Simon Says ,,,,,, FAVOURITE TOOL :-)

Before we get to the challenge, we'd like to wish you all a VERY Happy Easter this weekend!!! Enjoy the time with your family & friends and eat lots of chocolate !!!

This week Simon Says ,,,,,,,

USE your FAVOURITE TOOL!!!!

the DT work really hard to try to comment on all entries but we are having a few problems with blogger at the moment, I am sure you are all aware of it, so please be assured that every entry will be included in the prize draw :-) Good Luck to ALL :-)

As usual Heidi will be giving one lucky entrant a $50 voucher to her FANTASTIC Simon Says Stamp Superstore !! For fabulous tutorials, inspiration and candy you should keep an eye on the Simon Says Stamp Blog too

We would like to welcome in the April Designer Spotlight ,,, MANDY

PLEASE be sure to head to her blog & send her some love, her creations are FABBBBBBBBB!!!!!!! :-)

As you may know I was a lucky winner at the Silhouette booth at the CHA, I won a Rhinestone Starter Kit ,,,, so then I HAD to get a Silhouette Cameo Machine to be able to use it !! :-) Thanks to Silhouette America and to the lovely Heidi for helping me get one :-)

I have to say ,, I absolutely LOVE this machine ,, my new bestest toy !! I have rearranged all my craft room to fit it on my desk next to my laptop so even when I am not actually using it I can still gaze at it ,,,

As it will be Easter this weekend I decided to have a go at making these very cute bunnies after seeing them on my HM&F teamie, Sue’s blog. They were so easy to make and I think they are FAB :-)

The machine cut everything out and I just added some chalk to the cheeks, for the girl I added some ribbon, googly eyes and hemptique twine . For the boy I added some Hero Arts black pesrls for his eyes and used some twine too. The spotty papers on the ears is from Kaiser Crafts.

I used Galaxy Markers to colour his nose and paws

I used a copic marker ( RV32) to colour her nose and paws

I popped some chocolates inside and closed with some DSST I did try magnet disks but they weren’t powerful enough ,,, :-)

I also made this T-shirt using the rhinestone kit !! :-) FAB eh !

I bought a plain T shirt from NEXT and glamed it up !! :-)

Thanks for looking :-) Mandy and the DT have made some gorgeous creations for you so hop on over to the Simon Says Stamp Challenge to see them :-)

Challenges :

Creative Craft ,,,, Anything But a Card

Everybody Art ,…. Easter

Paper and Such Design ,,,, Spring or Easter

Creative Mondays …. Anything but a Card

Creative Stamp Friends ,,,, Easter Package

Love to Create ,,,,Bunnies, Chickies and Jelly

Totally Stampalicious ,,, Anything But a Card ( I didn’t see any rules saying we have to use a stamp, but if so my apologies and please delete my link xx )

Here Come the Boys ,,,, Anything But a Card ( the brown one ! ) :-)

Craft Your days Away ,,,, Easter

Crafty Emma ,,, No Girls Allowed ( the brown one ! ) :-)

Fussy and Fancy ,,,, Anything but a Square/Rectangle

Simply Create Too ,,,, eggs and/or bunnies

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ABC Christmas ,,, ‘G’ for ,,,,,,,

Hi all :-) another fortnight has flown by and we have a new theme starting today over on the ABC Christmas Challenge :-) This time it is Lacey’s turn to choose

I bought this cute House Mouse stamp recently and this is its first inking :-) It’s called ‘Cold Feet’ and I just love how they are all trying to keep warm in front of the candle, awww :-) I coloured with Copics and Iced Spruce DI from the Winter Seasonal set. I made the background using a Penny Black Pine Border stamp ( thanks Alison xx ) and I tore white card to create a snow drift. The snowflakes are Martha Stewart punches and I glittered them with Hero Arts white glitter and star dust stickled everywhere else :-)

We are sponsored by the lovely Heidi from Simon Says Stamp who will be giving a $15 voucher to the store

AND

Elizabeth Craft Designs with a prize of 3 sheets of outline stickers :-)

Thanks for looking :-) The DT have made some gorgeous cards and creations so hop on over to the ABC Christmas Challenge blog to see them :-)

Challenges :

Shopping Our Stash ,,,, At least 2 punched elements

Top Tip Tuesday ,,, Easter and/or Animals ( 3rd entry) my tip, torn card makes great looking snow drifts ,,, :-)

Pile It On ,,,,, Create a Scene

Crafty Ann’s ,,,, Christmas in March

Sparkles Christmas ,,,, Colour me Happy, fave colour combo, I must say I do like green and white on Christmas cards :-)

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas ,,,, Get Sentimental

Crimbo Crackers ,,,, Families, must have at least 2 of a family ,,, these meeces are siblings ,, lol :-)

Christmas Card Throwdown ,,, Anything Goes