One for the Boys

It's Wednesday evening here and feels like it should be Friday. Why is it that the weeks just fly by so fast - UNTIL you are counting down to holiday. Only three weeks to go until I'm back at the Great Barrier Reef scuba diving with the fishies.

Anyways, it's Ruby's Rainbow Challenge Time! The challenge this fortnight is:

ONE FOR THE BOYS

Now making boys cards is always a bit more of a challenge for me, I mean what can you do if you can't add pearls and lace?? However La La Land have the cutest little boy stamps, and with stamps like those you don't actually need many other embellishments. For my DT work for Ruby's Rainbow, I have used Fireman Luca.

My exciting achievement is the creation of a background paper using Tim Holtz distress ink. I hadn't tried it before and really wasn't at all confident, but I love how it turned out. Now a whole host of distress ink pads are on my wish list!

I hope you'll join us with your own "for the boys" creation at Ruby's Rainbow.

Also entered into the following challenges:
Fussy and Fancy - try a new technique
Southern Girls Challenge - anything goes

Until next time,
Tracey
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For the girls

It's time for another challenge at Ruby's Rainbow (seriously how is time flying by, and yet my holidays don't seem to be getting any closer? One of life's perpetual mysteries). This time it is one of my favourite themes -

"One For the Girls"

I'm not much of a girly girl - I am opposed to the colour pink, anything sparkly or frilly - unless it's on a card. So usually a girl's card is my excuse to get out the pink papers and pens, however this time I thought I would try a different colour combination. Here's what I came up with for my DT work:

Recipe

Copics used:

Hair: E35, E31,

Shoes, shirt outline: B02

Demin dress: B93, B97

Skin; E000, E00, E11, R20

Hearts: R22, R27, R29

Stamp: La La Land - Sweetheart Marci

Sentiment - Stampin' Up

Isn't she cute? Of course this is another La-La Land stamp - Sweetheart Marci. Don't you just love those pigtails? She reminds me so much of my friend Linda's daughter, Millie, who is just as gorgeous.

To see what the rest of the DT have created and to enter your creation - visit us at Ruby's Rainbow.

Also entered into the following challenges:
City Crafter - I "heart" you
Crafts and Me Challenges - add a heart

And the La La Land Crafts Customer Gallery

SFC - now featuring me!

I am thrilled to say I have been invited to join another Design Team, this time for one of my favourite challenge blogs - Sparkles Forum Challenges. I would like to thank the lovely Angel for inviting me, and for her very sweet welcome. I am thrilled to be part of the team and can't wait to check out all the fabulous entries into each challenge.

This fortnight's challenge at Sparkles Forum Challenge is Punch It.

I have to admit that since acquiring my very first punch - a Martha Stewart butterfly one - I have been sticking butterflies on lots of cards! I love the added dimension they give to cards, not to mention the added 'girlyness'.  Here is the card I created for the challenge:

Recipe

Copics used:

Hair: E35, E31

Skin; E000, E00, E11, R20

Dress, Shoes, Hat: E02, E04, G000

Stamp: La La Land Marci with Rose

I recently purchased some gorgeous little antique style charms online from a store here in Australia called Scrap Matrix, and was excited to try one out on this little card. As I love photography I found it hard to resist the gorgeous little vintage looking camera charm. Coupled with some vintage style lace and La La Land's Marci with Rose, I've tried to create this card to have an 'olde world' look about it. Hopefully I've succeeded!

To see how the other DT members tackled the challenge, and to add your own creations of course, please visit us at Sparkles Forum Challenges - Punch It. The sponsor for this challenge is Stitchy Bear, and they are offering this fabulous prize:

I hope to see you there!

Also entered into the following challenges:
Crafts and Me Challenges- Lace
Crafty Catz - Metal & Lace
The Crafty Pad - Distressing and Tearing

Sweet Friend

Happy weekend everyone!  It's a super quiet weekend at the Fox household. My husband AJ had a wisdom tooth out on Friday and is feeling less than fantastic, and I had a huge week at work and want to just spend some time recharging my batteries. So yesterday I made cards, avoided housework and watched crappy daytime TV. Bliss.

Here's my latest creation - another gorgeous La-La Land Craft stamp - "Chef Marci". My great friend Linda kindly stamped this for me onto some Copic paper as this stamp's not yet part of my burgeoning stamp collection. I finished it with the tiny Wild Rose Studio sentiment stamp "Sweet Friend". I found this Kaisercraft paper at my local crafty store - I loved the cooking images.

The card was inspired by the Cute Card Thursday sketch.

Recipe

Copics used:

Hair: E31, E35

Skin: E000, E00, E11, R20

Shoes: E21

Cake: Y000, G00, R20

Piping bag: R20

Stamp: La La Land - Chef Marci

Sentiment - Wild Rose Studio

Paper - Kaisercraft "Nan's Favourites Collection"

Entered into the following challenges:
Cute Card Thursday - Sketch
City Crafter Challenge - Best Friends

And added to the La La Land Crafts Customer Gallery

A Wintery Card for a Wintery Day

How do you fill another rainy weekend? With more card making of course!

I found this red vintage style paper at my favourite crafty shop, and it gave me another excuse to play with my favourite green coloured copics. If you look closely you can see the paper says  "Vintage Fashionista" and I'm sure you'll agree that's just what this little darling looks like. To keep with the vintage look I added some ivory coloured lace and green ribbon and some old-style buttons for embellishments. I'm really happy with the wintery look and feel of this card - perfect for this weather.

Recipe

Copics used:

Hair: E35, E31

Skin; E000, E00, E11, R20

Dress: VG63, VG67

Hat: VG63, VG67, E31

Shoes, E35, E25

Stamp: La La Land Winter Marci

Entered into the following challenges:

Craft Your Passion - Text It
Aud Sentiments - a sentiment to make someone smile
Stamp Something - something embellished
Fabulous Friday Challenge - buttons

Mum's Birthday

Today is my Mum's 60th birthday. In order to make her a wonderful card, I spent at least an hour in my favourite crafty place picking out gorgeous papers & card, and sadly the photo hasn't come out with those colours shown in their true glory. Still, you can see my latest La-la Land Craft stamp. Marci with Rose. I think I may have a slight addiction to these beautiful stamps - they colour so beautifully.

For Mum's birthday I gave her a ticket to see Mary Poppins with me. I saw it a few weeks ago and Mum said she would have liked to see it too - so I'll see it again with her in three weeks. It's definitely one that's okay to see more than once! I made a little cardboard ticket holder that matched the card - far nicer than the standard Ticketek one advertising Amercian Express cards!

Here is the card:

and here is the matching ticket folder:

Entered into the following challenges:

Southern Girls Challenge - Anything goes

Totally Papercrafts - Die cuts & Punches

Stamp Something - Something with Pretty Papers