AN APPLE A DAY

Hello and happy Sunday - it's a hot one here today, but nothing that a nice cold diet coke with ice won't fix. hehe
I have been playing with some apples today. I was asked to make some cards suitable for world Teachers Day on Friday for a couple of lovely Teachers here in Blackall. The first one was easy cause I had been thinking about this one for awhile and just hadn't got around to making one but the second made me think. I love it when I have to do that - it clears the cobwebs and gets you going. So what do you think?
I have used my sizzix apple die, some computer generated text and some papers from my stash. I have been trying to order some apple/teacher themed papers for ages but every time I get around to it, all the good ones are sold out. All the other bits and pieces where from my stash. I have done the insides the same just to keep the cards the same but different. The big apple is a template from My Scrap Chick that is an apple shaped card that I just modified. Ok well I now want to get onto my fabric flowers and some other goodies that I want to make for Gallery Day - soooooooo I had better go clear off my messy, messy desk cause it is soooooo bad I can't even see the desk tut tut :-)

Finally - I'm here

OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!! What a busy little beaver I have been. Did anyone miss me? LOL
I have been busy busy busy making fabric flowers, more fabric flowers and even more fabric flowers. I  have been making them into hair clips, brooches and head bands for a fabulous event we have here in Blackall called Gallery Day. Which is our local Cultural Association's  major sales event for the year. I promise I will put up a post of my new flowers over the next few days but tonight I have to get this week's Penny Black Saturday Challenge card up and out in the big wide world.

This week's Challenge is called "on the move" and I have used my Penny Black Bon Voyage!! Stamp. Again it's one of my favourites but by now you must know that I don't own any stamps that aren't "My Favourites" hehehe - I only buy stamps that I LOVE!!!!! I have teamed it up here with some Best Creations Paper and I have ended up happy with the results - very yellow - I am thinking  - but ok still. What do you think ? Any way better go get the pumpkins into bed - they have been at a little disco tonight so it's a bit late and they are dog tired. Have a happy day x joy

Age is Just a Number

Hello happy Wednesday to you, here I am again with this weeks Penny Black Saturday Challenge
This weeks challenge is Age is Just a Number. I have used another of my Penny Black favourites "It's your day" - isn't it just sooo cute. I have coloured the image with water colour pencils along with some lovely Bo Bunny paper. And my handy dandy spellbinders of course. Ok I am off to get ready for our fun papercrafting days  this weekend now - I still have heaps to do, so I should stay out of mischief for awhile. Have a good day x joy

My Baby turns 9

oh dear - I am feeling very sad, my baby is growing up. I so wish that I could turn back the clock and enjoy him and his brother as babies just a little bit more. Where has the time gone??????? One minute they where tiny crying babies and the next they are turning 13 and 9. Benji had some friends around yesterday for a birthday afternoon tea and we all had so much fun. All four boys played pirates for hours on end. It was soooo lovely - not one mention of electronic games or any sign of bickering at all. They have continued the fun today by all meeting up today and getting right back into the game again. And now three of the four are having a sleep over and are lying back chillin' with a movie.

No card making going on today - apart from being a little exhausted, I had my market stall down town today and had a really good day. I had made a few cards yesterday while the boys where at school and I didn't get around to photographing them and guess what - they all sold today hehehe. So that was a missed blogging opportunity but anyway I will share a photo from yesterday of my baby and his prized birthday presents. Benji has always been fireman and fire engine mad (since he was a wee little thing) he has every type of fire truck that you could imagine. But nothing like this little beauty . . . . . .

 He is so happy with it. It even shoots out water!!!! He liked all of his presents he tells me but this one is "so Cool". Can you see my puppy hiding his face up in the top left of the photo - he must be camera shy hehehe how cute hehehe any way have a good day x joy

LOTV Wedding Card

 Hello and happy Wednesday to you, it's a tad over cast here in Blackall today but something exciting happens here today - hehehe my Mummy arrives for a visit. We are all very excited, Frankie is out mowing the lawn (which he insists isn't because my Mum is coming hehe but he hasn't been able to mow for a long time with his knee but today of all days is the day he is able to LOL) the boys have asked me about 5 000 000 times what time she arrives and I am madly cleaning the house (oh ok so you have sprung me - i know i shouldn't be making cards and blogging if I was soooooo busy cleaning but hey a girl has to have her fix hehe). I get to drive over to Barcaldine (one hour drive over) this afternoon to get her off of the train after her 20 hour marathon train ride. It is always so good to have her. She is coming for Benji's 9th Birthday on Friday (mental note to self - i must remember to make a card) then I think she is staying for about 4 weeks :).

Now on to cardy things -   Isn't this stamp just adorable  - ahhhhhhhh I here you say, just soooo cute!!!!!!! It is one of my Lili of the Valley Stamps. I was asked to make a wedding card for a lady here in town and I thought about the current challenge over at http://liliofthevalleythursdaychallenge.blogspot.com/ straight away - which is Button it. I had fun making it - I have a thing for pink and black at the moment. Anyway I will be back later to upload a few more cards that I have made for the markets this weekend so see you later x joy

My first Christmas Card for the year

Whooo hooooo number one done and just five hundred thousand to go (hehehe yes I am known to exaggerate a tad) well sometimes it feels like 500 000. I made this one for Penny Black Saturday challenge this week, which is monochromatic and I just had to have a go again this week. This stamp is one of my newer Penny Black purchases that I just had to have last year hehehe, it's called crystal wreath and isn't it soooo pretty. Ok well I am going to go and keep playing with my calico flowers - I hope you are all having a happy day - if not get back in bed and climb out the other side, cause life is just too short to have unhappy days. :) x joy

oppps I always forget to do this part( hehehe yes I am known to be forgetful as well LOL), as well as the Penny Black stamp I have used my Nellie Snellen doiley die, cuttlebug snowflakes embossing folder, brilliance pearlescent sky blue ink, kaiser rhinestones, and bazzill card.

Playing with Fabric

OOOOOHHHHHH my goodness, fancy two blog posts in one day hehehe but boy have I had fun today and look what I made hehehe. I have been playing with fabric and Tim Holtz dies and my big shot. The other day at the markets a lady asked me if I could make her one of my tissue paper flowers out of fabric for a brooch or hat pin so I had a try. I think I will still keep playing but these are the proto types. Together with the free button cards that I got from Paper Craft Inspirations I think they look great. Ok well I am off to go sit at the local pool with my boys for the afternoon as it is ridiculously hot here today blah blah blah and I don't do well in the heat - so I need to find a little spot of shade and read my favourite mags x joy