Two Baby Shower Cards and a Happy Birthday

Hi Blogging Buddies,

Two little Baby Shower cards to share this afternoon.

Made mainly from bits and pieces of a DCWV Baby Stack.

My heart goes out to all those in Northern Queensland today as they prepare for Cyclone Yasi.

My relatives, my blogging friends...stay safe up there...I am praying for you all.

xxxx

Lastly a little card I have recently made. I am making two of these but the other one is half finished and sitting dangerously in the "I will get back to it later" pile!

Thought I might play along with:

Sir Stampalot - All Creatures Great and Small

Paper Playtime - Digi Monday Anything Goes

Cupcake Craft - Old MacDonald had a farm

(deer and sheep - we have both of those animals on our farm)

Thats all for me today, I am off to take my dog Ellie for a walk.

Mad For Markers DT - Crazy Hair

Hi Copic Lovers,

I am so excited about this new challenge here at Mad for Markers...Crazy Hair Colour Combo!

The place to live out your crazy hair fantasies!

I play it pretty safe with my own hair...don't change it around too much...but I admire the people who are brave enough to go a bit crazy with their colours and cuts.  It is great fun to colour some crazy hair combos...wonder what I would look like with black hair with red streaks....

Today I am showing a card I coloured in a few nights ago.

I am LOVING these Kenny K images....am pretty new to them, but they have renewed my love for colouring...the Magnolia's just werent "doing it" for me lately.  These Kenny K's kind of remind me of playing barbies when I was little...dressing them up in crazy clothes and styling their hair.  So I chose to go with the colours Red and Black for this girl...I coloured her in first and then I found papers to suit...normally I do it the other way round...find the papers and colour to match them.

She was originally going to be a birthday card, but when it came to putting on the sentiment I decided she was more Valentines so I just added a chipboard heart and coloured that with Copics too.

The colours I used were:

Greys: C-1, C-3, C-5, C-7

Black 100

Outline BG10

Reds: R59, RV29, R29, R85

Skin: E51, E00, R20

I was so tempted to add glitter, but hubby said it didn't need it...it is a masculine card (for a man) after all, so I took his advice...but I am still thinking a little glitter here and there would be nice...Am going to give it to Ben for Valentines, even though he has seen it already...I love her too much for someone else to get her!

I used the sketch at The Sweet Stop and I absolutely loved it.  It works perfectly for an image that takes up nearly the whole card...keeping clean, simple lines, but still looking like effort has gone into the card.  I will definitely be using this sketch again.

I would like to enter some challenges:

The Sweet Stop - Sketch

Double Dutch - My Valentine

Cards for Men - Valentine/Love

Paper Sundaes - Valentines

So what are you waiting for??

Get some crazy colours out and enter our Crazy Hair Colour Combo Challenge....

its heaps of fun!

Alicia xx

Some Male Cards

Hi Blogging Beauties,

I needed a few more male cards for the stash...so whipped these couple up.

The papers are SU and music from an old music book I bought at a second-hand book sale.

Some of the edges I inked with Vintage Photo ink.

I coloured the guitar in with Copics: 

W-1, W-3, W-5, W-7

E35, E37 and Y28

I didnt ink any edges on this card (above)...just kept it plain.  I used a bit of SU chipboard around the computer printed sentiment and added a button.

For the card below I stamped a SU happy B'day stamp and stapled on some black rope that i recycled from a gift bag.  Added a chipboard circle coloured with Sepia Copic marker and pasted a button inside.

Thought I might play along with:

Alphabet Challenge Blog - M is for Men

Frosted Designs - Monochromatic

Totally Gorgeous - As you like it

These cards are for sale at Aussie Cards for Sale along with a wide variety of gorgeous hand-made cards by 18 different designers.  Hop on over here to have a look!

Thanks for stopping by,

A Set of Six Cute Cards

Hi Blogging Beauties,

I made these cards a few days back...

using up little bits and pieces of scraps from the Prima So Cute collection.

There is quite a few, so hope you have a couple of minutes...

Then after making the first two I changed colours and made these two pink and blue ones.

 Finally I switched to pink and green and made these two.

So I thought I would enter a couple of challenges:

365 Cards - Day 333 Lovely Layers

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Animal Antics

The Crazy Challenge - Dots and Stripes

I hope you have a relaxing weekend planned...with lots of crafting time!

Thanks for popping by.

Southern Girls DT - Dry Embossing

Good morning Blogging Beauties,

This weeks Southern Girls Challenge is:

DRY EMBOSSING

on your card, layout or off the page project.

There are two prizes:

International Sponsor

Digital Delights by Looby Lou is a web based digital stamps store. Jam packed with cute animals, children and backgrounds, just to name a few. You are sure to fall in love with the adorable images.

NZ/Australia Sponsor

Scrapbook Dreams is a NZ owned and operated online scrapbooking store. They offer FREE SHIPPING on all orders over $50! To keep up with all that's happening at Scrapbook Dreams sign up for the newsletter and join in on the friendly forum and gallery.

This week we had images to play with by Digital Delights.

I used the "Little Dumpling in a Pram" image.

I embossed the circle nestie that the pram is attached to.

I would like to enter:

Creative Inspirations - Buttons and Bows

My Time to Craft - Emboss, Emboss, Emboss

Fab'n'Funky - Delight in your Digi

Thanks for popping by my blog.

Head on over to Southern Girls to link up your embossed creation!

P.S Carol, I received your beautiful card.  Thank you so much! It is sitting at the table where I have dinner.  So every night I gaze over it's beauty.  Thank you xxx

Mini Flip Travel Album

Hi Blogging Beauties,

Today I am posting a Mini Flip Travel Album I have made for the Let's Ink it Up Swap Group.

This is my first ever Mini Flip Album and I followed a You Tube video to learn how to make it.  You can see the instructional video here.

I used papers and rub-ons and flowers from the Prima Road Trip Collection.

I have taken a little video of what the album looks like because it was kind of hard to take some good photographs.

I would like to enter it in this challenge:

One Stop Craft - More than 1 Fold

Also it is Australia Day today!

So I would like to wish my fellow Aussies a great day!

It sure is a hot one!!! 38 degrees Celsius and rising!!

I am staying inside in the air con and then we are off for a dinner later tonight and then to catch some fireworks.  Thanks for dropping by.