Pink card for Link Up for Pink and Pink Gem 99

After 2 days of not being able to see the link on challenge blogs, today I can see it, I don't know what went wrong the last two days.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and this is the pink card I made today for Link Up for Pink
http://www.linkupforpink.com/

I embossed light pink card.  Printed Saturated Canary stamp "Boobie Love" and coloured her with markers and chalks and cut with my Fiskas oval cutter.  Layered onto dark pink oval and then onto embossed card.  Printed Tiddly Inks sentiment from "Wyn hang in there" and punched with Stampin Up medium oval punch, layered onto Stampin Up large oval punch and layered on top.  Added flowers and brads and layered all onto dark pink card.

I also want to enter this card into Pink Gem Challenge - use black on your card (The sentiment is black).
http://pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/

Papercraft Planet Sassy Studio Designs Monthly Progressive challenge No 5

Each month we receive a free Sassy Studio Designs image to join the monthly challenge, you must use the image to make a project and join the challenge to receive the next month's image.
http://www.papercraftplanet.com/group/sassystudiodesigns/forum/topics/monthly-progressive-challenge-5-sept-15-october-14th
This month the challenge is October fest and there are two Sassy images to pick fsrom

This is the card I made

I have painted white card with Distress stains and added clouds with ink.  Added punched flowers with rhinestones and punched butterfly.  Punched fence with Martha Stewart border punch and added brads.  Printed out Cheers Sassy, coloured her with markers, cut out and sat her on the fence.

• To request image send request to ssdpcp(at)gmail(dot)com    (please note all request will be answer)
• You MUST use the Monthly Progressive Sassy Studio Designs image
• You MUST create a project based on the current challenge theme
• You have until 11:59pm EDT on October 14th to upload your creation, under the discussion on PCP
• You may enter as often as you wish during the month long period
• The prize is two Sassy Studio Designs images of the winner's choice
• When uploading your picture, be sure to tag your SSD creations using sassystudio

**By accepting the SSD freebie image, you agree to follow SSD Term of Use.

  See Progressive Challenge Rules discussion

IMPORTANT! Please respect Lindsay's art and do not share Sassy Studio Designs images even though they are free. Please refer your friends to join PCP so that they can receive their own image.

Thank you!!

I had to add flowers as it is Spring in Australia and the first Monday in October is a holiday and Floriade is on in Canberra and the tulip festival at Bowral.  I went with Lynda and Sian to Floriade in 2011.  It was cooler that year than it is this year.   

 Photo of Lynda and Sian.at Floriade 2011.  Lynda's hair was just starting to grow back after finishing her chemotherapy treatment.  Before her cancer operation she had hair as long as Sians.

Today was a bit cooler but it has been very hot and windy in Sydney this past week.  Sydney this year had its hottest September ever.

Lynda, Sian and Tony went on a campervan trip to Victoria and along the Great Ocean Drive and then inland during the school holidays.  They were away for 12 days and it was cold, wet and windy most of the time.  I was supposed to go with them but was not well enough, also could not get up and down the steps into the campervan, Lynda hired, by myself.   They did a lot of driving and walking so I would not have been able to sit and travel for so long or do the walking.

They arrived back home Monday night.

At the Bay of Martys.

Tony was great tourist attraction.  They met up with a bus of Asian tourists at one of the lookouts and they all wanted their photo taken with Tony.  He didn't have time for a hair cut before he went so his beard was quite long.  

They also called in at Hastings to have a look where Tony lived as a child when he first came to live in Australia.  (He came to Australia from England when he was four.)   His family moved to Sydney when he was in high school.

Tony at rainy Tathra

Sian at Bendigo Pottery.

Feeling Sketchy No 71

I was supposed to add this card to my blog yesterday, but better late than never.
Time for another challenge at Feeling Sketchy.
http://feeling-sketchy.blogspot.com.au/
This is the sketch and the added challenge is use only two colours

This is the card I made using red and green

Embossed red card with Sissix "Thin Ice" embossing folder.  Added green paper from Kaisercraft "Mint Twist" 6-1/2" paper pad and red paper with green trees from Imagine That Merry and Bright digi paper "Trees Red".  Added twine and washi tape.  Stamped Penny Black stamp "Ornamental Mimi" and coloured her with markers, cut out and layered on top.  Layered all onto green card.

Our sponsor this month is http://www.whimsyfarmtwine.com.au/.

I hope you will go over to Feeling Sketchy and see the other lovely cards by the design team and join in our challenge.

I also want to add this card to Crafty Hazel Nut's monthly Christmas challenge - Anything goes

http://craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge2.blogspot.co.uk/

Something is wrong with my computer and I can't see the link to add my card so I will email this to Hazel.

Delicious Doodles challenge - use brads or eyelets.

The challenge at Delicious Doodles is use brads or eyelets
http://deliciousdoodleschallenge.blogspot.com.au/

This is the card I made yesterday

I printed Delicious Doodles digi stamp "Thorne" and coloured her with markers.  Added peace brads  and dragonfly brad, layered onto red, black and white.

Unfortunately something has gone wrong with my computer and I can't see the link to post my card to the challenge.  I am going to try to email it to Teri.

The Stamping Chef Facebook challenge & Breast Cancer Awareness challenge

The free digi stamp for this week's challenge is still available for about 2 hours on The Stamping Chef facebook group after that it will be available at The Stamping Chef shop.  It is a special stamp this week for breast cancer.  (October is breast cancer month)
http://granmargaret.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/lacy-sunshine-challenge-no-18-stitching.html
This is the card I made today.  I am going to give it to Lynda to give to her friend who is in hospital fighting cancer.

I have embossed dark pink card with Cuttlebug "Kimmy Loves" embossing folder.  Printed out The Stamping Chef digi "Sending Hope" and coloured her with markers and chalk and layered her onto the embossed card.  Added pink ribbon and piece of pattern paper from "Sweet Fairy" 6x6 paper stack.  Stamped Stampin up stamp "Thinking of you" and layered on top.  Layered all onto light pink card.

I also want to add this card to Link Up for Pink - Breast Cancer Awareness Blog

http://www.linkupforpink.com/

After days of not being able to see the link on the page to enter my card I can finally see it again today.  I don't know what happened.

Lacy Sunshine challenge No 18 - stitching real or faux

Challenge No 18 at Lacy Sunshine challenge blog is stitching real or faux
http://lacysunshinechallengeblog.blogspot.com.au/
The image for this challenge is Candy Cane Sticki Wings and if you haven't already been joining the Lacy Sunshine challenges you can buy her at http://lacysunshine.weebly.com/.  Once you start joining the challenge you can request each digi for free.
I already had her and this is the card I made with her:

I printed out part of two of the digi papers from Pink Gem Designs Merry and Bright Papers and layered Lacy Sunshine stamp Candy Cane Sticky Wings on top and coloured her with makers.  Added red ribbon and sewed with gold thread (scan did not pink up gold glitter on the thread) and added gold star brads.

Something has gone wrong with my computer and I can no longer see the linky on any of the challenge sites, so I will have to email this one through.

I hope you will go over and join in the challenge.

Whoopsi Daisy challenge - Anything but a card

The Whoopsi Daisy challenge this week is Anything but a card.
http://cutedaisymay.blogspot.com.au/

I have done a scrapbook page

I have printed out a Whoopsi Daisy digi stamp Cutie 1 which was a past freebie.   Linnie every so often adds a freebie to her stamp blog http://linnie-whoopsiedaisy.blogspot.com.au/ you just have to follow her blog to find them when she adds them for a short time.  I layered Cutie onto one of Imagine That "Farmyard" digi papers.  Added some photos of my youngest grand daughter, Brianna age 5 with different animals.  Printed Title on computer and layered on top.  Added cat, dog and rabbit brads.

I had some better cat brads but couldn't find them when I was doing the page.  Found them the next day, too late.

I hope you will go over and have a look at the lovely projects by the other members of the design team and join in the challenge.  You don't have to use a Whoopsi Daisy image but if you do and you are the winner you will received 2 sheets of Whoopsi Daisy images (4 on a sheet).  If you don't and you are the winner you will receive 1 sheet of images.

I would also like to enter this into A Gem of a challenge - use black (black cat in 1 photo, Brianna wearing a black T shirt in another photo plus black on brads, and black on the horses on the paper.

http://pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.com.au/

and Scribble and Scrap challenge Anything Goes

http://scribbleandscrapcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/