Flower Pot Pocket Card

Hello Everyone,

My lovely friend Trish came over yesterday having found a rare moment of free time to share in my craft room with me. She came with tutorial in hand and we sat down and made one of these flower pot cards together.

It’s a mixture of new and retired products, the new being the Satin Stitched Ribbon adorning the flower pot and essentially holding it together.

The insert slides out to reveal the sentiment.

I’d like to share this card with a few challenges, just because It’s so cute.

I have just found the Alphabet Challenge blog
(they are up to “P” already, but what the heck!)
P is for Pocket – and this is indeed a pocket!

Also I will share this at Inspire me Fridays as they are always anything goes and I love the inspiration I gain from the other entries – everything from recipes to recycling crafts. Terrific!

Thanks for taking the time out to have a look. If you want to make one yourself you can find the tutorial on Split Coast Stampers . Have fun now

21st Birthday Card for a Man

Yes, he is now a Man!

Happy Birthday to my nephew Jason – he is off partying hard in Surfers Paradise with his mates for his birthday so I haven’t actually given him this card yet! Bless him, he’s usually such a good boy it’s good to see him mucking around a bit

I used the Mojo Monday sketch for a bit of inspiration and went to town with textures for this card. I used the Simply Scored tool to make a diamond pattern on Crumb Cake CS and then swiped a Not Quite Navy ink pad over the raised areas – very roughly. I also used a pile of brads and string and faux stitching and wild drawing to make the circle in the pattern. I went a bit wild with the drawing and covered it up with a circle of Not Quite Navy CS. The colours have come up a bit funny in my photograph, they are matted onto black, but it kind of looks blue? Anyway, here’s the sketch…

The numbers were random chipboards found in my stash and I coated them with some So Saffron ink and then stamped the floral pattern from the Hello Friend stamp set over that with Not Quite Navy ink and then..embossed the top with clear embossing powder to make it shiny. See..

Well I hope you like my Mojo Monday card this week. I'm also going to enter it for My Mojo Monthly Challenge at La-De-Dah, as the theme is Man Up
 I look forward to sharing some more stuff soon.

Summery Christmas Card

Hi Everyone,

Well, I’ve been making Christmas Cards all year and I thought, this is Australia – we don’t have snow and cold weather at Christmas time! Then I saw the challenge at SUO Challenges this week – Bright Summer Days. Perfect! a Bright Summery Christmas Card that all my Aussie mates will appreciate.

Poor wee Dasher looks a bit lost in all this heat, he’s been clear embossed and sponged over with Lucky Limeade, Daffodil Delight and Real Red inks. I’ve used the Square Lattice & Finial Press embossing folders, as well as the lovely Pleated Satin Ribbon that is in the current Winter Mini Catalogue.

I also wanted to have a play with my new “Simply Scored” the scoring tool – also in the current Winter Mini Catalogue - and what better way than to make one of the ever popular concertina fold flowers. I just used Cream cardstock and sponged it with the same colours as the rest of the card.

I put the sentiment on the leaf – it’s punched using Blossom Petals Builder punch. I knew that punch would come in handy! The centre of the flower is from the matching Stamp Set. The other thing I’ve done, and I don’t know if you can see it in the little pic above, but I sprayed some home-made Shimmer Paint Mist all over this baby! Just because it’s a Summer Christmas, doesn’t mean it don’t sparkle! lol

I utilised the sketch at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown this week. Finally have had a chance to get one in on time.

Don’t forget the Winter Mini finishes July 31st  so get your orders in before it’s gone!

Have a great day,evening, night whatever it may be in your neck of the woods.