Smashing the afternoon away

So yesterday afternoon I managed to SMASH again! yay!! LOVE this Smash book.. it's fun!! I don't  have any of the other Smash* products so I just use the book and pop in my own bits and pieces of stuff lol!!

This book is kinda all about me .. still working out what will go in there but this page is about something I'm having a lot of fun with at the moment..

This is ... creating some Manga-ish characters! I  have been finding Mark Crilley's youtube tutorials so helpful .. REALLY helped me with proportions etc etc etc!!! as well as his book - Mastering Manga..  WHICH IS AWESOME! I LOVE it!!! (THANKS) It has really helped me in designing these characters above ... oh and I LOVE the software - Manga Studio Ex - it's  AWESOME :)

Anyway thanks for looking!! Catch you later!

 

They're Ba-ack!!!

If you have been following my blog for a number of years (THANKS) you might remember I used to have a LITTLE blog Crafty Muse... where I  drew digis etc ... and in those days I  designed a little set of characters ... the Gumnuts .... Well since I've been getting back into drawing and digis etc etc I  thought I would try and Bring them back bigger and better than before... and Here are the results...

I had a little FUN today following these little characters around the garden.. 

well OK .... if you must know I put them around the garden in different places (inspired by a challenge Kristy - Some Odd Girl - had on facebook at the beginning of the year to make a "paper child".  You can see more of my Gumnuts goings on - on my M4M store blog HERE


 

Purple Pumpkin now has WASHI TAPE

Washi Tape is the newest addition to the Purple Pumpkin store and they are having a special giveaway to celebrate... CLICK the piccy to find out more! :D

A Smashing Saturday Morning

I decided this morning it was about time to do some Smashing... so I pulled out my black SMASH book (Thanks again Em)  and the pics of our house I took on my Mini instax and then a bag full of bits and pieces and spent some time putting it all together... Here it is...

Rose Faerie Marci

Good morning, Last night I had a little journey into La-La Land as I finished off this card... I am on a little mission at the moment... to CREATE more cards (not just colour in) and to CREATE my own backgrounds/ paper more.. so the last few cards I have been making are basically all just white cardstock, stamping, cuttlebugging and COPIC'ing.

Anyway...as soon as I received the tulip border die (available in Australia at Mad for Markers :) I had so many ideas and this is the first.... Rose Faerie Marci is having a tiptoe in the tulips!!

 

Supplies used......

Copics used....

Skin: E0000, E01, E11, BV000, YR0000
Hair: V20, V22, V25, V28, RV99
Pinks: RV00, RV000, RV52, RV55, RV91, RV93, RV95
Tulips and Grass: RV55, RV17, V25, V28, YG13, YG17, YG45, YG67
Blue Backgound: B0000, B01, B12, B60, BV0000

Thanks for stopping by!! Hope you all have a wonderful Friday and lovely WEEKEND!!!

Under the Sea Mae

I LOVE the Mermaid Mae stamps that are in one of the last releases from Some Odd Girl Stamps..
Here is my card using one of these lovely Mae's .... coloured in PINKS!!!

The background papers ... bubbles and stripes are all done with COPICS as well.. I decided to try making my own PP for this card.. I think it came out OK... Although I think the card needs some MORE embellishments.. what would you suggest???




 

warm hands

Happy Saturday! Hope you are all having a great weekend!! I'm just popping online to share some pics of my AWESOME gauntlets...

 

My Beautiful friend Bec had a pair of these last weekend and I admired them and when she said would I like some I was very keen... the very next night she brought mine to church and they are AMAZING.... they are 100 times better than fingerless gloves... warming your hands whilst allowing the fingers to move easily.. which makes them great for things like typing or colouring !!

THANKS Bec!!!!!!!!!!!

Karate CHAMP

Good morning :)

I Hope everyone is well .. I have just been sitting googling "things to do with lemons" as we have the lemon tree now as well as a whole bag of lemons... so if you have any great ideas/ favourites then please let me know!!!

Today my beautiful friend Emma's oldest daughter is competing in Nationals for Karate and so I thought I would draw her a Karate girl for good luck... Here she is all coloured up...

GANBATTE KUDASAI!!!

I'll have a card to share later... but for now I have another image to finish off drawing.. having fun with drawing at the moment!!

 

Our house.... in the middle of our street

Well we've now been here in our new house "almost" a couple of months now and MIL has now been here for a whole month too .. Here's the picture of our house from the middle of our street! I took this photo just this week...

 This next one was taken the first day that we got our keys... Here is Guy standing out the front :)

  

 Then we have me opening up the door that same day ... with Guy taking pictures....

 Welcome... come in everyone!!! :D

Here are a few inside shots.... Our bedroom... Just look at those LOVELY curtains there that my Mother made for me.. isn't she wonderful! Mum and Dad brought them over and helped to hang them in the beginning of July! :D

 

 Looking into MILs room....

 

 The study and office pics are missing.. and they are a bit of a mess.. so those two room will not be shown today -  lol!!! Instead we move into the Lounge room...

LOVING these couches THANKS Mum and Dad.. they are sooo comfy!!! :)

 

the lounge goes through to what I think is the best room in the house.. a huge kitchen and living space... that looks out to the backyard and a lovely little park behind! 

 

 Here's a sort of look at the kitchen.. not the best pic at all though!!!

 

This next picture is from the back garden looking back at the house!

 

AFTER years of hanging washing to dry in our garage and apartments... I was so excited to finally have a garden and a washing line!! So the washing line MUST feature here! bahahah!

and then a few shots of the garden.. .which is one big WIP lol!

Here we have "started" weeding the garden beds!

LOVE that we have a lemon tree.. it needs a bit of TLC  though

and here is my first attempt at Rose pruning... looks a little nasty now but hopefully will pay off for next year and pretty FLOWERS!! These rose bushes were huge... and I felt terrible cutting them right back but I hear that's what you "should" do .. so we'll see!!

 

So there you have it.. want to see some more?? Come visit us! LOL!

Pixies Birthday!

Good morning!! Toady I am sharing with you another card I made yesterday! I was on a roll...and then at Copic club I managed to get 2 images coloured! yay!!This morning I am about to create cards with those... when unpacking all my craft stuff after the move I realised I had a LOT of embellishments that I never use.. so I am attempting now to make cards using them all up.. and yes all the scraps of card and paper I brought with me too!

As for this card.. I have used this adorable little Birthday Pixie by Kathy from Pixie Dust Studio... This was for Kathy's Birthday a couple of weeks ago.. HAPPY BIRTHDAY for then lovely lady!!
I miss working with these beautiful images every week! lol! you might see a few more popping up here every so often (hopefully!)

I used some adhesive pearls from Flourish with a Bling and coloured them with my E77 marker for the little bits on the cupcake.. doesn't it look scrummy!!!

Thanks for stopping by! Off to craft now whist my nephew works for me doing web stocktakes and MYOB data stuff and DH looks after MIL :)


 

Some cards in the sun!

Good afternoon!! WOW... I am struggling with my blogging at the moment.. well to tell the truth I am struggling with my colouring and crafting and all that jazz ... so I'm pleased as punch to be able to blog today with some cards I've made over the last couple of days... and It's such a beautiful day (especially after the dreariness of the rest of this week) so I took the pics on our balcony!! LOVE it!! Mmmm ... I realise I still need to blog some piccies of our new house.. so will do that SOON!!


The first card is made with my most favourite La-La Land stamp - Mod Marci .. I have her available in my online store :) !! I've coloured her in my favourite purple Copics, the V20s ... as for her guitar I tried to "copy" the way Irina coloured it at the Project class she ran for us in Sydney.. and I  must confess I still love hers more tee hee!!

My second card is using this Gorgeous pixie from Sweet November - I was lucky enough to receive the beautiful Rubber version earlier this year when I guest designed for the lovely AMY and whist yearning for Spring this week I thought I'd colour her up :) I revamped an old card for this one... I am going to do this with some of the old cards I have lying around that I never used and have improved my colouring skills since making them.. so  maybe I'll even show you some before and after shots soon!!

Thanks for stopping by .. time to go spend some time with my MIL!!

(hugs)
 

a new winter image for my sister's b'day

Good morning,
How is everyone! Hope all are well! I am tired.. and not getting heaps of time to craft but hoping to do some more later today... anyways.. Today I would like to share with you the card I made for my sister's birthday last week.. she just turned 30 and LOVES snowboarding .. so I thought I  should draw her a special image!

HERE is Suzi..  available TODAY as a digi in the Mad for Markers store :)

she will be joining EMILY who was named by the lovely Alethea! Thanks hun!!! :)

Tell you what I'm feeling VERY wintery right now and think the idea of a huge coffee is VERY appealing!!

Winner and a journal page

Good evening!! I have not yet chosen a winner from the Smash blog hop ... so without any more waiting.. the winner of the little paper pack is....

#12 - Blogger Emma and Susan said...
Gorgeous Smash pages, thanks for sharing, hugs Emma xxx

Emma - please email me your address to send this to!

Now whilst I'm here I thought I'd share a purple journal page (YES I have been inspired by my good friend EMMA and her beautiful Smash Copic journal....mine is just a simple art journal though) .. Anyway .. Here it is...

The images used are:
Flower - Mad for Markers
Telephone Marci - La-La Land Crafts Stamps
Cheeky Geeky - The Greeting Farm
Mermaid Mae - Some Odd Girl
Gorjuss Girl

Thanks for stopping by! I'm slowly getting into a routine.. we are settling into our new home and my MIL (who has alzheimers) is here now too.. so getting her settled has been an interesting experience... I think we are getting there though.

 

Aussie Girls SMASH* Blog Hop

Good afternoon!! I'm excited today.. not just to be blogging FINALLY but that I am joining in an Aussie Girls SMASH* blog hop! Huge thanks to Kellie (from Freckles and Pigtails - seriously what a cute name - and shop!) for organising the hop and for Emma who "MADE me" start SMASH*ing lol! No seriously the beautiful girl gave me a smash book to use - which is why I can join in today lol!! THANKS hun xxx

If you are hopping along the Aussie Girls SMASH* Hop today you should have come from Kellie's blog... if not Hop on back to Emma's blog to start at the beginning!!!! :)

Ok.. NOW to share my pages... Here is my first SMASH* page.... I was saving these mini instax shots for something special.. they were taken on Christmas day when I got the mini instax from my in-laws.. so I thought it would be fun to smash those for my first pages..

a close up of Photo Kaylee (from Some Odd Girl) the perfect accompaniment to these pages lol!!

and then another page I created for the hop... I've been saving that tag with King on it for a while as I wanted to make an art journal page about God being my King.. however SMASH*ing is the new art journaling right?? well for this week it is hehe!!! :) Who knows what next week will bring!!

I used the beautiful SOG stamp Nouveau Girl :: Renew for my main image.. I think you'll find that my Smash pages will always have a character/ image coloured in .. as well that's kinda my thing bahaha!!

There will be a couple of prizes scattered along the hop so make sure you hop all the way through and leave lots of lovin'! As for me - I thought I'd offer up a SMALL prize.. it's a little packet of papers/ card offcuts which are the PERFECT size for creating tags and mats for your SMASH* pages OR cards, journals etc etc!!!

NOW you want to know where to go next?? Here is the list of Aussie girls in this SMASH* hop... so as you can see next on the list is ANGIE :)

• Emma
• Karyn
• Kellie
• Sammi  {that's Me - where you are right NOW!}
• Angie
• Karen

Happy Hopping!!!