Diamond Fold Birthday

Hi Everyone,

My lovely little Niece Erin turned 4 last week and this is the card I made for her.

I used the tutorial from split coast stampers to get the Diamond Fold design.

It’s a simple card, with just a rub on senitment, a popped up cupcake cutout and a doily cut in half for a pretty frame.

A big pink ribbon held it all together. Erin’s favourite colour is pink.

Hope you like it, I’ll enter it for the following challenges.

1. Robyn’s Fetish – Cupcakes

2. That Craft Place – Anything Goes

3. Sketchy Colour s- Pink, Blue & Beige

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Happy Birthday and Stampin Up

Hi Everyone,

Well I’ve done my dash with “using it up”. I went shopping with a Stampin Up Catalogue!! These new colours and  papers were just to die for and I couldn’t resist the temptation.

I’ve made this birthday card Using Up at least some of my old Stampin Up supplies, such as the Happy Birthday and the Fast & Fabulous flowers stamps. I did use my new ink colour – Calypso Coral from the 2011-2013 In Colour range, and a little soft suede on the flower outlines.

The papers are called Everyday Enchantment, this is the front and back of one design. 
There are a couple of other new things on this card too. First of all, the ribbon border punch, then the little frame is an SU embossing folder and I’ve cut out the embossed section inside and out. Thirdly, the cardstock – I really like how Stampin Up co-ordinates all the colours, the ink / cardstock / designer paper. 

Everything just goes together beautifully.

Gosh I sound like an advertisement for Stampin Up! lol
There is ONE item on this card that isn’t SU – a little ribbon from my stash!

Seriously though, I’m thinking of joining them and becoming a demonstrator 

– what do you think?

I used the Mojo Monday sketch for the week……turned sideways 

I’d also like to enter into the following challenges…

1.The Stamp Man – colours of spring

2. Aud Sentiments – Include ‘happy birthday’

3. Cute Card Thursday – signs of spring

Enjoy and I’ll be back in a day or so with a little diamond fold card for you

In the meantime, feel free to enter my Blog Candy HERE – Thanks.

Congratulations Emilly

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to share a couple of gorgeous pics of my niece Emilly and her new baby girl, Isabella.

Emilly is 19 and Isabella decided to come 8 weeks early, so she will be in hospital for 5-6 weeks until she grows. She was 1.9kg at birth and is perfect in every way! She is breathing on her own and simply needs to get bigger before they release her.

Emilly & Isabella

Isabella on Monday 27-2-2012 an hour or so after birth.

Isabella with her dad Jonny :)

Congratulations to both of you, she is adorable and will be loved by all of both our families.

Wonderful Birthday Card

Hi Everyone,

Welcome back! I have a Wonderful Birthday Card to share with you today. A nice bright yellow, purple and green kind of Wonderful. The paper used here is from Kaiser Craft and it’s both the front and back of one design called Lilac Avenue. I also happened to have a small stamp of the same type of flower, and as I made a mess on the sentiment while sponging with dirty fingers, it was lucky I had that stamp to cover up the mess!!!

I’ve hand made some flowers to match using cardstock and my hand crimper. Very easy to do, simply concertina fold a strip of card or paper and pinch at one end to make a fan shape. Cover the base and glue some stamens in behind them. The sentiment is a free digi from Birds Cards and I’ve sewn a couple of layers together underneath it.

The Stampin Up little leaves sizzlit came in handy and I used green cardstock and faux stitching around the edges of the leaves. I then used the peice of cardstock the leaves were cut from as a template to draw stitched leaves onto the dp for the inside of the card. A flower was punched from the corner to reveal the next layer colour.

My only gripe with this card, was that I used the sentiment in the wrong direction on a gate folded card base and I cannot stand this card up and read it at the same time! 

Oh well, nothing is perfect. 

It does kind of look a bit weird standing the right way up lol!

I hope you like it – boo boos and all.

I’ll enter for the following challenges:-

Card Crafters Circle this week has an inspiration photo to use – which is what I did. The bright yellow and the flowers came from this.

Hiding in My Craft Room is Bringing on Spring

Our Creative Corner – Over the Edge

Card Makin Mamas – Birthday

Two Sisters – Anything Goes

Thanks for popping in - I won't be back for a week now as we are expecting my niece to give birth any day - she has had early labor pains and they are keeping her in the hospital to try and keep bub in a bit longer. She is 8 weeks too soon! Keep an eye out for the baby card and photos to come - very exciting times!

Make a Wish Monkey Card

Hi Everyone,

I have another really bright card to share with you today using some Home Made paper.

Yes I’m Using it UP! I’m also using the Mojo Monday Sketch #229 for the layout.

This paper was made in a creative moment at Trish’s place last summer, with her and her daughter. I can’t remember the exact process, but I do know we used oil paints floated on a white spirit of some sort (perhaps mineral turpentine?) and dropped the cardstock onto the patterns created by swirling drops of the paints together. Looks fantastic doesn’t it?

I have also embossed the whole background with a swirly embossing folder and swiped it with ink.  I was inspired to do this by the inspiration photo at 4 Crafty Chicks , check out the ceiling of the room in the photo…

It’s just reminded me of that particular embossing folder.

I have used Monkey B, which was a Freebie from Dustin Pike quite some time ago and I’ve coloured him with copic pens and a little glitter glue. Gotta have sparkle somewhere!

The ribbon is from Kaiser Craft and the sentiment is a Stampin Up

 sentiment from the set ‘So Many Sayings’.

I’ll be entering the following challenges with him :-

1.The Sisterhood of Crafters- getting digi with it

2. Truly Scrumptious Challenge – all creatures great and small

3. Sketches in Thyme – open challenge, use any sketch

4. Moving along with the times - lots of layers

5. Inspire me Fridays – Anything goes

Thanks for popping by and checking out my card.

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Bookmark

Hi Everyone,

Back again with a quick share of this bookmark I made 

for the Timeless Tuesday challenge at Flourishes.

I followed the Corner Bookmark Tutorial that was posted on Split Coast Stampers by Beate some time ago, here is a link to it if you’d like to make one too. I like that I can print a step by step instruction sheet from the SCS tutorials. It means I can keep it in my folder of tricks to come back to time and again.

The flower on my bookmark is a Nellies Multi Frame die, it provides all the layers you see here and more! A little glitter and a ribbon to finish. 

Such a simple thing to make, yet so useful and it'd make a great gift!

Have a nice day and thanks for looking.

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