Winnie & Walter & Simon Says Stamp a One Layered Rainbow in Less than 10 Minutes...

I just had to join in the fun with Winnie & Walter Share the Love featuring Simon Says Stamp. With five challenges currently on the Winnie & Walter blog (in addition to the Winnie & Walter August Release Tour with the Stars), I thought I would combine the Rainbow, One Layer and Craft Dash (create a card in less than 10 Minutes) Challenges. I am not sure exactly how long this took to make, but with my trusty timer out of batteries (maybe trusty is a bit of a misnomer!) I asked DS to turn on the kitchen timer for 10 minutes, and it hadn't gone off before I finished. Created with Winnie & Walter's The Big, The Bold & the You, paired with Simon Says Stamp Handwritten Sentiments and Momento Luxe inks in Love Letter, Morocco, Dandelion, Pear Tart and Bahamas Blue. 

Craft Dash tips:

• Choose a simple design
• Use a Fiskars stamp press (or similar) to make aligning the stamps a breeze!

Happy New Year & New FUSION Team!

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Wishing you and yours a happy and healthy 2014!

Most of my crafting goodies are packed away at the moment, during the festive season, 

but I couldn't resist playing along with the last 10 Minute Craft Dash. teaming up with CASual Fridays Happy New Year, and CAS(E) this Sketch.

Stamps from WeR Memory Keepers Firework, Uniko Studio Happy and Sweet Stamp Shop New Year, stamped in glue and sprinkled with Silver Making Memories glitter, then the corners rounded and pop dotted on red cardstock and over a silver cardstock base.

Hop over to the FUSION blog for all the details of the fabulous new
FUSION Design Team, the next Challenge starts on January 2nd!

Betty J
Cathy Weber 
Dannielle Robeson
Deepti
Geri Freeman
Julia Aston
Katie Brooks
Kelly Griglione
Kimberly Wiener 

Lyndal Higgins (that's ME!)

Lynn Mangan

Michelle Lupton
Michelle Williams

Sindhu

Stephanie Severin

 

Dashing Across the Evergreen Lawn...

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Just managed to Dash across the line for this fortnights 10 Minute Craft Dash, which coincidentally has some fabulous Lawn Fawn goodies as the prize!  Also playing along with Lawn Fawn Catalog Challenge - Anything Goes, and the Paper Players Evergreen Challenge with my evergreen wreath.  Combined three Lawn Fawn sets to create this cute wreath and two turtle doves. Peace, Joy, Love branches, heart and birds, Happily Ever After bow Trim the Tree sentiment, stamped in Momento Luxe Love Letter, Pear Tart and Dandelion inks.

10 Minute Tips

• If you die cut the circle before stamping, you have an edge you can use as your guide for stamping.
• Make sure you have a plan and all your supplies and tools to hand before you start the stopwatch!
• Foam tape on a roll is quick to use as you can peel the backing tape before you cut it :)

 

Dashing I {heart} You...

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Before I cleared off my crafting space from yesterday's card, I decided I'd have another go at combining the current Paper Smooches Sparks Picture Perfect Challenge and 10 Minute Craft Dash challenges.  This one is a bit more literal LOL. Stamps from Paper Smooches Smoocheroos and Promenade.

Paper Smooches Sparks Picture Perfect Challenge and 10 Minute Craft Dash

This made me smile...

A Smooching Dash Down the Aisle...

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I thought I'd combine this fortnights 10 Minute Craft Dash colours with this weeks Paper Smooches Sparks Picture Perfect Challenge, especially when the first thing I thought of when I saw this weeks Picture Perfect Challenge was a sandcastle mixed with this couple, perfect for a modern fairy tale romance! Paper Smooches Royal Cuteness knight and princess stamped in Hero Arts Navy and Bubble Gum, with the castle in Butter Bar.  Created some depth by using Paper Smooches Borders 1 to create this sweeping pathway from MME The Sweetest Thing - Tangerine paper, overstamped with Simply Said sentiment, also in Navy. As the knights pony tail (or whatever it is officially known as LOL) is over the edge, Im linking up with The Little Red Wagon Off the Edge Challenge too.

Paper Smooches Sparks Picture Perfect Challenge and 10 Minute Craft Dash

A Dash of Love, Joy & Hope...

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...three things you can never have too much of .

Playing along with Festive Friday Colour Challenge, 10 Minute Craft Dash Buttons Challenges and Dream Valley CAS Challenge. This would almost have to be a record for me from the start of an idea to the to finish of a card too - amazing what one will do to avoid housework LOL!  These gorgeous WPlus9 die-cuts and Fancy Pants buttons, together with Swiss Dots embossing folder make for a super fast & fun card :)

10 Minute Dash Tips:

• Die-cuts, die-cuts and more die cuts :)
• Do as many cuts as you can in one pass to save time, I die-cut the three words and one snowflake altogether in the first pass.
• I centred the Swiss Dots on my cardstock before embossing them, then the Swiss Dots creates a natural grid to assist in aligning the die-cuts accurately and quickly.
• I lined up the longest word first (hope), then aligned "joy" above that and "love" above that.

 

This made me smile...

Seize a Dashing Smooch...

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It's that time again!!  Paper Smooches are currently calling for the Paper Smooches Sparks Design Team - are you going to give it a go!!!

Today I thought I'd play along with the current Paper Smooches Sparks Design Trend Watch (Stripes) Challenge, loving the tone-on-tone stripes & flowers, together with this fabulous Sieze the Sketch and 10 Minute Craft Dash Buttons.

Started by die cutting the gorgeous Paper Smooches Christmas Words and Poinsettia, with striped papers from MME and American Crafts, and the poinsettia leaves from Basic Grey paper. Rounded the corners on the card base, cut the striped strip to size and adhered to the card. Cut the sentiment strip to size and stamped "Merry" from Paper Smooches Christmas Sampler. Adhered the poinsettia die cuts and pop-dotted the sentiment strip.  Finished by adding buttons from my overflowing stash LOL!

 

CAS(E) this Sketch & Dash

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This was originally a 10 Minute Craft Dash Card, but I ran overtime when I decided at the last minute that it would look cute to have the Lily Bee gingham check as a background as well as for the banner - but I think it was worth it!! Joining in the fun at CAS(E) this Sketch with this amazingly versatile sketch - you should see the DT samples and gallery - just FABULOUS!  Playing along with Sparkle Creations Weekly Christmas Card Challenge for the first time too - this weeks theme is Flowers.  The flower featured is Uniko Studio Poinsettia - the perfect Christmas flower, stamped on some old Basic Grey papers from my scrap stash, and the Uniko Studio sentiment stamped on a Paper Smooches fishtail banner.

Sparkle Creations Weekly Christmas Card Challenge - Flowers

This made me smile..

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May All Your Days be Dashing...

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With officially less than 10 weeks til Christmas, this combo of 10 Minute Craft Dash and CAS(E) this Sketch may go some way towards catching up on my Christmas Card to do list LOL!  A super fast card today - especially as Simple Stories had so perfectly designed this 3x4 flash card. All I needed to do was adhere it to a sheet of Authentique paper, round the corners and pop dot.  Now only nine hundred and ninety-nine to go!!!

Playing along with Simon Says Stamp Christmas / Happy Holidays Challenge too!

A Dashing Thank You...

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Can you guess why I love this fortnights 10 Minute Craft Dash colours???

Meet the newest member of our family... Muggles,
so named by DDs English teacher, former Mum to Muggles and Harry Potter fan.
We adopted him as his previous family moved to China, and we love him!!!

This 10 Minute Craft Dash card was created using a combination of papers from American Crafts and Crate Paper, combined with Lil Inkers Stitched Rectanges die, WPlus9 pumpkin stamp and diecut, Paper Smooches Fishtail Flag die and Avery Elle sentiment.  

Playing along with Little Red Wagon Thanksgiving Challenge, 

City Crafter Halloween/Orange Challenge and 

Catered Crop Orange is the new Black Challenge too!

Thank you for stopping by, hope you are having a fabulous weekend wherever you are!!!

Freshly Made Craft Dash

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This is about as close to the wire for the 10 Minute Craft Dash as I've been - using my new electronic kitchen timer the beeper started going off just after I finished rounding the last corner! For this Dash, I flipped this weeks versatile Freshly Made Sketch  and found inspiration in the direction of CASology Arrow ;)

First up the strip for the sentiment and the red backing strip were die cut using Paper Smooches Fishtail Flags.  The Fancy Pants Down by the Shore azure wave paper was cut to size. The sentiment flag was stamped with The Alley Way Stamps Life is Short.  Next the Verve Learning to Sail sailing boat was stamped on the grey timber paper, white cardstock, red paper and azure wave paper.  The relevant sections of the stamped sailing boats were fussy cut and adhered to the azure wave paper using a glue pen.  The corners of the azure paper were rounded before it was adhered to the cardstock base. The fishtail flags ends were trimmed and secured together, before being adhered to the cardstock base with foam tape.  Decided at the last minute (literally!) that the cardstock base would look better with rounded corners.

10 Minute Tips:

• Stick to what you know when Dashing.  Looking back at my Craft Dash cards, I almost always choose die cuts and/or fussy cutting as my "go to".  When you're in a hurry, you usually find whatever your "go to" is already, is it the easiest thing to do FAST.

 

 

A Dash across the Lawn...

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with a few of my favourite things...

Die cuts,

Foam tape,

Fussy cutting,

Patterned paper,

Combining Challenges,

Living in the Land Down Under...

So what's a girl to do when Lawnscaping Challenged with using her favourite supplies to create a card?!? Here's what I did!  

First up start the clock for the 10 Minute Craft Dash!  Then adhere a piece of brown Fancy Pants paper to cardstock before stamping this gorgeous Lawn Fawn Critters Down Under roo & kanga, once onto the brown and once onto the teal Childish papers, then fussy cut the images (see the first 10 Minute Tip below on how to save time when fussy cutting). Next up die cut Lawn Fawn Quinn's ABCs - the BEST thing about Lawn Fawn alphabets is that they come with ALL the letters - which means that "baby" was cut in one pass through the machine! Cut the Fancy Pants Childish check paper to size and adhere to the cardstock base. Position and adhere the die cut "baby" and stamp the "welcome" sentiment in Cup O Joe ink (another favourite!) Pop dot the roo & kanga, and stop the clock!

I interpreted the gorgeous overlapping hearts from Lisa's Wanna Sketch as the baby and mama roo - 'cause you can't get much more overlapping hearts than that!

10 Minute Tips...

• When fussy cutting overlapping images, first cut the top layer image edges that overlap (in this case the back of the roos head around to his nose) before adhering to the bottom layer image, then you can cut the common outline (in this case the front of the roos head) with the two pieces already glued together so you only need to cut the outline once.
• Choose a die cut alphabet which has ALL the letters -  the b and the q, the d and the p, the n and the u - which means that you can die cut words such as "baby" in a single pass through the machine!
• I find glue pens are the easiest adhesives to use for smaller fiddly pieces - especially when you are in a rush!
• Grid or check background paper makes aligning stamping & die cuts a breeze! 

Also playing along with Simon Says Stamp Animal Antics!

You Can Always Count on Me...

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Following the theme of The Pink Elephants #215 Numbers Challenge, here's a post full of them!!!  

My card for today features... you guessed it - NUMBERS!  For the 10 Minute Craft Dash #25, this card was based on Clean & Simple Sketch #256, it took 9 minutes and 12 seconds to diecut six Dienamics numbers (this was my first attempt, I cut a second sheet as the one went a bit wobbly on this one, but then mucked up the stamping, so came back to this one LOL!), stamp two Hero Arts background numbers stamps in Stampin' Up Daffodil Delight (see previous explanation ;)) and one Simon Says Stamp "You can always count on me" sentiment in Hero Arts Cup 'O Joe, cut and adhere two pieces of Fancy Pants Child's Play patterned papers, with 4 strips of double-sided tape and 7 pieces of foam pop tape.  I realised after I had pop-dotted that in my rush I had forgotten to round the corners - I think it gives it a more polished finish, but cest la vie!  I LOVE this 10 Minute Craft Dash colour combo, so hope to revisit it later this week using Lawn Fawn stamps ;)

All this talk of numbers brings me to this FABULOUS Month in Numbers idea from Julie Kirk...

How did I get here?  Well may you ask!  And who am I not to answer?

Whilst skimming the internet for some inspiration for the first FUSION challenge for September, I discovered this fabulous blog post on Five Ideas for Scrapbooking with Pages from Old Books, which had in turn been sourced from Julie Kirk's blogspot Notesonpaper.

Intrigued with her Month in Numbers post, I thought wow, I've moved interstate since I started school - I wonder how many kilometres it is between where I first started school and where I am now.  And then it dawned on me, although I did most of my schooling in Australia, I actually first started school in Belmont Massachusetts (and yes I did have to look up to see how that was spelled correctly LOL!), we moved to the USA from Australia as my Dad was offered a position at M.I.T., and we stayed there for almost two years, til just before my baby brother was born. Co-incidentally I have lived in Belmont in Australia too (but that's a whole other story!)

So from Massachusetts to Melbourne is 17014.421 km and I'd have to say - you've come a long way baby!!!

 

 

Dotty Dahlhouse Dash...

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Couldn't let the 10 Minute Craft Dash deadline sprint by without a card, especially with a FABULOUS kit from Gossamer Blue up for grabs!  I spied this cute layout from Lisa over at Dahlhouse Designs and paired it with this weeks Little Red Wagons Pretty Polka Dots Challenge.  In the interests of equality, I played with my WPlus9 Feather die with polka dot papers from Echo Park, background paper from Fancy Pants, Lil Inkers stitched mat, My Favourite Things sentiment stamped in Hero Arts Stonewash ink and finished with Neat & Tangled sequins.

10 Minute Tips

• Keep it Simple!!! Die cuts make it simple to create a fast card, every time!
• To adhere the sequins quickly, I squeezed a small amount of Dimensional Magic on a spare piece of cardstock.  I used the edge of a ruler as a guide to line up where I wanted the sequins to be placed, and dipped the sequins in the Dimensional Magic before placing on the card.
• Foam tape on a roll is a Dashing crafters friend, peel off the backing tape before attaching to the card - saves time and mess ;)

Playing along with Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes too!

This made me smile...