hello again :oD

Hello, it's been a very long time but I thought I'd come in and take

down the cobwebs, lol!

I have been crafting, but mainly sewing, but I suddenly rediscovered

my love of papercrafts...yay. I am really rusty, but I had a play around

with some bits and pieces and decided to start planning my christmas

goodies...yeah I know Christmas is ages away, but there's no time like the

Present wink wink...get it :oD

Anyway I have been a long time fan of Chic'n'scratch so I thought I'd

head on over and get some inspiration, just to get things going again.

Angie has the most incredible tutorial videos, I think I have a list

as long as santa himself, of things I want to try...

so today I settled on these two projects. They came from the

Angie's 12 days of Christmas tutorials...

 First, a Snow globe bag. I did modify this one to hold

a box, instead of a bag

I am linking this one up with Christmas Card Challenges

week 31, "Monochromatic"

I have also used their sketch as inspiration

I have also made a Treat holder

Thanks for stopping by

Happy Crafting!

Peta xoxo

Art doll

Hi everyone,
I thought I'd try something different and have a go at joining
in on an Art Doll swap. This is my first attempt and I'm still
not really sure if she fits the bill of being an 'Art Doll'  lol. But
I think she is supposed to be a doll that is not played with as
such. So any comments/criticism would be greatly appreciated.
My 6 year old daughter has decided that she would love to have
her, so  I had to convince her to wait and see what
the next one turns out like first as she might like her more,
(especially if lots of purple is invloved) hahaha.
I wanted to give this one a soft grunge look...

Here's a close up of her face...

I am linking up for the first  time to
Handmade Tuesdays/Ladybug Blessings    and
Sew Cute Tuesday


Thanks for stopping by

Peta xoxo

Jingle Bells

Hi everyone
Happy Easter to you all, my children are super excited
about the Easter bunnie's visit during the night, but for now,
I'm thinking CHRISTMAS!
Over at Tickled Pink Stamp Challenges, they are having their
second Christmas challenge and the theme is
"Jingle Bells", so Ofcourse I have taken it quite literally
and instead of a card, I have made a cute Bell ornament for
my Christmas tree. I picked the bell up at an op shop (it's a
shame there weren't atleast two) and added some ribbon,
flowers, rhinestone brads, more bells, string, and some
beaded garland and pipecleaners and topped it ofwith the
truly gorgeous Lil Christmas Lad Luca, who you can find
HERE with all the rest of the Lil' Lolitas/Lads.

I am also entering this into Sparkles Forum Christmas Challenge 
#3 'Ribbons and Gems

Thanks for stopping by :o)
Please feel free to leave a comment, I really do
appreciate your thoughts.
Happy Stamping
Peta xoxox

Tickled Pink Challenge #15

Hi everyone
It's the first day of school holidays over here in WA, and I
wanted to make a card...what was I thinking! It was so not
going to happen, well I finally got there, it didn't turn out
quite the way I wanted it to, but  I  thought I'd share anyway.
So today I have used the sketch from challenge 15 over at
Tickled Pink Stamp Challenges

and here is my card using "Lil lad Lestat", you can find him
and all the other Lil Lads and Lolitas over at Tickled Pink
Stamps HERE

 

I have coloured using Derwent Artist pencils.

Thanks for stopping by
please feel free to leave a comment I really do appreciate
your thoughts!

Happy Stamping
Peta xoxox

Love letters

Hi all,
Today I have made for Tickled Pink Stamps Challenges
#13, and this week the challenge is 'Blinging it up'
I have teamed up 'Lil Birthday Luca' (he was a recent freebie
for answering a question on Tickled Pink's Facebook page
Thanks Kellie :oD) with 'Lil fashionette - 30s Lylah' to
create a long lasting Love story, hope you like it...

for 'Bling', I have  added a ring, which I snagged from my
6 years old daughter's jewllery box (I'll have to buy her another
one now haha), pearl sprays, crystal hearts, a cute little kissing
couple charm that I picked up at Tickled Pink Stamps some time
ago, and there is also a little clear gemstone button at the
bottom of the floral arrangement. Hope that's enough bling :o)

The flowers and heart doily are also from Tickled Pink Stamps,
and I have added some cardboard, a crocheted doily, some
'Love letters', raffia and I have used Scrabble font.

Here is a close up of the lovely couple, coloured with 2B and 4B
graphic Pencils, to try and get that old photo look...

I am also entering this into Cute Card Thursday challenge 158

"Couples"

Thanks for stopping by

Please feel free to leave a comment, I really do apprecaite

your thoughts :o)

Happy Stamping

Peta xoxox

Another shaker card

Hi everyone,
Wow this is my second post in 24 hrs, I must be feeling crafty
hahaha. I had lots of fun making the shaker card yesterday
and my daughter asked if I could make one for her BFFs
Birthday.

Inside the shaker sre some star shaped sequins, some pearlised
sequins and some beads

I have used the Jane's sketch over at Magnolia Downunder
Challenges  again for this card, kind of switched around this
time. I hope its Ok to enter a second one...

Stamp          Ballerina Tilda (Fairytale collection)
Other          Digi sentiment from Bizzy Becs
                     Pink and Rose and Silver metallic cardstock,
                     Border punch, circle and scallop punches, flowers,
                     rhinestones, stickles, acetate, foam tape, beads, sequins.
                     Coloured with Derwent 'Artist' Pencils.

Thanks for stopping by :o)
Please feel free to leave a comment, I really do
appreciate your thoughts.
Happy Stamping
Peta xoxoxo

My first shaker card

Hi Everyone,
I have made a card today, and I must say, its been
a long time and I was feeling quite rusty! I have always
wanted to have a go at a shaker card, I saw a tutorial
probably a year ago, but Im not sure where that was,
maybe splitcoast stampers or youtube.
and seeing as it is soon to be Easter, I thought I'd
dust off one of the stamps from last year's Easter collection.

Close up so you can see the 'shaker' contents...

If you like the sentiment that I have used, great news, it's a freebie
from Bizzy Becs, click HERE for more!


So anyway, would like to enter this acrd into these
challenges :
Bizzy Becs Store Blog Challenge This month it is a colour
challenge, use Chocolate, Raspberry, Mint and Cream

Magnolia Downunder Challenges - Sketch

Stamp            Tilda hugging Bunny
Other             Sentiment from Bizzy Becs, Chocolate card, papers from
                       my scrap stash, Square doilie from Tickled Pink Stamps,
                       acetate, foam tape, flowers and fillers and leaves, beads,
                       sequins. circle and scallop punches, stickles, heart crystal,
                      3d butterfly sticker.
                      Coloured with Derwent 'Artist' Pencils

Thanks for stopping by
Please feel free to leave a comment, I really do
appreciate your thoughts :o)
Happy Stampng
Peta xoxox