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 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”!

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.

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.