The last few days have been very wet and much cooler but today is just lovely so I managed to get out and photograph some of the cards I've made over the past few days...
Last night I saw on Deirdre's blog that Paper play challenge this week is about weddings... I had this lovely paper from a pad by Cre8tive that fitted the colours for The Play Date Cafe challenge as well... so this is what I came up with.
To get the yellow in, I added the PP to a yellow card base.
This morning I decided that although the weather has improved, it is still starting to get cooler and that means Soup!!! So I put on a big pot of veggie soup. And popped some bread mix in the breadmaker.... Now it was a mixture I haven't used before and I did put the amount for a small loaf in but.......
didn't expect it to be this small~~~~~ however it did taste rather nice... A multigrain bread. and here is the soup
and this is the view from the kitchen windows....
I have a corner window in the kitchen so get a lovely view out to the garden and trees around us. Bit gleary due to the sun shining in at lunch time.
Hope your Saturday is as lovely as mine is.
Thanks for visiting.
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Saturday, 22 May 2010
Saturday, 8 May 2010
Stampin' Saturday
For the 3rd Saturday in a row I have spent all day stamping... this week it was our monthly group at Stamp'n'create. We had a full house today... 10 of us. I had in mind that I would make my card for May Card chain challenge.... using the sketch Deborah put up here...but got a bit waylaid.... Judi had some new Hero Arts stamps in and I just couldn't resist the Poppy Background Cling... it is just amazingly versatile....
Three times used and three different looks.
For the first card I stamped with Versamark and used white embossing powder then rubbed red Brilliance ink over the lot. Matted on black and then onto Bazzil. Not sure what sentiment I'll put on this one.
Number two, I stamped in Versafine Onyx Black and used water colour pencils and watered down Liquid Pearls to colour it in. Matted onto purple and then the white base card with a bit of sheer ribbon.
The final piece is still to be made up - but it so beautiful. I stamped with Versamark on black card and embossed with a powder called Winter Illusion. As the card is moved, the colour changes from pink to green. I have captured a little of the look on the photo. I'll probably matt onto white then onto black base card... maybe add a bit of ribbon or scallop the bottom....
That kept me a bit busy for the day.... but I did manage to get the card made that is going to Deborah in Canada. Her blog is very inspirational and has a lot of tutorials.
Here's just a wee sneak peek at the card I did for her.
We also had a demo on making a step card.... however my measuring must have been off as I couldn't get the card to sit straight!!!! Still good practise. Less haste more speed next time!!! And we did a make and take that involved using new die cuts of an owl and piecing them together... I got the owls finished but not the card. Will need to finish it during the week.
Tomorrow is Mothers Day so to all my readers who are Mum's - have a great day and enjoy your families... I'm going out to dinner to celebrate both Mothers Day and Emma's birthday... double celebrations at her favourite restaurant...Gaku Teppan Yaki...
Enjoy the rest of the weekend.
Three times used and three different looks.
For the first card I stamped with Versamark and used white embossing powder then rubbed red Brilliance ink over the lot. Matted on black and then onto Bazzil. Not sure what sentiment I'll put on this one.
Number two, I stamped in Versafine Onyx Black and used water colour pencils and watered down Liquid Pearls to colour it in. Matted onto purple and then the white base card with a bit of sheer ribbon.
The final piece is still to be made up - but it so beautiful. I stamped with Versamark on black card and embossed with a powder called Winter Illusion. As the card is moved, the colour changes from pink to green. I have captured a little of the look on the photo. I'll probably matt onto white then onto black base card... maybe add a bit of ribbon or scallop the bottom....
That kept me a bit busy for the day.... but I did manage to get the card made that is going to Deborah in Canada. Her blog is very inspirational and has a lot of tutorials.
Here's just a wee sneak peek at the card I did for her.
We also had a demo on making a step card.... however my measuring must have been off as I couldn't get the card to sit straight!!!! Still good practise. Less haste more speed next time!!! And we did a make and take that involved using new die cuts of an owl and piecing them together... I got the owls finished but not the card. Will need to finish it during the week.
Tomorrow is Mothers Day so to all my readers who are Mum's - have a great day and enjoy your families... I'm going out to dinner to celebrate both Mothers Day and Emma's birthday... double celebrations at her favourite restaurant...Gaku Teppan Yaki...
Enjoy the rest of the weekend.
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Saturday, 17 April 2010
Play Date Cafe Challenge #25
Today I visited Nancy's blog and saw she had entered the Play Date Cafe challenge #25.
This weeks challenge is to use Black and White and a splash of Orange. I was inspired by Nancy's card and also the lovely Suzz - who is host designer for the week. I thought about what I could do and straight away I thought of my darkroom door stamps and one in particular - so here's what I came up with
I stamped the Daisies ( darkroom door - Viva La Flora Vol 2) onto the white card in Versafine Black and then water coloured the petals with Orange aqua crayons. I doodled round the edge of the image and then put it onto the black card matted onto the white base. Added the sentiment ( Inkadinkadoo) embossed in detail white EP. I added the tiniest bit of grey on the steams of the flowers to tone down the stark whiteness. I am quite pleased how this turned out. It was a super quick card - 20 mins from the time I thought of what to do till I was outside photographing it. The longest bit was waiting for the water colouring to dry so I could mat it!!!!
Hope the weekend is great for you all. Thanks for stopping by.
This weeks challenge is to use Black and White and a splash of Orange. I was inspired by Nancy's card and also the lovely Suzz - who is host designer for the week. I thought about what I could do and straight away I thought of my darkroom door stamps and one in particular - so here's what I came up with
I stamped the Daisies ( darkroom door - Viva La Flora Vol 2) onto the white card in Versafine Black and then water coloured the petals with Orange aqua crayons. I doodled round the edge of the image and then put it onto the black card matted onto the white base. Added the sentiment ( Inkadinkadoo) embossed in detail white EP. I added the tiniest bit of grey on the steams of the flowers to tone down the stark whiteness. I am quite pleased how this turned out. It was a super quick card - 20 mins from the time I thought of what to do till I was outside photographing it. The longest bit was waiting for the water colouring to dry so I could mat it!!!!
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Sunday, 11 April 2010
Dogwood Daze...
I got the Hero Arts Dogwood stamp on Friday so took it to Stamp Group with me on Saturday. I had scoped out some examples on Flickr to get me started so my first card was direct copy of this card by Linda aka Oz
I was pleased with them both, but annoyed at myself as I moved the sentiment stamp slightly on the blue one. Both of these were coloured with watercolour pencils - the blue one blended with an aqua pen and the red one with a colourless blender pen (from Tombow) With the blue ones I left the leaves and centre black to give focus to the petals and the red one I coloured over the leaves in a dark green and added pearls to the centres.
As I spend most of the day at stamp club day, I also managed to get some more cards made.... the first one here is a technique I found on the net somewhere ( can't find the original post now) - first you emboss your card and then cover it with acrylic paint. Once it is dry you sand the piece and then cover it with brown ink. I got a new embossing folder yesterday called Jules Jewells so I thought I'd have a go. The original had used pink paint and brown ink for a vintage look, but I used purple paint and then rubbed over d Dark plum ink. I did have a bit of a giggle as after lunch our demo of the day was about using Whitewash card and Choc box card to do what I did manually.... emboss and sand to show the different colours. Here is my card
Isn't that just a lovely folder... my fav butterflies yet again!!
And finally a card I made for our friend's 60th birthday.
I used a Rubbadubbado stamp which I coloured with a variety of Distress inks to make a Rainbow Trout. Finished with the Inkadinkadoo sentiment embossed in silver.
Thanks for persevering with this long post.. but it was a pretty full on day yesterday. Hope your week is good.... my final with my team.... off to lunch on Thursday and have booked myself a mini facial for Friday afternoon... so a good week planned. Take care
I stamped the Dogwood down the side of the kraft card in Desert Sand Memento Ink and then highlighted with white pencil. The sentiment was also stamped in the same ink, but it seems to disappear into the card.
As I have never seen Dogwood before and didn't know what colour it should be, I took some ''artistic license" and did a couple of cards where I coloured it in.... one blues and one reds.
I was pleased with them both, but annoyed at myself as I moved the sentiment stamp slightly on the blue one. Both of these were coloured with watercolour pencils - the blue one blended with an aqua pen and the red one with a colourless blender pen (from Tombow) With the blue ones I left the leaves and centre black to give focus to the petals and the red one I coloured over the leaves in a dark green and added pearls to the centres.
As I spend most of the day at stamp club day, I also managed to get some more cards made.... the first one here is a technique I found on the net somewhere ( can't find the original post now) - first you emboss your card and then cover it with acrylic paint. Once it is dry you sand the piece and then cover it with brown ink. I got a new embossing folder yesterday called Jules Jewells so I thought I'd have a go. The original had used pink paint and brown ink for a vintage look, but I used purple paint and then rubbed over d Dark plum ink. I did have a bit of a giggle as after lunch our demo of the day was about using Whitewash card and Choc box card to do what I did manually.... emboss and sand to show the different colours. Here is my card
Isn't that just a lovely folder... my fav butterflies yet again!!
And finally a card I made for our friend's 60th birthday.
I used a Rubbadubbado stamp which I coloured with a variety of Distress inks to make a Rainbow Trout. Finished with the Inkadinkadoo sentiment embossed in silver.
Thanks for persevering with this long post.. but it was a pretty full on day yesterday. Hope your week is good.... my final with my team.... off to lunch on Thursday and have booked myself a mini facial for Friday afternoon... so a good week planned. Take care
Saturday, 13 March 2010
March CCC - Easter wishes for Nancy
This card is what I made to send to Nancy as part of Deborah's card chain challenge. It was also for Anne's "case me" challenge.
Anne's card (here) used a stamped background where as I used some patterned paper. My butterfly I stamped twice - once of the card and once on white card. I coloured both with distress inks and added some white dots and a bit of Glossy Accents. Nancy tells me it has arrived safely in California so I am now happy to share. I also included a little book mark for Nancy and a New Zealand note pad to stick on the fridge. If you haven't joined Deborah's challenge yet.... keep a look out on her blog towards the end of each month. It is so much fun getting a card in the post... for me it's always from overseas!!!! I have had cards from Canada, USA, and two from different people in Denmark... How cool is that!!!!
Today was Stamp Group.. a very fun and productive day... there were only 4 of us there today but we had a great time... photos tomorrow!!!! if I get time after the run...
Thanks for stopping by... hope everyone's weekend is going well.
Anne's card (here) used a stamped background where as I used some patterned paper. My butterfly I stamped twice - once of the card and once on white card. I coloured both with distress inks and added some white dots and a bit of Glossy Accents. Nancy tells me it has arrived safely in California so I am now happy to share. I also included a little book mark for Nancy and a New Zealand note pad to stick on the fridge. If you haven't joined Deborah's challenge yet.... keep a look out on her blog towards the end of each month. It is so much fun getting a card in the post... for me it's always from overseas!!!! I have had cards from Canada, USA, and two from different people in Denmark... How cool is that!!!!
Today was Stamp Group.. a very fun and productive day... there were only 4 of us there today but we had a great time... photos tomorrow!!!! if I get time after the run...
Thanks for stopping by... hope everyone's weekend is going well.
Friday, 12 March 2010
I never know what to take....
when I go to Stamp Group.... will I need that punch or that colour ink or that piece of paper.... so I tend to take too much. 2 or 3 trips to bring everything into the store. I make sure I get a seat towards the back wall - so no one can trip over all my stuff.... then I hardly use any of it!!!! I try and have a few ideas in mind. Tomorrow I have to make a card almost identical to the one I just made for a friend's wedding....I showed the girls at work today and one of them wants it but with the Kindness saying on it.
I've already embossed the black background so tomorrow will just do the rest and put it together. I did have a bit of a disaster with it.... as I was pulling the stamp off the backing sheet, I pulled from the happiness end and tore off the last "s" :-( and had to write it in by hand. Then did the same thing with the one of the other sentiments. Can't find the receipt and can't remember which shop it I got it from, so not sure what I'll do.
Wednesday night I went to Stampzone's coffee group. Only 3 of us turned up ( but it was the first one!) We got to make this card
It was showing us how to do a water colour technique. You emboss the image, spritz it with water and add the tip of a re-inker to add the colour. I was very pleased with the outcome - not bad for $5 and we got 3 extra flowers!!! It was a rush to get there but I enjoyed it and was home by 8.30 in time to watch a favourite TV program so even better.
Well better get back to packing the bag... ( I have quite a decent sized one but still end up with boxes and bits to carry in separately). Hope your weekend is great. Mine is rather busy but that will stop me worrying about my interview which is at 2pm on Monday.
Thanks for stopping by.
I've already embossed the black background so tomorrow will just do the rest and put it together. I did have a bit of a disaster with it.... as I was pulling the stamp off the backing sheet, I pulled from the happiness end and tore off the last "s" :-( and had to write it in by hand. Then did the same thing with the one of the other sentiments. Can't find the receipt and can't remember which shop it I got it from, so not sure what I'll do.
Wednesday night I went to Stampzone's coffee group. Only 3 of us turned up ( but it was the first one!) We got to make this card
It was showing us how to do a water colour technique. You emboss the image, spritz it with water and add the tip of a re-inker to add the colour. I was very pleased with the outcome - not bad for $5 and we got 3 extra flowers!!! It was a rush to get there but I enjoyed it and was home by 8.30 in time to watch a favourite TV program so even better.
Well better get back to packing the bag... ( I have quite a decent sized one but still end up with boxes and bits to carry in separately). Hope your weekend is great. Mine is rather busy but that will stop me worrying about my interview which is at 2pm on Monday.
Thanks for stopping by.
Sunday, 31 January 2010
Saturday stamping, Sunday strawberry picking....
Yesterday I finally managed to catch up with some stamping buddies for a day of stamping.... I have missed a number of their get togethers because of a variety of reasons, but yesterday I was available and stamping was on at Lei's place. Here some of the lovely ladies are - Lei and Jackie, Helen and Glenda.... Sandie and Janet were there as well, but evaded the photos.... We had a fabulous day, lots of talking, eating and of course stamping. All this despite the temperature soaring to the high 20's. It was HOT....
I managed to get two cards and two book-marks done, and coloured in two "Ian" images I had.
I managed to get two cards and two book-marks done, and coloured in two "Ian" images I had.
I have been having fun with the Pure Innocence images that I got from Heather Ellis's site. So cute and fun to colour. I love the digi images as you can resize to what ever you want.
Friday I bought two more Hero Art stamps... Silhouette Burst and Silhouette Spray. They both tie with the Dandelion Frame. I used part of the frame and the Silhouette Burst on the first book-mark. Very pleased with the result so will be making a card with similar colours. The second book-mark was made with Distress inks rubbed over the cardstock to make the lovely orange background. I stamped the butterflies and sentiment with Versafine Sepia ink. My Purple card is for Anne-Maree at work, she LOVES purple, wearing it just about everyday!!!! I used the Hero Arts Friends Definition Cling to make the background paper which I tore and distressed in Dusty Concord. I then stamped both the Burst and Spray onto it. Finished them off with a gem ( coloured with Copic to get the right colour) and the Happy Birthday.
Finally my Pure Innocence card was nice and quick to make. In my stash I had the background Paper ( no idea where I got it or what make it is!!!) but it tied nicely into the colours I had used. The sentiment is by Stampin'Up. I borrowed it from Helen.
Our day finished around 4.00pm and it was still very HOT!! so when I got home, I quickly unpacked my stuff, put on the togs ( swim suit) and headed to the beach. It is 5 minutes walk from home... and had a quick dip...the water was so warm. This was my first swim this summer.... it's been too cool up till now. Just magic... Finished the night by going out to an Indian restaurant with some friends... Fabulous Day.
Today was not such a nice day,... still warm but overcast at times and raining at others. However we had decided to go Strawberry picking. One of the strawberry farms near us ( about 20 minutes drive away) has a yearly day when you can pick your own ($7 a kilo) and all the funds go to the North Shore Hospice. Of course as soon as we started picking it starting to spit and then rained.... not too heavy but enough to get a wet tee-shirt.... Hubby and I picked just over 3 kgs.... so tomorrow am going to make jam. We had some of the better ones for our dessert tonight... so tasty and fresh.
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Saturday, 12 December 2009
Christmas on my mind....
I started with some quick and easy cards which mainly used Patterned papers as the focus of the card with just a little stamping and embellishment...
thanks goes to the lovely Linda who send me the sentiment stamp amongst a whole pile of other things including a fantastic ink pad... one of the famous Garden Green inks she uses in her video's (Highly recommend you visit her blog and watch her videos)
Next I did a black and white version of a white and black card I did a few weeks ago. Really pleased how it turned out... ( Notice that sentiment yet again...)
Finally I did a reasonably quick one - the Joy stamp is by Stamp-it and I embossed with Copper EP onto a very dark brown piece of card, layered it onto a gold patterned paper and then onto the chocolate brown square card..
I can tell you by the end of the night, I was pooped!!!! But felt so much better that I had a few less cards to do now.... and got a few more done today at Stamp Group... mainly duplicates of ones I had already done - so I knew what was needed. Did do another digital one - which is currently waiting for the Kindyglitz to dry so will photograph tomorrow and blog about the day I had...
Take care and thanks for stopping by....
Sunday, 15 November 2009
Inky fingers.
Yesterday was Stamp'n'create's monthly stamp group. I thought I had missed this month's group as last week they had a full day workshop with a demonstrator but due to no one booking some classes that were scheduled for yesterday... an email arrived on Tues to say Stamp Group was on again!!!! So the core 7 of us turned up for a wonderful day of chatting, stamping and card making. Sarah (from the store) had a new toy to show us.... A Slice machine..... awesome but a bit outside my price range. It is a portable die cutting machine and very impressive. Judi ( owner of the store) showed us a number of the wonderful cards Yo had demonstrated the previous week using Peelcraft stickers....all very clever and creative.
I managed to get 4 cards done.... ranging from finishing off one I had already started to doing a simple one that took no time to do.
I managed to get 4 cards done.... ranging from finishing off one I had already started to doing a simple one that took no time to do.
The lovely vellum I used for two of the cards was in the lot of goodies that arrived with my card from Deirdre in Ireland. There was a pack of 10 vellum sheets that are Christmas orientated. This snowflake on is just lovely. I used part of the page as the background for my Joseph's coat technique tree and the other part on it's own as a quick and simple card with some Peelcraft. I have to say I wasn't happy with the tree card.... I couldn't get the black dark enough over the multi colours, but all in all, not too bad. I had heaps of ideas floating around in my head, but not all of them turned out as I had hoped....
I had a great day and enjoyed the company of the other ladies and definitely came home with inky fingers...
Thanks for stopping by.
Sunday, 11 October 2009
Saturday stamping group 10.10.09
First pic today is the bookmark I made earlier in the week. See my Flickr photostream for details.
Yesterday was my monthly Stamp Group at Stamp'n'create. I had a few projects to do - some more cards for my hubby's birthday - for the kids to give him. I didn't have that great a day... nothing seemed to be going right. Messed up a couple of cards.... try to make a male-ish background and it turned out too girly ( did make a nice card for a female friend turning 50 soon) - but a fun day none the less.
So here's what I ended up with: - this first one is a card I saw on Jenn B's photostream - here. I have copied this - using the Hero Arts Digikit - Vintage Travel. I used word to resize and cut out the car and used aqua crayons to colour. The map background I printed out onto white card and used Old Paper distress ink to colour and edge. Added the twine and then made a button/tag from Hero Arts Travel Journal set. I used the HA Petite Messages for the sentiment. Thanks for the idea Jenn.
Yesterday was my monthly Stamp Group at Stamp'n'create. I had a few projects to do - some more cards for my hubby's birthday - for the kids to give him. I didn't have that great a day... nothing seemed to be going right. Messed up a couple of cards.... try to make a male-ish background and it turned out too girly ( did make a nice card for a female friend turning 50 soon) - but a fun day none the less.
So here's what I ended up with: - this first one is a card I saw on Jenn B's photostream - here. I have copied this - using the Hero Arts Digikit - Vintage Travel. I used word to resize and cut out the car and used aqua crayons to colour. The map background I printed out onto white card and used Old Paper distress ink to colour and edge. Added the twine and then made a button/tag from Hero Arts Travel Journal set. I used the HA Petite Messages for the sentiment. Thanks for the idea Jenn.
Next one is also another one I copied the idea for.... ( lack of inspiration yesterday) so thanks this time to Vanessa who's card here was my inspiration. I used my CB to make the background and used Walnut stain distress ink to colour. The light blue card was stamped with HA Old French writing and distressed with Blue Jeans distress ink. The darker blue was stamped with a Penny Black sentiment.
This is the one that started as an attempt to make a "male" background. I used two blues and a red alcohol inks to make the background. I then stamped the Grid pattern stamp in Stazon - It seemed a bit plain so added the flowers - definitely more girly...( since I took the photo have added a Happy Birthday in black and it will do for a birthday card for a female friend turning 50 on the 25th)
and finally;
Make and Take this week was a card using Flower Soft. Judi gave us a demo on using it and then off we all went and made our card. Great stuff for dimension. Earlier in the day, Judi had also done a demo on using Pearl Ex in different ways. I bought two new stamps that I am going to try some of the techniques with.
Well it's been a long post so thanks for visiting - wishing you all a great week
Sunday, 6 September 2009
Saturday stamping.
Yesterday was stamping group at Stamp'n'create. I did quite a few cards. I re-did the tie card and the gramophone card I made last week as I like them so much. I also did a beautiful bird card inspired by one I saw in Australian Cardmaking, Stamping and Papercraft magazine. I pretty much followed the instructions but used slightly more muted colours then the original. I also had to adapt my branch as I did not have the right stamp. I changed the flowers as well, cutting out small stamped flowers. I was really pleased with the results of this one. I also managed to do a couple of baby cards - very simple ones using patterned papers and some old stamps ( ultra cheep and nasty but did the trick) We did a make and take as well, which was the Christmas card with the vellum overlay. I cut out the middle of the overlay and stamped my image in the middle. I also made a box from a set I bought after Jill's demo. So you can see it was a very productive day.
Hubby has now done his dash with trips down south... he left at 4.00am Friday morning to go to Levin for the last time and clear up the last of his mother's things. Her flat has now sold and change of ownership is next weekend. He has now cleaned everything up, got rid of most of the furniture to St Vincent De Pauls for charity, and bought some stuff home. He took the trailer down with him. Got back late last night.... tired but glad it is now all over.
Thanks for stopping by. Hope everyone has a great week.
Hubby has now done his dash with trips down south... he left at 4.00am Friday morning to go to Levin for the last time and clear up the last of his mother's things. Her flat has now sold and change of ownership is next weekend. He has now cleaned everything up, got rid of most of the furniture to St Vincent De Pauls for charity, and bought some stuff home. He took the trailer down with him. Got back late last night.... tired but glad it is now all over.
Thanks for stopping by. Hope everyone has a great week.
Sunday, 30 August 2009
Saturday stamping.
Yesterday was Stamping Day at Lei's place. There were 9 of us there and the group had organised with Jacquie from Stampin Up! to come and demonstrate for us. She did a lovely demo card and then we did a make and take of a set of 4 mini cards. When we finished those we had a lovely shared lunch and then got on working our own projects. I got 3 cards made.... one for my Dad's birthday ( no photo as I know Mum looks at this and I don't want to spoil the surprise)
My cards were both inspired by lovely lady's from the Flickr Hero Arts group. The Teddy was inspired by the lovely Lin
Her cards are just the most delightful ever. I just loving seeing all her wonderful creations.The lovely purple card was inspired by Kelly. Her blog page is here. She also makes the most amazing cards. Take a look around her blog... aren't they just the most amazing cards. I really liked the simplicity of the sympathy card she made here and so decided I needed to CASE it. Thank you to both of these lovely ladies for their ideas and inspiration.
I had a fabulous day which was finished off by going out to our Family Groups' "Soup, Shiraz and Jazz" evening. We meet at Jenny and Alfred's house to share soup ( chicken and vegie from Yvonne and Bacon and veggie from Mia) followed by two different versions of Lemon Meringue Pie ( one from me and one from Vivienne) I did not partake of the Shiraz ( not fussed on red wine - plus I was on my own so had to drive) but enjoyed some Jazz music provided by Michael's CDs. A nice way to round off a great day.
Thanks for stopping by and hope you all have a great week. Take care
Sunday, 9 August 2009
Saturday Blues.......
but in a good way!!!
Yesterday was Stamping club day at Stamp'n'create. There were 9 of us, - 7 regulars and a couple of newies... I had a great day - blue seemed to the my theme. I did these three cards. I used a Sketch and Stash sketch that I had used in the past, this time in blue, black and kraft. I CB'd the
background with Floral Fantasy folder. The scalloped border is Fiskars Threading water punch. I used nestibilites circle and scalloped circle. The sentiment from Hero Arts was embossed with Winter Illusion powder. It changes colour depending on what angle you have the card. I finished it of with some HA and Kaiser flowers and pearls.

My 2nd card is one of those ones that when you finished making it - you don't like it. I started with just one Label 1 nestie but got some ink on it so decided to make a smaller on and layer them. From there on... nothing seemed right. I do like the bird ( from Kaiser craft Loire Valley set) Sentiment is from HA's. I think I'll recycle some of the elements and have another go later.
The 3rd card I did just seemed to fall into place. I had one of the new CB folders (Victoria). I inked up the folder and embossed. Turned out really great. The sentiment is a stamp that Betty had at group. She let me borrow it to show her how to use Tombow pens to colour the stamp and then huff on it and stamp it off. I matted in onto the same dark blue card I had matted the background.
I also managed to make a mini pizza box in an orange colour with some butterflies on top - cut and embossed with Spellbinders butterflies from a piece of alcohol inked background. I made 3 background pieces.
So all in all a busy and happy day ,... not "blue" at all. Finished it off by going to friends for dinner ( so didn't even have to cook)
TFL have a great week
Yesterday was Stamping club day at Stamp'n'create. There were 9 of us, - 7 regulars and a couple of newies... I had a great day - blue seemed to the my theme. I did these three cards. I used a Sketch and Stash sketch that I had used in the past, this time in blue, black and kraft. I CB'd the
background with Floral Fantasy folder. The scalloped border is Fiskars Threading water punch. I used nestibilites circle and scalloped circle. The sentiment from Hero Arts was embossed with Winter Illusion powder. It changes colour depending on what angle you have the card. I finished it of with some HA and Kaiser flowers and pearls.
My 2nd card is one of those ones that when you finished making it - you don't like it. I started with just one Label 1 nestie but got some ink on it so decided to make a smaller on and layer them. From there on... nothing seemed right. I do like the bird ( from Kaiser craft Loire Valley set) Sentiment is from HA's. I think I'll recycle some of the elements and have another go later.
The 3rd card I did just seemed to fall into place. I had one of the new CB folders (Victoria). I inked up the folder and embossed. Turned out really great. The sentiment is a stamp that Betty had at group. She let me borrow it to show her how to use Tombow pens to colour the stamp and then huff on it and stamp it off. I matted in onto the same dark blue card I had matted the background. I also managed to make a mini pizza box in an orange colour with some butterflies on top - cut and embossed with Spellbinders butterflies from a piece of alcohol inked background. I made 3 background pieces.
So all in all a busy and happy day ,... not "blue" at all. Finished it off by going to friends for dinner ( so didn't even have to cook)
TFL have a great week
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Saturday, 18 July 2009
More alcohol inks and a trip to SENZ
Last night I thought I'd try using alcohol inks on Shrink plastic to see what would happen. I wanted to try the techniques that Jennifer McGuire did on glass and acetate and see if they would work on the plastic. Well they did and How!! The background colours were intensified by the shrinking process. I made a tag onto which I used the fern stamp in Archival ink and wiped off to get a resist look. In the middle scallop I did the same with the butterfly stamp. In this one the copper fixative really came through. The smaller circle colours look quite "old". I was very pleased with the results of this experiment.Today I went out to Manukau City ( about 35kms from my place) to go the the SENZ papercraft expo. I hadn't booked for any of the classes (with all the uncertainty of health of SIL didn't want to commit) so just went out for the shopping....
Lots of the stalls had Make'n'takes going on or demos of different products. First demo's I watched were at the SANZI imports stall. They import Cuttlebugs, Circuts, Spellbinders and other such stuff. I watched examples of using Perfect Pearls then some alcohol ink and later in the day came back for a demo on using Adirondack Inks and double embossing with the
Cuttlebug. Over at Rubbadubbadoo's stall they were doing this card. A simple and quick card that took about 5 mins to make. The butterflies were stamped in Stazon onto acetate and then coloured with permanent pens on the reverse. The centre of the card was masked and then the stamping done both top and bottom with some stippling of the ink to get the line. The sentiment was then stamped in the masked area and the butterflies added. Hey presto -all done.
I did a bit of shopping - I had a $25 voucher for Hastings Rubber stamps so used that to get the Grid Patterns stamp - only cost $5.90 with the discount. Also saw the teddy stamp there so got that. I got some blender pads as well as the inks from Crafty Tart's stall. Think I'll be visiting that site again. Good prices.
Caan't wait to play with the goodies.... but will have to be tomorrow as the rugby is about to start. All Blacks verus Australia.... first Bledisloe Cup and Tri Nations game. GO THE ALL BLACKS!!!
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Cuttlebug. Over at Rubbadubbadoo's stall they were doing this card. A simple and quick card that took about 5 mins to make. The butterflies were stamped in Stazon onto acetate and then coloured with permanent pens on the reverse. The centre of the card was masked and then the stamping done both top and bottom with some stippling of the ink to get the line. The sentiment was then stamped in the masked area and the butterflies added. Hey presto -all done.
I did a bit of shopping - I had a $25 voucher for Hastings Rubber stamps so used that to get the Grid Patterns stamp - only cost $5.90 with the discount. Also saw the teddy stamp there so got that. I got some blender pads as well as the inks from Crafty Tart's stall. Think I'll be visiting that site again. Good prices.
Caan't wait to play with the goodies.... but will have to be tomorrow as the rugby is about to start. All Blacks verus Australia.... first Bledisloe Cup and Tri Nations game. GO THE ALL BLACKS!!!
Thanks for stopping by.
Sunday, 12 July 2009
Stamp club day - Saturday 11th
Had a great day at Stamp club day at Stamp'n'create yesterday. We started at 10am and finished at just after 4pm. There were a total of 7 of us there this month and we were greeted with a bag of goodies - paper, flowers and a strip of pompoms ( Sarah is into pompoms at the moment) We all worked on our own projects but got lots of ideas from each other. Lunch time is a shared lunch with goodies from asparagus rolls and sandwiches to coconut choc slice, oatmeal slice and pineapple lumps. We always eat well. After lunch we had a demo. This month was on using shrink plastic. Very interesting and informative.
I worked on these projects during the day. I made the gift pack of a set of 4 cards.... will do a seperate post about these shortly.... there are 4 cards in the gift pack. See my Flickr photostream to view them all.
The next project was to finish off the card I have working on using the techniques that Jennifer McGuire has been teaching in her Thinking Inking videos at 2Peasinabucket.com I used my new Scattered Leaf border stamp in versamark and embossed in white powder. I then used the resist technique and rubbed on Shabby Shutters and Faded Jeans distress ink. I then used the raindrops background in Spiced Marmalade. I mounted it on a greenish cardstock added the ribbon and then mounted onto the blue card base. I coloured the flower with the Shabby shutters and raindrops stamp, added a punched flower ( also coloured in Shabby Shutters) and an orange gem in the centre. Not sure what sentiment I will put on this, but it will need to be small.
Finally I made a pizza box for the monthly competition at my other stamp shop- Stamp Zone. This months competition is " Outside the box" - basically anything crafty as long as it uses a product purchased at their store. I got the stamp and the embossing powders from them.
I also started another distress card. I sponged a new ink colour I got - Old paper - onto the card, and then used a Tim Holtz mask and then sponged on Shabby Shutters. I again used the raindrops in Spice Marmalade. All I need to do now is decide how I'm going to use the background.
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Sunday, 24 May 2009
Saturday stamping.
I also managed to finally finish off the cityscape card above. I started this at a class using the Jumbo Roller. I had stamped the image but not got round to colouring or putting it all together. Was pleased with the results. Nice and bright looking.
I also got a template from the ladies on how to make a gift box for putting a set of cards in. So last night had a go. ( forgive the photos
Today I haven't done any cards as we went to help Emma with some more painting... well I supervised anyway.... The house is really coming along. Emma also presented me with a beautifully decorated folder for helping to plan for the wedding. It has different tabs for things like guest lists, timetable for the planning. Sept next year I can start looking for my outfit!!!! ( this has been organised by a Planner!!! - that is her profession -l Town Planner - )
Well this is a long post so thanks for stopping by and enjoy your week
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