Mirror, Mirror

Hello all,

Not a card today - this is a project made for a 3d challenge on stamp TV hosted by Donna.

I've used flower punches, brads, pearls and ribbon here and if you look you will see I've also used a couple of Nina's bugs, stamped onto the covered mirror frame. It will probably find its way to a very girlie girl's bedroom!!!

The idea came from a class my friend Kerrie and I attended to make a Christmas decoration. We used paper, prisma flowers, charms and ribbons in that project and decorated the word NOEL, I'm sure you will have seen these around. We were so pleased with ours and each year mine is carefully unwrapped and stood on the hall table.

Thats it till next time.......

Lenny The Loader....

Hello everyone,

special hello to my new follower Uta. Well let me introduce you to Lenny the Loader - cute or what!! Sorry about the picture the sun came out between the rain showers and it was just a bit bright.

Lenny is the second in a series of Digital Images coming to us from Christina Bower aka Sunshines paper obsession - go check out her blog here. Stay watching cos there's more of these to come!!!

So Lenny was made up this time into a 'spring card' this design came to me via Kerrie I think its from SCS. It's quite simple to make up from a piece of double sided card. I just mounted my coloured image onto some red card before attaching it to the front panel. The circles were cut using small circle dies from Spellbinders and attached with a brad. This little card lies flat into a 5 inch envelope and springs up when opened.

Nina's Mojo 94

Oops nearly forgot to post this little card today. This is my card for Mojo Monday, and I've called it Nina's Mojo because the little stamps I've used are from Nina Bracket's 'Bug me Anytime' stamp set. Nina designed these stamps for Gina K and they are really gorgeous you will be seeing plenty more cards using this set I promise. Check out Nina's blog here.

• Stamps: GKD bug me anytime.
• Paper: White and pale lemon craft card, DP is from DCWV Nana's Nursery premium stack
• Ink: Versicle old rose
• Embellishments: KAISERscrapbook rhinestones and gross grain ribbon.

The pale lemon card was embossed using Swiss dots and layered with a narrow strip of pink/green dp. I used my SU spiral binding punch on one end of this strip.

The ribbon followed by the green check was added. Then I stamped the pinwheel flowers over a scrap of white card which was then mounted to some more of the pale lemon and added to the card. I used two Spellbinders circle dies to cut the last element which had been stamped with another of the flower images from Nina's set. This was attached to the card with foam tape.

To finish the card I added the rhinestones to the centre of all the flowers.

Tomorrow I will be posting the second in Christina Bowers digital images it's another one for the boys so definitely worth a look!!!!

Till then...............

Edit: Sorry this is not a good picture the sun came out whilst I was taking shots of a couple of my cards and in my haste to post them I haven't played with photoshop!!!!

Flutter by Butterfly

8pm and I'm typing this post it's been one of those days!!! Walshie stayed home today after a tooth extraction yesterday - poor thing he didn't get much sleep last night

Anyway, this is the card I made for this weeks Sketch Challenge on Stamp TV. Every week they have several challenges for us to enter and if you're the lucky name to picked at random you get to choose a set of stamps from the Gina K range. Better still if the stamp you used on your card is one of Gina's range your name goes in the draw twice. Go check it out - click on the Stamp TV badge and it will take you straight there!

So Kathy was the sketch designer this week with the centre image being set at an angle I chose to use a butterfly - whew that took care of the angle problem!

• Stamp: GKD Eclectic Summer
• Card Stock: GKD Pure Luxury soft sand, DP Kaiserscrapbook- Rustic Charm D/S, Bazzil black and honeycomb.
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black and Egyptian Gold Embossing Powder.
• Embellishments: caramel gross grain ribbon and a gold ring.

Lots of layers on this card, with the honeycomb piece embossed with Swiss dots. The butterfly was stamped then cut out and embossed with the gold and some colour added with Copic markers. This is then attached to the card by its body only with a slim strip of tape so the wings are free. I added some foam just beneath the upper wing to sit it up from the background.

Hope you like this one.

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

Stamping on something other than paper....

Hi,

Oh dear we're back to cold weather again , my hands are dry and sore, I can't get them warm!!!

Just a quick post today as my new stamp sets have arrived from Gina K so need to get them ready to play!!

I thought I would show you a tray cloth I stamped with one of Gina's stamp sets, Home Tweet Home by Rupa Shevde The cloth is Linen and I just used VersaFine Vintage Sepia as I knew I would cover the ink with thread. After I stamped I head set it by ironing over a piece of white paper. I used silk embroidery thread for my simple stitches (small back stitch , french knots and colonial knots). Six strand embroidery cotton would work just as well and I think it would be nice stitched in just one colour say blue.

Anyway hope you like this - just something different to try with your stamps.

I'm off to make some mushroom soup - it's definitely soup weather and Walshie had a dental appointment today so think we better keep things simple!!!!

Till next time......

Thinking of you.. SASSC22

Hello, have you enjoyed your Sunday?

Its been a beautiful winters day here the suns been out all day. Still cool but dry and no wind for a change . The kookaburras took advantage of the sun and had a dip in the pool this morning, thought you might like to see, shame my good camera had run out of battery so had to use the point and click. Haven't had much time for card making this weekend but I did manage this one for the Stamps and Smiles sketch challenge.

• Stamps: SU Upsy Daisy and the sentiment is a clear stamp from Studio G
• Card: Green craft card, GKD Pure Luxury pure white 80lb (this is a beautiful silky smooth card. PD is from the Nana's Nursery Stack by DCWV.
• Ink: VersaColor Sand Beige
• Embellishments 2 off white and 2 green brads.

I wanted this card to be quiet and peaceful (if that makes sense to you). A blogging friend here is Australia lost her sister in the UK after a long illness and I know what it feels like to be so far away from family when this happens. It's hard not to feel guilty for being on the other side of the world even though being there wouldn't have changed anything. When it happened to me I just wanted to be quiet on my own to get it straight in my head - quiet and peaceful!

So I made this card with my friend in mind.

Quick catch up time....

Hello, how are you today?

According to the map on my blog quite a few of you are US citizens so Happy 4th July, hope you enjoy the festivities with family and friends.

I'm playing catch up today with these two cards. The first one I called 'Wisteria Lily' not very imaginative I know, I will try to do better! This card was made for a challenge over at Stamp TV (now that's unusual!) The challenge was to use blue, grey, amethyst, moss/pine, sand/brown. My green is probably a bit bright and my flowers started off quite a bit lighter but I didn't like them (oops). I do love the double lace punched border though and this ribbon is gorgeous it ties a great knot.

• Stamps: Gina K Elegant Flowers
• DP Basic Grey Wisteria, GKD Pure Luxury Pure White, pale lemon(sand) craft card
• Embellishments: Pale green rhinestones Kaiserscrapbook and pale lemon double sided satin ribbon.

The leaves I stamped and cut out to raise them on the card with foam tabs.

"It's Time..."

The second card earned me lots of comments when I posted it to the gallery at STV. It was made for Kathy's sketch challenge.

• Stamp: GKD Eclectic Summer.
• Paper: Pale lemon, soft brown Craft Card. DP GKD Digi paper from Elegant Flowers Kit

The Pale Lemon card was trimmed to 11.5 x 4.25 Inches and folded in half to give me a tall slim card. I pierced around the edge (using my sewing machine without thread.... sh don't tell anyone).

The soft brown card was embossed using a Cuttlebug Swirls and birds folder(1st element).

2nd element was to attach the digital dp to some pale lemon card and sew a zig zag using the sewing machine.

3rd element should have been a smaller rectangle with a stamped image to sit above the 2nd element. Now I did this but didn't like it - too much cream card showing I think so off it came!!

I need to back up a bit - The balloon was stamped onto two different but co-ordinating scraps of dp. then I trimmed out every other segment (down to just above the basket) on one stamped image and alternated them on the second. Then it was just a case of sticking them together to alternate the segments. I just trimmed around the image and attached it using foam tabs to the front of the card at a slight angle.

The strip across the front had some household string crossed around it (supposed to look a bit like the ropes on a hot air balloon!). This just left a sentiment and mine was computer generated and printed onto some more of the pale lemon card.

Now the thing is...... when I took the picture outside the sun was out and it cast a shadow behind the image!!!! which actually made it look really good I think. My friend Kerrie said that taking a picture with the card standing on some quilt wadding made it look like the card was sitting on a cloud - now that might have helped too - I didn't even consider this until she mentioned it, I just wanted something white that was flexible to hang over the back of an outside chair. Whatever, people seemed to like this card, as I say it got quite a lot of comments and I'm not about to complain.

OK that's it I'm off to bed. Have a great week-end,

Till next time.......