A little something just for you

I slipped into the craft room this morning to make this card following the Liz Webers' fantastic sketch from The Stamp Spot October challenge (I really should be resting my back rather than leaning over my craft desk!).  I am also submitting it for this weeks challenge at Party Time Tuesdays - anything goes.

and a close up of my vellum butterfly which I coloured using colouring pencils
 
I enjoyed making this card mainly because I loved the colours I used - orange, green and brown.
Materials - Bazzill just peachy cardstock; Fancy Pants 'baby mine' papers; AnnaBelle Stamps 'squared posies', Grant Archival 'grace taylor butterfly' stamp; Stazon timber brown ink; MFT little open scalloped edge; Sizzix traditional tags die; Provocraft flower dies; Kaisercraft small brown brad; Bazzill big brad; Green satin trim.
Thanks for looking.

Always & Forever

At the moment I am suppose to by off cycle touring but unfortunately I have hurt my back and we have had to come back to Melbourne for me to recover, I was completely gutted in having to return home and not completing the journey up to Canberra but I suppose the upside of it is that I get to recover comfortably ... in my craft room off course!
Technically it is not good for me to be sitting down bending over my desk so I decided to pass the time away by making a card which can take me all day as I do a little then get up and move about and go back to it later.  Over the past few days the back has healed tremendously and I can feel my normal movement coming back, so much so that we intend heading off again mid next week but in a different direction.
So this card is following the sketch from Card Patterns #138 and I have drawn inspiration from the challenge over at Scrapbook Boutique - black and white.

a close up
 
materials -  AC black and white cardstock, grey cardstock; Lily Bee 'this & that' papers; Inkadinkadoo 'mehndi border' stamps, Kaisercraft 'wedding' stamps; Versamark watermark stamp pad, Stazon jet black ink; White embossing powder; Heidi Swapp trim, Celebration trim; ball and chain; Green Tara petals; heat tool; Creative Memories circle cutters; Carl scalloped scissors; Ranger 'white opal' liquid pearls.
Thanks for looking.

Off cycling!

Hi ya blogging beauties - I have gone on bit of a cycling holiday for the next 2 months.  We are off up to Canberra and back again to Melbourne.  So not cardmaking!  But I do maintain a cycle touring blog if you are interested - you can view it here - 4 pedals & 4 paws.  Great name isn't it ... and yes we are on pushbikes and yes we have our little dog with us!

Cardabilities sketch #40

Hi there - this is my last design team sketch for Cardabilities.  I chose not to reapply for the next 3 months as I am going away for the next 2 months.  But the last sketch for this month and term is a fab one - I enjoyed using this great sketch that Karan has created ...

and here is my card
 
and a close up of the hot air balloon which I sort of paper toled a bit and gave it several layers.
 
materials - AC canary and white cardstock; Lily Bee 'this & that' papers, Paper Inklings 'family' papers; Verve 'up up & away' stamps, Lawn Fawn 'swimsuit season' (have fun title) and AnnaBelle Stamps 'party animals 1' (happy birthday title); Stazon timber brown ink; Kaisercraft rhinestones; Prima flowers; MFT flat bottom clouds and little open scalloped edge dies.
I am also submitting this card for Designed 2 Delight - use at least 2 dies, Paper Sundaes - anything goes, Party Time Tuesdays - anything goes, Simon Says - anything goes, Crafts & Me - flowers.
Thanks for looking and enjoy your weekend.

Enjoy life together

Hi ya all, felt I bit flat with cardmaking this afternoon and I am not sure about the card I made - I couldn't make up my mind and kept adding things then changing my mind and trying something else and again changing my mind and in the end I decided on 'less is best'!!!
I made this card following the sketch from Inspirational Card Sketches, Used patterned paper for Wee Memories and I am also submitting it for the difficult challenge of 'anything goes' at Party Time Tuesdays!!!

here is a close up of the darling little flowers which I fussy cut from pixie-licious papers.
 
materials - Bazzill jubilee, AC mint cardstock; Cosmo Cricket 'pixie-licious' papers; Bella impressions stamps, AnnaBelle Stamps squared posies stamps; Versa Color violet, olive, watermark; clear embossing powder; Card zig zag scissors; Creative Memories circle cutters; MFT flat bottom clouds, Kaiser mint green rhinestones.
Thanks for looking.

Dad happy birthday

Crikey I nearly forgot my fathers birthday next week!  I haven't been cardmaking for the past week too busy getting things packed for the bike ride - mind you there is not much that I can take on the bike - nevertheless I have to find everything from the last trip and squeeze it into what limited space we have!
While packing I suddenly remembered that it was my fathers birthday next week - we tend to have very few birthdays in our winter (they nearly all fall in spring or summer) and I tend to forget that his is the first one for the season so to speak.  So I hastily put a card together in the hope that it will arrive in time!

 
I have made this card following the sketch from Inspirational Card Sketches, the colours are from the challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays - monochromatic and brown, Southern Girls - anything and off course this fits in nicely with the weekly challenge over at AnnaBelle Stamps blog - say it with a male card.
materials - Bazzill blue cardstock; Kaiser 'offshore' papers, AnnaBelle Stamps 'party animals 1' stamps; Stazon timber brown ink; Marvy pens - blender 0, Dark brown 18, Prussian blue 29, Sky blue 75; blue ribbon, staples, Pink Paislee blue alpha stickers.
Thanks for looking.

Concentric hearts

The other day I made a clean and simple card for a challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays, well I enjoyed making it so much that I thought I would give it a go again - not that I do complicated busy cards but I liked doing this card because the end result is usually a very stylish card and it is a nice change!  So I made 2 mini cards (100mm x 100mm) for CAS-ual Fridays.  I have used felt for Paper Sundaes - the concentric hearts are made from yellow and red felt that has been layered on thin chipboard, I used the concentric heart die from Cuttlebug and run the felt through a die cutting machine and I just switched the middle heart from one to the other and so I ended up making these 2 cards concurrently with a few differences.  I am also submitting it for Crafts & Me - add a heart.

Now both cards have 'x' on them - I refound my love for staples! ... and yes I did manage to staple the card closed on one of the 'x' - how many times have you done that?! LOL ... but I managed to hide the holes on the inside!
materials - AC canary and black, Bazzill red devil cardstock; AnnaBelle Stamps squared posies; Versa Color camellia ink; Cuttlebug concentric heart die; Stapler; red and yellow felt; lightweight chipboard.
Thanks for looking.