Hi there Merry Christmas everyone. For those of you with children – I hope you weren’t woken too early 🙂 Over the last 25 days our neighbours two little boys (4 and 2) have been coming up each night to open an Advent Calendar box. It has been so much fun watching them as they… Read More: Merry Christmas »
Hi there I am officially on holiday for two weeks 🙂 We are SO looking forward to having a break and just relaxing around home and doing some day trips. Here is my final Christmas card for 2014 which I taught at a class earlier this month. The ladies hadn’t crafted much before and did… Read More: Trim the Tree »
Hi there Well it’s not many sleeps now till Christmas so I’d better hurry up and share with you the last of my Christmas cards. This is one we made at last weeks card class. Well actually I’ll share two cards with you which you can make from the pieces required. I CASED this card… Read More: Star Framelits Christmas Card »
Hi there Sorry for the break in blogging so to make up I’ll show you three cards I’ve made recently using the Circle Card Thinlits die. The first two are extended cards and you can get two of these from an A4 sheet of card stock which is great. The first one uses the Wondrous… Read More: Circle Card Thinlits Die – Extended Cards »
Hi there I recently had to make a leaving card for one of the ladies at work. She loved my Wondrous Wreath card in a non Christmas layout so I replicated it for her leaving card. This card is made using a 12 x 12 sheet of card stock and with a few cuts and… Read More: Wondrous Wreath Leaving Card »
Hi there I forgot to do a post last night showing my final card using Blended Bloom! So here it is: Wisteria Wonder is not a colour I’ve used much but I must admit this does look nice. The ‘leaf’ image is from the Hostess set ‘Bloom with Hope’. I’ve again raised the first layer… Read More: Blended Bloom – Wisteria Wonder »
Hi there Sorry this post is a bit late – been a busy evening. Yellow is my favourite colour (no surprises there!) so I couldn’t not create a ‘yellow’ Blended Bloom card. For this card I layered the first ‘row’ of petals and centre with dimensionals. To get my doily sitting correctly I cut it… Read More: Blended Bloom – Daffodil Delight »
Hi there I’ve got two Rich Razzleberry cards to show today. The first one I made for one of the ladies I used to work with. Her favourite colour was purple so I’ve used a range of ‘purple’s’ on her card. The card base is Perfect Plum, the trim is Elegant Eggplant and the flower… Read More: Blended Bloom – Rich Razzleberry »
Hi there Today’s ‘Blended Bloom’ is paired with Pumpkin Pie. I’ve left the sentiment off at the moment as I wasn’t sure what type of card I would use this for. I have found the colouring in rather relaxing and nice to do at the end of a busy day. Supplies:Stamp Set – Blended BloomCard… Read More: Blended Bloom – Pumpkin Pie »
Hi there I thought I’d take a break from Christmas Cards and show you some of my creations using the lovely Blended Bloom stamp set and Blendabilities markers. This is one of the first cards I made using the three shades of Coastal Cabana Blendabilities. I started with the darkest around the edge then moving… Read More: Blended Bloom – Coastal Cabana »
Hi there Each month my Card Class ladies make two cards – this month we had a special request for an ‘Invitation Card’ design as well as a Christmas Card (see yesterday’s post). Now I haven’t done any invitation cards before so I flicked through my ideas book for some different styles of cards and… Read More: Criss Cross Invitation Card »
Hi there It’s hard to believe it’s only a month till Christmas – let’s hope the weather improves within the month! Yesterday I attended our annual Thanksgiving Dinner at my upline Jacque‘s house. It’s a lovely time to spend together – sharing food, reflecting on the year and giving thanks for all that has happened –… Read More: Bright and Beautiful Shaker Card »
Hi there What a day – I know it’s Spring but the weather today has been more like Winter. I’ve had enough of all the wind and rain – roll on Summer. Yesterday our friend’s son turned 6. I was going to make him a Sweet Treats Cup card but had made his older brother… Read More: Suspension Card »
Hi there Sorry for being missing in action last week but I was busy preparing for last weekend’s Creative Inkers Christmas Extravaganza event. It was heaps of fun with over 100 ladies busy creating all afternoon. Here is the project I taught with Jacque and Narelle. It uses the Snowflake Card Thinlits Die to create… Read More: Snowflake Card Thinlits Die – Auckland Extravaganza Projects »
Hi there Where did the last 10 days go? I can’t believe we’re now in November which means that Christmas is just round the corner. At least I have made a start on my Christmas cards. Last month at team training we did a ‘Shoebox’ swap. This was the first time I’d done one of… Read More: Inlaid Embossing – Shoebox Swap for Team Training »