Hey peeps,

I hope you have had a great start to the week! I had a power day today and managed to get so much done all before lunch too! I love it when that happens.

I have had something to show you for two weeks, and am finally getting the chance to post about it. Recently I was asked to participate in a Stamper’s Showcase for the Australian Stamping and Papercraft magazine. I was sent a stamp from Motivet and had to create two cards using it.

Here is what I came up with…..

The front mag cover and my two cards…..

This first card I made using Chocolate chip cardstock and different shades of the Good morning Sunshine dsp from Stampin’Up. The image I have coloured with my Copic markers on some X-press it blending card. I added the kiwi kiss satin ribbon attached to a mini paperclip, some paper piercing and the spiral edge punch for embellishment.

This next card I created on a base of Basic grey cardstock, layered with some Urban garden dsp from Stampin’Up. I have stamped the same image and have watercoloured it with my stamp pads and aquapainter. The greeting is from the Really retro stamp set from SU. I added some pewter brads, and the basic grey taffeta ribbon as embellishments

A small view of the magazine spread….

Thanks to Australian Stamping and Papercraft for the opportunity to create, and share my creations with others….

Hopefully i get to stamp tonight or tomorrow… really feeling the need to get some brand new stamps dirty…finger crossed I actually make something decent enough to share with you all!

Talk soon!

Howdy,

Well I am sure some of you are wondering where in the world I have been this past week, and especially on Friday for the Inkspiration Challenge and what not…..well life just got in the way this week! I still spent the week picking myself up from this nasty bout of Tonsillitis! I can’t remember feeling this sick and exhausted for some time…… so decided to just give myself the time I needed to get back to 100% again. It certainly seems to be the season for it! My parents were both really unwell this week and so was a couple of the Design Team! We all made the executive decision to have a week off to get back to being in full creative swing again!

So the current colour challenge will run until this week Thursday…… so hopefully some more of you will play too! It seems that this colour combo has scared a few of you off as not many have played at all! So give it a go people, I am sure you will be surprised by what you come up with!

I will endeavour to get creative this week and share. I really have lost all my creative abilities, I swear! I sat down a couple of times this week to work on some projects for the Stamp-a-thon and came up with zilch! It is so very frustrating, but I suppose when you don’t stamp for 8 weeks you are bound to have some creative blocking ey?

Okay peeps, I hope you have a wonderful start to the week, and I look forward to seeing you on the blog-o soon!