The Paper Variety Sketch Challenge!

Awww Welcome to my new followers! 

Disclaimer: My blog is like a box of Choooocolates... 

You just never know what yer gonna get!

Well, I have ONE HOUR and 32 minutes to link this up before Mr Linky shuts the window.  

(Sooo... Don't ramble)

 The Paper Variety have an AWESOME sketch on at the moment... (well, only for one more hour...) and 

TTRUSTTT me... you can't pump this out in an hour. 

It was Cricut Cutting Whimsy frenzy.

(ummm... 1 hour 27 mins...stop rambling)

So here's my layout... 

Lol. Not my most photogenic hour ever.

You'll be pleased to know I don't drink much these days. 

I'm crazy enough sober. 

Here's the cute sketch:

Love that tree.

 Used i-gem and i-rock for my tree.

My poem is a re-write of 3 little monkeys, obviously...  mixed in with a little bit of Jill tumbling down breaking her crown. Except in this story, her nickname is DILL! 

Me! 

A skimpy is a barmaid who wears limited clothing and serves drinks to the men. They are common in outback towns. I worked in the middle of Western Australia for 3 years. It is 300km from the nearest big town and 600 km north east of Perth.  There is about 1000 gold miners out there, a few skimpies and us teachers! ... and that's really about all! 

Loved every minute. 

Apart from falling off the bar of course. lol.

I'll distract you from that statement with cute owls.

I used the koala Peachy Keens out of ABC animals.

Here are my images you can TRACE IMAGE into SCAL if you are interested.

One hour seven minutes!!!! Wait for me MR LINKY!!! 

 Ironically, this little jewel crown was given to me by my gorgeous friend Karin as a key ring, and it really did break. So this is a nice way to preserve what is left. 

 Thanks for an awesome challenge The Paper Variety. 

Loved that sketch!

A Hop, A Skip, a Jump, a Gift and a Trip!

 HOP!

 

Hope you are going to join me and the team at 

Whimsical Wednesday for some fun this Friday! 

More details to come later!

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SKIP!

 Cheap Chirpin Tuesday is taking a break for a while as

Me n Miss Pink Cricut and I have fun on the Whimsical Wednesday DT. But there will still be cheap chirps and prizes along the way!!!

So to say thanks to all our loyal Cheap Chirpers we had a huge giveaway last week! 

The Prize box:

Cheap Chirpin prize box so far: Chalking palette, Metallic wire, Whimsical paper clips, Pentel outline markers, Bag of mixed brads, ten sheets of bazzills, 39 pieces of chipboard lettering, pearl paint pots, fake eyelashes, 20 doilies, coloured bakers twine, liquid pearls, water coloured pencils pack, pop embellishments, photo anchors, 2 metal butterfly altered rings, Easter pastel ribbon, an altered display book, corrugated cardboard, designer post-its, some bright pleather, Candi, bright embroidery thread, a 100 pk of wiggle eyes, a pack of assorted paperclip embellishments, two sets of 36 pce brads, Snag em Stamps from Imaginisce, Sea Shells and ten mixed shape Plastic canvases!  Phew! 

Goes to Amy!

Surprise Cartridge

goes to Bunny Freak! 

Peachy Keen Snow Cuties

goes to Fi!

Peachy Keen Princess Faces 

goes to Jessica from Chick and Scrap

Coutoure Creations Emboss folders

go to Kristan from Crazy4Christ 

and Carri at AbusyBee

Your choice of Two card CANDi colours plus adhesives

Shannen from Moments by Shadow

Donna from Popsicle Toes

Shannen and Donna, head over to Scrappy Go Lucky, 

choose your colours and email your choices to me!

Everyone email your addy's to 

me on my contact button!  

Thanks for joining us each week for our Cheap Chirp!

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JUMP!

Thanks to all the people who jumped over to my

Daily THX tab and added their daily thanks. 

My THX party winners are:

Kelly's Crafty Life and PatN

Please email me your addy's for some Peachy Keen Prize fun!!!

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Gift!

One last day to have a chance to do a RAK 

for Silver Stars Scrapping! 

My newby blogger friend at Silver Stars Scrapping is stuck for ideas! She has just bought those large woodchip letters to decorate her baby girls bedrooms. 

If you have ever seen any great ideas on blogs OR have any old posts which you have blogged with these large wooden letters, can you please head over to Silver Stars Scrappin blog and say 'Hi, Chloe sent me' in the the comment box under her post here then link up your blog entry and/or simply write your idea. I don't care how old your post is, OR even if you link to an awesome blog post you have seen. She just wants ideas by the bucket load!

I'll make it worth your while! People who help me with this random act of kindness will be rewarded with a chance to win THREE sets of CANDI 

 

 

and enough adhesives... YOUR CHOICE from Scrappy Go Lucky!

 Prize is drawn tomorrow for all you gorgeous RAK'ers. 

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TRIP!

                 News on the Hot Blog HOP!

Jacob and his Clip On Koala have arrived in California with Traci @ CricutJunkie!  Stay tuned!! 
 

Card Creations and More 'Inspired by" Challenge.

Over at Card Creations and More by C you'll find three great challenges for July. I saw this 'Inspired by" challenge and LOVED it. 

I rarely copy ideas directly I have seen (hence the recent arrival of my merthing!) but I have read so many great blogs and mags and this was a chance to copy one of my favs. I don't often do girl layouts, so it's nice to copy a master at it. This is my layout:

And I copied Sandra Gerdes' 'So Cute' LO. Click here for her blog post.  This is her layout as also featured in Scrapbooking with the Experts:

 

Now lots of blogger friends already know that I ramble on, but last week you found out I have endless inner dialogue too...but there's more!!!  Not only is that party going on in my brain, but ALL day long I sing songs in my head as well, multi-tasking with inner dialogue.  

My brain is a very loud annoying place to be... WHY am I rambling all this??? (with an inner dialogue that is screaming STOP rambling!!! and 'Here comes the sun' by Nina Simone on endless repeat today). Well, sometimes with such a head party... songs I hear become so internalised, I make them my own... So while I am on a copying spree... this is also stealing Taylor Swifts 'Best Days' and making it my own story. I don't listen to Taylor much at all, but this song when I heard it was so close to my own story.

Two thefts in one day. *hangs head* I'll get off on good behaviour because it's my first offense. lol. 

All the detail in Sandra's layout is amazing and I tried my best to copy with my own twist on it. 

Hate the hair that fell on my work pre-photo. I'll use it as DNA tracking system in case someone steals my layout idea that I stole from Sandra! lol!  

I used SCAL swirls with pink Cri-kits pens, cut a bazillion Accents flowers - used only about 30... doah! 

Then proceeded to clock up a few kilometres on my white and pink gel pen's scribble-o-meter. 

I used some cute Doodlebug brads and a few Candi and some new heart shaped i-rocks...Imaginisce is finally saying, "Phew... she used our products NORMALLY"

Thanks Christina for an awesome challenge! I have loved following your blog for a long time. You make the cutest whimsical cards. 


If you didn't see my big announcement last night...scroll down to my previous post (if this one hasn't taken the whole length of my blog). 

The Ultimate Whimsical Wednesday Challenge!

Exciting news!

Wonder if you can guess?

I am so excited!

 

It's no secret that: 

  

And there is absolutely no doubt: 

  

So it's probably NO surprise that

I am announcing to you now...

 

now....
WOOOOOOOO!!!!! 

If you follow my blog, and have got accustomed to my  weird ways... then you will LOVE what I have in store for you in the next few weeks, along with the new Design Team at Whimsical Wednesday!  

As an added bonus, my best friend blogger 

is joining me for the fun ride. 

Me n Miss Pink Cricut! 

Whimsical Wednesday just got a little bit wackier! 

Thanks so much to Stephanie for this wonderful new adventure ahead!

The new Design Team will be starting our term with a FABULOUS blog hop that you will NOT want to miss!  It starts July 8 at 7pm USA EST! It's going to be a very special hop, so I hope you will return and join us!

 Head over to Whimsical Wednesday,

meet the new Design team and follow along with our fun!