New Waterfall card

I think I rushed this a bit! Too excited and wanted it done fast!

I used a stamp with 4 images, a hawaiian shirt, a flower, a palm tree and the sun. On the pull I had stamped 'Wish You Were Here' but the ink smudged! So I will try it again on another piece of card stock.

Here are a few other crafts I did today.

This last one is a box, hard to tell, but I just wanted to try it out.

Waterfall card

My first attempt at this card was August 2005, but I just viewed a video showing a much easier way! So come back later to see how my next one turns out!

First "Scrapvivor" Challenge

The Yahoo group PST_pass_it_on recently held a challenge for participants. 17 members were sent 3 envelopes containing items to use on a 12 x 12 layout. A theme was given as well as a technique.

The first challenge was 'My Favourite Place' the technique was doodling and the items to be used were a coin envelope, a tag, a bottle cap and some fibre.

This was my entry:

I have to admit I had no idea what to do with the bottle cap, but after 7 trial ideas, I settled for the simplest! The doodling is on the background paper, it was plain cardstocks to begin with. I cut the word SENSES into the envelope. The tag is inside the envie with a photo of purple flowers on. The fibres are also on the tag.

With this entry I survived and went on to round two with 8 other participants.

Unfrogettable

I saw this idea on Dawns Stamping Thoughts and had to translate it to this froggie.

Easter Brunch

I had 12 people here for brunch today. We started at 11:30 and went through till about 4:15. Great food. Three types of oven omlettes, hash browns, bacon, bagels and cream cheese, salad, veggie platter, fruit platter, hot cross buns, tea coffee and juice. There was also some chocolate and jelly bean treats. Others brought along grapes, chicken, quesadia casserole, juice, and chocolates.





I made each guest a card to celebrate the holiday.


Great friends, great food, and great conversation.

Challenge 10

Emilie's Challenge: use brads or bling to create a shape. It can be a circle, heart, star, wave ...anything!

Hard to see, but really there is a circle of studs and jewels in the top left corner along with pink buttons.

LayOut A Day LOAD

I am participating in the LOAD (layout a day) challenge on bigpicturescrappbooking.com and have so far managed to keep up. However it isn't always a layout, some times I have made cards, when time is limited or my inspiration is lost.

Below are the pages I have created so far.

Some of the cards I have made this month

I am participating in a challenge on Big Picture Scrapbooking to do one layout a day (LOAD). The days I have no inspiration or time I revert to making cards.

Here are a few that I made so far this month.

This first one was made for my Aunt in England.

The one below was made for my cousin Marilyn, she turned 54 this month.

The 2 above and one below were made at my Stampin' Up! stampers club.

These two flower cards I made just trying out new stamps. The pink card has some dry embossing on, that I haven't done in a long time, it really adds to this card. I love the Baroque rolling stamp I got, very curly!

This last one is a picture of the Valentines that I have made for the kids in my class. They are chocolate mints and I made a front and back with cardstock, scalloped and cirlce punches and 2 rubber stamps.

Now I must go and make a card for my dad. His birthday is on February 3, he'll be 81.

Patterned Paper

Challenge 1: Make Your Own Patterned Paper From Cardstock




It took a long time to measure up the strips before cutting! My only regret on completion is that I wish I had used less white in my design.

THANK YOU

I made a dozen thank you cards for a collegue who retired this year. The didn't scan well as they were a bit bulky.

My Card Creations

Recently I made some cards for a friend who was retiring and I was told that I should sell my work. I have always felt that if I started selling the I may loose the enjoyment if I have to have deadlines.

So I thought I would post my work and see if I get any feedback.

Also while in England recently I visited a medium who told me my mum says I should go into business with my creativeness!!