Tempting Mojo

Hello again,

A little more time in Girl World today led to a completed Mojo Monday entry – No 195 to be precise!

I picked up this lovely silhouette stamp at the Brisbane Papercraft Fair and think she looks rather delightful in Tempting Torquoise ink, hence the name for this post – here’s my entry, Tempting huh…

The sentiment is a simple Happy Birthday (part of my favourite Annabelles Stamps set “All Things Grow” and was amazed to find that it fits the SU Word Window punch perfectly!

There’s a pile of Kaiser flowers, gold brads, ribbons and ric-a-rac that make up the rest of this card. Oh – and the flowers embossed on the background – this was a small free folder that came with a Do Crafts magazine at some stage, am very happy with that, there's also a fiskars edge punch, spellbinders circle & scallop circle etc etc.

Here is the sketch I was following…

Hope you all have a great week-end – TTFN

(TTFN = ta ta for now )

Annabelle sketch with a little Banana Custard thrown in…

Hello Everyone,

I see I have a couple more followers – thank you for joining me, I hope I can provide as much inspiration as I get from you in return.

Today I have made a card for the Annabelle Stamps Sketch Challenge #38  and as luck would have it is the perfect colour to enter into the Lollipop Ladies challenge too, which is themed on “Banana Custard” (YUM).

 Even though my card is not themed – the colour is right! Vintage will have to wait till the next attempt!

Here it is….

Oh look, I used my Annabelle Stamps “All Things Grow” set again! lol. There is one little element there that is not from that set, and it’s the little birdie which I’ve pinched from the Stampin Up “Bliss” set. I used some natural fibre papers and they kind of went well with the Fern leaf. The ink was Tim Holtz Tea Dye distress ink and I used some orange bling, because the yellow and gold ones just didn’t have any oomph.

Here is the sketch to use if you’d like to do it too click on it, it'll take you there. You can check out what the DT did with the sketch too - pretty awesome.

and the custard...

 I did say YUM!

 As usual, I hope you like it

More Brayer Fun

I’ve been really enjoying playing with my brayer since receiving the stamp set from Annabelles Stamps – All Things Grow (he he he yep AGAIN!) it’s perfect for grassy scenes.

Here is a card I’ve put together with a sunset through the reeds theme.

It’s an idea that’s been cased from Michelle Zindorf’s blog – a big thank you to Michelle I am having a ball trying to make my brayering look something like yours

Here is a bit of a close up of the sentiment – probably should have used black ink here, but I sort of liked the “washed out by the sun” look it has given the card.

I’ve layered the panel up on some photo corners and done a little peircing to finish it off. I'm slowly getting better at this technique. They say practice makes perfect. 

Purple Haze Birthday

Hello again,

Just wanted to quickly share another card I made using “All Things Grow” from Annabelle Stamps 

(yes – again! Get used to it, I’m in love with this stamp set and this is probably only the beginning)

I started out with white cardstock and used my SU stampin spot in  {crumb cake} colour to swipe the colour on straight with the spot. I then embossed the grasses across the bottom of the card. Went back to the stampin spots with {river rock} and added some green along the back of the grass. I then used a sponge and some {not quite navy} to highlight the night sky which blended to purple {elegant eggplant}. I then went and stamped some more grasses in purple to make them really stand out.

An SU Scallop punch, Oval punch and Word Window were used to mount the Happy Birthday sentiment from the set.

I love how this card came out, however, I think my blending needs a little more practice. Back to more playing with this stamp set it is.

The girls over at C.R.A.F.T Challenge are having a Birthday Blog Hop and Happy Birthday card challenge. This is my entry.

Crafty Cardmakers wanted embossing - well it sure is!

Hoping to spend more time in Girl World tomorrow - My Nanna needs a card for her 95 year old friend of 71 years - must have pretty flowers on it is the call. Will have to see what I can come up with!

Happy Birthday Kristy

My good friend Kristy is having a birthday – 31 on monday – and she thinks she’s old! lol I made this card for her and thought I’d share it with you first.

It’s got a lovely tri-fold factor….


...and because she loves flowers, butterflies and purple I used Kaiser “purple” paper that is covered in big bold flowers and embossed some gorgeous little butterflies on two of the panels using one of the butterflies from my new Annabelles Stamp “All Things Grow”. (which is the set I chose from my win with Annabelles a few weeks ago)

I’ve also used my SU Embosslit “Beautiful Wings” to cut some butterflies out and decided to emboss them silver along with the sentiment on the front panel. Some pretty bling finished it off.
Hope you like it. I’m gonna enter it in a couple of challenges I like it so much.

1. http://blog.mycreateink.com/2011/05/colorlab-color-challenge-41.html

2. http://abc-challenge.blogspot.com/2011/05/u-is-for_18.html

3. http://claudiaandcompany.blogspot.com/2011/05/challenge-82-girls-birthday-card.html

4. http://jac-inks.blogspot.com/2011/05/jac-inks-challenge-8-heat-embossing.html

5. http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/

I did say a couple of challenges! lol

I'll be back later with a couple of brayered cards I did using the stamp set from Annabelles mentioned above :)