PIxie Goes to the Zoo

Good evening! Tonight a new challenge is LIVE at the Studio challenge blog.. Pixie would like us all to go see some Animals hehe ... the Challenge is....

~Let's Go to the Zoo!~

this week, we are challenging you to make a card or project with an animal on it somewhere...

I have used Courage the Lion for my card this week...



Check out the animals the Pixies found HERE!

Australia Day

Good morning :) For my overseas friends Australia Day is THE official national day of Australia and commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788 :) IT is a PUBLIC HOLIDAY ... YAY!! People celebrate in ALL kinds of ways - music festivals, flag raising, citizenship ceremonies, races, BBQs, Beach .. the list goes on!! We are not doing much.. I have such fond memories of childhood celebrations - cooking and eating damper.. a family tradition ... some years great and others a bit damper-ish .... mm maybe I should try some gluten-free damper tomorrow ... mmm maybe haha!

I find myself having to THANK God ... I do LOVE living in this beautiful country - I feel truly blessed to have such a wonderful place to live!!

Well ... I've been practising my sketching AGAIN ... and I'm quite happy with my latest results... I have done some Aussie themed images... specially for Australia Day!! :D and have decided to give all who ask an aussie day pressie... lol... yup... a freebie digi! Just email me with your choice of image from the Beach scene above!! :D

Oh and in honour of Australia Day and those Men and Women over the years that give up living in this great place - so that we can stay safe ... I also have done another "extra fast - speed video" - colouring Digger Marci, a gorgeous "aussie" digger... by Irina Blount from La-La Land Crafts :) You can see it here

TGF meets The Baby Sitters Club

Good morning! Yesterday was the customer chit chat at The Greeting Farm... well actually it was on Splitcoast Stampers.. but in the forum for TGF ;) It was fun to chatter with people, thou rather confusing at times! LOL!

So there were also some challenges - creating cards based on your favourite book, favourtie book turned movie and favourite children's book. After discussions in the "chat" on The Babysitters Club... which I admit was a favourite series of mine and I thought I had them all until I checked on wiki and realised that they kept going way after my reading time.. I must have only had about 40 or so?!?! will have to see if they are still at Mum and Dad's lol!

So I had a lot of fun finding all my Miss Anyas and mixing and matching them until I created the 5 position holders main girls in the club (don't worry there is a My Guy Ian reserved for Logan hehe)

So... Do you remember the books? Do you remember the girls?? My favourite was Mary Anne (but Claudia was a very close second) hahahah! Well if you remember and can name my Miss Anya lookalikes correctly I might just have to find you a little prize! :D

more of an aerial view to show the full figures and the sentiments from the Onesies sets :D

Took me a long time to decide on which bodies, heads to use and then a little extra alterations.. cutting and adding hair... coloured with Copics and I was done! :D I made a step card to show them off properly :D First Step card I've made... but I think I will be making MORE of them.. so simple yet so effective! :D

Have a lovely Sunday!!

a speed video - Colouring Gwen

Heya, Just popping on to share a video I just made of me Copic Colouring "Crushin Gwen" from Some Odd Girl.... just playing with my video and imovie so that I can do MORE Copic Tutorials :D Oh and don't worry I don't colour THAT fast (although its been said I do colour too fast) ... I sped it up to 500% to save time.. showing the fastforward of the colouring process - which I've seen done by others!

Crushin Gwen

Hello! I'm a bad blogger... lol... need to get more organised again to have a post every day as I would like to hehe... well we'll see! I am sharing a card with you today I've made with one of the new SOG Valentines stamps!! :D In case you did not notice... I am just LOVING SOG stamps at the moment .. they are a delight to colour!!

This is Crushin Gwen...

I've coloured her with Copics of course and gone for a simple layout... The Heart tag/ Embellishment was in the pack of goodies that I won from the SOG Holiday hop last year! YAY! ... I fabby bag of pretty embellies... still deciding how best to use them - some seem too pretty to put on cards hehe!

Do you want to win some SOME ODD GIRL stamps??? You could be in luck as I am giving some away in my Blog Birthday candy (scroll down)!!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Love in the Studio

It's a LOVELY time ... with the NEW release "LOVE Struck" now in the STUDIO! There are some quite delightful images... and Here are some more examples of them on projects. You can find the complete collection HERE!

Heart Garden
Pixie Valentines

Catching your Heart

Hop on over to the Pixie blog for more samples of these lovely images and hop on over to the Studio ... OOOH and the new challenge just went live and it is ...

Put Your Heart into It!

Make a card/project using hearts...in the image, on the patterned paper, or even a heart shaped embellishment. The possibilities are endless!

Love to see you entering!!! :)

4th Birthday blog candy

so as promised this morning HERE is my 4th Blog Birthday blog candy .... :D

To be in the draw to win there are a number of ways you can get your name entered :D you can do one, some all or none (whatever you like - lol)

1. please leave a comment below ... and
2. PLEASE sign up as a follower - if you want to that is lol!! :)
3. Post this piccy with a link to my blog on your own blog/ sidebar
4. Sign up as a follower on my store blog - HERE

COME back 30 Jan to see who is the winner of my celebratory blog candy :D

What's in the Candy?
3 Some Odd Girl Stamps - Sweet Thinkin Mae, Gifty Gwen, Dancing Mae (my favs),
Copicendium 1 & 2,
3 Spicas,
Some paper, ribbon, airbrushed doileys & chipboard :D

"Stuff By Sammi" is 4 TODAY!!!

Well on the 12 Jan 2008 I did my FIRST blog post on this blog... and boy has it been a fun and growth filled journey from there to here! I have LOVED meeting new friends and learning new techniques and finding new crafty addictions through this world of craft/ stamping blogging.

HUGE THANKS to everyone who I have met in this lovely land of blog for your love and friendship and encouraging comments!! :)

I have decided to celebrate this milestone with a beautiful bunch of candy.. I will come and post it tonight... TODAY I am running a COPIC party for our soon to be 11yr old God daughter! :)

Help needed :: Spesch STAMPS sale

the beautiful Tracey is needing your help .... I have taken this from her Spesch Stamps blog...

"As we have come in to Christmas and the New Year my little girl Miss 4yr old has needed some major dental work done. Due to her age she needs to go in to hospital to get the procedure done. Unfortunately Christmas has killed us and we are trying to get together $2k so we can get her procedures done. Due to this I am asking for your help".

In order to raise some money for this procedure Tracey has decided to sell all existing Spesch rubber stamps for $4 and all clear stamps for $3. WOW bargain and for a great cause!!

See the Spesch Stamps blog for MORE info and how to order your stamps to help out!!

a Pixie Preview :: Cupid Wings

Good evening... before I head off to bed I am just popping online quickly to share with you a SNEAKY peek at one of the soon to be released "LOVE STRUCK" images from Pixie Dust Studio.

This Gorgeous image is Cupid Wings and she will be available in the Pixie Studio in 2 days time! yipee!! :D


Pop back tomorrow for another Pixie preview!! :D

yesterdays sketch...

So far so good in my "sketch a day" .... I will have to do todays soon lol!! Anyway.. here is yesterdays .... I have turned her into a digi with a few minor changes (using my neglected Wacom)

I've decided to use my Mad for Markers Copic journal for my sketching practice ....

I was quite happy with this image "Eva" ... she's perfect for here as Aussies think about "Back to School" soon ... I thought I would give her as a freebie to anyone who would like her.. just email me here and I'll email her to you as a jpg or png file :D






thanks for stopping by!!

some sketching

1st rough sketch...

inking her up... I decided to ditch the wings...

and then Copic'ed ... I am reasonably happy with the face and hair... but the body needs a lot more work on proportions and posture!! Anyway.. will try again another day hehe

This morning I tried some sketching again... Here are some rough Instagram shots of my work in progress... I still need to PRACTICE drawing a lot more before I am happy with the end result!!!

PIxie's Monochromatic challenge

Hellloooo!!! It's that time of the week again.. a NEW Pixie challenge... whoo!! Firstly tho ... some Pixie news :)

We would love to WELCOME...
Theresa of The Scrapbook Queen as our newest Pixie!!!

AND!!!

a very WELCOME BACK to...
Taylor of The Quiet Moments Who will also be our new Pixie Dust Challenge Captain!!!

Yayyy!!!

and now... on to the NEW challenge ... PIXIE wants you to
create a MONOCHROMATIC card/project!

I decided to go greyscale for mine....

And guess what .. there are some gorgeous new images coming soon!!

new challenge at M4M :: New colours

Good morning, Hope you are all going well and recovered from late nights to see in the new YEAR! :D I'm still tired from my late night .. must be getting old lol!

Anyway... just popping on the post my card using Surfer Kody from Some Odd Girl Stamps ...
you can read all the colours used over on the M4M challenge blog HERE. The paper used is Echo Park :)


Oh and I thought I would share these as I had so much fun and have some more fun ideas plotting too... Kristy is having a bit of fun this month... getting people to post on facebook with some "paper child" creations... you can google Paper Child to see what it is ... but you might also be able to guess from my pictures below.. 1st up after colouring Bookish Tia I sat her in front of a pile of books on top of our bookcase ...

and then yesterday when we left for church I took along Dressy Mae.. looking for a good place to put her.. and when we got to church I decided that she would look great in front of the building :D She was better dressed for church than me in my 3/4 pants - tee hee!!!


Why not join the Some Odd Girl facebook group to see what everyone does and to share your "SOG Paper Child creations" :D They are addictive to make and I can't wait to do some more! :D

Happy New Year Everyone!

Good morning!!! Hope you all had/ have a wonderful time bringing in the New Year! xxx

I'm looking forward to this year.. wondering what it will bring! We'll see I guess!! :D
I thought I would share with you my letter to myself journal page that I created for TGF's final Heart Journaling week...

I used a Dr Seuss quote I found very appropriate and the images I've used are:
1. Saturated Canary and 2. Miss Anya Me ... created from about 5 different Miss Anya stamps :)

Hope you have a fabby New Year, what are your goals and dreams for this year... think I might go write some up now! :D

Vicki's blog candy

My lovely friend Vicki is running a blog candy ... click the pic to go and see more... sign up to her blog as a follower and join the linky :)

The countdown is on....

... and the Pixies are counting down.... The newest challenge at Pixie Dust Studio Challenges is to use numbers :D


I did not go with the obvious New Years card this time.. I thought I'd make a Mad Hatter card.. counting down till tea time... well for him and me it's ALWAYS tea or COFFEE time... as I sit here sipping my coffee and blogging anyway tee hee!!

Hope you all have a safe and fun New Years and looking forward to seeing what 2012 brings!!

My Top 10 (+2) creations for 2011

Good afternoon... Just popping on here to share with you some of my favourite Creations this year... This is something I was planning to do again this year... and then I saw Kellie with her TOP 10 post on her blog ... where she has a linky so you can link up your top 10 creations AND hop through the linky to see everyone else's top 10 too... so thought I would do that... I do however have a top 12 to share as I pulled out a favourite creation for each month of 2011 :D
I've linked each picture to my original posting :)

January
using Princess Arabella from Sweet November Stamps

February
using Miss Anya Hats Off from The Greeting Farm and Meadow from Sweet November Stamps

March
using Little Red from Spesch Stamps

April
using Zoe's Birthday Cupcake from Inky Impressions

May
using Love Letter Kaylee from Some Odd Girl Stamps

June
using images from Make It Crafty

July
some journaling (new craze) ... using The Greeting Farm's Blush girls.

August
Romeo and Juliet image from Pixie Dust Studio

September
beautiful Mermaid from Saturated Canary

October
Lil Haunts Vampire Lilith from Tickled Pink Stamps

November
Zombie Queen of Hearts from Spesch Stamps

December
stamps from Some Odd Girl

Thanks for stopping by... I had fun looking back over the year and finding some of my favourite creations .. I would love to see yours so if you do a post please let me know.. I will be checking out the links at Kellie's blog post here too :)