Birthday Wishes

I made cupcakes today - for no reason at all :) Just felt like a cupcake kind of a day! And so I decided to make a cupcake card with similar colours to the ones I made. Inspiration truly is everywhere!! The pretty papers are from My Mind's Eye's Tangerine collection. I coloured the image with copic markers, although it's on regular cardstock so the blending is not the best! The lace I used on this card is from a local store here in Australia (Spotlight), and I use it on so many of my cards - I'm a little obsessed with it at the moment. I must buy more!!!

Stamps: Cupcakes (Hero Arts)
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Copic markers
Cardstock: Whisper White (Stampin Up)
Papers: Tangerine (My Mind's Eye)
Accessories: Foof-a-la buttons, Stampin Up taffeta ribbon, Spotlight lace, dimensionals, sewing machine

Happy Birthday - Mojo Monday 257

I'm so excited to be able to finally use some of my new papers! I love love looooove My Mind's Eye, and I used papers from two of their new collections here - Lavender and Honey. I'm also excited to have a card ready for the Mojo Monday contest! And I love this weeks sketch - lots of layers and with the potential to make it really girly. I used probably my favourite colour combo - pink, kraft and white, and lots of accessories :) I coloured the cake in with copic markers for the flower, and crumb cake ink with a blender pen for the actual cake. I sponged most of the edges with Frayed Burlap ink.

Stamps: Big Wish (Verve)
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Crumb Cake (Stampin Up), Tim Holtz Frayed Burlap, Copic markers
Cardstock: Whisper White, Kraft (Stampin Up), Neenah Solar White
Papers: Lavender, and Honey (My Mind's Eye)
Accessories: MFT doily die, Spellbinders circle, Kaisercraft flower, red Kaisercraft blossom, Stampin Up Crumb Cake button, Spotlight white button, Stampin Up linen thread, Ranger liquid pearls, Spotlight lace, sewing machine

For The Birthday Boy

So this is my second attempt at the 10th Birthday card i needed. A couple of posts earlier I made one which I decided was a bit too mature looking. This one is much better I think. The sketch is for Viva La Verve August Week 2 - another I didn't get in on time :( I love the really intricate sketches with lots of layers, and this one was a lot of fun to do! I used papers from the A Boys Life collection from Echo Park. The banner border along the bottom is hand cut - I have ordered the banner die from Verve and can't wait to use it so I don't have to keep cutting them out myself!

Stamps: Birthday Bash (Verve)
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black
Cardstock: Basic Grey, Wild Wasabi, Really Rust (Stampin Up)
Papers: A Boys Life (Echo Park)
Accessories: Stampin Up scallop border punch, My Minds Eye buttons (Rosy), Stampin Up twine, sewing machine

For U

I wasn't able to get my Viva La Verve August sketches done in time, but this is for week 3 anyway (with a few chamges). Turns out, I needed this card for a very good friend of mine who needed a little pick me up. She loves these colours so it was just perfect for her. I coloured the butterfly in with copic markers, and added some dazzling diamonds. The papers are My Mind's Eye Be Amazing.

Stamps: You And I, All A Flutter (Verve)

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Copic markers

Cardstock: Whisper White, Pool Party (Stampin Up), Neenah Solar White

Papers: Be Amazing (My Mind's Eye)

Accessories: Petaloo flower, Spotlight lace, dazzling diamonds, Martha Stewart border punch, sewing machine

Thanks A Bunch

I felt in a bit of a white mood so I made this card, with the Mix 'n' Mugs stamp set from Flourishes. The background is embossed with a cuttlebug folder, and I used paper from My Minds Eye Blush for the mug. I coloured the flowers with copic markers.

Stamps: Mix 'n' Mugs (Flourishes), Joyful Blooms (Verve)
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Copic markers
Cardstock: Whisper White, Early Espresso, Always Artichoke (Stampin Up), Neenah Solar White
Papers: Blush (My Minds Eye)
Accessories: Spotlight lace, Bag O Buttons button, We are Memory Keepers floss, Cuttlebug embossing folder, spellbinders oval and scallop oval

Happy Birthday To You

So I have a 10th Birthday to go to, for a boy, and I think he's a bit beyond the monkeys and other cute animals I normally do on his cards! So I wanted to make something a bit more mature. This is what I came up with. The sketch is Mojo Monday 253, from a couple of weeks ago. It doesn't show up too well in the photo, but the outside of the circle is shaded light blue. The cupcakes are cut out from the same paper as the background, and are coloured in with Pool Party ink and blender pen.

Stamps: Birthday Bash (Verve)
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black
Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black, Pool Party
Papers: Happy Days (Echo Park)
Accessories: Foof-a-la Button, Kaisercraft black rhinestones, Martha Stewart border punch, We Are Memory Keepers twine, spellbinders circle, sewing machine, black marker

Glad To Be Back!



Oh my gosh, it's been almost 6 weeks since my last entry! I've actually been quite ill, so I apologise to my blog friends for being absent for so long. I wasn't able to make cards for so long, but I am back on track now, and so excited I have some new Verve stamps on their way to me soon too! For now though, I have a couple of cards I made over the last few days to get me back into blog mode! This is the first one I made, and I just wanted something simple and happy. My sewing machine was also neglected during my 6 weeks "off," so I was keen to give that a go again! The grass is hand cut, and I just tore the tree from some My Minds Eye paper. So cute!

Stamps: Wordy Birds (Verve

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black

Cardstock: Whisper White (Stampin Up)

Paper: On The Bright Side Two (My Minds Eye)

Accessories: Cloud border die (The Cat's Pjamas), Sewing machine, dimensionals

TCP Tuesday 218 & Viva La Verve July Week 3

Hi everyone! Here is my card for the TCPTUES218 challenge and Viva La Verve July Week 3!

I ALMOST made it a Christmas card! I didn't think of the colour combo being Christmasy until I made this card, but I did need a cute birthday card so I had to resist a Christmas sentiment! But I will definitly be recreating this, or something like it, for one of my Christmas cards this year! I love that this image can be used for both occaisions! Anyway, onto the card! I thought the polka dot paper was a bit bright, so I covered it with a layer of vellum and sewed it down. Under the scallop circle is a Spellbinders label and another piece of vellum which I sewed two lines on. Loved that the sketch involved some twine too :)

Stamps: Birthday Bunny (The Cat's Pajamas)
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Copics
Cardstock: Pool Party, Whisper White, Riding Hood Red, Kraft (Stampin Up), Neenah Solar White
Papers: Happy Days (Echo Park), Vellum (Stampin Up)
Accessories: Spellbinders circle, scallop circle and label, Stampin Up twine, Bag O Buttons buttons, dimensionals, sewing machine

Viva La Verve July Week 2

So I'm getting a bit tired of using the same papers over and over. I really need to buy some more, but that's a month or so away. So I decided to use some Christmas papers from last year for this card, that I hope, don't look too Christmasy! And I think I'm going to do this again in the future to help use up some more of my Christmas paper pads! These papers are from the Lost & Found Christmas collection by My Minds Eye. The sketch is for Viva La Verve July Week 2.

Stamps: Words Cannot Express (Verve)
Ink: Early Espresso (Stampin Up), Old Paper (Tim Holtz)
Cardstock: Early Espresso, Naturals Ivory (Stampin Up)
Papers: Lost & Found Christmas (My Mind's Eye)
Accessories: We Are Memory Keepers floss, Prima flowers, Kaisercraft pearls, Spellbinders circle

Viva La Verve July Week 1

Hi! I hope you're all having a great weekend! Here is my card for Week 1 of July Viva La Verve. I used papers from Kaisercrafts Sweet Nothings collection, and sewed around the pink base, and white rectangle. The heart doilie is from Ellen Hutson, and the cut out border with the music notes on it behind the heart, is a die cut from the Sweet Nothings 6 x 6 paper pad - so easy! It's not really noticeable in the photo, but I lightly shaded the heart and Happy Birthday cardstock with pink ink.

Stamps: Big Wish (Verve)
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Pink Pirouette (Stampin Up)
Cardstock: Whisper White (Stampin Up)
Papers: Sweet Nothings (Kaisercraft)
Accessories: Prima flower, Kaisercraft pearls, Ellen Hutson doilie, Tim Holtz edge distressor, sewing machine

Happy Birthday

I had these papers out planning to do a birthday card for a 10 year old, but I think this turned out more adult male than I imagined. Oh well, I have a few of those birthday's coming up anyway! I love doing this sort of paper panelling, and although I haven't quite mastered it, I think the effect is great, especially for the male cards! I sewed around the edge , and used the balloons from the Party Time stamp set for the main image. I sponged around the edges of the oval with Pool Party ink, and hand cut the banner. 

Stamps: Party Time (Verve), Birthday Bunny (The cat's Pajamas)

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Pool Party (Stampin Up), Copics

Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Grey (Stampin Up)

Papers: Dilly Dally (My Mind's Eye)

Accessories: Stampin Up ribbon, sewing machine

Tailormade

It's the first Mojo Monday sketch for the month, and that means it's contest time! And what a great sketch too! I did have to flip mine though!

I used papers from Dolled Up (My Mind's Eye). I stamped the dress form on the same paper as I used in the background, and sponged the edges of the oval with Old Paper Ink. I used a blender pen and the Old Paper ink to lightly colour the dress form, and used copic markers for the flowers and accessories on it. keeping with the "Tailormade" theme, I had to add a bit of stitching and some buttons :)

Stamps: Feminine Charm (Flourishes)
Ink: Momento Tuxedo black, Copics, Old Paper (Tim Holtz)
Cardstock: Neenah Solar White
Papers: Dolled Up (My Mind's Eye)
Accessories: Prima flowers, Bag O Buttons buttons,, Spotlight lace, Stampin Up scallop punch, Spellbinders oval, Stampin Up oval punch, Sewing machine

All The Cupcakes You Can Hold

This stamp, Sprinkles on Top, from My Favourite Things, is just perfect for a little girls card! Unfortunately I've run out of my favourite "Blush" papers from My Mind's Eye, and I only have scraps left now (it's definitly a collection I'll have a hard time saying goodbye to!), so I had to use some Kaisercraft paper from their Miss Nelly collection instead. I coloured the girl with copic markers, and used liquid pearls around the large circle.

Stamps: Sprinkles On Top (My Favourite Things)

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Copics

Cardstock: Whisper White, Wild Wasabi (Stampin Up), Neenah Solar White

Papers: Miss Nelly (Kaisercraft)

Accessories: Stampin Up ribbon, Spellbinders circle and scallop circles, Martha Stewart border punch, Doilie (my stash), Bag O Buttons buttons, liquid pearls

TCP Tuesday 216 - Thanks Bunches



It's TCP Tuesday time! And I just love the inspiration photo's! The beautiful flowers and cute lanterns made it easy for me to come up with today's card.

I used the Wheel Love stamp set, and coloured it in with Copic markers. I cut it out and adhered it to a white oval that I machine stitched around. I embossed the large white background with a cuttlebug folder, stitched around that also, and used an old Prima flower for the splash of green and brown in the photo's.

Stamps: Wheel Love (The Cats Pajamas)

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Copics
Cardstock: Early Espresso, Whisper White (Stampin Up), Neenah Solar White

Papers: N/A

Accessories: Prima flower, Stampin Up twine, Spellbinders ovals, Stampin Up small oval punch, Cuttlebug embossing folder, Sewing Machine

Happy Birthday To You

I wanted to use the set Birthday Bash from Verve, for this card (newly purchased!), and I always love clear ballons to stamp on patterned paper! The sketch is Viva La Verve June Week 4, and after trying to do the sketch upside down, because I thought that would be easier, I decided on doing it the original way (with a few little changes ;) The balloon strings werent long enough to see under the corrugated piece so I just drew a little exta length on them.

Stamps: Birthday Bash (Verve)
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black
Cardstock: Kraft, Whisper White (Stampin Up)
Papers: Be Amazing (My Mind's Eye)
Accessories: Stampin Up button and twine, Martha Stewart border punch, Kaisercraft pearls, crimper, sewing machine

May Your Birthday Be Special

So it's CAS time again, for Viva La Verve June Week 3. And I think mine's pretty clean and simple this time!! Yay! I turned the sketch side on, and moved the oval slightly. I used papers from one of my favourite collections - Portrait, from Crate Paper. The flowers are from Joyful Blooms (Verve), and I love how you can stamp them on patterned paper to co-ordinate with whatever you're doing! I stitched around the edge of the card, and zig zag stitched on the left hand side of the thin black paper, and distressed the edges. I just used a black marker to faux stitch around the border of the oval.

Stamps: Birthday Surprise, Joyful Blooms (Verve)
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black
Cardstock: Very Vanilla (Stampin Up)
Papers: Portrait (Crate Paper)
Accessories: We Are Memory Keepers floss, Bag O Buttons buttons, Black marker, Tim Holtz edge distressor, Sewing machine

Viva La Verve June Week 2

I'm out of large white cardstock at the moment, so it's forcing me to use vanilla as my card bases, which I don't normally do, but it was nice to step out the box for a while! And rather than put a long sentiment on the rectangle panel in this sketch, I decided the butterflys would look great as the centre piece! The papers are from an older My Mind's Eye collection - Vanity Fair. I sponged the edges of each piece of paper with Old Paper ink. 

Stamps: Birthday Surprise (Verve)
Ink: Early Espresso (Stampin Up)
Cardstock: Very Vanilla (Stampin Up)
Papers: Vanity Fair (My Minds Eye)
Accessories:  Prima flower, We are Memory Keepers floss, Foof-A-La Button, Tim Holtz edge distressor

TCP Tuesday 214

Hi There! This is my card for the TCP Tuesday Challenge #214. The theme is "You Blow Me Away". And the idea is to use any stamp that could be "taken by the wind" or that you could blow on (including candles!), together with either the Cloud Border or Pinwheel die. I absolutely loooove the bunny stamps from TCP. I know I've mentioned that before, but you might say I'm a little obsessed! Lol! After making my first card with them a little while back, I can definitly say I'll be making MANY more! For this card though, I used the balloon from the Away We Go stamp set, with the Cloud Border die. I still had the "On The Bright Side One" papers out from an earlier card so used them for the balloon and scallop border. I stitched over the clouds, but faux stitched around the border, and coloured the bunny with copics.  
Stamps: Away We Go (The Cat's Pajamas), Hope Blooms (Verve)
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Copics
Cardstock: Very Vanilla and Baja Breeze (Stampin Up), Neenah Solar White 
Papers: On The Bright Side One (My Minds Eye)
Accessories: Cloud Border and Circus Border (TCP), large scallop border (MFT Dienamics), Foof-A-La Bag O Buttons buttons, Stampin up twine and ribbon, Spellbinders circle and scallop circle, white gel pen, sewing machine

Cupcake Diva

I just love this stamp. It's ADDYtude is a Cupcake Diva, from Stamping Bella. I have a few friends who love cupcakes, and make them all the time, and thought this would be a fun image for their birthday cards. The sketch is for Viva La Verve June Week 1.

Stamps: ADDYtude is a Cupcake Diva (Stamping Bella)
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Early Espresso (Stampin Up), Copics
Cardstock: Early Espresso (Stampin Up), Neenah Solar White
Papers: Blush (My Mind's Eye)
Accessories: Stampin Up ribbon, oval punch and scallop oval punch, Bag O Buttons Buttons, Spellbinders oval and scallop oval

Thanks a Bunch

I'm so excited! I won my first Mojo Monday contest! I love Verve stamps, and am very grateful I get to choose a stamp set for free now! In light of that, I wanted to make a thankyou card using some Verve products. The sketch is an old Verve sketch too! The sentiment is from their Joyful Blooms stamp set, and the leaf die is their Elegant Leaves Die (On Sale now over at Verve).

Stamps: Joyful Blooms (Verve)
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black
Cardstock: Whisper White (Stampin Up)
Papers: On The Bright Side One (My Minds Eye)
Accessories: Verve leaf die, Kaisercraft pearls, Stampin Up ribbon, Prima Flowers, Spellbinders circle and scallop circle 

Flourishes 10 Minute Creations Challenge

Flourishes are just about to release a new Blossoms Collection of stamps. They all look so amazing, and I can't wait to try them out! To try and win them though, I thought I'd enter their 10 minute creations challenge. My cards NEVER take me 10 minutes. Usually and hour! So I wanted to enter this challenge just to see if I could do it! And I can't believe I did! I just bought a new Kaisercraft paper pad and wanted to use a page from that! I embossed a Spellbinders heart and sponged the edges with Pink Pirouette ink. The flower is  from the same paper and is 3 scrunched layers of the Stampin Up scallop circle punch and 1 of the boho blossoms punch flowers. I stamped the sentiment from the Flourishes Botannical Bookplates stamp set, and raised the left side with some dimensionals to create a wave.

Stamps: Botannical Bookplates (Flourishes)

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Pink Pirouette (Stampin Up0

Cardstock: Whisper White, Always Artichoke (Stampin Up)

Papers: Sweet Nothings (Kaisercraft)

Accessories: Stampin up scallop circle and boho blossoms punches, Stampin Up white brad, Spellbinders heart, Cuttlebug embossing folder, dimensionals

It's Only Fitting

Hi there! This is my card for the Mojo Monday 244 sketch callenge. If you're visiting from the Mojo Monday blog, thanks for taking the time to click on my link to have a loook. I was rushing and clicked the wrong button so it only showed up as the linky tool icon. Woops! Anyhow, back to the sketch! I'm pretty pleased I was able to stick almost exactly to the sketch! I coloured the image with copic markers, and thought it deserved some pretty and girlie papers to match. My sewing machine is fixed, and I was able to sew around the yellow background, and also the smaller square (not sure how well you can see it in the photo). I painted the edges of the flower with white acrylic paint and adhered it over some white twine.

Stamps: Feminine Charm (Flourishes)

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Copics,

Cardstock: Whisper White (Stampin up), Neenah Solar White

Papers: Howdy Doody (My Mind's Eye)

Accessories: Prima flower, We are Memory Keepers twine, white acrylic paint, Martha Stewart border punch, Spellbinders circle and scallop circle, sewing machine

Go For The Icing!

I am completely in love with these bunny stamps from The Cat's Pajamas! They are so easy to colour, and look great on cards! I thought I'd do this in "boy" colours, because I always need more boy birthday cards in my stash! I also made this for the Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes challenge, which was to use twine.

Stamps: Forget About the Cake (The Cat's Pajamas)

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Copics

Cardstock: Whisper White (Stampin Up), Neenah Solar White

Papers: Happy Days (Echo Park)

Accessories: Bag O buttons white buttons, We are Memory Keepers twine, Cuttlebug embossing folder, My Favourite Things pennant die

Celebrate Today

I needed a break form pinks and blues so decided to go back to my Sunshine papers from My Mind's Eye for inspiration. And this is what I came up with! The stamp is Cupcakeabella from Stamping Bella. I wanted to keep the colours neutral, and coloured the image with copic markers. I coloured her shoes and went over her hair with a black marker. Yep, my sewing machine is still jammed, hence the black faux stitching! Behind the main image is a label die from Spellbinders.

Stamps: Cupcakeabella (Stamping Bella), Joyful Blooms (Verve)

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Copics

Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Basic Black (Stampin Up), Neenah Solar White

Papers: Sunshine (My Mind's Eye)

Accessories: Bag O Buttons black buttons, We are Memory Keepers black twine, corner chomper, Prima flower, Stampin up oval punches and scallop edge punch, Spellbinders label, Black Stampin Up marker

Don't Mind Me - Take 2

I needed a birthday card for a girl I coach (tennis), and decided to make one the same as the one I showed you two blog posts ago. I think I like this one better! Unfortunately, my sewing machine had a terrible jam that day, and I couldn't sew around the grey panels, so I had to faux stitch with a white gel pen, but I think it still looks great.

Stamps: A girl and her cake (The cat's Pajamas)

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Copics

Cardstock: Rose Red, Whisper White, Basic Grey, Pink Pirouette (Stampin Up), Neenah Solar White

Papers: Blush (My Mind's Eye)

Accessories:  CThe Cat's Pjamas flower die, We are Memory Keepers twine, Bag O Buttons pink button, Spotlight (store) lace, The Cat's Pajamas cloud die, Cuttlebug embossing folder, white gel pen