Star Card

I am now a member of the Design Team at Twist of Faith and here is my card for the first challenge. I made a Star Card and used a paper pad I received Free with Australian Simply Cards Magazine recently, the paper is from Webster’s Pages Petite Papers-Collection Combo Pack. I used this cute Garden Angel from The Doodle Garden. I think the pearl brad gives it a upmarket look crossed with my shabby Chic vintage styling. I enjoyed distressing the edges and also inking every edge as well for additional dimension! I had fun making this card over several days! I borrowed my girlfriends oval dies for my focal point and I’m keen to add them to my Santa Wish List !

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

Twist of Faith  for our very 1st  Challenge

  The prize offered to our randomly drawn prize winner, consists of the two fabulous digital images our design team has showcased .Our Design Team at Twist of Faith has created some beautiful creations to inspire you! Check it out!

Challenges I am entering:

1. One Stitch at a Time - Use a Digi
2. Crafty Pad - Anything but Square
3. Stampalot Challenge - Photo Inspiration
4. Allsorts - Anything But Square
5. Trimmies Craft Challenge - Shaped Card

Have a great day

Hugs Trish Munro

Thank You Card with a Family Baked Dinner!

I have only used fabric once before on a card and it was quite a challenge to think what to do for my card this week. I recently went thru my daughters wardrobe and anything she won’t wear or is too small I popped in bags under the house and plan to take it to the Op Shop. I dug through the bags and found a brand new dress she refused to wear and used my Stampin Up Top Note Die to cut the fabric and a Sizzix Hearts Die to cut some old denim shorts of hubby’s for the heart. Hubby nearly had a heart attack at the chopped up shorts until he realised they were the one’s that were too small for him now!! I used my fingernails to pull at the edges of my fabrics to fray the fabric for a Shabby Chic effect.I used a paper pad I received Free with Australian Simply Cards Magazine recently, the paper is from Webster’s Pages Petite Papers-Collection Combo Pack. It’s great when you can use pre colour coordinated  papers and the card comes together that much easier, I really love this script paper in the background. I borrowed a Tim Holtz Tattered Florals Die from a girlfriend at my group day last week and it’s such a pretty flower.  I used an image from Milk Coffee called I Love you Mom. There’s nothing like a family roast dinner to warm your heart!

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

Card Crafter’s Circle 37th  Challenge

FABRIC

We are talking fabric, sewing material, things our clothes are made of,  not ribbon or lace (but of course they are welcome additions)!

 Milk Coffee Stamps is sponsoring  and the winner's prize  is their choice of 3 Milk Coffee images of their choice and our super sponsor also provides each of our Top 3 with an image of their choice too!

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 - Anything Goes
2. Emerald Faeries - Punches & Dies
3. Bearly Mine - Anything Goes
4. Crafty Sentiments – Flowers
5. Creative Card Crew - Maps/Newsprint/Sheet music/Script
6. Jacksons Digital Expressions - Anything Goes Inks and Such
7. Whoopsie Daisy - Include a Sentiment
8. Markerpop - Children/School
9. Simon Says Stamp & Show - No Rules
10. Touch Twin - Food plus Shadowing

Have a great weekend

Hugs Trish Munro

Immies Scarf Christmas Card

Christmas is coming and I’ve now made a start to have a few cards ready in time for Christmas! I used Immies Scarf from  The Digi Garden  and I love that cheeky smile! I used a metallic gold paper to cut my snowflakes instead of traditional white to give the card a touch of class and keep a warm cosy colour scheme going, it’s change for me as I usually love to use pink and green. I have never been a scarf wearer but my daughter’s singing teacher has insisted we invest and wear them. We have a nice collection of scarves thanks to Nanna Joan who has knitted us quite a few now, so we have lots of colours to chose from when we go out.

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Card Crafter’s Circle 36th  Challenge

RICH AND EARTHY COLOURS

The Digi Garden  has kindly sponsored our challenge and there is a winner's prize is their choice of

6 Digi Garden 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. Just Keep on Creating – Christmas
2. Critter Sketch Challenge - Digi Week
3. Lexi's Creations - Sparkle & Shine
4. Love to Create – Sparkle
5. Paper Pretties - Anything Goes
6. Whoopsie Daisy - Anything Goes
7. Crafts & Me - Add some lace
8. Delightful Challenges - Punches & or Dies
9. Celebrate the Occasion – Christmas
10. Dare to be Sassy - Pop it up

Have a great weekend

Hugs Trish Munro

Nurse Get Well Wishes Card

For my construction card this week I made a ZIG ZAG CARD. I used this adorable Charlotte is a Nurse from Milk Coffee to make a Get Well Card as I do not seem to have any Get Well Cards in my stash, it also seemed appropriate as I myself have a cough/cold this week. It’s been pouring with rain for days where I live, so I been having a few sleep in’s as luckily it’s school holidays. I recently learnt the trick to half fussy cut and half spellbinder cut my image and I’m very pleased with the result. I used my new Molotow white paint pen which I picked up at the craft fair to add a few highlights to her shoes and dress.

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

Card Crafter’s Circle 24th  Challenge

This weeks theme is

CONSTRUCTION CARDS!

  more than a single-fold or gate-fold card

We are excited to welcome back our sponsor, Milk Coffee! Our randomly drawn challenge winner will receive their choice of 3 Milk Coffee images and also one image to each of our chosen Top 3! 

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

Challenges that I am entering:

1. Charisma Cardz - Anything Goes
2. Fab n Funky - Cute and Girly 
3. Paper Shelter - Punches and Dies
4. Jackson Digital Expressions - Anything Goes/optional sketch
5. Party Time Tuesday's - Anything Goes
6. Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Girls, Girls,Girls
7. Love to Create - Anything Goes

Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by!!!

Hugs

Trish Munro

Bird on a Quilted Card

I have always wanted to sew with a sewing machine and make a quilt, so with our challenge this week I made a mini quilt for my card and as I don’t have a sewing machine, it’s faux stitching for me!I punched out 16 squares and I used two matching double sided papers. I know I keep using my favorite colours green and pink but they just speak to me! I then taught my daughter how to paper pierce using a Stampin Up product, she got about half of the squares done for me and really enjoyed it until her favorite show came on TV and she dumped me like a bag of potatoes! I then used a very fine marker to make the stiches. I recently cut a few die cuts in white from my girlfriends new dies and she did the same with mine and I used these on my card, it was great to have these pre cut to fiddle with and made the perfect addition to my card!  I used my Copics to colour this cute little bird sitting in a tree called MORNING GLORY and matched these colours to my designer  papers. I added glitter glue to my ribbon bow and I am really pleased with how that makes the ribbon look so much prettier, I am so glad I took up card making!!!

 

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

Card Crafter’s Circle 19th  Challenge

Grab your needle and thread, because we want to see you

IN STITCHES!

(Real or Faux Stitching)

What's that you say? You don't sew on your cards? That doesn't matter.... grab a pen to add some FAUX stitching detail to your card instead…just like I have!

Our sponsor this week is another fabulous returning sponsor LIMITED RUNS!

Our randomly drawn challenge winner will receive their choice of 3 (three) images from

the Limited Runs shop!

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

Challenges I am entering my card into this week:

1. Charisma Cardz-Shabby Chic
2. Paper Crafting Journey-Use 3 or more patterned papers
3. Sassy Studio Designs-Flowers and flourishes
4. Emerald Faeries-Dazzle it
5. Little Darlings –Pastels
6. Paper Shelter-Wings and Things
7. Whimsy Inspires- Punches and or Die Cuts
8. Cooking it up with Katie-Green gorgeous garden
9. Pretty Little Ribbon Shop-To die for
10. Crafty Ribbons-Things with Wings

Have a great weekend

Hugs Trish xxx

Chocolate Bunny Card

I decided to challenge myself to make a fussy with flowers Easter card!I don’t have a sewing machine yet, so I added some faux stitching for some extra detailing, combined with buttons and a  bow.It’s been a work in progress for days until I was happy. I used this adorable little Easter Bunny from  Meljen’s Designs, how could I resist those eyes! I love bunnies with chocolate Easter eggs and I’m hoping the Easter bunny remembers to drops by this Easter !

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Card Crafter’s Circle 17th  Challenge

  Easter is here, and so is the Bunny, and the Chocolate! Our challenge theme for you this week is 

CHOCOLATE BUNNIES!

We are allowing some freedom here... we'd love to see you create a card using a bunny, or chocolate (the colour) or both! And we are excited to have a fabulous returning sponsor MELJENS DESIGNS!

Our randomly drawn challenge winner will receive 4 digital images (uncoloured) 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 this week with this card:
I have entered into a few Easter Challenges including one a Crafty Cardmakers and I just love to challenge myself to improve my cards week after week and try new things!

1. Creatalicious Challenges-Sketch 32  (as per picture above) I rotated mine.
2. Crafty Sentiments –Bunnies
3. Digital Tuesday Challenge-Easter
4. Everybody Art-Easter
5. http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/challenge-65-easter.html
6. My Grafico Crafts -Buttons and Bows

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

St Patrick’s Day Card

Top of the morning to you!With a name like Patricia there is certainly a fair bit of Irish blood running through my veins, so I enjoyed colouring in this leprechaun. I haven’t  been to Ireland yet, but I’d love to go one day! I used a KPM  DOODLES St Patrick’s Day fun digital image. As you know I am a huge fan of the colour green and I had so much fun with my Copics getting different greens and working on my shading.I added a few touches of Glossy Accents and White Gel pen to finish.

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Card Crafter’s Circle 13th  Challenge

We'd love to see your creations using

ST PATRICK’S DAY

OR

ORANGE & GREEN

... so come share them with us! 

and the Sponsor this week is KPM  DOODLES on Etsy

Challenges :

1. My Grafico Crafts - St Patrick's Day
2. Paper Pretties-Masculine Card
3. Paper Sundaes-Green or Good Luck
4. One Stop Craft-Button It
5. Paper craft star-Lucky St Patricks Day
6. Dude Time Doodles-Favourite Shades of Green
7. Delightful Sketches-St Patrick's Day
8. Do You Stack Up- Go Green
9. Moving Along with the times-Cute as a Button
10. Pixie Dust Studio Pixie Challenge-Show us your Irish

Have a great weekend and

May the luck of the Irish be with you!

Hugs Trish Munro

Ladybugs Birthday Card

This week I have used an image from Bugaboo Stamps and I’ve had my eye on this image for ages and couldn’t wait to start colouring it in ! It’s called Scene it-Ladybugs. There is something about the colour of a ladybug that is delightful and just so very cute! I added Glossy Accents to add some shine to my ladybugs,flower centers and butterflies. I used Sizzix Buttons #5 and die cut my buttons so they exactly match my card! I added a hit of blue to my colouring to create a sunny spring day! As you can see I made an easel card, because this year I decided to try to do more with construction style cards and projects in an effort to expand my horizons. I used hot pink knitting wool, tied off on my buttons to add some texture to my card and spotted designer paper to accentuate my lady bugs spots!

 

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

Card Crafter’s Circle 12th  Challenge

We'd love to see your creations using

BUTTONS

... so come share them with us! 

and the Sponsor this week is Bugaboo Stamps

Challenges:

1. Delightful Challenges-Spring Colours
2. Pixie Dust Studio-Buttons
3. Shelly's Images Blog-Seeing Spots
4. S J Crafts-Flowers include Pink or Red
5. Divas by Design-Spots & or Stripes
6. The Paper Shelter-Fancy Folds
7. Scrapbook Sisters-Spring Flowers
8. Simon Says Stamp-Anything Goes
9. Sassy Cheryl's-Spots & Dots
10. Cute Card Thursday-Signs of Spring

 

 

Have a great weekend

Hugs Trish Munro

Bugaboo Stamps Dino Heart 1

I do hope you will be able to join us for our very first challenge over at Card Crafters Circle. Our theme this week is CREATE FOR ANY CELEBRATION!

The challenge will run from Friday 16th December (Australian Time) for a week

This week we have Bugaboo Stamps sponsoring our challenge with the

winner’s prize - their choice of 7 images!

Here is my card

This is the very cute digital  image I used  and it’s available at Bugaboo Stamps Here
I borrowed my friend Vicki Fraser’s (who has Blog Candy at the moment) small polka dot embossing folder for the smaller heart,which I paper pieced. I also paper pieced his feet and embossed as well, and I think it just adds that something extra.


I cut a strip of cardstock and scored to create a zigzag strip to attach to his head so Dino could have a wobbly head! The other stamps (Nitwit Collections) I used on this card came as a free gift with Australian Simply Cards Magazine Issue 34. I used sandpaper on the embossed footprints and had a ball colouring in with my Copics. This is Basic Grey Ribbon , American Crafts Amplified Designer papers Saturday Night Fever and Boogie and matching American Crafts Elements Round Buttons in Leaf.

I would like to enter the following Challenges :

• http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/2011/12/make-it-monday-67-with-cupcake-cards.html
• http://www.cardcupids.org/blog/?p=1880 Cards with hearts
• http://corrosivechallengesbyjanet.blogspot.com/2011/12/challenge-139-anything-except-christmas.html Anything except Christmas
• http://squigglestamps.blogspot.com/2011/12/lets-celebrate.html Let’s Celebrate
• http://simplycreatetoo.blogspot.com/2011/12/challenge-2-embossing.html Embossing

Have a great weekend

Trish Munro

Spesch Birthday Card using Paper Piecing

I have to say I am feeling very special as my girlfriend Vicki Fraser arrived with a card ready to make and like twins we made one each only differing with our coloring in and ribbons and buttons. We used her new Spesch Designer Stamp and she is so very cute, and cut around her so she popped off the background paper. Vicki had already sorted out two paper piecing- firstly the dress and then the balloons and pre cut them both ,how lucky am I! I used my Whispers Strokes Marker to colour her hair,eyes and dress trim and my favorite markers ever are my Copic  Markers E11 & E00 which I used for the face/skin tones.Copic markers are so on my Santa Wish List!Vicki got these lovely rounded bling as a gift with purchase from the Craft Queen, they are so classy.I used some glitter to accentuate her pretty bow in her hair. Vicki cut the grass using her border punch that had a kind of soft wavy line then going back thru the punch off center this time and not lining it up makes grass, too easy! I had a heap of fun making this card!

 

Challenges this card qualifies for:

• http://madformarkerschallenges.blogspot.com/2011/10/favorite-copic-combo.html  Favourite Copic Marker Combo
• http://craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/10/challenge-79-multiple-sponsors.html Anything Goes plus use Ribbon
• http://heartsonginspirations.blogspot.com/2011/10/hsi-challenge-18-anything-goes.html Anything Goes
• http://deepoceanchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/winners-challenge-8-and-deep-ocean.html Happy Birthday
• http://sweetstampsblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/sweet-stamps-challenge-35-anything-goes.html Anything Goes

A huge thank you to all my wonderful followers for coming to visit me and leaving such lovely comments

You really make my day

Trish Munro

Make and Take with Amanda

Amanda Cordingley a Kaszazz Consultant in Brisbane,Australia demonstrated this tag and these two cards as a make and take at our monthly meeting of Stamping with Friends at Varsity Lakes Community Centre on the Gold Coast.I really enjoyed making these, and it's nice to try new techniques.

On this tag we took a tag made from acetate and added some dimensional magic and a drop of pink and a drop of teal from re-inkers at opposite ends and some rock candy drizzled all over and rubbed away with one finger to mix up the colours and then put a tissue over the top to blot and leave in position to dry. Then we removed excess tissue as only one layer of my tissue stuck down and then trimmed the edge with scissors and adhered a tag of identical proportions to rear to finish. When I got home I decided to turn it into a bookmark so I added the ribbon and used my black stazon ink and my Upsy Daisy stamp to finish it off with my own touch. Fabulous technique I love getting inky fingers!

We also made this card. I took it home to finish as I had to leave class early to take darling daughter who is 10yrs old to a photo shot with the local paper as she is singing the Australian national anthem on ANZAC day (25thApril) on her own to an approximate audience of 10,000. I was supposed to use a strip of green cardstock with trees and cut out some of the foliage part and stick over the top but I grabbed out my markers and just coloured them in instead and used the scrap of green to make another card, as you will see in my last card.

Then we made this girly style card it's a design & quick and easy to make using this very cute Kaszazz paper. I ordered a sheet I think it was $1.65 so I will be able to make heaps of cards out of just one sheet of paper.


TIP: adhere everything to your square panel first then attach it to your card, as it’s easier to centre and align straight!

After class I had a strip of stamped trees on green cardstock leftover so I made this when I got home and was all inspired. The button is made from coconut shell and the paper on this card is Kaisercraft. I added some dimensional magic to add some detail to finish.