Pixie Dust Studio :: Say It With Roses

Hello :D This is my first card as a Guest Designer for Pixie Dust Studio ... the card is for the new challenge over on the Pixie Challenge blog which is to:
"Say it with Roses" - Use roses or red flowers on your card/project.

I have used the gorgoeus Alice Cullen digi available in the Twilight section of the Studio!

She's holding some roses behind her back!! tee hee!
I coloured the lovely Alice in with Copics..
Hair: E25, 27, 29, Skin: E0000, E000, E00, Rv10, 00
clothing: N4,5,7, B91, 93, 95, 97, RV000, 00, 02

Thanks for visiting .. have a great day!!

Eclipse tins...

Ok... so remember how I posted up that Kaisercraft Desk Organiser... and it had all those Eclipse mint tins in it... well here is a little post on those... Guy loves those mints and always has them in the car... OK I love them too! lol! We go through LOTS and the tins were piling up in our car... so I got the bag and decided to used them!!

They are the perfect size for storing embellishments in .. I was going to decorate them all but have not got that far yet... but this is how I know what's in each tin...

I stuck on top the lid one of the embellishments I am storing in that container :D

I had to pop in that Eclipse tin in the background as when we saw them sitting on the shelf at Target I had to have one (suckered in my merchandising again!).. although the mints in that tin were Spearmint .. gross - so Guy got them all to himself!!

OK... just for fun I am going to send out an Eclipse tin filled with lots of different embellishments to one random commenter on this post!

xxx

Inky Impressions :: It's a sketch

Good evening! Hope you are all well, Before I post tonight I'd like to ask you all to please spare a thought and lots of prayers for the people of Far North Queensland as they brace for the most awful tropical storm!!

Tonight I am sharing a card I have made for the Inky Impressions Challenge blog ... this week the challenge moves to bi-weekly and is to follow a great sketch designed by the very lovely Tanya!!
Here is my take on the sketch... using paper from Websters and DCWV. the image is the gorgeous new (released in Dec) Winter Fashion Marley .. isn't she adorable!!
I also added some blingy rhinestone brads that came from Inky Impressions (thanks Nicole!!)

Now please hop on over to the Inky Impressions Challenge blog to see some more wonderful takes on this great sketch by all the AWESOME Inkettes!!

I'm going to enter this one into the Outlawz Copic challenge which is Anything Goes

Lollipop Ladies - mint fudge

Mmmmm.... I love peppermint with chocolate.... yummo! The perfect challenge this week for The Lollipop Ladies .. Here is the inspiration pic...
The challenge is to use the delicious mint fudge as your inspiration and to add polkadots .

Here is my card... I've used Miss Anya from The Greeting Farm's Later Sk8er set!!

Ok .. so I am not a green person really and don't really colour with green to often but I am LOVING the Green and brown combination after this challenge!

Please check out The Lollipop Ladies blog - to join in and see all the gorgeous candy stripes creations, Here are some links so you can go to them directly too!

Andrea
Chantelle
Marcia
Mel H
Mel P
Michelle

Exciting news....

For the month of Feb I am a

click on the pic above to go and see who the new team of Designers are.. and I'm telling you there are some gorgeous new images just out and MORE coming this month too!! :D

Farm Fresh Friday :: Hats off

Well I'm not sure if you have seen but the new realease at The Greeting Farm is so sweet! One of the new releases is a new set of Miss Anyas... and they are wearing lovely hats... now I am a bit of a hat person! I love hats.. Have not worn heaps recently but I used to wear them all the time... so much so that before we were dating DH came up to me a couple of times and said "Hello Beret girl" and another time "Hey Hat girl" hehe!

so this weeks Farm Fresh Friday challenge got me inspired and I made all sorts of hats for some existing Miss Anyas... And then decided to put them on some ATCs :D Here is a closer look at each of them... I have used the Inkadinkado Kids quote stamps that the lovely Tracey gave me last year! I think they work well!! :D







Thanks for stopping by!!

Spesch Stamps surprise release

Good morning :D Today brings a surprise release at Spesch stamps.. with two images for Valentines ... I designed a few images for Tracey and then she adapted and reworked them and we cleaned them up together ... the results are...

Angelina in Love Digital Stamp

and
Mike & Molly Digital Stamp

You can get your images now for the bargain price of $2 from Spesch stamps ... right here!

The Altered Alice - CHAPTER 1 : Changing Form / Feb. 2011 Challenge - Week 1

"Alice crouched down among the trees as well as she could, for her neck kept getting entangled among the branches, and every now and then she had to stop and untwist it. After a while she remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to work very carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she had succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual height.

It was so long since she had been anything near the right size, that it felt quite strange at first; but she got used to it in a few minutes, and began talking to herself, as usual. `Come, there's half my plan done now! How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another!"

-- Chapter 5, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Well, just like Alice we have been through quite a few changes! But our familiar Alice challenges have arrived safely in at their new home although in a new monthly form.

To reflect all these changes, the challenge is to make something that features a dress form, OR to make something that changes in form! While it is not required that your project include Alice in Wonderland, we do encourage it. If your project features Wonderland you will get two chances in the prize drawing instead of one, and what a prize it is!

STAMPOTIQUE ORIGINALS is sponsoring our first challenge with a generous $30 gift certificate, and their fabulous design team is going to play along!

Now let me explain how this new monthly challenge works:

•1st Sunday of the month: The new challenge will be posted with the link tool, and a few of the design team samples will be posted.

•2nd Sunday: Additional design team samples will be posted.

•3rd Sunday: The last of the design team samples will be posted.

•Last Sunday of the month: A winner will be announced and some of your projects may be given an "honorable mention".

We are starting a week early with the February challenge because we didn't want to leave you with a gap, so we will spread the design team samples over four weeks and the winner will be announced on February 27th. You have a whole month to submit your creations, so we are hoping that a lot more of you will decide to play along!

Enter your links on The Altered Alice before 8 p.m. EST (GMT - 5) on Friday, February 25th. A winner will be announced on Sunday, February 27th. Check back at The Altered Alice each Sunday between now and then for more inspiration!


.... I'll be back with my inspiration NEXT week!

Inky Impressions :: Emboss It!!!

Good evening friends :D It's time for a new Inky challenge and this week the challenge is to emboss it .. .we would like to see some embossing on your creations... wet or dry.. whatever you like :D I have used my cuttlebug for some dry embossing.. the swiss dots and also my new butterfly border folder!!

I have used Lili's Prayer as the stamp on my card.. she is definitely one of my favourite Inky stamps still!! She is coloured in with... Copics... BV0000, 000, 00 , 01, 02. 04, E000, 00, 01, 11, R81, B91, 94, 12, Y11, 15, 17, E25, 27, 29, 77, 79

Here's a closer look at her :D

I am entering this card into...

Copic Creations ... What's New :: the butterfly cuttlebug folder (first time I used it!) + pearls, ribbon and paper are from a pack I won from Amy recently :D Also... I don't really normally colour yellow.. so I guess that is new too! lol

I found a new (to me) challenge site... The RES-Q Challenge is embossing... Excellent!!

Cute Card Thursday would like to see recipes of 1-2-3, so... I have 1 image, 2 embossing folders, 3 pearls ... I also have 1 ribbon, 2 designer papers and 3 main colours! :D

Happy Australia Day!

Inky Impressions :: AbaC

Good evening friends :D Today over on the Inky challenge blog it is time for an Anything But a Card post... and the creator of todays inspiration is .... ?? yeah, OK it's ME ... LOL!

I have a Deskholder to share... this is a Kaisercraft desk caddy that I got for a bargain price when my LSS (sadly) closed down last year! ... I had fun painting it and then covering it with Designer paper .. which is also from bargains at closing down sale (although I threw out the scrappy bits/ label so I am not even sure now what the paper was) ... anyone know?? I do LOVE it!!
*ed* thanks Em for letting me know the paper is Websters - It is the Life's Portrait series ... and wow .. I just went to their website and they have it available in digi too... looks like I might need to get some digi paper!




There is the front view ... and then on the side... I have used some Alphabet stickers and the gorgeous Stampalicious Lili who is quite appropriate for this project if you ask me!!

Here is a closer look at the beautiful Lili!

Don't forget to pop back to Inky Impressions tomorrow for the new challenge and some GORGEOUS DT inspiration for you!!

Oh, Alice :: endings and beginnings

Hello friends...

Today is a BITTERSWEET...although MOSTLY sweet day at Oh, Alice. It has almost been ONE YEAR since the beautiful Jess had her wonderful idea to dedicate a blog to Alice in Wonderland - I was absolutely thrilled when Jess chose me as one of her original twisted team and I have LOVED being part of this crazy little world!!

But now.. sadly, Oh Alice is closing it's doors :( however the wonderful challenges will return next week as The Altered Alice, a blog that our Twisted Thirteen member Lynne Phelps has started and will continue on from here.

I would like to once more give Jessica great THANKS for having me on her team.. and great thanks also to the rest of my twisted sisters (past and present) for the fun and friendship along the way!!

Although my time has come to an end in this Oh, Alice Wonderland and the wonderful dream has ended... I have decided I really would LOVE to continue creating Alice themed creations.. and would also love to support Lynne over on the Altered Alice ... so I'm thrilled that Lynne agreed to let me join her Altered Alice team!!

I am jumping right back through that looking glass tee hee...

So What about this week's CHALLENGE ??

It is to travel "Back down the Rabbit Hole" challenge-back to the beginning-Create a HELLO card OR a "Goodbye" card-it's all about what it looks like on the other side of that Looking Glass, right?

The DT has once again been blessed with a WONDERFUL assortment of Nikki Sivils papers and embellishments to work with as Nikki has graciously supplied the DT with, as well as a WONDERFUL prize pack for ONE lucky winner (winner will be announced next week on the Altered Alice challenge Blog and also you must link your creations THERE.

In addition to creating a HELLO or GOODBYE card and entering it over at The Altered Alice, the NEW Alice in Wonderland Challenge Blog, don't forget to "FOLLOW" the new "Altered Alice" blog where next week's challenge AND the winner of the last Nikki giveaway will be drawn!

Here are my cards ... Goodbye Oh, Alice!! :(

and Hello to Altered Alice!!

Hope you will join us this week and then in future months at The Altered Alice!!

beautiful blog candy in the mail :D

Yesterday brought some very happy mail for me....

This GORGEOUS blog candy that I won from the lovely Amy....

So last night I HAD to colour in this gorgeous Isadora (Sweet November stamp designed by Amy!) .. I thought she would look good on a tree... so after I stamped her I drew some branches under/ around her :D



Wanna know what Amy had to say about Isadora???

Meet Princess Isadora. She is a head-in-the-clouds daydreamer who spends her time gathering wild flowers and singing along with the babbling brook. Isadora's sweet nature is a natural attraction for all of the little forest critters and she loves to play with the animals. Her greatest wish that she makes everyday, with all her heart is to someday meet a magical unicorn during her adventures in the forest... perhaps in time she will. :)

YAY! I love this stamp .. she is so sweet!! THANKS AMY :D xxx



Copics used:
E000. E00, E11, R11, R22, 24, 27,29, Y21, 28, E23, 25, 27, 29, E31, 34, 37

Inky Impressions challenge - Tag It!!!

Time for a new challenge at Inky Impressions :D Yay!!! This week is to "Tag it".. that's right we want to see your tags :D Here is mine....Using Lili's Slumber party




I am also entering this card into ...

The current Pile it on Challenge which is Anything Goes :D
The latest Pixie Dust Studios Challenge - Let's get tagged!!

Hop on over to Inky Impressions challenges to see what my fellow Inkettes have been tagging this week!! And love those cutie patootie Inkies?? then hop on over to the Inky Store!!

The Lollipop Ladies - yummy Allsorts

Good morning! Don't you think Wednesday is such a sweet day??

well at The Lollipop Ladies ...

today sure is sweet with these yummy lollies as inspiration!!

So the theme for the new Lollipop Ladies is licorice Allsorts...

and to add to this... we would like to see some BLACK

the candy stripes have come up with all sorts of delicious projects... so hop on over HERE to see!!

Inky Impressions Tutorial :: Masking/ creating a scene

Inky Impressions now have tutorials every couple of weeks and today's tutorial is brought to you by me .. you can see how to mask images (such as these gorgeous Inky gals) and create a scene such as the one below.... HERE




RECIPE:
Stamps: Angelica's Heart Socks, Angelica's Daydream

Mask: Xpress IT - Mask It sheet

Paper: Prima - Jack and Jill 6x6 paper pad
blooms (from Alicia - txs )and ladybug brad are from my stash
coloured with Copics - E000, E00, E11, R11, E50,51, 53, Y11, YR00, Yr02, B000, B00, B02, B12, B14, B16, B91, B26, G12, G14, R21, 22, 24, 27, N0, 1, 3, 4, 7, 9 + a handful of other Gs and YGs for the grass

Blogoversary candy winner

Hi everyone... sorry I have not posted the winner of my blog candy, I was feeling pretty ordinary on the weekend... anyway I went to Mr Random to pick a winner and he chose...


So Melissa is the lucky girl who gets the Spesch Stamps Unicorns + a package with paper, embellishments etc :D

Thanks to those who left lovely comments for me!! xxx

Oh Alice... Chapter 46 :: Queen Alice

"Hush-a-by lady, in Alice's lap!

Till the feast's ready, we've time for a nap.

When the feast's over, we'll go to the ball -

Red Queen, and White Queen, and Alice, and all!"

~ "Queen Alice", Through The Looking-Glass

We here at Oh Alice, hereby cordially invite you to meet Iracebeth the Red Queen of Crims and Mirana the White Queen. Iracebeth and Mirana are sisters who couldn't be more different: while the White Queen is kind and gentle and is loved by everyone, the Red Queen's answer to everything is "Off with their heads!"

To honor our Royal Highnesses, we challenge you to choose which Royal Court you would want to have rule over you, the Red Queen's or the White Queen's???

So the challenge this week, if you should choose to accept it, is to create a card/project that is either mostly white or mostly red.

This week's Oh, Alice challenge is being sponsored by Baby Bud Designs!
"The Baby Bud illustrations you see in the shop have been drawn ‘free hand’ by the artist and owner, Mary Anne Wainright. There is never any computer re-imaging involved. Their quirky little imperfections are what make them original, unique and whimsical and reminds the viewer that they were created from the heart."

Baby Bud Designs has not only generously let the DT use her images, but is also offering the winner a choice ofTWO digital images from their Baby Bud Designs Etsy Shop!

The DT has decided, here is will they will reside...
I chose the Red court... mostly because I wanted COLOUR!!!! :D White is a tad bit boring if you ask me! LOL :D

Hop on over to Oh, Alice! to see which courts the rest of the twisted team have chosen :D