A birthday dragon

Well it's one week into our first Challenge at The Squirrel and The Fox, and I am absolutely stunned to see how well it's going. To date we have over 150 entries, plus a bunch of wonderful comments and 48 followers. It is all very exciting, and I am spending FAR too much time visiting the blog when I should be doing other things. Case in point, it's Saturday morning and I should be doing housework.

I just wanted to share my other creation I made for the first challenge. This card was made for a good friend of mine, who celebrated her birthday a week or so ago. Renee and I worked together for years, and I count myself very lucky that our 'work' friendship has translated into a 'real' friendship and we continue to stay in touch now that I am working elsewhere. I chose this little dragon from Wild Rose Studios as the stamp for RB's card, as I thought he was super cute, and who doesn't like cake for their birthday??

Recipe

Copics used:

Dragon:YG00,YG03,E11, RV13,RV10

Cake: RV10, E25

Stamp: Wild Rose Studio - Party Fergus

Sentiment - Stampin' Up

 Anyway, if you haven't yet entered your creation into The Squirrel & The Fox, please make sure you visit us soon!

Entered into the following challenges:
Ribbon Girls - Colour challenge - greens & browns



Tracey
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We're LIVE - and Anything Goes

Drumroll.....

At  last, the long anticipated Challenge Blog The Squirrel and The Fox is live! Okay, so it's probably only been long anticipated by Linda and I, the creators, but still, this is big news! Linda and I have been very excitedly putting this blog together, and we hope that soon there will be a whole bunch of you joining in for our fortnightly challenges.

To kick things off there is a really easy theme for the first challenge:

Anything Goes

Here is one of my creations for this challenge:

Recipe

Copics used:

Toby's fur: E35, E31

Flowers: R20, VG00, G00

Paper: Kaisercraft Homemade Collection

Stamp: Wild Rose Studio, Toby With Roses

Sentiment: Wild Rose Studio

This card was requested by a wonderful friend of mine, Renee, who needed a card for a friend of hers who is now expecting a baby. I was very happy to have another chance to use "Toby With Roses", one of my favourite Wild Rose Studio stamps.

So no matter what your creation is this fortnight, I really hope you will pop over to visit The Squirrel & The Fox Challenge Blog and enter it into our very first challenge.

Also entered into the following Challenges:
Stamptacular Sunday challenge - Just Sayin'
The Paper Players - Animals or Plants


Tracey
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Father's Day

Well it's Father's Day here in Australia, and for the last couple of weeks I have been making Father's Day cards for friends, my own Dad's card being made a few weeks prior (and posted for the Ruby's Rainbow Stitching Challenge). I loved this "Dad" paper, and loved using all my 'manly' stamps for the cards.

I've been itching to use my Wild Rose Studio stamp - Gone Fishing. Lucky for me, a work colleague has a fishing Dad, so I got to create this card:

I hope he liked it!

Entered into the following challenges:
Challenge Up Your Life - Something for Men
Fab N Funky Challenges - Go mad with embossing

More thanks

This weekend has been a card making marathon! I had a few orders from friends for cards in the lead-up to Father's Day, and I was also asked to make a "Thank you" card for a colleague. I ordered a new stamp specially for the occasion - let's pretend I needed an excuse - and pulled out the last of some of my favourite papers. This is Toby with Roses, another fabulous Wild Rose Studio Stamp.

Apologies for the slight angle, I was trying to take this pic in low light and as the shutter speed was reduced I was leaning on my elbows to reduce camera shake. I was favouring one elbow (currently missing skin due to a dog induced injury) and I obviously held the camera accordingly!

I will update you on some of my other creations as the week goes on. For now, it's back to colouring. Have a great week everyone and thanks as always for your kind comments.

Entered into the following challenges:
Totally Gorjuss -cute and cuddly
Stamp Something - Thank you

Thank you card

Last week my manager asked me to make a thank you card. I created this using my new Wild Rose Studio stamp - Fergus with Bouquet. Fergus is just adorable - I can see myself making a lot of cards with him. This card is still sitting on my manager's desk - she says she doesn't want to give it away. Awww, what a nice compliment for my work. :)

Recipe

Copics used:

Dragon:YG00,YG03,E11, RV13,RV10

Flowers: RV10, RV13, YG03, B02 

Stamp: Wild Rose Studio - Fergus with Bouquet

This card is to thank the lovely people at Taste.com.au for taking our team out to the Chef's Gallery restauarant in Sydney and teaching us the art of noodle making and decorating black sesame dumplings to look like little piggies. Here's a pic of the little piggy I decorated - he was so cute it was a shame to eat him... although he was delicious.

Entered into the following challenges:
My Time To Craft - Fairy Tales
Ruby's Rainbow - Gems
Delightful Challenges - Things with Wings

As always thanks for looking, and for your kind comments.

Friends to the end

A week or so ago I was asked to make a quick card for Amanda to send to one of her best friends who lives in France. Amanda and Laetitia were pen-friends long before email, and even now send letters via snail mail to each other every few months. I have had the pleasure of meeting Laetitia a few times, once when she was here for Amanda's wedding and second when she joined us all on a holiday last year.

I recently purchase the Wild Rose Studio Stamp - Best Friends, and thought it suited them perfectly. I added the little sentiment "Friends to the end" from C.C Designs, as I truly think these two will be friends forever. As this was a quick card I didn't have time to buy any new paper, but I loved using up the last of my purple stash. I added lace and some ribbon with purple hearts, and some tiny pearl embellishments - which are very difficult to see in the photo!

Recipe

Copics used:

Hair: E35, E31, 25

Skin; E000, E00,

Dresses & Shoes: BG10, BG15, & V12, V15

Stamp: Wild Rose Studio - Best Friends

Entered into the following challenges:
Top Tip Tuesday - Make it Girlie
Crafts And Me - Ribbon
Little Darlings Challenges - Girly
Sparkles Forum Challenges - One for the girls


Thank you for looking and for your kind comments as always. I hope your week is fabulous!

Man Card!

A week or so ago I attempted a guy card for my hubby with limited success. I decided stamps for men needed to be added to my collection immediately and was thrilled to find Wild Rose Studio Stamps for Men. There are some fabulous men stamps in the range, and I promptly bought two... and then a bunch of their girly ones too (I am able to always justify additional stamps because if you're paying for postage you should order all in one go - or so I tell myself).

It's my Dad's birthday on the 28th. My Dad loves his beer and the Wild Rose Studio Stamp "Time for a Pint" was perfect!

I bought new copics especially for the occasion - as I really wanted it to look like he was wearing jeans, and a red shirt goes perfect with denim. I was a little daunted by the dark colours, but I am very happy with how it turned out. Some denim and checked paper and bold red and blue card and ta-ta - Man card!

Copics used:

Hair: E35

Skin; E000, E00, E11

Jeans: B93, B97

Shirt: R22, R27, R29, B93

Shoes, Table: E31,E35,0

Paper used:

October Afternoon - Blast Off

Flourish - Jeans

Entered into the following challenges:

Sweet Stampin Challenge - One for the boys
Crafty Creations Challenges - Boyz to Men