iSpy #51

 iSpy #51

Every week, Lysha puts up a photographic challenge with prompts for us to look out for, then we share on Lysha's Saturday (my Sunday).  It's always wonderful to see how people are inspired.

This week the prompts were: Backyard, Front of house, Selfie, Your choice, Your choice.

Backyard:  

Front of house:  

Selfie:  What you see is what you get, sunburned nose and all!

Your choice:  We four Quilty Girls are all doing the "12 days of Christmas"  set with embroidery on wool felt.  So far I have finished the day 8 "Maid a-milking", so still four figures to go.  Maybe by next Christmas...

Your Choice: Christmas day it was  more than 30 deg in the shade, so we moved 3 tables out under the trees as it was cooler there than inside or on the deck.  Three of our kids, their spouses and six grandchildren got together.  Unfortunately one of our daughters and her family were unable to make it.  We will catch up with her later in the new year.

Check out the offerings this week, here: ispy-51    

Summer Christmas

 

Yes, we have a summer Christmas and here it was over 30 deg C in the shade yesterday.  Luckily we were warned so we set up three tables joined together outside under the trees and it was fabulous - still hot, but a lot cooler than on the deck or inside.  Today is boxing day and already (at 9.00am) looks like a scorcher.

I love heat embossing - it was one of the first techniques I learned and the magic still happens.  This time I used white EP on the tree and gold EP for the senti, sponged over with Distress Inks, then misted and splotted with perfect pearls mist.  I then sponged over the tree and sun to make it stand out from the background, and inked the edges.

Stamp:    Stampit

Senti stamp:  magazine freebie

Also: DInks, WoS on stars, Perfect pearls

Shared on challenges:

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It is curved and fits with lots of Christmas images

There were 14 of us here for Christmas day, sadly one daughter and her family were unable to make it.  So three of our kids, their spouses, and six grandchildren.  Afterwards we played games - in the shade! Some of the kids had a swim.

Be Naughty

 

I like this distressed tartan paper and thought it was good for a masculine card for my special person.

Image & Senti: Bugaboo    

Paper: Digital Scrapbook

Also: Copics, Kindyglitz

Shared on challenges:

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House Mouse Tagging

 House Mouse:  Anything goes with optional snow/glitter

The background is sponged with clouds and sprinkled randomly with glittery embossing powder.  The stars are dropouts from the same border die, but cut from heavy matt silver card.

Image: House Mouse/Stampendous

Die & drop-out stars:

Glittery washi tape

Also: Copics, Distress Inks, Sparkly EP

Shared on challenges:

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Eeeeekkkkk!!! Welcome back House-Mouse FANS!

We have more fabulous inspiration to share with you as a reminder to join our current 

# 355 ANYTHING GOES with the option theme of   Snow and / Or Glitter

Hosted by our Talented Teamie KARIN

Please use any House-Mouse, Happy Hopper or Gruffie image so join the fun!  

Generously Sponsored  by;

SIMON SAYS STAMP

Winner will receive a RANDOM ASSORTMENT of Premium Dye Ink Pads

We  welcome back our  Second Generous Sponsor

STAMPENDOUS!

The winner will be given a fabulous set of Mini Clear Stamps!

Assortment may vary.

THE DESIGN TEAM HAS 2  ADDITIONAL PRIZES FOR 2 LUCKY PLAYERS

1.  Cure All Tea 

2. Mousse Mice

Join in the fun, here: housemouse-challenge

iSpy #50

 iSpy #50  Photographic Challenge

Every week, Lysha puts up a photographic challenge with prompts for us to look out for, then we share on Lysha's Saturday (my Sunday).  It's always wonderful to see how people are inspired.

This week the prompts were: Color Pink, Package, Starts with S, the end, your choice.

PINK: I tipped out my bag of pink beads.  Oops, how did those blue ones sneak in there?

and another PINK: the last of the rhododenrun

Package:  This scurrying oystercatcher has a little package in its beak it is taking back to it's mate.  I think it's a pod of some kind.  Taken on my phone while we were at the beach for an overnighter with friends on Wednesday.  This is taken at Whitianga, a popular summer destination.

Starts withS: seashore.  Also taken while we had a couple of days away this week in the Coromandel Peninsula.  This is a place called Matarangi.  The shore has been planted to provide habitat.

The end:  The end of the day.  Our backyard looking west.

Your choice: Jingle bells!  The decorations up the stairs.

Check out the selection inspired by the prompts, here:   ispy-50                   

Wishing You

 

I like the simplicity and punch of this CAS card.

Stamp: Magazine freebie (Practical Publishing)

Also: ribbon, gold pen splatter

Shared on challenges:

thehousethatstampsbuilt-D1521- Christmas Words

CRAFT-622-christmas-last-stretch

creativeknockouts-432-tis-season

kraftychicks-590-cas

aaacards-205-christmas-opt-twist

dare2bartzy-Clean & Simple

welovestamping-december-anything-goes-with-cas

simonsaysstampwednesday-simon-says-bling-it-on

asyoulikeit-favourite-christmas-sentiment-and-why it is complete and says it all while still having the imagery of the tree.

Party Pup

 

At the Crafters Cafe this time the challenge is to USE FAVOURITES - COLOURS, TECHNIQUES, SUPPLIES ETC (and tell us what they are).  Check out the inspiration and join us here:

Thanks to our sponsor Scribbles for this cool image, get it here:

My favourites are nearly all on this card - a simple design, the colours (red & blue), diecutting, dry embossing & sanding, animals, colouring and a little bit of sparkle.  I stacked the oval diecut 4 layers high.

Image: Scribbles

Oval die: Spellbinders

Wavy Die: Uniquely Creative

EF, sanded: Cuttlebug

Sentiment: Digital Scrapbook

Also: Copics, Kindyglitz, bow, gold thread

Shared on challenges:

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allsorts-654-wings-andor-tails

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Merry Weave

 

I had fun making this from scrappy strips and snippets of patterned papers.  The weave is placed under the diecut tree.

Die (negative):  magazine freebie

Tag die: cuttlebug

Senti stamp:

Also: stick-on metal star and baubles, sparkly twine

Shared on challenges:

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kraftychicks-589-week-2 Christmas

asyoulikeit-/favourite-christmas-embellishment-why sparkly twine is unexpected

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iSpy #49

 iSpy #49

Every week, Lysha puts up a photographic challenge with prompts for us to look out for, then we share on Lysha's Saturday (my Sunday).  It's always wonderful to see how people are inspired.

This week the prompts were:  Sparkles, starts with J, Lit, Used, Your choice.

Sparkles: it's the obvious one I know, but I love the sparkly bit of Christmas.

Starts with "J": Our grandson Jackson helping to unload stones for mulching the garden.  Because we rely on rainwater collection for our water supply, we have made water-minimal gardens which seems to work well.  The vege garden is in the background.  The big fence is to keep rabbits and pukeko out.

Lit: Another Christmas pic.  The Christmas arrangement on our dining table.

Used: a well-used flatiron (haha, but not by me!).  The only ironing I do is for sewing & quilting.

Own choice:  This is Mr Quail sitting on my rotary clothesline.  I took it this morning.  SO far he has been sitting there calling for over an hour!

Check out what others have been inspired to photograph this week, here:  ispy-49

Bauble Orange

 

Every now and then, I make myself use colours I either don't like, or hardly ever use.  And I like to use my dies to create - what could be more simple than a circle?

This is one of those.  I find orange difficult, but thought it made a great bauble with the turquoise.  I made the bauble using a circle die and just snipping a gold finial on the top from corrugated card.  I like the  simple shapes with the dramatic non-trad colours.  These are joyful colours!

Circle die: Spellbinders

Stacked Joy die: Couture Creations

Also:  WinkofStella

Shared on challenges:

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kraftychicks-589-week-2-christmas

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stay-crafty-with-hero-arts-30-circles

rabiscochallenge-december-20-AG/non-trad Christmascolours gold thread

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Vintage Type

 

I am pleased to be guest designer for Let's Squash It challenges, look here for details: letssquashit-15-its-your-call

The challenge is to use any EF plus any technique you've tried recently.

This is a technique that I found from Jennifer McGuire, here: youtube   It is called the Filled Embossing Folder technique and uses pastes to fill in the indented part of the EF.

I used a basketweave folder and glitter paste on black card for some glamour.  Below you can see how it looks before pasting.   What a great way to get more mileage from your EFs.

Embossed Stamp & Die: Dienamics 

Sentiment: Dienamics

EF: We R Memory Keepers 'woven'

Paste: Cosmic Shimmer Glitter Kiss

Also: gold halfballs, and a pearlescent blue base card.

Shared on challenges:

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Trees in Threes

 

This is made for our NZ cardswap group that had to be "threes" .  Any kind of threes.

So I made 3 trees, 3 panels, 3 snowflakes and 3 sentiment words.

Trees die: Couture Creations

Snowflakes: Impression Obsession

Senti stamp (embossed): magazine freebie

square die: Nellies

Also: Stickles

Shared on challenges:

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HM Bauble mouse

 

House mouse is anything goes with optional snow/glitter.

Image: House Mouse/Stampendous

Die:

Also: Copics, glitter card, cord, beads, Glossy Accents glittered.

Shared on challenges:

wednesday/simon-says-happy-holidays-christmas

thehousethatstampsbuilt-d121-christmas-non-traditional-colors/

kraftychicks-588-week-1

asyoulikeitchallenge-favourite-christmas-embellishment-why  metallic cord because it looks so luxury and special

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scrapping4fun-206-winter-christmas

allsortschallengek-653-use-die

crafterscastle-48-anythinggoes

ikesworld-151-anythinggoes/furorfeathers

Eeeeekkkkk!!! Welcome back House-Mouse FANS!

We are here with a new challenge for you lasting  4 wks. 

# 355 Anything Goes with the option theme of Snow and/or Glitter

hosted by our Talented Teamie KARIN

Please use  a House-MouseDesigns^(R)

House-Mouse Friends /Happy Hoppers, or, Gruffies image stamped/decoupage or CD rom.

We are  Generously Sponsored by

SIMON SAYS STAMP

Winner will receive a RANDOM ASSORTMENT of Premium Dye Ink Pads

 it’s always good timing to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp store!

Our  Second Generous SPONSOR

STAMPENDOUS!

The winner will be given a fabulous set of Mini Clear Stamps!  Assortment may vary.

Surprise Third Sponsor 

THE DESIGN TEAM HAS 2  ADDITIONAL PRIZES FOR 2 LUCKY PLAYERS

1.  Cure All Tea 

2. Mousse Mice

JOIN in the challenge, here: housemouse-challenge