Hello all

Hello all.

I’ve been a bit under the weather lately…. a cold but still creating….

This is the outside of my card….

And the inside of my card….

This is my take on a pop up card by stampin up. No I have not bought the die from stampin up.

****Shhhh**** I recreated the pieces, from the orginal die cut picture, cut them out by hand and constructed the “cake”
sorry but I cannot post the file here on my blog as I’ll get into trouble with Stampin up. Even though I will be giving it away- it will not be fully ethical to do that – aye. Even though the Prima lolliepop flowers are all over the internet on how to make them. Agggghhhh Not sure what to do so I won’t post it up. If in dought don’t do it -right.

Anyway here is a layout I did the other day for a challenge at Bad Girls.
They are doing bleuprint challenges every week. This week is going off a sketch and a collage of photos to do with old rusty gates and fences. Very inspiring!

The flower/swirl is actually wood Kaiser craft embellishment. I made it look like rusty metal by painting it and sprinkling clear glitter over it and then adding JudiKins diamond glaze over it in spots. Quite effective.

This is my no angle layout for the challenge over at If Its Groovy

The cardstock is hand painted/stamped by me. The fairy is cut out from 1970’s kids story book. The vine is from a second hand store for next to nothing in a hug bunch of other fake flowers. I just sprinkled it with glitter glue. The lace is from an old top. I also added some Tattered Angels butterfly and birds. The swirl is from Kaiser craft wood piece. I filled the heart with glitter glue and JudiKins diamond glaze.

I had heaps of fun experimenting on that layout!

Well got to go I hope I’ve given you some inspiration. Take care.

Stamping Tutorial

I really wanted a fance vase stamp and had none! I couldn’t believe it – only a plain boring vase stamp…. but then started thinking….

Maybe from this stamp set I could make a vase:

This is the result:

Kimberly Poloson green cardstock
Ink by Steph clear stamps
Fiskars XL scallop circle squeeze punch

And made a video for you too:

I hope you have heaps of fun. Take care till next time.

Baby shower gift and tag

I was contacted online about a friends baby shower….. 2 days before the actual event.
Oooops should have known it was going to come up but I hadn’t got anything…..

Lucky I have some fabric scraps so got to work…..
and made my first fabric doll in years.

and the top of the head

If you want the pattern for this doll go to: Judi’s dolls

I did the hair and body different from the original pattern by Judi but it is generally the same thing.

Now for the gift tag:

I used the distress technique in the background and stamped ontop of it…. And guess what? It fits right into Tuesday taggers challenge for this week!. Groovy aye. Hurry ends Tuesday. click here to go to Tuesday Taggers.

Now the doll took me 6 hours from start to finish (not including the time on the net looking for a simple dolls pattern) and the tag took about 30 min. Not bad for a last min pressie. I also put the doll into a cane basket and put into it some scrap goodies too. All of which I had lying around the house unused. groovy aye.

see you later!

Dresses and Celery

Oh I was wondering trough You-tube as you do and found a great video showing people how to use Celery for stamping background papers.

If you’d love to see this video go to:  Balzar Designs

And she has there another great video on how to do a wedding dress embellishment. I down loaded it and experimented with the file. I ended up making a few extra templates. With her permission I can post it up here…
DressesTempate

Now I also painted up a glass to make it into a tea-light candle holder on Tuesday night. It was art group. The art group gets together once a month and we all talk, do an activity, pray, have show and tell.

Pictures?
here you go….

here are some close ups:

This card used the original dress template. I did something similar but made it into a ball dress instead of a wedding dress.
Cardstock is from Midnight Kisses – Heidi Grace range.
lace from an old top my next door neighbor gave me.
heidi Grace ribbon.
pink glitter.
I had printed the dress on sticky back paper and used the sticky side for adhering on the lace and glitter.

This is my dress template now – the original I traced.
This is also printed onto sticky back paper but have stamped on the non sticky side with my Kaiser Craft stamp.
Outlined the stamp with my daughters smelly gel pens. and added ribbon.
Cardstock and sticker by Kimberly Polosen – Natures flora range

This is my celery stamped paper. I used red and gold paint by Atelier.
3D sticker and cardstock by Heidi grace – midnight kisses

This is my tea light candle holder. considering it was free hand and my first time painting with glass paint I did well – lol!
I did the red runs on purpose…. truly I did! No really!

Ok so have a great day and enjoy yourself.
don’t forget to get crafty

Greeting Card Tutorial

Here’s a commercial card remake.

So fun using this little fellow
heres the link on where to find him: http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1441/free-kid-coloring-page/ (I printed the picture out as a small one for this card)

Here is the video on how to make this card:

have fun!

Awesome RAK alert!

Oh man! I saw this and its awesome get into the draw for these goodies!

heres the link or click on the picture

goodluck!!

Scrapbook page show

I’m doing some scrapbook pages…. I know! shocking aye!

First for the hybrid layout:

I printed out the black circles/dots mask onto Prima paper for the Next Step Challenge. (the Hybrid part)

The whole layout is done from the sketch at Friday sketchers

Now for the cards


these are thank you cards for my daughters friends that gave her pressies

Now for all the digital I’ve been doing:

The above was done with Microsoft word 2007 and photoshop limited edition 5.0

The below is done with Gimp: so much better to use!

Most digi papers and elements were done with kits from Digi Chicks.

and now a” real” layout using iris folding and my own hand made lollie pop flowers

No I’m not quite sold out to digital – just yet. lol
Just experimenting.

well got to go have fun!

Fiskars blog post catch up

Hi everyone….
Here is how busy I’ve been on Fiskars Craft blog:

Been Appliqueing with Fiskars – Donna Dewburry endorsed tools


See tutorial here

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Tag shaped card:

click here for the entry

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Finished off the tutorials for the fabric Album.

click on image to get a larger view.
Click here to go to tutorial

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Circles Heart card:

click here to see the entry

Well there you are you have a Fiskars Craft blog catchup. Check out that blog for other awesome projects from the team.

have a great weekend!

Rest in peace Micheal Jackson and Farrah Fawcett?

Rest in peace Micheal Jackson?
I hear yes he has then it isn’t confirmed but found this website on the net that has been following the events….
http://www.tmz.com/

Also there are reports that Actress Farrah Fawcett  is Dead at 62

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529080,00.html

I hope that both were saved and had accepted Jesus as their personal saviour before they died.

Next Level challenge

Over at the

in issue 4 they have 2 tutorials that are worth looking at….

here is the result from my entry to their challenge and the tutorials. Awesome stuff!!!

A standing pop-up card:

I used my own hand carved stamp (from lino) to make the patterned cardstock fo the base of the card. then used Heidi Grace – love bug range for the rest of the card.

I had heaps of fun doing this one. I might try out the step card when I have a chance. Getting rather busy these days with my over active little boy while my daughter is at school.