Octopi and friends

You may have seen my previous post here about Octopus for Preemies. On Friday last week I had the delightful opportunity to deliver a batch of Octopals (not made by me) on behalf of Octopus for a Preemie to the Neonatal Unit at Frimley Park Hospital. I also had a tour of the Unit and saw some of the very tiny babies who will be the recipients.

The staff were over the moon with them, and I'm looking forward to delivering the next batch next month. The photo shows the Senior Sister and Neonatal sister with me. If you would like to know more and get involved, the badge on the right will take you to the official Facebook group.

MMM At the Beach end june

Amy has chosen our theme of "At the Beach" for the new challenge at Make My Monday. I decided to use a scrapbook page I have just made for my Australia album.

The photo was taken by The Nobbies outside Melbourne. It was quite breezy as can be seen by my hair and the surf. 

Something Blue for Father's day

It's my turn to choose the challenge for Cardz for Guyz. I would liike to see your makes using Something Blue for Fathers Day.

I used up some scraps of blue papers and made a patchwork background. The T shirt is from SU with some splts added to make it look a bit grungy! I'm not sure who will get this as i dont have a dad to give it too any more. Maybe I could send it to my son who is a No 1 dad, or would that be too weird?

A Quirky Turkey!!

Time for a new challenge at Quirky Crafts and this time we are looking for things with wings.
We are sponsored by Limited Runs and Bugaboo, who have both kindly provided images for us to use. My first card uses Ed the Turkey from Limited Runs.

Ed the Turkey -  coloured with Copics. I embossed the background with a tree folder as it just didn't look right plain. The fence was cut on my Silhouette and added as without he looked like he was floating in mid air! The trees are Tim Holtz dies cut out in white and sponged with green ink. This will be the last challenge for a while, due to team members personal problems. Hopefully it will be back in the autumn.

As everything apart from the card blank was a snippet I'm off to the Playground, there's lots of catching up to do  over there as I haven't visited for a while.

May Rudolph Day.

I suddenly realised that I was nearly out of time to make a card for Rudolph day. So I headed to the carftroom with no idea of what I was going to make. Fortunately I had the Tim Holtz dies waiting to be put away from a DT card I had been making.

The resultwas this! Two die cut trees cut from a snippet of gold card, and an embossed gold sentiment. Definitely QACAS!

Victorian Romance at make My Monday

My goodness we're at the end of the month of May already. I'm sure the years get shorter! Anyhow it's time for a new challenge at Make My Monday.
 

This fortnight the challenge is Victorian Romance chosen by Caz. I have used an image from Lunagirl, and created my topper in Craft Artist. I thought the idea of cats getting married was rather sweet!

Cardz 4 Guyz - Favourite Colour Combo

I have to confess that I don't really have a favourite colour combo as it depends on who I am making the card for and also the mood I'm in!  But I am quite partial to red, white and blue for male cards.

So this is what I used for this week's new challenge over at Cardz 4 Guyz. The papers are from an old Simon Says Stamp kit which I thought worked beautifully with the SU stamp. There's lots more inspiration over at the challenge blog from my teamies. I look forward to seeing what you make.

Quirky Mid Month Reminder

Today I'm here with a mid month reminder for Quirky Crafts "Going for a Song" challenge.

 Ike's Art is offering a $10 voucher as a prize for this months challenge and Delicious Doodles is also offering some digital images from her Etsy Store. These prizes will be awarded to the best entries of the challenge, as judged by the Design Team Members.

This time I have used an image from Ike's Art - Rose Garden.

The song, of course, is "I Never Promised you a Rose Garden" I coloured the image with Spectrum Noir pencils on a digitally created background.

Sugar and Spice at Make My Monday.

The challenge at Make My Monday has been chosen by Sian and is Sugar (sweet and cute) and Spice (hot and spicy). the choice is yours! I went for sugar - mainly because I don't get a lot of opportunity to use my cute stamps. They don't go down very well with grown up sons.

The stamp I used is from Little Claire, in the days when they ran a monthly club. I think I've only used it to make the club card, so it was a good opportunity to ink it up again.I've coloured it with Copics in colours to go with the paper which is out of my large stash of 6 x 6 papers.

Less is More - Yellow and Grey

This week the ladies at Less is More are asking for yellow and grey. It's quite a while since I joined in but as soon as I saw it I knew I had some cards left over from a Simon Says kit that would fit the bill.

I chose one that was definitely yellow and grey rather than yellow and black. The yellow is quite subtle though. I cut it with a Spellbinders dexkle edge rectangle die then mounted it on a small scalloped rectangle. To add a bit of interest I used my new Penny Black border die around the edge of the card blank.