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,

WOW so great to have so many play along with the Challenge this week and some newbies too, - we all love that! So many amazing creations too! There are 60 creations in the Slide show, so be sure to check them out.

Man ‘O Man it is really hard to pick a winner though…….yikes! It would be easier if I put it to vote! LOL!

Now after much deliberation, i finally picked this wonderful creation from Teneale Williams! WE all know Teneale is one AMAZING stamper and it is no wonder she teaches it as her full time job. I was super excited to see Teneale play along with the Inskpirations challenges for the time too. Here is her delightful, and pretty monochromatic creation.

Next up the Honourable mention, and well I picked this fun and pretty creation by Janice Klass (another first player for the Inkspirations Challenges!) A beautiful colour combo, and perfectly and neatly put together.. Well done Janice!

See goes to show that you can be a new challenge player and win! So don’t be shy, play along with the next one!

Thanks again to everyone who played along this week, I really appreciate it, and I had a blast seeing all your amazing work! I hope you can join us for the next one.

wowza, where is this week going? I was lucky enough to sit and stamp on Sunday night as I was nursing me ear infection and I can hardly believe it has taken me till Friday to get a post up, and show you what I made! Anyhoo, that is just how life goes sometimes. I need to get into a new routine for taking the photo shots. As of yet, I am still look for the perfect place that has great lighting and that I don’t have to set up every single time I want to photograph something I have made.  Because of the mountain right behind us, the best light is in the afternoon, but then I am usually doing homework with the kids, and getting dinner started. I will have spend some time thinking about this one

Anyway, i have had some sketch fun this week, and here is what i got up to:

First off I did Taylor’s sketch. I am not really enamoured with this one, it is an average creations, but hey i tend to always have that when I sit down to the stamp, the first creation I make is always just average……do you get that too? or is it just me?

Here it is…..you be the judge!

For this card I have used the Nook and Pantry DSP from Basic Grey, and Taylor’s own stamp set called, “For the love of cupcakes” The ribbon and punch outs are from Stampin’Up.

Next off I made a fun creation using Jen Delmuro’s sketch for you to try:

I LURVE these wee cute turtle tots from Stampingbella. I have used some My minds eye DSP, along with the red spotty ribbon from Stampin’Up.

Next up I stamped this cutie for the All that scraps dots and stripes challenge and I used Splitcoaststampers sketch for the week. I love this stamps and always have a blast colouring it in with my Copic markers. The DSP is from the Love Sparkles scrapbooking kit from Stampin’Up.

and here is a close up:

AND then the lucky last is a masculine card i made using the colour challenge from Splitcoaststampers from this past week. The colours were Basic grey, Crushed curry, Always artichoke and a Neutral colour. Definitely a different mix and this is what I came up with:

So yeah i have been doing a little stamping, and WOW it feels sooooo good! Each day I am itching to get back into my new stamp room and pull out the ink and rubber. Talking of my new stamp room, I took some pictures so that you can have a little look see of where I am when i create. It is perfect for what I need, and I am just using a hodgepodge of furniture (ie a trestle table and old computer desk) at the moment until we get the house built and I can go back to having custom build cabinets etc…. I had that at the last place, but because it was built in, I had to leave it behind….. Ah well I am sure at the new house that we will build I will have a fabulous set up, and with a view too!

Here is my new room…..

This is from the doorway….

My computer desk with my brand new puter, whom I have named Maisie Mac….

My converted book shelves that now house my stamps and ribbon…..

My paper and punch storage! I had built in filing cabinets drawers in my old craft desk so I had to find a new way to store my file folders of cardstock. The day we moved we had a Corona beer box and I discovered that the file folders fitted perfectly! So what did I do? Went out and bought two new cases of beer for the boxes….(okay I confess to having drunk a few of the boxes contents to……but only a few, I promise!

So there you go, now you can visualize where I am at when I stamp and sing along to my iPod with my mug of tea.

I will be back with the Challenge winner, and new post for ya in a bit….

Ciao,

who is all up and ready for a new challenge? It has been so hot here in Australia this past week, and I know that it is rather hard to sit and stamp when you are hot and sweaty, that is unless of course you have an air conditioner blowing right in your face! Maybe we will get lots of players from the other side of the continent where it is so cold right now, that snuggling up in the craft space it nice and cozy.

Anyway no matter where you are in this wide world, we would love to you to join in and play along this week. We have a sketch for you this week, and these are usually the most popular…..is that cuz they are easier? who knows, but I do hope you like this one!

Here is the sketch for you:

The image in the centre is something you can stamp and make pop in the square

Now I have my sample all ready to go for you, but would you believe that this afternoon (when i got back from the swimming carnival, i went to take a photo of it, and what do you know?….the camera battery is dead!) so I have that charging right now, and at first light in the morning I will pop it up for you,

ETA: Hey again, here is my sample for you! I wanted to get it up first thing this morning when the battery for my camera was charged, but I have been up most the night with a nasty ear infection! So I had to head out to the doctors to get antibiotics and drops first thing. Man’0 man ear infections are painful. The doc tells me it is that time of year in the tropics and that they are really common during the wet season…..hmm now that is something i didn’t know! So whilst I would love to be stamping today, I think I will be catching up on some sleep instead.

I made this card for my new hair dresser here in Cairns. This week i actually had my hair straightened! (now that is a whole other post!) But I wanted to send her a little thank you card, because she asked me to come in a few days later to have it washed and blow dried for free……..a girl can always do with a bit of pampering and how much nicer when it is FREE too! so yeah, just a little thank you card. The image is from Stampingbella, and the greeting, that being the word Diva came with it, I hand wrote the word Hair (hope it isn’t too noticeable!) The dsp that I used is from, My mind’s eye. Good fun….

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 11th March midnight to get your entries linked.

I will be announcing the winner and honourable mention on Friday the 12th March in the afternoon.

I have lots more to share with you too, so hope to be back with that tomorrow, after our 3:30am trip to the airport to pick up Rod’s parents who are coming for a visit.

have a goodie!

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,

Well my second attempt stamping went a whole lot better than my first! Maybe because I was doing similar things was good, and made it a whole lot easier to accomplish

Here is a sneek at the triple heart cards I created:

I have made three different cards using the same materials, colours and stamps. They look rather cute when you have them all up against each other:

Here they are individually:

First an upright card….

Followed by a rectangle….

Then lastly a square….

The list of all the products I have used will be listed below. I like how these simple designs turned out, and rather easy to whip up a few at a time!

I am having trouble with photos at the moment! They are either too large and go over the perimeters on the text section, or if I size them to medium they come out small like this….hmm going to have to do some more research on that one!

Take care! I am off to actually do some stamping before I head to a piano lesson…….something I have wanted to pick up again for a long time! I started to learn a few years back and LOVED it. With having Janaya it just got all too hard, but now we have moved and she is grown, we bought a new piano and Tiarne is learning along with me, so that is nice! Something we can share together.

Have a goodie…

Do you recognize this flag? This is where we are all off to come 16th June for 5 1/2 weeks!!!

Rod’s brother Ivan and his Canadian fiance Jolene are getting married in July in the town of Winnipeg (right smack bang in the middle of the prairies) and we are going to be there! Actually half of us are in the bridal party so we better be there hey Rod is best man, I am a bridesmaid, and Janaya is a flower girl……exciting huh?

It has taken so much work to get all our flights planned and booked,(but even more scary paying for them….yikes!!!!), and we have a monster trip planned! First off we land in Vancouver which we will stay for a few days, then visit friends in the Fraser valley. Then we pick up a motor home which will then become our abode for the next 4.5 weeks! We hope to do the Rockies, Jasper, Banff, Calgary, and then up to Edmonton, through Saskatoon, and then onto Winnipeg.

After all the wedding festivities, we hope to high tail it to Toronto, and then visit Niagra falls, and head south to Baltimore, Maryland USA to visit Kate (my brother’s fiance) and spend some time with her and her family. Then last of all we will travel up to New York for a few days, and then fly home.

Travelling with 4 young kids is going to be quite an adventure I am sure!!! No doubt it will have it’s trying times, like on the 16 hour flight home!!! But with the hard times there is going to be so many exciting times too.

So you gorgeous Canadians out there, please let me know what you think is your top picks to visit. We are driving pretty much straight across the country so if you have any tips I would really appreciate to hear them!! Also any travelling tips for taking kids along, that doesn’t always involve drugging them with sedatives??? LOL!

I have all these stampers I want to visit, and of course the Stampingbella store in Toronto, I just have to get Rod to come to the party, as he assures me we are not on a stamping adventure holiday! It is going to be so great to meet the Canadian Design team girls, and hopefully some in the US too!

I am sure the trip will be here before we know it, so it definitely will be fun planning all our adventures, and I need to keep reminding myself that I don’t need more stamps, and have to save my $$$ for the trip Then I can buy it all over there and bring it home with me!

Anyway I am super excited to share with you our fun news, and look forward to hearing all your travelling do’s and dont’s!

Oh and I have stamping to share too, so be back in a mo with that for you too!

Have a fabulous weekend peeps,

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.

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!

I have had nothing but trouble with the new computer today! On Friday my old laptop was taken into the Apple store to have all my data transferred over to my new MacBook, but they couldn’t get it done in a day as there was so much info to be transferred!!! Much to my dismay I had to wait till Monday to pick it up.

Today I have done that, only to now have lost all my emails that have been in my inbox awaiting replies, and none of my photos are ordered, and well I can’t seem to get anything sorted. I am just about ripping my hair out, no actually I am ripping my hair out!!!! I am heading right back to that store first thing tomorrow, so that I can get them to fix it, or show me the right direction! I tell ya it all looks so easy in the store when they are showing you all the swanky things it can do!

So anyway please be patient with me, and hopefully I will have this computer all sorted by tomorrow~! Seeing as I am having such difficulty I am going to extend this weeks challenge by a week, so you can take your time playing along, and then of course can link your creation as soon as I can get that post up for you all!

Right I am off to have a beer, and talk myself down off the ledge!

Talk soon, and I love ya for being patient…. *wink*