Wags n Whiskers!

Nikki Fairbairn and Lacey Stephens have joined forces from across the Atlantic Ocean to create their own Stamp Company called Wags ‘n Whiskers Rubber Stamps!!
Their images are super cute and are based on their wonderful children and their furry pets! Zoe and Danni are Nikki’s beautiful girls with their pets Gemma (the “fat” older cat in the logo) and Bella (Danni’s little kitten). Ansley is Lacey’s sweet daughter with her little Yorkshire Terrior (or Yorkie for short) named Princess. And Ryan is Lacey’s active son with his trusty doggie blanket named BoBo!

The images of their children are brought to life by the super talented Crissy Armstrong!! YEAH!!!

Hop on over to the blog as they have a blog hop coming up on 9th October and are also looking for a Guest Diva to join them.  So what are you waiting for????

Super Blog Candy!!

Hello all,

My good friend Dragonlady pointed this out to me so I felt I had to share it with you all.  If you pop on over to Heather's Blog you will see that she has some yummy candy to give away.  There are a few things you have to do and you have until 5th October to do them all.  So what are you waiting for - hop on over right now and have a look!

Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge Blog Candy

Hello everyone,
Just a quick post to let you all know that Peachy Keen have the most fabulous blog candy on offer.  Just either click here or click the link in my side bar to take you there and leave your comment and follow the rules. You have until October 23rd - so what are you waiting for??
You gotta be in it to win it!!!
GO!!

Dusting off the medallion!!

Hello everyone,
Well I got a bonus day today to do my craft.  The doc told me yesterday I had shingles but I could go to work.  However, because I work in a Hospital (not nursing) my boss wanted to wait for clearance from Occ Health - so couldn't go in today.  Feel a bit of a fraud but hey ho if they tell me to have a day off who am I to argue!! :)
Anyway, I thought I'd have a go at the Sophisticat challenge.  I was a bit daunted when I first saw it but when I saw that it didn't have to be a huge flower I thought I'd give it a go.
I also thought I would submit this for two other challenges:
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Black, white and 1 other colour
CRAFT challenge - No backing paper - boy that was hard to do!!  Good challenge guys!.
So here is the sketch from Sophisticat:

And here is the card I made.

Hopefully you can see that there are three layers here on the big design in the middle and that the two smaller designs are cut from the middle of the main medallion. (Now this wood mounted rubber stamp has been in my stash for ages, I can't remember where I bought it - possibly Hobbycraft - or whose make it is as I can't read the writing on the side of the stamp) I used my quickie glue pen and pale turquoise glitter (for my other colour) and picked out pieces to cover with glitter.  The white, black and turquoise brads are from my stash.  The sentiment is one from Janet at Pink Gem.

Sharon's Birthday Candy

Hi guys,
Sharon has a big birthday coming up and she has some fab candy to share with us.  Pop on over to Sharon's blog and have a look see.

Colours of Autumn

Hello everyone.
Well the weekend is nearly at a close - back to work tomorrow :(
My last post for this weekend will fit five challenges:
Friday Sketchers - Sketch to follow (with the option of distressing which I didn't do as it didn't fit this card)
Allsorts - Autumn Days
Digital Tuesday - Falling Leaves
My Time to Craft - Autumn Fest
Ooh-la-la Challenge - Shades of Autumn
So here is the sketch from Friday Sketchers:

And here is the card I made:

The image I used is called Baby Kai in the Leaves and is from Mo's Digital Pencil.  He is coloured using blending pencils, watercolours and Promarkers.  The brown backing paper is from Papermania, the multicoloured paper is printed from My Craft Studio - Florals and the pale green leaf paper (which you can't see very much of is from a Hot Off the Press book called Emerald.  The sentiment is a Clarity Stamp and the flower was from my stash.

Comments as always, greatly appreciated.

Peachy Keen

Hi everyone,
Now whilst I was blog hopping this afternoon I found the Peachy Keen challenge blog.  Their challenge for this time is to make something hanging.  It must feature something gold, some way to hang and a stamped image.
This is what I did:

I had some die cut scalloped circles but none the right colour.  So I drew around one of them and made two .  I used a stamped image from Barbara at Clarity Stamp - one I bought from the Hobbycraft show last November and hadn't yet used. 

I stamped the image and then embossed it with Fine Detail Gold Embossing Powder and I coloured the image using Promarkers and watercolour pencils.  I used gold stickles glue around the edges of the circle on both sides and placed a piece of gold ribbon in the middle before sticking the two circles together.  I may even hang this on my Christmas Tree this year!