Nestabilities banners card

I made this card....couldn't let Valentine's week go by uncelebrated!

These aren't normally colours I'd work with, but I love how they came together.

All the tools and materials I used can be found on the DownUnder Direct Inspiration Blog.

Hope everyone had a lovely weekend :) I'll have some more banner cards to share soon.

 

Pen holder party favour using Nestabilities

Rachel's birthday is not until March, but I thought I might get a start on making some things for the party bags. All of her friends are really into Smiggle - I'm sure Rachel and her friends are keeping the little kiosk at our local shopping centre afloat! I thought we could give each of the girls a couple of Smiggle pens, so this is a little pen holder made using the Grand Nestabilities Labels 11:

The materials list and even a tutorial can be found on the DownUnder Direct Inspiration Blog, so pop on over and take a little look.

Thanks for your visit!

 

First day at school layout

It's that time of year when all the kiddies go back to school. Although I took some photos of my lot this year (heading off to Grade 6, 4 and 1), I had a hankering to look at photos of Jake's very first day of school. And then I came up with this layout:

Close ups and a materials list can be found on the DownUnder Direct Inspiration Blog.

Thanks for stopping by today :)

 

Angel Marci Copic Project Class

Here's the card we made at the last Copic Project Class I taught at Little Bits:

We looked at techniques to colour something (in this La-La Land image, the dress and wings) white. Less is definitely more! It's easy to end up with a grey-looking dress. Here's a close up:

For this sample I used W0, W1 and W2 for the white bits. We also had a play with the Cool Greys, pale blues and pale E colours.

The beautiful sentiment stamp is by Darkroom Door - the String Sentiments set, stamped with Versa magic ink in Pink Petunia.

We made our samples into an easel card, which I can now enter into the La-La Land February Easel Card challenge .

Thanks for dropping in today!

 

Felt. Excited!

Tomorrow is my next felt class with the amazing Elizabeth Armstrong. I cannot tell you how excited I am.  This time I'm sharing the excitement with Robbo who is new to felting, and Lynne and Joy who did the last class with me. I took just a couple of pics during the last class.


Here's a pic of Joy examining her beautiful scarf:

 and here's one of Lynne with her beautiful scarf (if she smiled any bigger the top of her head would fall off!):

Here's what I worked on:

It's an art doll, and in this photo I'm only half way through sewing its bottom on.  I plan to put a face on it, but I'm looking for the right elements. Besides, I can't sew a face on it until I assign a gender to it. What do you think, male or female?  And then it needs a name. Only then can I put a face on it.

I'll be back soon with pics of tomorrow's class - I can't decide what I want to make next - another scarf or some bowls. Mmmmm....decisions, decisions!

 

MFT fairy card

 I'm finding MFT (My Favorite Things) Pure Innocence stamps perfect for little girl cards. Here's one I made for our great niece/grand niece/our niece's daughter:

 I used the Believe in Magic set, some Kaiser 6x6 patterned paper, Nestabilities and the alpha is by Making Memories. Coloured with Copics of course, and just a touch of Stickles added to her wings, skirt and wand.

Hope you're having a magical day!

Cards with Dressforms

These cards were part of my Card Trends class last December. The theme was dressforms.

A card using the Tim Holtz Sewing Room die covered with tea-stained calico:

and a card using the Stampers Anonymous dressform, a big bow, some pins and a little Maya Road wooden spool:

A cute little card using Hero Arts Sew Artsy stamp set and Echo Park papers:

and here are some Collections chipboard shapes covered with Prima patterned paper:

 This card also has some Glimmermist sprayed using a doilie mask. The words are from a Darkroom Door wordstrip.

Love dressforms! They are feminine without being overly girly.

Thanks for dropping in today.