HELLO SUNDAY PEEPS :-)

Good morning Everyone,
I have been away from my Blog because I had my lovely Daughter and her family here for a holiday, so spent lots of time in the pool and messing around with my Grandsons :-D Both she and my SiL had some chillaxing time and everyone got a super tan :-D

I then had a big card order to do, which I will post pikkies of a bit later.

This morning I was playing with the latest FB freebie image from Angie Addison.... a cute chubby little plane and I put it together with a freebie FLAMINGO I got from Little Scraps of Heaven. I used the flamingo twice, flipped one and cut off and re-positioned his head to make him look up :-)

I coloured all the planes using various flags of the world. The background is an image of flamingos on a lake in Africa, where they flock in their trillions at certain times of the year !!!   

I also used a freebie vintage flamingo image. The LSoH flamingos were pre-coloured and they also came with a cutting file and some super background papers. You can find them HERE.

If you want to snag Angie's plane then pop over to her FaceBook Page HERE and join in :-)

Well - I hope you had a giggle and now I am off to finish my card order.

See you later and thanks for dropping in :-) xxx

Challenges I am entering:

Angie Addison FaceBook Freebie Challenge #8

Broken Fairy Challenge #10 - AG + Twist - Things with Wings  16/9

My Time To Craft Challenge #328 - Something That Flies  9/9

Deep Ocean Challenge #136 - Things With Wings  6/9

Angie's Digital Stamps Challenge #1 - AG     30/9

CAT, CATS, CATS - YAY !!

Hi there all you kitty lovers - here is the ' heads up ' for this year's upcoming CAT LOVERS BLOG HOP  over at Janis' Blog... Her Peaceful Garden.

I had so much fun there at last year's Hop and I shall definitely be there again this year. I hope you can join in :-D

FIRST EVER MIXED MEDIA CANVAS :-D

Hi Peeps,
I hope you are having a fabulous crafting weekend. 
I have popped in to show you my first ever Mixed Media canvas. 
It is 10 " x 12 ".
I have been working on this for the last week.
My DD has just turned 30 today and will be coming out to see me in 10 days time, and I have made this as part of her Birthday present stack :-D
The little photo is of her and her Dad ( now deceased) when she was about 1 year old.

I was totally inspired by a piece made by GABRIELLE POLLACCO that I saw on You Tube.
I didn't have half the stuff that she used but I had great fun with what I had.
The frame at the bottom left is made by cutting the same design 8 times from card and sticking all the pieces together, since I don't have any of those chipboard pieces :-)
I made the octopus tentacles with air dry clay. Assorted beads and stuff from my stash and the starfish + shells are from my local beach.
The central shell part was made with rolled out clay and squashing it in an embossing folder.
The background is a mixture of acrylics + paints.

I printed out a vintage picture of a sailing ship (very tiny) and inserted it into a dinky little glass bottle :-)

I am pretty sure my DD doesn't look at my Blog so I should be safe showing this one here :-)

Thank you very much for stopping by. xxxxxxxxxxxx

DecoArt Americana multi surface satin: Coastal Waters, Blue Bird, Gold Metallic Lustre

Lumier Metallic Acrylics: Pearl Violet, Pearl Magenta, Pearl Emerald, Pearl Turquoise, Halo Blue Gold

White Gesso

Das Air Dry Clay

Challenges I am entering:

DecoArt Mixed Media Challenge - Under The Sea

Broken Fairy Challenges #8 - AG Twist - use your stash

Love To Create Challenge #16 - AG Mixed Media

Creative Artiste Challenge #17 - AG Mixed Media   29/8

Creative Corner Challenges - Anything But A Card

Crafting With Attitude Challenge #18 - AG    29/8

Frilly & Funky Challenges - By The Sea    **** TOP 3 ****

OH, HOW I LARFED 2 !!!

Oh - How I larfed !!!! :-D

Got myself a new screwdriver with a ratchet system handle.... much better for poor arthritic wrists with no strength........... It has this plastic hanging system where all your Bits fit too ................................but look at how you have to get it out of the packaging !!!!!! WTF !!!!

             

I mean - if this was the ONLY screwdriver you possessed, you'd be well stuffed  cuz you can't use the screwdriver to undo the screw cuz it's screwed into the plastic packaging  !!!!!!!! Hahahahahaha :-D

CANDY GIVEAWAY

WooHoo - We are nearly at 100 Followers over at SHOW US YOUR PUSSIES CATS ONLY CHALLENGES so I have got a bit of Candy to be given away when we get there. Here is what I will send to the lucky Winner chosen at random after we crash through the 100 barrier  LoL :-D

International postage not a problem since I live in Greece so anywhere else is International ...   hahahaha

Come on all you furbaliscious KITTY lovers - why not come over and join us, play along with the Challenges and snag yourself some lovely kitty inspired FREEBIES too.

Click HERE to come and see.

MY CARD ORDER FINISHED :-)

Hello Peeps and happy weekend !! :-)
Here's what I have been working on recently.

I saw this Double Bow card the other day on Fiki's Blog at BAD KITTY'S CRAFT ROOM and I just had to go buy the File.... it's just fabulous and so versatile. I used it for one of the wedding cards on order and made another more Goth style.

I downsized the bow for the Goth card but forgot to do that on the back 'ribbon' but it still looks ok :-)

If you want to buy this File then contact Sandra... deets are at SANDRA's SCRAPSHOP and she has a FaceBook Group Page too HERE.

I had already been inspired by a card I saw on her Blog but I didn't have the Bow File at that time, so I made my own and did this one .....

I made the bow by hand and also used various cutting files and dies for the rest :-)

This is the card that I was inspired by......

And lastly, here is the Greek Baptism card I was asked to make.......

I have fussy cut and layered the font to make it 3D and used a cutting file to make the little Dove and added a tiny silver cross charm in his beak.

Thanks for popping in and I hope you have a fabulous crafty weekend. xxx

Challenges I am entering:

A Bit More Time To Craft Challenge #24 - AG

Card & Scrap Challenge #121 - AG    **** TOP 3 ****

Creatalicious Challenges #95 - AG

Happy Little Stampers July Challenge - AG with Dies

Crafty Friends Challenge #36 - Use Dies

A LITTLE BIT OF POE

Hello Peeps and happy Friday to you All.

I snagged this week's Freebie from MISS RACH  and had a silly idea come into my head when I saw it. So here is the result of that very silly idea ......................

Excerpt used from "The Raven" by Edgar Allan POE.  :-D

After my bit of stress relief, I'm off now to carry on with the wedding card order !!! 

Huggies xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

PAOLA's CUTE DRAWINGS

Good morning Peeps - well, the weekend is creeping ever closer eh ? !!

I have popped in to show you what I made using some super cute images which were drawn by a little Friend of mine on her Facebook Page :-D
I think they are so darn cute, so I asked her MuM if I could colour them up and use them to make something as a surprise !!!

I added some googly eyes for fun and made this box card using scraps of pets papers - not sure who they are sold by as I bought them from someone's stash clearance ! :-)

The pets are coloured with Spectrum Noir markers and then fixed to the box card using strips of acetate to make them look like they are floating :-)

I must whizz off now as I am making 2 wedding  and a Baptism cards for an order, so I will show you those a bit later :-)

Thanks for dropping by xxxxxxxxxx

Challenges I am entering:

Creative Moments Challenge #98 - Anything Goes

Fab n Funky Challenges # 314 - TIC, TAC, TOE.... 3 papers, digis, + Tag

Inspiration Destination Challenge #95 - Anything Goes

Sisterhood of Crafters Challenges - Animals 

Kraftin Kimmie Wonderful Wednesday Challenges - AG 

Crafting With Attitude Challenge #17 - AG

Crafting With Friends Challenge #25 - AG    *** DT Favourite ***

Morgans Artworld Challenge #14 - Animals

Imagine That Challenges - Fancy Folds     **** WINNER ****

Scrappers Delights Challenge #57 - AG

Colour Throwndown Challenge  # 402 

SOME MORE STUFF !

Helloooo Peeps,
I have been playing with the SKETCH from the new Challenge over at IKEsWORLD CHALLENGES - which started today, and taking the opportunity to use a FREEBIE digi that I got the other day . I am still working on my mission to try and use every free item I take from other sites :-D

Here is a card with the latest freebie from MISS RACH.... a Toon of her Siberian Husky dog  SKODA.....

The background was done with a Nordic embossing folder rubbed slightly with blue ink. I used a die cut for the Dog and the vellum and the snowflake is from my cutting machine stash box :-)

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This 2nd one I made as we enter WEEK 3 of the current Challenge at SUYP Cats Only Challenges.  The Sponsor is DECOSSE's DYNAMITE DOODLES and I have used papers from the Prize pack for the card....

The kitty is a rubber stamp from Carmen's Veranda. The white embelly leaves are the cast-off bits of non-stick paper that came out of the die when I took the card pieces off.... you know - like silicone paper to stop fiddly bits from sticking in the die ? !!

The flower is from SAMFLORA. 

I have made a very humorous inside to this card, but if you want to see it you will have to go visit my CATS ONLY CHALLENGE  Week 3.

Thanks for dropping in :-)

Challenges I am entering:

YAY !! HAPPY MAIL

Hello Peeps and Happy Sunday :-)

I just popped in to show you some happy mail that I got yesterday.... it's from my sweet friend Fiki... also known on her Blog as BAD KITTY .  :-D
She makes gorgeous cards - lots of them with kitties and shows some amazing photos, and she lives in Croatia which looks like an amazing place... such gorgeous scenery where she lives. :-D

Fiki also has some beautiful Cats who quite often sneak into her photographs to check out her cards...... soooo cute :-)

THANK YOU very much Fiki xxxxxxxxxxxxx