Astronaut Card

I have wanted to make a space card for ages and I’ve often seen rocket ships on boys cards and I was inspired by an article in an Australian Simply Cards to start creating. I started by carefully studying the night sky above my house and noticed that most of the stars were in a bit of a line directly above the house, I think it’s called the Milky Way so I placed my stars that I punched from some Kaisercraft designer paper in a similar line. I used a blank white cardstock card base and created my night sky using only 2 different blue inks Adirondack- Denim and Stampin Up- Tempting Turquoise I applied the inks using my Sponging block just like  I had seen Tim Holtz create a distressed background for a bookmark he made me when he was last in Australia. Then I used one of my home made green mica powder mists to help create my arty distressed night sky, that totally shimmers if you hold the card at an angle. I’m very happy with the result. Then my astronaut had to land in a rocket ship which I just hand drew straight onto some silver and red papers, and my daughter reminded me that my astronaut needed a couple of windows in his rocket ship so he could look outside,excellent point and duly noted and added! I made the flag from a bamboo skewer that I coloured with my Copics so it matched my beary cute astronaut.

This first photo is inside the card. 

This is the card front .

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

Card Crafter’s Circle 24th  Challenge

     The theme for you this week is 

STARS and STRIPES!

It doesn't have to be patriotic, but I know with the 4th of July is only a month away for all my American friends.

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:

1. Cute Card Thursday - Transportation Theme
2. SJ Papercrafts-All about the Boy
3. Willow Sketchie-Sketch or make your own backing paper
4. Little darlings Challenges - Boy Card
5. TuesdayThrowdown-Masculine
6. Crafty Cardmakers- Distress It
7. Daisy Doodles Creative challenge - Beary Cute
8. Forever Friends - One for the Boys
9. Lexi's Creations - For the man/Boy in our lives
10. Simon Says Stamp and Show- One for the Boys       

Have a great weekend

Hugs Trish

Best Friends

We celebrated my girlfriend Roz’s 39th Birthday and I made this card for her. It’s so nice to have young friends! Roz,Vicki Fraser and I  went to The Elephant Rock Cafe at Currumbin which is right on the beach front and has an amazing view to celebrate with a lovely lunch. I’m entering this card in  challenge all about Friends http://stampwithfun.blogspot.com/2011/07/challenge-121-freundefriends.html and Anything Goes at http://simonsaysstampandshow.blogspot.com/2011/07/simon-says-stamp-and-show-anything-goes.html

I used this photo as an inspiration for my project and am delighted to enter this challenge at the Shabby Tea Room

http://theshabbytearoom.blogspot.com/2011/07/week-72-relax-and-enjoy.html

I wanted to try something new with my Stampin Up 2 Step Bird Punch and I used the cardboard that I had punched out the leaves as a stencil template to create my background paper for my cute little birdie. You can see I also used the bird’s wing as a leaf with my flowers. I used my own homemade mist to add some pink sparkle. I love paper piercing, it is so relaxing so added that as well and to lift my pink background used a yellowy gold background to lift it and put it all on a gold card and voila!

My friend Roz recently took a family trip to Steve Irwin’s Australia Zoo so I cut out a sachet full of mini Australia’s using my Big Shot and my QuicKutz Australia Die in dark green cardstock and popped them inside this cute little heart sachet so she can scrapbook all her photos as I knew she was planning her Australia Zoo pages. I used the template from Papermaia to make this gift sachet then embossed it. Roz loved that I remembered her zoo ideas and was really excited to see all her little Australia's inside the sachet!

Trish Munro

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.