Elphine House Australia Challenge - Sketch!

Good morning. Its time for another challenge from Elphine House Australia.

We have got a fab sketch to follow this time...here it is!

For my card i used my Elphine House Australia stamp called "Laura, flower girl. She is just gorgeous! There is now quite a collection of wedding stamps available from Elphine House Australia and very one of them are adorable.

       

Here is the card recipe;

Image - Elphine House Australia Stamp, Laura-flowers girl coloured with Promarkers.

Papers - Papermania Creative Tones and blue and brown cardstock.    

Die cuts - Tim Holtz On the Edge die and Marianne Swirl die.

Embellishments - Lace, gems, charms are all from stash.

Sentiment -Forever Friends Black and Gold

Here is a up close view of that adorable image from EHA

                                    

I would also like to enter into these challenges also;

Cards and More - Blue Pearl

Addicted to Stamps Challenge - Pearls and Lace

Craft Your Days Away - Embellishment Bingo! (Lace, charm, gems )

Stamp With Fun - Lace, 3 DP, 3 Flowers and Swirl.

Well thats me for now. I am off to check out the new Cricut Craftroom that has just been launched. I have never bought the Design Studio and glad i didnt, this just looks much like what the DS did. I love that we can now buy digital images and receive them right away. I dont use my Cricut Expression as much as i should but this will make it much better and more versatile.

Hope you can pop by the Elphine House Australia blog and join in with our sketch challenge!

Take Care,

Elphine House Australia Challenge - Get Well!!

I cant believe its been two weeks since our "Welcome Back Daisy in Fall" challenge. 

I have been trying to get this posted from yesterday but had a few problems with Blogger...dont know if it was just me or is others having problems??

Anyway the new Elphine House Australia challenge is up and going and this time the theme is...

Get Well

I bet we all know someone that has flu or a bad cold, sore throat or the winter sickness bug. Why not cheer them up with a card or a gift..or anything handmade project you like. 

You can use ANY ELISABETH BELL IMAGE...it doesnt have to be a Elphine House Australia stamp but if you have one we would love to see what you do with it!

On my card i used Nursing Boo Boo, who i love and you can get her here.

I have found my new and latest addition to my "cant be without" tool! When i was at the Hobbycraft show i was watching a demo from the girls at Inkylicious and they were using there Ink Dusters brushes. You can use them to cover large areas of your card but also is great for just edging just like a blending tool does but it is way much easier and gives a really even coating. With my blending tool i sometimes get areas where the ink is uneven...i have been using the Ink Dusters since getting them and its been perfect everytime. Will never go back and have ordered more. I would say that these were one of the "hot" selling items at the show last week. Everyone that saw the demo were picking them up! I used them to ink the edges on this card.

Card Recipe ;

Image ; Nursing Boo Boo from Elphine House Australia

Card/Papers ; White & pink cardstock and Fanciful Pink Dots form Paper Adventures

Pink and Yellow checked one from Papermania Sweet Nothings - all machine stitched.

Large flourish - Little Claires flourish die

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts

Lace and ribbon - Hobbycraft

Charm and chain - Totally Beads

Gems - e-bay

I would also like to enter the following challenges ;

Crafting Lifes Pieces - Sketch

Anything Goes Challenge - Stitching

Desert Island Crafts - 3 things off list - Bling, Stitching and Lace

Craft Your Passion - Bingo - Flowers, Free, bling.

The Cutie Pie Challenge - Use a Charm

The Ribbon Carousel challenge - Anything Goes (using something off a spool)

Well thats it for me tonight. I hope you can join in with us at  Elphine House Australia challenge blog and i look forward to your Get Well creations.

My Memories Givaway and discount!!

FANCY WINNING YOUR VERY OWN COPY OF "MY MEMORIES SCRAPBOOKING SUITE" AND DISCOUNTS FROM THE STORE....READ ON.... 

Hi, Hope your all having a lovely weekend. I am here today to show you what i have been up to this week.
I was asked to review My Memories Digital Scrapbooking Suite. Now those of you who know me will know i have never been into scrapbooking whether it be digital or not, but i tell you what...i am totally surprised and now hooked.
 This software is absolutely brilliant. Easy to use with so many features. There are also many ways in which to use this software, its not just good for scrapbooking but also, cards either digital or printing seperate elements out and using them on your cards, photobooks, calenders, add movies to projects, turn your creations into DVD's..the list goes on!!!
 One of the things i loved about it is that you can make your very own fabby blog headers and making layouts using my favourite hand stamped and hand coloured images. I use a different photo editing application to get the images ready to use but this was also easier than i thought and only took 5 mins. Maybe i will do a tutorial on this one day as i know we would all love having our favourite stamped images up on our blog headers. I also found it great for creating watermarks, editing photos for displaying on our blogs and even to design sketches for cards. These are the things that i will use a lot! Oh i also made little design for my stickers that i use on my cards. 

I have made a few projects using the software. Below is a layout i created myself from a blank page which i had great fun doing but adding all the embellishments, papers and elements which is just a case of dragging and dropping and adding a Elphine House Australia image, Laura; Flower girl. 

Then i had a go at creating my own blog headers. These were also simple and again used my own images from Elphine House Australia along with all the lovely embellishments already on the software. What i find great is that you dont need to buy anything else to get started. There are a huge amount of embellishments, papers and backgrounds. Some are set into themes such as babies, birthdays etc. You can also use digi papers and upload other digi goodies to use along side the software.

There is also a massive amount of freebies to download in the My Memories Store but also has full designer packs from prices that are so cheap. You can get them from $0.99 which is 61p! 

Right onto the details! I have been given a copy of My Memories Scrapbooking Suite to give away to one of my followers. 

To enter for this you just have to follow these simple rules;

1. Firstly be a follower of my blog. I will have lots of freebie giveaway

2. Head over to the My Memories Digital Scrapbooking kits. and come back and leave me a comment letting me what kit you liked the best so i can check them out also. This comment will get you into the draw.

3. If you want a second entry then head over to the My Memories facebook page and "Like! them.

Please leave a separate comment for this so you will have double the chance of winning!

I will be closing the draw on Sunday 13th November at 8pm. Any comments after this wont be counted and i will announce the winner that night. 

If your not the lucky winner or you cant wait till the 13th to see if your a winner then i have a promo code that will get you $10 of the My Memories software suite which makes it a fabby price of £24.78 in British Pounds. You can also use this promo code to get $10 off in store for new kits, making them even more of a bargain!

Here is the special promo code to use for the above offers ;

STMMMS83427

Just put this into the coupon section at the checkout.

Good Luck in the draw and i hope you find the My Memories software as exciting as i did! 

Thanks for joining in and remember to get your comment added..you have nothing to loose!!

                                                                  

What a Star!

At last its Saturday! This week has been a long week for me. The kids are off school and the weather is rotten and wet. We have had a lazy day today, i seem to be just going on circles and not getting anywhere fast!

Anyway i better get on with sharing my card with you as i am making the dinner at the same time and dont fancy having it burnt!

I have been playing with another Saturated Canary digi stamp called "Nevaeh! Krista's images are just fab. I coloured her with Promakers. The sketch is from Stamps & Fun = Creativity. Its a fab sketch and i have just angled some of the layers but can still see the sketch clearly.

My papers are Papermania capsule, Boysenberry. My flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, lace from Hobbycraft and my sentiment was computer generated and all the other embellishments are from out my stash.

I would like to enter my card into these following challenges;

Stamps & Fun = Creativity - Sketch

Passion for Promarkers - Stars

Tip Top Tuesday - Layer it up

Sweet Stamps - Lots of Layers

Totally Papercrafts - Layer upon Layer

Paper Playtime - Sentiment and Buttons and Bows

Thanks for taking the time to look at my card! I really do appreciate all the lovely comments!                        

Elphine House Australia - Welcome back Daisy/Fall Challenge!

Good Morning! A quick post to let you know that there is a new challenge over at

Elphine House Australia.

The challenge theme this time is "Fall Colours".

We decided that with the release of Daisy we would all use Daisy to show her off and were wondering if any of you have Daisy from the first release or one of Elisabeth Bells other sitting girls. There are quite a few such as the EB digital image of Rapunzel, Sweet Art Ebony's Girl sitting with Teddy or Strawberry Tea. Thats just the ones i can think off hand. You can use any Elisabeth Bell image for our challenge so lets see how many little sitting girls we can find. 

You can find Daisy to buy over at the Elphine House Australia Store!

You wil also find us on facebook where you can show us your creation using your Elphine House Australia Stamps

For my card i used Bo Bunny papers and MME Lost and found papers. I coloured Dasiy with Promarkers and inked the edges with Old Paper Distress ink.

My flowers are from WOC, Lace, ribbon, beads etc are from my stash.

I would also like to enter this card into these challenges also;

Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Sketch and Stash - Sketch and new lace and stamp

Paper Sundaes - Fall or Halloween (i obviously went with the Fall option)

Thanks for looking and i hope you can join in with our challenge at Elphine House Australia and spread the word to any of your friends who also love Elisabeth Bells Images about our challenges, there are much more EB fans out there, i know it!!