Giving Thanks

The joy of parenthood and children is certainly something to be thankful for and I know how blessed I am to have my own two beautiful children. In fact I have turned into one of those Mum’s whose whole life revolves around their children and the activities they have embraced. I am thankful that in all my children attempt… they try their hardest, what more could you ask for! When I saw this image it reminded me of when I was pregnant, and I had this favourite dress I wore and I have copied the fabric design onto my image Mom Loves You from Milk Coffee. 

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GIVING THANKS

Your creation could be about the holiday Thanksgiving, or could be a Thank You for another reason... we don't mind, as long as you're giving thanks!

Milk Coffee  is our sponsor for this weeks challenge and there is a random winner’s prize ! Our Design Team at Card Crafter’s Circle has created some beautiful creations to inspire you! Check them out!

Challenges I am entering:

1. Simply Create Too - Give Thanks + Birthday
2. Penny's Challenge - Give Thanks
3. Love to Create - Give Thanks
4. Di's Digi Designs - Give Thanks
5. The Squirrel & The Fox - Anything Goes
6. Cute Card Thursday
7. Milk Coffee - Thanksgiving/Thanks

Have  fun!!

Hugs Trish xx

HO HO MERRY CHRISTMAS

I love this image from Bugaboo Stamps because it reminds me of my own two cute kids and how happy that I am to be truly blessed to have them in my life. I would also like to thank my girlfriend Vicki for helping me work out my card design, you know what I mean… when you just go blank…. and not sure what to do, and there is a looming deadline. I’ve had my eye on this red & white striped ribbon for a while, and a friend recently gave me some so I’ve used it to add texture to the front of my card combined with the embossed layer.

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Twist of Faith  for our 12th Challenge

CHILDREN

The prize offered to our randomly drawn prize winner is from Bugaboo Stamps .Pop over and see my team mates cards over at Twist of Faith !

Challenges I am entering:

1. Forever Friends - Use Ribbon

2. Paper Playtime - Anything Goes

3. Victorine Stamps - Anything Christmas

4. Dream Valley Challenges - Anything Goes

5. Pan Pastel UK - Red & Green

6. One Stitch at a Time - Use a Digi

7. Sir Stampalot -Traditional Christmas

Have a great week

Hugs Trish Munro

Christmas Card

I used some patterned paper from Kaisercraft and the flowers on this paper are all velvet. and it feels so nice and especially perfect for a wintery style Christmas Card.  I wanted Candy Cane Ava from Bugaboo Stamps to look like a Christmas ornament hanging under the tree. I added a smile to Ava with my Copic Multi liner.

 

 

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Card Crafter’s Circle 47th  Challenge

PATTERNED PAPER

Bugaboo Stamps is our sponsor for this weeks challenge and there is a random winner’s prize ! Our Design Team at Card Crafter’s Circle has created some beautiful creations to inspire you! Check them out!

Challenges I am entering:

1. Crafty Ribbons – Christmas
2. Forever Friends - Anything Goes
3. My Heart Pieces – Ribbon
4. Paper Crafting Journey - Ribbon or Twine
5. Card and Scrap – Christmas
6. Live and Love Crafts – Christmas
7. Really Reasonable Ribbon - Winter Holiday & Ribbon
8. Unique Crafters - November Sugar & Spice
9. Visible Image – Sparkle
10. Divas by Design - Feeling Festive

Have a great weekend

Hugs Trish Munro

Merry Christmoose Card

I’ve had my eye on this funny moose for a while, he’s from Bugaboo Stamps and it really made me smile. I‘d love to see a real moose in the wild one day.   

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Twist of Faith  for our 8th Challenge

ANIMALS

The prize offered to our randomly drawn prize winner is from Bugaboo Stamps .Pop over and see my team mates cards over at Twist of Faith ! 
Challenges I am entering:

1. Creative Inspirations Paint - Anything Goes
2. One Stitch at a Time - Use a Digi
3. Pan Pastel UK – Animals
4. Pile it on – Holiday
5. The Crafty Pad – Animal
6. One Stop Craft - Anything Goes
7. Christmas Stampin All Year Long - Traditional Colours
8. Jingle Belles - Creature Feature
9. QKR Stampede - Animal Madness
10. Totally Papercrafts - Christmas

Have a great week

Hugs Trish Munro

Halloween Card

This is the first Halloween card I have ever made. One kid in our street started off the Halloween Trick or Treat tradition a few years ago and it’s grown bigger every year since and even the surrounding streets have followed!! All I could think of was Johnny Depp for Halloween so I used a pirate from KPM Doodles as my focal point, I added smudged eyeliner and dreadlocks(eyelash wool melted with Embossing Heat Gun) and a beard to make him really look ready to Trick or Treat!  I added glitter to my shimmering moon and I created my own sentiments. The pumpkins,moon,ghost, little witch (inside card) and candy bags digis are all from KPM Doodles and I really enjoyed creating a scene. I’ve finally ticketed off my I’d love to do list …my hand punched fence.

Inside my card I have floorboards with spiders, very CREEPY!!!

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Card Crafter’s Circle 45th  Challenge

HALLOWEEN

KPM Doodles  is our sponsor for this weeks challenge and there is a random winner’s prize ! Our Design Team at Card Crafter’s Circle has created some beautiful creations to inspire you! Check them out!

Challenges I am entering:

1. Digi Stamps 4 Joy - Anything Goes plus Masculine
2. Lady Anne Challenges - Anything Goes plus must use some kind of Stamp or Digi
3. Crafting for all Seasons – Spooky
4. Diva's by Design – Spooky
5. Dude Time Doodles - Halloween and Masculine
6. Fab n Funky - Orange , Black plus Choice
7. Stamp n Doodle - Anything Goes
8. Die Cuttin Divas - Use a Pumpkin
9. Papertake Weekly - Fright Night Spooky
10. Cards for Men - Orange & Black

Have a great weekend

Hugs Trish Munro

Christmas Card in Black,White & Red

I used Holly’s Stocking from The Digi Garden for my latest Christmas creation. Christmas is coming so fast I only hope to get as many cards made over the next few weeks to be really ready, as a card maker it’s embarrassing  to give out store bought cards. I bought this swirly Winterland  tree die at the last craft fair and it was so exciting to finally use it. On Christmas day in our house we dress up in Santa Hats even though we live in a tropical climate but determined to celebrate the occasion, this image reminded me of our family.  I added some flower soft to her hat to give it a fluffy look and Santa Stocking and a smile to Holly with my Copic Multi Liner because she is definitely thinking about what Santa is going to bring! I also added baby pearl bling as earrings!!

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Card Crafter’s Circle 44th  Challenge

BLACK , WHITE & ONE OTHER COLOUR

The Digi Garden is our sponsor for this weeks challenge and the winner’s prize is choice of 6 images! Our Design Team at Card Crafter’s Circle has created some beautiful creations to inspire you! Check them out!

Challenges I am entering:

1. Crafty Bloggers Network - Anything Goes
2. Incy Wincy Designs - Anything Goes
3. The Cutie Pie Challenge - Use a Digi
4. Crafting for all Seasons - Costumes/Dress Ups
5. Crafts & Me - Anything Goes
6. Divas by Design - Anything Goes
7. Simon Says - Dies and Punches
8. Whimsy Stamps - All things Sparkly
9. Bearly Mine - Pearls & Swirls
10. Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes 

Have a great weekend

Hugs Trish Munro

Every Summer has a Story ♥

My daughter helped me pick out this digi from Pholkart Blessings Digi Stamps called You've Got Mail how could I resist such a cute image!! I am really enjoying the beautiful weatherthat I am experiencing at the moment and used this as inspiration for my card! I made my own sentiment “Every Summer has a Story ♥” and added a smile and eyes to my ladybug on insistence of my daughter as the final touch.

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Twist of Faith  for our 6th Challenge

FOR EVERY SEASON

The prize offered to our randomly drawn prize winner is your choice of two digital images from Pholkart Blessings Digi Stamps .Pop over and see my team mates cards over at Twist of Faith ! 
Challenges I am entering:

1. Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
2. Joanna Sheen - Down in the Garden
3. Catch the Bug - October Anything Goes
4. Delicious Doodles – Flowers
5. Stamping with Dragon – Animals
6. Pixie Dust Studio - Anything Goes
7. Paper Pretties – Flowers
8. Sentimental Sundays - Anything Goes plus a Sentiment

Have a great day

Hugs Trish Munro

Sunset Seagull Card

I used Seafaring Seagull Frame from Meljens and I was totally inspired by a card I saw over at my blogging friend Brenda’s of Floral Fantasies and have had something in mind for a while. I enjoyed making the background.

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Card Crafter’s Circle 43rd  Challenge

AUTUMN COLOURS

 Meljens is our sponsor for this weeks challenge and there is a prize ! Our Design Team at Card Crafter’s Circle has created some beautiful creations to inspire you! Check them out!

Challenges I am entering:

1. Catch the Bug - Anything Goes
2. Crafty Bloggers Network - Anything Goes
3. Daisy Doodles - One for the Boys
4. Forever Friends - Anything Goes
5. Kaboodle Doodles - Colours of Autumn
6. Paper Pretties - Fall Inspiration
7. Tammy's Scrappin Corner - Fall Colours
8. Do You Stack Up - Warm Colours
9. Pixie Dust Studio - Anything Goes
10. Crafty Creations - Colours of Fall

Have a great weekend

Hugs Trish Munro

Vintage Card

  I had a lot of fun making this Vintage style card and I used two papers and ripped the edge thru the middle and inked the edges.I then sprayed walnut inks over the top, green ink over the blue paper on the left and a brown ink over the right side. I had a list in my head of products I wanted to see on my card …pearls definitely, vintage flowers, lace which I left a frayed edge and wove some satin ribbon thru for extra detail , I even managed to add a feather. The big bow ribbon has detailed stitching and a perfect accent. I purchased this ruler ribbon on the bottom recently and was dying to use it! She is such a sweet little girl and she has that lovely vintage childhood memories feel to it, kind of like the Secret Garden.

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our Sponsor this week is Whoopsie Daisy 

Our challenge is to pull out the old stuff, the muted colours, to create something

VINTAGE!

Our Design Team at Card Crafter’s Circle has created some beautiful creations to inspire you! Check it out!

Challenges I am entering:

1. Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
2. Clear it Out - A project with a child image on it
3. The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes
4. Craft Room - Childhood Memories
5. Paper Play Challenges -Flowers & Lace
6. Digital Tuesday - Say it with Flowers
7. Oldie but a Goodie - Show us your ribbons
8. Sassy Cheryl's - Inspiration Photo
9. Platypus Creek Digitals - Pearls & Lace
10. It's all about the Vintage - Brown Tones

Have a great weekend

Hugs Trish Munro

Roses & Ribbon Pocket Card

When I decided to use this Full Bloom Rose digi this week from Happileigh Scrappin all I could visualise was a pot full of flowers. So I made a Flower Pot Pocket Card and changed the dimensions to suit my image. I used a kraft coloured cardboard scrap of packaging that had black marker writing on it and most of that is concealed by being either under designer paper or inside the pocket, but the kraft colour was just right for what I had in mind. After I made the base of the card I sponged the edges with pink ink inside and out and now it’s finished you would never that I recycled this cardboard but I’m trying to be thrifty and even the ribbon is from a box of chocolates I was given about three years ago.I also used a second lovely thick ribbon underneath and the sheer one over the top for a lovely effect. There is some gain by being a hoarder and today was the day I used a few bits and pieces up that have been in my stash for years!!!

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Card Crafter’s Circle 41st  Challenge

Our Sponsor this week is Happileigh Scrappin

Our random prize winner will receive the images showcased by our Design Team at Card Crafter’s Circle! 

Challenges I am entering:

1. House of Gilli - More than 1 Fold
2. Paper Pretties - Use Ribbon
3. Crafts & Me – Roses
4. Divas by Design - Lovely Layers
5. Penny's Challenges - Shaped Cards
6. Cutie Pie – Shaped Cards
7. Ribbon Girl -Photo Inspiration (Pink & Green)
8. Oldie but a Goodie – Ribbons
9. Cute Card Thursday - Different Shaped Card
10. Little Miss Muffet - Anything but Square

Have a great weekend

Hugs Trish Munro

Grow With Love

I picked Watering my Garden digi from Soft Pencil Studios because this activity in Summer is so very relaxing for me and one of my all time favourite things to do at home! I used my Retro Flower Punch in two sizes to create my own flowers and they tone in nicely with my colour scheme.

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Twist of Faith  for our 3rd Challenge

The prize offered to our randomly drawn prize winner, consists of all 3 Soft Pencil Studios digital images .

Our Design Team at Twist of Faith has created some beautiful creations to inspire you! Check them out!

Challenges I am entering:

1. Challenges 4 Everybody- Anything Goes
2. Joanna Sheen - So Sweet
3. No Matter Which Challenge - Dies & or Punches
4. The Squirrel & The Fox - Anything Goes
5. Digi Design - Use more than 1 die or punch
6. Avadares Challenge -Make it Sparkle
7. Polka Doodle - Ice Cream Colours
8. Simply Create Too- Anything Goes
9. Digi Doodle - Anything Goes
10. Milk Coffee - Use at least 2 different shapes

Have a great day

Hugs Trish Munro

Sympathy Card

I decided that I did not have a Sympathy Card and I wanted to have one ready, so I picked out Inspirational Cross 1 from Stamp Art Designs by Kathryne. I added a dimensional layer on lower leaves and the centre flower  and used dimensional adhesive. As soon as I made it I my Mother in Law needed it for a dear friend of hers. A friend of mine designed the sketch for me to use and I used some gingham to contrast with my background paper and colour matched my flower to the gingham. Another girlfriend gave me this lovely ribbon and this worked nicely to match in with my card.

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Card Crafter’s Circle 40th  Challenge

Our Sponsor this week is Stamp Art Designs by Kathryne

Our random prize winner will receive their choice of 4 SADK images.... so many to choose from ...see them all here at the Whimsy Store! Our Design Team at Card Crafter’s Circle has created some beautiful creations to inspire you! Check it out!

Challenges I am entering:

1. Digi Stamps 4 Joy - Colours of Spring
2. Digi Doodle - Anything Goes........(Final Challenge)
3. Forever Friends Monthly Challenge – Ribbon
4. Milk Coffee - Use at least 2 different shapes
5. My Heart Pieces - Anything Goes
6. Paper Pretties - use Punches
7. The Paper Shelter - Punch it
8. Paper Playtime - Gingham & Die/Punch
9. Ribbon Carousel - Sympathy Card
10. Twisted Tuesday - Never Forget

Have a great weekend

Hugs Trish Munro

Margarita

I made this card for my sister Margaret who is having her 60th Birthday. I wanted to create something she would like and as she has always enjoyed parties, I felt she would love this image of a Margarita that I picked out at Oak Pond Creations. It’s also a play on her name, so I split the name so she gets the fun side of what I have created and she can clearly see what she is affectionately known as - Marg. I used my Provo Craft Circa 12pts stamp to create the word ..MARGARITA, it's one of the first stamps I ever bought and hardly use ..we all have a few things we buy with good intentions and then forget we own them. I'm on a mission to resort my craft area...so I can find things better and put the stuff I use all the time at the front. I'm one of those messy arty types, and even I can't believe how much stuff I need out to make just one card. All tips or links greatly appreciated!

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Card Crafter’s Circle 33rd  Challenge

  Our challenge theme for you this week is to be uncluttered, uncomplicated, but bold and fresh.... we want you to create in the style of 

CAS - Clean and Simple

We are excited to share that this week we have two prize winners, because we have two sponsors!

A randomly drawn winner will receive their choice of five (5) digital images from

  Robyn's Fetish!  

Another randomly drawn winner will receive their choice of two (2) digital images from

   Oak Pond Creations

Challenges I am entering:

1. Fashionista Challenge - Baby or Birthday
2. Anything Goes Challenge - Lets not be square
3. Oldie but Goodie - Inspiration photo
4. Incy wincy designs - Lets party
5. Stampin Sisters in Christ - Clean & Simple
6. Oozak - Bright Colours
7. Jacksons Digital Expressions - Anything goes
8. Paper Pretties - Clean & Simple
9. Simon Says Stamps - Simon Says Anything Goes
10. Crafts and Me Challenges - Anything Goes

Have a great weekend

Cheers Trish

Soccer/Football Birthday Card

I made this for my son for his16th Birthday using a new product I picked up at the Brisbane Craft Fair Anita’s Quality Essential- Die Cut Toppers-Football.Thank goodness my friend Vicki talked me into buying this die cut, it’s great.  I really need a set of Oval Spellbinders as I feel it would have been perfect for an extra layer (something else to tell Santa I really need!) . My son is an amazing soccer player for his age and played in two teams this year , so this was the perfect card for him. This is my first finished easel card and I used up more bits and pieces from my stash and my best find was this ball that I had originally purchased about 3yrs ago with very good intentions to do something  Soccer/Football and finally it has made it onto a card, and the beautiful red embossed cardstock was a hand me down! 

 

    Sweet Sixteen!

 

 

 

 

 

Challenges this card qualifies for:

Shopping our stash 24: sports

My Sheri 72: all about sports

The poodles parlour: let's hear it for the boys

Die cuttin' divas 39: it's football season

Cardmakin mamas 32: cut it out - die cuts

Papertake: anything goes

Come and get it: anything goes

Dream valley 19: anything goes

Lollipop crafts 55: anything goes

Paper playtime 59: anything goes

Pollycraft 117: anything goes

Make it Monday 61

Inspire me Fridays 30

Thanks for all your encouragement

Trish Munro

Golf Birthday Card

I made this Golf Birthday Card card for my girlfriends Dad. Clive is 75 today and I was inspired by my friend Vicki Fraser to make this card after she made my hubby a golf card for his birthday. I’m always happy to take bits and pieces no longer wanted in my circle of crafters and the grass and sky are all wallpapers given to me. I love the texture of the green wallpapers they really add a great effect  for the grass and the sky wallpaper… well I wish I had a whole roll of that! I used my Stampin Up Scallop Edge Border Punch to make the grass.

Challenges this card qualifies for:

• Marks Finest Papers-Use your Scraps
• My Sheri Crafts-all about Sports
• The Poodles Parlour-Lets hear it for the boys
• Charisma Cardz - Anything goes
• Moving along with the times-no girls allowed

Have a great weekend

Trish Munro

Spellbinder Nestabilities Peony Handmade Flower & Recycling Plastic Bag Tutorial

I received the wonderful gift of socks for a gift and kept the plastic bag with zip to recycle. I made the flower using the Spellbinders Nestabilities Peony using 3 coloured papers, for assembly see my Make a Flower Video on my Trish and Treasure YouTube Channel. I  die cut two Stampin Up Sizzix Bigz Top Note out: one in polka dot paper, and the other in white. I used the white one on the inside to hide out the sock packaging details and I used Tim Holtz Alterations Carnivale lettering die, using up scraps left over from my polka dot paper for the lettering inside for ANITA. I made this for my darling daughter! I have also made a YouTube Tutorial so you can see how easy it was to make!

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I am going to enter this project into the following challenges:

• http://gingerloftchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/10/gl26-color-orange.html Use the colour Orange
• http://creataliciouschallenges.blogspot.com/2011/09/challenge-26.html Anything Goes
• http://emeraldfaeries.blogspot.com/2011/10/10-october-punchesdies-team.html Use Punches/Dies
• http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/happy-world-card-making-day-october.html Anything Goes
• http://marksfinestpapers.blogspot.com/2011/10/speedy-cats-friends-challenge-week.html Use Polka Dots
• http://ssdschallenge.blogspot.com/2011/10/anything-but-card.html Anything BUT a Card
• http://4craftychicks.blogspot.com/2011/09/challenge-57-crazy-egg-anything-goes.html Anything Goes
• http://paper-craftingjourney.blogspot.com/2011/09/pcj-challenge-20die-cuts-andor-punches.html Use Die Cuts and or Punches
• http://whimsicalwednesdays.blogspot.com/2011/09/anything-goes.html Anything Goes

Trish Munro