Christmas Gifts Card

This Christmas Tree looks warm, cozy and festive and has a lovely Christmas feeling to it. To create the card, I used a sketch a girlfriend gave me which made it so much easier to make decisions on how to put my card together. I love Christmas morning and all the presents wrapped under the tree. My kids favourite joke present for their father is to wrap his wallet, good for a laugh!!  

  I’d love you to come and Join our Challenge this week at Card Crafter’s Circle 51st Challenge

BEARING GIFTS

Meljens Designs  is our sponsor for this weeks challenge and there is a random winner’s prize ! Our Design Team at Card Crafter’s Circle has created some beautiful creations to inspire you! Check them out!

Challenges I am entering:

1. Crimbo Crackers -Christmas/Festive
2. Cute Card Thursday – Snowflakes
3. Pixie Dust Studio - Winter Holiday
4. Paper Shelter - Christmas is Coming
5. Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
6. Sisterhood of Crafters – Embossing
7. Whimsy Stamps - Traditional Christmas Colours
8. Ladybug Crafts – Snowflakes
9. Craft Room Door Magazine - Anything Goes
10. Tuesday Throwdown - Lots of Layers

Here is a picture of my daughter warming up before a dance showcase .

Have  fun

Hugs Trish xx

Acetate Flower Bookmark

I decided to make a quick bookmark as a back up gift, as my drawer of giveaways empties as fast as I make them.I used Stazon Black Ink to stamp the flower on acetate and then hand cut to add an extra and unusual layer to my flower.It’s great to be able to give a handmade gift!

Challenges my bookmark qualifies for:

1. I used this inspirational photo as below, and it was a chance to use all of the colours of the rainbow.

http://justinspirationalchallenges.blogspot.com/2012/01/week-13.html

2.http://digidoodleshopsbest.blogspot.com/2012/01/challenge-92-anything-goes_26.html Anything Goes

3.http://ceschallenges.blogspot.com/2012/01/challenge-70-check-it-out.html Anything goes

4.  http://www.comeandgetitchallenges.blogspot.com/2012/01/anything-but-card-challenge.html Anything but a card

5 .http://panpasteluk.blogspot.com/2012/01/panpastel-uk-challenge-3-glitter-and.html Glitter & Glitz

6. http://robynsfetishchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/challenge-92-make-it-sparkle-1292012.html Make it sparkle

Have fun

Hugs

Trish Munro

hAnglar stAnglar Christmas Card

In an effort to be prepared for Xmas I made this Christmas card for one of my son’s teachers. I wanted to use non traditional colours and decided on pink and green. I’m in the process of mastering the fine art of colouring using Copics and it’s harder than it looks, I thought I was an expert when I was 8yrs old at colouring ! This is the first time I’ve used this image and it’s kind of weird for us Australian card makers to make wintery Christmas Cards as it’s the hottest time of the year for us ,so the thought of be rugged up makes me hot.. so I popped a butterfly,a park bench and some greenery behind my hAnglar  stAnglar Christmas girl and sat her in her own field of pretty pink  flowers. I’d love to have a white Christmas once in this lifetime and for the meantime I have white flower brads instead of snowflakes to embellish my card and it’s hard to see by this photo I added sparkly glitter on the flowers and the fluffy white sections of her coat and hat and it was just the extra touch this card needed!

Here’s the part that makes, making this card - a little more exciting………

Challenges this qualifies for:

• http://christmasstampin.blogspot.com/2011/11/never-seen-inkand-three-winners.html Never seen ink
• http://craftyannschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/challenge-53.html Floral Frenzy
• http://floweretstamplar.blogspot.com/2011/11/8-julkort-christmas-cards.html Christmas Cards
• http://jellyparkchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/11/non-traditional-christmas-colors.html Non Traditional Christmas Colours
• http://mamidoodles.blogspot.com/2011/11/challenge-37.html Christmas
• http://wagsnwhiskersrubberstamps.blogspot.com/2011/11/challenge-67-christmas-themed_11.html Christmas
• http://charismacardz.blogspot.com/2011/11/challenge-44-cutesy-2-week-challenge.html Cutesy
• http://crimbo-crackers.blogspot.com/2011/11/challenge-2-make-it-sparkle.html Make it Sparkle

Have a great day and Thanks for stopping by to see me

Trish Munro

Golf Birthday Card

I made this Golf Birthday Card card for my girlfriends Dad. Clive is 75 today and I was inspired by my friend Vicki Fraser to make this card after she made my hubby a golf card for his birthday. I’m always happy to take bits and pieces no longer wanted in my circle of crafters and the grass and sky are all wallpapers given to me. I love the texture of the green wallpapers they really add a great effect  for the grass and the sky wallpaper… well I wish I had a whole roll of that! I used my Stampin Up Scallop Edge Border Punch to make the grass.

Challenges this card qualifies for:

• Marks Finest Papers-Use your Scraps
• My Sheri Crafts-all about Sports
• The Poodles Parlour-Lets hear it for the boys
• Charisma Cardz - Anything goes
• Moving along with the times-no girls allowed

Have a great weekend

Trish Munro

How to Store Your Punches

A great way to store your crafting punches, that is space efficient and easy to store on a bookshelf or even take with you to craft class. I hope you like my storage ideas.

Remember to always label your punches with your name!!!!

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Have a great weekend
Trish Munro

Beautiful Rose

Challenges this card qualifies for
· http://freshbreweddesigns.blogspot.com/2011/04/april-month-long-prize-challenge.html
· http://partytimetuesdays.blogspot.com/2011/04/party-time-tuesdays-ptt10-elegant.html
· http://crazychallenge.blogspot.com/2011/04/cch-61-just-add-flowers_04.html
· http://nettiegsdandydigitalgems-challengeblo.blogspot.com/2011/03/all-about-roses-challenge.html

Happy Mother’s Day

I was in the mood to use bold ,bright ,happy colours and butterfly's 

Challenges this card qualifies for:

• http://flutterbywednesdays.blogspot.com/2011/04/flutter-by-wednesday-149.html
• http://scrapbooksisters.blogspot.com/2011/04/card-challenge-number-30.html
• http://michelle-pinkpaperparadise.blogspot.com/2011/04/make-it-monday-31-changessearching-for.html
• http://mypartnerincraftingcrime.blogspot.com/2011/04/challenge-24-layer-it-up-and-some-extra.html

Handbag of Cards

I had a ball doing this class with Jane Norrish she is my amazing Stampin Up demonstrator who never ceases to amaze me with her knowledge and brilliant designs. I can’t show you the other two cards as I gave them away already which is so unlike me but I have my blog now and have a documented journey of both my cards and technological improvement on the computer. I’m enjoying both at the moment. In the last decade my business burnt to the ground and I’ve had my house and business flooded twice - all three life events not insured ,so this blog is my insurance of a preservation of all my artistic treasures.

Gumnut Babies

I think this is one of the best cards I have ever made. I think I will have to give it to my daughter so I won’t have to part with it!

Challenges this project qualifies for:

• Really Reasonable Ribbon-#19 Green
• Penny's Challenge-#48 Green
• ECP-#33 Green
• All Sorts-#93 Card for a teenager
• Aly's Sunday Challenge-#37 Anything Goes
• Corrosive-#106 Going Green
• Simon Says-Anything Goes
• Paper Pretties-#144 Ribbon
• Creative Card Crew-No flowers
• AiFactory - 1E, SIO - Luck of the Irish - Green or St Patrick's Day
• Aud Sentiments Challenge - 2W - 2nd wk. Birthday card, gift packaging or gifts 
• Bronte and Bella's Challenge - 1E, SIR - A Bit Of Green
• Colour Create - 2W, 1E –  Greens/Olive Green, Brown, Cream & Black - optional extra - Leaves. Inspiratonal Picture  *
• Craft Us Crazy - 2W, 3E - 2nd wk - anything that reminds you of nature
• Cute Card Thursday - C5 - Birthday Cards for A 3yr Old 
• Do You Stack Up? - 3E, SIO - Layers
• Little Miss Muffet Challenges - 2W, 1E, SIO - 2nd wk - Designer Papers
• Meljens Designs - SIO - Green
• Paper Play - 2E – Shades of Green/Good Luck
• Paper Romance - SIO - Use as many Colours as Possible 
• Pixie Dust Studio - SIO - Thank You for Being You
• Play Date Cafe - Colour*
• Rainbow Lady's - 2E -  Best Friends
• The Rubber Cafe - SIO - Favourite Die
• Shelly's Images - SIO - Something Green in honor of St Patrick's Day
• Stamp Insanity - SIO - Anything Goes, with a twist - A pop of Green or St Patty's day
• Stampin' B's - JFF - Use Bling
• Stamping Vacation - M - Glitter - ends 10th April
• Shabby Tea Room-#52 Luck of the Irishhttp://theshabbytearoom.blogspot.com/2011/03/week-52-luck-of-irish.html

Pillow Box Gift from Jane Norrish

Another gift from Jane Norrish my Stampin Up demonstrator and friend. I treasure all my lovely gifts from Jane and what a wonderful idea for me to use my new pillow box die.

Gift Card Treat

I have applied double-sided tape ready for the chocolate but my kids keep finding my chocolate stash! So you just have to visualise chocolate here in a nice shiny wrapper ready to be eaten...