Hi It’s been a beautiful day here in Auckland and at lunchtime I went for a walk around the block. The only problem was by the end my feet were warm but my ears & hands were frozen! Last weekend at SENZ I made a Fancy Fold card with Bron and thought I’d recreate it with a… Read More »
Hi I have finally got round to photographing this weeks challenge. Here is the layout:And here is my finished card: I sat at my crafting desk the other night looking at my stamp sets trying to work out which set would go well with this layout. After a few ‘off the shelf, back on the… Read More »
Hi there Well after a lovely long weekend away (I’ll try and put some photo’s up soon) I’m back into my card making. This card is for the challenge over at Stamping411. I’ve made it a masculine theme as this month I have 3 male birthday cards to do. Here is the sketch: and here is… Read More »
Hi Happy Birthday to Me & Phil! Well by the time you read this we will be in New Plymouth having a birthday holiday. As we share the same day – how cool is that! – every second year we go away for a short break to celebrate OUR birthday. I haven’t been to New… Read More »
Hi Another Paula had her birthday yesterday – hope you had a great day. I have never met Paula but she has left some wonderful comments on my blog since I started blogging earlier this year. Thank you for your words of encouragement they mean a lot to me :). How do you create a card for… Read More »
Hi there Don’t forget to leave a comment so that you can be in the draw to win a free pass to join Stampin Fun and Friends – see my earlier post. This birthday card is for one of the ladies at work whose birthday is on Saturday. I altered my original design a bit once I started… Read More »
Hi there Well this weeks sketch had me stumped for a bit. So last night I had a look through my ‘techniques’ folder to see if I could get some inspiration – it worked. I found a techique called Emerging Colour that I’d got from Paula Dobson a while ago but hadn’t had time to trial… Read More »
Hi Well May is certainly the month for birthdays at my work – there are 13 of us with birthdays in May out of a staff of 79. My husband (Phil) and I share the same day – 26th May – which is great as he can never forget my birthday! This year we are… Read More »
Well today is my dad’s birthday and tonight the family are getting together to celebrate. I recently saw a card using the technique of inlaid embossing so thought I’d give it a go. When I was cleaning my crafting desk (there was no room left to craft!) I found some cirlces left over from other projects… Read More »
Hi there I can’t believe I haven’t posted for a week! After a busy week at work I finally got round to making a card for the Try Stampin on Tuesday challenge. My girlfriend has her birthday this Wednesday so thought I’d use this challenge for her card. I wanted to do something a bit special so instead of just… Read More »
Hi I have a vey special friend and I have wanted to send her a card for ages just letting her know how special she is to me. When I saw Paula Dobson’s project on U Stamp with Dawn & Friends I fell in love with it & have been wanting to trial it. Well here… Read More »
Hi there I finally got round to making a card using the colour combination from Inkspiration. I loved the autumn tones of the challenge and as I have a few male cards to do this month it worked in well. I’m a bit late though for the challenge – never mind the receiver of the card… Read More »
Hi there Well here’s my next Try Stampin On Tuesday card. I decided to use this weeks layout for a masculine card. I have three male birthdays this month so thought I’d better make a start. I used DSP for my four squares – I’m trying to use up retired papers before I buy the new ones. … Read More »
Hi there It’s that time of the week to post my card for http://trystampinontuesday.blogspot.com/. I’m really pleased with how my card turned out. For my colour combination I used ColourQ – not sure how I found this site. As I didn’t have any DSP in the colour range I made my own background with one of the… Read More »
Hi Here’s my next entry for http://trystampinontuesday.blogspot.com/. I’ve used Totally Tess this week – slowly working through the sets the don’t see much ink. It’s very easy to go to the favourites (Vintage Vogue).Here is this weeks sketch:and here is what I did: I’m really into using the markers at the moment. I haven’t done much… Read More »