Time for Graffiti at Cards4Men (video)!
One of my all time faves when it comes to masculine cards is the Graffiti technique. It may be because I get to make a real mess and join up heaps of different stamps sets (which I love to do).…
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Time for a new Challenge at Scrapbook Boutique Bloghop & Giveaway!
Welcome back, it’s time for the new challenge at Scrapbook Boutique, that means it’s also time for a blog hop… so of course more wonderful prizes to be won! You should have arrived here from Narelle’s blog as Sue is…
It’s a Watercolour Birthday challenge over at Mama Elephant and Me!
It’s time for the new challenge at Mama Elephant and Me! This month it’s a ‘Watercolour Birthday’ and to me that just screamed flowers, so instead I decided it was time to ink up this fab ferris wheel! We would LOVE…
Time to challenge… Marion!
My very wonderful blog friend Marion suggested when I met her last year that we should do a ‘little challenge’, what a fantastic idea I said. Well that was June last year and life kinda got in the way…. …
Enjoy the challenge at Mama Elephant and Me!
I’m so excited today as I’m sharing my first card as part of the Mama Elephant and ME Challenge design team! Will you take a look at this inspiration photo, I had sooo many ideas and finally settled for…
Hello Baby!
Sadly I missed last month’s sketch with Lisa, what with an overseas holiday, then visitors and both our computers were in the hospital so I couldn’t even edit a photo… gasp! Now I’m back on track and had a few…
Graffiti at Muse!
This week for Muse I wanted to share a card I made for a guy who was leaving at work (for some reason I’m the designated creator of cards for all occasions at work… which I’m sure may ring true to many of you…
Lovely Mums!
It’s Mother’s Day today in Australia and the weather here is perfect! I was lucky enough to have this card published this year for the Mother’s Day feature with the Australian Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft magazine. This set from ME…
Out of the Box!
Definitely out of the box for me, I felt like making an unexpected card for one of my close friends who turned 40. Not my best photos…. but I’m sure you get the idea, ps her 5 year old…
Shine Bright Pandamonium!
Having heaps of fun here with Lisa’s Wanna Sketch and of course Mama Elephant’s challenge aaannnd it’s time for Anything Goes at Simon Says so you can count me in there too! I decided to film as I was creating…
Balloon layered die cut numbers (video)!
Hiya, back today with another video, I can’t help myself I just keep wanting to layer die cuts, it’s honestly one of my fave techniques at the moment! So I made two versions of the same card, hope you like…
Graffiti Pandamonium!
I was so excited when my new stamps arrived from Mama Elephant that when my hubby asked me to create a 21st card from a group of workmates that I just had to ink them up for the current Challenge! …and ever…
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…
Garden of Life!
So I was swimming my laps this morning and thinking about making cards (of course) and was trying to think of an idea how to use the fab inspiration from Mama Elephants current challenge. Then I thought of my Mother’s…
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…
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…
Happiness is faux letterpress!
Back with another installment for the Online Clean & Simple class and this time the technique is faux letterpress… so I thought it really should be elegant so out came the damask. It’s been an eon since I’ve used this…
Spread Happiness with some Challenges (video)!
I just had to make a card for fun so I thought I might as well film as I go. I combined two fab challenges Lisa’s Wanna Sketch and CAS-ual Fridays ‘So Long’ farewell card and here is the finished…
It’s a Mama Elephant baby shower (video)!
I wanted some flat bottomed clouds and dang nab it, I was going to have them….. so I’ve got a technique video to share with you today on how to partial die cut, it’s such a great way to…
It’s a Good Day!
Making cards for fun! I haven’t had the opportunity to do this in what feels like eons, life has been uber busy at the moment and no hope of settling down for a few more weeks yet. But I couldn’t…