Christmas Wreath

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from sunny New Zealand.  By the time you read this I'll hopefully be having a little R and R at our beach house soaking up some summer rays here in New Zealand.

This week I have a card for you as I'm a Guest Designer for

 Crafty Boots Challenge 

and the theme is

'Winter Wonderland'

My interpretation of that, it's winter in the northern hemisphere hopefully with a lot of beautiful white snow and wonderful Holly Wreaths are made with small Mandarins and and Holly Berries hanging on the front doors, eggnog, and mulled wine.  Just a few of my favourite thoughts of winter at Christmas time in England.

Here's another looked at my card.

Card Recipe:

1. Base: White Linen card.

2. Coloured Card: Red Bazzill

3. Image: Christmas Wreath unknown source.

4. Colour medium: copics

5. Embellishments: a Holly tag by Cuddly Buddly

b. White and Silver Satin bow

c. Merry Christmas die

d. Gift Card

6. Dies used Spellbinders, Classic Circle, Scalloped Circle, Ribbon Circle. 

7. Funkey Poinsettia 

8 Tools Used.

9. Glossy Accents for the Wreath

10. Inside and the back of my card.

Wishing you all a wonderful week, Happy New Year and happy crafting.

In The Pink

I'm so excited to tell you this week I'm been asked to be the guest designer over at the

Crafty Boots Challenge

which I'm honoured about.

This fortnight their challenge theme is 

In The Pink

for Breast Cancer Awareness.

In New Zealand it's Pink October for Breast Cancer Awareness and in November is Blue November for Prostrate Cancer and on the last Friday in August we have Daffodil Day.  I remember this well as my oldest son was born on a Daffodil Day.  

This card is a tribute to my sister who past away earlier this year with Lung Cancer.  I can see her now laughing at Stella, and after Radiation and Chemotherapy my sister lost her crown and glory of beautiful dark brown hair and it grew back grey with very tight curls. 

So I do hope Stella and her bra and boobs makes everyone smile.

If you look closely you'll see that there are boobs in the bra as they have been mounted with double sided foam tape.

Challenges I'm Entering:
1. Whoopsi Daisy Digi Challenge Die Cuts and Punches *
2. Dream Valley Challenge # 143 One For The Girls *
3. Crafty Girls Corner Challenge # 95 Anything Goes    TOP 5
4. Lemon Shortbread Challenge #27 Anything Goes *
5. Little Miss Muffet Challenge #149 Anything Goes *
6. The Pencil Case Challenge Week # 31 Anything Goes *
7. Sweet Stampin Challenge Inspired by A Book, A Film or Song *
"Whole Lotta Rosie" by AC/DC From Let There Be Rock 1977
8. Crafty Friends Challenge # 43 Anything Goes *
9. Cute Card Thursday Challenge # 449 Lace and or Pearls *
10. Southern Girls Challenge Pop It Up  TOP 5
The Bra is popped out with foam

Card Recipe:

1. Base: White Linen Card.
2. Coloured Card: Petal Soft Bazzill
3. Design Paper: Digi Download from Bearly Mine which is closed down now.

4. Image: Stella Peeker Braless by Bugaboo Digi Stamps
5. Colour Medium: Copics 

6. Tools Used:

7. Glossy Accents: This was used for Stella's Bra, I painted over with Glossy Accents to give it a shinny appearance.

8. Versa Color Ink: 134 Petal Pink this was dusted around the edges of the finished image.

8. Dies Used.

a. Classic Circles by Spellbinders
b. Lacy Circles by Spellbinders
c. Dandelions
d. Delicate Dollies by Spellbinders 

9. Embellishments:

a. Silver metal corners from Wild Orchids Crafts

b. Pink Heart gems from Rosies Studios, silver braid from my stash, Dandelion Die, Pink Flat Backed Pearls and an assortment of pink flowers from my stash.

c. Silver metal corners from Wild Orchids Crafts

d. Silver braid from my stash, Dandelion Die, Pink Flat Backed Pearls and an assortment of pink flowers from my stash.

e. Stella's Bra was paper pieced and the pink rose is from my stash.

f. Pink Sequins and White lace from my stash.

10. Inside: Here's the inside of my card you can see now how pretty that design paper is.

11. Back:  The back of my card.

Take care everyone thanks for visiting my blog, wishing you a wonderful week and happy crafting everyone.

Sweet Sketch Wednesday Sketch # 194-5 Sponsor DigiStamp Boutique

Welcome to another wonderful hot Wednesday.  Here it is 20th February already.

It's Wednesday which means it's another 

Sweet Sketch Wednesday. 
 Congratulations to our winner and to our top 3 cards from last week, awesome work ladies and I love the creativity.  This week we really have an oldie for you  as you know we try to recycle one sketch a month a blast from the past and this is really from the past and even before my time.  It's sketch # 194-5 YES 5.  This is the 5th sketch ever used over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday.  I enjoyed working with the sketch and it's very easy to work with.

Sketch #194-5

You can used this sketch as a oblong or square.

My card using this sketch but using a square version.

This week our sponsor is the lovely 

Sally-Ann Hancock 

the owner of

DigiStamp Boutique in the UK.

A Little Bit About Sally-Ann

All images/designs are created and copyright owned by Sally-Ann Hancock. My work means the world to me - it allows my passion to draw and create, to fit with my family life too - often the inspiration for my designs. Hope you enjoy as much as I enjoy creating.

She has been sponsoring Sweet Sketch Wednesday once a month since we started which is totally amazing and Sally-Ann is very generous with her prizes.

This week our winner will receive

Prize: 6 Free Digi  Images

from DigiStamp Boutique Shop

Wow Sally-Ann is just so generous and all of us here at

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 

really appreciate Sally-Ann's generosity which is very much appreciated by all of us especially when we select our images to use.

Don't forget to drop by DigiStamp Boutique and see what's new over there.  Every month Sally-Ann is updating here vast array of amazing images and always has a monthly freebie for you to try before you buy.

You can check it out here:

http://www.digistampboutique.co.uk/catalog/

http://www.digistampboutique.blogspot.com/

http://www.lovetodoodle.blogspot.com/

Don't forget to drop by Sweet Sketch Wednesday and check out what the rest of the design team have created for you this week.

Challenges I'm entering:

DigiStamp Boutique February Monthly Challenge
Crafty Boots Out of your Comfort Zone ( My Colour Combo Colours I never work with)
Incy Wincy Designs Pop It Up
Make It Mondays Anything Goes
Bearly Mine Challenge ( Lace Oval, Ribbon, Twine)
Milk Coffee Make It Cute Challenge
Woopsi  Daisy Make It Girly
Southern Girls Challenge #62 Bling It On 
Charisma Cardz Challenge Anything Goes

Card Recipe:

1. Base: White SU
2. Coloured Card: Black and Yellow Bazzill
3. Design Paper: By American Crafts
4. Image: Spring Louie by DigiStamp Boutique

5. Colour Medium: Copics, Black embossing pen and white gel pen.

6. Tools: Cuttlebug, Petite Oval, Floral Oval, Scalloped Oval and Classic Oval, corner die, Pop Dots, Glue dots and Tacky glue.

7. Sentiment: Computer generated using Papyrus font.

8. Embellishments: Yellow satin ribbon, blue gems and orange carnation all from my stash.

Wishing everyone happy crafting and I'm looking forward to seeing your new creations.

Sweet Sketch Wednesday Sketch #182 Sponsor Broken Box Stock

Sponsor: Broken Box Stock

Well today is the day the Premier of the Hobbit is being held in from middle earth Wellington New Zealand.  If your a fan of 

The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings The Return of the King, King Kong, and The Adventures of Tintin you won't want to miss this movie, 4 years in the making, and creating all those amazing costumes at the Special Effects Studio of Weta Studio's in Wellington and the film has been shot all over New Zealand by our very own Sir Peter Jackson and Sir Richard Taylor from Weta Studio's.   Both of these gentleman were customers of mine some 15 years ago  when I worked for Dow Corning and we supplies them our mould making rubbers.

Cate Blanchett, who plays Galadriel, at the premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in Wellington today on the Red Carpet.

Sir Peter Jackson

The Stage from Middle Earth

Yes it's Wednesday the middle of the week and only 27 sleeps until Christmas and of course it's special because it's

Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

Congratulations to our winner and to our Top 3 cards,  wonderful work and this week we have another wonderful sketch from Arlana.  If I'm rating this sketch out of 

EASY, MEDIUM, or HARD.

This sketch is EASY and looks great.

Sketch #182

Here's my card using our new sponsors image this is 

Elf Toodle

 from 

Broken Box Stock our new sponsor.

A Little Bit About Wendy Sefcik the owner of 

Broken Box Stock.

Broken Box Stock is a fun, imaginative and unique clipart shop featuring hand-drawn illustrations and digital stamps by Wendy Sefcik. Crafters, digital stampers, scrapbookers, business owners, teachers, bloggers, website owners, etc. adore the collection of clipart and find endless ways to spruce up their look with Broken Box Stock graphics.

Wendy is offering our grand prize winner this week's challenge

Prize: Holiday Toodle Set Printable Page 

Thanks, Wendy, for your generous prize!

You can find Broken Box Stock

My store is found at: www.brokenboxstock.com

http://www.brokenboxstock.com/item/Holiday_Toodle_Set_/672/c115

Don't forget to drop by the rest of the wonderful design team and see what they've created using Wendy's images from 

Broken Box Stock over at

Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

Challenges I'm Entering This Week:

Cards for Men Challenge #24 Merry Christmas

Crafty Boots Challenge Anything Goes

Digi Darla's Challenge Friendship 

Make It Monday Challenge # 117

Digital Tuesday Challenge #188 Girly

Creative Card Crew Challenge #24 Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly Free For All

Tuesday Alchemy Challenge #42 Anything Goes

Brown Sugar Challenge #17 Anything Goes

Card Recipe:

1. Base: White SU

2. Coloured Card: Forest Green and Red Bazzills

3. Design Papers: Rosie's Studios Festive Collection

5. Image: Elf Toodle by Broken Box Stock

6. Colour Medium: Copics, Black, White and Silver Gel Pens

7. Tools: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities Deckle Rectangle, Classic Rectangle, Glue Dots, Pop Dots, Tacky Glue and Martha Stewart white glitter and Glossy Accents.

8. Embellishments: Ribbon, Gems, Braid, Tole all form my stash.

Wishing everyone a wonderful week Christmas Shopping, Baking and Crafting.

Hugs to everyone