Hey gang,

Thanks to my dear sister in law Claire for letting me pop in this arvy to get this post up using her Mac! Phew, it has been quite a bit of drama, but here I am, with the post for you all!

I will have to wait till Monday to announce the winners of the past two challenges for you all, so hold on for just a bit longer

Okay so here goes. This week we have an Inspiration image for you to work with. I love the warm masculine colours of this image, and had fun putting together my creation for you.

Here is your image to work with:

Here is my creation for you all:

I have used the Inspired by Nature stamp set, and stamped it with Versamark onto gloss cardstock. I have then embossed the reeds with clear embossing powder and then with a sponge smeared the different colours onto the gloss cardstock. The embossed image will then resist the ink. The actual technique is called Emboss resist. The greeting is also from that same stamp set.

Here is the inspiration from the Design Team!

Teneale

Cindy

Kirsty

Renee

Chantelle

Sarah-Jane

Louise Ryan - Guest Designer

Want to play along? - here are some guidelines.

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 like Splitcoast 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 Mr. Linky!

You have until the Thursday the 14th April midnight to get your entries linked.

I will be announcing the winner and honourable mention on Friday the 15th April in the afternoon.

I hope you get to play along and i look forward to seeing your creations!

Hey again,

I hope you have all had a fabulous week! It is absolutely pouring here at the moment and hasn’t stopped in the past 24 hours……..I am starting to understand what they call the wet season in Tropical Queensland. As I drove the kids to school this morning, the bike path the i rode on only 24 hours ago is now 1/2 metre deep with water. Then the kids school oval, was turned into a lake and completely covered with water. The kids had a School Fun Run booked for today, but of course it was cancelled till next week. We have had lover 140ml of water in the past day. Earlier this week Perth had 40ml in 8 hours and there was complete chaos, and hospitals closed down etc…… Obviously Queensland is used to the rain and flooding etc…. because 140ml is a LOT of water!

So I thoroughly enjoyed looking at everyone’s creations this week, and wow you have all done so well with the challenges! I find it interesting that the Inspiration challenges are the ones that are least played, and yet when you guys play out comes your best work! So give them a go guys, they really aren’t that scary! LOL!

Anyway I better announce that winner and honourable mention hey. This week I have picked a gorgeous creation, by my very talented stamper, and who actually happens to be my bestie too! Lee Pelosi has only been playing for a wee while and each week I am blown away by her beautiful creations. I am sure you will agree that this card is a real stunner!

Then for this weeks honourable mention I chose another beauty by Bec Gomez. I loved the combination of panels, hodgepodge, and ribbon and how the flowers sit too. Just beautiful Bec!

Of course it is so hard to pick each week! I loved them all, but these two are the ones that made my jaw drop the second I saw them pop up on my puter screen. Well done ladies.

Stick around and view the Slide show, and see everyone’s amazing creations!

RIghty-o I will be back in a sec with some exciting news for you all…

Hey everyone!

i hope you have all been having a great week! DID you see the Challenge winners and entries over on Chantelle’s blog this week? So many fabulous entries for the colour challenge! I am soooo thankful to Chantelle for hosting this week, as I have been really unwell this past 4-5 days! What great timing! So whilst I really wanted to get out and comment, I just didn’t have the energy. So again big thanks to Chan for all her help, and picking the winners……that is NEVER easy!

Okay so who is ready for an inspiration challenge this week? I think this image has heaps of possibilities, and I hope you all get on board with it!

Here is your Inspiration image to work with:

love the water can used as a vase!

So here goes for my sample! It turned out completely different to the direction I first started with, but hey it is pretty all the same.

The colours once photographed turned out a little different to the original, but you get the idea. The base cardstock is Razzleberry, and I have used the Echoes of Kindness stamp set which I have watercoloured with my aquapainter. The background is the Tres Chic background stamp from Stampin’Up and the greeting is the Three little words stamp set. I have dressed it up with a little bit of glitter.

Check out the DT’s creations and be inspired!

here are the links to their creations:

Cindy

Kirsty

Renee

Chantelle

Sarah-Jane

Want to play along? - here are some guidelines.

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 like Splitcoast 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 Mr. Linky!

You have until the Thursday the 25th March midnight to get your entries linked.

I will be announcing the winner and honourable mention on Friday the 26th March in the afternoon.

I hope you have fun with this one!

Hey peeps,

WOW has this week gone fast or what!!! I think it zoomed by. i managed to get lots of those yucky jobs, like paper work, paying bills, cleaning and the biggest basket of ironing done this week, but not a whole lot of stamping unfortunately. I kept thinking, “oh when I get this done, I will start to stamp, and when i get that finished etc, but instead those things just too so much time. A good feeling though to have it all done.

Today it was the kids school Swimming Carnival, and I was a volunteer for the day and i am feeling rather knackered now after being in the sun the whole day. I had a great time and it was nice to get to know some of the teachers. I was a time keeper, so had my hand on the pulse all day! I can’t believe that i forgot the camera again, and didn’t get any snap shots of the kids, which is such a shame!

Anyway onto the winning entries for the challenge this week! Lots of fun girly butterfly creations this week, which was great!

Again picking a winner is hard, but I was really blown away by this gorgeous creation from Helen! I loved this the second I saw it, with the large knotted ribbon, the framed butterfly and the scored cardstock at the top! Just gorgeous Helen and a well deserved winner!

Next up is this weeks honourable mention and I chose this creation by Karen Beazley. I am loving the three butterflies in a row, and how they are on the frame, and of course with the pearls it really tops them off! Wonderful creation Karen!

Of course there was plenty of other amazing creations as well, so be sure to sit by and view them all on the Slide show.

Thanks again to everyone who played along, and I hope you will join us all again next week!

Take care my friends,

YAY!

I have this computer working,….I tell ya I am doing a very big happy dance in my swivel chair, which actually does amazing slides across the tiled floor as I have some great tunes from Florence and the machine (a band) cranking on my iPod!!!! Sooooo very excited that I have this blogging all sorted now…..hope you can visualize it

Anyhooooo, even though most of you have seen this post on the wonderful (and I really mean WONDERFUL, DT crew’s blogs this past week) Heck you prolly had your creations made days ago and have been waiting (very patiently) for me to post the Mr Linky! If you are, well your wait is over cuz here it is for ya!

Oh and I have a wee little creation to share too! I have to tell ya though, my stamping was soooooo rusty after not stamping for, oh about 6 weeks! I made SO many mistakes on this card it was not funny! Good thing you can pretty much hide all sorts of boo-boo’s when it comes to stamping!! Not all, but most. Anyhoo, here is the said card full of boo boo’s.

I don’t know if you can spot them, but I sure can! LOL! This is a gorgeous Magnolia stamp that I coloured in with my Copic markers. I used some Basic grey dsp, and the ribbon and greeting along with button are all from Stampin’Up.

I took my inspiration from the following image, which you need to use as your inspiration piece for the challenge:

Gorgeous girly bedroom….

So for those of you who haven’t seen the DT’s creations yet, you can view them all here along with the instructions on how to play along!

Dawn

Cindy

Kirsty

Renee

Chantelle

Sarah-Jane

Want to play along? - here are some guidelines.

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 like Splitcoast 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 Mr. Linky!

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

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