Christmas Card in Black,White & Red

I used Holly’s Stocking from The Digi Garden for my latest Christmas creation. Christmas is coming so fast I only hope to get as many cards made over the next few weeks to be really ready, as a card maker it’s embarrassing  to give out store bought cards. I bought this swirly Winterland  tree die at the last craft fair and it was so exciting to finally use it. On Christmas day in our house we dress up in Santa Hats even though we live in a tropical climate but determined to celebrate the occasion, this image reminded me of our family.  I added some flower soft to her hat to give it a fluffy look and Santa Stocking and a smile to Holly with my Copic Multi Liner because she is definitely thinking about what Santa is going to bring! I also added baby pearl bling as earrings!!

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

Card Crafter’s Circle 44th  Challenge

BLACK , WHITE & ONE OTHER COLOUR

The Digi Garden is our sponsor for this weeks challenge and the winner’s prize is choice of 6 images! Our Design Team at Card Crafter’s Circle has created some beautiful creations to inspire you! Check them out!

Challenges I am entering:

1. Crafty Bloggers Network - Anything Goes
2. Incy Wincy Designs - Anything Goes
3. The Cutie Pie Challenge - Use a Digi
4. Crafting for all Seasons - Costumes/Dress Ups
5. Crafts & Me - Anything Goes
6. Divas by Design - Anything Goes
7. Simon Says - Dies and Punches
8. Whimsy Stamps - All things Sparkly
9. Bearly Mine - Pearls & Swirls
10. Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes 

Have a great weekend

Hugs Trish Munro

Vintage Card

  I had a lot of fun making this Vintage style card and I used two papers and ripped the edge thru the middle and inked the edges.I then sprayed walnut inks over the top, green ink over the blue paper on the left and a brown ink over the right side. I had a list in my head of products I wanted to see on my card …pearls definitely, vintage flowers, lace which I left a frayed edge and wove some satin ribbon thru for extra detail , I even managed to add a feather. The big bow ribbon has detailed stitching and a perfect accent. I purchased this ruler ribbon on the bottom recently and was dying to use it! She is such a sweet little girl and she has that lovely vintage childhood memories feel to it, kind of like the Secret Garden.

I’d love you to come and Join our 42nd Challenge this week at Card Crafter’s Circle

our Sponsor this week is Whoopsie Daisy 

Our challenge is to pull out the old stuff, the muted colours, to create something

VINTAGE!

Our Design Team at Card Crafter’s Circle has created some beautiful creations to inspire you! Check it out!

Challenges I am entering:

1. Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
2. Clear it Out - A project with a child image on it
3. The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes
4. Craft Room - Childhood Memories
5. Paper Play Challenges -Flowers & Lace
6. Digital Tuesday - Say it with Flowers
7. Oldie but a Goodie - Show us your ribbons
8. Sassy Cheryl's - Inspiration Photo
9. Platypus Creek Digitals - Pearls & Lace
10. It's all about the Vintage - Brown Tones

Have a great weekend

Hugs Trish Munro

Grow With Love

I picked Watering my Garden digi from Soft Pencil Studios because this activity in Summer is so very relaxing for me and one of my all time favourite things to do at home! I used my Retro Flower Punch in two sizes to create my own flowers and they tone in nicely with my colour scheme.

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

Twist of Faith  for our 3rd Challenge

The prize offered to our randomly drawn prize winner, consists of all 3 Soft Pencil Studios digital images .

Our Design Team at Twist of Faith has created some beautiful creations to inspire you! Check them out!

Challenges I am entering:

1. Challenges 4 Everybody- Anything Goes
2. Joanna Sheen - So Sweet
3. No Matter Which Challenge - Dies & or Punches
4. The Squirrel & The Fox - Anything Goes
5. Digi Design - Use more than 1 die or punch
6. Avadares Challenge -Make it Sparkle
7. Polka Doodle - Ice Cream Colours
8. Simply Create Too- Anything Goes
9. Digi Doodle - Anything Goes
10. Milk Coffee - Use at least 2 different shapes

Have a great day

Hugs Trish Munro

Sympathy Card

I decided that I did not have a Sympathy Card and I wanted to have one ready, so I picked out Inspirational Cross 1 from Stamp Art Designs by Kathryne. I added a dimensional layer on lower leaves and the centre flower  and used dimensional adhesive. As soon as I made it I my Mother in Law needed it for a dear friend of hers. A friend of mine designed the sketch for me to use and I used some gingham to contrast with my background paper and colour matched my flower to the gingham. Another girlfriend gave me this lovely ribbon and this worked nicely to match in with my card.

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

Card Crafter’s Circle 40th  Challenge

Our Sponsor this week is Stamp Art Designs by Kathryne

Our random prize winner will receive their choice of 4 SADK images.... so many to choose from ...see them all here at the Whimsy Store! Our Design Team at Card Crafter’s Circle has created some beautiful creations to inspire you! Check it out!

Challenges I am entering:

1. Digi Stamps 4 Joy - Colours of Spring
2. Digi Doodle - Anything Goes........(Final Challenge)
3. Forever Friends Monthly Challenge – Ribbon
4. Milk Coffee - Use at least 2 different shapes
5. My Heart Pieces - Anything Goes
6. Paper Pretties - use Punches
7. The Paper Shelter - Punch it
8. Paper Playtime - Gingham & Die/Punch
9. Ribbon Carousel - Sympathy Card
10. Twisted Tuesday - Never Forget

Have a great weekend

Hugs Trish Munro

Prom Queen

This week I am using the Prom Queen digi from  Stamp N Doodle and I used a Monochromatic colour scheme. I wanted to add texture to my layers so I used my embossing folders. I used a shaving brush to add colour to my last embossed layers and after I coloured my image with my Copics I added some more ink by masking my girl and inking with Adirondack Ink the edging again with my shaving brush. Using the shaving brush adds tiny dots of ink and the more times you hit the paper the deeper the colour gets. I also did this effect on my flower and it ended up a nice rich colour so that all colours matched for my monochromatic colour scheme. I already has these pearls in my stash which turned out great and to add something extra I  used Dimensional Magic on my heart and the word kiss and also tiny smidge to my flower to have a slight gloss to it. I only used half of my Prom Queen image to instill a sense of thinking about the moment!

 

 

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

Card Crafter’s Circle 26th  Challenge

      this week we challenge you to create in a MONOCHROMATIC colour scheme!  We want to see what you can do with one colour (allowing for black line images, white cardstock etc) ....

We are excited to have this fabulous sponsor  Stamp N Doodle

 

 

Our randomly drawn challenge winner will receive 2 digis.

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

Challenges I am entering:

1. Stella Says Sketch (as above) Challenge 12
2. Ooh La La Creations - Make it Girly
3. Digital Tuesday - Anything Goes
4. Crop Stop _ Monchromatic
5. Papaer Craft Bliss - Hand Coloured
6. Crafting for all Seasons - Many Layers
7. 4 Crafty Chicks – Monochromatic
8. Sassy Studio Designs - Use something wet
9. Celebrate the Occasion - Thinking of You
10. Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting me!

Hugs

Trish Munro

Magnolia Singing Tilda

I really enjoyed making this card for my daughters birthday,she loves to sing and my girlfriend Vicki Fraser bought this Magnolia Tilda Singing stamp for me so I could make my darling daughter the perfect birthday card. I paper pieced Singing Tilda to get the dress just the right colour and shaped it to give it a slight curve using my flower tool, before gluing into position.  I chose a designer paper that my wonderful friend Frances from Stamp Owl gave me for Tilda’s dress to match the dress my daughter wears on stage that shimmers and sparkles. I used a purple gel pen and highlighted with Ice Stickles Glitter Glue to finish.I wanted to use some shading behind and used my Spellbinder Circle as a mask to get the white edge effect with my Sponging Block and Colorbox Chalk Ink. Then I used the Tim Holtz Alterations Carnivale to personalise the card and add her age using some new Glitter Cardstock. I wanted an unusual shape card  and placed Tilda looking down from the top of the card like my daughter does when she’s on stage.

Challenges this card qualifies for:

• http://lawnscaping.blogspot.com/2011/10/lawnscaping-challenge-20-paper-piecing.html Paper Piecing
• http://pollycraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/challenge-115-girls-girls-girls-cazza.html Girls,Girls,Girls
• http://stamptacularsundaychallenge.blogspot.com/2011/10/challenge-134-you-choose.html You choose your own theme BUT must use a stamp
• http://bythecuteandgirly.blogspot.com/2011/10/2nd-year-birthday-challenge-and-blog.html Anything Goes
• http://pixieduststudiopixiechallenge.blogspot.com/2011/10/challenge-97-happy-birthday.html Happy Birthday
• http://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2011/10/birthday-celebrations-with-stretch-n.html Birthdays
• http://thestampingboutiquechallengeblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/challenge-17someone-special-and-winner.html Someone Special
• http://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.com/2011/10/tuesday-throwdown-71.html Shaped Card

Trish Munro

Recycle Plastic Packaging to make a Bling Holder

I purchased some undies for hubby and recycled the packaging to create a Bling Holder for my Rhinestones,Pearls and Bling. Honestly how could I have thrown this packaging in the bin, I just had to recycle it !

 

Hope you enjoy this tutorial!

Challenges this project qualifies for:

• http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.com/2011/10/were-back-challenge-53-anything-goes.html Anything Goes
• http://papermakeupstamps.blogspot.com/2011/10/digi-makeover-challenge-6-anything-but.html Anything BUT a card
• http://hookedoncraftchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/10/challenge-9.html Anything BUT a Card
• http://onestopcraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/10/week-152-anything-goes.html Anything Goes
• http://thesecretcraftersaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/2011/10/challenge-155.html Anything Goes as long as it Sparkles

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Have a great week

Trish Munro

Upsy Daisy

I made this card for the Annabelle's challenge of colours this week http://craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/09/challenge-74-sponsored-by-aifactory.html

http://craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/09/challenge-74-sponsored-by-aifactory.html  and a Flowers Challenge

Trish Munro

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!

Stamp Camp

Here is a kit I made up from a Stamp Camp in Brisbane my girlfriend went to and saved for me to make up. A very cute card design and simple enough to repeat with what I have already. It’s always great when someone else does the hard work designing and you get lost in the joy of the doing.

Lattice Window

I’m totally inspired by Valita’s Designs and Fresh Folds blog.
http://valitasfreshfolds.blogspot.com/2010/10/another-christmas-free-form-lattice.html
I shared this fabulous idea with my friends at Stamping with Friends Shoe Box Swap in February 2011.