is going to fly its way to Delia, so glad to find a lovely home for it. Hopefully it will be flying with many more, makes me think how fortunate I am and to try and make the most of every day, must remember this the next time my two test my patience.

Thanks for visiting, happy crafting, take care AnnetteX:)

I am asking again - Noah

Hi all, just a quick post, should have got this done last night but had a few computer glitches. Anyway this is a card I am sending to Noah (5), he is terminally ill at the end stages of cancer, his family believe he will not make the actual holidays so he has made an early Christmas wish to receive as many cards as possible, just brought tears to my eyes, how lucky some of us are!

You can find out more http://www.snopes.com/inboxermedical/biorkman.asp

Postal address
C/O Scott Biorkman
3480 Petoskey Way
Milford
MI 48380

Many thanks, take careX:)

PLEASE HELP - send a card to a little girl

Hi all, no card to post just wanted to tell you about a blog hop starting at Creative Ideas by Katharina blog, basically they are trying to get people to make and send a card to an 11 year old girl. Four teenagers broke into her home, killed her mum and left her for dead. Just so sad. Please visit Katharina's blog for the full story couldn't copy it to my blog. I thought many of you lovely ladies would have a spare card that would help put a smile on Jaimie's face. The address is below:

Thanks for looking, happy crafting, take careX:)

SSCC4 & Paige

Hi all, finally got a little crafting done today, been trying to make a card for Paige for sometime but not really sure what to do, she is a 13 year old girl who has lost her arm in a boating incident, Erin has set up a challenge for crafters to send well wishes to this young girl, read all about it on Erin's blog, she has also a blog candy going too! Secondly I wanted to try the Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge #4, which was to use the sketch below:
Thanks for looking, happy crafting, take care AnnetteX:)