Category Birthday

Best Day Ever at Muse!

Back with another card for Muse today and I’ve been playing with stencils…    again, creating my own ombre background with different shades of Distress Inks.  And can you see that I have yet another set of wood veneer shapes…

Shine Bright!

Back with some more Textural Effects and this time it ‘s embossing paste.  I do love the look of the Inka Gold used as an embossing paste although I found that I had to add a little water as it was…

Big Birthday Wishes!

Today I started working on Textural Effects and thought I would try out Dry Embossing first, what a great one layer twist on this technique and even better I get to use some of those embossing folders that have been…

Birthday Challenge Giveaway (video)!

Exciting news, there is a birthday challenge giveaway this week at Purple Onion Designs Blog so head on over there for all the deets, there are two prize packages  to WIN! For my birthday card  I have coloured with  Prismacolor pencils onto coloured…

Having some Graffiti fun!

Back in class again and now I have a Graffiti card for Backgrounds into the Foreground, I just love this technique and think it’s particularly good for those wonderfully challenging masculine designs. Not my best card but this class is…

Smiling!

Today I’m focusing on Creative Coloring and using Tasnim’s fab technique of tracing images.  So out came my Hero Arts background stamp and I dug around and eventually found a gold gel pen, what fun! I’d like to share this…

A Surprise Hop!

SShhh, today we have a big surprise, we are celebrating a belated birthday hop for the gorgeous Anita, Oh, that’s right I can tell you now the secret’s out! Hope you had the happiest of birthday’s Anita, it’s been so…

Masked Backgrounds

Back with some more homework for the Online Card Class and today it’s Masked backgrounds, and I wanted mine bright and cheery…   so it is. Gotta head off to work now and my brother arrives today, yipppeee! Other Supplies:…

It’s an Optical Illusion!

Well class is still on and now it’s Optical Illusions and today I thought I would start with Scenic Stamping.  I promise I really did try and make it ‘more water coloury’ but it just wasn’t going to happen, I…

Masculine runway…..

This gorgeous challenge at Runway screamed elegance to me, so go figure why I decided to make a masculine birthday design, might have something to do with the fact that it’s my hubby’s birthday today and also that I came…

Have a Great Day at Muse!

Who would’ve thought wood could be so much fun, today I decided that maybe I could colour with my Copics onto sticky barc and it worked a treat! Here is my card for this weeks Muse I can’t wait to see how…

Have a Lovely Day (video)!

Hello there, well my mojo’s been suffering lately and it might have something to do with the fact that we haven’t stopped since the year began…   and on top of everything now I’ve got a cold, yuck…   Anyhoo,…

Inspired by Harper

It’s hard not to be inspired by someone as amazing as Charley Harper, his style and colour combinations are incredible and I just had to make my very own ‘Harper’ esque bird.  My card had to be CAS as I…