Christmas Tag Recycled

Hi Everyone,

A quick share of a card I’ve made using a Christmas present tag that I saved from last year. It was way too pretty to throw out, I only hope it doesn’t go back this year to the same person who gave it to me! Maybe a bit embarrassing!

I also finally purchased the Polka Dots embossing folder and it’s perfect for snow when swiped with White ink. The sentiment was stamped using bits of different sentiments from different sets. I used the Word Window punch to cut them where I needed to. The little black brads finish off the cut edges nicely.

Here’s a close up of the lovely tag and snowy embossing behind it.

I’d like to enter this JFF at Christmas Card Challenges.

Hope it inspires you to get creative too.

Stationery Set Friend

Hi Everyone,

Well it’s the last day of the financial year here in Australia, so I thought I’d post this stationery set to inspire you, it’s one of the tutorials on split coast stampers and surprisingly easy to make with wonderful results! An address book, tags and 4 cards are what I filled mine with.

The case itself is made from double sided paper that is nice and sturdy – I used a retired Stampin’ Up paper. It’s been decorated using some flowers from my stash and the Vintage Vogue Stamp set – yes folks, I do love Vintage Vogue, I use it quite often!

Take the lid off and the front flap folds down to reveal a delightful array of goodies inside…

These tags are perfect for pressies…

and the cards are great for keeping in touch with friends…

Of course, you have to be able to find your friends addresses…

I used some old exercise book paper to make the pages inside..

Hope you enjoyed my little project today that I’m sharing with you, I’ll also share it at..

Inspire me Fridays – Always Anything Goes

Thank You card

Hi Everyone,

I’m back as promised with my Mojo Monday card for the week. I’ve gone to town a little and sewn around bits with my machine, and embossed parts and cut out with spellbinders and layered and bradded and buttoned the card! lol

These papers are retired Stampin Up papers, but the stamp is a current one called For Everything . These bits and pieces were supplied to me at Paper Mates this month – this kit being from Jane Norrish, my Stampin Up demonstrator.

Hope you like what I made with your bits Jane!

Here is the Mojo Sketch..

A great tip for Top Tip Tuesday is to layer the ribbon and pin it in place with a brad , that way you don’t have to be able to tie a pretty bow and you can have as many or as little loops as you like!

I used a little Atyou Spica pen on the sentiment & swirls around the flower, just for a bit of bling

I would like to share this card at the following challenges:-

1. Mojo Monday

2. Shopping our Stash – Embossing

3. Card Crafters Circle – Buttons

4. Top Tip Tuesday – Stitches Real or Faux

5. Craft Your Passion – Anything Goes

6. Make It Monday – Always Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by

p.s – blog candy here

Mmm Mojo Cake and Decorated Dog

Hi Everybody, just being my consistent self (keeping my blog promise to myself) and getting the Mojo Monday sketch # 192 sorted for the week. Am looking forward to next week’s Mojo sketch as it will be competition week – and it’s always fun to be in the chance to win something now isn’t it? Actually, this week’s Mojo card turned out so very cute I wish it were comp week this week!

Here it is..

I love this Kaiser paper, it’s one sheet and shows both sides of the paper. I’ve layered it all up on coordinating cardstock and cut a tag with my little sizzlit die for the sentiment, which came from a stamp set received with my Do Crafts magazine a few months ago. It was a cupcake theme. I accented the icing with a little glitzy glitter and used a pretty satin ribbon.

Here is the sketch this week…

I really enjoyed this sketch.

It's also Cupcake time over at the Corrosive Challenge - so had to enter it there too :) 

I also have a little something else to share today, my adorable 4 year old niece decided that Pepper (our dog) needed a little decorating today – what do you think of her handy work?

Pepper doesn’t look too impressed, but I thought she looked rather cute

A tempting morsel of glitter

Hi Everyone,

(All 14 of you followers lol)

I thought I'd give you a tempting little morsel of glitter, because I promised you glitter and even though I haven't put these things to use on a pretty card yet - I have made them from scratch and need to share (aka show off).

Once again my good friend Trish has given me some insight.

We worked together and I wanted to make some acetate butterflies with some gorgeous napkins I came across. So away I went and used my PVA Glue with the acetate and some glitter and laid the napkins down and let them all dry, then backed it with plain white card. They worked fine, here's one I've cut out ready to put on a card. It's actually quite big - about 8cm square. There are smaller ones too in pink and yellow, but you'll just have to keep an eye on my cards to spot them as I haven't got any pictures of them yet.

Trish wanted to share a tag project she had which funnily enough was a similar process - only she was using glossy accents with the glitter and some ink (no napkin), Just a bit of tissue paper backing.

There is a cardboard backing on these tags (cut with a sizzix die in the Big Shot machine) that allows you to write on the back of them.

 The pink glitter really stands out!
We got such glued up, glittery inky fingers doing this, as you kinda mush the ink and glitter into the glue. Great fun!

 

What do you think - here are the tags I've made. I have stamped on the front with Staz On - that slippery thing got me again, but hey it's all good... I think I'll enter them into an Anything Goes challenge like...

inspire me Fridays – anything goes -

http://joyfulstamper.blogspot.com/

or 

lady bugs crafts Ink TLT - anything goes

http://ladybugscraftsinkchallengeblog.blogspot.com/

I think the Glossy Accents makes all the difference in that it kinda suspends the glitter in it and has this depth that lets the glitter shine.
My conclusion is that PVA Glue works too, but Glossy Accents does it better.

 Well there's my tempting morsel of glitter, hope you like it. I'm sure you'll see the butterfly embellishments on my cards in the not too distant future :)

Mojo 187 - More Water Colour Flowers

Hi Everybody,

I've put together my Mojo 187 Sketch Challenge this week with the remaining flowers from my Water Colouring expedition on the last post. The flower here is from the Fifth Avenue Floral set by Stampin Up. 

As explained before, the stamp has been embossed with white onto watercolour paper, then saturated with water and ink dipped into the pools of water that sit inside the embossed area. This technique is great for getting colours to merge and leaves a wonderful water puddle effect in the ink when it is dry.

Here is a close up so you can see what I mean...

I've used a few different elements to put this card together, Embossing folders, Mini Tag sizzlit, Twine, Spellbinder circles to cut the frame beneath the flowers, my Fiskars cutter to make the scallop edge and last but not least, some beautiful ribbons that I purchased at the Craft Queen. 

Here is the Mojo Sketch I worked from....

 

I have started off my Easter break with a massive day in my craft room and promise to post more tomorrow (when all my glittery creations have dried and I can use them!).

Have a great Easter everyone - see you tomorrow!