Birthday Wishes

I'm just so happy how this card came together - I used the February sketch #27 at Stamplorations for my layout.  As I selected the designer paper strip to use, the idea to stamp a rose and use the colours of the flower on the panel came to me and that lead to the antique colours - darker shades I would not usually tackle. I used a torn page - something else I find hard to do - destroy a book. I coloured the IBS Rose with Distress Inks, mounted it on dark brown which I cut with deckle scissors and stamped the sentiment in brown. I used a narrow band of butterflies to finish the card. Thanks for taking a peek Robyn

 

Happy Mothers' Day

Another Mothers' Day card this afternoon for my stash to the Aussie troops.
I enjoyed using this technique (easy triple time stamping) last week so had another go today, Stamped the green swirls and then the roses in two shades of pink over the two panels and mounted them both of pink panels. Stamped and fussy cut one rose and stamped the sentiment on a fancy die cut label and attached with 3D foam tape. Using my rose stamp and pink colours I'm posting to the Inkspirational challenge #75. Thanks for taking a peek Robyn

Happy Mothers' Day

Today I've made another Mothers' Day card for the Aussie troops. I decided to have a go at watercolouring with my markers as Joanna demonstrated in her tutorial over at Inspired by Stamping.

I stamped the floral from the IBS Spring Bouquet set with Versamark and embossed with white embossing powder, then followed along with the tute even flicking a few ink drops on the completed panel, I finished the card with a stamped sentiment. Thanks for taking a peek Robyn

WHW 152–WATERCOLORING WITH TOMBOW MARKERS 101

Our Beautiful World

Week 83 at Our Beautiful World 

This weeks photo prompt is from Manuela

COLORFUL

Recently we say a collection of old and reconditioned vehicles.

And this one caught my eye immediately 

 I don't even know what type of truck this is but it was beautifully restored and proudly displayed.

And of course this red one is a stand out too, bright cheerful red and an Aussie made Holden

 And here's a couple more that caught my eye

All lovely and shiny and cared for by enthusiast owners.

Thanks for checking out my Colourful photos

Now pop back to the Our Beautiful World blog and check out the other team members photos.

Kirsty - Handmade Little Things

Ros - Mikey's Mom

Manuela - Elasdistrict

Follow your heart

Hi there today, I'm enjoying a quiet skyping session with my stamping friend Vikki and we're making Tim's Tags 12 tags for 2015 - February.

I've followed his guidelines as best I can, having to be a bit innovative with my arrow and frame but I'm quite happy with the tag and my take on it.

Thanks for taking a peek Robyn

Friday Smiles 105

This sure got a smile from me during the week on fb  ---- if only.

All good at our 'place' this week, got a reprieve in the hot weather with some lovely overcast days and breezes with the odd shower, definitely makes life easier. 

AND my hubby is home for two whole weeks - no working away with overnight stops...yippee!!!

So what has put a grin on your face this week, or made your heart beat quicker, or a hearty laugh out loud...come and share on Annies blog and see what others have to feel good about. 

Thanks for popping over Robyn

i Love U

A lovely cooler day to be creating at my desk today....I have made this card for the House Mouse and Friends HMFMC187 challenge - Love is in the Air, House of Cards - Love challenge, and The Paper Players #230 - Critter-tine.  I water coloured my furry friends image with Distress Inks and framed and layered it onto a white square card. I finished off with the sentiments stamped on small die cut hearts and a length of ribbon. Thanks for taking a peek Robyn

LOVE is in the Air for Challenge HMFMC187

What's On Your Workdesk, Wednesday?

WOYWW #296 and the first for February.

Here's my desk first thing this morning - yesterday I started at making Mothers' Day cards for the Aussie troops - my friend Karen put me on to this FB site and as I have heaps of time I'm going to join in and make a few.  Lucky for me I found two sheets of 12x12 with mothers day sentiments so I've cut them up into lots of usable pieces and have nearly completed 12....so you can see the makings of these cards on my desk today.  On the left next to the laptop I've had a go at making little envelopes out of hearts and will die cut hearts to put in there just got to work out how to display them on a card. And I have a house mouse card on the go - rightside/back.

If you'd like to know more about this craze of displaying our messy creative work  spaces, please pop over to Julias blog....she host this wonderful, sharing, inspiring event....

Thanks for visiting, have a great week Robyn

January ABC Tag/Card challenge

Now how fast did that January month go????

And our first every little Aussie inspiration adventure.

Everyone was busy with their inks and stamps and have created some amazing and creative projects.

You're all fabulous stamping friends, now spread across three states, six cities and believe me I think about you all lots. 

Hope you enjoyed playing along with "A" and "B"..... so lets see what "C" and "D" conjure up.

Lorraine

 Natalie

 Robyn W

 Vikki R

 Vikki W

 Karen

 Robyn

Cheers and happy February

Robyn

Our Beautiful World

Our Beautiful World team member Ros has suggested
SIGNS OF SPRING 
for this weeks #82 theme.

 SPRING reminds me of bulbs back in my mums garden - daffodils and snowdrops, freesias and ranunculus...but living in the tropics the flowers a not the same.

These are some beautiful pink/mauve flowers??? in my sisters garden last weekend -  not technically spring here but they sure were looking lovely in her garden.

These are Amarylis

 and these are Hippeastrums, both in my garden in Townsville

Do you have a favourite spring moment you'd love to share with Our Beautiful World...pop over to the blog and join in and don't forget to visit the team members and other bloggers to see their photos.

Thanks for taking a peek Robyn

Here are the links to the team members

Kirsty - Handmade Little Things

Ros - Mickey's Mom

Manuela - Elasdistrict