Bronnies Stamping Spot

Well they have finally arrived...after waiting eight months I have two weeks off work. So I am off to the land of the long grey cloud AKA Nuu Zulund. This will only happen if I can pull myself out of bed at 4am so I can be at the airport at 4.30am. So far mum has sorted out day one. Dentist at 8am (NZ time) which is 5am QLD time which is a bit cruel but mum has never really grasphed time zones. Then after the dentist I am apparently drenching and innoculating sheep! Oh the memories of my former life and child labour come flooding back.
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As per Adriannes request, here are some of the latest creations that have been created over the last day or so. Thank goodness for air con and days off.

OK, so I tried to be a little bit creative in a way that I don't usually go. I looked at the picture for Beat's creative challenge and thought, 'oh look at the knitted toy on the seat. Maybe I could do something with that.' So I off I go with my oval punch and punched the toy. But as he got created he started to look...well, a bit strange and he didnt really turn out the way I wanted to but I thought, 'oh well, it will make people laugh...perhaps.' So, I think it is a bit of a blooper but I still had the courage to put it out there for others. Here is the picture of inspiration

Here is my strange wee fellow
In an attempt to redeem myself I have tried to pick up the blue floor boards and the white from the childs bed.
Let me know what you think.
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I have tried to pick up on the red trim of the cushion and thought a saying that involved dreams was appropriate for cushion. I used a couple of pearls on the centre flowers. I think it turned out quite well.

The fine print...

Card:

Whisper White

Real Red

Stamps:

Flowers from Friendship blooms

Sentiment from Live your dreams

Inks:

Tempting Turquoise

Real Red

Pixie pink

Spare bits:

Dimensions

Pearls from Overflow

I think I am becoming a challenge addict, but I love the challenge.

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Makeesa has posed another challenge and just like in Alisa's challenge, I can see Turquoise!!!! Seems to be the colour of the month for these women but I can't say I am a big fan of it. Here is the picture that is the focus of the challenge:
I can see the following colours: Creamy Caramel, Tempting Turquoise, Basic Black, Whispher White and a strange little bobbly lamp stand. I saw Soft sky but have none of that left so had to go without that one. So here is what I came up with: The colours didn't really come out the way I had hoped because the sun is going down but trust me, I used Tempting Turquoise (and I can even spell it now). I used to pearls to replicate the lamp stand in case you are wondering what they are doing on the card.

The fine print

Card:

Creamy Caramel

Whispher white

Basic black

Tempting Turquoise

Stamps:

Live your dreams

Inks:

Chocolate Chip

Tempting Turquoise

Creamy Caramel

Spare bits:

Choc Chip (hard to tie a bow in) ribbon from Overflow

Pearl from Overflow

Rub ons from Spotlight

Hope you enjoy it. Time for a shower before I go out tonight.

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Because I live in the tropics you would think that a colour challenge that uses an advert titled 'tropical delight' should be easy to do, wouldn't you but no. Alisa's colour challenge was exactly that. And since when did Soft Sky and Tempting Turquoise go together?
For starters I only have a scrap of Groovy Guava left over from the SU feild training night and secondly I used all my tempting turquoise on the card swaps for the SU night and only have scraps left of that colour. What to do....??? So here is my improvisation for lack of card. Thank goodness I had some soft sky left!
I picked up on the flowers and lines in the doonah.
The fine print...

I am not surprised that my last post was the 20th October. I have been a bit buzy and have been spending my days off up on the Atherton tablelands at Adriannes so today is the first day that I have had at home and have not had to go to work (touch wood!). So today, aircon on, DVD on, stamping stuff...everywhere. No church this morning, going tonight so some good quality time with me and my stamps. I have made a few creations today, well three. One for a challenge and two for the markets. Here are the market cards: This card uses a stamp set from the up and coming summer catalogue that we got at the Stampin Up field training night held here in Cairns at the Hilton called Live your dreams.

What a diverse range of colours for this weeks challenge. The colours are Soft sky, Pumpkin pie, Basic grey, Regal rose and Whisper white. I don't have regal rose so I substitued in pixie pink which according to the catalogue is fairly similar. I wanted to stay away from my fish, frog and crab stamps that I am prone to using so have gone with a flower or two instead and a bit of designer paper.

The finer details

Stamps: Flower from SU Friendship blooms, Quote from SU All I have seen

Cardstock: SU Soft Sky, pumpkin pie, pixie pink, whisper white, basic grey and pumpkin pie designer series paper

Misc: Ribbon from overflow, brads from SU Hodgepodge

It is a different style of fold for this card than I am use to which added a bit of difficulty for me and it took me ages to get that bow bowed. How to you tie a bow neatly? There must be a trick that I haven't found.

Anyway, lot of fun and a bit of thinking.

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P.S. Keesh, the weather is beautiful in Cairns at the moment, just beautiful.

I can't believe that Christmas is coming so soon. I just had my hair cut and booked the next appointment for the 17th Dec - a week before Christmas!! and the day before I go to New Zealand to spend Christmas with my family.

I just love these stamps and have made quite a few cards with them. I think I like the fact that you can fit three stamps accross the card. The card colour is the 'in colours' of purely pomegranate and river rock and some good old whisper white. The river rock was stamped with versamark using the scribble this stamp. The two outside panel have been stamped with chocolate chip and the middle panel with purely pomegranate using the All I have seen stamp set.

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Well, not literally my backyard but a gorge on the outskirts of Cairns. This is Crystal Cascades which is a popular swimming spot in Cairns during summer for the locals (tourists swim in it all year!). The water is still a bit chilly for my liking. I have been doing a photography course, not that you can tell from the 'merry' card below but this is a photo I took on Sunday at 7am...crazy!

For some reason it is raining here in Cairns. Its a bit early. Rainy season usually doesn't start till the beginning of December but it has been raining for three days now. I just got saturated putting out the garbage bins.

Off to have dinner at homegroup

I'm at it again. Another challenge. This was a bit different for me. I have never done a square card before so the layout seemed a little tricky. I have had the bubble background for a while and knew that it had to go with the fishy friends stamp so here is my take on Julee's sketch challenge.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein

It seems that today is the day for challenges. This one is from Gina's blog. It is a design sketch not a colour challenge. I have just acquired the bold brights collection and ceased the moment for some creation with new colours so here goes Cardstock: SU Brilliant Blue, Green Galore, Only Orange
Stamps: SU Unfrogettable
Water colours: SU Brilliant Blue, Only Orange, Pixie pink, Real Red, Green Galore, Glorious Green
Other bits: Black brads, plastic eyes for the frog

I will be back to try Gina's colour challenge.
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Even though these are Autumn ("fall") colours and it is spring (sort of) here, they are still colours that I have had much fun with. The first colour group that I brought was the Earth Elements and I have recently brought a second pack along with a few colours that I seem to run out of super fast such as chocolate chip. So here were the colours in the challenge:

When I first saw this I thought 'if only I had a swirly stamp!' But I don't have a swirly stamp (yet). Then I thought 'maybe I need to use a tag' But I didn't. I have changed Kiwi Kiss to Old Olive to fit the Australian colours so this is what I came up with.

I think the little flower at the bottom helps it because the blank space was driving me nuts.

Ok...off to try another challenge

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Hi, hope you had a great start to the week.
I was playing around with my fishy friends and my new crop-a-dile and thought 'hey, I could make bubbles for these fish' and I think they look quite groovy. Not too sure about all the layers in the background. I gave it a bit more of a 3D look by putting the little fish on small foam spots to lift her from the card. The torn and scuffed card at the bottom was to look like sand (??). Its amazing what you can do with the crop-a-dile!

These two cards use Summer Sun as their card background, then a band of whisper white and then band of real red. The dragon fly comes from 'unfrogettable'. Not sure where the flower came from but it is a stampin up stamp.

This last one is my favourite. The frog is from 'unfrogettable', stamped with stazon onto watercolour paper (which I love) and coloured in with garden green using a blender pen. The dotty paper is a piece given to me with a door prize and comes from the 'summer picnic' designer paper in the current spring catalogue. It is amazing how far you can make a scrap piece of paper. The background card is 10cm x10cm garden green. The tag is ruby red and stamped with thank you from a stamp collection that I again did not name (first timer - I have since learned what to do with the sticky name tag).



I found these quite fun to do and I think they look quite groovy.

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I have taken up the challenge. Makeesha has posted a challenge based on page 85 from the current ideas book. Here is my attempt.