Gift Card Holder

Hi all! As you know, Christmas is not that far away, so today I have a cute way of packaging all of your gift cards. I found the tutorial from Heather Summers and fell in love with it. It is such an easy and effective way to package all your gift cards.

This holder isn't just for Christmas either, the possibilities are endless for birthdays, weddings, engagements or any occasion you are giving a gift card.

Any questions about the materials just ask!
Thanks for looking.

Sweet Summer

Hi, This is another card which has been sitting for too long in my 'to blog' folder. I made this card using this sketch. I loved this sweet little stamp set and it is great one to colour.

My colour are not quite navy, daffodil delight, baja breeze, whisper white and old olive. I love the clean lines of the card and I added some pearls in varying sizes for some bling. The sentiment is from 'best yet'.

Thank for looking :)

Just Add Ink #134 - Polka Dots

Hi! I wanted to join in with Just Add Ink this week, as the challenge was to use polka dots. Now not sure about you, but polka dots are my 'go to' when it comes to patterns.
Here's my creation:

This is actually a spin off a tri fold card from Shelli. As soon as I saw her card, I knew I wanted to give it a go. I changed the shapes to the framelits labels and I used marina mist and rose red for my polka dot DSP, a so saffron which I dry embossed with the perfect polka dot EB folder. I framed my sentiment framelit with some silver glimmer paper, I added some silver pearls down one side and tied it all together with some pear pizzaz seam binding. I used crumb cake for my base and matted it onto some rose red. I was pretty happy with the end result, and will definitely make a few more of these in the future.

Thanks for looking :)

Festive Friday #25 - Sketch Challenge

Well it's time again for another Festive Friday. Nicole has given us a sketch to work with this week.

Here's my take on it:

I went clean and simple for this one and a non-traditional colour palette. I used elegant eggplant, old olive and whisper white. The background panel is embossed with the perfect polka dots EB folder, I then added a strip of old olive dsp. I used the pine tree from 'trendy trees' which was stamped in old olive and crumb cake. The sentiment is from 'best yet' and also stamped in old olive. I then punched the trees out with my 1 1/4" circle punch and matted them onto a 1 3/8" circle of silver glimmer paper. The sentiment is also punched out with the 1 1/4" circle punch and was layered on to a scallop circle. I love this card and it would be an easy one to mass produce. 

To join in, go past Nicole's blog and link your creation by clicking on to the little frog and while your there check out the other great creations from the design team.

Thanks for looking.

JAI 95 - Bah Humbug

Oh boy, it's been a while since I have played along with Just Add Ink. I was determined to sit down and join in on their challenge, which was to create a Christmas project with no Christmas paper or stamp set except for a sentiment. I took the 'no Christmas paper' quite literally, as I also scrapped traditional Christmas colors all together.

I've used melon mambo, daffodil delight and tempting turquoise as my main colours and the trees are old olive and crumb cake. For the background I used "Bliss" stamp set and inked it in melon mambo and stamped using my stamp-a-ma-jig to get every thing looking straight. My trees are from "Trendy trees" and the sentiment is from "Best yet". I had a lot of fun creating this card, as the colours were so summery and kind of fitting for an Aussie Christmas (well I think so :)

Thanks for looking and pop past Just Add Ink to see all the other amazing creations!

ABSC 042

Hi all! I'm here with my entry for Annabelle Stamps sketch challenge.


Heres the sketch:

And heres my take on it:

I'm going to keep this short and sweet, as a Mum's job is never done! Hope you have a great rest of the week and thanks for looking.

Christmas Cards #2

 Hi again! Here's a few more of my Christmas cards from my pile.

This card was a complete case from Teneale Williams. I think all of Teneale's cards are amazing and why mess with perfection. I did however change the base colour to old olive and the greeting.

 This card started as a entry for a challenge, but I missed out a required element, and when I tried to add it, it didn't look right. So I stuck with what I had.

I was flicking through the 2010-2011 Stampin Up idea book and used the card on page 28, as my inspiration. I kept it a little bit cleaner, and made it square, but still like the overall effect.

Christmas Cards #1

I thought I'd share a few of my Christmas cards that I've been working on these past months (yes I started making Christmas cards in June)

 This was actually a card that I made last Christmas, but I love it and thought I'd share it. It uses Mojo Monday Sketch # 165

 I used Stampin Up's "Lovely as a tree"and I stamped off the image in old olive so it wasn't too bold, then added some 2 mm rhinestones from my stash. The flower rhinestone was also from my stash.

 I really like this one. I found out the hard way last year that if you have lots of dimension on your cards, that it cost double to post. So I plan to make a few of these on different colours for those friends and family I wont be able to hand deliver to. I also wanted to have some non-traditional cards (as I tend to only have green and red for Christmas!)
Thanks for looking!

Mojo Monday 201

This week Mojo Monday is letting you choose between a square or circle card. I dont tend to do either shaped card, so I kept it simple and went for a square card. If I have time and I'm feeling inspired, I might try a circle card.

Heres the sketch:

Here's my take on it:

I need to start to stock up on Christmas cards, because sure enough Christmas will be here in no time (along with the warmer weather!) I'm not sure about you, but if I have to make a whole heap of Christmas cards in one hit, I seem to make them very similar looking and boring. By starting now I hopefully wont be doing a rushed job in December.
Thanks for looking.