Card of the Week

Guess who got a new stamp set!  This is from the Spring Mini Catalogue. The first card is made with Fall Flowers DP, Taken with Teal and Old Olive card stock. If you had suggested these colours to me I would have cringed, but I think they came together pretty good.

 The second card, with Happy Birthday, is for Dannie Graves, who is in the Marines serving in Afghanistan. His sister ( Dannie's Designs) has put out a request to everyone who can, to send a card for his birthday. Visit her blog if you have a moment.

Sunday Night Scrappin'

Enjoy the little things! 

I am so grateful that God has blessed me with this little boy. I was 42 when John was born, and thought I was past the child bearing years.

  Now, with him, my Quiver is full. I have four wonderful young men, who are a never ending source of insipation and love. They range from 17 to 4 yrs, and each one brings his own kind of joy into my life.

As an older mum, I am able to enjoy the" little things," so much more than when I had three little men to raise.

His name means "God's gracious gift,"

and he truly is. 

Tuesday's Terrific Tips

Colour Swatches are a great way of making a quick reference to matching up with your projects as you go. I don't often start out with a combination of colours, more often I start with a stamp or photo, and then work up to the colour combo I want to use. When I am scrapping, I look at the colours within , and work with my swatches to decide which one looks the best. 

Another useful tool for choosing colours that compliment one another is the Color Coach, by Stampin Up! One of my ladies recently purchased it, and to my amazement, it was fantastic in providing co-ordinating and complimenting colours. I no longer have to use precious brain power to decide which colours look good together. I can save the brain power for designing other things.

July Workshop

July workshop

Look at all these lovely cards and boxes!!

firstly , thanks to Jen Balcer for the 2-5-7-10 box template and tutorial.

The girls at this Saturdays Techniques workshop made these. We slogged it out for three hours,first making the box out of DP, and then using the off cuts to make the cards and embellishments, down to the last scrap. 

It is really satisfying to see all the cardstock get used up, and make such lovely projects.

RAK from Jess

Today I received this lovely box of flowers from Jess. 

Jess and Paul are getting married in September, and asked me to help them design their wedding stationery. I was thrilled to be asked to help out with such a special occasion, and really enjoyed planning the layouts with them.

When I arrived home today from my " real job" (lol)  these beautiful flowers were waiting for me.

I was even more excited to see that the roses are a variation in Burgundy,  of my favourite rose, Candy Stripe.  I have used a Candy Stripe rose from my garden in my blog Header.

They are really Beautiful, and much appreciated, thanks Jess and Paul.

Card of the Week

This weeks card is made with Lovely as a Tree.

The background is Brayered using Brocade Blue and Sage Shadow. I have tried this technique a few times, and find the more often I try it , the better I get. I also tried the same scene , with the "moon and clouds," daubbed on with Versamark before Brayering.

This really is a fun way to create a unique background on glossy cardstock. I have also used Sahara Sand, Black and night of Navy to frame the main picture. I think I will also add a little ribbon to finish this one off. Thanks for looking.

Card of the Week

Hello again! 

This has been a very busy week, with school Holidays, six bookings and a lot of creativity required.

I have used French script (retired) as the background, using Groovy Guava ink on GG cardstock. The scalloped edge is done with the Corner Rounder with it's guard taken off.

The Berries are from Level 1 Hostesss set,Oh, so Lovely.

I have stamped the image once on the Whisper White card, then using my Stamp-a majig, lined up the second image to the centre, then punched out the G.Guava image. i have used blending pens to colour the leaves and berries, and used a white gel pen to highlight the detail on the berries.

The image was repeated on another piece of G. Guava card and layered to match the main berries.A touch of ribbon, and all is done!

Sunday Night Scrappin'

Here he is again! Teddy is now six months old, and only improving on purrfect!It has ben so long since I scrapped , that I decided to choose an easy project. I have used two sheets of 12x12 from Spring Showers to compliment Teddy's coat. I have used Versamark on the Big Deal Alphabet, to outline my letters for cutting.

The rosettes are done with the scallop Circle punch, as well as 1 1/4" & 1/2" circle punches.

To finish, the wonderful Crop-a-dile to set the eyelets.

Card of the Week

SU! has just had a promotion called eScape! The main theme behind it was to post a card or "love-note," to some one. I am great at making cards, but not so good at parting with them. This was a good challenge and encouragement to me to SEND, send , send!

The first card was to my sister, Bronwyn. She was up north for a week in May, and each time we are together, just makes being apart a little harder, so here is my card, filled with mushy sister stuff, to say I love you Sis.

The stamp's are hostess level 2, Spring Solitude set, and the colours are Brocade Blue, black and Pink Passion.

Tuesday's Terrific Tips

here's a good tip for using your stamps on patterned papers.

Use versamark on your stamps to give a faint image, or outline to cut around

This one works really well with alphabets and numbers, when you want to use a contrasting colour or patterned paper. You can see an example on my Sunday Night scrappin' page.

 For a bit of Razzle Dazzle try adding Dazzling Diamonds to the patterned papers, and heat embossing it . Really Glitzy!