A few minutes peace this afternoon and I've put together a Christmas card using this weeks theme from Darnells IDEAS prompt... E = Embossing Folders.... and haven't we all got a stash of them. This square frame embossed panel is using one of those 'never before used stash' items for the NBUS challenge #74. I double embossed this gorgeous ornament a friend gifted me - it embosses and die cuts at the same time --- then I gold embossed the raised areas --- and hung it from some die cut pine sprigs and finished off with a stamped gold embossed sentiment.
It's nice to be adding a card to my Christmas stash too. Thanks for stopping by my blog, have a wonderful day, Cheers RobynWednesday, 21 May 2025
Saturday, 17 May 2025
Butterfly Birthday
I decided on a monochromatic theme to match this gorgeous metallic butterfly a friend sent me... then I'd been playing around with some very old forgotten lovely shaped dies and this frame came in handy.... I then added some more interest with a die cut edge concealed behind the front and finished off with a die cut sentiment.
Thanks for stopping by my blog..... hope you have a wonderful weekend -- just enjoy life,
Cheers Robyn
Sunday, 11 May 2025
Big Hello.... to all my friends
Waaayyy late this week with my post for
Darnell's IDEAS prompt - first week on the month at it's I = INKS/Colour Mediums
Thanks for stopping by my blog - and if your mojo is weak, pop over to Darnells blog for some inspiration.... have a great week, cheers Robyn
Friday, 2 May 2025
April Card Chain Challenge Reveal
Wednesday, 30 April 2025
A Little Christmas Wish
A quick card from me this morning as we're packing the caravan so we can head off this afternoon for some R & R....
I decided on a Christmas card using lots of bits from my stash and so I could join in with the
Rudolph Days Christmas challenge for April
and I used the Sketch from Just Add Ink challenge #748
Wednesday, 23 April 2025
More Bauble Christmas cards
My brain sure does come up with some "interesting" ideas at times ---
Group of Seven Cardmakers product theme this month is Embossing Paste and I enjoyed the effects with my first purple card, so I came up with the idea to add some patterned texture to my latest fad with Christmas Baubles.I mixed up some Impasto Medium with Gold Pearl Powdered Pigment and searched through my stencils to find some swirly patterns. Then using a mask I added the paste to my dry watercoloured baubles.
Tuesday, 22 April 2025
Thinking of You
Today I'm sharing a double embossed card.... dry embossed and heat embossed
As it is week 3 of Darnells IDEAS prompt - E = Embossing
Thanks so much for stopping by my blog, have a wonderful day, Cheers Robyn
Tuesday, 15 April 2025
Some swirling around....
I made my first floral card with the technique from Just Add Ink challenge #746 - Just Add Swirls...
using a stencil to blend yellow and green Distress Inks on a strip of white card... teamed this with some matching gold card with a thin strip of green
and finished off with a watercoloured die cut flower and stamped sentiment
Thanks for stopping by my blog, have a Wonderful Easter -- wishing you Peace and Enjoy some family time, Cheers Robyn
Monday, 14 April 2025
Poinsettias for Christmas
Make two while you're at it... so I did.... die cut two Poinsettia flowers and watercoloured them with Twinkling H2Os and cut the leaves from matt metallic card. Teamed the flowers up with a floral patterned paper and then out came those very Neglected Tag Dies (you know the ones we just had to have back in the early days and then you've hardly every used them) and stamped and embossed on the sentiments.
I'm joining the challenge at Christmas Kickstart challenge #97 - Positively Poinsettias
Wednesday, 9 April 2025
Floral birthday
Hi and thanks for stopping by my blog....
Today I'm joining the challenge at Just Add Ink #745 - with a colour palette theme. Stamped my image and watercoloured with Distress Inks - Picked raspberry, Cracked Pistachio, Tumbled glass. Die cut a window into my grey card base and positioned the fussy cut image between the white background and grey card and finished with a stamped sentiment.
I'm also joining Darnell and her IDEAS prompt - week 1 ... I = Inks
Cheers Robyn
Thursday, 3 April 2025
A coupla Birthday cards.....
Bit late getting to create at my desk this week, as the rain has eased off and even today we have mostly blue skies, so I've been spending some time in the garden - it's so sodden and the weeds are growing faster than my plants... never mind, it's life and I'm thankful we don't live further west where there are devasting floods.
But I've made two cards today... this first one is for the Just Add Ink challenge #744 - the two I've chosen are flowers and shimmer. I die cut the flower and water coloured it with my Twinkling H2Os and add a couple of die cut leaves from matt shimmer card and then the sentiment cut from silvery holographic card... I also gave the background patterned paper a spritz with Mister Huey's Shine mist.
Thanks for stopping by my blog, have a wonderful day, Cheers Robyn
Wednesday, 2 April 2025
Card Chain Challenge March Reveal
I managed to use the sketch - sort of, also the colours - black, white and red. I used the friendship theme 'Hello' and the background paper suggest Africa and stripes of a zebra. Then the use of felt for my bird to stand on and the bird was actually stamped a number of times and fussy cut so I could layer them for his wings and boots.
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
Birds and Baubles
Some fun on my desk this week with BIRDS being the theme at a number of challenges and as my friend recently lent me her quirky bird stamps (Ranger Dylusions) I just had to use them...
Darnells IDEAS prompt this week is A = Anything Goes
Triple B March challenge - have a lovely mood board in Greens for their Birds, Blooms & Butterflies
Just Us Girls challenge #767 - have a Green/White and butterflies theme
Double D challenge - is also Birds
Stamped and silver embossed my two birds and fussy cut them out, then watercoloured with my Twinkling H2Os... still on my desk from last week... I made up extra wings so I could attach them with double sided foam tape. On my first card I embossed a piece of patterned paper and them lightly added green distress ink on the raised area and finished off this card with a die cut butterfly and sentiment.
Well with the very wet, rainy weather we're having (so far over 2600 mm this year - that's 3 months - so we've broken all sorts of rain records) and lots of time inside, I've also managed to finish a crocheted lap-rug, made with squares joined together and a fancy border to finish
Thanks for stopping by my blog, have a wonderful day, Cheers Robyn