Hello again,

WOW this week sure zoomed buy huh? I have had the lovely pleasure the past few days of having my dear stamping friend Steph Pike visit me from Brisbane. She is here until Sunday and we have had a wonderful time catching up. We haven’t stamped a wink though, been out for coffee, the movies, and sitting by the pool…..all nice and relaxing!

so here I have this weeks challenge for you. A colour combo that I think you will like, it is rather easy and i enjoyed putting these colours together.

here is the colour pallette for you….

And here is the creation I have popped together for you…..I can hardly believe it is a Christmas card….wasn’t i doing these a few weeks back?

I have used that adorable line-up stamp set from Stampin’Up…too cute!

Here is this weeks fabulous Guest Designer Trish Radac’s beautiful and fun creation for inspiration….

Love all these birdies!

Now before I give you further deets I just want to let you know that next week is going to be a HUGE week! Yup I have a few exciting announcements to make and you will get to meet the newest Design Team members! WOO HOO!

Also I will be announcing this weeks challenge winner in the morning as I have not yet had the chance to view them all, so stay tuned on that one!

Please be sure to pop past the DT’s blogs for their beautiful creations!

Cindy

Kirsty

Renee

If you would like to play along, all you need to do is follow the directions:

1. Make your creation following the challenge ie, sketch, colour, or inspiration image.

2. Load your creation up onto your blog or a public viewing forum likeSplitcoast Stampers, with a direct link back to the post on this website, so that others viewing the post will know where the challenge has come from, and it is courtesy to do so.

3. Then come back to this post so that you can add your name and link in the InLinkz below.

You have until the Thursday the 4th November midnight to get your entries linked.

I will be announcing the winner and honourable mention on Friday the 5th November in the afternoon.

I hope you all have a blessed weekend!

Hey there my lovelies,

Well my gig over at All that Scraps ended this week. Man that month went fast!. I have two final creation that I made to show you….

Here is the first one,

Matching up my sweet and sour dsp from Stampin’Up, and the All that scraps brand new Sugar stamp

Next another Sugar stamp from All that Scraps…

Cute huh?

Thanks all folks…..

Here there peeps,

I hope you are all well and have had a fabulous week so far.

Today I have a post for you that is dear to my heart. My dear friend Madonna another stamping queen, has a plea for her daughter. I would love you to please read her story and get behind this amazing project to help her daughter Lara. Better still it is really great value!

Here is Lara’s story….

Lara May Dunn, my fourth child, was born on the 5^th of November 2008.  The first sign that something was not right were Lara’s feet which were twisted and turned.  At 6 weeks she was back in hospital for failing to thrive.  A gamut of testing was started to try to find out what was going on…blood tests, x-rays and even an MRI.  Her head hadn’t grown – Microcephaly was diagnosed.  Nothing could be detected.  There were no answers to be found in the genetic testing.

At 5 months Lara was back in hospital.  This time the Royal Children’s Hospital in Brisbane for laser surgery on her floppy voice box.  Another gamut of tests and a diagnosis of severe reflux and Cerebral Palsy.  This time they put a nasal gastric tube in and all her feeds were directed through there.  By October of 2009 the NG tube had been replaced with a “button”, which is a direct line into her tummy for feeds.  She will never eat a meal with our family conventionally or “normally”.

Over the last {almost} two years, Lara has been in and out of hospital with many different complex medical issues.  She is so fragile and yet has a core of steel and is such a fighter!!  She has grown so much!

With her growth has come a need for more specialised equipment.  One of which is a Leckey Hi Low chair.  A specialised seating system that can be adjusted to fit Lara perfectly.  It’s on a wheel base which means she can be more a part of our family.  She is able to be moved to where we are.  She is not limited to where we can take her in and around our house.  She can be exactly where the action is at any given time!

We are trying to fundraise the money to purchase one of these wonderful chairs – how much money??  They are upwards of $6000.  We are trying to get funding for some of it but I am working with other stampers and dear friends to find ways to get the rest.

I don’t want to limit where Lara is able to go in our house. She will never walk or run or play with her siblings in any conventional way and yet she can still be present as they do those things.

Your help in our efforts is very much appreciated.

Here is how you can help Lara……

Every little bit of helps and together we can make a big difference! You can sign up for the tutorials or just make a donation over on Madonna’s BLOG HERE

Thanks peeps!

Hello again!

well as promised here is the newest challenge for you…..a Sketch! i hope you like this one, I sure had fun putting my creation together…

Here is the sketch to work with:

This is the creation I came up with:

For this card I have used the Organic outlines stamp set, along with the colours Riding hood red, Peach parfait, and Baja breeze, quite a pretty colour combo

This weeks fabulous Guest Designer is the gorgeous Fi Harrison and she has a STUNNING creation for you this week!

So very pretty Fi! Thanks for putting this together!

Okay so be sure to pop past the DT girls blogs and see what they have made, no doubt it will be inspirational!

Cindy

Kirsty

Renee

If you would like to play along, all you need to do is follow the directions:

1. Make your creation following the challenge ie, sketch, colour, or inspiration image.

2. Load your creation up onto your blog or a public viewing forum likeSplitcoast Stampers, with a direct link back to the post on this website, so that others viewing the post will know where the challenge has come from, and it is courtesy to do so.

3. Then come back to this post so that you can add your name and link in the InLinkz below.

You have until the Thursday the 28th October midnight to get your entries linked.

I will be announcing the winner and honourable mention on Friday the 29th October in the afternoon.

I hope you all have a blessed weekend!

Hello everyone!

I trust your week has gone well

Today I get to announce the winner of this weeks challenge. There were some beautiful creations seen with the new colours!

This weeks winner is by this gorgeous creation by Trish Radacs. I love these wee cupcakes! Just adorable!

Our honourable mention this week goes to Jo Eades for her gorgeous butterfly creation.

So there you have it peeps, be sure to pop back soon to see the next challenge later today!

Take care,