Blog Giveaway at 'The Stamping Queen'

Barb at The Stamping Queen is generously giving away a clear set of stamps by Debra Cooper this month. All you need to do is leave a comment there and link your blog to hers... AND it's open world-wide!!! So pop over to Barb's for a visit, you never know what might happen!

Treasures of the Heart

'Room 3'

Oooo, just getting this posted in time for the first ever challenge at Creative Wednesday, to make a row house. It's also a piece I've made for the Layers of Color challenge - their theme is buttons. The clock is by Hero Arts. AND it fits the Mixed Media Monday theme of numbers!!!

It's a symbolic school room made from the little bits 'n bobs found on my art table last night. All the elements are tied and buttoned up securely with faith and love!

Wheels - MAMOT

Wheels is the current theme at Make A Moo Or Two. The tricycle is by Lucy's Stamps and I've also used part of an image by Oxford Impressions (Country Girl), then I've used an odd assortment of itty-bitty scraps - I can't waste anything it seems ;D

We can take 'wheels' for granted, as I discovered on the weekend, when my friend Michelle's car died in the middle of a dual highway, between two islands!!! We were on our way home from the big smoke, after having a lovely visit with the Roebucks. Anyway, to cut a long story short, the car stopped right in front of a petrol station aptly named Yule Do!!! We both firmly believe that the Lord was looking after us, as we could have broken down in a much more remote part of the highway, where we had no mobile reception. Michelle's husband answered our distress call and in the end we made it home safe and sound (thanks Trent).

Give me pedal power anyday... ah yes, I am joking!

Blog Award

Sephi and Debbi have MADE MY DAY and nominated me for the 'I Love Your Blog Award'!
The rules for the award are - (1) The winner can put the logo on their blog. (2) Link the person you received your award from. (3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs. (4) Put links of those on yours. (5) Leave a message on the blogs of the girls or boys you’ve nominated.
So I take great pleasure in awarding the following girls with this award, as I trully *love* their blogs and visit them regularly! Viola, Sharon, Jacqui, Chris, Laura, Gillian & right back to Sephi and Debbi. Congratulations girls and a big thanks to Sephi and Debbi!

Stamp Something - Blue, Pink and Green

I'm entering the Stamp Something challenge for the first time. The challenge for the week is a colour challenge - blue, pink and green.

I've used October Afternoon papers and stamp, along with a vintage dictionary page and some hand stitching.

MMM - Thrinchies

Over at Mixed Media Monday the theme for the week has been 'Thrinchies'. I put this together this afternoon, so I'm only just getting this posted before the next theme commences! I knew I would enjoy creating a 3" x 3" piece... I really enjoyed making 'Twinchies' too. I'm yet to have-a-go at 'Inchies'.
I've just used bits that were sitting on my table from other projects to create this cute little collage... and the 'Truth' is I was remembering being '34'... I was on longer service leave for 7 months... and it was BLISS!
Main image is obviously Stampers Anonymous again. I've also used Stampington rubber to create the background.

Welcome to the world, Matilda!

'Matilda'

My friend Bronny became a Nanna again (Congratulations!!!) during the week to a gorgeous little baby girl, Matilda. I made this card today for Matilda and her parents, Paul and Alice.
As you can see, I was influenced by this weeks Layers of Color challenge to use 'yellow'. Papers are by Webster Pages and Daisy D's. Rubber is Stampers Anonymous (Tim Holtz) and Stampin' Up.

TMTA: Turquoise

'Seahorses'

I love the colour turquoise and just had to participate in this weeks challenge at Think Monday Think ATC. I put this together in the early hours this morning. The background is all fabric, a cute seahorse postage stamp, sequins and beads, tinsel and some machine stitching thrown in the mix. The starfish image is by Stampington - Shore Cliff Trim.

Schooldays MAMOT

'Star Pupil'

The theme this week at Make a Moo or Two is 'Schooldays'. Not quite what I planned to be thinking about over the weekend! Mind you my 'schooldays' have been very pleasant this term! I'm working with a wonderful bunch of kids!

All rubber is Oxford Impressions. Nothing but paper, ink and stamps on this moo - bit of a change for me!

Stamping With Found Objects

I've just discovered that I have some work in the latest issue of Stampers' Sampler (Aug/Sept '08). I've yet to see it in the flesh, but found some pic's here. It's a set of five ATC's (in the 'Noteworthy' section) and I stamped an assortment of found objects to create the backgrounds.

As per usual, I was in such a rush to get them in the mail, to beat the deadline, and forgot to take my own photographs :(

Have a great weekend everyone!

Destination & Discovery

Stamping & Papercraft Vol 13 No 9 'Destination & Discovery'

I'm finding it hard to make creative time at the moment, so I thought I'd share another Stamping & Papercraft piece. I love this collage stamp by Crafty Individuals and have used it numerous times.

I'm a bit behind in my blog reading and hope to catch up with everyone over the weekend!

For those interested...

If you would like to follow Simon, Karli and Oliver's journey and support them in prayer, then you can find them here.

Home

Hi everyone, I got back from Perth last night. It was a pretty busy time. I caught up with some good friends/family along the way, Shaz & Wayne and Jen & Darryn. Thanks for the warm and welcoming accommodation guys. I was also really blessed to spend time with Simon & Karli (Oliver's parents) and the adorable little man himself, Oliver.

I don't feel that it's my place, at this point, to go into too many details, but he is undergoing chemo treatment at the moment. They have been living at the hospital for over two weeks and are pretty tired. I'm amazed at S&K's strength and courage, but it is quite a burden to bear and very tough for them to see this gorgeous little boy in pain. Please keep upholding them in prayer.

In the post...

Oh, look at the lovely parcel of goodies I received yesterday from Chris Millar. I was very blessed to win her recent giveaway!!! Thanks so much Chris!!!!! It's so nice to have new treasures to play with.

I'm off to the big smoke for nearly a week... not sure if I'll be blogging...

I am hoping to have some huggles with Oliver, if he'll let me.

A request...

No pictures today, but a request for those who do, to pray for a sweet little fellow, Oliver (the son of a good friend of mine). He's only 8 months old and has just been diagnosed with cancer. I think he's commencing chemo treatment this week.

Layers of Color: Berries

The challenge at Layers of Color this week is 'Berries'. I love this Tin Can Mail raspberry alphabet stamp. The butterfly is Oxford Impressions and it's all combined with gorgeous paper from Daisy D's. A touch of fabric (can't help myself) and lace too!

I made it for a friend's birthday - can't say who, just yet!

It's been a wet and stormy couple of days in my part of the world. We lost power for most of yesterday, hence I didn't get to blog. Hope you're warm and cosy in your part of the world.

'Memories'

Not the best picture, not enough daylight here today! This is the piece I had published in a gallery section of Sew Somerset Summer 2008. It's called 'Memories' and was made for my brother and SIL's 2nd wedding anniversay. I was so excited when I found out it was going to be published! I still can't quite believe it's in there.

Faith Hope Love

As seen in Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft Vol 13 No 10.

This is one of my more current published projects (a favourite of mine), published last month. I *love* Daisy D's papers and the ARTchix images are so sweet!

Happy birthday, Trevlyn!

May your day be blessed with faith, hope and love!!!

ATC's Red

These are heading to Melinda and Robyn for this month's ATC swap - the theme is 'red'. Stamped images are from Stampington and Hero Arts.

I had a lovely visit from Sean & Graeme today. Sean and I played for a bit, I even managed to get him to have a nap.

I heading back to volleyball tonight, having not played for five weeks, because of the flu. I'm not feeling to confident! Hopefully my team members will be gentle with me.

Here's the DIRT!

I'm trying to post every day this week... a little challenge I've set myself. I did want to make it an arty post each time, but today I've been working on what will hopefully be a magazine project, so there's nothing arty to show, yet! Maybe tomorrow!

My sister-in-law emailed these to me today and I just had to share them.

Sean had been playing happily on the lawn... but then discovered the garden bed! What a cheeky fella! All good for the immune system and lots of fun too!