Three of a kind

My daughter is in Melbourne now and fingers crossed for tomorrow. 
Lets hope they can do the simple operation and she wont have to have a pacemaker.
Not of course that any operation is simple.
At least she got away this time lets hope there is no more ash problems this week so she
can get back as planned.


Less is more - sketch
What a lovely lot of cards already on display well done everyone.
Now you will know that I have been to see some of you but for some reason I can't leave comments on some blogs and that includes the Less is more one.
Chrissie and Mandi are doing such a wonderful job and I just want to let them know that.
Why Norton should let me comment on one blog and not another I really do not know.
However having got that off my chest onto this weeks card.

I just delved into my box of bits and found a piece of card the right size for a base.
One skinny piece of yellow and an off cut of copic paper.
The stamp is one that I got at a discount store
contains 12 flower stamps that would not stick onto the acrylic block.
I very nearly threw them away until I thought of my 2 way glue.
It works a treat.

Thanks for dropping by you are most welcome.



Margaret M

Penny Black Critter

 I thought it was time I took another  Penny black challenge
as I love my PB stamps.
PB Saturday challenge is celebrating their 3rd birthday so what better time to join in.
You will notice that I have used black AGAIN.
I must put my black card away and try something else.
Have had this little hedgie coloured up for some time now
and just had to use him.
Having said that I have no idea now what colours I used as my sticky note has gone that is if there was one in the first place.

This is for Penny Black Saturday challenge - Critters
Penny Black at Allsorts - Your favorite
They are all my favorites so what do you choose?

It is cold 14 degrees, windy and threatening rain here.

Hope it's better where you are.

  The bulbs are coming up and the Cootamundra Wattle is nearly out so roll on spring.

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Margaret M

In the Pink

For someone who says they don't like black I find I have been using a lot of it lately.
Must says though it certainly sets things off and is lovely with pink.
Thank you to Paola for giving us this colour I had a ball with it.

Have been through my stamps to find ones to put in the background.
Do have some Magnolia ones on order but was impatient to try out ones I already had.
It took me several goes before I got this right.
I tried the sky with DI Broken China this time.

She is coloured with my copics.

Skin E00 E11 R20

Hair E50 E53 YR20

Dress RV10 RV02

Petti and Lace Y00

Socks RV10

Shoes E93 E95

Greenery G21 YG11

Flowers RV34  plus black tombow

and to the white rose I touched the edges of the petals with RV02 and finished with crystal stickles.

Tilda has stickles on her lace and dimentional magic on her shoes.

I am entering this into

Magnolia-licious colour challenge  -  Pink

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Thank you also for your lovely comments.

Margaret M

 

Elegant

It is raining thank goodness as we so badly need it.
We had several quite mild days last week and the wattle is beginning to come into
full bloom so it felt like spring.

Now I must really hurry with this to catch the posting at House of cards.

House of Cards - Classic and Elegant

Margaret M

Dasies

I really should be in Sydney now but the flight was cancelled because of the

ash from the volcano in Chile in fact Quantas have not flown a plane in or out of

Tasmania for 3 days now.

Virgin are flying low or round the ash clouds and they have cleared their

original backlog of passengers.

The good news is that we can expect another cloud of ash

to pass over us next week.  More delays!!!!

Our youngest daughter was to have flown to Melbourne

on Monday for an operation that cannot be done here in Tassie but she too was stuck here.

The op has been put off until later in the month.

This is my card for this week at Less is More.

Sorry I didn't make it last week but wasn't feeling too chipper.

Had to lay on the floor to get this photo.  Getting down was easy but you should have seen me trying to get up. LOL

This is  a very much loved stamp that I have had for years.

I stamped it using black Brilliance and embossed it with Psychedelic powder

unfortunately you cannot see the sparkle.

I coloured it with my copics.

The script is some that I bought at a craft show it has lots of words that you can use

together or singly they fit on to a magnetic block and very easy to keep straight.

I have never ever seen them again so dont know if the company still exists.

Less is More- frame it one layer

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Margaret

Choose a square.

This is hard work with my internet going so slow.  Feel like I am really having to earn
my little space.
I wanted to put this on with my Magnolia- licious post but Picasa hid the photo.
This is so plain and simple yet I like it.

If I fall short of a few cards at Chrissy I will be making more of these.
This is a lovely corner stamp and I have added Dimensional magic to everything.
The berries also got a spot of star dust stickles.

Susan you will be pleased to note I used my Ott light when taking the photo.

This is for the Less is More - choose a square.

Thanks for dropping in you are most welcome.


Margaret M

Who it Tilda waiting for......

I am out of internet time so everything is on a go slow.
However I hope that I can get this posted.
Teemed Tilda with this stamp that I have had for years.
Of course she was coloured with my copics.
G82 G63 G21
Y00 Y02 Y11 Y17
R20 R22
RV34
W1 W3
C3 C5 C7
E00 E11 E31 E33
Have used the colour theme at Magnolia- licious and am quite happy with the way it has turned out.
I gues you know by now that I like clean lines and not too much tiss.

I am entering this in
Magnolia-licious -Colour challenge

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Margaret M

Too Pastel I wonder

I have followed the sketch on Just Magnolia and made this in pastels so
that I can enter the Papertake Weekly challenge too.

Still have trouble looking at my work from a distance so make the mistake of
not putting in enough contrast.
ie my flowers should have been cream and then they would have stood out more.

I really love this Tilda though she is not one of mine but was stamped out and sent to me
by another lovely blogger.

She was coloured with my copics but quite a while back and sorry the numbers I used
have been lost in the upheaval of moving my craft from one room to another.
Hey Ho still not enough room!!!!!!!!!


Entering this in:
Just Magnolia- Sketch
Papertake Weekly-Pale Pretty Pastels


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Thank you for all your kind comments.

Margaret. M

Butterflies

I am not a butterfly person myself, I just use the odd one here and there so this was not easy.

Found myself wondering just what I was going to do.

Then I remembered this Colour me paper that I had been given so decided to give it a go.

Not very well I might add.

Also attempted to use my Distress Inks that I am a complete novice at.

Would you believe the centre is Spun Sugar outside Tattered rose and the extreme edge Antique Linen.

I am such a pastel person though have not put enough colour on.

However the photo has taken a lot of the colour out it has more in real life.

There are also pale butterflies underneath the burgandy ones.

My photography leaves a lot to be desired doesn't it?

This is for Less is more-Butterflies.

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Thank you also for you kind comments.

Margaret

Black White and.......

 It was very hard to find a colour to go with Tilda this was the nearest I could get.

Against Green the dress looked Blue and against Blue the dress looked Green.

Unfortunately the photo does not show the true colour of the card it is sort of Aqua

coloured with my copics.

Hair E57 E35 E33 E31

Skin E00 E11 R20
Dress G000 G00
Petti and Socks RV10
Shoes E33 E31

I am entering this in
Magnolia-licious- Black White and 1 other colour.
Just Magnolia-  Lacey
Simon Says- Sparkle and Shine

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Thank you also for your most wecome comments.


Margaret

Dry Embossing

This was fun.
I dug out my Dreamweaver stencils, my light box,
my stencil brushes and my Fabrico ink pads and had a ball.
I just went around the outside of the card with my Y00 copic though it doesn't show up very well.
Neither does the fact that I embossed around the outside of the stencil which has depress around the Iris.
Sorry, found it very hard to get a good picture.

Here is a close up of the flowers.

Drat I gave one of the stems a bit too much colour put this down to the fact that it is a while since I did any stencilling. 

You need lots of small scraps of paper to slide under the stencil to keep the colours apart.

This was a brass stencil,  I don't think they make them brass anymore, but very easy to clean just a wipe over with a damp cloth when you use Fabrico.

This is my entry for Less is More- Embossing.

Thank goodness the sun has come out again this week as last week we were

really in the throes of winter with snow on the mountain.

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Thank you also for your lovely comments 

Mr Blogger must have like them too as he took some away with him. 

Naughty Boy!

Margaret  

I'm Back

 Began to despair that I would ever get back into my blog as for some reason

I couldn't sign in and although I have visited some of you I couldn't comment either.

Don't ask me how I got back in as I don't know and I will be staying signed in from now on.

My craft room is up and running and my new unit complete and filled to capacity.

 But of course 1 was not enough and I plan to get another.

I still have cupboards to empty of paper and more paper etc.

This is for Less is more- white on white

Despite the fact that my flowers look a little creamy they and the leaves are all made

from the same white shimmer paper.

I am also including in this post my entry for

Magnolia-licious Highlites- Sketch

Just Magnolia- Anything goes.

The papers are all Kaiser, the flowers Prima edged with diamond stickles and the punch is an EK Success.

Tilda was coloured with copics but have lost the list of colours.

The edges around Tilda have been sponged with Tattered Rose.

I am never quite sure how upright this Tilda should be. 

Thank you for dropping in you are most welcome.

Thank you also for your lovely comments.

Margaret