First Swap

I recently participated in my first ever card swap. I have always wanted to do one but could never come up with a design, that was until I saw the new mini. I instantly fell in love with way to many products that I just had to have. This is the first card that I made for the swap. I just love the Apothecary Art stamp set, the framelits and the ribbon. I'll upload the next one tomorrow. I hope to receive my swap cards in return any day now, I can't wait.

Ingredients for this card are
Stamps; Apothecary Art
Card; Whisper White, Pear Pizzazz, Blushing Bride
Ink; Chocolate Chip
Markers; Blushing Bride, Pear Pizzazz
Labels Collection Framelits Die, Blushing Bride Pleated Satin Ribbon, Flower Garden Embossing Folder, Dazzling Diamonds

My Dear Friend

Hello Loyal followers, that is if I have any left after my very long absense. I really don't have an excuse for not blogging, just laziness really. Hopefully this time I will hang around for a whiole. Like normal, even though I have been absent from blogging, I have still have been doing some creating. This is one card that I made over a year ago. I can't remember all the colours or stamps that I used but I am going to make some more using lots of different colour combinations. I will use my colour coach for some great ideas.

Birthday Penguin

The owl punch was never one of my must have purchases, until I saw this card cased from, surprise surprise, Teneale. It sold me on the purchase. I have slowly started using it for other creations now as well, but more about them another time.  

                                                    I made this card for my nieces birthday.

I now love decorating the insided of a card. They just don't seem to be finished otherwise.

Paper - Brights DSP
Card - Pumpkin Pie, Melon Mambo, whisper white, basic black,
Ink, Pumpkin Pie, Melon Mambo, Basic black
Stamps - Party this way, Occasional Quotes
Punches, Owl, Star extra large, Modern Label extra large
Embellishments - Basic rhinestones, DMC thread, ric rac, ballon heart

Mother's Day

I started making this cards early last year. I got so far into it, then put it into my "I'll finish it tomorrow box", that I rarely go back into. A friend came over to make Mother's day cards so I pulled this out and started creating. Her main reason was that she found my stash of already stamped, cut and shaped flowers. I have seen this on lots of blogs so I really don't know who to give credit.
Card - whisper white, kiwi kiss, yo yo yellow
Stamps - inspired by nature, vintage vogue, occassional greetings, asian artistry
Punch - modern label extra large
basic rhinestones, ribbon

Mother's Day

After looking through many blogs I have found some wonderful ideas. One of the great techniques cropping up lately in Embedded Embossing. Its great fun and I can't wait to do more. One card that I love is once again, cased by Teneale. Where does she get her ideas from.

This is the card I made for my mum.
I would love to be with her for Mother's Day, but I'm in Qld and she's in Vic so it's a bit far to go for the day

Card - Soft suede, perfect plum, pretty in pink, whisper white
Ink - soft suede, perfect plum, pretty in pink
Stamp set - Bliss
Punch - scallop edge
soft suede ribbon, brad, basic rhinestones, big shot, square lattice embossing folder, big shot multi purpose adhesive sheets

Cowboy Quilt

My son desperatly wanted a cowboy quilt after flicking through one of my many books one day. The one he wanted had a matching pillow with a horse patchworked out of many tiny little squares. Thankfully he has forgotten about that, seen as it took me a very long time to get it all finished. My least favourite job with quilting is hand stitching the binding on. Thankfully mum came up the the christmas holidays and did this for me. Yeah. Thanks Mum

Easel Card

This is one of the many cards that I have made over the last 17 months.

My wonderful friend Sonia taught me how to make this lovely yet simple design. I think my supplies were

Card - Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip, and whisper white.

Stamp sets - Fifth Avenue Floral, Short & Sweet

Inks & markers - Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip

Punches - Scallop Oval Extra Large, Oval Large

Dazzling Diamonds

Sorry if Iforgot anything as Its been a while.

I'M BACK

I have finally returned. I am constantly reminded that I haven't blogged for over a year, so I thought I would give it a go again. So much has changed for me since I was last here. The first change is that I am now a Stampin up consultant. I have used these product for years and just love them. Everything coordinates and the stamp designs are to die for.

The other major change in my life is the big move. This has been going to happen for a long time, as I'm sure my friends can remember. It was all I talked about for a long time, this been that if no one knew it was too easy for my husband to change his mind. We finally bought our house a year ago, then took 9 months to very very slowly move our many many belongings. This was supposed to have been the easy option as it was only 4 hours away, but thankfully hubby thinks that we should get removalists in next time. Yeah!!!

I finally have my new craft room up and running. I have the double garage, but still wish it was bigger. I think that I will always feel that way because my craft gets spread out further and further. I will take photos soon and post them. Any layout suggestions are welcome as I'm still not happy with the layout.

I have been card making recently, but most of my creations are cased as I'm just not feeling very creative at the moment. I would like to thank everyone for posting their creations as this is inspiring me.

For my Dad's 60th Birthday he got tickets for a hot air balloon ride. So of course I had to match it with this stamp. I cased this card from the talented Teneale Williams. You may notice the colour combination. I wonder what my favourite colour combo was last year. Unfortunatly the photo quality was not very good, my camera died soon after.

My son was invited to a party for yesterday and I was so excited to find out he was having a spider cake. I had just found this design on Deann Oliver's blog. It was first time to use the sweet treat cups from SU and I love them.