new babies a week late daily challenge

I have no idea what colours to use on this scrap page what do you think????? arent they just the cutest one born nearly a week late ie this morning

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Next time I will leave the ribbon off or have it wrapped around the cardstock never mind at least there is always nextime

Cathy with arms full daily challenge

I have used at last my lovely new stamp set " embrace life" which so fits this photo of my dear sister in law Cathy embracing her beautiful boys Lachlan and Hamish

can you believe it

After 26 days and much sorrow we have a beautiful surpise and here it is a lovely little chicken with racing stripes if you dont no the saga behind it please read previous postings it is coming to stay inside tonight with mum

mathew and Sons daily challenge

This is my very handsome baby brother LOL with his beautiful boys Lachlan the cutie in the striped tee shirt and Hamish trying to check out his Dad I just love these guys so much I could burst They Live in Sydney but thank goodness for skype that we can talk to each other over the inter net poor Lachlan probably thinks his auntie has a flat computer face lol

I have used my fav blue bayou 12 x 12 textured cardstock with a collection of designer papers from wintergreen and spring break stampin up of coarse the first stamp is from 7 gypsies

Craigs Jandals daily challenge

This is a page of a love story about a boy and his totally favourite piece of foot wear called many things in different countries but over here they are the good old Jandal

p.s. sorry about the flash back off the crystal effects on the circle punched letters

challenge #31

Another Kristine Werner colour challenge http://www.kwernerdesign.com/blog/ click on this link to see others submissions the colours for this weeks challenge are close to cocoa, elegant eggplant, pumpkin pie, so saffron and whisper white

This very naught little black hen jumped on the nest while my ginger chicken was in the yard doing her morning gymnatics unfortunatly who doing this has led to the whole clutch being lost as we where unable to tell which where which and it led to some eggs becoming cold which is not good then two days before hatch day there was a big electrical storm which can do bad things to the inside of eggs something to do with atmospheric pressure so it is a real heart break for us all

daily challenge christmas bauble

this is a great little template that I down loaded off the internet it is great how many sites have them real red is such a christmas colour for me and a bit of dazzling diamonds and you are set for a fabulous time

christmas goodies holder Daily challenge

The instructions for this christmas stocking can be found on Anna Sutherland's blog http://funkyfreshandfun.blogspot.com/ so glad she is in our team, they are just great as you make a little container between the two stockings for holding goodies of coarse

daily challenge choc chip

Here is another last chance item the very luxurious chocolate chip wide satin ribbon oh it is yummy teamed here with the new scallop edge punch and matching all scallop stamp set for edging

always Hamish daily challenge

On this post of Hamish, I have used the soft subtle range of papers, ink (bashful blue) and water colour crayons to colour the heart.

always set daily challenge

saw this card on the net and had to make it is so crisp and pretty I am sad this set is finishing in a couple of weeks so if you want to buy it you better contact me asap may be in next years catalogue but fingers crossed who knows

its a girl thing daily challenge

I thought I would do these pages as a bit of a giggle I just brought these new shoes oh I love shoes but I allow my self one "nice" pair a season and this is my summer pair as my husband said " there not cheap" and alsa they are not but they are lovely especially when you have big feet like me it is hard to get nice shoes

these are stampin up stamps from 2004 called its a girl thing and that is what the second picture shoes under the tab mad like a buckle lol

Crichton's Card daily challenge

Crichton rang me very early in the morning to say that it was his girlfriends birthday the next day and he wanted to make her a card.... I am glad he rang the day before as it took him ages he was very precise in what he wanted and how he wanted it for her. by mistake i helped to trim one side edge........................................ I got a very stern word or two about his ability to do it thatnk you very much but any way the card was lovely complete with a little bling on the flower and a hand tied bow

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Now to some this may not look like a christmas card but to me it does in that how many of us have been given in a christmas basket those orange and lemon jellied fruits I myself dont like them but many do I think I prefer them on a card razzle dazzle with heat and stick powder and dazzling diamonds

sad but true extra daily challenge

How can you tell a scrapbooker or card maker from across the room at a senior boys prize giving...............................................



Yes thats right a decorative brad as a button .............

yes thats me oh shame lol

masculine heavy metal daily challenge

Oh yes ten foot tall and bullet proof the typical teenage boy and now Cj has his learners oh ekk.
anyway I am safe this week as he is in the catlins at surf school yes that is correct what a life anyway this is LO is made up with bits and peices of designer paper and some hardware from the hodgepodge hardware kit and jumbo brads. I will be really sad when purely pomegranite changes in March as It is one of my most used colours at home

christmas tree card daily challenge

Had great fun making this card for our christmas collection it is done in brocade background and dashing with dazzling diamonds of course now I am a very casual card and scrapbooker and my dear friend Helen would hate to see how I have placed the tree a bit wiggley lol but hey the wind was blowing a lady named Karen made this card on the internet

tree instructions

paper pieces for this tree 3x3 , 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 , 2 x 2 , 1 1/2 x 1 1/2
to begin fold in half horizontially unfold, fold in half vertically unfold , fold diagonally corner to corner to corner ufold the the other corner to corner unfold

now the tricky bit may pay to do on a plain piece of paper first so you can see what i mean ...
open up all folds that are flat now pic on of the triangle shapes to be the front and the opposite triangel the back.. ok now I just finger pinch them a bit so they sit out abit , then fold the two side triangles inwards hang on will take a photo

ok so now that that is done the final step is to fold two fron edge to the sent fold to form the decorative front as you will see

one you have done this all you have to do is add some two way glue to the lower edges and dust with dazzling diamonds the stack each one from large to small or small to large however you work with the tip of each inside the one above top with a brad with arms cut off and you have more bling

ok I hope that helps I now expect to see plenty aroung in christmas collections

p.s trudi and lisa I havent forgotten about the instructions you wanted I will get onto that within the week

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I thought I would do a more femimine page today and this on is of the Peonies in the Oamaru gardens they are beautiful this one is pink but some of them are almost black they are so rich in colour. I have used an 8x6 page as I want to build it up to a 12 12 later the deisigner paper id petals and paisleys with regal rose and pink passion as a base

My friend Karen and I drove past Karitane on our way back to Dunedin and she commented on the very small "beach" at Halifax , didnt sound much bigger than our yard. So we took this photo to show her girls what a beach can look like. We both took the same photo and she will post to me what she did with hers. I used boardering blue.... perfect match to the sea that day stamped and embossed vellum and white card stock , micro beads to edge some waves, punches oval and window and stick on pearls to connect with the sea