Have A Lovely Day

  Here again on this sunny Saturday making cards and skyping with my friend Vikki.  This week I've been working on a couple of cards for the Inspiration Challenge over at Inspired by Stamping...I'm in love with the lovely colours of the #63 challenge and am so happy with how my card turned out....I stamped the background paper with various stamps that have not seen ink for a while and the hydrangea flower was stamped on textured card so came out a bit 'shabby'...I even used only part of a sentiment stamp (Inspired by Stamping - Birthday Greetings) that could be appropriate for a number of occasions.  Thanks for taking a peek

Sending you Birthday Wishes

WHW #114–How to Prep Your Brand New IBS Stamp Sets

My card today is for the Inspired by stamping Inspiration Challenge #61 - I really like these fresh colour and the serene pic, and also as I am using Inspired by Stamping items - the sentiment is from the Cupcake Wishes set and the Label is from the Fancy Labels Dies 2 set so I'm my card to their Whoo Hoo Wednesday #114 challenge - this was a very handy video and I'll be busy rubbing and washing my new stamps, thank you Joanne.

When I run my dies through the Cuttlebug I layer a sheet of waxed paper between the die and the cardstock and then when you peel off the die you have the die and also a silhouette - I'be been having fun recently creating backgrounds by sponging over these silhouettes.  An easy and effective background so I'll be saving more of my wax papers.  Thanks for taking a peek

What's On Your Workdesk, Wednesday #220?

Hello fellow WOYWW wanders.....and here's my desk this fine Wednesday morning....if you're wondering what we're on about please check over at Julia's blog (here) and she'll explain so you can join in with this wonderful wacky group of people from all over who share their Wednesdays.

My desk today shows that I'm working on a card using a distress stamping technique for Whoo Hoo Wednesday - so you can see my inks in their trays on the left spilling out of the shelf and in front of them are two new sets of stamps just arrived from Chocolate Baroque in UK, and some sentiment packs I won at Inspired by Stamping from Aust. Then a bird card from my stampin buddy Vikki above my laptop - we've been exchanging cards for two and half years since I moved away from Townsville and we skype most Saturdays encouraging each other when our mojo's are down.  The second pic is my very good friend Janice who has come for a few weeks visit with hubby Tony, she's catching up on her correspondence and I'm trying to encourage her to set up a blog to share her photos....they are soon to return to the UK for a couple of years so we will miss them very much.  Thanks for poppin over to check out my desk, I'll go visit as many as I can now, so cheereo and hope you're having a wonderful Wednesday....

Make today beautiful

WHW Tutorial #113–Distress Stamping

Here's my friends card I've been working on these last couple of days for the Whoo Hoo Wednesday tutorial #113 - Distress Stamping.  I liked the different colour combo at last weeks Shopping Our Stash so tried to tie that in with the grasses background I created with the Distress Stamping technique. My sentiment is from a new set I won from Inspired by Stamping - so happy to have some new words to use.. Hope you're having a great week and thanks for taking a peek

Christmas Mouse Tag Card

Challenge 9 - Winter Animals

House Mouse is a cute favourite of mine so he definitely had to be my image for the Winter Animals Challenge 9 at Sweet Stampin Christmas.  This is my first post with them and I'm sure to be back as I try to build on my Christmas card stack.  Thanks for taking a peek

Let it Snow

JAI #178- Just Add Snowflakes

Another Christmas card and I'm pretty pleased as my stack is growing.  This one is for the Just Add Ink#178 challenge - Snowflakes.  I created the background by using the wax paper negative from when I die cut the snowflakes and used them as stencils, sponging over the wax paper...it's look really effective, much better and softer than the photo.  Hope you're having a super weekend, thanks for taking a peek  

Christmas trimmings

  

Ok, so on to our new challenge...the theme is:P is for....

So friend Vikki and I thought today we should add a card or two to our Christmas pile...so we're playing along with the Merry Monday #70 using their layout and the theme at ABC Christmas Challenge ..."P" is for presents.  Thanks for taking a peek

Smell the Flowers

   OR

One of the following themes:

Flowers  or  Seashells  or  Friends

OR

One of the following products:

Dies or Punches

Well finally I have my card finished for the Card chain challenge at SOS for August.  I tried to stick with the colour theme but toned it down a lot...and flowers are always a favourite for me, I even managed to use a couple of die flourishes.  The background is created by sanding the embossed paper...I'm liking the effect.  Thanks for taking a peek

WOYWW #219

 

Hi there fellow WOYWW lookers... here's my desk today, not too much going on - I'm making a purple shades Christmas card there in the centre of my desk, with my spellbinder case on the left. I have my embossing folders out too on the other desk.
Following I have some pics of the activity over the weekend when our kids were visiting.  Jacalyn and I made a butterfly/heart mobile - so my cuttlebug was busy using up the coloured scraps, I cranked and she stuck three pieces together and then we spaced them over little knots on the ribbons. Then I actually got to finish the quilt- it's different on both sides and then of course we had to finish up with two pillowslips...everyone's happy...The rainbow quilt is still in progress.
If you're new and wondering what this is all about - pop on over to Julia's (here) and she'll explain - it's heaps of fun checking out other crafters desks.

PS   thank you everyone for your encouraging thoughts last week....I tried commenting on as many as I could but that wasn't even half so hopefully I'll visit a few new WOYWW's desk this week. Happy Crafting

Floral Vellum Happy Birthday

  

WHW Tutorial #112–Colored Vellum Flowers

I enjoyed making my Christmas Vellum card for the Inspired by Stamping WHW#112 challenge so here's my second attempt with flowers.  I even left the petals free as they curled slightly when I coloured them. Thanks for taking a peek