Something Clear With The Crafty Pad

Super duper Sunday folks!

Can you tell I am excited to be here ???

Well I am!

My computer had a heart attack on Tuesday OMG NO! So I spent all day Wednesday trying to heal it with a band-aid only to have to take it to the doctors on Thursday where it received a new hard drive and a new lease on life and I got her back Friday!  Seeing as I have my iphone as well I did not so much as miss the internet but do you know how hard it is for a digital crafting girl to not be able to PRINT! This drove me nuts!  I didn't let it beat me though!  I carried on crafting and have been printing mad since she came home!

Witch brings me to this weeks challenge at

The Crafty Pad!

This week we would like to challenge you all to ... 

Use something clear!

Letraset was ever so kind to offer us some samples of the Safmat and the DT girls and I have had a blast playing around with it.  For anyone not familar with Safmat (as I wasn't when I first got some) In the words od Letraset - it is an acid free transparent film (so great for scrapbookers), it is self adhesive and you use it with your desktop printer (laser or inkjet) ! Woo Hoo! 

Or in my simple words - It is a piece of 'like acetate' with a sticky back and I CAN PRINT on it!

I have always wanted to print on acetate but my ink never dries so I took this product, printed my image and for some firmness I stuck it to a piece of acetate and made a shaker tag for a memories bottle!  

Wanna see?

Today I have used the Life Raft Image from The Crafty Pad Designs (love this image and all its possibilities).  I have colored it with my water color pencils, added some brads for bling, wrapped some metal wire around the ring as well and added some 'rope stuff' around it all to hide the foam tape for the shaker part of the card and topped it off with a starfish charm.

This week the good folks from Letraset have kindly offered a prize of 

a 5 pack of Spring color Promarkers 

AND (yes there is more!)

Debbie has kindly offered 3 digital images (of the winners choice) from

The Crafty Pad Designs

The sand in the tag is taken from the place here at home where I got married and the bottle is full of sand from the numerous beaches around town that we often like to visit,.  My kids have an infatuation with collecting shells and I have added any that would fit down the neck of the bottle.  The bottle itself is rather special too, this is what hubby and I got plastered on on our first weekend home while lazing back in the pool!  DH is a bad influence on me!  lol

I plan on taking this bottle with me when I move to Perth, I feel like I am taking a piece of home with me.  If you are unsure why I call this home, this is the place I grew up, it is where ALL my family reside and it is the place that as young woman I wanted to return to to raise my own family.  That path however has slightly had to be adjusted and now ... home is where I hope to one day again come back to and retire. 

So come along and join in the fun with us!
We would love to see what you create and how clear your thinking can get!
Need some more inspiration?
Click on the Competition badge and be inspired by the gorgeous work all the DT girls have to show you!

Challenges this creation is entering with the help of the Feline Playful Girls:

Crafts For Eternity - Anything but a card (1/3 Fri)

Crafty Ann's - Summertime (- Fri)

Frosted Designs - Circles (- Fri)

Fairy Tale Challenge - Summer, Sun & Sunshine (2/2 Fri)

Stamp Something - Summer fun (- Fri)

Shelly's Images - Summer (- Thur)

Crafting For All Seasons - Beach / Ocean ( - Wed)

For Fun Challenges - Sand (1/3 C10 Tues)
A Spoon Full Of Sugar - Create a tag 
Simon Says Stamp - Shaped Card (-)

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