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Thinking of You

I want to know which gene it is that makes men think they are invincible!  Today I had the perfect (card making) day planned….  basically catch up on everything that I am currently behind on.  Anyway that was hijacked by…

Merry Christmas… well, not quite yet!

I  feel like I’m ‘back in the swing’ I can finally find time to make some challenge cards!    Here is the card I made for the current inpsiration at Jay Gees and I combined it with the CAS-ual Fridays Mini Card challenge.   It’s not my…

Joy – Wreath ***

This is one of my favorite Xmas stamps, and I just love the idea of purple and white for a Xmas card!  These cards were also published in the September edition of the Australian Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft magazine.   The aim was to create two…

Christmas Snowflakes

I just thought I would share one of my recent publications in the Australian Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft magazine.  You couldn’t believe the amount of glitter I had everywhere…  but isn’t that half the fun!  LOVE these chipboard snowflakes from…

You Make me Smile

I have made it!  The last challenge for the birthday celebrations at AnnaBelle Stamps…  I just couldn’t resist!   This time the challenge was to make a card with 2 of something starting with ‘B’.  So for me it was 2 bling and 2 butterflies, 2…

Thinking of you

So the second birthday challenge for AnnaBelle Stamps is simply ‘Blooms’.  This is super easy but as I don’t have any of their stamps (yet…) for some reason I just had to use my Stampendous Ranunculus, one of my fave for blooms.   Watch…

Peace Love Joy

So it’s time to start making those Xmas cards….  I feel like I’m behind before I even start!  Anyhoo, I wanted to join the birthday challenges at AnnaBelle Stamps, but haven’t had a chance until now as I’ve been away on holidays.  The…

Father’s Day

I just want to write a little hello & thank you to my Dad, he is one of the most wonderful people I know!  He has always been there for me and over the years I would have been totally lost without him.  Would you believe…

Stuck on You!

I haven’t used stickers for years and now I’m making another card using these wonderful images from Penny Black from the deep dark depths of my stash!  Thank you CAS-ual Fridays for helping me to remember there are so many…

Girly & Gutsy Trigger!

Seems to be my favourite trick at the moment, leaving things til the last minute.  Here I go again….    I was inpsired by this weeks Girly & Gutsy Tuesday Trigger by the name, I couldn’t help but join a challenge…

Special Day

So here is another double challenge, are you ready for it!!  It definitely had to be purple so that I could join Jay Gee’s purple inspiration and what better purple than a shiny embossed one!  So that brings me to the second challenge…  …

Hay There!

These Lawn Fawn stamps are just too cute, I just love those wonderful  puns!  I am also a sucker for a one layer challenge and couldn’t miss out on this weeks Lawnscaping Challenge, so out came the masking paper and Copics! …

True Friend

How could I resist this weeks CASE Study where the challenge is to CASE one of Iwona’s cards!  They have been celebrating all month, Happy Anniversary CASE!   Honestly Iwona’s cards are so AMAZING it was hard to choose just one!   So as I was scrolling…

Just Saying Hello!

So I’ve been playing with my new JUMBO stamp again for the Scrapbook Boutique Blog (visit here for the tutorial).   This time I went for a tone on tone effect but to add a little more depth I did do some shading with Copics.  And there…

Monochrome Thanks

I have made this card in approximately 10 minutes which would have to be a ‘world‘ record for me!  I desperately wanted to join the Less Is More Challenge this week as I suffer with ink phobia (I’m a real…

Poppies

How soothing is it to be sitting here colouring and listening to Ministry of Sound Chillout…  life is perfect!  And guess what, I actually should be making another card (for an order, no worries… it’ll happen).  But how could I resist…

Inspired Just Because!

What a fabulous anniversary week at CASE Study the challenge is to case one of the designers!  The only problem is that I am inspired by soooo many designers it was very difficult just to pick one!   Eventually I chose this amazing…

Sending Hugs!

Here is my entry for the current Tueday Trigger : Luminos Layers!  What a fabulous inspiration from Cath this week.  I thought that I would incorporate all those wonderful patterns and colours and the ‘flowing layers’ kinda reminded me of butterflies, so…

Colours of the flag!

So this is when I really wished I lived somewhere with more exotic colours in the flag, but for me it’s good old red white & blue in Australia.  These colours are quite difficult for me, so I thought that…