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domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Christmas</category><title>My Christmas Miniature Blog Candy/Giveaway</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Hi Everyone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I am having a giveway on my Miniature's blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Have not posted for a while.&amp;nbsp;Been really busy with work.&amp;nbsp; I thought I would introduce to the lastest member of the family.&amp;nbsp; Born on the 26th May.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;We have named her The Dream Catcher, Dream for short.&amp;nbsp; Her mother is Dolly Daydream.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Hi Everyone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Last weekend was the first time in quite a while that I have sat down and down some crafting.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I made a birthday card for my friend, Abi.&amp;nbsp; I used my favourite stamps - Magnolia.&amp;nbsp; I forgot to take a photo of the card.&amp;nbsp; But using the same idea, I have made a card for my dad's birthday.&amp;nbsp; I had to do it in secret.&amp;nbsp; I was up late yesterday, trying to fix my mum's PC, so I was stamping and colouring while waiting for the PC to do things.&amp;nbsp; I finished the card off today.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I have combined the&amp;nbsp;following&amp;nbsp;Magnolia stamps together: Sitting Wedding Edwin&amp;nbsp;and Apple and Cherries - Circus Horse. &amp;nbsp;I have used Distress inks and copics to colour the images in.&amp;nbsp; The papers are from my stash.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;The flowers are from Wild Orchid.&amp;nbsp; I have used distress ink and Bronze pearl Pens to distress them.&amp;nbsp; I have also used the same Pearl Pen to add pearls around the card and also on the buttons on edwins shirt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-QuRZqK1bG7c/TXPb3wfNlcI/AAAAAAAAD1w/9fCGs2IWHUk/s1600/carolsel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" l6="true" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-QuRZqK1bG7c/TXPb3wfNlcI/AAAAAAAAD1w/9fCGs2IWHUk/s400/carolsel.jpg" width="285" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I am entering this into the following challenges:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Wild Orchid Challenge -&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://wildorchidchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/02/challenge-18-anything-goes.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Anything Goes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Paperplay Challenges - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://paperplaychallenges.blogspot.com/2011/03/11-week-9-shabby-chicvintage.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Shabby Chic/Vintage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Just Magnolia - Special Monthy Challenge - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://justmagnolia.blogspot.com/2011/03/week-96-simon-says-stamp-special.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Anything Goes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Ideas and&amp;nbsp;Tutorial&amp;nbsp;that have inspired me to have a go at:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I have been exploring some of my favourite blogs for tutorials and ideas I want to have a go.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Lv Toria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I have taken a break from card making for a little while.&amp;nbsp; My card making mojo has taken a little drive.&amp;nbsp; Not sure where, but&amp;nbsp;it will be back.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I have been doing up some of my old miniatures that were looking a little tired.&amp;nbsp; Here is a sink that my mum made from a kit several years ago.&amp;nbsp; I had originally used solid water to create water in the sink, but it had turned a little yellow and I wanted to add some bubbles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;So out came my card making skills and the glossy accents plus a few seed beads.&amp;nbsp; Time to get messy hands.&amp;nbsp; I missed some glossy accents with the seed beads and then piled it on to the solid water.&amp;nbsp; I add a lid to the bubbles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I even made the drip on the water pump much better, by adding a clear bead and some more glossy accents to it and to the spout.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The dish cloth was created by my lovely mum.&amp;nbsp; The sink will be going in the kitchen in my Tudor house.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;This week my world has been turned upside down. On Monday, my beloved horse, William was found dead in his field.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;We are very shocked as he was fine on Sunday, being cheeky as he often was,&amp;nbsp;when we went up to feed them.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BCtAL7U7t2k/TT3GPpppt5I/AAAAAAAAD1E/eR-TiynDVko/s1600/1997-06-West+Anstey+Show+Devon-Our+First+Show.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="221" s5="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BCtAL7U7t2k/TT3GPpppt5I/AAAAAAAAD1E/eR-TiynDVko/s320/1997-06-West+Anstey+Show+Devon-Our+First+Show.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;He was 27 years old and we had the privilege to own him for 14 years.&amp;nbsp; He was always the gentleman and gave so much to everyone he met.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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He used to take part in the Christmas Cracker ride on Exmoor and was always dressed for the part, with flashing fairy lights, top hat etc. He loved anything like that. When we moved to Wales he came with us and recently he moved to a beautiful place just below the Preselli Mountains where he was extremely happy. In November we got a companion for him, Dolly and they had really settled in so well together. Dolly is now missing him.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BCtAL7U7t2k/TT3SO2sJYaI/AAAAAAAAD1U/E18X4JE_He4/s1600/30_12_10%25285%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="238" s5="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BCtAL7U7t2k/TT3SO2sJYaI/AAAAAAAAD1U/E18X4JE_He4/s320/30_12_10%25285%2529.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BCtAL7U7t2k/TT3PMlifAXI/AAAAAAAAD1Q/7FAS1rNbgV0/s1600/IMG_2055.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" s5="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BCtAL7U7t2k/TT3PMlifAXI/AAAAAAAAD1Q/7FAS1rNbgV0/s320/IMG_2055.JPG" width="258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;William gave so much pleasure and love to all who have ridden him. The sound of dogs barking anywhere was so exciting to him, he just loved going out hunting when he was in Devon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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RIP William &lt;br /&gt;
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1984 - 2011&lt;br /&gt;
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Thank you for coming into our lives and giving us so much pleasure.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Lv toria&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;img height="100" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Blog/Dragonfly1WatermarkToriasig.png" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8462963420867395273-6312917995806538130?l=craftyphred.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/craftyphred/~3/TVw1igZDyYM/sad-news.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Phred)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BCtAL7U7t2k/TT3FGtm40xI/AAAAAAAAD04/dEFiud4-Mwg/s72-c/DSCF0040.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://craftyphred.blogspot.com/2011/01/sad-news.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462963420867395273.post-6447309384304199039</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 16:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-03T11:39:58.828-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pear Tree Cottage</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Dolls houses and Miniatures</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tudor House</category><title>Miniature Madness</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Hi Everyone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I have had a lovely Christmas and for the last few months have been rekindling a hobby that I very much enjoyed about 6 years ago. But with moving to Pembrokeshire, it has been under wraps in the garage and the loft.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The hobby is for Dolls Houses and Miniatures.&amp;nbsp; My Tudor house that my gran brought me in the 90's is now in full view in the dining room.&amp;nbsp; Below is a picture of the house after is come out of&amp;nbsp;bubble wrap. This house is in 1/12th Scale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I have some work to with it as some of the glue has dried out and some of the lights need new bulbs.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I also have a plan to add a cobbled surface with a small garden.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Some more photos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;﻿ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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﻿﻿ &lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;﻿ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;My Mum&amp;nbsp;also brought a 148th Scale kit from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.petite-properties.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Petite Properties&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;for me.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I am part of the way though constructing this house.&amp;nbsp; I have painted the interior and are in the process of creating the light for it.&amp;nbsp; Here are some pictures of the tiny fireplaces that I have painted for the house.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center; width: 400px;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;embed height="300" src="http://w246.photobucket.com/pbwidget.swf?pbwurl=http%3A%2F%2Fw246.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fgg85%2Fphredsfriends%2FDolls+Houses+and+Miniatures%2FPear+Tree+Cottage%2F7dcbf297.pbw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Lv Toria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Here is wishing everyone a happy new year.&lt;br /&gt;
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lv toria&lt;br /&gt;
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Here is a picture of my westie Rosie asleep.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Not this tide.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;“When d’you think that he’ll come back?”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Not with this wind blowing, and this tide.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;“Has any one else had word of him?”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Not this tide.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;For what is sunk will hardly swim,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Not with this wind blowing, and this tide.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;“Oh, dear, what comfort can I find?”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;None this tide,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Nor any tide,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Except he did not shame his kind —&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Not even with that wind blowing, and that tide.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Then hold your head up all the more,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This tide,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And every tide;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Because he was the son you bore,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And gave to that wind blowing and that tide!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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My Boy Jack is a 1915 poem by Rudyard Kipling. Kipling wrote it after his beloved son, John (called Jack) went missing in the Battle of Loos, during World War I. It was years before Kipling and his family had Jack's death confirmed.&lt;br /&gt;
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In 1992, the site believed to hold Jack Kipling's body was found and a gravestone erected.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Five years later, war historians Tonie and Valmai Holt declared that the stone stood over the grave of the wrong man and asked for the case to be reopened&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img height="100" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Blog/Dragonfly1WatermarkToriasig.png" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8462963420867395273-671374038007701838?l=craftyphred.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/craftyphred/~3/AhmnUKkQfEA/my-boy-jack.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Phred)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Blog/th_Dragonfly1WatermarkToriasig.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://craftyphred.blogspot.com/2010/11/my-boy-jack.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462963420867395273.post-1605519288035470164</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-08T12:10:59.165-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Buttons and Bows</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Ribbon</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Starburst Stains</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Flowers</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Christmas</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Magnolia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Flowersoft</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Distress Ink</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Watercolour</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Stickles</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Crafty Cardmakers</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Nestabilities</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Design Team</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Inktense</category><title>Crafty Cardmakers - Dry Embossing Spotlight</title><description>Hi Everyone&lt;br /&gt;
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Here is my card for the design team for crafty cardmakers &lt;a href="http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.com/2010/11/spotlight-dry-embossing.html"&gt;Dry embossing spotlight&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/?action=view¤t=christmasshakerwk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="343" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/christmasshakerwk.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;For this card, I started with starburst stains and other mica powder sprays and put them onto a sheet of acetate. I then used a brayer to transfer the colour onto the snowflake embossing folder, which I then rang though my cuttlebug. I allow the paper to dry and then added my micra powder to highlight the embossing and to further highlight I added stickles. I used a nestie to cut the window out. The images are magnolia - Winter day scene and the snowy fence. Which have been coloured in a combination of copic's, distress inks and Inktense pencils. I added flowersoft and stickles to them as well. &lt;br /&gt;
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The flowers are paper flowers that I layered up and then used the scrunch technique to create the effect I wanted. I sprayed them with water and then added micra powder to them. Once dry I added stickles to them. The leaves are created using a punch and then I have added more stickles to them.&amp;nbsp; I have added beads to the arrange of flowers.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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I used a selection of beads and sequins for my shaker.&lt;br /&gt;
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I am entering this card in the following challenges:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Creative Inspirations - &lt;a href="http://cinspirations.blogspot.com/2010/11/challenge-85-shake-it-create-shaker.html"&gt;Shake It&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The Stamp Man - &lt;a href="http://thestampmanchallenges.blogspot.com/2010/11/challenge-9-christmas.html"&gt;Christmas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Just Magnolia - &lt;a href="http://justmagnolia.blogspot.com/2010/11/week-80-special-monthly-challenge.html"&gt;Anything Goes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Allsorts - &lt;a href="http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2010/11/week-77-twas-night-before-christmas.html"&gt;Twas the night Before christmas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img height="100" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Blog/Dragonfly1WatermarkToriasig.png" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8462963420867395273-1605519288035470164?l=craftyphred.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/craftyphred/~3/EeAPFTIwqYY/crafty-cardmakers-dry-embossing.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Phred)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/th_christmasshakerwk.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>7</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://craftyphred.blogspot.com/2010/11/crafty-cardmakers-dry-embossing.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462963420867395273.post-2948519181695176560</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-08T12:12:31.564-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Spica Glitter Pens</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Copic</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Ribbon</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Watercolour Pencils</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Digi stamps</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tags</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Flowers</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Christmas</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Flowersoft</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Digital Pencil Too</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Stickles</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Crafty Cardmakers</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Nestabilities</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Design Team</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Inktense</category><title>I Love My Presents - Crafty Cardmakers Digi Spotlight</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Hi Everyone &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Where has October gone and it is only 9 Weeks to Christmas.&amp;nbsp; So it will be full stream ahead for Christmas cards and presents.&amp;nbsp; Here is my lastest card for the Crafty Cardmakers design team - &lt;a href="http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.com/2010/10/spotlight-digital-plus.html"&gt;Digi Spotlight&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; I am not a hundred percentage happy with how the stickles are on this card, but it looks alot better in the flesh than in the picture of it.&amp;nbsp; This is the 2nd circle tag than I have done in the last couple of weeks.&amp;nbsp; I love doing tags.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Digi%20stamps/?action=view¤t=ILVMYPRESENTSwk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="400" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Digi%20stamps/ILVMYPRESENTSwk.jpg" width="392" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I decided to take three images by Mo's Digital pencil - I Love It, Pammy's Socking and Timmy's Stocking and merge them together using elements programme. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Digi%20stamps/?action=view¤t=ILVMYPRESENTS1wk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="380" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Digi%20stamps/ILVMYPRESENTS1wk.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I have coloured them with copic's and derwent inktense pencil with some added glitz from spice glitter pens. I added flowersoft to the stocking tops. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Pammy's Socking&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Digi%20stamps/?action=view¤t=ILVMYPRESENTS4wk.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="400" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Digi%20stamps/ILVMYPRESENTS4wk.jpg" width="250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Timmy's Stocking &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Digi%20stamps/?action=view¤t=ILVMYPRESENTS3wk.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="400" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Digi%20stamps/ILVMYPRESENTS3wk.jpg" width="321" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;I Love It&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I cut a large circle from mount board and layered paper cut using a circle cutter and nestabilities. The paper that I have used are by Papermaina. The leaves and some of the flowers are cut from matching paper. The other flowers and the bows/ribbon were from a Christmas embellishment pack. I added beads &amp;amp; pearls and some stickles to the design as well (though for some reason today, my stickles decided to come out in splodges.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;DP2 Challenge blog - &lt;a href="http://mosdigitalchallenge.blogspot.com/2010/10/challenge-54-colors-of-fall.html"&gt;Colours of Fall&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Though this is a Christmas card, the colours are very much autumn colours.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge - &lt;a href="http://fussyandfancychallenge.blogspot.com/2010/10/fussy-and-fancy-friday-challenge-22.html"&gt;Winter Wonderland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I decided to have fun with this challenge.&amp;nbsp; I used a card technique that I have not used before - the Diaper Fold, which can be found at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/diaperfoldpouch"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Diaper Fold Pouch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; This technique is very simple to do and is very versatile.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Cards/?action=view¤t=halloweenbag4wk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="276" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Cards/halloweenbag4wk.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;For the pouch, I used black card and also created a&amp;nbsp;matching tiny card to go inside the pouch.&amp;nbsp; I used paper from Magnolia&amp;nbsp;to cover both the back of the pouch and the tiny card.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;added a pumpkin charm and&amp;nbsp;a bow to the tiny card.&amp;nbsp; I also add some of the same matching ribbon to the front of the pouch.&amp;nbsp; The ribbon is by papermaina.&amp;nbsp; I added the boo text using a white pen, to the pouch as well as the tiny card.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Cards/?action=view¤t=halloweenbag6wk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="400" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Cards/halloweenbag6wk.jpg" width="253" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I created a black bag using a template. I&amp;nbsp;added the same ribbon and pumpkin charms as well the Boo text.&amp;nbsp; The little boy is a cutting file from MyScrapchick and I cut it using my Craft Robo.&amp;nbsp; I added some orange tissue paper, which matches the ribbon.&amp;nbsp; I have placed the card inside the bag, which waiting from some pumpkin treats, that are yet to be brought! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Cards/?action=view¤t=halloweenbag1wk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="400" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Cards/halloweenbag1wk.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Lv Toria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8462963420867395273-2182032297382352090?l=craftyphred.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/craftyphred/~3/XaAE0FfnoYw/halloween-bag-crafty-cardmakers.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Phred)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Blog/th_Dragonfly1WatermarkToriasig.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>8</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://craftyphred.blogspot.com/2010/10/halloween-bag-crafty-cardmakers.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462963420867395273.post-12087087653715890</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 16:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-10-10T09:27:44.906-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Dogs</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Dog Training</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Rosie</category><title>Rosie</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Hi Everyone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I must share with you some news about my westie, Rosie.&amp;nbsp; We have been going to dog training for just over 6 months now and as part of the training we work though certificates.&amp;nbsp; She has done so well and has gained her elementary certificate and yesterday, we finished off her last though bit on her Novice certificate.&amp;nbsp; I am so proud of what we have achieved together, especially with the westie defiant streak.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Now we start on our novice certificate which is a lot more difficult!!!!&amp;nbsp; To top it off a couple of weeks ago we started Agility.&amp;nbsp; Which she loves a lot.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BCtAL7U7t2k/TLHoqVnyFrI/AAAAAAAADw4/uaXvx5qqqkY/s1600/rosietraining09102010wk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ex="true" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BCtAL7U7t2k/TLHoqVnyFrI/AAAAAAAADw4/uaXvx5qqqkY/s400/rosietraining09102010wk.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Rosie giving me her attention, during training&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;﻿&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Lv Toria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img height="100" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Blog/Dragonfly1WatermarkToriasig.png" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8462963420867395273-12087087653715890?l=craftyphred.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/craftyphred/~3/W8gVvMxoaMg/rosie.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Phred)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BCtAL7U7t2k/TLHoqVnyFrI/AAAAAAAADw4/uaXvx5qqqkY/s72-c/rosietraining09102010wk.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://craftyphred.blogspot.com/2010/10/rosie.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462963420867395273.post-6777392235389989012</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-10-10T09:00:08.447-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Spica Glitter Pens</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Challenge</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Magnolia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Design Team</category><title>Oriental Tilda</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Here is my card for the Crafty Cardmakers - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.com/2010/09/spotlight-oriental.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Oriental Spotlight&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BCtAL7U7t2k/TJ-Kdy8CDUI/AAAAAAAADwg/9d-G4leNXNU/s1600/OrientalTildawk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="267" px="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BCtAL7U7t2k/TJ-Kdy8CDUI/AAAAAAAADwg/9d-G4leNXNU/s400/OrientalTildawk.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I used an image from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joannasheen.com/craft-supplies/joanna-sheen-cdrom-dvds/cdrom-eastern-treasures/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #aacce3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Joanna Sheen's Eastern Treasures cd.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;used gold and Blue&amp;nbsp;Spica Pens&amp;nbsp;to add detail to the fruit and birds.&amp;nbsp;I cut the image into three panels and then mounted them onto black card.&amp;nbsp; This I&amp;nbsp; mounted onto matching paper from the cd.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;I stamped Japanese Tilda&amp;nbsp;with Memento Black Ink.&amp;nbsp; I coloured her skin with copics and her hair with black soot distress ink.&amp;nbsp; I used a combination of mica paint and distress inks to colour her clothes.&amp;nbsp; I used distress inks and mica paint on the flowers and leaves.&amp;nbsp; I created a black card and edge this with gold peel offs.&amp;nbsp; Then mounted everything onto this.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Lv Toria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img height="100" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Blog/Dragonfly1WatermarkToriasig.png" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8462963420867395273-6777392235389989012?l=craftyphred.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/craftyphred/~3/N_GyfM3X_zc/here-is-my-card-for-crafty-cardmakers.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Phred)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BCtAL7U7t2k/TJ-Kdy8CDUI/AAAAAAAADwg/9d-G4leNXNU/s72-c/OrientalTildawk.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://craftyphred.blogspot.com/2010/09/here-is-my-card-for-crafty-cardmakers.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462963420867395273.post-5495457125326144756</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-09-10T12:21:02.772-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Awards and Prizes</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Just Magnolia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Challenge</category><title>Blog Awards and Prizes</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;My friend Vix gave me this lovely award a cople of weeks ago and I do not know why I had not posted.&amp;nbsp; But here is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BCtAL7U7t2k/TIp-WPV0gMI/AAAAAAAADwQ/NMqYO8hgn88/s1600/beautiful-blog-award.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ox="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BCtAL7U7t2k/TIp-WPV0gMI/AAAAAAAADwQ/NMqYO8hgn88/s320/beautiful-blog-award.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I have e to tell you 7 facts about me and pass onto 7 people.&amp;nbsp; So here goes:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;1: I make miniature Teddy Bears.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;2:&amp;nbsp; I own a 26 year old Dales cross Highland pony called William and a West Highland White Terrier called Rosie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;3:&amp;nbsp; I love collecting Miniatures and Dolls Houses in 1/12th and 1/24th scales.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;4:&amp;nbsp; I like all things Autharian and BBC Merlin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;5: I am avid fan of the following authors:&amp;nbsp; Jane Austin, Colan Doyle, Tolken, C J Sansom, Micheal Jeaks and Ellis Peters.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;6: My ambition is to breed my own Dales Pony.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;7:&amp;nbsp; I like fairies, Butterflies and Dragonflies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;I am passing this award on to the following lovely bloggers:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;1: &lt;a href="http://judespansypatch.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jude&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;2: &lt;a href="http://alwaysaboutcolour.blogspot.com/"&gt;Chris&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;3: &lt;a href="http://twisted-witch.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;4: &lt;a href="http://jacksartycraftykreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;5: &lt;a href="http://josephinesrainbow.blogspot.com/"&gt;Josephine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;6: &lt;a href="http://melscraftroom.blogspot.com/"&gt;Melly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;7: &lt;a href="http://janeyscards.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jane&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Today I found out that I have won &lt;a href="http://justmagnolia.blogspot.com/2010/09/week-72-dawnys-sketch-and-card-of-month.html"&gt;Just Magnolia's Monthy Challenge&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;with this card&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="344" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/patchworktildawk.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;I am so pleased.&amp;nbsp; Thank you so much&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Lv toria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img height="100" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Blog/Dragonfly1WatermarkToriasig.png" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8462963420867395273-5495457125326144756?l=craftyphred.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/craftyphred/~3/fpSopgPNIMo/blog-awards-and-prizes.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Phred)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BCtAL7U7t2k/TIp-WPV0gMI/AAAAAAAADwQ/NMqYO8hgn88/s72-c/beautiful-blog-award.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://craftyphred.blogspot.com/2010/09/blog-awards-and-prizes.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462963420867395273.post-4107968928054514831</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-09-06T14:16:07.313-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Patchwork and Stitching</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tapestry stamps</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Distress Ink</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Memento</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Flowers</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Techniques</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Nestabilities</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Magnolia</category><title>Patchwork Tilda</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Hi Everyone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Here is another card that I have made recently.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/?action=view¤t=patchworktildawk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="344" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/patchworktildawk.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I used Tilda picking Lilac's and stamped her in Memento Black Ink.&amp;nbsp; I have coloured using the following mediums:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Skin&amp;nbsp;is coloured using Copics.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Hair was coloured with distress inks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Dress, shoes and bows are coloured using VersaMagic and Brilliance ink.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The flowers and leaves are coloured with distress inks and stippling watercolour paint.&amp;nbsp; I used the watercolour paint straight from the tube so that the flower buds were raised slightly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/?action=view¤t=patchworktilda1wk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="400" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/patchworktilda1wk.jpg" width="238" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/?action=view¤t=patchworktilda2wk.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="240" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/patchworktilda2wk.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I cut a white card circle using a nestie and then using Rubber Stamp Tapestry Stamps and&amp;nbsp;VersaMagic&amp;nbsp;as well as&amp;nbsp;Brilliance Inks.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Once dry I used chalk to distress the edges and I added stitching to the edge.&amp;nbsp; I also added beads and stickles to the background.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I created a cathedral window background as per the method below. This background&amp;nbsp;I stuck onto lilac card.&amp;nbsp; I edge this using gold stickles.&amp;nbsp; I created a flower punched from matching background.&amp;nbsp; This flower, I edged in stickles as well.&amp;nbsp; I punched different flowers from coordinating papers and leaves, which I arranged on the corner.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/?action=view¤t=patchworktilda4wk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="357" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/patchworktilda4wk.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Cathedral Window Patchwork Background.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;For anyone who is into patchwork, would have heard of Cathedral window patchwork.&amp;nbsp; I decided I wanted to mimic this fab technique in paper.&amp;nbsp; Here is my method:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Recipe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Two types of paper - pattered and plain etc.&amp;nbsp; You want&amp;nbsp;a good&amp;nbsp;contrast between your papers and I have found that a Plain&amp;nbsp; paper and a pattered paper used together, works the best.&amp;nbsp; For mine, I used green paper, which I stamp with Rubber stamp tapestry stamps.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Nestability Circle Die set.&amp;nbsp; For mine I used the 2nd to largest circle.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Plain card&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Scoring tool&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Bone folder&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Glue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Contrasting thread&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;needle.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;1: One circle creates a square, when finished.&amp;nbsp; So depending on how many squares you want in you finished design, cut that number of circles using the nestie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;2: Take one circle and fold in half (you may want to use a scoring tool before to get a crisper fold).&amp;nbsp; Use a bone folder to smooth fold.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="FOLD ONE" border="0" height="200" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/tutorials/foldone.jpg" width="179" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;3: Unfold the circle and fold in half the opposite side and repeat with the bone folder.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;4: Unfold the circle&amp;nbsp;but this time you are going to fold the circle diagonally and repeat with the bone folder.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/tutorials/?action=view¤t=foldthree.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img alt="FOLD THREE" border="0" height="200" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/tutorials/foldthree.jpg" width="179" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;5: Repeat again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;6: You should have a circle with the following folds on it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;7: Using the fold lines as a guide, you need to score straight lines to create a square.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;8: The fold the edges of the circle along the square score lines to create the out square.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;9: From&amp;nbsp;your 2nd type of paper, you need to cut a square that is large enough to fit into and under the flaps of your outer square.&amp;nbsp; For quickness, when I was making Patchwork tilda, I cut circles using the same size nestie and folded as above.&amp;nbsp; Then simply cut out the square formed in the centre.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;10: Stick you square under the flaps of the outer circle and then stick the flaps down onto the square.&amp;nbsp; Your first square is finished.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;11: Repeat this create as many squares as you wish.&amp;nbsp;These are stuck on to card.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;For mine, I created four, which when joined together creates the familiar pattern.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;11: I added stitching to edge of flaps.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I am entering this creation in the following challenges:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span id="goog_2111439194"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_2111439195"&gt;Paper Play Challenges - &lt;a href="http://paperplaychallenges.blogspot.com/2010/08/10-week-35-in-stitches.html"&gt;In Stitches&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Just Magnolia -&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://justmagnolia.blogspot.com/2010/09/week-71-special-monthly-challenge.html"&gt;Anything Goes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;My Time to Craft - &lt;a href="http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2010/08/challenge-105-in-garden.html"&gt;In the Garden&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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Here is my latest card for Crafty Cardmakers design team - &lt;a href="http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.com/2010/09/challenge-29-clean-simples.html"&gt;Challenge 29 - Clean &amp;amp; Simples&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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I decided to try something different this time and use our craft robo. I saw this lovely silhouette and knew that it would be great for this challenge. I decided to use a very simple colour theme of black and white. I felt this would really show off the silhouette and would hark back to bygone days. The oval and scalloped oval are with free cutting files, that I got from Penny Duncan Creations and the silhouette of the girl is another cutting file, which I purchased from Crafts U Print. I layered the ovals on to a white card blank which I rounded off the corners and added a bow to the top.&lt;br /&gt;
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Lv Toria&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img height="100" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Blog/Dragonfly1WatermarkToriasig.png" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8462963420867395273-9050877935109738432?l=craftyphred.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/craftyphred/~3/k49W43RDeYM/crafty-cardmakers-challenge-29-clean.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Phred)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Cards/th_cc_silouettegirlwk.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>7</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://craftyphred.blogspot.com/2010/09/crafty-cardmakers-challenge-29-clean.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462963420867395273.post-1992573344065199864</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-09-01T13:02:23.809-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Copic</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Memento</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Flowers</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Crafty Cardmakers</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Nestabilities</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Magnolia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Design Team</category><title>Lady Maga</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Hi Everyone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I am little late posting this, but here is my latest design team card for Crafty Cardmakers - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.com/2010/08/spotlight-challenge-glitter-sparkle.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Glitter and Sparkle Spotlight&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The main challenge on Crafty Cardmakers, was a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.com/2010/08/challenge-28-video-inspiration.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;video inspiration&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;When I viewed the video, I got the inspiration to a black and silver card. I love glitter, so it had to have lots and lots of glitz. The image is Ballerina Tilda, stamped in memento black ink and then coloured in with copic's. The dress is coloured with silver and black glitter. I use the same glitter on the shoes and tiara. I added stickles to the base and ribbon on the shoes and also on the tiara. I cut 3 scalloped ovals using nesties from black card and Miri board. These I edged them with the same glitters. I layered some miri board on top of some black card. I added a strip of black card and some silver ric rac. I created a black flower edged with silver glitter and stickles. I cut some leaves from same card. I created some coordinating embellishment pins, which contain wooden beads that I have covered with the same glitter. These I arranged with the flower on the corner of the card. I have called this card "Lady Maga"!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/?action=view¤t=ladymaga1wk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="400" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/ladymaga1wk.jpg" width="335" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I am entering this in the following challenges:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Wild Orchard Challenge - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://wildorchidchallenge.blogspot.com/2010/08/challenge-4-make-it-sparkle.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Make it Sparkle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Magical Monday - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://magicalmondaychallenge.blogspot.com/2010/08/chellenge-3-flowers.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Flowers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Stampin for the Weekend - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://stampinfortheweekend.blogspot.com/2010/08/stampin-for-weekend-challenge-45.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Anything goes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Lv Toria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img height="100" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Blog/Dragonfly1WatermarkToriasig.png" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8462963420867395273-1992573344065199864?l=craftyphred.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/craftyphred/~3/wVC1xESk3DY/lady-maga.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Phred)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/th_ladymagawk.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>9</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://craftyphred.blogspot.com/2010/09/lady-maga.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462963420867395273.post-6010834931164948022</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-21T04:59:34.237-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Parchment</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Flowers</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Challenge</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Magnolia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Rosie</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">William</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Backgrounds</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Flowersoft</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Magnolia Ink</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pippin</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">My Photos</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Distress Ink</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Dogs</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Watercolour</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Stickles</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">My Family</category><title>My Family</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I have some very exciting news to tell everyone.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;This morning the latest magnolia Ink magazine arrived and I have won the Family portrait competition, with this creation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I wanted to create a project that look like an old sepia picture with some added glitz.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The images are all stamped in Memento ink.&amp;nbsp; I have coloured the skin with Copics and the rest with distress inks (only my second time at using them).&amp;nbsp; The flowers are created with punches using parchment paper coloured with chalk and distress inks.&amp;nbsp; I have edge them with gold stickles.&amp;nbsp; The leaves are punched from various papers and some of them I have darkened using distress inks.&amp;nbsp; The images have all been cut out and them glue to a distress ink background with added shadows.&amp;nbsp; I layered up layered of card, edged with walnut stain distress ink and gold stickles on to&amp;nbsp;beige mount board.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;So I thought, I would introduce to my family (the inspiration behind this creation).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Group one&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/?action=view¤t=Familyportrait1wk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="400" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/Familyportrait1wk.jpg" width="321" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Tilda picking flowers:&amp;nbsp; My Mum, Judith. My mum&amp;nbsp;loves flowers, so I had to chose a Tilda with flowers.&amp;nbsp; I added flowersoft to her Lilac's.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_BCtAL7U7t2k/S0i5b-1SW0I/AAAAAAAADDo/3xwABcqpJ_U/s800/Victoria%20on%20Rusty%20and%20Judith.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_BCtAL7U7t2k/S0i5b-1SW0I/AAAAAAAADDo/3xwABcqpJ_U/s800/Victoria%20on%20Rusty%20and%20Judith.JPG" width="321" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Mum and Me (aged 3) on Rusty&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The dog is my Mum and Dad's Jack Russell, Pippin.&amp;nbsp; I added Glossy accents to her nose&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_BCtAL7U7t2k/R7NZtGFoAtI/AAAAAAAAAhw/p7DDe0O780Q/s144/IMG_1095.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_BCtAL7U7t2k/R7NZtGFoAtI/AAAAAAAAAhw/p7DDe0O780Q/s144/IMG_1095.JPG" width="250" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Pippin Hiding in the car&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The horse is my horse, William, who is 26 years old.&amp;nbsp; He is a real character and gentleman.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_BCtAL7U7t2k/R7NdH2FoBVI/AAAAAAAAAnA/TEiL6PI-K-8/s800/2001-12-Colleton%20Mill%20Farm%20Devon-Christmas%20William%204.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_BCtAL7U7t2k/R7NdH2FoBVI/AAAAAAAAAnA/TEiL6PI-K-8/s800/2001-12-Colleton%20Mill%20Farm%20Devon-Christmas%20William%204.JPG" width="250" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;William dressed up for Christmas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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Group Two&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/?action=view¤t=Familyportrait3wk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="365" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/Familyportrait3wk.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Edwin with Chicken - My Dad, David.&amp;nbsp; The egg and chicken have Glossy Accents for extra detail.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_BCtAL7U7t2k/S0i5fyRn9iI/AAAAAAAADD4/zBCDOUybAU4/s800/Graduation%20Family.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_BCtAL7U7t2k/S0i5fyRn9iI/AAAAAAAADD4/zBCDOUybAU4/s800/Graduation%20Family.jpg" width="250" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Family Portrait - Graduation 2005&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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My Dog, Rosie.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_BCtAL7U7t2k/SlzunaVbHwI/AAAAAAAACbY/YynTmHBpSMQ/s800/DSCF0758.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_BCtAL7U7t2k/SlzunaVbHwI/AAAAAAAACbY/YynTmHBpSMQ/s800/DSCF0758.JPG" width="250" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Rosie - Suffolk 2009 (her first holiday)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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The last Tilda - Tilda with cat.&amp;nbsp; Is me holding our cat Lucky.&lt;br /&gt;
Lv toria&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img height="100" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Blog/Dragonfly1WatermarkToriasig.png" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8462963420867395273-6010834931164948022?l=craftyphred.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/craftyphred/~3/SyuVByySj-c/my-family.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Phred)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/th_Familyportraitwk.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>10</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://craftyphred.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-family.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462963420867395273.post-4803873061921468539</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-12T04:14:00.294-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Spica Glitter Pens</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Copic</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Prairie Fairy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Digi stamps</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Stickles</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Magnolia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Magnolia Down Under</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Inktense</category><title>Time for Tea</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Hi Everyone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Thought I would share with you, this easel card I have made.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/?action=view¤t=teapotgreetingwm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="400" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/teapotgreetingwm.jpg" width="325" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The paper I have used are freebies from a magazine and I have added some glitz with stickles.&amp;nbsp; I created some flowers punched from the paper as well as leaves. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/?action=view¤t=teapotgreeting2wm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="400" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/teapotgreeting2wm.jpg" width="270" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I have used Memento to stamp the Tilda's and have coloured them in with copic's and spica glitter pens.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/?action=view¤t=teapotgreeting1wm.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="400" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/teapotgreeting1wm.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The teapot and cup are digi stamps from Prairie Fairy and I have coloured them in with Inktense pencils and have added stickles to them. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;The lid of the teapot hides a secret message.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/?action=view¤t=Teapotgreeting3wm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="400" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/Teapotgreeting3wm.jpg" width="292" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;I am entering this in the following challenges:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1060084258"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1060084259"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Magnolia Down Under - &lt;a href="http://magnoliadownunderchallenges.blogspot.com/2010/08/magnolia-down-under-challenges-58.html"&gt;Easel Card&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Sir Stamp Alot - &lt;a href="http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.com/2010/08/august-challenge.html"&gt;Bring on the Bling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Lv Toria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img height="100" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Blog/Dragonfly1WatermarkToriasig.png" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8462963420867395273-4803873061921468539?l=craftyphred.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/craftyphred/~3/_8nxgUkiDIA/time-for-tea.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Phred)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/th_teapotgreetingwm.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>12</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://craftyphred.blogspot.com/2010/08/time-for-tea.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462963420867395273.post-5976449929949120837</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-09T10:39:55.693-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Spica Glitter Pens</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Paper Piecing</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cute Companions</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Copic</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Parchment</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Crafters Companions</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Memento</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Techniques</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Crafty Cardmakers</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Nestabilities</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Magnolia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Design Team</category><title>Birthday Balloons and Crafty Cardmarkers 1st Birthday</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Hi Everyone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Crafty Cardmakers is 1 year old and to celebrate this, the theme for the challenge is &lt;a href="http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.com/2010/08/challenge-27-its-our-birthday.html"&gt;Birthday's&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Here is my Design Team card for the challenge this week.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/?action=view¤t=birthdayballoonswk-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="400" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/birthdayballoonswk-1.jpg" width="367" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I am a member of a parchment group and a question was asked on the group, about stamping on parchment.&amp;nbsp; I have stamped on parchment paper before,&amp;nbsp;so I&amp;nbsp;thought I would used this method&amp;nbsp;for this card.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/?action=view¤t=birthdayballoons6wk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="300" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/birthdayballoons6wk.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I choose to use Tilda&amp;nbsp;unwrapping&amp;nbsp;a present and stamped her onto the parchment paper with memento ink.&amp;nbsp; I left it to dry&amp;nbsp;over night.&amp;nbsp; I usually use stazeon but as&amp;nbsp;I wanted to use copic's&amp;nbsp;and stazeon does not work with copic's.&amp;nbsp;I found that when using copic's on parchment paper, the colour of the copic is not as bright as it would be on paper.&amp;nbsp; So to get round this I layed the colour up to get the desire depth, I wanted.&amp;nbsp; The other thing, I found was when I wanted a much lighter area then I could use the blended to remove the colour from the parchment.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The papers are from Papermania apart from the pink spot one, which is a freebie from a magazine.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/?action=view¤t=birthdayballoons3wk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="130" src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/birthdayballoons3wk.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;All the images are stamped in Memento Ink. The banner of&amp;nbsp;flags (also by Magnolia) and balloons (Cute Companions) are stamped on to matching papers, that I used on the main card. I have added colour to the flags and balloons with Spica glitter pens. The flags are stuck onto a piece of pink thread that I have sewn onto the card and I have added strings to the balloons with black pen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I used nestablilities to cut out an aperture in the blue card and also for the pink spot frame. I added heart brads to corner of the blue card and I like the idea of the flower paper showing though the parchment paper.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Wild Orchid Challenge - &lt;a href="http://wildorchidchallenge.blogspot.com/2010/08/challenge-3-one-for-girls.html"&gt;One for the Girls&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Fairy Friday - &lt;a href="http://prairiefairydesigns.com/challenge/2010/08/week-31/"&gt;Frame it in a Circle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Cute Card Thursday - &lt;a href="http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/2010/08/challenge-124-whateva.html"&gt;Whateva!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8462963420867395273-5976449929949120837?l=craftyphred.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/craftyphred/~3/0DbgQG2BJRo/birthday-balloons-and-crafty.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Phred)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/phredsfriends/Magnolia/th_birthdayballoonswk-1.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>15</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://craftyphred.blogspot.com/2010/08/birthday-balloons-and-crafty.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462963420867395273.post-4464930264876817520</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-08T12:55:15.990-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">My Photos</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sneak Peek</category><title>Passion Flowers and a Sneak Peek</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Hi Everyone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I wanted to share with everyone, the lovely Passion Flower that bloomed today, in our garden.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Also here is a sneak peek of something coming shortly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Here is my card for the Crafty Cardmakers, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.com/2010/08/spotlight-challenge-punches.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Spotlight challenge - Punches&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I have tried to follow Joy's recipe from the main challenge on Crafty Cardmakers - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.com/2010/07/challenge-26-joys-recipe.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Challenge 26 - Joy's Recipe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;
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I had some trouble with this card, as for some reason, my glossy accents would not dry and to top it off, one of the fish decided to jump out of the water and down the back of the radiator (I still have not fished it out!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I created a tent card from yellow card and some paper, that was&amp;nbsp;free from a magazine. I cut a aperture using a circle cutter.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The Seahorse, Weed and Mermaid are from the latest Magnolia Stamp Club. They are&amp;nbsp;all stamped with Memento Ink. For both the images, I created coloured paper, using combination of Starburst Stains and Mica Powder. I stamped the&amp;nbsp;one mermaid on white card and coloured her face and hair with Copics and Spica Glitter pens. Then I stamped her twice on to two different starburst backgrounds, that I created.&amp;nbsp; Then I used these to&amp;nbsp;paper pieced her together. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I made a hole in the top of the seahorse and the tent card. Then using&amp;nbsp;jump rings and chain, I&amp;nbsp;hang the seahorse from the top of the card. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Fish are created from three different punches - A leaf and two different sized hearts.&amp;nbsp; They are punched from the backgrounds I created using the starburst stains.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Once stuck to together, I used a waterproof pen to add an eye, scales and details to the tail/fin.&amp;nbsp; I added more colour to them with mica paint.&amp;nbsp; Once dry I covered them in Glossy Accents.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Prairie Fairy - &lt;a href="http://prairiefairydesigns.com/challenge/2010/07/week-30/"&gt;3D&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I made this card for a friends birthday.&amp;nbsp; The brown spot paper and pink Gingham&amp;nbsp;are by Papermaina.&amp;nbsp; The card is from my stash.&amp;nbsp; The Crinkle paper is one, I created with a piece of white card, that I scrunched up and then coloured with two colours of chalk.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I chose to use Tilda Blowing bubbles and added some more bubbles using Glossy Accents.&amp;nbsp; Tilda is coloured with Copic's and Spica Glitter pens.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I edged the card in brown lace and also used the same lace on the centre band of pink gingham.&amp;nbsp; I also created a bow from the lace.&amp;nbsp; I was really pleased how well the bow turned out as I have not use lace before with my bow easy.&amp;nbsp; I created three pins using some beads I had in my stash and added these behind my bow.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I added a butterfly peeloff that I stuck on to acetate and some flowers, that I created from paper and lace.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I am entering this in the following challenges:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Just Magnolia - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://justmagnolia.blogspot.com/2010/07/week-65-vintage.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Vintage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Sweet Stampin - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/challenge-36-vintage.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Vintage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Dutch Dare - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://dutchdare-cardchallenges.blogspot.com/2010/07/ddcc-83-july-29-anything-goes.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Anything Goes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Paper Play - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://paperplaychallenges.blogspot.com/2010/07/10-week-30-anything-goes.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Anything Goes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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