PL Week 32

Hello there To The Stars and Back followers! 

It has been a while since I have the chance to blog (lots of real life happening around here lately!!) but here I am and am I jumping a whole lot forward to share with you my Project Life Week 32 spread as I am using this spread to enter the October Project Life challenge over on the Life.Paper.Scrapbook. blog. The theme this month is square photo's :)

Without further ado here is my double page spread :)

You may notice a bit of a change in this LO compared to my previous blog posts but I had decided that I was spending WAY too much time in front of the computer and not enough time playing so I changed it up a bit! And am LOVING it!!

Here is a close up of my Week 32 title card. 

The chevron card is from the Honey PL kit, the camera is a die cut from my stash so too is the twine. The ink splatters are from the primrose and mustard colour shine (LOVE LOVE LOVE!!) and so too is the week number :)

Anyways, thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed seeing my Week 32 PL spread :)

A Wedding Card

Hello there blog followers :)

I am FINALLY getting around to sharing with you the card I created for a friend's wedding back in June - oops!!

So, I have used a Tiddly Inks image called You and Me. I adore this image and had so much fun colouring it up :)

I used mainly bits and pieces from my own stash so am not really 100% sure of what or where I got most of it from - sorry!! I do, however,  know that the flat black flowers and the rhinestone swirl are Prima - the swirl has been cut down. Also, the ticket is a Tim Holtz ticket and all the cardstock and also the seam binding ribbon is Stampin Up. I also used a piece of Pink Paislee patterned (resistable) paper from the Parisian Anthology (I think!!) range which I inked up using distress ink :)

So, here is my creation, I loved colouring and putting this together

And a close up:

The copic colours I used are:

Skin: E000, E00, E21, E11 and R20

Bride hair: E50, E53, E43 and E57

Bride dress: C0, C1 and C3

Groom hair: E23, E25, E29

Groom suit and shoes: W3, W5, W7, W9

Grounding: W1, W3 and W5

I hit a bit of a snag when I realised that the card wasn't going to fit into an envelope so I googled for directions on how to make a card box and here is the end product (sorry, I can't for the life of me remember where I got the tutorial from!)

And a close up of the detail

I used Stampin Up cardstock, patterned papers, and ribbon and some of the same (uninked version) Pink Paislee patterned Paper.

I hope you have enjoyed looking at my creation for my friends wedding.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

A Random Thursday Card Challenge - Challenge #11 - Anything Goes

Papercrafting Journey - Anything Goes

Stampotique Designers Challenge - Challenge #113 - Wedding

Thanks for stopping by and happy creating!!

A productive crop day/night!!

Hi there!!

Today I am sharing with you some projects I STARTED and COMPLETED at a crop last Saturday!!

I am so super impressed with myself - it's not very often I can say I'm productive at crops and such!! 

Here is my 1st project - my son's (who will be 1 on 27th August!) birth announcements. These are a hybrid project - I found some super cute baby boy papers on Etsy from The Dapper Fox Scraps. I added a couple of the designs to some 6x4 templates in PSE10, added some text to one of the layers and printed out my 2 layers and my photo's (with a white border). I then matched some Midnight Muse (Stampin Up) cardstock to the papers I printed and got trimming, sticking and pop dotting.

Here is the finished project and I am so very happy with them:

And a little close up:

I also managed to create my August ATC swap for a FB group - Aussie Scrappers Society to which the theme was Steampunk/Industrial. That is not really my "norm" so I had a heap of fun doing something different and stepping out of my comfort zone. I did some stamping, heat embossing, distressing with inks and also distressing the edges and using some charms that I was keeping for "something"!!

Here they are:

And a close up:

These guys are going postal today :) And, again, I'm pretty happy with the finished design :)

I also managed a start on another of Alyce's (over at Kit and Clowder) card kits - July "Charmings" kit but couldn't hear the video very well so gave that up and went back to my PL. Not anything to show you for that as it was mostly journalling here and there. But I feel like I achieved a fair bit so I am super happy!!

I hope I can help to inspire you to create something fun and maybe something out of YOUR norm. Thanks for stopping by :)

PL Week 11 and 12

Well, it's been a little while since I have shared any of my PL with you guys =) I am no where near as far behind IRL as I am on my blog - slowly plugging away and changing and finding my style =)

But tonight I am here to share with you my week's 11 and 12 =)

Here is Week 11 LHS

And the RHS

And both together

And here is my week 12 LHS

At the bottom right there is a couple of really cute tags that I received with the couple of happy mail parcels I received this week. It was pretty simple to create - just printed my collage and used one of my SU dies to cut the pretty shape off the end, attached the photo to a piece of backing card (on 3 sides) and there you go =)

Here is the RHS

Up the top in the middle there is a flip pocket. We welcomed a new (early!!) niece to our family in week 12 (the card I created is here) and I wanted to add both a 6x4 print of her sweet little face as well as a super cute story about my big boy Jacob. 

Here is the other side of the flip pocket

This insert was mostly a digi creation of mine but I added some felt pieces from {scrAp this!} and I am super happy with the way it turned out =) You probably can't read what it says but after I told Jacob (he was a little over 3 at the time) that his cousins had a new baby sister he was very concerned that we were going to get rid of his baby and replace him with a new baby. I did comfort him but it was just so sweet the way he looked at me and was so genuinely concerned that we were just going to trade Hunter in for a new baby!

And last but not least here is both the left and right of my week 12

Hope you have enjoyed seeing my week's 11 and 12. I WILL be back soon to share some more of my creations!! Thanks for stopping by =)

Another baby girl!!

Hello there lovely followers!!

Today I am sharing with you a card that I have made. I would love to take full credit for the design etc but full credit needs to go the very talented Alyce Keegan over at Kit and Clowder. She has A-MAZING colouring skills and pulls together absolutely stunning cards, some of which she offers as classes over at Arnold's Scrapbooking in Queensland, Australia. 

I have been stalking following Alyce very avidly on both her blog and her FB page so when I saw that she was selling complete card kits I was very quick to get the details!!

I actually took this card kit with me on our family holiday to Bali and though I didn't get alot of opportunity to create while I was away I did get the chance to get most of the colouring done. I fell in love with the gorgeous Tilly as soon as I saw she was released by Krista over at Saturated Canary as a rubber stamp at Little Darlings.

Without further ado, here is the card I had so much fun re-creating :) This creation will be heading to a very special friend of mine who has just had her 3rd child who happens to be a beautiful little girl!! Her 2 big brothers and her Daddy will sure have a lot on their plate looking after her!

And here is a close up of the gorgeous Tilly

And some of the gorgeous detail that was included with the kit

Oh, and on a side note, thank you to all of you that wished me all the best for the DT role I applied for but wasn't meant to be :)

Thank you as always for stopping by, please feel free to leave me some love!!

Tiddly Inks DT Call

Well, I think the title says it all!!

I have very recently been introduced to the very gorgeous designs of the talented Christy over at Tiddly Inks and have been totally inspired. My first image that I coloured up (and gave away!!) was so much fun to colour and create a card with, that when I saw they were having a DT call I just had to apply!!

I chose this image because

1. I love Wryn, she is so super cute!

2. I love Halloween - though we don't celebrate it here!!

3. I HAD to pick my favourite image to colour and though there were a few this one jumped out at me more than anything else so here is Witchy Wryn on my Halloween inspired card.

Needless to say I had SOOO much fun colouring her and putting this card together. Here it is:

And a close-up of my colouring :)

Here are the copic colours I used:

Skin: E000, E00, E21, E11 and R20

Hair: E50, E53, E43, E57

Clothes (black): W1, W3, W5, W7

(orange): YR000, YR04, YR15, YR07

Shoes: W1, W3, W5, W7, W9

Ground: W0, W1, W3, W5

Cat: W1, W3, W5

I started with a kraft base and then decided to colour her up by matching my copics to the paper I used - "Love Potion" by Fancy Pants. I used both the front and back of this paper. I have also incorporated some Tangerine Tango DSP from Stampin Up, an acetate piece from Kaisercraft's 13th Hour collection, some pink paislee ribbons sprayed with Heidi Swapp colour shine in mustard and primrose (to get the orange) and black. I also added the resin piece and some sequins from my stash. Oh, and I inked all the edges with black ink.

Thank you for stopping by!

Make a Wish Dreamy Dragon

Hello there my lovely followers!

Just thought I was well over due for a share so today I am sharing with you a card I made a little while ago for a very good friend of mine for her birthday.

I used a gorgeous stamp from Whimsy and it is called Dreamy Dragon.

I coloured the image 1st and then matched the colours with card stock etc that I had here at home so I don't actually have any details for you except that I KNOW for sure that the pink ink I have used for the sentiment and the pink marker for the doodling is Melon Mambo from Stampin Up!

Without further ado here is the little cutie (if I do say so myself!!)

You can see much better in the close up that I have also done a stippled background around him. This was my very 1st attempt at stippling and I think I did a pretty reasonable job!!

I'm pretty sure that my friend not only got a little surprise with the arrival of this little guy but actually loved him!!

Thanks for stopping by to say hi and feel free to leave me some love :)