Clean and simple

A really quick and simple card using "watercolour wonder crayons" with my free Sale-a-bration set "Sweet summer". I'm not much of a glittery girl but I love the look of the glittery flowers!

To create the background scribble your crayon lightly on watercolour paper and wash with an aqua painter. Blot with paper towel and dry using your heat tool.

Stamp stems and flowers in staz on and slightly colour your flowers, leaving white areas to blend and soften your colour (you can always add more colour after it dries if desired).

The glitter can be done in one of two ways. You can either use dimensional magic and then sprinkle with dazzling diamonds and tap off excess (easiest) OR colour with a versamarker, and heat n stick powder-heat (being careful not to over heat) and then add dazzling diamonds-then heat slightly. Which ever way you do it it will look beautiful :)

vintage floral

I just love how both of these turned out, particularly the first one and oh so easy!

I stamped the Inspired by Nature stamp in Pear Pizazz, wiping off the flowers and inking the tops with Peach Parfait. Then folded/cut the flowers and adhered them just under the flower head. You could use punch flowers if you like. Ran it through my big shot in the vintage wallpaper folder and distressed the edges and Voila!

The second card was inspired by Andrea Walford's(-so talented) watercoloured flower, you can see her's here.

Happy Crafting!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I hope you all have a safe and wonderful new year!

I'm loving this new Love letter DSP!

Su products: Notably ornate and Artistic etchings Stamp set.

Love letter DSP and very vanilla CS

Blushing bride and riding hood red inkpads

Lots of tags sizzlits

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!