Week 2: Do You Stack Up? Challenge - Distressing

Ok I have never been so pleased to be BACK from a holiday!  We just came back from Brisbane yesterday.  We narrowly escaped being stuck in two places by severe flooding and I am SO grateful to be home, back in Karratha, despite it's high temperature of 39 degrees celcius and with Cyclone Vince heading towards us! 

It was heartbreaking being in Queensland surrounded by people who are losing so much.  Talking to people there and watching the news clips was heart wrenching.  At one point we were stuck with no way of getting back to our hotel, the only road south was closed due to flooding.  We were able to get through later when they opened the north bound side of the carriageway it was frightening to see the other side was covered in up to a metre of water and it was VERY fast flowing under the bit of road we were on.  I don't know how much longer that road remained open, we were so glad to have decided to go for it and get through before it was closed again.  We made it into Brisbane and then out early the next day before it got really bad in the city. Please say some prayers for the people in that area.

Now moving on, if you are here for the Do You Stack Up? Challenge then here we go.  This week marks the second Challenge from Do You Stack Up?  Today we are sponsored by Whoopsi Daisy

The winner will recieve two sheets of digital stamps.  They are so cute and very clear images to work with.  The design team were lucky enough to be given some stamps to play with and I chose this cute Christmas stamp of two little cuties waiting patiently to get a glimpse of Santa - too bad they fell asleep heh!? 

Our challenge this week is:

Distressing 

I have sanded and inked up the edges and on the image and the 'wallpaper', I used my finger nail to curl up the edges. 

Also got a lot of dimension going on this week!

What are you waiting for! Scoot on over to DYSU and see what the other girls have created and get crafting!

Baby Thanks

My friend Martine and I made 30 of these cute little elephant baby gift thank you cards for a friend who is heavily pregnant and at the time of posting may well have given birth!

Sorry about the bad picture, in fact there almost wasn't one as I almost forgot to take the picture!

If you haven't done so already remember to head on over to the DYSU blog to take part in the challenge this week!

Week 1: Do You Stack Up? Challenge - Buttons

Welcome to the very first challenge for the brand new Do You Stack Up Challenge Blog!  Drum Roll please!  We have heaps of prizes up for offer this week due to the fact that we have heaps of sponsors for the opening week!!  All the DT cards were made using images from Di's Digi Downloads.  There are heaps of cute images there so head over and check them out.

Our challenge this week was:

Buttons

I made a card and Pillow Box using Poorly Pup.  Thought you could stuff the box with tissues, throat lozenges, Lemsips and other useful 'gettting better' items!

I lightly dry embossed the background with pretty flowers.  I used some of my new buttons from Stampin Up on both projects.

I added some dimensional magic (glossy accents) to his nose and the thermometer. The sentiment is computer generated.

And here is the little pillow box, I used a template downloaded for free from the internet here.

Here they are together.

Thanks for looking, now hop on over to DYSU to add your buttoned up beauty to the list!

Happy Birthday Mum!

Made this card for my Mother-in-law's birthday, hope it arrived on time!  I used the Mojo Monday sketch from last week, but I didn't want to post it then in case she sneaked on here to have a peek!  Happy Birthday Terry!

Have a great day and remember to check back tomorrow for the first DYSU challenge.

T-shirt Gifts

Happy New Year everyone!

Just thought I'd share some gifts I made for some special little people before Christmas.

Finally found some appropriate ric rac! Love this design!

Have a lovely day!