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Thursday, October 6, 2011

Southern Girls - Slugs, Snails and Puppy Dog's Tails

Hi Blogging Beauties,

I have actually stepped down form Southern Girls and this could be my very last post for them. Lou is having a baby literally now, so they asked if I can stay on a little bit longer until they sort out their DT call. So I get to participate in another challenge! This one is "Slugs, Snails and Puppy Dog's tails...to make a card for the men or boys in your life. I made this card for my brother Paddy. He turned 27 years old a few days ago. When we were little kids he used to have ferrets as pets. So when I saw this image of a ferret from Meljen's Designs I knew it would be perfect for him.

When he opened the card and had finished reading it he said "Cards make you feel so good dont they". Coming from a 27 year old male I was so happy with this comment...it was one of those rewarding moments when you feel like someone appreciates your work.

I coloured with the following Copics:

Browns: E47, E37, E35, E33, E31

Greens: G99, YG63

Outline: BG10

I also embossed the papers, because it was so clean and simple I thought the embossing might add a bit of interest. The brown paper already had stars on it and I embossed stars over the top.

Here is a picture of my brother on the night of his birthday with his gorgeous girlfriend Renae.

So what are you waiting for? Head on over to Southern Girls and link up your male card or project! There are great prizes to be won as always!

Alicia xx

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Southern Girls 1st Birthday Blog Hop

Good morning Blogging Beauties,

Today is a very exciting day! Southern Girls is one year old.

Can you believe it and what a fantastic year it has been with the support from all our wonderful sponsors, and to be on the best Design Team anyone could wish for.

In celebration of this, we have an amazing bloghop with some of our fantastic regular sponsors giving away fabulous prizes. You should have arrived from Lou's, if not, head back to www.southerngirlschallenges.blogspot.com where a full blog hop list is.

In my card I have used a cute little digi image from Simply Betty. He is called Tangled Jude and he is on special for $1.50. If you want him you can get him here. Our theme for the hop is birthday and my image looks a little more Christmassy I know....but I decided to make him into a birthday card for someone who has their birthday on Christmas day. A special birthday card with a Christmas theme. (I think it could be in my stash for awhile before he finds his next home, but I am okay with that because I like him. I think he is quite cute!!) Also for our theme you have to include layers. I made sure I had heaps and heaps of layers on my card.

There are loads of prizes to be won and each DT member on the blog hop has a prize to share.

My prize is from Simply Betty. She is giving away 3 digital images to one lucky lady who 1 - comments on my blog and 2 - enters the challenge at Southern Girls.

So, to recap.... the rules are simple, make sure you make a card and enter on Southern Girls Challenges, also leave me a comment, and on the 20^th of September I will draw a random name, that will win the three Simply Betty digital images.

Now you need to head over to Autumn's blog.

Thanks for stopping by my blog...dont forget to leave a comment and make your card!

You have a fortnight to get your entries in.

Enjoy the hop.

Alicia xx

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Southern Girls ~ Decade Challenge

Hi Blogging Beauties,

It's time for a new challenge at Southern Girls!!
The challenge starting today is to create a card/layout/project following the theme 'Decades' - whichever decade you choose, or how you interpret it, is down to you!! Can't wait to see what you come up with!

You are playing along for some amazing prizes and the Design Team has heaps of inspiration for you, check all the details out here.

I went for an 80's theme card.

So I was trying to think, fluro colours and denim.

I used a cool Kenny K image that I received for the challenge.

I havent used one of their images for ages and they are so much fun to colour!

The Copics I used were:

Skin: E02, E00, E11, R20

Greens: G14, YG11, YG03

Yellows: Y02, YG00, Y08

Blues: B97, B95, B93

Pinks: RV06, RV04, RV02

Greys: C-0, C-1

Outline: BG10

Alicia xx

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Southern Girls Challenge - Black, White + 1

Hi Blogging Beauties,

It is a new challenge at Southern Girls!

This fortnight our theme is Black, White + 1.

I went with black, white and pink with a parisian feel.

This card was a special order for a lady

who is treating herself to a trip to Paris for her 50th Birthday.

Wow!! How inspiring! Maybe when I turn 50 I might do something fantastic like this!

Do you like the flower I used?

It is from Manor House Creations. You can see their blog here.

I hope you play along with our challenge.

Head on over to Southern Girls to check out this fortnight's prizes and to see the Design Team's wonderful inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by,

Alicia xx

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Southern Girls Winter Inspiration Challenge

Hi Blogging Beauties,

Hooray! It is time for a new challenge at Southern Girls!

There is a photo this fortnight for inspiration and this is it...

It is a winter scene...so you have to use this picture as inspiration and make a wintery card!

Could be perfect for those motivated and organised card-makers who have started their Chrissie cards. (Sadly I am not one of them!)

We were given Meljen images for this challenge and I chose this cute mailbox snuggled up in a winter scarf. I coloured with Copics and these are the colours:

B00, B93, B12, B32, B23, B45, BV31, V12, C-1, C-0

Dont forget to check out my candies in the sidebar before you head off to enter your card at Southern Girls.

Thanks for dropping by and have a great day : )

Alicia xx

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Southern Girls Happy Birthday Challenge and Candy

Hi Blogging Beauties,

Welcome to another challenge at Southern Girls!!!! This week we want to see projects with a birthday theme. As always our challenge is open to all types of papercraft, scrapbooking, ATCs, cards, off the page..... if you make it with paper, we want to see it.

International Sponsor

NZ - Australia Sponsors

For my card I made this as a special order for a cousin to give her best friend.

All I seem to be making I special orders at the moment!!

This afternoon I am working on some dog cards.

Dont forget to enter my candy for the watercolour crayons here.

And the candy at Aussie Cards for Sale here.

Click here to enter the candy at Aussie Cards for Sale

I hope you have a lovely day today.

Thanks for stopping over at my blog.

Alicia xx

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Southern Girls ~ DT ~ Childhood Memories

Good morning Blogging Beauties,

Time for another challenge at Southern Girls, don't the weeks just fly by.
This is the first time I have submitted a LO for Southern Girls, but the theme "Childhood Memories" goes so well with a LO. I used the digi "Craft Artist" program to make me LO and yes, it is a picture of me back in 1980.
This week we want to see your projects featuring a "Childhood Memories" theme.
We have 2 sweet sponsors this challenge, thank you very much to Heather and Sammi for their support. Make sure and go and check out their websites and all the goodies they have for sale.

International Sponsor

Heather Ellis is an illustrator from England and she has the very sweet "Pure Innocence" images availble in her Web Shop and in her ETSY store. Easy to colour and totally cute, if you love images of children you will love these!

NZ - AUS Sponsor

Mad for Markers is an Australian based webstore selling Copic Markers in Australia and New Zealand. We are also happy to ship the wonderful Xpress GraphX blending Card overseas if people are interested. We LOVE Copic markers and want to help others to buy them and use them well :D

While I am on the baby theme I wanted to post a set of Baby girl cards I made awhile ago now. (This is not part of the Southern Girls Challenge - this is just me sharing some cards.)

We always sell out of baby girl cards first at my store Aussie Cards for Sale and are left with baby boy cards...I wonder why. These are all given away and sold by now. My favourite was the second card with bits of green. My Mum bought this card.

I have decided to step down from the Paper Play DT and Let's Ink it Up DT. It was a difficult decision to make, but I was just not finding enough time to keep up with so many cards.

Now I will just be focusing on Mad for Markers and Southern Girls and Aussie Cards for Sale.

I think that will be more realistic. Especially since Aussie Cards for Sale is keeping me very busy at the moment which is fantastic!!

I have a day of card-making ahead of me.

heaps of special orders to pump out so I better get on with it!

I hope you have a lovely day.

Alicia xx

P.S Dont forgot to enter my candy, click here.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Mother's Day Card - For a Super Mum!

Hi Blogging Beauties,

Anything Goes is the challenge this fortnight at Southern Girls. How easy is that!!

Link up your card here for great prizes from Simply Betty and The Stamp Fairy!

I made my card for my Mum for Mother's Day.

She loved this card.

I coloured with Copics:

Skin: E21, E00, R20, E02

Hair: YR68, R17, R59, E08, YR61, R37

Lips: R59, R37

Blue Dress: B00, B05, B02

I made these flowers with felt paper, kindy glitz and pearls.

The sad news is that Milly our goat had to be put down by the vets today.

Ben and I are devastated.

We dont know why she was sick. It has been a very traumatic day.

We planted a tree in her memory.

We loved her very much.

Alicia xx

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Southern Girls DT ~ Lace and Pearls and a LO (rare I know, but finally here!)

Hi Blogging Beauties,

The challenge over at Southern Girls this week is another girly theme, but this time it is about the embellishments, show us the frills of lace and polish ofpearls on your lovely creations this week.Thank you to our fabulous sponsors for this challenge, be sure to pop by their web stores and have a look around at the wonderful images they have to offer.

International Sponsor

New Zealand - Australia Sponsor

I made my card for my brother's girlfriend Renae, but it was for my Mum to give her. Mum loved the way it turned out. Also today I have a LO to share. This is a photo of my cousin Di with her newborn baby Ella. I am putting all my LOs that I like on a new page in my blog. You can see them here if you want to have a little sticky.

I hope you had a good day today. I have finished work for the week and have tomorrow off!! Yay!! Hope to catch up on lots of things.

Thanks for stopping by, I will post some more blog candy soon.

Alicia xx

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Southern Girls DT ~ Let's hear it for the Girls

Good morning Blogging Beauties,

It is the start of a new challenge over at Southern Girls: Let's hear it for the girls!

I made a very girly card for this challenge! It is a birthday card for my brother's girlfriend Renae. I love her to bits, she is the sweetest girl in the world.

Head on over here for details on prizes and more inspiration from our wonderful DT.

I am off to work today and going to make Mother's Day cards with the class I am on : Kinder/1/2.

Should be fun!

I hope you have a lovely day. Thanks for stopping by.

Alicia xx

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Southern Girls DT ~ Green and Blue Colour Challenge

This week we have a colour challenge for you at Southern Girls on your project we would like to see............
GREEN & BLUE
So crack out those green and blue colouring medims, papers and embellies and get creating people because we have another 3 awesome sponsors for this challenge.

International Sponsor

Meljen's Designs is a lovely stamp company owned and illustrated by Melissa Jenkins. She illustrates whimsical digital images inspired by her kids and family. The Meljen's Designs store officially launched on April 1 and is steadily growing! Meljen's Designs has new releases along with a new challenge every Thursday, freebies every Monday and a Guest Designer each month at the Meljen's Designs Blog. Please visit the Meljen's Designs line of stamps at the WHIMSY STAMPS STORE to browse and enjoy Melissa's wonderful images!

New Zealand - Australia Sponsors.....

Digital Delights

Welcome to Digital Delights, a magical place filled with little digi creations from all walks of life. We have a wide range of digital stamps and designer papers which are delivered straight to your email 24/7!
In addition we also have a growing range of "Delightful Piecings" which are paper pieced files designed to be used with your cutting machines or for hand cutting.
Fancy a new blog makeover, header or new watermark, then stop by our sister site Delightful Custom blogs.

Scrap Box NZ are pleased to be a sponsor of the Southern Girls Challenge. We are a family owned web business based in sunny Nelson, central in New Zealand to send out all your scrapbooking products. We stock leading brands and are the home of 99c Bazzill Basic cardstock. We stock over 250 colours across the bazzill range of basics, dotted swiss, bling, glazed and wedding cardstock.

Looking for something different then have a look around the shop and I'm sure you will find something of interest.. Maya Road Trinket Pins, Bakers Twine, Lasercut Chipboard, Glimmermist and Ribbon sold by the metre, are among some of the best selling products, along with a huge selection of papers. If there is something you are after and can't find, get in touch with fiona@scrapboxnz.com and I will see if I can source that product for you.

I love my cute little dragon...he is so cute! He is from Digital Delights.

Can't wait to see your projects!

Link them up here at Southern Girls.

Alicia xx

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Southern Girls DT ~ Sketch

Goodmorning Blogging Beauties,

This week at Southern Girls, we have a sketch for you. You can rotate it, flip it, reverse it and resize it, as long as we can recognize our sketch, which was created by our very own Trace Jackson, then you are good to go! And here is the little beauty for you.....

And we have 3 awesome sponsors this week too, please welcome.........

International Sponsor

If you are searching for cute, whimsy digistamps - you have come to the right place! Everything you can find on this site has been hand - and mousemade with love and lots of creativity.

NZ/AUS Sponsor

Sassy Cheryl's offers new, exciting children's illustrations, art and digital stamps that you won't find anywhere else on the web. Whimsical, fun and at times a little sassy. Most images at Sassy Cheryl's are offered both as a digital stamp (line drawing) as well as a colored image. Both the Digital Stamps and Colored images are available for immediate download upon purchase.

NZ/AUS Sponsor

Come and join us on our website at; www.joannasheen.com orhttp://www.joannasheen.co.uk/ For postage and packing free worldwide on an exciting array of craft supplies.

I made a cute little mouse card for my Mum to send a friend who has a new position at work.

I am off to get ready for school. I hope you have a lovely day and will catch up on all my comments later today or tomorrow.

Alicia xx

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Southern Girls DT ~ Add an Animal

Hi Blogging Beauties,

Time for another challenge at Southern Girls and this week we would like you to......

ADD AN ANIMAL

To your card, layout or Off the Page Project.

I am still on the Aussie Cards Theme and I have made some kangaroo cards. The first one has a more feminine feel to it. The second one has more of a male feel to it. (Well that was what I am hoping for anyway)

Our two sponsors are:

New Zealand/ Australia Sponsor

TeddyBo are very kindly providing some gorgeous Teddy Bo & Teddy Bea Digital Stamps for one lucky Kiwi or Aussie.

Teddy Bo stamps print out beautifully, ready for you to colour and make your own. From digital stamps to colour your own decoupage sheets we have lots for the Teddy Bo & Co friends out there. Teddy Bo & Co digital stamps will never be available on any other store however our rubber stamps shall be available in some retail outlets in the UK and the USA very soon.

International Sponsor

Michelle's Scrapbooking & More is home to the Pixie Cottage stamps as well as a retailer for many top brand papercrafting supplies. Sign up in the store and receive the newsletter with coupon codes, and new products.
Michelle is very generously sponsoring us some wonderful Digital Images for one lucky International winner.

I would like to enter these challenges:

Ambers's Crafts and Stuff - Use Die Cut

Cooking it up with Katie - Animals with Colourful Buttons

Clear it Out Challenge - Buttons

Digital Tuesday Challenge - Button Up

Here are some real animal antics!!!

Milly climbing the window sill of the house...naughty, naughty!

Jess, the sheep that thinks she is a goat.

Ellie, the most loved dog in the world!

Milly and Jess munching on some flowers.

I will be back later today to draw my candy. Last chance to enter...click here!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day,

Alicia xx

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