In Stitches Tia for Odd Idol

Good afternoon,

I hope you are having a good Tuesday... I've been having a bit of a rest day ... oh and a trip to the Dr to get my sore thumb looked at... Gardening wars :P the rose thorn that hurt me months ago left a lasting infection and so now I'm on antibiotics ... YUKKO .. well hopefully it will fix it up and it will no longer be sore to colour, craft etc etc etc!!

I DID manage to get my Odd on today... to enter the Odd idol competition!! Yay!!! Here's my take on the sketch... using the Some Odd Girl "In Stitches Tia" set.. she's just too cute!! :D

 

I created my own PP using the buttons from the same set!! :)

Thanks for stopping by! have a lovely day!!

Monday Musings and a little Art journaling

Good morning! I hope you had a lovely weekend! Mine was pretty good... but full on and tiring lol... we went away with our church Growth Group... down the coast to a friend's wonderful holiday house ... so about 3 hours drive... but such a beautiful location and such wonderful weather, it was GLORIOUS! Great fun and fellowship with lovely brothers and sisters in Christ! We finished up The Course of your Life which we've been going through. It's been great looking at God's agenda for our lives :) A good challenge to think through my priorities - how I spend my time ... also a big thing for me and I'm also thinking through how this effects my blogging is that I am too concerned about other people's opinons of me... being liked, pleasing people... when that is not the most important thing.. I may have to think this through a bit more :)

This morning I just finished off an art journal page in my book of fairytales that I'm doing... so page #2 is now complete!! Not sure I  like it ... I struggle with the balance of messiness and order and when to stop and when to keep layering! But I've stopped and here it is :)

 

Apologies.. the pic is not brilliant as I  had to use my iphone!

Have a wonderful week!!

Gone a little ODD

Good morning!! I went a little ODD this morning lol... and I  created not one but TWO
Some Odd Girl Creations....

I finally got a chance this morning to watch Kristy's youtube tutorials on colouring Cloudy Sky and Grass, and I  got to have a play too!!

So first up is my card with the clouds.... I used Autumn Mae.. as it's been a cloudy Autumn and yet a summery sky Autumn too so far... much more windy today though..... anyway enough waffling... Here's my card...

I used Brads to mimic flowers and the little Ladybug brad too as there is currently a  Trash your Stash of Brads challenge going on at the SOG NING forum!!

The Rainbow is a chipboard one from 2Crafty that I coloured with Copics and then opaque white and gelatos!! With a nice dash of Kinderglitz on top! lol! The sentiment is from My Favourite Things!!

2nd card (below) is for the April Sketch challenge at Some Odd Girl and uses Mooey!!!

 Thanks for stopping by ... I hope you have a super Friday! and then a fun weekend!!!


 

The Girl who was on Fire

Good afternoon! I drew this image a while ago... after having a chat with Alyce ... we were thinking it would be fun to try and colour a dress to look like Katniss in her dress that was on fire from the Hunger games!! Had a bit of trouble finding an image we thought would be good for it and so I thought I'd just try and draw my own... well it seems that was the easy part... not as easy colouring it making it look like it was on fire... anyway here's an attempt! I'm Still waiting for Alyce to do her one (hint, hint :) are you reading this???? lol)

Want to give it a try?? This image is now at Mad for Markers with some other fun characters too!

Have a great arvo!!!

Paper dolls!!!

Oh I have been a big kid lately... reliving childhood memories of Paperdolls.. I thought it would be fun to make some.. so I've been designing and colouring and cutting and using my Cameo to cut for me and having all sorts of fun creating mixmatched characters!! I am selling them in a number of different ways on Mad for Markers ...  Anyway I wanted to share the gang with you....

this adorably rabble-y lot are:
Rhys, Pippi, Taya, Ryan, Archie and Brianna

 

OK so they are just paper dolls right.... kids would love them but no use for us crafters??? WRONG! lol.. look what I made by paper piecing Taya and one of the girl outfits ...

So much fun and so many different options.. and I  have so many more ideas for outfits for them too!! :) Oh and I am going to make up a bunch and sell them as all ready made paper dolls... like this example below of Taya.. she is just under A4 size tall :)

Thanks for stopping by!! Have a lovely day!!

Monday moments

Good afternoon :) I hope you are having a great Monday!! Mine going ok but it's been a long one!! Could do with a nana nap but not going to be so will just plod along lol!! It's been a productive day .. Highlights - Some cleaning, chatting over iphone messages and facebook and some home haircut hacking ... Mine and MILs .. Should have had a professional do hers I think ... O well... Was a bit of fun anyway!!

I just created this card .. I coloured this image up the other night in front of the tele... It happens quite a bit hehe .. Have to colour whilst watching!! Today I'm posting from my iPad .. Hope it comes out ok :)

The paper is Kaisercraft .. And the spotted paper totally inspired my colouring of the mushie ... love it!! The sentiment is from Give a Girl a ... ...I won this set and love it!!!! I did crop around the text though as the circle was slightly too big for my card :) and the cute lil Dragonfly chippy is from All about Scrapbooks here

Anyways have a lovely afternoon!
Sammi
Xoxo

It's FRIDAY!!!!

Ok.... I do love Friday!! Well really mostly because it means Saturday and Sunday come next .. I also love this Creeper from The Greeting Farm.... who is called Friday!! :) An oldie but a goodie :D She was one of the images I'd coloured for the show "tree display" and so the card was a nice easy one to make :D

The paper is a new 6 x 6 paper pad I  bought from All About Scrapbooks at the show ... I LOVE these small paper packs.. they are just perfect for cardmakers  :D Oh and did you see?? Emma, Alyce!! Anyone who cares lol.... I USED FLOWERS!!! tee hee!!! 

OK.... I've been working on something images, Silhouettey... and it should be lots of fun.. once I  work out why it won't cut in the RIGHT spot!! ahhhhhhhh!! 

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great weekend!!!

Shows over ... I'm back

Good morning!! Last week I was preoccupied with a Papercrafts Show... I booked Mad for Markers in (pretty last minute) to have a stand and so I was rushing to get everything done.. and then of course I was at the show... and then I came home and crashed! But I'm feeling almost human again now lol and so I'm FINALLY blogging again...

Yesterday I  finished off an Art journal page I started a couple of months ago.... It was just waiting for inspiration which came via the Gelatos I purchased from All About Scrapbooks. Loving them so far!!

Ok so to the Art Journal... this is the FIRST page in a book I've altered to a journal... it's an old Kids Dictionary that I  picked up at the Stash and Treasure market ... I'm going to have a series of Fairy journal pages in it... yeah.. I still love Fairies... little kid in an adults shell here (in case you didn't know) tee hee! This page uses Love Fairy Venetia... I printed her very pale to do the no lines effect... once covered with gel glue she really popped off the page (bit harder to tell from the photo). In other exciting craft news I  received my new Silhouette cameo BLADE yesterday so I can cut again lol!

Here's  a picture of my Tree display from the show last weekend! The upside of the time it took to create is that all those leaves have coloured images on them which I can now turn into cards... which is particularly great for a QUICK card! so I should have some more creations to blog soon!!!

Thanks for stopping by!
 

The Essential Jesus giveaway

Good morning :) Today is Good Friday!! The day we celebrate Jesus' death ... Seems a strange thing to do doesn't it? Celebrating death ... the Death of someone who was supposed to rule and save the world??

It's easier to forget that part and just look at Easter in terms of chocolate and bunnies and buns and all that cute and yummy stuff! I want to urge you to look past those things... whilst they are good fun and yummy to a deeper and life giving event ... Jesus death. He died the death we deserve (for trying to be King of our own lives).

I am so thankful for the new life of hope in Jesus and I'd like to share some of that hope so thought I'd have a little giveaway of this great book ... The Essential Jesus (which will explain things much better than I ever could)....

Would you like to "Meet the real Jesus through the gospel of Luke"?? I have 3 copies to giveaway on this post so please leave a comment and I will send you a book (first three commenters - but if you miss out.. would rather not comment here send me an email and I'll work something out!) :D

What I've been working on....

Firstly... Here are some cards I have made using the new M4M Easter Digis...

I have also been doing my own version of Project Life type scrapbooking... will share some pages later as they are not done yet ... basically I  bought an American Crafts Memorology album and some of their pocket pages and now I am just filling them up with photos, paper, some decorations and journaling!! It's quite fun - QUICK and I LOVE the effect of the different sized pockets! :)

Have a great weekend!!!

Easter at Mad for Markers challenges

I'm posting my creation today that I've made filling in for Sam at the M4M challenge blog ...
I'm sharing this creation I made... using one of my M4M Easter Digis... Grace with Hot Cross Buns!

I've used a number of papers, washi from my stash and the doiley was cut on my Cameo... which has a blunt blade now :( SAD!!!!! The sentiment is from Give a Girl a ...  LOVE it!! lol!! I double stamped it... first in pink then purple...just slightly off to try and get a shadowed effect.. it sort of worked! 

Copics used:

Skin: E000, E01, E11, BV000, R21, RV11

Hair: E23, E25, E27, E37

Eyes: E13, E23, E25

Purples: V12, V15, V17

Pink: RV00, RV11, RV13

Dress: B91, B93, B95

Boots: N3, N5, N7

Buns/ Plate: N0, N1, N3, E34, E13, E25

Uninspired to create and blog...

Well .... I'm coming out of an uninspired season.... I've not really felt like crafting, colouring etc... I  know shock, horror right! lol and seeing as this blog is MOSTLY for Craft stuff then I have not really had anything to blog! Hopefully I can be back on track again this week for posting... but if the creativity's gone what can you do right?? hehe!! Also I have been spending LOTS of time getting Copicendium #5 print ready AND IT IS... so I can't wait for it to arrive!! :D

Anyways... I have done a bit of sketching  ... and so have a couple of images to share from my Instagram feed of images I've drawn and copiced :D First up a little Easter gal... she has a plate of Hot Cross buns!! YUMMO!! I wish I could eat them! :0

close up as I coloured her!!

and then as it's Autumn here in Oz I drew an Autumn Fairy! :)

Think I might make them available at M4M in the next days ... I keep umm'ing an ahh'ing about whether I should draw digis or not as there's so many out there and what are mine compared to those that are out there... lol! But I had fun with them and I enjoyed colouring them which is the main thing right! I also need to save money ... which means I can't just go buy images... so instead of buying an image - when so inclined, I have decided to draw something to colour. 

Have an AWESOME weekend!!

 

Origami Owl living locket

Good morning! I hope you are all having a great week! Ours is going OK... got a few things to get done still.. but enjoying the holiday! We had a few days in Canberra on the weekend which was great... saw some old friend...we saw the Toulouse Lautrec exhibition! It also happened to be the enlighten festival too whilst we were there so we got to see that! It was Fun!!! :D I might post some pics a little later ... or maybe just in a Smash book or similar tee hee!!!

Anyway I'm excited that yesterday I received my living locket that I'd ordered from Origami Owl! I loved the idea of these when I saw Jess post about them last year on faecbook .. and then Krista also posted about them this year and so I looked into getting one... and thought that being in Aus meant I would not be able to get it.. however a dear US friend made it possible!!! :D And Elizabeth was awesome!

the packaging was so cute!!!

Look at all the yummy little pieces inside....

Here it is all spread out on the table...

Here is the locket all put together.. without the dangle... was trying to decide whether to have it alone or with the dangle too :D

Here I am wearing it with the heart dangle included :)

a close up...

I wanted to get this locket as a "memory locket" for our little ones that didn't make it... so each little gem is a birthstone gem ...(the dates they were fertilised ... as they were all IVF embryos) and then a  G and an S which is pretty self explanatory - our initials :)
I know some might find it silly or sentimental but I just thought it would be nice... I carry those precious little ones around in my heart and thoughts ALWAYS yet I thought it would be nice to have a little physical reminder of their SHORT lives. I  do thank God for their short lives.. although I  do wish they had lived longer and we'd been able to see them grow ... for some reason it was meant to be this way. I trust Him in that!

I Do love this Locket :D and glad I  got it!! :D

You Had me at Hello

Morning!!! I am enjoying some time off with Guy :) nice to just do what we want to when we want to... or not do anything at all! things we take for granted until we can't lol! It does mean I have been crafting a little less.... and colouring still as we continue watching Star Trek .. Next Gen :)

Today is a yukky rainy day here.... so I'm sorry for my not so great pic of this card!!!

I've used an image from Saturated Canary... one of the lovely Princesses :) and the sentiment is from Give a Girl a..... It's a fun little sentiment set!! Can't wait to use "Cool Bananas"it's something I used to say a lot lol! Guess I was inspired a little by their hop yesterday (although image was coloured the day before!

Copics used (main image):

Skin: E000, E01, E11, E04, BV000, RV00

Dress: RV90s

Hair: E70s, B28, BV29, BV25

Thanks for stopping by!!

Sammi

xoxo

Beach time

Good morning!! I hope you are having a great week so far! I've not been online much as we are on a bit of a holiday - respite :) so we've been doing lots of bits and pieces like gardening... mowing etc and looking for airconditioners and things like that!! lol!

Anyway It's about time I shared another creation with you ... this gorgeous little Tiddly Inks image is a Wryn stamp that I received from the beautiful Alyce!! THANKS so much!!!!

I'm going to enter THIS card into the Tiddly Inks Critters challenge.. the little critter  crab is too cute isn't it!!



She's so cute and fun to colour... I do particularly love her swimskirt!! :D
She Reminds me of days as a child at the beach! I used to LOVE going to Whale Beach when we'd visit my Gran and Gramps there! I used to be much less reserved than I am now and would chat to all the other kids at the beach lol!

Anyway time for me to sign off.. going to watch Elementary that we missed the other night! And then some more cleaning up of my Craft mess AGAIN/ STILL/ ONGOING lol!!!

(hugs)
Sammi

Smashing the Sound of Music

Well we have a fun challenge on at Mad for Markers challenges .. It's a movie challenge ... So the other day I thought I'd use some of my wonderful TGF stamps to re-create the vonTrapp family .. Just the children lol! I used OA Ahoy ... using both Oliver and Amelia for the bodies ... Which I thought look very similar to the uniforms the captain made his children wear ...and then I gave them a number of different TGF heads :)

I used my BG90s for the children's outfits :) 

thanks for stopping by and have a lovely weekend!!!!

Sammi

xxx

Simply Byron

I'm just sharing a very simple card today ... I've been inspired by seeing some Washi tape cards around... Especially the ones in the Craft Queen newsletter this week and so that's where the idea of using it as I have here came from :)

This is my no lines colouring of Byron and I wanted to keep him the focus ;) I've also used my one and only Amy Tangerine date stamp .. Although I didn't ink the date part on it :)




SORRY the pic is NOT BRILLIANT!!

I can't stop this new thing of tearing around the image and then inking it with Copics... I just love the effect it creates lol! There's a few more images I've coloured lately that i've done it too as well.. so a few upcoming cards will be like this one I think!! :D

Hope you are having a great week!

I've also been doing some drawing today ... Here's one of them....

Another Art journal page

Good morning!
On Monday I  showed you some works in progress and one of them was the beginnings of an art journal page which I'm pleased to reveal I finished off yesterday and so am sharing it today :)

The page is - in case you can't tell... kinda about Guy and I ... I'm thankful to have such a wonderful Man by my side facing LIFE's ups and downs together! 

I've been enjoying getting back into some messy art ... although I need to go clean up my workspace/ craft area AGAIN so that I  can keep the mess confined to the one spot! lol! I might do some cleaning up today as I'm HOME ALONE yay!! :) First time since July of waking up to an empty house (MIL is at an old friends house) which is quite a peaceful feeling - although I didn't manage to sleep in and am still tired so the option of cleaning OR sleeping some more is a difficult choice hehe! 

Wryn on an envelope

Ooooh... I was a lucky girl ... I think I mentioned yesterday how a beautiful blogging friend sent me some stamps and I was thrilled to receive a Wryn stamp from her - a TiddlyInks stamp ....let me tell you she's fun to colour :)

I've made a little envelope thingy .... I was thinking It will go in an art journal or smash page :)
I need to practise colouring her skirt better lol :)

Monday Expectations

Good morning!! How was your weekend?? I  hope it was a good one!! mine was pretty busy... hence no blogging... well Saturday was anyway.... went to the Stash and Treasure market with my friend Bec :) THANKS Bec for inviting me along it was fun to hang out together... we sold a bit although we STILL have a lot of stash left... so need to do something about that still lol!

Here's Bec in her Kawai Cat ears sitting at our stand ...

I stole this one from Bec's instagram feed... Thanks for that.. hope you don't mind ;)

At the market I DID do a little shopping of my own... not more than I sold though... lol! One thing was a Children's picture dictionary that I bought to turn into an Art journal... I gesso'ed some pages yesterday and you can see it here on the left hand side... a work in progress... with my no lines Love Fairy Venetia starting it off! ... I also bought a few other OLD children's books and a couple of patterns to use for Art journals.... and as you can see I was inspired and have BEGUN... so as I  said on Instagram this morning... here' what I'll be working on this week....

A beautiful blogging / facebook friend sent me some stamps last week and this is what I am about to colour NOW!!!! I will use the papers in the packs pictured... these are some of the packs I made up to sell at the market and they were popular but I still have LOTS left.... so I will  be using them AND giving some away.... I will give away 5 on this post here.... leave a comment here below to let me know what you would use a postcard sized bag of scraps for and you might just WIN one!!

And whilst I'm sharing my Instagram piccies here ... Here is something else I  coloured over the weekend... this is Byron one of my Manga mob... I think he's my favourite of my Manga'ish characters :) NOW what to do with him... SOMETHING this week!!

What will you be working on this week???