Inkspiration Challenge #10

Wow - I'm totally on fire this week with having more than one post! lol

Hope you've all had a great week - we sure have! While we haven't done a whole lot , the time I've spent with my kids has been so much fun and I've enjoyed every moment! I can't believe the holidays are almost over and I have to get back to some kind of normal routine - that is something I'm not looking forward to I have to admit! lol

Okey dokey, so this week Keesh has provided us with a wonderful sketch to work with and one I will definitely be using again for sure! Thanks Keesh!

I decided since we're now in July, it was time to make at least one Christmas Card!! At least then when someone says to me "Have you started on your chrissy cards yet?", I can truthfully say "You betcha booties I have!! lol

So, for my card, I've used a mixture of papers from the Holiday Treasures pack, and teamed it up with Baja Breeze, Riding Hood Red, Very Vanilla, Old Olive and Chocolate Chip! I wanted the bauble to be the main feature on my card and so I've hung it ever so delicately from the branch using linen thread! The "branch" is the tall tree from the Lovely As A Tree set!

The sentiment, which I personally really love is from the Snow Swirled stamp set, and as a bauble decoration, I used one of the stamps from the Circle Circus set! So as you can see, it's very much a mix and match kinda card! The large Very Vanilla bauble I cut out using my Creative Memories cutting system just in case your wondering how I got such a big circle!

To finish it off, I've just done a bit of paper piercing and added some lovely Vanilla Taffeta Riboon!

So there ya go, this weeks challenge is done and dusted! Thanks so much Keesh for that great sketch - I loved it! I'm off now, to check out the gorgeous creations the other girls have done. I really look forward to Fridays to see what they've been up to!

Kirsty

Amy

Renee

Cindy

Nancy Riley

I'm Still Around!

Hey there all!

I thought I'd jump on midweek and show you a card I made on Monday! It's a stepped up, colour changed CASE of this card by fellow demo Stephanie Pike in Brisbane, who actually phoned me on Monday to give me a few pointers on the wax paper resist technique since I was in a spot of bother with it! Long story..........don't ask! lol

Thankfully, I have it all sorted now so THANK YOU Steph for your help.......I really appreciated you coming to my rescue, and chatting with you was absolutely great!!

ETA - I've been having problems with blogger today, so I had to delete my first post (which was exactly the same as this post!) totally redo it and upload the whole post again! Unfortunately the comments got deleted along with it! :(

Anyone for Cake?

Hi ho everyone - hope you've had a great week!

It's currently school holiday's here and I've been doing some lovely stuff with the kids! Apart from enjoying the very welcome sleep in's, I've taken them for a bbq breakfast at a park, long walks at the beach checking out soldier crabs, I've sewed Maddy's Wakakirri costume (yay me!!), we've visted some friends and I've also taken Maddy to see the Hannah Montanna movie which I have to say I totally loved! Gotta love that hoe down song! lol

Anyhoooooooo, in amongst all that I made time to make sure my Design Team card was done and ready to go, and honestly I had heaps of fun doing this one!!
When I first looked at the pic below that Keesh gave us to work with, all I saw was CAKE so that's the theme I went with! I even took a small part of my SU demo hat off this time round and used the fantastically fun set from Papertrey Ink called 'Piece Of Cake'! I've had it for ages now and think I've used it once - bad me! lol

So here's the inspiration pic!

Here's my card!

As you can see I've actually done some stitching on my card using my Janome Sew Mini sewing Machine! If you like to do a bit of sewing on your cards or scrapbook pages, I highly recommend this little machine - its fabo! I think from memory it cost me $149 about 12 months ago, but seriously, it's so easy to use and does perfect stitches every single time! The link I've given you is in the US I think, but you'll get to see a pic and there are stockists here in Australia if you google them!

Back to the card though.......my colour scheme is Pink Pirouette, Close To Cocoa, and Pumpkin Pie and Regal Rose and the DSP is from the Sweet Always pack - love it! I have to thank my gorgeous friend Patrice for the Nestability cut outs too which I've used! She sent Keesh and myself a pile of them to play with and they are just awesome! Thanks Patrice!

I think it's a pretty self explanitory little card, so I won't go into the finer details! Hopefully it's inspired you though to grab out a stamp set you havent used in a while and make something with it!

Oh, and before I go I just HAVE to welcome aboard our guest designer and card making extraudinaire for this month NANCY RILEY! When I was chatting to Keesh on the phone last week and she told me who she'd lined up I nearly fell off my chair!! I've been a stalker of Nancy's blog and commenting on her cards for ages, so to have her playing along with us is absolutely so exciting and I'll look forward to her creations every week for July!

Be sure to follow the links on my side bar to see what the other lovely DT girls have done also - I for one can't wait to skip across to their blogs to see what they've whipped up! They never cease to amaze me that's for sure!

A Card From Yesterday's Workshop!

Hi everyone!

Thought I'd pop on quickly and show you one of the projects the girls made at a workshop I did yesterday arvy! My Hostess Renee, was keen to learn embossing so we went through how to do Basic Embossing, Faux Metal and also how to use Heat And Stick Powder to cover your image with Dazzling Diamonds!

The card below was the one they all made for their Faux Metal embellishment card!

As you can see it's a very cute and simple card with the feature being the embellishment in the flower center! The colour scheme we used was Perfect Plum, Pale Plum, Barely Banana and also Certainly Celery!

It was another totally fun workshop, with heaps of laughs and absolutely gorgeous nibblies!

Thanks so much Renee for a fabo arvy!

Thank God For Challenges!!

As the title reads.............thank god for challenges! lol

Again, I haven't stamped all week except for Keesh's challenge, which I have to say is a real beauty! I just LOVED playing with these colours, and they look really pretty together! I'm also fairly confident to say it's a combination I've never used before, so that's a definite bonus too!

These are the colours we had to play with................noice hey!

And here's my card!

I aimed for simple elegance with this creation, and the Flower Fancy set certainly delivers on that!

Funnily enough, it's one set I never liked in the catalogue when it first came out, simply because it reminded me of the Heart Felt Thanks set! I realllllllly don't like that set at all for some reason and yet it was one that I still opted to get in my starter kit all those years back. Go Figure! lol
Anyhow, after seeing all the beautiful creations made with Flower Fancy at convention - I came home, jumped online and bought it, and I certainly haven't regretted it!

So, all I've done with my card is stamped the flower on the branch a couple of times in Basic Grey Ink, then blended the ink on the leaves with my blender pen. Then on a seperate piece of card stock, I stamped a flower in Ruby Red (as well as the flower bud) and also one in Baja Breeze, cut them out and attached them using dimensionals after I popped a brad through each of their centres!

The main flower is stamped off once in Baja Breeze ink and then the outline is stamped over it in Baja Breeze ink also! Then for the flower centre, I've stamped an extra on Baja Breeze card and cut it out, stuck one of the gorgous clear stone brads through the middle and attached it with a dimensional! The little curly bits on my card, are made by simply cutting the thinnest strip of Baja Breeze card with my stanley knife and it curls all by itself as your cut!

I'm off to check out the rest of the Design Team creations, so be sure you do too! You'll find links to their blogs on my sidebar!

Mystery Mail!

Morning everyone!

I've just popped on briefly to say a huge THANK YOU to an anonymous someone who has sent me the cutest tiniest aeroplane cut outs which I received just today in the mail. There was no note or anything inside, or an address on the back of the envelope indicating who had sent them to me (don't ya love a good mystery!lol), so I thought it would be easier to put a post on my blog hoping that the kind person see's it! They sure will come in handy when I make cute little aeroplane goodies for Brock!

On that note, I thought I'd share with you all a photo which was taken on Anzac Day this year! As most of you know, my little mate who is almost 9 LOVES planes and has done for many years now!

Anyhoooo, he was lucky enough to be given a flight in the Tiger Moth which flew over some Anzac Day celebrations very early in the morning - an experience he thought was just fantastic!

I was a bit worried that he'd freak out when he got in the air, because as you can see the seating arrangements are rather 'open' with him being the front passenger and the pilot behind him - but nope not a chance, he just enjoyed the flight and is very keen to go again sometime soon!

So again, thank you to my 'mystery goodie sender' for thinking of my little mate when you saw these gorgeous little cut outs - he will love them!

On a final note, I hope to return to some kind of normal blogging routine very soon, but since being sick, I've just lost my total desire to stamp, and other than my DT projects for Keesh, I have stamped zilch for weeks! I'm just taking it in my stride though, and I'm not making myself sit and do something when I just don't feel like it, that would be silly! So for now, just look forward to my Friday night uploads and anything else will just be a bonus I think!

Another Fun Inkspiration Challenge!

Hi Ho Everyone - hope you've had a great week!

I'd love to say that I got lots and lots of stamping done.......but that would just be the hugest fib one could tell! lol
I can feel myself getting better though which is a good thing as I have a fabo fun workshop to do for my friend Renee next Saturday, so I'm trying really hard to just chill out as I certainly don't want to be delivering them a wiz bang workshop and the flu as well.........definitely not cool! lol

Okey dokey, so this week Keesh had an awesome sketch challenge for us to try out, and I have to say, I was really looking forward to this one! Sick or not I was determined to pull something off, no way was I gonna pike it!

Here's the sketch!

Here's my card!

For my card, I've used So Saffron as the base, and teamed that up with some Baja Breeze, and Riding Hood Red and some of the gorgeous prints from the Sweet Slumber Specialty pack! Love that stuff! I've also used a little bit of the DSP from the Good Morning Sunshine Pack too which even though is heaps brighter, worked in with the fun theme of the card!

The stamp I used is from the Crazy For Cupcakes set - I just love that big cupcake!

As you can see, I've paper pieced the bottom of the cake, and added some larger 'choc chips' and 'sprinkles' just for fun! I've then coated all the 'sprinkles' and 'choc chips' with crystal effects which did look really cool until it made my choc chips look jet black! lol

I've crimped the base of the larger tag and added a row of sprinkles along the buttom too just so it all tied in with the 2 little choc chips on the bottom RHS!

To finish it off, I felt it still needed a little something, so I added a bow using the choc chip grosgrain ribbon and a bit of faux stitching! Mission complete!!

I hope you like this one as much I as I do! Thanks Keesh for another super sketch, and be sure to check out all my DT girl friends to see what they came up with! You'll find their links on my RH side bar!