The Crafty Nomad Little Lady Freebie Challenge

Wow that was a mouthful!  I'm going to be away from the blog for a couple of weeks so I thought I'd post a freebie digital image and a challenge to go with it. 

A couple of years ago I wanted a stamp to go on the back of my cards with Made by 'me' and my email address on too with a little lady like the Stamping Bella ladies.  I contacted them but unfortunately they didn't do customisable stamps. 

So a dear friend of mine told me I should design my own.  I protested that I could not draw, but she encouraged me to have a go.  So I did and well this is what I came up with.  It was meant to represent me (Ha - notice the big behind!!!) I digress!  I got it made into a little stamp with the text I wanted and a big single stamp.  But I just realised I still have this as a jpeg.  And as I have been using a lot of digital stamps lately it occurred to me that this is exactly that!

I made this card with this little lady quite a while ago.

And so onto the freebie and the challenge.

[edited: Picture removed - thanks to those who took part - For those who missed out - the little lady is available to buy here or here]

To take part in the challenge I'd like you to create a card using this little lady and post it using Inlinkz below for us all to see.  As this is my first and probably, only challenge PLEASE make sure I get more than one entry - that would be embarassing!!!   Feel free to combine this with other challenges. 

The challenge will close on the 16th August which gives you plenty of time.  So what are you waiting for!!  I'm thinking there should be some sort of prize......hmmm......

From Trash to Treasure!

I love the blog: How About Orange! There is always fun stuff on there.  Last week Jessica had a tutorial for making your own gift bags from newspapers.  They looked funky and what a great form of recycling.  As we currently live in a town with no recycling facilities, this appealed to me.  I had been hanging onto a mailorder catalogue from a UK company called Joules because it was no ordinary catalogue!  It had these really funky pages interspersed throughout it, a bit like magazine pages.  And so I decided to make a mini gift bag with one of them.  It measures 3 inches tall by about 2.5 wide and an inch deep.   If you decide to give it a go, I would advise setting your eyelets before you fold it and glue it together!

Thought it was quite apt that on the reverse side of the bag it has the word 'Upcycling'.  My daughter decided it would be good for Easter!

Have a great day today!

Busy Busy Busy

I AM busy crafting [promise] but nothing I can share at the mo! Sorry!  But I was excited yesterday as I recieved an order from Unity!! Check out these lovely lovely stamps!!  And some were as cheap as $4 in their sale.  Don't you just love that packaging! 

Check out the store here and the blog here. Quite often they have sales for blog readers with a discount code to put it.  I joined their kit club as it gives big savings.  The stamps are wonderful quality too! I should be on commission!!!

Little Mermaid

Oh my goodness I was sorely disappointed when I realised I had missed the deadline for the Everything But the Kitchen Sink 'Aluminium Foil' Challenge, as I was half way through making it.  Oh well here it is anyway! 

All images are freebie digitals (again! - you see, who says I can't budget!!).  The mermaid is from Pollycraft, the background and sentiment are from Meljen's.  I started by sticking some foil onto some card stock and printing the mermaid image twice onto the cardstock, once on the white part and once to come out on the foil. 

I heat treated the ink to help it dry - still not sure that has actually worked though!  I carefully cut the tail and bikini top out and stuck them onto the white image, then coloured her in.  [I wish I'd coloured her in first as the ink on the foil ran when the blender pens touched it - and so now she looks like she has a muddy tummy!!].  Then I cut her out and put her aside until the rest of the card was ready.  For the second piece of foil, I covered a piece of cardstock, the right size, with some foil and then put it through the Big Shot using this big spots embossing folder, the card helps the foil retain it's embossed image.

Here is a close up:

I used the current sketch from 2 sketches 4 you, just rotated it 90 degrees.  This is also for the 'Flash your Freebies' challenge at Tales from Pollycraft and I thought I might pop it in for the challenge at the Pollycraft Challenge Blog which is Bold and Bright. And seeing as I have some Meljen's images in there are has lots of circles on it it is also being entered for their weekly challenge of using circles. It's also in for the embossing challenge at KL Stampin and Scrappin.  Almost forgot! The main reason for picking the mermaid image was for the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge!

Just in case you missed it, I had a clear out of stamps and am selling some.  You can read about it here.  There is also a picture and a link in the sidebar.

Have a wonderful day.

Pre-loved Stamps for Sale

I'm having a clear out of some stamps, some have hardly been used, some never! 

So here's the small print!

• Prices DON'T include postage.  If you're interested, email me with your address and I'll let you know how much postage would be. 
• I am happy to post Worldwide.
• Local girls are welcome to collect it or I can drop it off. 
• All payments by paypal - I'll invoice you.
• All prices are in Australian dollars.

1. Stampin Up - Fun and Fast Notes - Used and Loved - some staining - $20 SOLD
2. Stampin Up - Polka Dot - large background stamp - used a few times $15 SOLD
3. Stampin Up - Pick a Petal - only 3 out of 11 were ever used - $25 SOLD
4. Stamp It - Thanks from the Heart - Used lots - $3 SOLD
5. Art Gone Wild - Over the Hill - Brand New Never Used! - $5 (approx 3 x 5 inches) SOLD
6. Penny Black Stamps - Daisy Windows (Square flower stamp) - Used once or twice - $5 SOLD
7. Autumn Leaves - Clear journaling Stamps - Barely used - $10 SOLD
8. Kelly Panacci - Clear stamps - Stitched Borders - Barely Used - $6
9. Heidi Swapp - Family Clear Corners - Barely Used - $6
10. Autumn Leaves - Love stamp (single) - some staining - $2 SOLD

You can email me at jowestfoot (at) hotmail.com.