The Pink Elephant Challenge #10

This is my card for the Pink Elephant Challenge #10.

The theme this week is a colour one -

Pink, green and yellow

http://thepinkelephantchallenge.blogspot.com/2009/04/tpe-challenge-10.html

The Pink Elephant Challenge #9

ok this weeks challenge over at The Pink Elephant Challenge blog is : a Recipe Challenge.
The Recipe is:Use Stamps, Embossing and Punches
http://thepinkelephantchallenge.blogspot.com/2009/04/tpe-challenge-9.html
And this is what I have come up with.

Yep me and my favourite colours again (smiles)

29 GIFTS CHALLENGE - today is Day 1

Day 1 of my 29 gifts challenge - I will be stuffing an envelope full of goodies this morning and randomly picking my first name to mail it to. So if you are one of the people who have left a comment and emailed me your address details - WATCH YOUR MAILBOX !

WHAT I WILL BE DOING ON SUNDAY

EDIT TO POST - Monday 6 April - Yesterday went well - lots of wristbands sold. It was a priviledge and awesome experience to help out. The Warriors lost the game against the Rabbitohs but the atmosphere at the game was amazing.

I will be attending the NZ Warriors rugby league game against the South Sydney Rabbitohs on Sunday.
The match will be a tribute to promising Warrior Sonny Fai, who would have turned 21 a fortnight ago, is presumed drowned after going missing while rescuing his brother and cousins at a west Auckland beach in early January.

heres some excerpts from a television piece on Sundays game .....
heres the link to the video piece as well if you want to go look - it was on tv3 news during the week.

http://www.3news.co.nz/Video/Sports/tabid/317/articleID/98326/cat/257/Default.aspx#video
Warriors v Rabbitohs game

It's a big weekend in another sense. It's a celebration of Sonny Fai's life and culture, with some great performances, musical and cultural lined up. It will be a special day, and fans should get along to make some noise for the boys, and to show the Fai family how much the league community thinks of their selfless son. Outside the stadium, there will be some fans selling Sonny Fai wristbands. This is a fan driven initiative, and all proceeds are going to the Fai family, so it's a great cause. There will be 10,000 of them on sale, and if it's anything like the last batch, they'll sell like hotcakes. The Warriors themselves wear them, so do many of the other NRL teams, players like Issac Luke and Krisnan Inu wearing them proudly, even Russell Crowe's got one. Show you support, and get one for yourself.I've been leaning towards a Rabbitohs upset here, they're at near full strength and the Warriors are up against it personnel wise. But I'm going to let myself be driven by my heart here, putting my hand up for a purely emotional pick. I think the Sonny celebrations could inspire them to victory, it would a wonderful way to cap the day.

My husband, son and I have all volunteered to sell the wristbands on Sunday. I am proud to be doing this and hope they raise LOTS of money for the family and sell all the 10,000 wristbands.

'BUGGED ATC's

These three ATC's are for the latest swap on the Cuttlebug Inspirations group I co-run.

The themes were things that fly, purple and yellow and things that fly.

The Pink Elephant Challenge #8

This weeks challenge over at the Pink Elephant Challenge Blog is
Easter themed
http://thepinkelephantchallenge.blogspot.com/2009/03/tpe-challenge-8.html

and heres my card

29 GIFTS CHALLENGE

I have been inspired by the 29 Gifts Challenge web site
http://www.29gifts.org/index.html
as well as others who have taken up the challenge to also participate in this.
It looks like we will be moving house within the next month, so I have started decluttering and sorting through my mountains of craft stuffs !! There are a lot of craft supplies that I know in my heart I will not get to use even if I live to be 100 !! so its time to gift them to other like minded crafts people who I know will appreciate them.
This how it will work -
Make a comment on this post on my blog .
You will also need to email me your name and addy to
dougandwendyp@xtra.co.nz
with 29 GIFTS in subject line.
THIS IS OPEN TO EVERYONE WORLDWIDE - but due to postage costs - those living outside of New Zealand will get smaller and flatter envelopes full of craft supplies than those living within NZ
Each day from 5 April I will randomly pick one comment from this blog post and mail out an envelope of craft goodies to that person.
All I ask in return is an email or comment on my blog when you receive it.
My craft interests are varied so the supplies are varied too !!

I hope you will all think this is a fun thing to participate in too !
So what are you waiting for - leave a comment and email me with your address details NOW !!!
smiles W

THE PINK ELEPHANT'S EASTER BLOG HOP

The Pink Elephant's Easter blog hop is on this weekend -

http://thepinkelephantchallenge.blogspot.com/2009/03/easter-blog-hop-weekend-begins.html

Be sure to come join in the fun - lots of giveaways and tutorials happening.

This is my entry for the spring mini challenge

The Pink Elephant Challenge #6

Another fun challenge this week over on the Pink Elephant Challenge blog - the theme is buttons !

http://thepinkelephantchallenge.blogspot.com/2009/03/pink-elephant-challenge-6.html

The Pink Elephant Challenge #5

This weeks challenge over at the Pink Elephant Challenge Blog is

PINK GREEN AND BROWN

http://thepinkelephantchallenge.blogspot.com/2009/03/pink-elephant-challenge-5.html

The card I made today for the challenge is for a good friend of mine who loves frogs and is unwell at the moment.

SOME NEW ATC'S and more ...

Made these atcs a couple of days ago to send as raks.

Also I am in a couple of circle journal page swaps which are so much fun as everyones theme is so different. These pages are for a "ladies theme"

Hoping to find some time soon to get back into doing some scrapbooking again - still have so many photos we took on our vacation to the USA in 2007 that I want to do scrapbook pages for.

Weather is getting noticably cooler in the evenings which I guess signals summer is almost done. At least, as someone rightly pointed out, with us going to the USA on vacation in June, we will be able too have 2 summers

GREAT WAY TO SPEND A MORNING

What a lovely peaceful way to spend a Sunday morning with a walk along the beach.
I took these photos this morning at Wenderholm Beach, about 5 mins drive from where we live.

Then we went down to Orewa Beach and had lunch at Mcdonalds. This is a view of the beach from the look out above. Orewa is about a 15 minute drive from where we live.

MAKING ART NOT DOING HOUSEWORK

Decided yesterday (and no it wasn't a hard decision !!) to have a day mostly of making art and let the housework wait for another day.

Had a few swaps to get done
- including pages for a circle journal swap
- a quote page


- fall themed card
- shaped card

- birthday card for a friend's daughter

The Pink Elephant Challenge #4

The challenge this week over at The Pink Elephant Challenge blog is

Ribbons and Die Cuts

http://thepinkelephantchallenge.blogspot.com/2009/03/pink-elephant-challenge-4.html

I had a lot of fun this morning making this card using my spellbinder sets and swiss dots embossing folder in my cuttlebug. The flower is from a set I brought over at Fred She Said Digital Designs.

http://fred-she-said.blogspot.com/