Hey there,

I am still hanging in there. I am so thankful for strong pain killers, as they are helping. I can’t seem to get past the 4 hours without having more though! Hopefully with a few more days, my mouth will heal better. I am just desperate to feel normal again!

Now I managed to just sit down tonight, have a cuppa and chill out stamping and colouring a couple of cards for Amy Rysavy’s Sketches. You all know how much I love Amy’s sketches! This weeks sketch is this one:

Fabulous hey!

Here is the creation I made with it:

Oh these colours cheer me up. Whenever I am having a “no-mojo” type of day, I tend to turn to these colours and they get me going. So I have used Chocolate chip, and Pumpkin pie cardstock, with Whisper white, and the Sweet Always DSP paper pack from Stampin’Up. I used the Owl together now stamp set and coloured it in with my Copic markers (see below). I have added some Chocolate taffeta ribbon, paper piercing and Pretty in pink brads to finish it off.

The Copic coloured markers I used on this card:

I had also started working on a card last week for Amy’s Sketch last week, but never got around to finishing it off to upload in time. But i have now and thought I would share it with you:

Here was the sketch:

the card i made:

This is a different colour combo for me, but I think it worked out okay. I have used Pretty in pink for the base, and added some Brocade blue spotty DSP, and a strip of So saffron DSP from the Good morning Sunshine paper pack from Stampin’Up. The stamp I used was a Gorjuss girl from Sugar Nellie stamps, which I cut out with my circle cutter, and mounted onto Saffron cardstock. I dressed it up with some wide Brocade blue grosgrain ribbon, paper piercing and some flowers topped with buttons from the Button Bouquet set from Stampin’Up.

Here are the Copic markers I used to colour the image:

For her dress and stockings, and outlines…

For her face, and hair, and the chook….

Thanks to Amy for such fabulous sketches to work with! Right I am off to bed……again!

Take care!

 Hello my dear friends,

Thanks for all your encouraging comments and words of advice about the tooth situation. It was really good feedback, as I really wasn’t too sure what to do!

Well yesterday I had my appointment back at the dentist, and asked them to pull the tooth out. I was quite nervous, and didn’t know what to expect as i haven’t had to do this before. I have to say it was a really awful experience, and I am still in shock and trying to recover. The dentist was great, but I seemed to have a bit of a reaction to all the anesthetic because i was shaking so badly afterwards, and ended up in tears that I just couldn’t stop (much to my complete embarrassment!) I think I just went into complete shock afterwards. It is still quite painful, and I have to take pain killers every 4 hours but they definitely do help.  But the tooth is gone, and once it heals up I am sure it won’t give me any more trouble. I am really looking forward to feeling my old self again though!

Today I have seen all the Challenge entries for last weeks sketch, and wow it was really hard to pick a winner this week! In the end though I have picked the beautiful creations by Kylie Maher. I love how Kylie has stamped the flowers underneath and then used the Vellum overlay for her greeting…..very elegant!

Then for this weeks Honourable Mention, I have chosen this gorgeous creation from Sue. I love Sue’s choice of colours and the extra details with the ribbon, tag, and tearing! Fabulous job Sue!

Thanks to everyone who has played along and a very BIG THANK YOU to Kim Badelt for being out guest designer for June! I am sure you will agree Kim, did such a superb job at being on the DT and had us inspired each week.

Next week will be one of the Design Team girls turn to pick the Inkspirations winner, and Honourable mention. AND we get to introduce the new Guest Designer for July……I know you won’t be disappointed, as i am really excited about this new guest DT member!

Here are all the other entries for the Sketch Challenge…..

Hey there peeps,

Well you are probably  where I got to over the past few days……well I am really sad to say that I have been down and out, well and truly with the worst ever tooth ache!

Remember that tooth that chipped in half 2 weeks ago? Well they put in a temporary filling and I was good to go, at least till they could fix it properly.

Last week however i was feeling it being very sensitive, and was thinking i was getting an ear infection, which it wasn’t. However it was the nerve from that tooth shooting pain up my jaw to my ear. I ended up having the worst night on Friday with not being able to sleep from the pain. The strongest meds that i had here wasn ‘t touching it a bit. And of course I couldn’t get through on the phone to the dentist Saturday. SO in the end i just drove there and rocked up. They were fabulous and saw me straight away.

As it turns out the temporary filling had come away and was cracked, so everything I ate was going straight to the nerve……” I am not suprised you are in a lot of pain” the dentist said Which of course made me feel better. So they numbed me up and re-did the temporary filling, and gave me some Panadeine forte, and Nurofen which has been helping with the pain. But I have been feeling pretty tired, which is of course part of the medication, and partly from having little sleep.

So between now and tomorrow, when I go back to the dentist I have to decide if I am going to spend $2,500 on a Root canal, and Crown for that tooth, or $90 to have it pulled. I am not 100% sure what to do, but am leaning towards having it pulled, seeing as you will never see it, and I am saving myself a HUGE amount of money.

Anyway I am sure you didn’t come here to hear all my woes about teeth, but I did just want to explain why i haven’t been around.

I still have to finish viewing the entires…..I have about 10 to go and then I will share the winning entries with you. As well as the Scrap it Saturday, etc……

However, I do have a card to share which was last weeks Mojo Monday, that I stamped last week and hadn’t managed to upload yet.

Here was the sketch :

My mojo creation:

Finally inking up that Upsy Daisy stamp set from Stampin’Up!. For this card I have used Chocolate chip cardstock for the base, and layered DSP from the Urban garden, and the Urban Oasis DSP packs from Stampin’Up. I have inked up the floral stamp with my markers, Creamy caramel, Baja breeze, and Not quite navy. I have stamped the greeting from the Cute and curly label bundle stamp, and punched it out with the Curly label punch. Lastly I distressed all the cardstock edges and added some Kraft taffeta ribbon, tied off with Baja button from the button Bouquet set, and some vanilla half pearls.

On a very happy note, today I picked up my brother Bryn and his fiancee Kate from the airport at lunchtime. Talk about exciting to see them both back again safe and sound. Kate was so ecstatic about her ring, and my oh my it looks amazing on her as well……. We are about to head over to Mum and Dad’s for a celebratory dinner! I might even get a picture to share with you all!

Okay I will be back very soon,……I promise!

PS… thanks for your patience!

Hey peeps!

well thursday is over already…….another week zooming by, at the speed of light…..or so it seems! It is still raining here, and looks like it will be that way for another week! They have cancelled all the boat trips out to Rottnest island (of WA coast) for the weekend as the weather is meant to be NASTY! spose that means winter has well and truly set in. But I am sure you haven’t come here for a weather update have you…LOL

Okay so since i have made quite the investment in the Stampinbella stamps, I want to put them to use, and what a great way to do it with Stampingbellas weekly sketch challenge! This weeks sketch is like this:

Okay so I have used that Pink flamingo DSP from Stampin’Up AGAIN~!!! I am so not a brights person, but I am enjoying this paper To be honest my new Copics actually only have the colours that match this DSP, and well it is a bit limiting! SU doen’t have any papers with Violet colours which is the others that I have. BUT I do confess to making another purchase, because I wasn’t coping too well with not having any PINK! I had 2 colours in that whole pack and they are not matching……….a girl has got to have her Pink, so I am anxiously waiting for them to arrive Till then it is lots of Pink flamingo….cha cha cha

Here is a close up of the Maisy Ketto stamp that I have coloured, and glittered her wings! too cute

Makes me wish for summer now!

Thanks Em (the Stampingbella hostess with the mostest…..AND whose birthday it is today!) HAPPY BIRTHDAY EM! Loved the Sketch

Hi again,

well i did manage to whip up this card this afternoon, when I was trying to not think about my ear today

I have used the sketch from Taylored Expressions and their Friday cupcake challenges. I didn’t use a cupcake but a new stamp I received in the post just this morning from Sweet Nellie stamps in the UK. (www.sweetnellie.com)  They are from a line called Gorjuss girls and oh they are super cute! Tiarne went nuts over it when she got home from school today.

Here is Taylors sketch for this week:

Then my Gorjuss Girl card:

This particular stamp is the Gorjuss sitting girls (I know that is stating the obvious, but seriously that is she is called) There are a few different ones that you can get (and yes i did get some of them too.. )

Okay so I have just realized that I have forgotten to take a pic of all the Copic colours that i used…whoops. You have to forgive me for not being totally with it today! But I do know the other product I used….. Riding hood red for the base, then some Pink Flamingo DSP from Stampin’Up. I added some Pretty in pink taffeta ribbon fed through the slot punch. Then some blue rhinestone brads, and paper piercing for embellishment.

Well I am off to bed, and hopefully I will wake up with no ear pain tomorrow!

Have a good night!