Six Fold Baby Card, Baby Blanket and Irina's Awesome Project class

Hi all, just a quick scheduled post today, hope you are all well, I really can't believe how fast time is flying by.  Sorry my post is a little picture heavy but pictures are better than lots of words lol!  Made this card for a lovely blogging buddy.  Kept it fairly simple as I love the paper.

Chipboard sentiment and lots of little brads

I used BOO, B02, silver and baby blue spica and sponged the edges with SU ink

How cute is this baby pram brad

CHALLENGES

Make It Monday Linky Party #89 - Anything Goes

Inky Impressions #59 - Use lace or trim

Creatalicious Challenge #34 - Bingo (Anything but a square card, ribbon, monochromatic

Inspire Me Friday #58 - Anything Goes

and this is the baby blanket I knitted using pom pom wool, what a challenge that was lol!  Had a few false starts but was happy with the finished result, Rosanna and Morgan both want one now lol!  As it has a lovely soft feel to it

My lovely DH unknotting the wool, tip don't use from the middle lol!

happy in her work lol!

Copics, spicas and a huge selection of stamps all available from our Mad for Markers Store

We would love to see your creations in our Mad for Markers It's Raining Men Use Masciline colours Challenge.

JUST A REMINDER

IMPORTANT DATES

Sammi is coming to Werribee in Melbourne (2nd June) for a copic colouring day details here

Copic Colour Conference 21st-23rd September in Sydney full details here, Rosanna and I has so much fun last year.

As you know Rosanna and I are super excited about going to Sydney to take Irina Blount, LaLa Land Crafts project class (16th June).   This is the AWESOME project we will be making (photos borrowed from Irina) Details here.

This gorgeous album

with a gorgeous matching trinket box to store it in

Can't wait lol!

Thank you for stopping by, happy crafting, keep well and have a lovely weekend, take careX:)

BUTTERNUT SAGE CONTEST $100.00 & M & M's

Hi All, Quick post as it is DH's Birthday and still got things to do!! Donna over at Butternut Sage is hosting a contest where she has asked that you create a card using her style. How pretty does the $100 note look nestled with M & M's then wrapped in beautiful ribbon!

Now Donna's creations have a unique style of their own, I think it is elegant, crisp, simple (in the nicest way) and not fussy, which makes them very striking! There is usually some sort of embossing too! She also does some fantastic tutorials!! One of my favourate cards is using the Forest Friends Stamp Sets, this is more or less copied except for the different embossed background (thanks Debbie, my stamp camp buddy) my birthday is in a few months so have been dropping many hints to DH for Big Shot, keep your fingers crossed! Then I used special effects on Rudolph's nose.

The second is a frame fold card, tutorial here, now have changed this one as needed a bigger frame which then didn't leave much room on the card, but I wanted to use this stamp from the SU Close to Nature, originally I used special effects on the white areas of the cone to highlight the snow but ended up with brown snow lol, may try my flower flock! All dsp/papers etc are SU. Thanks Donna I have now started my Christmas cards.

Please take a visit to Butternut Sage, make sure you have a cuppa tea, coffee or a glass of wine depending what time you visit lol!

Edited sorry looks a little messed up was perfect in the preview, had the two rudolphs side by side, this is the best I can do without losing something, very frustrating!!! Just seen the time too off to the bus stop to pick R & M up. Then its party time for DH, nothing too wild there will only be the four of us lol! See you tomorrow with my Doodle Palace Sneak Peak.

Thanks for visiting, happy crafting, take careX:)

I am asking again - Noah

Hi all, just a quick post, should have got this done last night but had a few computer glitches. Anyway this is a card I am sending to Noah (5), he is terminally ill at the end stages of cancer, his family believe he will not make the actual holidays so he has made an early Christmas wish to receive as many cards as possible, just brought tears to my eyes, how lucky some of us are!

You can find out more http://www.snopes.com/inboxermedical/biorkman.asp

Postal address
C/O Scott Biorkman
3480 Petoskey Way
Milford
MI 48380

Many thanks, take careX:)

Kellies Sketch #3 and SSCC#5

Hi all,

Last night I combined two challenges Kellie's Sketch #3 and Stampin' Sisters In Christ Challenge #5, which was to make a creation using the colours of Fall. In England hubby lived on a farm so there were plenty of hedges and in the Autumn the hawthorn bush had sloes on them, not ready for picking till Winter (great for making Sloe Gin). This image was inspired by my love of purple LOL and my flower Fairies of the Autumn book by Cicely Mary Barker, now I did spend quite some time trying to draw this beautiful fairy without any success, though hubby did stifle few giggles at each attempt! I used my SU Touch of Nature Stamp Set with all Stampin Up cardstock and most of the ribbon, will have to have a better technique at sticking ribbon down.

How cute is she?

This is the song that accompanies the picture.

Thanks for looking, happy crafting, take care AnnetteX:)

Stamp Something Challenge

Hi again, Final card for the Stamp Something Challenge, you had to use your favourate stamp set and at the moment it is fifth avenue, check their blog out there are some beautiful creations. Just realised my sentiment is from another stamp set, oh bother!

Really struggled getting a good photograph, the bottom photo shows the colour better Stampin Up Lavender Lace, then I decided to add an extra leaf and some crystal effects, not sure now if I should have done that, so thought you could see both. Must say I am very pleased with the colours in the Rose, especially being my fav colour, wasn't sure if it was going to work. Thanks to Debbie again for my embossed background.

Tried to get photos side by side and kept deleting one or the other, so decided to leave it as it is!

Thanks for looking, have a great day, take care, AnnetteX:)

Danni's Dream: Flutter By Wednesday #74 Challenge

Hi all, this card is for Danni's Dream: Flutter By Wednesday #74, you have to create a card with a fairy or butterfly on, using Danni's favourate colour pink, and I have a friends birthday coming up soon who just loves pink too! Must say a big thankyou to Debbie for being so generous at stamp camp and taught me how to use her cuttlebug or one of those machines and I came away with several embossed Flower images, sorry can't remember the name, LOL, what am I like! For those who haven't visited her blog check it out, she has some fantastic creations.
Thanks for looking, Happy Crafting, Take Care, AnnetteX:)

Fifth Avenue watercolouring practice

Hi all, this will be the first of three posts, being having a play the last couple of weeks with water colouring, using my Fifth Avenue set, then tried to put them together as cards challenging myself to use ribbon and dsp, still got a lot to learn.

This is for a friends 80th who loves to garden.

and thought I would show you some of the disasters, but, I was always taught if you don't succeed at first try and try again, I am sure many of you have been told this LOL.
Really would like to get the bright orange on a card next, originally wanted to use it with my purple (think the purple needs to be deeper) as I love these two colours together but just didn't work, so will come back to that another time.
Thanks for looking, Happy Crafting, Take Care, AnnetteX:)

Creatalicious Challenge #1

Hi all, promise this will be the last post, only had this much time to craft as the cnc machine (Maizie) decided to she needed some TLC which involved $$$, so she has been out of action for a couple of days, so not one to waste an opportunity thought I would do some blogging and crafting, found a new challenge via the lovely Debbie P, at Creatalicious Challenges.

The challenge was to include the colour brown and metal, set with Father's Day in mind but that was optional.

Anyway only metal items I have are brads, so went back to one of my favourate Stampin Up sets, For Father and created this card using all Stampin Up Cardstock Close to Cocoa, Really Rust and Very Vanilla, the stamp image is coloured in using Stampin Up Watercolour Pencils and a Blender Pen. Just need to improve my printing! Must admit this card seems fairly plain to what I have been doing! Didn't know what else to do with it!

Thanks for looking, happy crafting and take careX:)

Hay Seed Hanks, Cheers for You & More

Hi again, just a quickie, have a few birthdays coming up only found out about the first one last night, so quickly whipped up a Hay Seed Hanks, digital image from Sunshine Stamps, love these images! Not going to go through the blurb, as most of you know much more than me!

The second card is for a friends fortieth, just love this Cheers for You Set and my old faithful last years in-colours.

The third is for a bit of fun, Ida at Little's Stash and Dash is celebrating a blogoversary and has three candy options on offer, one is to send her a card via snail mail, so this is the card I am going to send, her blog candy is in my side bar.

Sorry for the gaps tried to minimise them and kept deleting the pictures, so a tad frustrated!

The last isn't a card but a bunch of my shades of purple sweet peas from the garden, I was taking a picture of the cards and thought it would make a nice photo, so count yourselves as receiving an blog bunch of sweet peas, they smell absolutely beautiful.
Thanks once again for looking, Happy Crafting, Take CareX:)

Unchartered Territory Card

Hi all, what a fantastic time we have had with our pommie visitors, haven't talked so much in ages! So haven't had much time for craft, made this card Sunday for a good pommie friend who enjoys sailing, this is why I bought the set and it is the first time I have used it, looked a little different in my head!

Materials used:

Stamp Set Unchartered Territory (current mini catalogue)

Stampin up cardstock Sky Blue, Brilliant Blue and Glorious Green (I tried to create the different colours in the sea)

I used acetate and stamped the lighthouse and boat with Stazon Opaque Cotton White, also got a paintbrush and tried to create the tops of the waves (need to practice a lot more)

I coloured on the back of the acetate using Staedtler Lumocolor Permanent Markers.

Thanks for looking, happy crafting, take careX:)

Just Jawing Money Cards

Hi all, thought I would show you these money cards that I made last night using the just jawing set. The skull has been cut out and put on 3D dimensionals. Quite pleased with this idea as we do send pressies overseas and ends up costing as much again to post.

The card below we received from a friend thought I would show you as it really is cute!

Thanks for looking, Happy Crafting, Take Care X:)

New Home and 1st Birthday

Hi again, I made these cards in the week, the first is for our friends little girls 1st birthday, won't go into all the blurb as I am sure many of you know this stamp set!!

This card was made for friends moving into their new home, just cross with myself in my haste to get if finished forgot to put home sweet home on the roof, for the life of me I couldn't think what was missing only when I looked at the photo I realised, too late then!!

Thanks for looking, happy crafting, take care X:)

My First Workshop Party Cards

Hi all, just wanted to show you the cards I designed for my first workshop party, I wanted to make cards using only one stamp set. For the first card I used the very popular Great Friends set, these butterflies seem to be flying around on everyones blogs. I have used Riding Hood Red, Kiwi Kiss cardstock and inks, as you can see I put special effects on the leaves to try and create a dew look.

For the second card I used Season's Greetings, absolutely love this card, going to have great fun sending these out to my friends and family in England LOL! Kept with the In Colours again and used Pacific Point and Baja Breeze with Whisper White, then used the water colour pencils and blender pens.
Thanks for looking, Happy Crafting and Take CareX:)

The Santa Express

Hi everyone,

This is the card I created for the Stamp Camp Card Swap, as soon as I saw this set it reminded me of Xmas in England, at Christmas time I used to take the children on the Christmas Steam Train, it went on a little journey with Santa and his helpers, he visited each child and gave them a pressie, my children loved it.
I used Stamp Sets, Choo Choo, Lovely as a Tree, Many Merry Messages, Loads of Love Accessories (I couldn't find a little Rudolph to drive the train and my drawing skills are limited LOL). Right on Track Wheel.

Various Stampin Markers for colouring, and dazzling diamonds for snow effect. I carried the track print inside the card.

Take Care, Happy Crafting X:)

Kellie’s First Blog…Sketch Challenge…

Hi all,

Kellie has just been asked to be on the Design Team for Magnolia and Motivet and Stephanie the owner of Motivet is helping Kellie celebrate and is supporting her with this challenge, which you can find out by visiting Kellie’s First Blog…Sketch Challenge… (Congratulations and Well Done, what a fantastic achievement!!!)

Finally got this finished, as soon as I saw Kellie's challenge, especially when she said you could use any stamp (thankyou), the brain went into overdrive, a Christmas Challenge, being a Pomme the Aussie weather at the moment makes it feel more like Christmas, than in December. Went to Leonie's on Saturday and she kindly let me stamp off some of her snow globe stamp set, which came in handy for this Challenge.

Apologies again took this tonight as by the time I get home from work the daylight has gone.

This is a close up of the snowman in the globe

Materials used are:

Stampin' Up Perfect Plum, Pale Plum and Almost Amethyst Cardstock, dazzling diamond glitter (a small amount goes a long way, everywhere is sparkling now LOL), Versamark, the little snowflakes are whisper white card stock covered in dazzling diamond glitter and crystal effects.

Creative Memories Paper Frosty Splits

The snowflakes in the top right were Dress It Up Glitter Snowflakes with the loop removed.

For the main of the Snowman I used Stampendous fun flock.

The brad? and the ribbon I have to admit was used on a gift I received and it was too nice to through away (like a few in my ribbon collection) hopefully I am not the only one who collects items like this.

Thanks for stopping by to take a look.

Happy Crafting and Take Care. X:)

45th Wedding Anniversary

Hi all, this is a card for some very good friends 45th Wedding Anniversary (sapphire) so have used blue bayou and soft sky for the card stock, ribbon and ink. I sponged the edge of the whisper white, embossed the greetings, used Chunky Crystals (Crystal Iris) for the fizz in the glasses and used Cheers (one of my favs) and Congrats Stamp Sets. Thanks for looking, Happy Crafting, Take CareX:)

Hi all,

finally attempted my first colour challenge, from Color Throwdown, Challenge 49 or (CTD49),

colors to use are Groovy Guava, Soft Sky and Chocolate Chip, sad as I am I was quite excited as I had all these colors, and some idea half sprung to mind (using one of my fav sets) then whilst making I had the idea of the flower, (hawaii was in my head) anyway below is what I have done, I have embossed the 'Cheers for You', and used crystal effects on the drink and fruit, must say the flower was fiddly but fairly pleased with the result (its a start). Anyway bye for now, happy crafting, take care X:)

CTD49

Sunrise/Sunset?

Hi again, another fab afternoon of stampin and blogging, I am making the most of it, because I will soon be back at work. The following card has been in my head forever, it is one of the reasons I bought 'Lovely as a Tree' and only today has it been created (took a while getting all the right gear) we have seen and made similar cards at Leonie's Workshops (will learn how to make that light up so you can connect to her blog). I love sunsets and this is what I have tried to create but I think it is more like a sunrise.

Firstly I Versamarked the stamp then used Night of Navy and the heat tool, which doesn't show up too much in the photo (will try again in daylight tomorrow) then used So Saffron, Summer Sun, Only Orange, Pixie Pink, Orchid Opulence (had to get some shade of purple in LOL), then Night of Navy, Bordering Blue, Ballet Blue & Brocade Blue for the Sky, finally Always Artichoke and Old Olive for the grass, this was done using sponges. Used Bright Orange and Night of Navy for the card stock, maybe I should have used Always Artichoke but wanted something Bright. Open to any suggestions on how to better this, from you experts out there.

Rosanna and Morgan are having another Xmas card making session and some real creative effort is being made as they want them to go on the blog, looks like I have more competition, may even have to set them up a blog of their own.

Thanks again for looking, take care and happy crafting X:)

Cards from the Past

Hello everyone, took me ages to get here, thought I would experiment by putting on some of the cards I have made in the past using my favourate stamps sets, some ideas are my own and some have been cased from Leonie. The Graduation is my own idea made for Morgan's teacher, it probably needed a little bling. Got to go to work now, have another try later, not quite got the layout right. Take Care, Annette:)