Desk Calendar

Hello,

I really enjoy Carolina's Anything but a Card Challenge on STV and last weeks was to use a 'Bulldog Clip' or Paper Clip and Tissie it up!!!

I thought it would make a wonderful way to display my desk calendar ..... What do you think??

This is a plain black Bulldog Clip with some polka dot dp adhered to the front. Over that I've attached my sentiment (two GKD sets where used here).

Using a Spellbinder blossom die I cut three size blossoms from three red scraps, scrunched them up then opened them out and inked around the edges roughly. A lemon button sits in the centre and I also punched some fern and attached this behind the largest blossom petals.

Then just to tidy it up I punched another large blossom and stuck this over the back.

A glue dot holds this onto the clip. A scrap of green ribbon was tied on next to finish the clip off.

The calendar is a 3.5 inch copy of my large calendar. In Photoshop Elements I put six of these on one A4 size page, leaving a small gap between each one. Printed out 2 sheets and them cut them to 3.75 inch and sat them onto 4" square SU Sahara Sand card stock. One month on either side so 6 cards in all.

I've used several of the GKD sets to stamp a small image in the top left hand corner of each month, coloured with Copics and/or Prismas and added either a gem or a pearl to finish off.

Hope you like this ........ Carolina has given us some wonderful challenges, I might not make mine in the challenge week but I try most of them. I'm loving this one it looks so cute sitting on my desk.

Till next time.........

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Wednesday.....

Take a cute image, some pretty paper and hours of playing......... yes I'm a slow card maker!!!

I was pleased with this one when it was finished though so who cares.

The image from Precious Moments (thanks Juls) was coloured with Copic markers and cut with an oval die. A scalloped oval in LL is used as the mat and I just placed a dot in each scallop with a silver glitter pen. Foam tape was used to attach the image to the card.

My base card is SU Lavender Lace with a layer of white followed by Kaisercraft Lilac Avenue Collection dp.

I used a zig zag stitch around the circle added some pale lilac satin ribbon. Then to complete my card added the Mulberry Roses over punched fern, a stick pin and four hearts

I added the mulberry roses to opposite corners sitting on punched fern adding a stick pin to the top one. To complete the card I added the four hearts.

When you write it down it really sounds straight forward........ so why does it take so long???

I have to make a box for this one as it has to be mailed - wish me luck though.... Mum's card, along with her gift pack hasn't as yet reached her and that was posted three weeks ago!!!!

Thanks for stopping by today, till next time.........

This card is entered in the following challenges:

CPS 153 a sketch.

Charisma Cardz Challenge No 5 - I Love you.

Another Magical Monday.....

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Hello again,

Well after my tale of woe this morning the sun came about about mid-day...... I've been outside and had a tidy up. One load of washing is blowing on the line and I managed, what I hope will be the final undercoat of paint on our bedroom windows.... yeah a good days work!

I was up early this morning checking all the tags made with last weeks I Heart You teddy image.

I loved them all, you girls who entered last week did a great job. Theresa, who has a fractured wrist joined in too, making a tag using Photoshop!!!!! Fantastic effort ... wish I could have done that!!!

TMITA/PCC has another great challenge for us today.

Nina has given us yet another sweet image to play with 'Flight of the Fuschia' and it's Patti's turn to set the challenge.

We've been challenged to make a 'Comforting" card (thinking of you, get well, sympathy, etc.), using Flourishes and/or Pearls. So here is my card 'Wishing you well".

I sized then printed the image, coloured it with Copics then cut it out. Not sure you can really see it here but I actually popped up one of the petals with a foam dot to give it some dimension.

My base card is white with a layer of pale lemon followed by the dp which is Basic Grey Sugar Rush. I used a Martha Stewart Daisy Fan punch to punch a strip of pale lemon card. Added some satin ribbon . I've attached the image with some fine foam tape to pop this up just above the dp.

The sentiment is from a GKD set stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black onto more of the pale lemon card. This sits on foam dots with two hot pink pearls. To complete my card I added two more pearls, one in each top corner. I'm hoping Patti won't mind that I didn't do flourishes....I would have loved to but don't own any........they are on my ever growing list...... but you know what that's like .....right?

Hope you'll play along with us this week, check out TMITA/PCC for the image and follow Patti's challenge. The randomly picked winner will get to pick one of Nina's images from her Paper Cupcakes online store. Good luck.

Till next time.........

Good Morning from a very soggy Sydney

Morning Blogger's,

Just popped in before I post for TMITA/PCC later this evening.

We've had a mad week end ...... Saturday it rained solid all day and most of the night. Eight inches they reckon we had - don't know about that but the pool is full to overflowing and I lay in bed listening to the water running over the rocks to the side of us last night.

Walshie and I started decorating our bedroom on Thursday.... which in hindsight was not one of our better ideas. I stripped the room out and had all kinds of washing that I couldn't get dry without the aid of the tumble dryer!!!

So no cards made this week-end , will try to get back on track soon as possible.

I know lots of you are dealing with snow and freezing weather I hope you're keeping warm and safe.

Hope you can call back later today when I have my project using another of Nina's lovely digital images.

See you later........

Take an empty teabag box..........

Hello,

Wanted to share with you today a project I made using an empty box of Tea Bags!!!!

The latest STV kit is called Organize it! it's full of word and shape stamps for notebooks, index boxes etc. As soon as I got mine I went to the bin I keep all those things I find that might just be useful!!!!! Do you have one of those?

I had kept an empty Teabag box that had a flip top lid, because it was quite rigid..... to good to throw away! Out it came and this is how it ended up:

Here it is open:

Two things I have to tell you.......

1. I have now covered the inside edges of the lid.......I took this picture then realised it looked half finished so covered it.

2. More so on the first picture but the stamped 'CARDS' tag looks like a smudged stamp and it's not it's something to do with the cropping down of this picture.....sorry.

You will notice I made a couple of inserts for my box for Male and Female cards ( sadly I only had stamps for Boy and Girl........la di dah).

I covered my box by opening it flat then with some SU card in my favourite colour combo covered the box tracing and cutting the lid sides by hand. The ribbon was added before gluing the sides back together, just to keep it tidy.

The inserts are two pieces of American Craft card in Caramel with the tabs, also doubled, set between them. I plan to type all the birthday's onto some heavyweight paper and attached this to the front of the dividers. This way as I make the cards I can tick of the name so I'll keep on track.....hopefully!

Now I know GK has made something similar on STV so you're sure to find a tutorial over there. I had mine started before this so made it up as I went along.

I wasn't too sure about this project .......... until a friend saw it sitting at the back of my desk and asked if she could have one.... that was it, I had to finish it off and post it here. So.... on to the next one.

Till next time..........

Sweet Melissa - Boxed Cards

Hi Blogger's,

Time to catch up and show you the boxed cards I promised to show a while back.

Sweet Melissa is a pretty digi image from Squigglefly and the artist is Cheryl Alger.

I've added Mulberry Roses, punched fern and scalloped lace for this card.

I added a little stamping on the inside too. Not sure you can see it very clearly here.

This card was made for a friend of mine who has made two quilts for her nieces. She wanted something for the families to keep as well as use. I've made a box for presentation and covered the top with some pretty paper and a stamped flower.

Pink, Lemon and green made up the colours of this set the second one was made in purple, lemon and green.

This card made use of the Spellbinders Labels dies and Martha Stewart butterfly punch. Add some Kaiser pearls, ribbon and some pretty flowers. The dp is from my Kaisercraft 6 x 6 paper pad Lilac Avenue Collection.

The inside got some stamping too and this one also sits in a presentation box.

I'm smiling as I type this ..... looking at all these pictures that were taken all around the house and out in the garden!!!!

I am trying to get all my pictures sorted out so you don't get all the background stuff...... just be patient with me for a while..... I'll get there!!

Thanks for dropping by again today, leave me a comment and let me know what you think of these if you can. Thanks so much.

Till next time.............

Magical Monday

Hello Blogger's,

Two projects to post today - first

Magical Monday with TMITA/PCC has rolled around again and this week Nina is sharing this beautiful bear.....I just love the expressions Nina gives all her images.

I got to choose the challenge this week and asked that you use the image for a Valentine gift tag with some stitching included somewhere. It could be hand or machine stitching or even faux stitching drawn on your project.

Here's my tag:

I got the Pazzle out to have a play and designed this shaped tag from scratch, (can't tell you how pleased I was). It's cut twice from some red card.

The layer of dp is stitched all around with just some punched lace at the bottom. My stitched ribbon covers the join and I added the silver heart charm to finish off this section.

The bear was sized and printed onto Pure Luxury pure white card and cut using a Spellbinder Classic Oval die. I lightly coloured the rim of the oval.

The scalloped oval was cut from the same red card as the tag.

My bear is coloured with Copics and I used a Spellbinder heart die to cut the raised heart.

The sentiment was hand written.

I've attached some Mulberry paper roses and punched some fern to sit under these. Some heart embellishments are tucked into the spray and one heart gem was added to finish the front.

Once this was completed I attached the second tag to the back to cover the stitching.

Hope you're not put off making this tag - remember it could always be the centrepiece of a card!

If you play along with us this week and are the randomly picked winner this is what you could win............... Just in time for all those Valentine projects.

I'm really looking forward to seeing your projects this week .

I'm entering my tag in the following challenges:

Dare you to Digi Stamp Friday - Hearts

Saturday Challenge - Hearts

Fussy and Fancy - Hearts.

The second card is for Andrea's CAS sketch challenge SS300110 as well as a couple of other challenges in blogland this week.

For those who don't know Andrea she is Annabella Stamps an Australian Company from Melbourne. Those of you who visit regularly will have seen some of my cards in both Andreas blog CAS challenge and the Annabelle Stamp Bling Sketch challenge. You should come and join in the fun. You can use any stamps, though naturally Andrea would love it if you tried some of hers!! I have they're some of the best clear stamps I've used. Enough rambling from me........... Here's my card:

I sat down after the Men's final tennis match last night and made this card and I'm really pleased with it. Soft and pretty........ I'll admit there's SU stamp (Sassy Stems) SU paper too!

I coloured the flowers and vase with Copic markers the dp is from my box of scraps (sorry).

Base card is GKD Pure Luxury in pure white. I added 3 Kaisercraft pink gems and a button from my stash, which has a length of soft pink ribbon threaded though the buttonholes and tied in a bow.

You might just see that I added a row of punched out daisies on the inside of this card - I am trying to decorate a bit more than the front of my cards this year!

Hope you will join in with Andrea's challenge, she has very kindly added 2 lots of yummy candy for two randomly picked winners. I've given you the links above and for Annabella Stamps, click here to check out all the stamps, bling etc that Andrea has available.

I'm entering my card in the following challenges:

Andrea's Stamping Moments - SS300110 sketch

Spoon Full of Sugar - Freestyle

Cute card Thursday - Blooming gorgeous

Thanks for dropping by ............Till next time..........

Edit: I meant to thank Mary Anne, Carol and Diana for awarding me with the 101 award. I'm grateful that you thought of me and I have passed this award on in a previous post.