Gecko Galz Christmas Card Challenge

This is my make using the freebie image from the Gecko Galz     

MONTHLY Christmas Challenge

I used the image on dimensionals to give it some height. 

I then used snippets of Christmas paper to add the extra rectangles.

 To these I added some gilt stickers and penwork.

I also will link this to the Snippets Challenge

and Rudolph Days Challenge

Happy Crafting!

A couple of Challenges

 I suddenly realised it's ages since I joined in several challenges that I used to do all the time.

I noticed that ScrappyMo had had to close Rudolph Days  - sorry to hear of the ill health Maureen and Al -

and that Helen had steeped into the breach. 

I will try and enter as much as I can... This is the link to the new Rudolph Days Challenge

My card is basically a collage of pieces, with a die cut on top that was lying on my desk.

This was based on a  idea from Donna's workshop in a Zoom Craft and Chat with the UK Stampers Network which I still participate in although I live in Australia. 

The sentiment was also found among scraps on my desk.

As this is made up of snippets of card - even the die cut - I will also link it to 

Pixie's Snippets Challenge #474

Another challenge that seems to have slipped my mind...

Happy Crafting!

NBUS #16 July

Just a quick little post to share this with NBUS!

I wanted a little piece of artwork (about 2in by 4in) to illustrate the letter 'W' - this was a swap with a member of the UK Stampers Network.

I started with a little piece of marbled background and over stamped this in black Versafine with my first NBUS - the darkroom door's word block stamp. I was very pleased with how well this stamped. I trimmed this and added it to a scrap of grey card.

Next I used my second NBUS - the whale stamp from Stampin' Up's Whale Done - also stamped in black Versafine on some more of the marbled background.

I punched this with my third NBUS - the matching punch. Again I liked how well the punch went with the stamp!

Finally I added the w button - so my 'W' is whale and words - I can also see wave...

See you at NBUS Challenge #16

As this was also definitely made with snippets I will also link it to 

Pixie's Crafty Playground #382 

Happy Crafting!

Card from Australia

I have one more week left in Australia before heading back to the UK - we enjoyed a week in Fiji last week for middle son Dan and Lizzie's wedding...

Now we are just taking a few days in Victoria before the flight home...

My daughter and I love to do a bit of crafting together. One of our favourite designs involves a snippet of interesting background in a photo card blank.

Sophie discovered these card blanks - and I made these alcohol backgrounds to slip inside:

To finish one of my Australia cards, I added a kookaburra button:

I will add this to Pixie's Snippets Playground Challenge #358

Happy Crafting!

A T C Shell

If you have been reading my recent posts
 you will know that I am on holiday in Australia at the moment
- our three sons and daughter all live in Victoria.

We are spending the current fortnight in Paynesville with our daughter Sophie (who is a teacher and is on school holiday) and near our youngest son, his wife and two daughters.

Usually I get chance to do some crafting with the granddaughters... Di may remember the mosaic cards we made last time we were here - this was mine of a pelican...

We have seen plenty of pelicans this trip - and other wildlife!

 A couple of days ago we went to the shell museum in Lakes Entrance and I picked up a small bag of sea shells to do some crafting...

The shells were tiny so I thought ATCoins ... A T C Shells...

I started by cutting scraps of card into 2.5 inch circles and covering them with snippets of material.

I distressed these around the edges with black ink and then glued on a shell pattern

I will add these to Pixie's Snippets Challenge 355

My daughter and Isabell (my 7 year old granddaughter who had already sorted the shells into shapes and colours!) then decided to join in...

Isabell decided she also wanted to do a 'love heart'.

Sophie's were fairly minimal using scraps of shark fabric.

Isabell chose scraps of a shiny silvery red fabric

Happy Crafting!