Perfectly Rustics challenge #22 - Bling, Bling, Shine and sparkle!

Yay it's time for another challenge at Perfectly Rustics!! This time around we are playing with Bling, sparkle and Shine!!! You can use foil paper, embossing, gold, rhinestones, you name it, as long as it SHINES!!!

I went with an old fav, EMBOSSING!!! I used my gold ink pad with clear embossing powder. Then the frame is made from the off cut of one of the labels from the Apothecary Framelits with the lovely GOLD FOIL (currently in the SU mini!)

The images I've used are from a gorgeous stamp set called Lovely Romance, sooooo love this set!! Then the Hello is from Four You!!

I hope you get a chance to play along with us it would be super great to see what you come up with!

Paper Doll stamp club ...... saying goodbye to Forever Young stamp set

It's true, it's taken me far too long to post these cards I demonstrated with my wonderful Paper Doll stamp club last month..... Mmmmm! But I'm here now and I'd love to show you as it's that time of the year in the stamping up world that we say goodbye to loads of wonderful stamps, colours and more. So for the last two months I've been showcasing some of my favourite's and giving them one last Hurrah!!
I used retiring colours... More Mustard and Bravo Burgundy and retiring stamp sets... Forever Young and Established elegance.
I wanted to show off the wonderful and very versatile Natural Composition Specialty DSP (which has actually made it into the new catty!! YAY!) so came up with these....

 

 

I do like my cards to complement each other for my club so we went with the same layout just with different embellishments and colours!

 

Have you tried the Rock and Roll technique??? That's what we did on the tips of the tree to make it look more Autumn like! I love this tech, it's SUPER easy and gives awesome effects!!!

 

Did you know the Spritzer is saying Goodbye...... make sure you get all the goodies you want before Sun cause it'll be too late come Monday!!
See you soon with some more show and tell,

Elements of style- retiring stamp set

This is going to be a very missed set once the end of the month comes by, the retiring Elements of Style stamp set is well loved by many a demo lady and her wonderful customers....
Here i used it with the Shimmer paint which sadly will not been carrying over to the new catty either!
Ohhhh how I LOVE shimmer paint.......

  

 In fact the main colours of this card being Not quite navy and Baja breeze will also be leaving us....
Have you checked out the retired list?? Do you have all those old favourites before they are gone??

Sneak Peak for new Mini

Hello fellow lovers of craft!! How are you?? I've been great, enjoying life and of course stamping!! Not that you'd know from the lack of me popping in.... but believe me I still do take photo's of all I make, it's just making the time to post about them!!!
This lovely card I made for my beautiful friend who had a birthday a few weeks back. I had just received my pre-order from the up and coming Autumn/Winter Mini (released next month) and was busting to try out the new bird die!!! Yes lovelies you read right... we are getting a BIRD DIE!!
I used only the wings for this card and then a retired greeting I have from a baby set. The card itself can be found HERE, this is where I got the step by step instructions on how to make.

I was really happy with the end result and hope Amanda loved it too!!
Do remember that it's only days till the end of Sale-a-bration and the Summer mini so if there are things on your wish list do get them before it's too late!!!
Happy Friday and weekend and... well see you soon (ish!!)

The Invitations are out!

I've got the invites out to my 4th stamp club running! I find it hard to believe that some of my lovely customer, whom are now great friends are coming along for the 4th time! Amazing!!!
I do have a lot of new ladies joining me this year so it will be heaps of fun teaching them all the cool things Stamping has to offer!

Used the DSP (designer series paper) from the SAB (sale-a-bration)
& the new stamp set called Fresh Vintage!!
Ooo & the gorgeous ribbon! SO lovely!!

I have 2 clubs running and my first one will be tomorrow night! SO excited!!
Hopefully I'll be back soon to post what I'm actually demonstrating to show you all!
In the meantime I do hope you're making the most of the super FABBO Sale-A-Bration with every $100 you spend you choose a FREE special something!!! LOVE this time of the year!!

Just Add Ink 84 Colour Challenge

It seems that this last part of the week I've had time to myself!!! And when you have time to yourself the thing to do (other than housework, weeding and other BORING home duties) is go to your craft desk and make some creations!!! With the sun pouring in even now as I type, it's been soooo lovely to have had this time while the children play happily with sleep-overs, tea-parties and lego.
One of my favourite things to do is join in on the challenges that the BLOGGING world have out there. So I popped on over to the JUST ADD INK site to see their new challenge for this week!
White with ONE other colour...... wasn't seeming to be exactly what I WANTED TO DO..... I guess this is why they're called CHALLENGES!!!!

I got busy playing with some BLEACH which I haven't done in ages and remembered that pink was a good colour to get WHITE with.
My dear, wonderful friend KIM has let me borrow her new embossing frames (SO LOVE THESE) so with that, some embellishments and the NEW MY FRIEND stamp set this is the finished card.

I hope that this weekend brings with it, time for YOU to do what you love also!
Thanks for saying HI,

New CATTY= New ideas = Spring Stamp-a-stack!

I love getting new catty's from Stampin' Up! It's always FULL to overflowing with amazing projects to copy and draw inspiration from! Ohhh how I LOVE IT!!!!
I'm holding a Spring, Saturday night, stamp-a-stack this sat and here is one of the cards my lovely ladies in attending will be making......

I've cased the idea from the front cover of the new catty but added my own touches! Tone on tone is a real trend at the moment and though I usually don't like white so much (always feel the need to cover it up!) I think this card is really lovely!
SO if you have nothing to do this Sat eve (10th Sept) there are still a few places left, so contact me today if you'd like to come along!

Happy Father's Day

front of "Amazing card" for Allan
inspiration from Mary Fish, Stampin' Pretty

HAppy Father's Day to all you Dad's out there! I hope that your day is a wonderful one and that you're truly feeling all the love and gratitude those around you have for the great Dad things you do!!!!
We've had a lovely morning celebrating Allan, including a delish pancake and croissant breakie and now, this afternoon, he's even enjoying what we like to call a "Nana nap!"

inside the amazing card, click HERE to see the tut!

I made these special cards for Allan with the amazing new Forever Young set from the even more AMAZING new 2011/2012 Catty! YAY! YAY! YAY! WHat do you think?? What are you loving??? What do you HAVE to have!!??? So many wonderful products and goodies to behold!


Well that's it for me, time to get our yummy roast dinner ready!

An amazing card from an Amazing lady!

The other week I received that most amazing and wonderful and special mail in my little green box!!! It was THIS!!!!!! (click HERE to see it in all it's glory!)
My fabulous and extremely talented blogging/stamping friend Sarah Jane sent me this amazing card all the way from WA!!!
Ohhhh how I LOVE IT!!!!! LOVE IT!!!!! LOVE IT!!!!!!! And the words inside were soooo touching and meant sooo much to me, I'm soooo blessed and incredibly happy and thankful that this wonderful little hobbie of stamping has brought people like SJ in my life!
Love ya heaps SJ!!! Thanks again for such an amazingly, gorgeous, oozing with love creation!!!
Sending hugs to you across the sea's.....

"How to" in making a Torn Paper Frame

Well here it is!!! I have had a lot of you wonderful people asking me how to make my Torn Paper frame that I showed at the SU convention last month. SO without any more waiting... here it is!!!

Firstly you need to cut out a cirlce shape in the center of your card (you can punch one out but I find that it's too close to the edge and so doesn't leave much to make the frame, works well on a smaller piece of card though)

(note if you want to add a background as I have done here,
this needs to be stamped first before you start to tear, it will make it easier for later!!)

If you want to add another layer then cut another hole out and then place them on top of each other, adhering with some snail or glue.

Start tearing out the circles you've cut, it's best to be as rough as possible as that adds more effect! I tend to pull down and move the card around as I go

Keep tearing and pulling and scrunching to create the desired look.

Here is the finished frame

If you find that there's too much card hanging down for your frame then just tear some off the edges and this will fix it nicely!

Put some tape right on the edge of the frame at the back ready for your focal point piece

Add the rest of your embellishments and there you have it!!!!!

What do you think?????
I'd love for you to show me what you come up with!!! Please leave a comment with your link and I'll be sure to pop on over and say HI!!!! Have fun and enjoy this very easy, no need for anything extra, technique!!!!

Embellish magazine Decorative trim colour trends challenge

I have recently bought the very beautiful Nature walk set (from the fabulous new Autumn/Winter Mini) and LOVING IT!!! SO with this new challenge over at Embellish I inked it up for a very vintage style card.

What do you think???

How about the colour swatch to work off, AMAZING!!!

That's it for me today, it's been a very cold, wet, wet, stay in-doors day so I'm off to get a nice hot cup of tea!

AN extra special card

I had the pleasure of making my sister a 30th card this last week! I can honestly say that I'm quite pleased that she's finally joined the 30's club!! I've been there for nearly 5 years and my brother for now 2 so it was due for my fabulous little sister to step up and celebrate!! I had some fun putting her card together, using some of my fav techniques including spritzing, and roughing and blues and Crumb cake!
I also added an old doily for some Old world style! I totally LOVE this card, I know that Sarah will too!! How about you?? Made anything that you absolutely LOVED recently!
I'd love to hear about it!

Happy Valentine's Day (and JAI challenge)

Hello my dear friends! Long time no blog....
Well it's the day of LOVE! So many things in life to love and cherish! For me GOD is certainly at the top of the list, then my spunky and wonderful husband, my amazing and treasured children, family and friends and certainly close to the top is STAMPING!!!! Over at JUST ADD INK they're talking all about LOVE too, hop on over and check out the LOVE!
So for this Valentine's Day I jumped on the USA band-wagon and made LOTS of LOVE cards for all those that I treasure. It was fun writing in the things that I LOVE about them and am feeling already excited at the LOVE that will be filling my friends letter boxes today! Like sending a big HUG! YAY!
I also got busy making a special little LOVE box for Allan, the LOVE of my life. I had so much fun with this project and am already keen to make another. I listed inside some of my favourite things about our LOVE and what I LOVE about him.

My LOVE box and matching card

Inside the box is like an accordion all full of LOVE
two and four...

now one, three and five

So dear readers, friends and the blogging world...
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY - may you be treated by your "love" with chocolates or flowers or even both, enjoy lots of cuddles and feel indeed LOVED!