Digital Tuesday and Fred She Said DT

This week it's Shelly's turn to host the challenge over at Digital Tuesday and she wants us to use our scraps.
Now I  know you all have loads of scraps that get tossed into a box or drawer or wherever you keep them and then they are forgotten about, so this is the perfect opportunity for you to have a good rummage and use up some of your scraps.
I have tied this weeks card in with my Fred She Said DT card and used all scraps to make it (they were scraps from 12x12 sheets though so maybe thats cheating a bit lol, but they are scraps all the same :)

My image is a pre coloured one from Fred She Said called Smelling The Cherry Blossoms which you can view here and the blossoms are from the same set. You get 8 different colours in the set and each has a image coloured like this with the background and also just the girl herself with a white background and of course the blossoms coloured to match in 3 different sizes, which I layed on top of one another.
The puple cardstock is Bassil Bling and the dp is Basic Grey. I have had the dp in my stash for months and only had this square left so it was perfect to use for the scraps challenge :)
Finally I finished off with some vellum butterflies which I cut from a scrap piece of printed vellum, which I thought I would never use, but I  cut loads out so you will be seeing them pop up on my cards now and again. Thanks Shelly for making me actually go through all my scraps because I found bits I had forgotton about or never knew I had lol.

Heres's a close up of the silver vellum butterflies and a bit of the image and flowers too :)

Now I'm off to get my DT projects finished for By The Cute and Girly challenge as all the girls have done their projects (which are amazing by the way) and I am last to get mine done as usual! So better get to it!
Before I go though, my 6 year old Daughter Rhianna wants me to tell you that she helped do this post lol, she wants her own blog but I said no so she wanted to help by uploading my pics and writing some of the words for me instead lol. She loves looking at everyones blogs and she wants to say hi to everyone who reads my blog, so.... a big hi from Rhianna xx (I've got to keep her occupied and happy somehow during the holidays! lol


Thanks for stopping by

Fred She Said March challenge - Spring

Warning, this will be a long post!!
It's time for another Fred She Said challenge and this month the theme is Spring, and we want to see your creations loaded with pretty pastel colours :)
I used one of the older images for my card but also a pricking pattern from one of the new sets.

I used the cute Little Miss Bitty and coloured her with my Polychromos Pencils and Sansodor, and I also used part of the pricking pattern from the new Spring Flowers set. I just printed the pattern out then used 2 of the corner pieces to do the top corners on my card.

Here's a close up of the pricking :)

The pricking was actually an after thought lol. I had the card all done when I decided that I would do some pricking, hence why the pricking doesn't fit properly in the corner and goes over a bit of my image mat, but it looks ok in real life :)
 The papers are a total mish mash, the spotty strip is papermania (I think), the blue paper is a freebie from a magazine and I can't remember who makes the checked paper.
 The pretty pink rose is from Hobby craft and the white ones are from a local florist warehouse and I added some leaves to them which I found in my flower box (they had fallen off other roses, so waste not want not lol). The gold wire and bead spray is also from the florist warehouse, and the lace is from my local haberdashery, it's really sparkly but you can't see the sparkle here.

I took a close up pic of the pretty flowers,  just cause I felt like it lol.

Remember to pop pover to the challenge blog to see the other girls cards, as always they have done a fab job! And of course if you join in with the challenge, you could win a $20 voucher to spend in the FSS store! Imagine how much "pretties" you could buy with that !! ;)
You must use a FSS image on your creation so if you don't have any, why not check out some of the new Spring releases which are all perfect for this challenge? or you could use one of the many FSS freebies which can all be viewed here.

Well that's the card done for today, now I'm off to see if I can get some goodies for Chiara's birthday party.
My baby will be 5 on the 7th of April and she has never had a proper party and as her birthday is in the middle of the Spring break I was just going to take her to the fun fair or something and then go for something to eat or whatever she wanted to do, but on Thursday I was talking to her and she said she really wanted a party, so I phoned everywhere and finally got a space in a local community centre :)
They didn't have any weekend dates but as the kids are on holiday it didn't really matter, so we got the Thursday afternoon, which is the day after her birthday, so now I have to get all the stuff for the party and her birthday pressies.
I wanted it to be a special party for her as it's her first and she is now old enough to play games with etc so I looked into getting a clown or a magician or something like that, but although I could of got a few even at this short notice, I decided against it as the kids are aged between 3 and 5 so some may not sit to watch a magician and some of the younger ones may be a bit scared of the clown as they tend to be really noisy so in the end I went for a facepainter :)
I could of probably painted the kids faces myself, but I don't want to be painting faces and trying to play games with them etc, so I hired a professional face painter. She seems like a lovely lady and I am quite looking forward to the party now lol. I may even get my face painted and take a pic for you all to have a laugh at lol.

If anyone has any ideas about what else we could do at her party to make it a bit different from the normal pass the parcel etc or something "special" I could do (preferably something that doesn't cost a fortune because I am running out of money.....fast! lol) then I am all ears :)
The majority of kids will be nursery age (3-5) so needs to be something suitable for that age group and there will be a mix of girls and boys so nothing too girly, although I would love to have a real girly party lol.
Oh and there is already a big bouncy castle at the community centre for us to use :)

Right I'm signing off now before I send you off to sleep! lol
Thanks for stopping by and please do leave me a comment or email me if you have any ideas because I really do need them! :)

Hugs

Digital Tuesday - Spring

 If you are looking for my Fred She Said blog hop post, it's below this one :)

The challenge this week over at Digital Tuesday is Spring and we have another fabulous sponsor, Stitchy Stamps who also let the design team have a play with some of her images. This is another digi store that I just love and she has so many gorgeous images.
I chose a sweet little ducky to use on my card and this is what I came up with.

How cute is this image? I coloured it with Polychromos pencils and oms and I used some glitter crystal lacquer on the bubbles.
The paper is K&Co and the pink piece at the bottom is a freebie from a magazine. Ribbon is the same one I used on yesterdays card and is by Bo Bunny.
The flowers are from Fred She Said and were ones i had left over from a FSS DT card I done a while back. They are coloured with my pencils and oms and I used flocking powder in the centres.
I used the new Fred She Said pricking pattern that I also used on yesterdays card (told you I loved it lol).
You can't see it very well in this pic so I took a close up to show the pricking.

Now I'm off to have a cuppa and put my feet up because I have been out all day helping at an event at the kids school. I've been there since 9.45 this morning and just got home and it's now 9pm and I am soooo tired because I haven't sat on my bum the whole day! So think it's about time I got to sit down and do absolutely nothing lol.

Thanks for stopping by.


Lora x

Fred She Said March Blog Hop!

Welcome to our THIRD "FRED SHE SAID" blog hop!!! If you just happened to drop by my blog and you are not aware of this wonderful event taking place, please go back to the "FRED SHE SAID" blog here and start your hop!

Please, we would love it if you commented on our posts.

Along the way, you will see a special CODE WORD. Collect them all up! Once you reach the end of the blog hop (which will be the "Fred She Said" Challenge blog), follow the instructions to make your entry and your name will go in for a draw for a $20 Gift Certificate for the Fred She Said Store!

Here is my "Fred She Said" creation:

I used one  the new paper pricking patern- frame and flourish set for my card. Tracey has very cleverly done these to fit the Top Note die and also the label 8 nesties, so you can cut them out with your dies, but if you are like me and don't have any of those dies, you can also just cut them out with good old fashioned scissors like I did for this one.

The flowers are also from the same set and I coloured them with Pholychromos pencils and oms then inked the edges with some distress ink, and added a tiny spacer and pearl on each one.

The paper is DCWV (I think) and the ribbon is Bo Bunny, which I just made a faux bow with.

Not my usual style of card but I actualy had fun making it and I love the pricking pattern, so much so that I  had to use it for another of my DT cards that I made after I finished this one, but you will see that tomorrow :)

I'm not sure if I like the card but I like the simplicity of it and I know I will use this set lots because I love the frame :)

Here's a close up of the pricking pattern

Isn't it pretty? As always Tracey has made loads of variations in this set and there is also loads more new releases today that ou just got to check out. If you love flowers, you are gonna love what she has in store for you!

My special code word is:

SPRING

Here is a list of the blog hoppers in case you lose your way:

FRED SHE SAID BLOG

Shelly 

Michelle 

CAROL L

DARSIE B

JUDY 

CAROL H

MARIA

LISA 

LORA 

DEANNE 

FRED SHE SAID CHALLENGE BLOG

This blog hop will run from today, March 22nd until March 28. On the 29th, the winner will be announced on the "Fred She Said" blog http://fred-she-said.blogspot.com/ .

Thank-you for taking the time to play along.  Now, to continue the blog hop, please visit Deanne

I just know she will have something fabulous to show you!

When you are finished hopping, why not check out the Fred She Said Store!