Happy Birthday

For my card today I have used the colours at Power Poppy - Hues to Use (ongoing inspiration)... three shades of blue. I used Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink to stamp my image 'off the edge' and also to colour the image.  I added some white highlights with gel pen and then cut and layered the two image panels to create a double fold card.  To finish I stamped and silver embossed my sentiment and added a few scattered gems.  I am also posting to Watercooler Wednesday challenge #WWC136 - All About Birthdays and The Flower Challenge #12 - Tic Tac Toe... I am playing the left vertical - Embossing, Gems, White.   Thanks for taking a peek

  
 

Live all the Days of your Life

Today I have made an Easel Card in the form of a Calendar.

Over at Kaisercraft blog the November challenge #1  is... "time to start your next years calendar/journal/filofax." and at Scor-pal challenge #10 the thene is Family or Thanksgiving... while here in Australia we don't really celebrate Thanksgiving as elaborately as in the US I thought these calendars would be a great 'thank you' gift for family when we stay over during the holidays.

So I have used papers and elements from the Kaisercraft Pickled Pear set, stamped and coloured the floral sprig and fussy cut it and mounted it over a band of hessian and ribbon on the front of the card, then added one of the die cut sentiments from the set which I thought very appropriate for a calendar. Inside I adhered a band of weatherboard paper matching the front and a scalloped edge and then the mini calendar and finished off with a wood flourish and handmade flower - which helps to support the easel as the calendar pages are removed.

I really enjoyed making the card, not difficult at all and will be off to select some more papers and elements for the next one.  Lucky for me I have these great thick card envelopes I have had for a while to use with them.
I am also posting my card to Just Add Ink  #240 where the theme is to ADD Texture.

Thanks for taking a peek Robyn

Just Add Ink # 240 - Just Add Texture!

"More Than One Score" Challenge #10 - Family/Thanksgiving

Estelle's birthday card

 

         

   

Well overnight I've been busy making a special card for a Estelle - a very crafty lovely friend whose birthday is tomorrow
So some thought went into this creation - she loves black and white so I figured to start with a black box and then when you open the lid ouy pops a beautiful splash of colour with the flowers and butterflies. I'm really happy with the result (thank you Monika for you inspiration - check out her lovely work here.
I'm going to post on a new blog challenge site for me - Allsorts challenge - week 194, Things with Wings.
Thanks for taking a peek

Fathers' Day card

 

It's Fathers' Day next weekend and this card needs to be in the mail today... it was a bit tricky making a male card this time as most of my masculine stamps are wood mounted and these I chose not to bring with me because of the storage space problem in our caravan. Anyway I did manage to find this comical one and added my own sentiments. I was planning to make this card with a tapering shape like my friend Vikki but in the end decided I should've cut the shape first so it's just a tri-fold. Thanks for taking a peek...see you again
  

MojoMonday 249

 

Sooooo....I've found some time to make a couple of cards...this one is for our sons birthday next month but as we are on holiday and travelling (a lot) I took this opportunity while staying with friends in Darwin to make his card. Natalie my friend and I have been stamping and making cards for 16-18 years and boy have they come a long way in that time. I based my layout on this weeks MojoMonday #249 and used Natalies embossing folder and car stamp. Thanks for taking a peek ... not sure when I'll be back

   

Hello this late Saturday afternoon....we have a cyclone off the coast so much to our please it has rained on and off for the past day so our high 30deg temps are now low 30s and we're feeling cooool.

Anyway today I've not followed a sketch or challenge plan just made my card from one I'd seen by Becca at Amazing Paper Grace...it was ages ago and I can't find the card but she makes absolutely gorgeous cards...thanks Becca for your inspiration...and thanks for taking a peek

Our Creative Corner - Fancy Folds 2

Morning happy stampers....I just love making cards using different formats...so thanks OCC for this challenge what a coincidence as I was already making this card for my mums birthday - she'll be 81 on 11/11/11 - Happy Birthday Mum. I had started making another card which I'll finish today and post but ended up thinking it was a bit modern and I wanted something more pretty, feminine for mum. And I must thank Becca from Amazing Paper Grace for her tutorial for this pocket card http://www.amazingpapergrace.com/becca-bit-putting-together-pocket-card/  and of course her directions for bow making.

Thanks for taking a peek  ...  
And here's the first card I was putting together....

Our Creative Corner - Fancy Folds

I love this construction card too - I suppose you would call it a pull tag easel card...... :)   I must say I did have this card made but couldn't resist posting it on my blog...I have a plan to make another incorporating this weeks MojoMonday design.