Folder fun

Card recipe 1:

Stamp: Welcome christmas

C/S: Peach parfait, riding hood red, pink pirouette, & whisper white

Ink: wild wasabi, basic black, riding hood red & poppy parade

Misc: Old olive grosgrain ribbon, paper snips, glitter glue & snail

Card recipe 2:

Stamp: Snow swirled

C/S: Whisper white, pink pirouette

Ink: Poppy parade, frost white shimmer paint

Misc: Old olive ribbon, sponge dauber, snail and paper snips

I love the colour contrasts on these cards. One the first one I just swiped my inkpad over the folder before embossing, the second one after embossing direct to paper. Deliberately not covering consistently. I inked the tree first then dabbed the stars on the tree with shimmer paint-from the lid ;) before stamping. Doesn't it look pretty.

Decided it was time to start using my stash of ribbon more too..

medallion wreath

Ok. I know I'm biased, but over the past 2 days I have made the best cards. I'm in love with the Vintage wallpaper embossing folder and frost white shimmer paint (as you'll see) -just look what you can do with it and how spectacular it looks.

All I did here was after inking the medallion in wild wasabi was dab ink from the lid of the paint with a sponge dauber all
over the stamp.

card recipe:

Stamps:Medallion, Welcome christmas, Music notes.

Cardstock: Pacific point, Whisper white, Baja breeze.

Ink: Wild wasabi, Tempting turquoise.

Misc: Ribbon, Scorer, Glue dots, Dimensionals, Snail,

Paper snips.

Wheelie simple storage

So I've been looking at storage for my wheels for a while. so wandering around yesterday I looked at a 24 cupcake container or cupcake tree to store them in-which would be great for your desk if you don't have any drawer space left! Then it dawned on me-cake rack! So simple
almost everyone has one. Overlap cake racks for more storage if your drawer is long enough. And you can stack smaller wheels ontop of each other. What do ya think?

Happy 20th Birthday Sarah!

Stamps-Boomin' beautiful, En francais

Paper: Cameo Coral, whisper white

Markers&/or inkpads: Cameo coral, regal rose, real red, certainly celery, mellow moss and basic black

Misc: Glitter, brad, circle punch, sponge dauber, 2 way glue pen, sticky strip, embossing powder

& ribbon originals.

BAD BLOGGER, BAD! I know. Where have I been?

Working my little tail off. But things seem to have calmed down now and have a new found balance between work and home life. Up until recently it was work/eat/sleep with no real time for anything else. So my creative side has been bursting to get out!

The colours for this card seem fitting for today. We went to the oyster festival, and it was sooo hot that I got burnt. Over the course of this evening I have turned a lovely shade of red. And of course I don't tan, I peel which is the worst because it's like having dandruff all over you :( I should've known better!

So it was my friend/colleague's birthday yesterday, and this is what I gave her (along with a hilarious retro quote book which was so good I had to get me one too).Unfortunately she's moving to melbourne shortly, but guess where I might be staying when convention rolls around ;)

So a pretty simple card really. Embossed on cameo coral, sponged the edges and corners. used two colours on the leaves and petals to add shading. Two way glue + glitter makes a big difference. I'm not a glitter girl but it "makes it" Rock n roll the sentiment using cameo coral then regal rose. Oh and the ribbon is so EASY. Sticky strip across the card, then adhere end of ribbon and start folding back as you go across. No stitching required!

Kindred spirits always bloomin with beauty

It felt soo good to have time to stamp today!

So I challenged myself to use a main card base that I wouldn't normally use so much of-

Always Artichoke.

And I wasn't going to buy another floral set, I have so many already. But after seeing soo many beautiful cards with Bloomin with beauty I had to have it. Kindred spirits was one I liked but not enough to get it, until the little light bulb went off! I think it's something to do with the fact they're both being retired. So if there's something your umming about that is retiring have a look to see whats been done with it, you might be pleasantly suprised.

So the background is also stamped in Always Artichoke with En Francais and Kindred spirits.

The flower is stamped on Kraft in Basic black , and coloured with markers (with the petals only having a hint of colour around the edges), and mounted on Soft suede. Although it looks like I've softened the edges with white, I've actually used crystal effects over the entire flower panel which gives it more of an aged look. I was going to do the cracked glass technique, but am quite pleased with the outcome.

Error-I'm sorry!

WOW! It has been a long time is anyone still here? I've been so busy working soo much and taking care of my sick son, I haven't had time to stamp or blog and I've neglected you-sorry! Hopefully I can make up for it now.

Like what you see? I've used the little bot from the "Lot's of Bots" set, watercoloured him and punched him out with the 1&3/4"punch; both from the mini catalogue. I've embossed the background using a piece of tan Urban Oasis DSP. You can see in the bottom corner some of the paper design, but it adds to the effect. Then I've swiped a Silver encore pad then a black pad over the embossed area which is mounted on basic black CS. I love it!

Have you scene sponging like this?

I bought this set just to sponge this! I had this idea in my head as soon as I saw the Pendant Park set. And oh so easy!

Mask off bottom with post it and sponge around a scallop circle in bashful blue for the sky beginning from the top working your way across and down. Mask off the sky and sponge with Kiwi kiss. Create shade under the tree with a sponge dauber with kiwi kiss again.

For the trees dab colour here and there with Kiwi kiss, Wild wasabi, Groovy guava, Riding hood red, and Purely pomegranate. Then use a brown marker to colour the branches. Doesn't it look like autumn trees. Ink the bench in close to cocoa, and a little chocolate chip on the squirels and stamp.
The border was done by diagonally masking off the corners and using my stamp a ma jig for perfect alignment. So proud of myself, rarely do these things turn out as I imagine them!