Regional Swap

Hi there, Here I am again with another scheduled post because today I am off to regionals in Canberra with some of my team members. This is my swap for today which is made with the gifted stamp set (also on promotion with stampin up this month). If you would like to find out more about this promotion please just click here. I have used Pear Pizzazz and Cherry Cobler as my colours and the Woodgrain background stamp. I also ran the Cherry Cobler through the bigshot and embossed it with the dotty embossing folder. I am soooo excited to learn what Stampin Up have to show us today.......

Copied Inspiration

Well its only been a month, I would love to tell some great story of why I haven't been back but the truth is Real Life just got in the way..... But the exciting thing is I have been crafting a little bit lately, mainly at some insane time at night but that is still ok, cause I am crafting....yay for me....I am busily trying to prepare for my annual Girls Night In that I will be holding next friday nite as well as a market day that same weekend, I won't bore you will all the other things on that week as well...lol......So for all my loyal followers out there, I thank you again, and I have had a couple of requests for my scrapbooking as well, and I will get to that as well. Now the above card was sent to me for my birthday by one of my gorgeous friends and I still have it proudly on display. I was looking at it again last nite and I decided to recreate it in a Christmas Card format. The colours I have used are Olive Olive, Cherry Cobler and Whisper White with the Circle Circus & Perfect Punches stamp set. I have actually made two of these so far one with ribbon and one without. I cannot decide which I like better I think the one without ribbon would make a lovely male Christmas Card. Aren't these two colours striking together?

Snow Swirled Christmas

Hi everyone, I am just popping in here quickly to show you another of the Christmas Cards that I have made this year. I just loved snow swirled when it was first released in our Catty this year. I have used Baja breeze, Not quite Navy and Whisper White. I also used the sanded background stamp and the sentiment is from occasional greetings. I finished with a Rhinestone brad and some dazzling diamonds. Ok I am now off the attack the house today. I am having a cleaning day and have half started heaps of jobs, I have the vacuuming half started, the ironing, the beds stripped the washing up started and the kids are cleaning up there toys because Santa just won't come to a messy house.....lol......So I need to actually focus and get one of those jobs completed.....If I don't get back here before Christmas....I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!!!

Male Christmas Card

I needed a couple of Male Christmas Cards so I didn't want them to fancy, so this is what I came up with. The colours are Old Olive, Chocolate Chip and Whisper White. I have used the Holly Jolly Christmas Stamp Set. This was a pretty simple card to make so there isn't really much to tell you about how to do it. I hope you are all getting organised for Christmas....Not long now......

Teachers Gifts

I have seen then floating around blog land on a few different blogs but am not sure who the original creator is. I made my own measurements to fit the hot chocolate sachets that I had. I made the boxes using Night of Navy, Whisper White & Brocade Blue, I also used the same colours on the card but also added some vellum cardstock. I am sorry about the quality of the photo's but I was rushing out the door yesterday morning and realised I forgot to photograph the cards and the presents. It was Nicholas last day at preschool yesterday! I carn't believe how quickly they grow up.....Now you can see the inside of the box well that side was filled with lindt and darrell lea chocolates when it was given to the teachers. I just didn't have any on hand when I took the piccy.....Lucky I would say because I would have only eaten them anyway.......

Christmas Card

I made this cards the other day for some of friends that I had lunch with. I used the sweet treat cups which hasn't photographed very good but it is a quarter filled with glitter to give the effect of snow in a snow globe. I used the wish for peace stamp set and coloured with my old olive and chocolate chip markers. I think everything else is pretty straight forward, if not just ask..... I have been scrapbooking and not card making so I will have some more pages to share with you soon......Have a good day......

XMas Cards

I have had fun playing with the Christmas Classics stamp set today. I wanted to make a friend of mine some Christmas Cards as a thank you gift. So I pulled out my Christmas Classics stamp set and stamped away. I have just focused the cards around this set and just made multiple's of each card. For the first three of the cards I used the same layout and just changed the stamp and the colour. Then I tried something a little different for the last card using my markers and some of the scrap DSP that I had laying around from cutting for the Girls Night In. The paper is from the Ski Slope DSP series in the Spring Mini which we will be saying Goodbye to at the end of the month. So if you think you would like to stock up on anything out of the mini just give me a call so I can get it for you......Hope you are having a wonderful Sunday......

Tri-fold Card

Here is a Tri-fold card that I made ages ago and hadn't photographed and edited. I really haven't had a lot of time lately to craft so hence there has been no action on here. I have been doing some scrapbooking so now I just need to find the time to photograph it and get it on here for you all to look at. This card uses the Holiday Treasures DSP and Season's of Joy stamp set. I hope you like it and thanks for looking.....

Another play with Keesh's Challenge

I enjoyed Keesh's Challenge so much that I have continued to play with it over the last couple of days. Firstly I have created a title page for Josephine's next album using the same sketch as the previous post. I have used Pink Pirouette and Lovely Lilac and some DS Paper out of the Tea Party pack. I have used a Rub-on that says "So Sweet" and cut the heading out with my Cricut Machine.

Next is a Christmas card using the Snow Swirled stamp set and the Level 1 Hostess set Punches three. I used the build a brads with the small snowflake stamped in there. I made the hole a little big so they are moving around a little. The colours are Riding Hood Red, Chocolate Chip and Kiwi Kiss which are taken from the Ski Slope DS Papers. I have had a pretty productive day in the card room today and have also covered a journal that I will post tomorrow, I can't give it to you all at once, I will stretch it out a bit. See you tomorrow for the journal.......

Christmas in July

This is one of my Christmas in July cards made using the Snow Swirled stamp set which I first stamped in Versamark, then in Sahara Sand and then sprinkled Clear embossing powder over it and heat embossed it. The colours I have used are Kraft and Riding Hood Red. I added a scalloped piece to the bottom and used our lovely taffeta ribbon as well. Sorry for the quick post tonight but I am in the midst of cleaning my office and then I am going to attack my craft room. Hopefully then I will feel a little more organised and be inspired to create a mess again.....lol.....

All about family

One of my customers and good friends emailed me this picture today. She made this card for her daughter from her son-in-law and grandson. They were giving pandora's as a present and she came up with this card to give with the present. I thought it was a great idea if you are giving pandora's as a present just tie them on. Daddy's got one and so does max. I'm guessing the colours are Wild Wasabi and Real red. The stamp set is all in the family and short and sweet. Thanks for emailing me this, I couldn't wait to share it all with you. I think it's just so clever......

Christmas Card

Ok time for another Christmas Card I gave you two days off so here is the last card that I made to complete the set out of the Festive Favourites stamp set. This time I used the super cute snowmen. The colours are Kraft and Night of Navy. The instructions are the same as the previous posts for these cards. I hope I have inspired you to do some stamping today.

Christmas Card

This is another Christmas Card using the Festive Favourites stamp set it matches the one i showed on this post. The colours are Kraft, Wild Wasabi and Whisper White. I have watercoloured using the crayons and the aqua painter. I always use the other end of my crayon and pick the colour up first onto the aqua painter and the paint. I find that easier then drawing the crayon onto the cardstock and smudging it with the aqua painter. I hope that makes sense.

Seasons of Joy Christmas Card

This card is a case from Michele Force she is a very talented stamper and I love her work. I changed this a little bit to make it my own, the colours are River Rock, Wild Wasabi & Purely Pomegrante and they are stamped with the stamps out of the Seasons of Joy stamp set. This stamp set is out of the Mini Catty that finishes on the 30th November, its a great stamp set be sure to get one. I then stuck the Vellum over the top of the cardstock and then stuck the piece of ripped river rock cardstock down one side and finished off with the Purely Pomegrante satin ribbon that is also in the Mini Catty that finishes on the 30th November. If you need to order anything please just let me no.

Christmas Again

I made this card the other day and just had it sitting on my desk unfinished because I was unsure where to go with it. So today was the day to get some things on my desk finished and this is one of my projects. The base of the card is whisper white and then I used the wintergreen DS paper. I had these rhinestones things laying around for a while and the are not stampin up so I just wanted to use them up thats why there are so many on this card. I used the corner punch with the guard off to scallop along the edges. I stamped the tree out of the seasons of joy stamp set and the saying out of the short and sweet stamp set and punched that out with the oval punch. I finished off with some white taffeta and soft sky double stitched ribbon. I hope you like it....

Christmas Cards

This is another stamp set that I really like its Peaceful Wishes. The colours I have used are Bravo Burgundy, Always Artichoke & Confetti Cream. This is a pretty basic card with no tricks to it. If you need to ask me anything just email me. Have a great day. I hope you are stamping where ever you are.

Christmas Card

For this card I have used Wild Wasabi for the base and layered it with Kraft cardstock which has been stamped in Sahara Sand with the Season of Joy Stamp set from the Spring Mini Catty. I then layered those colours again and finished off with Confetti Cream cardstock and the stamped Xmas Tree is stamped in Wild Wasabi. I used the slot punch to thread the Old Olive Grossgain ribbon through and tie it twice.

I have a couple of ladies who look at my blog every day (thats the ones I no of). So this card is for you ladies. I no that you have been looking for black and silver Christmas Cards and you liked the white and blue snowflake card, so I have adapted these colours for you. I have used the metallic silver cardstock for the base of the card and then mounted basic black ontop and embossed the silver snowflakes and the Season's Gretting saying. I finished with some basic grey taffeta ribbon. I hope you like it ladies....................................

Christmas Card

I love this Christmas Card it is just so nice and soft. I used Whisper White and Soft Sky together and the Snow Burst stamp set out of the Spring Mini Catty. This was another card that we made on Friday Night except I added some extra ribbon to mine. The Seasons Greetings stamp set is out of the Many Merry Messages Stamp set. Enjoy your day!

Christmas Card

This is one of the card's we made at Friday Night's Girls Night In Stamp-a-thon. I am showing you this card first and will get back with some of the others later on. The colours are Whisper White and Purely Pomegrante. I used the Holiday Harmony DS Paper on top of the Whisper White and then layered the purely pomegrante and then the whisper white to stamp on. I used the Crazy for Christmas stamp set, there were lots of different versions on the night not just the presents, but also trees & the ornaments. When I made this card I wanted to used pink as pink is the colour for the girls night in. We raised 347.00 for the cancer council on the night and it was lots of fun. One thing I did forget on the night was my camera to take photo's of everybody stamping but I do have photo's of the cards.