Heart Shaped Card -Teddy Loves Hugs & Kisses

I used my favourite colours again Pink & Green and as my daughter said when I had finished my heart shaped card “it’s very bright Mum”, well maybe she is right! We all need a hug sometimes and this is so very cute and bright to cheer anyone’s day, I picked this cute little teddy bear out at Whimsy and the sentiment inside . I borrowed my girlfriends Spellbinder Nested Hearts die (I use it way more than she does) and used my Spellbinder Scallop Hearts for all my layers. The pale pink layer has pretty love hearts and I decided to paper pierce all the scalloped hearts for extra detailing. I tried to make my bear look like he was so loved.. he was losing some fur in places, just like my favourite bear who is so well worn he’s  nearly bald!

 

 

I’d love you to come and Join our Challenge this week at

Card Crafter’s Circle 34th  Challenge

create a SHAPED CARD

 

(Be inventive...a  shape other than our regular square or rectangle!)

What's this? We have two sponsors?  This means two prizes for random winners!

Our challenge this week is sponsored by MelJen's Designs, who continues to delight us with magical images!

Our MelJens prize is 4 uncoloured images.

And we are enjoying another sponsorship visit by Kathryne of Stamp Art Designs by Kathryne!
Our SADK prize winner will receive their choice of 4 SADK images!
Our Design Team at Card Crafter’s Circle has created some beautiful creations to inspire you! Check it out!

Challenges I am entering:

1. Divas by Design – Flowers
2. Penny's - Butterfly's &/or Bows
3. Perfect Sentiments – Girlfriends
4. Bearly Mine - Anything Goes
5. Die Cuttin Divas - Anything Goes
6. Tammy Scrapin Corner - Anything Goes
7. Whoopsi Daisy - Lots of Layers
8. Stamp-n-Doodle- Use your favourite colour
9. Ready Teddy Go - Anything Goes using a Teddy
10. Charisma Cardz – Pink plus 1 

Here is a photo of a friend of mine who comes to visit every day. He is an Australian rainbow lorikeet! He loves our local honey soaked bread that  I soften with hot water.

Have a great weekend

Hugs Trish Munro

Easter Egg Hunt Today

I really wanted to make an Easter card with lots of layers and more embellishments in an attempt to alter my style. I have a mental checklist for the perfect card in my eyes and it’s great to stretch yourself . I also used pastel colours which is also not my normal style. I’m really happy with how this turned out so pretty.I have my stash of Easter Eggs for our Easter Egg Hunt and I will look just like my digi from Dearie Dolls (basket loaded with chocolate eggs and ready to go) and my kids will love it, you’re never too old for CHOCOLATE!!!!

I’d love you to come and Join our Challenge this week at

Card Crafter’s Circle 16th  Challenge

Show us your EASTER Creations!

and the Sponsor this week is 

We are happy to welcome back Dearie Dolls as our sponsor for this week's challenge!  Our randomly drawn challenge winner will receive 3 digital images of their choice... what a great prize!
Swing by and see the great creations showcased by the Card Crafter’s Circle Design Team.
Challenges I am entering my card into:  

1. http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/sketch-66.html Sketch 66 as per picture above and I had a ball using this sketch!
2. http://www.4craftychicks.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/challenge-83-easter-and-crazy-egg.html Easter
3. http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/challenge-210-happy-easter.html Easter
4. http://www.charismacardz.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/challenge-12-easter.html Easter
5. http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/simon-says-anything-goes.html Anything Goes
6. http://delightfulsketches.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/delightfuls-easter-challenges.html  Easter

Have a great weekend

Trish

Charlotte and Butterfly Gate Fold Card

I made this gate fold card using a beautiful gold ribbon to keep it closed. I love this sweet little girl called Charlotte and Butterfly  from Milk Coffee Stamps and I really wanted her in a red dress and to have a white collar and white socks with white lace trim, so cute!!!! I enjoyed my colour scheme of gold for our challenge this week and the gold cardstock was like a mirror I can nearly see myself taking the photo,too funny! The embossed butterflies added to the theme and added a touch of class. I watched a you tube tube tutorial to try to improve my hair colouring and swapped a few colours around and used what I had to try to create golden hair. It is my challenge to myself  this year to improve my colouring in. I really enjoyed colouring in her dress and then adding spots with my white gel pen, that was fun! On the inside, I wanted it to look like a flower so I added a flourish under the die cuts and I think it looks clever. Then I  added another butterfly so the inside and outside theme was carried through. 

I’d love you to come and Join our Challenge this week at

Card Crafter’s Circle 14th  Challenge

POT OF GOLD

Use Gold in your creations

and the Sponsor this week is  Milk Coffee Stamps

Winners prize is 3 digi images and top three will receive an image off their choice also!!!!

Swing by and see the great creations showcased by the Card Crafter’s Circle Design Team.

Challenges that inspire me:

1. Crafty Sentiments- Things with Wings
2. Daisy Doodles Creative Challenges-Tie it up
3. Hooked on Craft-More than one fold
4. Whimsy Stamps- Embossing
5. Papertake Weekly-One for the girls or Mum
6. Cupcake Craft-Going Dotty
7. The Stamping Boutique-Gold

Have a gold weekend!!!

Hugs Trish

Handmade Flower Card with Martha Stewart Punch by Anita Munro

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My Darling Daughter Anita who is only 10yrs old premade the Flower using all pink flowers but in different sizes, and when she liked what she had made she glued each layer together and added a butterfly bling embellishment to add a bit of her own personal flair. Anita placed a adhesive dimensional under the flower so it would pop off the card for added interest! She used a piece of pink paper and used the Martha Stewart Scroll Heart Deep Edger Border Punch down both sides to create a Lace Trim which she fixed to the card carefully with Glue. Anita added a sentiment using the Stampin Up Modern Label Punch and Stampin Up Word Window Punch and stamped using Colorbox Chalk ink her sentiment from Stampin Up Stamp Set called Teeny Tiny Sentiments.

Anita made this card for her school teacher for her Birthday and I was surprised to see that she had pre written on a notepad what she was going to write inside, which is very cute and thoughtful.

I will enter this card in the following challenges on her behalf:

• http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.com/2011/10/were-back-challenge-53-anything-goes.html Anything Goes
• http://lexiscreations.blogspot.com/2011/10/challenge-50-and-winners-of-challenge.html Pink for Boobies
• http://incywincydesigns.blogspot.com/2011/10/challenge-114-think-pink.html  Think Pink
• http://crazychallenge.blogspot.com/2011/10/cc-87-think-pink.html Think Pink
• http://www.cardcupids.org/blog/?p=1731 Create a card and give it away!

Proud Mum

Trish Munro

Relax

Challenges this card qualifies for:

• http://mojomonday.blogspot.com/2011/05/mojo-monday-193.html 
• http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/june-anything-goes-challenge.html

Trish Munro

Hibiscus Birthday

I clear embossed this Stamp It hibiscus  flower stamp over patterned paper then used a Kaiser craft Hot Pink and purple  inkpad with a Stamp It sponging block to blend over card and removed any excess ink by rubbing a tissue over .I then added the glitter,butterflies and bling to finish!

 

 

 

I decided I was on a roll and decorated inside my card as well, it’s nice to add that little extra surprise when you open up the card.

Challenges this card qualifies for:

1. http://paperprettiesblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/paper-pretties-wednesday-challenge_18.html
2. http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.com/2011/05/simon-says-sparkle-and-shine.html
3. http://trulyscrumptiouschallenges.blogspot.com/2011/05/challenge-57anything-goes-dt-call.html
4. http://craftsandmechallenges.blogspot.com/2011/05/challenge-35-anything-goes-optional.html
5. http://aspoonfullofsugarchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/05/challenge-152-anything-goes.html
6. http://sweetstampsblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/sweet-stamps-challenge-15-birthday.html
7. http://lexiscreations.blogspot.com/2011/05/challenge-40-and-winners-of-39.html
8. http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/2011/05/make-it-monday-37.html
9. http://corrosivechallengesbyjanet.blogspot.com/2011/05/challenge-116-birthdays.html
10. http://onestopcraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/05/week-131-ice-cream.html

My challenge to myself is to one day win a card  challenge, I can’t do anymore than try my hardest and have as much fun in the process as humanly possible!

Trish Munro

Happy Mother’s Day

It’s Mothers Day in Australia this Sunday 8th May and I made this for my Mum (she’s in her 80’s). I fussed over this card for hours and now I’m very happy with the result. I like how this embossing folder changed the affect on the polka dot paper and I have been inspired by :  http://michellezindorf.stampinup.net (for those who don’t know about her she is so talented and in my circle we call her The Brayer Queen. I signed up for her email internet tutorials and this has inspired me to make more of my inks and expand on my stamping style but I don’t have a brayer yet so I used my sponging Blocks and ink to make up my background to suit the cardstock that I wanted to use… I just love getting inky fingers! Daisy’s remind my Mum of my Dad (he loved to grow daisy’s in their garden) so this was the perfect image for her especially because Mum is such a huge fan of pink (and so am I). I enjoyed decorating the inside of the card to compliment the main image and can you tell that I’m into butterfly’s at the moment and very partial to glitter.

Challenges this card qualifies for:

1. http://creativecardcrew.blogspot.com/2011/05/for-mom.html
2. http://flutterbywednesdays.blogspot.com/2011/05/flutter-by-wednesday-153.html
3. http://forfunchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/05/is-it-spring-yet.html
4. http://mymumscraftshopchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/05/challenge-4-cute-girly.html
5. http://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2011/04/mothers-day-challenge.html
6. http://thepapervariety.blogspot.com/2011/05/lets-get-messy.html
7. http://claudiaandcompany.blogspot.com/2011/05/challenge-81-butterflies.html
8. http://ladybugscraftsinkchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/challenge-26-going-dotty.html
9. http://partytimetuesdays.blogspot.com/2011/05/i-am-so-excited-to-introduce-this.html
10. http://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.com/2011/05/tuesday-throwdown-47.html

Wish me luck, sooner or later I might win a challenge. Dad always said “you’ve got to be in it to win it”!

Blue Mouse

Here is another card darling daughter and I made together…she’s famous today…… front cover of the local newspaper THE TWEED SUN a huge photo with a story on page 3 of how she is honoured to sing the Australian National Anthem on ANZAC day  25th April. We hope you like our glittering mouse!

Challenge this card qualifies for:

• http://delightfulsketches.blogspot.com/2011/04/paper-piecing-or-paper-piercing.html
• http://digidoodleshopsbest.blogspot.com/2011/04/challenge-55-glitter-glitz.html

Bookmark

I’ve been inspired to make bookmarks lately and I particularly like this Kaisercraft paper and used my Stampin Up Beautiful Wings Butterfly’s to create some movement, and some tiny drops of dimensional magic on the flowers and of course my own glimmer mica mist to finish!

Challenges this bookmark qualifies for:

• http://flutterbywednesdays.blogspot.com/2011/04/flutter-by-wednesday-151.html
  
• http://lexiscreations.blogspot.com/2011/04/challenge-38-and-winners-of-37.html
  
• http://ladybugscraftsinkchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/challenge-24-anything-goes.html

I took my daughter to McDonald's for a treat today and met a gorgeous young Korean girl who is on a working holiday in Australia and gave this to her to remember her holiday.

Be Happy

This mouse stamp is just so cute and to finish I added some glitter and butterflies. My 10yr old daughter and I teamed up to make this card. Be happy… to all my wonderful followers, I appreciate all your  thoughtful comments.

This card qualifies for the following challenges:

• http://forfunchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/04/wow-bunnies-did-multiply-lol.html
• http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.com/2011/04/simon-says-card-for-child-challenge.html

Happy Birthday to me!

I received this beautiful birthday card from Vicki Fraser,I love the pearl flourish. Vicki and Roz took me out for coffee and we each ordered a slice of the most amazing cake I’ve ever eaten. Vicki arrived with a big bag with all sorts of crafting goodies including some pearl flourishes (it’s like she can read my mind), and my friend Roz gave me a Kaisercraft stamp set.Thanks girls for making it special!

Oriental Star Book

I have taken a lot of classes with Jane Norrish and this was the very fist class I ever did with her and I was so impressed with myself for completing this project before I went home from class as I had never done such a complicated class. Jane made it all so simple and easy to follow and I couldn’t wait to do more classes with her after that. Her main design tip was to use a piercing template for the pages as this was the trick to make the project so neat and we used a book binding thread to secure the project together and even some fancy beading on the seam. We used foils to add some interest to the pages and the Gold Krylon pen to do some edges,special affects and details. Some of the image colouring was done with chalks to create a more subtle affect. I hope you enjoyed looking at one of my many treasures.