Christmas place card

I made a simple place card using Nestabilities and an Impressabilities plate:

 I'm going to need a heap of these in about a week!  All the materials can be found listed on the DownUnder Direct Inspiration Blog.

Thanks for stopping by today.

 

Quick Christmas tags

I made a bunch of these tags in a jiffy using Bazzill cardstock, Nestabilities and JustRite stamps:

I've even made a tutorial! You can find it on the DownUnder Direct Inspiration Blog.

Thanks for dropping in!

 

Taking advantage...

.....of the problems Blogger was having with backgrounds to change mine altogether. I chose one called Magnolia - beautiful innit?

This background and many others can be found here. Not a site for the indecisive! There's so many beautiful things.

Back soon with some of my latest creations.

 

Christmas Card for 2011

I think I've finally settled on this design:

Not sure if it's the colours, the simple design, using some of my favourite produtcs (Nestabilities and Darkroom Door images), or the fact that I get to use up some of my huge roll of gorgeous twine from The Twinery.  Hmmm...whatever it is, I think this will be my Christmas card design this year. Here's a close up:

The materials list can be found on the DownUnder Direct Inspiration blog.

Now I just need the time to get these made! Lucky for me I've got two little helpers who are more than willing to roll up their sleeves and get into it LOL.


 

Another Christmas card

These reindeer are so cute:

 I cannot for the life of me remember who makes the papers - I will update as soon as I find out.  I do know the stamp is from StampIt.

Hope you're having a nice weekend!

ETA: I the name of the brand of paper is Hobby Fun. HTH.

 

More Christmas cards

Here are some more cards from the Vintage Christmas Cards class I taught a couple of weeks ago.


First up is a Darkroom Door Photochip, cut with a Labels 1 Nestabilities die, and decorated with some gold Flowersoft. The stamp is from StampIt:

The next one has a postage stamp shape cut with a Nestabilities die. The image is from a sheet of Kaiser paper.  Very mass-producible!

And lastly, here's a card with a door on it. I embossed the front of the card with a Cuttlebug folder (Madison), and then carefully cut around the panels with a scalpel (no injury to share this time - I must be making friends with my scalpel finally!):

The doors open up to reveal a 25 Dec banner (Darkroom Door Dear Santa Vol 2) and a couple of little baubles hanging from it:

The card also opens as normal for writing a message.

I'm not quite Christmas'd out yet - stay tuned for more :)


 

Darkroom Door new release

There's nothing more exciting when you're on a creative team and there's a new release of product. Just to know that you're one of the first to get to play with it is awesome!

Darkroom Door has a few new release stamps, and they're being showcased on the blog this week. This is one card I made using the new Star Flowers Photo Stamp:

Yaaay! I got to use my Copics on a Darkroom Door stamp! Love how the leaves turned out:
 

It's a pretty easy image to read - a lot of the shading is already there, so you already know where to make it darker. The details of what I used where are listed in this post on the Darkroom Door blog. I love what Godelieve did with the bicycle, and what Michelle did with the English pub.

Look forward to showing you more new stuff soon.

 

The Publication Collaboration

I love the episode titles for The Big Bang Theory - hence the title for this post.

It's an apt title, because our little ATC group that meets once a month at Little Bits put together a little collection of ATCs and submitted them to Cardmaking, Stamping and Papercraft magazine.  I'm proud to say, they appear in the current issue:

Here they are much less artistically staged (mine's the blue one in the bottom row):

This was so much fun, and I'm so looking forward to our next meeting so I can get all the girls to sign my mag! I can just hear Kerry now: "We're famous!"