Foxy Friends - Hello!

 

Just wanted to pop in and say a HUGE Hello!! Thought this cute fox would do the job nicely!

 

Loving this sweet little critter, what a fabbo set!

Thoughtful Branches - You're in my Thoughts card

 

Another card with the Thoughtful Branches set. This one was inspired by a gift bag that Stampin' Up! designed (can't find the pic though...) with white embossed leaves and the new doily as a sweet background! Loving the Peek-a-boo peach incolour and Watermelon wonder together with a splash of gold!

What is your favourite image in the set??

Gold Thank you!

 

There seems to always be an occasion on which we can say thank you! Thanks for doing the washing, ( a job I really like help with!) thanks for having the children, thanks for all the work you did, thanks for being there as a friend, THANKS! This card is for a wonderful guy who's spent countless hours in the village here in Poatina writing curriculum and getting some old school buildings ready for students next year!

 

I thought that GOLD would be a wonderful touch for this thank you card and with some old DSP it all co-ordinated fabulously!! Love Stampin. Up! for that!! I embossed the Thank you and added some rustic embellishments, water coloured the background and splattered some of the sparkly gold glitter brush for good measure! OH I even stamped the inside!!

Due to the size of the card I needed to make an envelope to match, YAY for the envelope board!! Card complete, ready for all to sign and share their thanks!!
Do you have a stash of thank you cards ready to give?? I think it would be a super idea to have a pack ready to go! What a kind way to show someone your appreciation with a homemade thank you card.

Twelve days of Christmas cards 2015 - Day 11

I have to confess that this is a card I made last year...... but there's more!!!
I DIDN'T EVEN SEND IT!!!! Be sure to know that this issue has now been resolved, you could say a bit like the rats and mice the piped piper happily led out of the city! Problem solved! YAY!!!

 

 

I used one of the wonderful embellishments from the Project life Hello December (2014) as the focus of my card BUT with the gorgeous gold embellishments from the NEW collection of Project Life Hello December 2015 you could make something just as lovely! The background was made with an embossing folder covered in ink, such a gorgeous effect!!
Show this technique at your next get together and I'm sure you'll have a whole following of ladies after you wanting to make it too!

Sheltering Tree - Winter theme {card 2}

With the snow falling I've been creating some fun Winter themed cards for my classes! I recently showed you THIS card, and THIS so now here is my last one. I found inspiration for this one HERE to create the wonderful emboss resist background.

 

 

How fabulous is that sparkle?? Iridescent Ice embossing powder!! A MUST in your stamping goodies! I embossed the tree in Early espresso, then the ground, foliage and snowflakes were all down in the glitter powder. Another lovely greeting in the set "Thankful for you" with just the "for you" being used, same background folder as before and there you have it!
Which one is your fav??
Can't wait to show you more of what my crafting desk has been involved with lately.... hopefully that will be soon!

Fa la la la gift tag (Kikki.K inspired)

With many a gift to wrap and do up all pretty for the season you must have the perfect tag! While looking through one of my fav Christmas mag's (inside out) I noticed a very groovy tag from the wonderful Kikki.K!! WOW it totally POPPED from the page and I knew that I HAD TO case them!!

 

 

I used an old alphabet set that I love and embossed the words Fa la la in gold. The tag itself is made from the Scallop Tag topper cut at 2" wide by 10 cm long. I LOVE the gold sequin trim and the shiny gold ribbon together for that bling touch!! I've mixed these tags up with a feather one I've designed (post to come) for an elegant look to our gifts this year! Oh and I've also done up a pack of these little goodies for a gift!!

 

What do you think? Liking the black and gold look?? It's definitely a first for me (I'm such a traditionalist when it comes to Christmas colours) and I'm LOVING IT!!!
Happy gift wrapping,

Perfectly Rustics challenge #36 - Embossing

 

I don't know about you but it certainly is starting to feel a lot like Christmas..... just the knowing that there is that wonder and fun filling the air is getting me quite excited!! SO with a new challenge at Perfectly Rustics I was in need of a Christmas card!! What better way to get some embossing done than on a fancy card.......

I went with putting ink into my embossing folder and then rolling it through my Big shot so I got this wonderful colour print on my card stock! LOVE the look and when topped with some JOY wood embellishments from the Project Life Hello December pack and gorgeous Cherry cobbler ribbon (available in the Mini.) I even added some stitching while I had my machine out which topped it all off nicely!!

Can't wait to make some more of these special cards ready to post in a couple of weeks!!! YAY!
Do join with us at Perfectly Rustics for our embossing challenge, be super to see what embossing you love to do!

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!

Perfectly Rustics challenge #7 - Embossing

Another challenge is up and running over at Perfectly Rustics this week and it's all about Embossing!! My dear friend Heather LOVES embossing and I've grown quite partial to it myself over the years so that's why I chose it for this challenge!

 

 I have made a tag for a lovely ladies birthday present but if you like you can put it on a card. Like this.....

What do you prefer, the gift or the card?!? Love to see you join in with Kim, Jayne and I for this challenge! Thanks for popping by,

Just Add Ink challenge #126

I made some "free time" to make a card today for the recent JAI challenge! YAY!! I'm holding a team meeting on Saturday night to catch up with my wonderful ladies.It was suggested by my good friend Kim that perhaps we should have a little challenge and bring some show and tell to the meeting! That got me thinking, I try to never make a card without looking at the latest challenges and so with this great sketch and a weird and challenging colour combo from my Colour Coach .....
This is what I came up with.....
Always Artichoke
Crumb cake and
Bashful Blue!
Not as scary as some of the combo's but I was trying to think of a range of colours that my team would have in their collection.

I've also been doing a bit of emboss resist lately (well for stamp club this month) and went with that for the focal point of my card. Then I had to add one of the gorgeous double bows I've spotted many times over on SJ's blog HERE and did a bit of searching for a TUT on line! SO LOVE THIS BOW!!!!!! To create the two different panels in the background I chose two of my fav embossing folders and rubbed over some crumb cake ink to give them some depth. You might not be able to see from the pic but I also added some shimmer to the background and that lovely reader was that!!!
Hope you like my card and take on the sketch, I'll be back soon with some pic's of a recent camp I held and also hopefully, before it's August, show you my Paper Doll projects for this month! We were off with a bang celebrating Christmas in July!!!
Until then

12 days of Christmas (inspiration) day 6

For the last few years I've wanted to hold a Christmas party! What a wonderful opportunity to get together with close friends and celebrate the season! In saying that it all comes soooo quickly that before I know it it's TOO late to send out invites and so it sadly gets passed by! When thinking about this last year we decided to do a New Years Eve party, this turned out SUPER FUN and everyone had a fabulous time. This year however I really wanted to get on the job early and so it was soon top of my "to do" list and it went ahead! YAY!

If you're thinking of having a party, whether it be for a few or for many it's not too late to organize one.... perhaps a New Years one is the way to go or even one in the New Year, early Jan! It can often seem too hard but the rewards of hanging out with those you love (chosen to love) are great and you certainly wont regret it!!!

Stampin' UP! have some really wonderful invitation sets and with some glitter for the season and an image you have them done.... EASY! (of course I'm big on texture and adding more ink, ribbon too but they can be involved or as easy as you like!!) I had lots of fun designing these and was really happy with the end result! Oh if you'd like to stamp the envelope the Winter Post stamp set is FANTASTIC for this with it's post mark stamp and vintage style!!
I hope that you are getting some great ideas for this Christmas time, I'm sure enjoying sharing them with you!!

Inkspirations Sketch Challenge #65

HELLO! HELLO!!!
WOW I'm sooo excited that I've been back on the challenge wagon again!!! To have the time to play has been super wonderful and I'm really enjoying the "stretching" of my crafting ability.
This week I needed a card for my best friends daughter for her sweet 5th birthday! I had the layout already done but then scratched it when I saw this great sketch HERE and decided to make another!! (anyone else do that??)

On looking at the FABULOUS design teams creations I came across this groovy new technique that I hadn't seen..... Water-colour wash. Go HERE to Artistic Avenger (one of the coolest blogs I've seen, LOVE IT!!!) and see where I got the inspiration from and step by step instructions on How to!

I'm going to give this tech another go, I really love how different it is and the effect you can get!!
I wanted to add a little sparkle so Dazzling diamonds certainly fits for the candle flame. Other than that some spritzing and sewing and roughing and the card is ready!

I hope Rose likes it!!! More importantly I hope Heather does! The pressure to make amazing cards for your fabbo friends/customers is overwhelming sometimes!!! I'm often told that people struggle to make me a card due to the PRESSURE but it sure goes both ways when the shoe is on the other foot and I need to come up with some MASTER PIECE!!! Funny how we work isn't it!!??
Well enjoy your Sunday my fellow crafting friends,

Embellish magazine Male theme

HELLO!
I'm on a roll! YAY! Don't hold your breath, it could all come crashing down and you'll have to wait another 10 days to see or hear from me again but hey I hope you're feeling the love and liking my creations lately! :)
One of my FAV sites to visit is HERE! At the moment they have this great challenge....

So with a SAB set to play with this is what I came up with.....

What do you think? Would you put these colours together for a GUY? I'm pretty happy with the combo, must give it a try next male card!

Don't forget that today is the last day to order your $100 to get that FREE SAB set!! don't miss out! bye for now