Inkspiration Challenge

I needed to make a card for my daughters teacher so I thought i would use this sketch as my basis. I have stamped the bird onto blue cardstock and then paper pieced several parts of the bird using different patterned paper. Then i used UTE on the wings and tail of the bird to make them stand out. I also used UTE on some circles of matching cardstock and then stamped a flower into them. I hope you enjoy, Check out the other entrants into the challenge here

New Stamps

I just had to show the new stamps i got the other day!! They are kinda cool. I am going to enjoy making things with them!

My Brothers Birthday was a Hoot!

My brother Jeff's birthday was on Saturday and I am always telling him how old he is (he is only 3 years older than me!) I wrote on the inside of the card that because he is getting SOOO old that soon he will be as wise as an owl!

I got a new stamp set on Friday - it is a Kelly Panacci Clear Stamps set of Owls and it is so gorgeous! My only mistake I think I made with the card was stamping the bottom layer of the owl and branch in black! Ah well! I'm still learning. I will endeavour to take a photo of the whole set and maybe of the other stamps I purchased on Friday too! I am really looking forward to make some cool cards with them!

Hope you enjoy your day!

Mothers Day Card

Well I got busy last night to make a card for Mum today! When I left NZ Amy put into a bag some papers that I had been looking at to make a card over there - but ran out of time - so I thought I would put them to good use and make a card for Mum. I also played with the UTEE that Sandy and Amy showed me how to use and made an extra little flower to go in the centre of the large flower. It was fun to play with some new stuff and gorgeous papers.

Happy Mothers Day Mum!!

Mojo Monday - Week 84

I thought i would give the Mojo Monday sketch a go and make a card for my lovely husband for when i go home. I am on holidays staying with my awesome friend Amy Fleming from Me&MiStamps (go and check out her amazing work!) and I have had such an amazing time playing with Amy's card supplies and stamps that i dont have (actually I really dont have many stamps!) so it has been fun. She has gorgeous ribbons and all the colours match - fantastic fun!! I could just play all day - but the kids are going crazy!! Hope you're all having as much fun creating as I am!!
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Stamping Again & Lovin' it!

I am over here in New Zealand for 2 weeks staying with my friend Amy and she has gotten my creative juice going again!! Also Amy and her friend Sandy have taught me some new techniques with cold laminate and opals and UTE so watch this space for when i get home and try them out on some cards - cant wait to buy some new products.

Well Amy borrowed some stamps from her upline Sharlene (thanks for letting us play Sharlene!) and I needed to make some cards for some very special people at home that have allowed me to have 2 weeks off my life. My friend Anne-Marie who picks up my kids each day for school and my Mum who has been picking them up from school and putting dinner on each night. They are two amazing women!! So here are the cards i made for them.

My most favorite card at the moment

Well this one i am pretty proud of and happy with. It has a waterfall thing inside that you could stick photos onto or just embellish?

A friend from schooll - Faye - gave myself and about 3 or 4 others a little class after school last year on how to make these cards. It was so much fun. But when i left i had only made the base card and not decorated the front of it at all. So last week i decided it was time to pull it out and finish the job!

All the edges of the green card are inked with a rose ink. I distressed the edges of the patterned paper and straight stiched around it. I inked the lemon and pink diamond card with emerald ink. They are also distressed but a little hard to tell after i zig zag stiched it. There are rhinestones in each corner. The flower - cut from the sizzix has 5 layers and a button on top. The ribbon accross the front has green and pink through it. The tab on the side that you pull to show the waterfall flaps on the inside has a narrow pink strip down it that is also zig zig stiched and finished off with a metal embellishment.

I hope you like it.

Mucking around again

I bought some new oval spellbinder nestablities and i wanted to play around and see what i could do with them. Well i like that you can either make a frame or a solid oval. Quite cool really. I also got a large box of mixed ribbons with some birthday money and this ribbon worked perfectly with the colours. It had spots of green and brown and pink on it. I really should've added some brown onto the card as well. I think i let myself down when i don't do enough layering of colours on my cards. When i am making them i think that they are ok - its not till later when i see Amy's cards here that i realise i could've done more on mine. She is amazing with her layering of colours - even if it is just in the background. It really makes a difference. Maybe i should set myself a challenge of improving this card - make a one the same but add layers or other stuff.

Girls school journals

I actually covered these journals for the girls on Black Saturday just before the fires(for those from overseas - that was the 7th Feb - when it was 47 degrees celsius and when 210 people died in the bushfires) I needed to cover about 15 books that day - 5 for each of my kids at school. And i decided to do something a bit more special for the girls journals. I took photos of them before i covered them in clear contact. I was afraid that i might stuff up the clear stuff and ruin them - but they actually covered really easily. I stamped their name down the right hand side and i let the girls choose 2 sheets of patterned paper they liked for the strips and the flowers. They were really happy and proud of them.

I'm back

Well I'm back in action. My computer broke down..... the poor thing. It took my computer man over a week to figure out what was wrong with it. I think the RAM broke!! So i haven't had access to a computer for a while! I think it almost killed my husband and eldest son. I was trying to get them to realise that there is a life outside the internet! It is amazing how much time you have to get things done when your not sitting on the computer all the time!