PCYC markets & new cards

I will go back and add a few more names to the blog awards below later but I have to get off this computer soon and I just wanted to do a quick reminder about the PCYC markets on sunday if you're after a nice morning out.

I have three new cards for you. The dinosaur stamp I bought down the coast (see point 6 below) and I liked them so much I've placed an order for them and a few others with the company.

Both coloured with Marvy markers

For this one I used Darkroom Door's Wildflowers stamps for the flowers & butterfly and used the "colour direct to stamp technique" with Marvy Markers.

Blog Award

A big thank you to Ann over at Raggedyann's Playground for giving me the Versatile Blogger award. I'm supposed to tell you seven things about me and also send the award on to 15 other friends/bloggers (not sure I'll get that many).

1. I love to read.
2. I love Italian food.
3. I love to "do coffee".
4. I love to travel.
5. I'm a blood donor.
6. I spend too much money on stamps :)
7. Occasionally I make bread.

The award goes to:

1. Rachel

2. Shandell

3. Helen

4. Lorelle

5. Vicky

6. Annette

3 ATC's

Three more ATC's for the trading frenzy that is on this Saturday.

For the crowns I mixed a little gold Perfect Pearls with water to get a thick liquid and then painted them with a small paint brush. The background was done with Distress inks swiped onto a craft mat and watered down then applied with a brush.

For this one I stamped the heart part of the stamp onto cardstock and cut it out then "opaled" (thick embossing powder) the heart in red and pressed a stamp into it while still warm then dusted the heart with gold Perfect Pearls. Then I carefully cut around the two hands, applied glue to the base heart and slid the opaled heart in place and added a dab of glue to the back of the hands and pressed them on top of the opaled heart. the flowers are rub-ons that I've had for a while.

A bit fiddly but I really like the way it turned out.

Fruits of the garden

We have some fruit trees in our backyard and at the moment we are picking limes, paw paws & passionfruit. It's great to have your own grown produce.

On a different subject I was reading Petrina's blog (it might have been facebook) recently and she mentioned that the Quilters Shack has moved and she went in to have a look.

This afternoon I thought I would go along and have a browse myself. I have to admit the street they're in doesn't strike me as somewhere to have a craft shop and the outside of the building is black which is a bit off putting. However when you get inside they have a huge amount of room and the back part is especially nice where the patchwork fabrics are.  

I have to say that I was browsing for a good 15 minutes until someone approached me with "are you right". It's not a phrase I would have thought someone other than a teenager would use in a retail situation but obviously I'm wrong. They do have a small range of Kaisercraft and I'm told they're expanding the scrapbook stock.