Nostalgia upcycled

Woohoo,  the first challenge for the start of the fifth year for 'If you give a crafter a cookie' .  Thanks to everyone who joined in on our 4th anniversary Challenge. Now for this challenge, the inspiration:  and the challenge sponser is: Fabrika Fantasy And I have used one of their pre-coloured images for one of my boys school friends birthday,  She will love this brightly coloured card.   here are a couple of little extra photos.    Now remember to p lease pop over the 'If you give a crafter a cookie' challenge blog  and check out my teamies creations.   Remember the challegne is open for 2 weeks.  Happy crafting J

Time for the September reminder for our ' Lets Craft and Create ' challenge  Challenge #140 - ATG with an option Best Friends Thanks to everyone that took part in our last challenge...  #140 - ANYTHING GOES - Optional Lots of Layers. Team 2's inspirational l creations are now available to check out for Challenge 141 Remember this is another chance to win a fabulous prize, simply enter your creations at the link provided at Lets Craft and Create. And now for my creation for this month I have made a friendship card. Lots of layers and glits.   I matted a couple of the flowers cutout and added them to the card I look forward to seeing your creations. Happy crafting J

Time for the reminder for our September challenge from DO-AL (l) creatives:  My choice from the bingo board for the reminder is: Butterflies, Stamp and flowers and this time a layout:  Just to reminder you here is the Bingo baord for this challenge.  to play select any three boxes in a line and let your imagination run wild.   Now a few more close ups of my layout:  I use a stampin up image with a butterfly, as part of my background layering.  The background I built up using,  stencilling, stamping and 2 different papers  I layers flowers on to the flower images within the paper to give the layout some depth.   Yep,  I used lots of glitter and beads in the layout as well.  This photo is from the 2015 Autumn escape crafting weekend with the girl.   A great time had by all.   I am looking forward to see your creations.  happy crafting J

4th Anniversary Celebration Challenge for 'If you give a crafter a cookie' .  Congratulatuion to the team and in particular to  Deanne, our amazing team lead and challenge co-ordinator.  Now for this very special occassion we have an amazing list of sponsors  Imagine That!  Digistamps   My Besties   Pattie’s Creations   Little Blue Button   The Cutting Café   Bugaboo   A Day For Daisies   Beccy’s Place   Fred She Said   Elisabeth Bell   All Dressed Up   Cute As A Button   Lemon Shortbread   Fabrika Fantasy  Please pop by to 'If you give a crafter a cookie' to check out the prizes for this challenge.  Now for my creations.  My first one is using one of my favourite images from Pattie’s Creations   , with which I have created a journal page Now for a closer look.                                     I fussy cut the image and placed it on the journal page using foam tape.  I hope you like it.  And now

It is the first day of spring here in New Zealand  and I am so looking forward to a long hot summer.  Time for a new challenge from DO-AL (l) creatives: T his month it is Bingo.  And the board:  to play select any three boxes in a line.  My choice for this challenge was: Dies/Punches - Pink- Flowers And I made a 'Thank you' card  I used my favourite Stampin up -  butterfly punch and a Martha Stewart Leaf punch  Don't forget to have a look at my teamie creations  and I look forward to seeing what you select from the bingo card.  Happy Crafting J