Texture

I am doing this as a scheduled post for Sunday morning, I am sitting here yawning heavily, its been a very long day and am ready to go to bed
Today my daughter competed in her state Championship and I am a proud Mum not of only the way she danced but how graceful she is. This is her 15th year of Irish Dancing as she started just before she turned five, I did not think she would continue dancing for this long as she has battled injuries and broken bones all for the love of dance I often wonder why she continues to put herself threw this pain and sometimes disappointment, so now as this day has past she will now work towards the Australian Championships

All the Celtic knot work she designed herself  

Well onto my card for this weeks challenge at Magnolia down Under, we would like you to add texture I chose to emboss as I agonized over some other concepts this is what worked for me.
the concept of my card is not my own I found it over at Debbie's blog

I love this concept and will be making more of these cards

well off to bed now 

Don't forget to drop on over to Magnolia down Under and check out everyone Else's beautiful cards

have a great week  ahead.

Traveling

This year has travelled along very fast and here I am releasing another two more collections
Vintage Travel and Christmas collection next month we are working with Practical Publishing and offering you some free papers of the Travel Collection in their magazine Scrapbook Ideas and again in November for Simply Cards of the Christmas Collection.
I am very excited to be able to share these with you like this, but if you cant wait until then pay a visit to Megs Garden and they are all on offer, as well as previous Collections.

Travel

Christmas

Rose's

Another quick post for today have a lots of fun making this ensemble this card comes with a matching box and will be a class in the next newsletter

using papers and a strip from the Couture Collection

Beautiful Mushrooms

A knew Challenge at TOMIC this week is Re-Cycle, what can I recycle that is not in the recycle bin already? Taking inspiration from Kylie I took out a nearly empty packet from the cupboard and will have the last soup for lunch today. I glued the packet label side together and run it threw the big shot and cut out the birdcage or in this case its a butterfly cage

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inked it up and sprayed it with glimmer mist

I wanted my mushrooms to match the knew paper range Travel
I would also like to enter this card into stamp with fun Challenge summer
and copic creations use blue green

Great Finds

The past two weekends we have been blessed with a little bit of sunshine. My husband and I took a lovely coastal drive to the port markets and the following weekend with my Mum and Brother visited a local market looking for somewhere to sell my cards on the way home we came across a second hand shop.
After fossicing around for a while, was just about to leave when I came across another great find, am very pleased with my little treasures.

 set of three bowls I couldn't resist as I collect Burgundy and white China

  Early 20th century Kodak Pocket camera.... don't you love technology. What fascinates me is the combination of simplicity and intricacy

Rock around the Clock

My clock is inspired by the old song from Bill Haley and the Comets it was a old song when I was growing up but just loved it.Whilst at the fair on the weekend Jane Tregenza had a display on altered records which just got my creative thoughts a going. Thought it would fit well for this weeks challenge at Magnolia down Under
be inspired by a song.
so popped into a second hand shop and bought this old record for a dollar didn't originally plan to make it into a clock.

You have to go and check out all the cards at MDUC, its fascinating what everyone comes up with
well have a great week ahead.

Masking

Yeah finally got my card posted finnished my card on Tuesday.
Its been raining all week with very little sunlight shining threw the windows very dull and cold inside making photos of cards a little hard
over at TOMIC the challenge is to mask your images I have masked about 3 times I wanted to use the colour yellow on my cards this time.

The Tilda with mushroom image is cut from a spell binder label I cut into images before I cut the label out
The chipboard are from Dusty Attic and the butterfly is a B Line stamp
will be back again on Sunday for the Challenge at Magnolia Down Under.

Burnt Out

Not sure what to write, its two days before our paper craft Fair at Marion Leisure Center. I have been working on our display, and the make and takes.
Charlotte asked me to come up with a make and take eventually I was happy with my result a tag, After creating all my other displays, I was feeling a little burnt out and knew I had to have this finished by Wednesday because I had a couple of long shifts at work coming up, finally we are now all set and excited for Sunday
Here is some examples of  my display,will be able to post later our stall how it looks

these little mushrooms are very special how great are they, my mum made them for me to compliment my papers together on Tuesday we arranged them and turned them into these little delights. its been a very long time since Mum and I sat down and crafted together we had a lovely time hence I am going to make a effort  to do it more often.

 I had to go visit fellow Magnolia Teamie for some inspiration  Anne she does lovely tags worth a visit