Spellbinder Thank You Card

Here's a long tall card I made using some of my favourite Nestabilities:

The gorgeous papers are from an 8x8 pack put out by Bazzill called Divinely Sweet. Lots of gorgeous patterns and colour coordinated too with sheets of Bazzill cardstock. I love it when all the colour matching has been done already!

The pink strip down the middle has been embossed with an Impressabilities die. Must remember to use these more often - I love the effect.

A list of products can be found at the DownUnder Direct Inspiration Blog. Thanks for dropping in on this hot humid day in Melbourne!

 

Oooh - hang on! More published!

Serve me right rushing! I really should sit down, relax, enjoy a cup of tea while I flick through magazines, instead of trying to do everything quickly! I totally missed another two cards that are in the current issue of Cardmaking, Stamping and Papercraft. 

This one was made for a Cards for All Occasions special feature. I made a New Home card using Purple Onion Designs stamps:

 

These images are beautiful to paper-piece. I enhanced the patterned papers a little with Copic markers. Here's a close up - see under the fence palings:

This next card was for the new Designing with Sketches feature. I think you all know by know how much I love a good sketch!

Oh look - Purple Onion Designs stamps again! The sentiment, the frame under it, and the damask in the lower right hand corner. This is one of my favourite companies.  Here's a close up of the sparkly interesting bit with resin flowers and seam binding:

Thanks for listening to me toot!

 

Published with Field of Flowers

I've got some work in the current issue of this:

 I was sent the Field Flowers set by Stampin' Up to play with as part of Cardmaking, Stamping and Papercraft's Stampers' Challenge.  Here's the card that made it to publication:

And here's the one that didn't:

 I had fun playing with this set - I had a chance to get reacquainted with my stamp positioner. After a little moment of frustration, we sorted out our differences and now have a healthy respect for each other. The results were worth it - the detail in these stamps is beautiful.

Thanks for looking!

 

Miss Independent Layout

A bright summery layout:

Banners - LOVE EM! I've used heaps in this layout, and I made them with Nestabilities

The photos are of Elouise at a swimming lesson a few days after she cut her own hair. I was worried at the time about our future - I thought she would be one of those kids who gets up to mischief as soon as I took my eyes off her. Turns out I was only half right!


 All the materials can be found listed at the DownUnder Direct Inspiration Blog.

Thanks for looking!

 

Kite flying layout

This is a layout I did of my little niece Isabel. She's flying a kite at their local park on a bit of a windy day:

The journaling reads: "On this day the kite nearly flew Isabel!" She's my little Thumbelina - she's the tiniest, most delicate thing you'll ever see.

I used some denim fabric from an old pair of jeans as a mat for the photos to bring out the denim skirt Isabel is wearing.  It also adds some dimension and texture to the layout.

Because the kite didn't appear in any of these shots, I made one using some of the dies from the Nestabilities pennants sets:

The tail of the kite was made with cotton twine.

This scallop edge is so pretty - it's one of the Edgeabilities dies.

 You'll find all of the materials I used listed at the DownUnder Direct Inspiration Blog.  Thanks for looking!
 

The Crafter's Workshop Roadtest

I had the chance to try out a couple of 6x6 templates from Crafter's Workshop for Cardmaking, Stamping and Papercraft. The cards I made appear in the latest issue (click on the image to be taken to their website):

For the first card, I used the Branches template with some modeling paste. I made a little nest of raffia and put a little purple glittery bird in it:

The second card was printed on its side (hahaha!). I used gel medium through the Brocade template, and sprayed it all with some Chalkboard Glimmermist. I made the flowers with some black zips. This card could probably to with a word or sentiment in the upper left hand corner (that would have prevented it being printed on its side I'm sure!)

Thanks for looking!


 

Fun felting

You'd be forgiven for thinking I had taken a little break from crafting over December, but I've actually been indulging another love of mine - felting.

I took another class with the amazing Elizabeth Armstrong together with my friend Greta, and I got hooked on scarves. I made each of the children's teachers a scarf for their end of year thank you gift, plus one for dear Lesley (owner of Little Bits). In the inevitable Christmas panic, I only managed to take a few (bad) photos of a couple of them. Here they are:

And this one didn't felt in parts, so I had to add some machine stitching with lime thread - love this!!

Here's another work in progress - a nuno piece all laid out:

I've got another couple of projects to photograph, so stay tuned for more felting from me :)