Happy New Home - Crafty Cardmakers

Hello there my lovelies and welcome to my blog.  Hope your day has been great so far.

Guess what!!!!  I'm on the Design Team for Crafty Cardmakers!!!  How good is that!!!
I am stoked!!

Thank you so much Lin for adding me to the Team.  I feel so honoured to be a part of this group .. a wonderful beginning to the new year for me and I am so looking forward to working alongside all the talented Members in this group.

So, onto the first Challenge which is .. New Beginnings!
This Challenge is hosted by Jac and we want to see your creations related to New Beginnings.  This could be the arrival of a new baby, a new relationship, an engagement or a marriage.  Anything you wish to create is fine .. a card, scrap layout, mixed media piece, home decor .. as long as it meets the New Beginnings theme.

I think a wonderful new beginning is moving into a new home and, as some friends of mine are doing just that soon, I made a card for them.

Lots of paper layers and all from Maja Design.
Made the clock flairs myself using a free printable  image from the net.  Simple cut them out, layered them on a scrap piece of chipboard and covered them with Glossy Accents.

This gorgeous bloom was gifted to me from my dear friend Heather Jacob.  Layered it over a chippie piece from 2Crafty Chipboard and added some die cut leaves and a twine bow.

The window chippie is from Scrapmatts and I simply left it raw and tucked it in between the layers.

The greeting was printed from my computer.

The inside with more Maja papers and a quote printed from the net ..

So, this is my contribution to the New Beginnings Challenge
If you would like to play along the link is below.  We would love to see how you interpret this Challenge!!

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #180 New Beginnings

Just remember to read the rules and .. happy crafting!!!

Thank you so much for dropping in and taking a look.
Take care, stay safe and God Bless.

The first Man card for 2017!

Hello sweet visitors and welcome to my blog.
Hope everyone is having a wonderful day and the weather is being kind to you.  Have heard a lot about the snow overseas but here we are experiencing a heat wave.  Had a couple of days where the temp was in the low 40c and the last few days have been in the high 30c.  Just heard on the news we have another storm coming our way.  There was lots of flooding and damage done throughout the State from the previous storm (which was only a couple of weeks ago).  Just hope and pray everyone gets through this one alright.

On to happier things!!
As you can see by the post title, I'm sharing my first 'man' card for 2017 today.  Thought I would get started early this year as I have quite a few of these to make during the year. 


The papers are from Maja.

Made a few of my own flair using book paper, 2 clocks, 1 epoxy sticker and glossy accents.

Made a couple of tags and crumpled up a little ticket.  The clock flair is very easy to make.  Simply print the image (there are plenty to be found on-line), cut it out, mount it on some chipboard and cover it with an epoxy sticker.

The two flair below were made in a similar way.  Printed the clock image (got the bit of book paper from .. surprise, surprise!!  .. an old book, LOL!!), cut them out, mounted them on scraps of chipboard but, because the epoxy stickers I had left were the wrong size, I covered them both with glossy accents .. easy peasy!!

Voila!!  The first of my man cards for this year, done and dusted!!

Thank you so much for dropping by and taking a peek.  
Your visits are very much appreciated!

Take care, stay safe and God Bless.

A Close Friend's Birthday

Hello dear friends and welcome to my blog.  Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Year.  Let's hope this year doesn't fly past as quickly as last year  did .. I'm sure I blinked and it was gone!!  LOL!!  I also hope that this will be a better year all round than 2016.  So many nasty things happened in the world last year .. just hope this year is peaceful!

So, I have another card to share today.

I actually made this one quite a while ago, last year as a matter of fact .. LOL!!   Really not sure where the papers are from but I think the script paper could be from Pion and the other could be Maja, but I'm really not certain.

The flourish diecut is a Dynamics Die.  I used the blanks on a couple of my cards last year (here and here) and thought it was time to use the actual flourish itself!

The leaves and flowers are available at Megs Garden and the seam binding is from Tim Holtz.

Bought a packet of little Paper Rope Ties a while back.  They actually have wire inside them so I  twisted them losely around a skewer and added them to the cluster.

A fairly simple card to make but still shabby chic enough to suit me!!

Thank you so much for stopping by to  take a look and I hope you enjoy the rest of your day!
If you happen to live in Adelaide .. try to stay cool!!  Blooming hot here at the moment!!


Take care, stay safe and God Bless.

The Last of my Christmas Cards for 2016!!

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog!

Well, I am about to share the very last of my Christmas Cards for this year and this will also be my last post for this year as well.  Cannot believe how quickly the year has flown by .. every year seems to go by faster and faster .. must be getting old!!  LOL!!

So, I have three cards to share today.

Using all the same things that I have used on my Christmas cards shared previously.

Kaisercraft papers, Impression Obsession die - Pine Branch 021-N ..

.. Made my own greeting by printing it on my computer and then covering it with an epoxy sticker  (Thanks again Lizzy Hill) ..

Gold star stickers, a little gauze, some small flowers and berries for the cluster.

A silver ribbon bow, Aleene's True Snow and some splatters of white paint.

 

 The inside ..

.. Voila!!

Card Number #2

Similar to Number #1 .. paper from the same collection, similar design with just a few different embellies.

A Scrapmatts chippie instead of a flair ..

.. some coloured baubles added to the cluster ..

.. a larger bloom and an added diecut (Memory Box - Snowflake Spray)

More gold star stickers ..

.. the inside ..

.. and done!!

Last, but not least, as they say ..

This card has an extended base.

 Pomegranate apples, tiny roses, berries and the same pine branch diecut.

Same star stickers

The greeting is from the signature strip of a Maja sheet.

Need I say it??  The inside LOL!!

.. and, again,  Voila!!!

You will be happy to know, I think, that this is the absolute last of my Christmas cards.  At least until next year when we can do it all over again!!  LOL!!

I would like to thank all of you who popped in to take a look at my little creations throughout this past year and a very special thank you to those of you who also left a comment.
I really appreciate the love and encouragement you have all shown me and hope you will continue to come by in the new year.

As this is my last post for the year, may I wish you all a Joyful, Healthy, Prosperous and
Happy New Year!!
May God Bless and protect you all through 2017 and beyond.

The last of my Christmas Cards!! .. Almost!!

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog.  

I know Christmas is over but I still have some cards to share so I'm keeping it going for just a little longer.

I hope all of you had an amazing Christmas shared with all the people you love the most. 

We had a fabulous Christmas.  Unfortunately, not everyone could be there to share the day with us but we still had a great time with those who were able to come.  We ate too much, (as you do) some of us drank too much (and then fell asleep on the couch), but we all had a wonderful time together celebrating our Saviour's birthday.

These are three of the cards I have left to share.  There will be one more post after this I'm afraid!

Kaisercraft papers layered up to create some dimension and I took a leaf out of Lizzy Hill's book and made my own Christmas 'flair'.  Simply printed the greeting on my computer and then covered it with an epoxy sticker.  Turned out a treat!!  Thanks Lizzy!!

 Some tiny red roses, pomegranate apples, paper scrolls, die cuts (Impression Obsession - Pine Branch 021-N and Memory Box - Snowflake Spray) and a twine bow make up the cluster.

 A touch of Aleene's True Snow with some glitter sprinkled on it, some gold star stickers ..

.. the inside ..

.. and, Voila!!

Onto card number two.

 More Kaisercraft papers.

Same diecuts, some small white blooms and red berries in the cluster. 

Same 'snow' and gold stickers!

The bottom fold of this card is slightly wider than the top fold so it was the perfect place for the gold sticker greeting.

Inside ..

.. and done!!

Last one for today ..

Still using Kaisercraft papers but, this time, the greeting is a chippie bauble from Scrapmatts.

Same diecuts once again but I've added a larger bloom and some coloured baubles to the cluster this time.

 Inside ..

 .. and the full frontal .. LOL!!

I have three more cards to share later in the week and that will be the last of my Christmas cards for this year and, my last post for this year as well, so I can start fresh in the New Year.

Thank you so much for dropping by and taking a look.
Take care, stay safe and God Bless.