good cheer #1

this is the easel card doing the blog rounds,  it really is a great little card and folds flat, for my version I have used the craft white ink to stamp the santa,, you need a light touch with this one as it sometimes looks like santa has a black eye, if you are too heavy handed, this has caused me a lot of grief, and until a few days ago, I hadn’t touch it then hammo 3 cards one after the other, sometimes you just have to sit and play with a stamp and before you know it, heaps of ideas! anyway, I didn’t want this too plain so my stamping friend Judith suggested going around the edge with silver ink, (that took more than 24 hours to dry, does anyone else have this long drying time with the encore ink?) the cardstock is riding hood red, and the holly was stamped onto glorious green, coloured with red pencil, then heaps of crystal effects to give it the nice raised bit to hold the easle card up like this

and the riding hood red taffetta ribbon finished it off.  Have any of you made one of these easle cards yet? I know Sue has so pop over and have a look at her version, and here is a side view of mine. 

spritzed #3

the final spritzed card, and this one is also the elite challenge number 1 for November, we had to use the Just Beachy set, and I have spritzed the background with the following markers Tempting Turquoise, Taken with Teal, Mellow moss and Bashful blue, I used the tearing edge ruler to tear the top end, and layered onto Pacific Blue card with the Lazy Days wheel on the background, this is a great wheel for scrapping as it has a lot of words in different fonts, and some piccies, but you will see more of the wheel later this month, as it is the final month to order from the spring mini, so I am intending to use all the stamps from the mini to say a final farewell to them before the new summer mini starts on December 1st.(and the sneak peak shows some nice sets coming) but really if you want anything from the spring mini please be quick to order, contact me as soon as possible so you won’t be disappointed. Thanks for coming by and  tommorrow will be day one of the set Good Cheer so be sure to drop by and see what I have come up with.

spritzed #2

I did say awhile ago I had more spritzed cards up my sleeve, so here is my second one

now I’m not sure if it has shown up well, but I have punched out some star shapes and temporarily adhered them then spritzed all over with Lovely lilac, orchid opulence and brillant blue, once the shapes are removed it leaves a white shape onto which I have added some silver star brads, and the saying.  This card is for Alex when he finishes school in the next couple of weeks. I have to admit I find it hard to use the spritzer for long, you do need strong wrists for that tool but the effect is really worth it. Before I go today I would just like to thank a couple of people, first Sue Poile awarded me a blog award last month and I never got around to acknowledging or thanking her due to being so busy, but Thankyou very much Sue, it really did give me a lift, and also to Kelly Mayou who chose my site as a late night stampers blog choice, it really meant a lot to me, to be chosen, I sometimes have doubts about continuing this blog due to time constraints but it gives me a great lift when I am told that other people appreciate the effort, so thank you both very much.

well here it is

now I know you are all wondering why it took two weeks to make, actually if I was able to sit down until it was finished it would have taken 10 minutes, but I kept getting interrupted annoying eh, I’ve spritzed the flower with my pink passion marker, here is a close up

I like the way it just adds a bit to the flower, and as Helen is a bit of a bling person, I’ve added a nice rhinestone brad, and some silver hodgepodge, a grey taffetta ribbon, and some silver embossing, the paper is kiwi kiss designer, and the inside of the card has been decorated too. Hope you enjoy it, and I would like to be back soon with some more spritzer ideas, but you can see how long it took me for this card, and that is my life lately. Come on end of exams pleeeze.

a xmas tree

neat idea eh. I got this idea from an ad in the paper the other day, saw it and thought I could make a card out of that, and here we are, the photo hasn’t come out too well, thanks to mr flash, the circle up the top is silver metallic cardstock, embossed in white, the red circles are riding hood red, embossed in silver, and the bottom bit is the designer label punch, with the circle bit cut off, if you like this enough to case it, just a word of advice, do the embossing first and then punch out the circles, I did the other way round and now I’ve got a burnt finger! Well must get going again, we are into the exam period now, so I may or may not be able to post more often or not, depending I suppose if I need to go hide away! catch up on sunday though, later in the day, that’s when Helen’s birthday will be up – it took me two weeks to make it!

oops forgot to add that the stamp sets are season of joy, snow swirled, and two retired (that’s the one of top of the tree from merry merry, and the three in the middle from snow burst)

punches three

I do like this paper from the I wish scrap kit, adhered onto gold metallic card stock, and textured chocolate chip, a riding hood red taffetta ribbon, and the xmas stamp from the hostess set punches three, and a very quick card ensues. I still haven’t made any more things to show you busy with the regional swaps now, looking forward to my holidays at the end of next week, then I am taking a break and crafting for me! I can still be contacted for orders etc, but you will have to contact me by email now, due to the problems with our phone (see post below – I missed a vital call from a customer because of this so I’m not going to be very happy if it continues, and may have to get the telco onto it).  I’d best be off and try to make my sisters birthday card or she will be getting a shop bought card, and has already told me she won’t be impressed by that! hope to catch you soon.

a very quick message

I’ve been  busy as I thought I would be, but hoping I’ll have something for you all tomorrow, meantime this is just a quick message to ask anyone who may have my home phone number coded onto speed dial of their mobile, who also has a fairly young child, to please check that your child is not calling me! constantly!!! over the last couple of months, your bill is going to be huge!!!! I haven’t been able to get the child’s name so I suggest you all check your phones. thanks (because they connect to the answering machine, some of the connections have lasted up to 10 minutes! which is also frustrating for other people trying to call us).

snow swirled

just a quick post today, I’m really busy making up samples for my workshop on saturday and swaps for the regional, so this may be it for this week,

stamp set, snow swirled embossed in white, then the rest is made from the I Wish scrap kit, great value i’ve heard some people have been able to make 20+ cards from it, and I love the paper in this kit. Hopefully I will be back later this week.

a surprise from Shirley

I received a lovely card from Shirley the other day, I haven’t been well again, (actually I’ve been ill most of this year so I think I will be glad when it’s over! and it’s such a long wait to get into the specialist!) and Shirley has cheered me up with this gorgeous card, it’s a single bit of cardstock, but I really love it, Thanks so Much Shirley.

actually I’d like to know where Shirley gets her ideas from, she always comes up with the most unusual designs!

page two of the southern belles layout challenge

I’ve stuck to the layout challenge as per the southern belles october challenge (see the blog – there is some great enteries) once again Baja Blue cardstock, Parisian Breeze specialty dsp, and the stamps from Sense of Time, I love the saying, it fitted perfectly our day wondering around the peninsula, we were in no hurry and had a lovely beach walk, cliff walk, etc.  I stamped the clock onto acetate with stazon ink and adhered with a brad in the clock handles, I find it easier to use brads to adhere acetate, the saying i have adhered onto a chip tag from the onboard essentials. If you have any queries please contact me and hope to see some of your layouts appearing on the southern belles blog soon.