Just a note...

Hi Lovelies,

Today's post is based on this sketch from Freshly Made Sketches.

 

This is such a sweet & easy sketch.  Although I had to add the banner as I dropped my sentiment stamp as I lifted it.  Creating a "Shadow" on the first half of the sentiment.  I hate it when I do dumb things like that.  I die cut the typewriter image out with my nestability circle die & managed to get the banner out of the scraps leftover from that.  The orange pp was in my "Scrap Stash" & matched perfectly with the typewriter.

Enjoy your day & happy crafting everyone.

Another Dad? card

Hi Lovelies,

Okay so I'm entering this card into two challenges.  Firstly I'm using the sketch from Try Stampin' on Tuesday.  I flipped the sketch & added a second row.  Hope that's okay.

 

This is also my entry for Die Cut Divas.  Over on their blog this month's challenge is August Vacations.  So for this card to be eligible for the Die Cut Divas challenge, an explanation maybe in order.

When I was a little girl (about 30 ish years ago now) we lived in Western Australia.  Now for those of you that don't know W.A. that well it's on the large side (and maybe one of the largest states in Australia).  I've lived all over W.A. but mainly in the northern parts think 12 hours (driving) north of the capital Perth.   My Nanna lived about 2 hours south of Perth in a place called Mandurah. A very pretty beachside town.  So every time we went on vacation (we visited Nanna a lot) we had to drive to get there.  In fact on my last holiday to W.A. we spent about 7-8 hours driving from Perth to Shark's Bay. With a very cranky 2 yr old and a 6 yr old in the car.   It was well worth the long drive - my mum was laughing (she was in her own car) as she could see an arm continuously feeding biscuits to the cranky 2 yr old for the last hour of the trip ;D.

Have a great day & happy crafting.  To see my first post for today please check it out here.

A card for Dad.

Hi Lovelies,

Today's card has been inspired by this wonderful sketch from Retro Sketches.

 

With Father's Day fast approaching here in Australia.  I thought I had better make some cards for my girly girls to give to their Daddy.  'Coz a kid has to have choices, don't ya know (tee hee).  Again I used up some scraps from my slowly dwindling pile of pp.  I am trying very hard to use up the bits before I cut into the new stuff.  Also since I haven't brought any new stamps (well I did buy one) for almost two years now. I have been mixing them up.  The sentiment is Hero Arts & the car is from Kaisercraft.  The button, paper string and brads are from my stash (that is sooooooooooooo old) so not sure who made them.

Well sweeties have a great day & happy crafting.

Rudolf is for red...

Hi Lovelies,

Well after a very busy week/weekend.  I am finally able to do another post.

Over on Jingle Belles this fortnight's prompt is red.  Which was a very good excuse to use up most of the red glitter paper & some of the white glitter snowflakes.  Plus a little bit of red/white pp that I had left over from another project.  Simple, easy with a tiny bit of fussy cutting around the stamped sentiment.

Have a great day & thanks for stopping by

Survival Tips

Hi Lovelies,

Today's card is a bit naughty and hopefully inappropriate.

I made this card after visiting Jo's blog.  I really liked the idea of the challenge over on Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.  Of course there where loads of Inappropriate stuff I could have done, but alas I either didn't have the images or the courage tee hee.  It was while I was making another card that I found the snowflake die cut and that's when I got the idea for this card.  Both of my girls love this card & I've heard them quoting the sentiment numerous times of late.  Yes that is my handwriting.  I used my Copics to colour the pearls and snowflake yellow as well as the edge of the card.  The sentiment is coloured with a combination of perfect pearls/water and yellow ink that I spritzed onto a rectangle die cut.  Simple, fun and hopefully inappropriate.

Well I'm off to do "crafty stuff" have a great day.

Recurring theme...

Hi Lovelies,

I'm back again.  This is actually my second post for today, for the first please go here.

  

So as you can see I used this sketch, as my inspiration.  I used up some leftovers that I had from making the previous card.  I was playing around with my mini misters and inks that I had.  I seem to be on a butterfly run at the moment.  Over the last three to four days all I seem to be doing is stamping, colouring and punching out butterflies with the occasional other die thrown in for good luck.

Thank you once again for stopping by.  Have a great day sweeties...

Watercolour Butterfly

Hi Lovelies,

Today I'm entering one card into three challenges.

Firstly I used this sketch as the starting point for my card.  And from CASology I used this week's theme of Watercolour.  Also I'm entering the "Pop of Colour" here.  I hope I haven't added too many layers for either challenge.  But I wanted to use watercolour paper as my base.  Then added two die cuts, a butterfly and three gems.  The purple squiggle behind the butterfly is my watercolouring attempt.  For me this is about as "clean and simple" as I've ever gotten.

Thanks for dropping by today.  Hopefully I will get around to my favourite blogs again soon & leave you all some love.   Have a great day sweeties.............

Mojo Monday on a Friday.

Hi all,

How are you this fine Friday night?  After watching a little bit of the Royal Wedding (after saying I wouldn't ;P), I decided to make a card or two in the piece & quiet (a very rare thing of late).  This is my card & the Mojo Monday sketch I used.

I know not much stamping on this one.  I used up some stickers I brought from when Lils' was born.  I thought they suited the papers I've used.  I must admit I forgot two elements of the sketch, but was lucky enough to be able to add them at the last minute (phew).  This is yet another one of my many thank you cards from when Lilly was born.  I think I'm now about half way through my list :). 

Have a great weekend & happy crafting everyone xoxoxoxoxo

Supplies:
Cuttlebug
Nestibilities - Tags, Lacy Cirlces & Cirlces (not sure which one)
Paper - scraps
Twine, Lace
Stickers (unknown)
Kaisercraft Pearls
Hero Arts - Cl342

One card for two challenges.

Hi everyone,

I was having so much fun making "funny" christmas cards I decided to do another.  This time I have combined challenges, I am using the latest sketch from CPS & the Jingle Belles "Funny" challlenge.

Sorry about the blurry photo.  I had to scan this in today as it's been raining (yet again!).  I so love Gus I think he's a hoot.

Thanks for stoppin' by & happy crafting everyone :} xoxoxoxo

Jingle Belles Challenge

Hi everyone,

Well I've been able to make a few cards this last week.  I even mastered Gimp (sort of).  Just wish I knew how to upload to the internet what I have done.  Any ideas, any one?  I am slowly becoming computer (kicking & screaming all the way) smart.

Any hoo, this is my latest card for the Jingle Belles challenge this week.  What do you think?  I made a lot of boo boos on this card.  That'll teach me to do things when I'm bone tired.  I stamped the sentiment crooked (so hate that), so then had to angle the nestie label on an angle.  Then somehow I managed to not align my papers correctly, so a knotted ribbon covered that.  Lastly I managed to get a black mark on the pink background, so gems covered that up.  I also managed to make the distress inks run when I used some Pearl-ex & water.  Oh well, I guess that these things happen.

Well I'd better be going, I'm trying to get both my girls to have a sleep this arvo (so wish I could have one ;P)

Happy crafting every one xoxoxoxo

Mojo Monday sketch 123 Round or Square?

Hi all,

I just love sketches at the moment! Especially when I use some of my favourite papers with them - Basic Grey's Lemonade collection. This time I have used Mojo Monday's sketch 123 Round or Square.

Of the two cards I made, my favourite would have to be the circle card. It turned out so much better than I expected. All the embelies on this card also came from Basic Grey. So really I didn't have to do a lot of thinking (which is a good thing) about what would go with the papers. I also like how the second card turned out. But just realised they both have birds on them ;).

Well I have to go now thanks for stopping by & enjoy what is left of your week - TTFN.

Heart's Desire

Hi all,

Well I got an order late Tuesday for an engagement, 50th wedding anniversary & a 56th wedding anniversary cards. So I have been madly creating for the last couple of days & these are just a few of the cards that I made :) as I like to give people choices. I have posted all of the cards I made on my flickrstream here. I used the latest Penny Black challenge Heart's Desire as my starting point.

I mainly used my scraps for these cards. I only wish my papers would stop breeding faster than I can use them. I am slowly reducing my "piles" of bits. Thank you all so much for stopping by & leaving such wonderful comments - TTFN.