Lauries Fabulous Favourites

This week was about using your favourite background stamp and I did not have one from Ink to Paper so I decided to make my own with using a Papertrey Ink Stencil so hope that is okay!
I used the new Framing Florals Stamp Set..............Love this to bits and hope to add the Birch background to my collection one day soon :)

Laurie's Fabulous Favourites....Paper Scraps

I adore Laurie's creations and this week is no exception :). I was also very delighted to receive my very first order of Ink to Stamps sets and love this Frame It Out set to bits <3. I found some left over card stock and stamped some fun circular patterns from the Lets Fiesta Set in the matching inks and then opened the beautiful Frame It Out set to finish my card off.

Laurie's Fabulous Favourites Ink to Paper Challenge

It feels like forever since I made a card and it has been a while. I am sooooo loving the new Ink to Paper stamps and had a couple of sets arrive today <3
I love Lauries Fabulous favourites and it is so nice to see her creations each week. I played along this week and I decided two things...............I was going to play with a set I have had and adored for a long time and use a colour that is not my norm to turn to :)
Here is my card, the flowers are from the set Bloomers which is among one of the first set I purchased. I selected Lavender Moon to create with and really happy with the outcome <3 I need to go sleep now as just finished a night shift with one left then two off to play with my new goodies.

Win it Wednesday

Been a few weeks since I have played as so busy prepping the house and gardens for winter. But this week has seen me with some creative time so here I am. I adore this stamp set called Orchid Expressions and cannot believe I had it on my wish list for so long :).
This week is about choosing your favourite style so I went with layering............now this is really a challenge for me and of late I have been trying to challenge myself with more layers so I hope I did okay with todays card :). Here is the card

Here is a photo to show a little of the layering that I did. Love how people layer and want to do more :) thanks for dropping in and I hope you have a wonderful crafty week.

Southern Girls Frame it

I have recently started scrapbooking again and loved the new challenge so thought I would scrapbook a page for my daughters album with a frame in use :). I think I am getting the bug, so many wonderful pages of inspiration out there. When I lived in Australia I loved to visit the KaiserCraft stores and have  little splurge.............Was delighted when I read they are now shipping to NZ and have a few goodies on the way :)
This are some older Crate Paper goodies I have in my stash.................Thanks for dropping in today :)

Southern Girls Challenge

I recently bought this beautiful stamp from Papertrey Ink and I adore it! Any excuse to ink it up sounds good to me so when I saw the Challenge for this week I thought YES my heart contains flowers so it meets the criteria and I got creating :)
This is the second time I have used this stamp and honestly think it will be a regular for when needing to create................Just love it to bits. So without further ado here is the card I created. Thanks for dropping by!

Southern Girls Challenge.....Girl Power

As soon as I saw this challenge I knew the perfect stamp lol. Here is to the ongoing numerous requests for 'I don't care' I experience when asking the kids what they want for dinner. Girl power to us that continue to supply all those meals :)

My Favourite Papertrey Ink Stampset

Without doubt I am totally in love with the new Bear Hugs stamp set.................Well as a bear collector I have to be don't I :)
I have now made several cards with this set as it is so versatile, from Valentines to New Baby to Miss You to Happy Birthday and more. There are so  many reasons to ink this one up!

Thanks for dropping in. I sure hope your day is going well.

Card 2 Love is in the Air

I have just recently recieved this gorgeous set from Krafters Cart here in New Zealand. It is so nice to have a supplier that stocks so many of the wonderful stamping brands from overseas <3 .
This set of owls from MFT was just too hard to resist :) so thought I would get them opened and make a second card for the Southern Girls Challenge!

Thanks for stopping by and again thinking of all our USA crafters.............Keep Warm!

Southern Girls Love is in the Air

Well with Valentines coming up this is a great challenge as someone somewhere will be wanting a card to send to someone!
I adore this sentiment from Altenew and thought this was the perfect time to ink it up. Thanks for dropping by today. For those crafty friends in America please keep warm. My Aussie friends are sweltering and same here in NZ. Today is a little more overcast so here is to hoping it is a tad cooler.

Anything goes Southern Girls Challenge

First Challenge for 2019 and it is anything goes. I decided to use a stamp set from Neat and Tangled that I had bought and not used. I have made this card to send to a beautiful soul in England who is battling breast cancer. Inside the card is stamped You Rock which is just the right sentiment for this amazing woman. Despite all the challenges in her life Sue remains positive and is fighting like a champ. Love that we can make and send cards <3

Southern Girls Glitter Challenge

Was excited to see that the last challenge for this year was to add glitter to your creation. I adore sparkles and have some gorgeous glitter pastes in my stash that have been needing to be used :)
I decided to go with gold glitter paste and just had fun. Hope you like my card for today. I look forward to new challenges next year :)

Altenew December Challenge

Love the Challenge for this month as there is so  much inspiration in the board! Basically it is all the boards for this year. Check it out........

I decided to go with July and Pulled out my Hennah Elements stamp set. I love the flowers in this set and here is what I created based on the colours used in July.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope your day is a good one.

Southern Girls Challenge

Yay this week is anything goes and I am happy as I have really enjoyed doing blended backgrounds so much and this gave me a very good excuse to do another. Please go and check the blog out as the team really did give some awesome inspiration and there are more than cards to check out.
I am so hoping to do a wedding album for me next year full of beautiful memories of the hubby I still love and miss so dearly. This weeks inspiration has spurred me on to stop thinking about it and start doing it!. Here is my card for this fortnights challenge. I so LOVE snowmen and this one just captured my heart. He is from Sweet n Sassy and I love him so. I cannot believe that this is the first time he has seen ink!

Thanks for stopping by!

Couldn't resist!

I so enjoyed ink splatters that I decided to have another play and here is my second card for the Southern Girls Challenge.  Check this blog out and it is super awesome as there is a good component of Kiwi and Aussie Cardmakers in this group. It would be lovely to get to know a few more local crafters!
I have had this set sitting in view for more time that I care to confess and thought it would look good with a oxide ink backdrop with splatters. I have lots of distress inks but only one oxide pad and was keen to try it out. LOVE how it blends onto the cardstock!
So here is my second card with oxide ink splatters and stamps coloured with distress ink pens.
Many thanks for dropping by.

Southern Girls Challenge

This fortnight for the Southern Girls Challenge the theme is Inks and Sprays. I received a little parcel from Papertrey ink this week and had spoiled myself somewhat with the beautiful Botanical Bounty set so thought I would ink up those beautiful blossoms and throw a few ink splatters about :).
I also used a lovely die that is from a series being done this year called shape shifters............Love them to bits!. I used Papertrey Inks to colour my blossoms and the light blue is looking a little gray in my photo. So hard to get a true reflection of the colours :). Well here is my card, thanks for stopping by.  Check out this awesome Challenge,  would love to see you sharing there to!

Papertrey Create Along With Us

Yet again Papertrey ink are sharing peeks of another amazing release. I just keep loving everything and wish I had a Champagne pocket rather than a beer pocket :) but hey I am blessed to be able to purchase some of what I love. I am playing along with the Create along with us challenge and today I have been insprired by Betsy Veldman's beautiful Card. I have taken the inspiration of her beautiful sky background to make my card today
Here is the card I used for my inspiration, so beautiful!

This is the card I created after being so inspired by the talent of Betsy <3

Thanks for dropping by!

Southern Girls Challenge Use a Sticker

I recently found a close to home challenge that while open to everywhere has a large component of New Zealand and Australian crafters :) would be nice to get to know others from closer by that have the same passion for crafting. I took a look around the wonderful sponsors store 'Kinda Cute'

 I just could not resist this gorgeous snowman! I cut him out and did a little colouring to tie in with my background paper and then finished my card of with some slightly puffy stickers as was the challenge this week :) . I sure look forward to seeing what others have done with this challenge and hope to drop by your blogs soon. Happy Cardmaking! Here is my creation for this challange

Make it Monday #341

Make it monday is something I always look forward to, it has been some time since I actively participated as working fulltime night shift has its challenges on its own!. I loved this technique and decided I would love to make a Christmas card using this technique. Double whammy as I get to play along and I can also add a card to my growing pile of Chrissy cards that I am determined to have sent out in good time this year.
Here are Dawns BEAUTIFUL challenge cards...............

Gorgeous to the core!. This is what I created, thank-you to Papertrey Ink for all the wonderful inspiration you share.

Mojo Monday 501

How delighted I was to see a sketch by Julee up :) not that I need reason to pull out my beautiful Verve stamps, but what better way to play along! I hope you like my card today and thanks bunches for dropping by. I am now off to visit some of the blogs that have played along in the challenge.