Baby boy

There are a lot of mens cards in this next group of photograghs, as I have been busy creating for Fathers Day, but I am going to try and alternate them with other cards,  as I don’t want to bore you all to tears with constant mens cards. I think we all struggle with mens cards, but I don’t think it is entirely our faults, I believe it is quite hard to source  mens papers, stamps, etc. What do you all think? What I really want is an Aussie rules stamp, with a football , goalposts, footy jersey and perhaps boots. Wouldn’t that be great – all our mens card problems would be over and  you could make the cards up in all the different team colours!Tonights card is a baby boy card made with stampin up bashful blue  cardstock and grant archival patterned paper ‘paper chic ‘ by Christine Re. I used a stampin up scallop edger, and stampin up stamp set “Congrats ‘. My craft supply had the button and ribbon. I also used my cuttlebug and nestabilitie dies.

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Sandys card

Hi everyone! I missed my blog last night because I had a work commitment, and didn’t get time to come near the computer, and after the efforts of the last time I tried blogging ahead ( and somehow sent the blog straight into the archives ) I wasn’t game to try again, no telling where it would have ended up this time! Anyway, I am cheating tonight and showing you a card made by a work mate.  Quite by accident  I discovered that Sandy is a cardmaker, and last night she brought a folder of her work for me to have a look at. She does beautiful cards, and totally different to mine. It’s funny how we all have our unique looks isn’t it? I got my son Daniel to take a photo of one with his phone, so that I could put it up here for you all to see, and she also put me onto an american stamp company that have lovely stamps for a reasonable cost . Find them at www.oxfordimpressions.com. Tomorrow I will return witha new card for you all to see, til then…..

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Handbags

Tonights card is a really simple one.stampin up black cardstock,and silver cardstock, stickers stuck on metallic paper,and cut out, and a bit of ribbon from my craft supply. The fun was photograghing it! We had a beautiful photo of Nathans face reflected in the silver cardstock, it was classic! Sadly Nathan deleted the photo before I could do anything with it, and then set his camera up on a tripod and took the picture remotely. I’m off now to do a bit of cardmaking,I’ll see you tomorrow!

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Dinosaur

Todays card uses stampin up certainly celery cardstock and cosmo cricket patterned paper. I used bazill cardstock and stampin up cardstock for the dinosaur and ran the top layer through the cuttlebug using the mesh embossing folder. a wobbly eye finished him off. My cuttlebug was used again with the stampin up tag dies, a happy birthday stamp and a couple of brads completed the card. Quick post today as its shopping night .See you tomorrow!

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Butterfly bling

Hi everyone! Today was photography day, and it has taken us most of the day. The light was playing havoc with Nathans settings, and we scrapped 2 tries, we had lights on, lights off, blinds open, blinds closed and at one stage Nathan even crawled under the dining table to get the perfect shot. He says if its overcast next weekend we have to get the tent out. Oh no! The tent is a white pop up tent, quite large, is a nightmare to fold back up again. Bring on the sunny weather! Doesn’t have to be hot , just a consistant light for an hour on Sunday morning would be fine…  I had one little scrap of Kaisercraft Flutterby painted lady patterned paper left over, and I haven’t been able to find any more of this design in my travels, so I decided to let it go with a bang, and a lot of bling! This is the result. The cardstock is stampin up Pretty in Pink,stamp is stampin up Whimsical words, and bling is kaisercraft and kindyglitz.

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From the heart

Had a great day today,spent it with two of my favourite people, my Mum and my sister, shopping for craft supplies – the best kind of shopping! Sadly I didn’t see a great deal to inspire me, but still managed to pick up a few bits and pieces.I did find a couple of  different patterned papers, no doubt you will see them in the not too distant future made up into cards.Tonights card uses Coredinations cardstock,and kaisercraft gypsy sisters collection patterned paper. The stamp is from a stampin up set – nice and easy notes, and coloured with watercolour pencils.A stampin up corner rounder is used on the corners, and this card is finished off with kindyglitz and kaisercraft pearls!

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Inspire

Tonights card was great fun to make! I used Stampin up cardstock – Baja Breeze – and kaisercraft Le Chateau 6″ paper pad.The Birdcage is a  Kaisercraft Le Chateau clear stamp which I stamped and then heat embossed with black embossing powder. I was trying out a new black powder as I wasn’t happy with the one I had, and I am most impressed with this one – it gives a nice thick layer, with very little speckling which is a problem with black powder. It’s called zing! and is by american crafts. I picked it up at spotlight and it was a very reasonable price. They had a huge range of colours,and it is a good sized jar. I will be going back for more colours!Anyway,back to the card.The little bird is fussy cut from kaisercraft Loire Valley, and the word and bird stamps are by inkadinkadoo. The ribbon is from my craft supply.Today I have been working on mens cards,as Fathers Day is only a few weeks away, but I only get a few done when I have to do a completely girly one just to get my bling fix! You will see these cards at some stage next week, once I get my photographer organised, And we still have a few  to go in this current group. Thanks for visiting, see you soon !

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Butterfly friendship

Tonights card started off as a white base card with  a piece of Kaisercraft Le Chateau collection from the 6″ pad matted on to it. I have used this set of papers for a lot of different cards, it’s very versatile.I used a butterfly punh, flower punch, and stampin up stamp from the Friendship Blooms set and Heat embossed it before using oval nesabilities to mat the sentiment. As per usual I finished off with kaisercraft pearls and Kindyglitz.On other news I have been very busy at work putting out this months new release books, and would just like to take this opportunity to let Kay know that there is a new Tony Park novel out!

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Happy Birthday

A much more relaxed post tonight – no rushing off anywhere! Continuing on with the Tea at Elsies paper collection from kaisercraft ( I really like the colours in this set of papers) I used cor’dinations cardstock for the base, and stampin up stamps  – nice and easy notes, and watercoloured the image. Trusty cuttlebug and nestabilities circles for the mats , ribbon from my craft supply, punched flowers with a stampin up punch, and kaisercraft pearls and clear kindyglitz finished it off. Thanks for visiting, see you tomorrow!

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Friend to friend

Really quick post today as I have a work commitment. I got this design idea from a card Judith gave Kay for her birthday.The base is bazzill cardstock, the patterned paper is Kaisercraft tea at elsies collection. The stamps used were stampin up nice and easy notes, ribbon was from craft supply, and I used my cuttlebug and nestabilitie circles for the matting, gotta run see you tomorrow!

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