Aussie Scrap Souce Creativity

Just wanted to drop by and share some of my creations that have posted on the Aussie Scrap Source Blog this week.

First up I had loads of fun creating some special Christmas cards using the My Minds Eye - All is Bright range.  Love the traditional feel and alternative colour combination of the collection.

Here is what I created and you can see the full post here

 

 

The second post was a Weekend Inspiration featuring Pebbles Inc's Walnut Grove.  Such a fun and colourful collection to play with!  Here is what I created and the full post can be viewed here

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ISSC - Farewell

It is with much sadness I write this post.  Some of you will be looking for the next iSpy sketch challenge.  Unfortunately the founder and guiding light at iSpy, lovely Kim, has made the decision not to continue on running the challenge blog.  Life at time just gets too busy and decisions have to be made to ensure family, life and work commitments are met.

Thank you so much to Kim and the rest of the DT at iSpy for inviting me to join the team and also for the support and friendship they so openly gave me.  I will miss our weekly posts and chats along the way.  Hope fully we will cross paths again on another DT or blog challenge forum.

Thank you also to all the lovely and creative card makers who inspired us over the weeks and to all of the people who participated in the challenges each week.

I spent some time looking back through the challenges I completed both as a DT member and as an avid challenge participant and here are a few of my favourites!

As a challenge participant:

ISSC 1

ISSC 4

 

ISSC 6

 As a DT Memeber:

 ISSC 36

ISSC 38

 

ISSC 40

 

 

But my all time favourite sketch and week to play along was ISSC 18.  It was one of the weeks I was part of the top 2 so that made it even more special!  You can visit my original post here

 

 



So it's a sad farewell and a huge thank you to the iSpy team. Now as they say when one door closes another opens so 2013 will hopefully bring some new challenges to play along with and DT opportunities so stay tuned!

Retro Sketch #40 - Brand New Challenge!

I am so excited this week.  I have been powering through my DT assignments and have finished and uploaded all but 1 of them so stay tuned to see what I have been up to over at the Aussie Scrap Source Blog in the coming weeks.

As a bit of a reward I decided to play along with a sketch challenge - I just love sketch challenges as they kick start your creativity but give you the freedom to create with whatever colours, products and embellishments you like.

The lovely Arielle, who is a fellow iSpy DT member, has an awesome sketch challenge blog.  Retro Sketches  gives you a sketch based on one of the DT's previous creations, they make a new card and then we all follow along.  I have favourite card layouts that I often go back to as I know they work well so I loved the idea of this challenge.

So here is the sketch they posted based on one of Arielle's cards:

And here is the card I created:

 

Each panel on the card was edge distressed and I gave it a faux stitched border as well.

 

 

I have been playing with my Martha punches of late and just love this branch punch for creating wreathes. I used a combination of red, green and blue papers to create it with and then added some pearls. . Instead of a fishtail embellishment I added a lace loop which I tied to a button before adding it to the card. I moved this element a little further out on the card.

 

 

Materials:

Paper: MME Be Merry

Punch: MS M230367 Branch

Other: Pearls by Portacraft, buttons, twine, lace (from the stash!) and mini Christmas sticker.

 

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