PuRpLe

Kim, from Off the Wall Craftiness has just started a colour challenge.  It's Purple.

Click on either of these images to take you to her blog, and the rules. Here are the swatches.
Kim says she's not a big fan of purple.  I kinda like it. Have fun ;)

♫ Brown paper packages... ♪

A bit of blog love arrived in the letter box!  I was the lucky recipient of a card, in a giveaway that Kathy, over at Sweet Simplicitee, was having. It arrived in a padded envelope too, but look what was inside...complete with colour co-ordinating bakers twine no less ;)...

Isn't it lovely? Kathy has come to the rescue and let me share her piccie of it.  Let's just say I was having a bad day on the photography front :P  I reckon she's the queen of stamping, it looks so perfect.

I had this card set up on the railing of my back deck to take a piccie. A slight breeze was blowing. You guessed it.. off it went, wooshka.. down into the back yard.  I raced down after the precious paper and recovered it.  Was focussing in for another pic, muttering to myself that that couldn't *possibly* happen again...when, you guessed it, down she went.  The card was unscathed again, but I guess some of my neighbours think I'm a bit mad!!  What have you done in your crafty pursuits that has made your neighbours think you're crazy!?  :)

Keep Your Sunny Side Up!

Must stop looking at etsy..must stop looking at etsy..must stop...
Hope this brightens your day as you look at my wee bloggy today!  I had honestly never come across this little positive thinking sentiment before, but I just love it.
The lovely Christine, from ToTheMoonAndBack, has kindly agreed to let me share this wonderful graphic with you.
Oh, and if you would like to order a tshirt, sizes run a little small, so please check your measurements. You can order one here.

{Ta-da!!}

Here's my entry in the Embellish Color Trends Challenge with Hearts.  What do you think? It really *is* a bit of a challenge having to use certain colours, plus hearts.  I will be using that gorgeous teal colour again :)

The "Be Mine" swag is a digital stamp from Tiffany Doodles.  It's in her Sentiments range.  I had never used a digital item like this - but they're great.  Just download the item, do any colour changes, print on card, and trim.  Easy!

I went around the edges of the card stock with a Versa colour cube, in Bark.

I used my Martha Stewart Scallop Dot, Border edge punch.  Love it.

Anna's Craft Cupboard has these at a really great price btw ;)  The neutral/brown coloured card, is Botany.  This card stock has a recycled component, and is 230gsm in weight.  Plaza DJ really helped me out with that!  And I'm not on commission - honestly!  ;)

A behind the scenes look at the making of this card.  I gathered together any bits and pieces that might be useful, and just had a bit of a play around.  I was looking for anything I had for that amazing colour combination: Hot Pink, Deep Red, Teal, and Olive Green.  Yes, that's the "Marrtha Stoo-wart" border punch in the bottom right there ;)

Taking up the challenge

Just thought I'd let you know about this great card making challenge from Embellish Magazine.  I'm going to give it a go.  Love those colours - not sure if I have any teal items in my stash at the moment, but see how we go.
This is going to tick a few boxes too... I'll get a Valentines card made, I'll have another blog post *and* I'll have an entry in this challenge :)
You can find all the details here.

Princess and the Pea sandwiches

This was fun to make.  To get the effect of different "mattresses", I used a couple of types of bread - we don't have white bread here ;) I cut the crust off some of the edges.  As you can see, some I added sprinkles to, "glued" on with butter. 
The princess's dress was cut from a crust of bread, cheese for the face, carrot trimmed with a cookie cutter for a crown.  I just traced on a face with a toothpick dipped in some choccy sauce from the cupboard.
In between the layers is a little butter, but you could use any filling you like.

And what would be on the bottom mattress.. but a pea of course :)

The pink sprinkles you can see are "Fairy Dust" by Dollar Sweets. I found them at Coles.

Another close up look at that Fairy Dust.  Enjoy  :)