Happy 18th Erin

I can't believe it. Our beautiful daughter Erin will be turning 18 next week. Eeeek.. Here is the card I made for her. The pixie is a digi image from Charmed Cards and Crafts. I coloured her with my copic markers and printed her onto GinaK pure luxury cardstock. This paper is perfect for copic colouring. There is absolutely no bleed through at all.

We will be celebrating Erin's Birthday on Saturday as our pre-pack and up-lift for our move to Canberra starts on Monday.

I'm sorry I've been such a bad blogger lately, but as you can image things are crazy here. Some would say that it's always crazy here, lol. Having said that, I am going to be (mia) missing is action for the next couple of weeks. I am going to miss my daily visits to all you lovely ladies, but I promise, I will be back as soon as humanly possible. lol..

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your kind words and support throughout 2009 and I look forward to our continuing friendships in 2010. Have a very Happy and Safe New Year.

Big hugs to you all. xo Jackie

Doodlediva's blog candy

Head on over to the Doodlediva's blog for a chance to win this amazing blog candy. Karen Johnson is the designer of these gorgeous stamps which are also available digitally from her blog Karen's Doodles. I purchased my first image from her today and believe me it is absolutely adorable. You must check her out.

Take care xo Jackie

Friendship Card

This image from Mo's Digital Pencil is part of a set of three gorgeous images. I made this one for my daughter Lauren to give to her best friend Mikaela. They are such kindred spirits. They finish each others sentences and are constantly giggling with each other. Miki has just become like another daughter to us. We are moving to Canberra in just a little over three weeks time and I am not looking forward to saying our goodbyes to her or to her whole family for that matter. Enough of this sad stuff, I'm tearing up already...

The image is called psst..Dani and Taylor. How cute is that?? I've renamed it to psst..Loz and Miki... I coloured them with my copic markers. The ticket is a digi image from Bec's digi store and the flowers, ribbon etc are from my own stash.

Thank you for taking the time to visit and thank you so very much for leaving such lovely comments. I appreciate each and every one of them.

Take care xo Jackie

Just a card

This is a card I made just for the fun of it. The sweet little image is called Sophie and she is from Mo's Digital Pencil. I fell in love with her as soon as I saw her. I coloured her with my copic markers and made the flower with the daisy heads spellbinders die. The flower is made from the same DP as I have used in the background. I just inked the edges with really rust ink. I hope you like her.

Thank you for all your precious comments, they really mean the world to me.

Take care xo Jackie

Bronson and Beaker

How darn cute is Bronson?? He is one of my newly acquired digis from Pollycraft. I just adore that he always has his little friend Beaker with him in all his images. If you click on the pic, you will see that I have used diamond dust for the snow, flowers soft for his pom pom and clear glaze on the ornaments. The tag is from Bec as is the DP. I hope you like him. I'm thinking of entering him into the Pollycraft Challenge. What do you think?

I would like to thank you all for you kind words and best wishes for my Grandparents 59th Wedding Anniversary yesterday. I rang them last night and read each and every comment to them. It blew them away. So a big hug to all of you. You really are an amazing, caring and thoughtful bunch of talented ladies.

Take care xo Jackie

Anniversary Card

My amazing Grandparents are celebrating their 59th Wedding Anniversary today and this is the card I made for them. The image is from Mo's digital pencil. They have the most wonderful images, something for every occassion.

I coloured them with my copic markers. The gorgeous flowers are from Bizzy Becs as is the music sheet stamp. The lace is from my own stash. Not sure if you can see it, but I sprayed glimmer mist on the flowers and then added glitter to the edges of the little brown ones.

I'm off to spend the afternoon with them. It is going to be so incredibly hard leaving them in 4 weeks time. They are the most amazing Grandparents and I adore them so much. God, I had better stop this, I'm starting to tear up.

I hope this finds you all well. Take care xo Jackie

Handmade flowers

Here is a card I recently finished. I just adore the little Madelynn image from The Greeting Farm. The gorgeous music sheet is from a stamp I purchased from Bec, called piano forte. The flowers I actually made myself, yes that's right, I made them...lol.. I found the tutorial for these little babies on Michele's blog (here). I have been following her for quite some time and she nearly always adds her own gorgeous handmade flowers to her creations. Well... she is such a wonderful lady, that she decided to share with us all on how she actually made them. Her tutorial (here) is super easy to follow. I changed it a little and actually scrunched my flowers before attaching them together with my brad. I have been practising and they are looking much nicer than the one's in these photos.

Here is a close up of the larger flower.


On a different note, Bec has a fantastic new Blog Candy over at Creatalicious Challenges. She has some gorgeous items up for grabs. Head on over for your chance to win this great stash.


Thank you for taking the time to visit my humble little blog. I love hearing from you all.

Take care xo Jackie

All That Scraps Digis

Here are two cards I've just finished. I purchased both of these adorable digi stamps from All That Scraps. The first is yet another Christmas card. Oh, I love this time of year. I coloured her with my Copic markers and the paper is what little I have left from a pack I bought from Bec. I cut her out with my Bigshot and spellbinder dies. I added polar white flower soft to her hat, diamonds to her wings and diamond dust below her feet. I purchased the amazing diamond dust from Bec.


This next one, I made for a lovely lady who has just found out she is pregnant with her first child. I kept this card really simply with not too many embellishments as I really wanted the paper to show through.



Thank you for all your kind comments. It really does make my day.

Take care xo Jackie

Holly Star Shine

This little lady is called HollyStarShine. Isn't she adorable. She is one of The Greeting Farm's new digi images. As soon as I saw her I was totally in love. I absolutely adore all of the images that The Greeting Farm have. I coloured her with my Copic markers and added dazzling diamonds to her wings for a little sparkle. The gorgeous tag is from Bizzy Bec. She has two "free" tags on her blog. Go check her out. Her blog is amazing AND, she has just opened up her brand new online digi store. It truly is fabulous, find it here.

I'm hoping to be back soon with a couple more cards I've been working on. I have the dreaded flu at the moment and not feeling too creative at all.

Thank you for all your lovely comments and birthday wishes, I cherish them all.

Take care xo Jackie

Lauren's Birthday Card

My beautiful Daughter Lauren is turning 13 on Saturday. Where has the time gone? This is the card I made for her. The image is from Mo's Digital Pencil. They have so many amazing digi's.
I coloured her with my Copic markers and the DP is from DCWV. The little frame around the greeting is made from my newly acquired spellbinder dies.

Lauren is having some of her friends come and have a sleep over for her birthday. She will be having a bonus that night as the Pacific Dunes Golf Club is having their Christmas Carols and fireworks on the same night. We are lucky enough to be living virtually next door to it. All we need do is sit under our pergola and look up. lol.. I too will be celebrating my Birthday on Thursday. Unfortunately my Hubby and eldest Daughter wont be home that night. Erin has her year 12 formal and Geoff will be on base having a farewell dinner. Having said that, we now only have about 5 weeks before we pack up for our posting to Canberra. Oh the joys of being married to someone serving in the Defence Force. Hopefully this will be our last posting.

I hope this finds you all well and I want to say a huge thank you to all the lovely ladies who leave comments. I truly appreciate each and everyone of them.

Take care xo Jackie

New Challenge blog

My lovely friend Kylie alerted me to a new challenge blog which starts on the 29th November. They are called Sketchy Colors (find them here). They also have an amazing blog candy draw. So pop on over and take a peek.

Take care xo Jackie

Swiss Pixie Digi

Just a quick post to show you a card I finished a few days ago. It's very basic isn't it. I coloured the gorgeous swiss pixie with copic markers and added dazzling diamonds to her wings and the ground. I clear embossed the always artichoke cardstock and used my "new" bigshot with the snowflake embossing folder and embossed the real red piece of cardstock. I bought the folder and my spellbinder dies from Bec's online store. She has absolutely everything you need for die cutting, embossing etc. I bought the flowers from ebay. Gotta love ebay. lol.. As I said, this card is not very impressive, but I thought I'd share it with you lovely ladies anyway.

I hope you are all having a lovely weekend. Take care xo Jackie

Vintage Anya

I thought I'd change it up a bit and make a card not "christmassy". I adore the Miss Anya's from The Greeting Farm. I have had this set for quite some time and I had not actually inked this sweetie up before. I had the chocolate flowers and lacy ribbon just laying on my craft table and this card just came together from there. This never happens to me. I always have so much trouble trying to get a layout in my head. Anyway, I hope you like her.

Thank you for taking the time to check out my blog. Your comments are always so lovely. Have a wonderful week.

Take care xo Jackie

Linda's blog candy

Head on over to the lovely Linda's blog and enter her amazing blog candy draw. Linda is such a sweet lady and is incredibly talented.

I will be back shortly with another couple of cards I have been working on. I didn't get a chance over the weekend to get much crafting in as my beautiful sister Helen was here for a very short visit. She lives in Western Australia and we don't get to see her often enough. It was so lovely to see her again. She will be heading back over this way for Christmas, so saying goodbye to her yesterday wasn't to bad at all.

We also have another addition to our family, we adopted an month old Lavender Point Himalayan cat. His name is Indie and he is adorable. Our other two moggies are not very happy with us at the moment. Hopefully it wont take too long and they will all be best of buddies.

Take care xo Jackie

Christmas, Pixie Chicks Style!

As you know, I'm infatuated with my pixie chick images at the moment. Here is a card I recently made. To see it clearer, just click on the picture. I coloured her with copics and used some flocking on the tops of her boots and dress. Thank you Kylie for letting me use your flocking. The beautiful paper is some I recently purchased from Bec. I'm working on a couple more at the moment. I have them already coloured, but I'm having a little trouble in making them into a finished card.

I hope you're all having a great day. Take care xo Jackie

Another Award

Here is another award I received from the lovely Cheryl. Thank you Cheryl. With this award, I have to pass it onto 5 other bloggers and answer the following questions with one word. Not as easy as it sounds.

1. where is your cell phone? bag
2. Your hair? black
3. Your mother? work
4. Your father? retired
5. Your favourite food? thai
6. Your dream last night? none
7. Your favourite drink? Verdhello
8. Your dream/goal? happy
9. What room are you in? lounge
10. Your hobby? stamping
11. Your fear? caterpillars
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? family
13. Where were you last night? home
14. Something you aren't? lonely
15. Muffins? raspberry
16. Wish list? copics
17. Where did you grow up? here
18. last thing you did? breakfast
19. What are you wearing? pj's
20. Your TV? off
21. Your pets? many
22. Friends? forever
23. Your life? content
24. Your mood? peaceful
25. Missing someone? sisters
26. Vehicle? calais
27. Something your'e not wearing? shoes
28. Your favourite store? Becs
29. Your favourite colour? Teal
30. When was the last time you laughed? today
31. Last time you cried? monday
32. Your best friend? few
33. One place that I go to over and over? Kylies
34. Facebook? no
35. Favourite place to eat? anywhere

I pass this onto:

Kylie

Vicki

Mumur

Janny

Heather

xo Jackie

Awards

I received these awards from my beautiful friend Kylie.

this one is for aquaintance.


And this one is for good luck and good fortune.


By the rules for both awards, I must:

1. Thank the fixed award (thank you Kylie)
2. Place in its blog reference to a blog person, fixed award.
3. Place in its blog logotype of the award.
4. Fix the awards to 10 bloggers.
5 Add the references to these 10 bloggers.
6. Send them the commentary about their awards.

I shall send these awards onto :

Linda

Amy

Aija

Barbara

Camilla

Norma

Marja

Andie

Linnie

Bec

Take care xo Jackie

Pink Christmas

This card is so far from the traditional christmas cards don't you think, but I think sometimes a change can be good too. Yes, this is another Pixie Chick image, isn't she gorgeous. I couldn't decide which set to buy, so I just had to get both. lol.. I didn't have any pink flowers to match, so I coloured some white ones with my copics. Thanks for taking the time to visit and for leaving your wonderful comments. I really appreciate each and everyone of them.

Take care xo Jackie

Pixie Chicks

Whoo hoo...Two posts in two days. This girls on a roll... I purchased this adorable pixie chick last night and couldn't go to bed until I had coloured her and made up this card. She is sooo gorgeous, as is all the pixie chicks. I coloured her with copics and added diamonds to her wings and the little butterfly. You wouldn't believe how close I was to spilling all my diamonds on the floor last night. Eek. I think my heart skipped a beat or two. lol. I hope you like her.

Have a great weekend lovely ladies and thank you for all your gorgeous comments. xo Jackie

Christmas Fairy

First of all, I want to apologise for the quality of the photo. I'ts a miserable day here today and this is the best light possible. As soon as I saw this digi image from Digital Pencil, I knew I just couldn't live without it. lol..She is called Christmas Fairy Holly and she is just gorgeous. I have kept this card very clean and simple because I wanted to show off the lovely dp (thanks Bec). I coloured her with my copic markers and added some diamonds to the snow globe. If you click onto the photo it will come up larger on your screen to give you a clearer image.

I'll be back in the next couple of days with another couple of cards I'm working on at the moment. This will hopefully keep 2 ladies who's name I wont mention off my back. Yes, you know who you are. lol....I even had an email from one of them demanding that I had to post something sooner rather than later. Oh, it's so nice to be loved. lol..

Thank you to all the lovely ladies who have left sweet, encouraging comments. I absolutely love the thought that I have all these blogging friends from all over the world.

Till next time, take care xo Jackie