Hey everyone,

I hope you are well and ready for another challenge!

This week Chantelle Huizenga from the Inkspirations Design Team will be hosting the challenge and picking the winners this week!

We have a colour challenge and well if you want to see what it is all about, and play along you will need to pop on over to Chantelle’s website

Chantelle’s Blog

I have played along and here is my creation for this weeks challenge to inspire you all!

I hope you can see my sparkly van! Certainly for a hip movie star of something hey. I made this for a dear friend, but I am not going to say who, because they will know and it won’t be a surprise in their mailbox this week! LOL! The stamp is from Stampingbella.

Hope you can join in the challenge this week!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Hugs,

Hey all,

Well at last I have this post up for you! I tell ya I never knew being an Apple Mac virgin would be so hard, but I am slowly getting there……slowly being the operative word! A very BIG thanks to my gorgeous sister in law Claire who has happily taken my phone calls of distress and walked me through all the steps. It all seems quite easy now, and I actually have managed to learn quite a few commands. So fingers crossed that is an end to the stress, and I can look forward to getting right in there from now on!

Thanks again for your patience…..(starting to feel like a stuck record now!) but i do truly appreciate it! Hopefully now that my craft room is set up, and I have this computer reasonably sorted, I can be right back in there with bells on! Phew!

Okay so I have had a lovely look-see at all your colour creations from the other week, and wow you guys really did that colour challenge justice…..love, love, LOVED your creations!!!

So for this weeks Inkspiration winner I chose this adorable card by Natasha Murray! I love this cute little critter that she created with some punches and think it is the perfect little guys card! Fabulous creation Natasha!!!

Then this weeks honourable mention goes to Fiona Harrison for this beautiful creation. I love how Fiona has added the lacy trim to the frame of the stamped image, and the wee little paperclip and ribbon for embellishment!

Of course there was lots of other fabulous creations, so be sure to check them out on the slide show. There were a couple of links that just didn’t work so if you don’t see your creation there, be sure to check you links after you have uploaded them

Thanks again to everyone who played along, and I look forward to seeing you newest creations!

Hey everyone,

Well it was so very exciting to see so many fun entries to the colour challenge this past week. I know I am loving getting back into the swing of things, and it seems you all are too!

This week we have the whole DT getting on board and giving us their votes for the best creation and of course we have a prize for each category this week as well.

Getting all the votes together, and without further adiou here are your winners for this week!!!

Big drum roll please……..

This masterpiece was made by the very talented Kim Badelt! Look at those amazing hand made flowers, and those adorable buttons as well! Love all the ribbon and the stitching is a gorgeous touch as well! Congratulations Kim, the DT and myself have chosen your creation to be the Inkspiration Winner, and you have scored yourself $100 of Stampin’Up product for free. I will be in touch asap to arrange that for you.

This gorgeous scrap page is by the lovley Jen Picard! Isn’t that photo just adorable!!! I love the  pretty flowers, and the use of that new scallop punch! What a fabulous use of the challenge colours as well! Congrats Jen on being this weeks Honourable mention! You will receive the brand new Butterfly prints stamp set from the Australian Summer mini catalog! Please email me Jen and give me your address so I can get them out to you in the post asap!

Please Congratulate the girls on their amazing winning entries and give them some comment love!

Of course it was hard to pick the winning entries, and I am sure you are keen to see all the other creations as well. So be sure to check out the slide show below where all the entries are shown!

Thanks again for playing along, and I hope you can join us again this week!

Me again!

I so should be in bed right now, but I am all pumped for some reason…..(more on that tomorrow!) but anyway I just relized that this card I created for the lovely Dawn McAvey’s colour challenge is due um like right now! So thought I better whip up this post for ya!

The Raspberry Suite colour challenge # 20 was to use, Kraft, Rust, Chocolate, Vanilla, and a light blue…..quite a lovely masculine colour palette hey? So I wanted to make a masculine Valentines card, or you could use if for anniversary to, or if you are just feeling very amorous at the moment! LOL!

So here is the heartfelt lov-ee card I created using the new I heart, Hearts stamp set from Stampin’Up.

Okay so here I have used the Kraft cardstock for the base, and the striped Chocolate chip DSP. I cut the circles and scallops with my nestabilities. I ruffled the Chocolate grosgrain ribbon, and added a strip of Really rust cardstock. The hearts are stamped up with the I heart, Hearts stamp set, and mounted with dimensionals. Last of all I added the paper piercing and the greeting which is from the, Three little words stamp set with Chocolate ink…….

This is a card I LOVE. Occasionally you make something you are really chuffed with, and I don’t know what it is about this one, but yeah it does it for me! LOL!

Okay so the next creation is using this weeks Mojo Mondaysketch, along with Stampingbella’s challenge to use anything with Faux stitching…..

I used Old olive!!!! That is a colour I have been really really struggling with the past 6 months!!! It is just so strong, and SOOOOO green! I had to hide most of it with the DSP!

Here I have used some Basic grey DSP (the name alludes me right now!) and the stamp is from Stampingbella, which I have coloured with my Copic markers. I once again used my Nestabilities, and paper pieced the umbrella. I added the Pink taffeta ribbon, and Pretty in pink brads for embellishment. Lastly I used my Mat pack and white gel pen to create the Faux stitching around the outer perimeter of the card.

Thanks so much Dawn for the colour challenge, and Mojo Monday for the fabulous sketch challenge!

Have a great night everyone…..I am finally off to bed!

Hey everyone,

WOW, after my personal post yesterday, I have been truly touched by so many of you that have left me comments or emailed me personally! At times I even had tears running down my cheeks, as my heart was so touched by the many things you have said. I really don’t know how to Thank you, other than using those very words. All your encouragement, congratulations and support have really touched me, and made me feel really confident to keep going forward in the new directions we are taking as a family!

I will endeavour to keep inspiring you all, and sharing my creations, no matter where I live, but it certainly makes it far more enjoyable and worthwhile when I know you love it, and leave me comment love and support!

So a very big

THANK YOU!

Now I am the one to usually pick the Challenge winner each and every week, however the Inkspirations Design Team are going to help mix it up each month! The last friday of the month, one of the Design Team members are going to pick that weeks Challenge Winner and Honourable mention! It is sooooo hard for me to pick sometimes, and this way we have a variety of choices!

This week we have the adorable and most talented Cindy Major checking out all your fab creations, and doing the picking! I just know Cindy had good taste, so we will LOVE what she picks out.

Since Cindy will be hosting the Challenge winner picks, you will be able to view the picks, and slide show on her blog this week! So be sure to go and check it all out HERE!

Now I did also make another wee creation with this weeks colours, and I haven’t had the chance to show it to you yet! Here it is, using that colours from the challenge, Pumpkin pie, Real red, Taken with teal, and Whisper white……hope you likes

For this creation I have used all Stampin’Up cardstock and embellishments. The background stamp is Polka dot from Stampin’Up an the main image stamp is from Taylored Expressions, coloured with my Copic markers, and dressed up with some glitter.

Okay be sure to head to Cindy’s website to see who won this week’s challenge, and I will be back in a moment to introduce you to our newest Guest Designer, and brand spankin new Design Team Member!!! WOO HOO!