Trish and Treasure

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Lion King Happy Birthday

I’ve had a winter flu and my kids have been on school holidays(3weeks) and normally that would mean a break but I have a performing arts daughter who auditioned and got a few parts in Jack & the Beanstalk Pantomime at Spotlight Theatre on the Gold Coast,Australia.She played the hen that lays the golden egg and Milky White the Cow(who Jack sells for a handful of beans….. I’m sure she’s worth way more than that!) and a mean and creepy mini monster who belongs to the Giant, a cute villager and a special appearance as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz (sings her solo) who gets lost and ends up in the wrong Pantomime. So she’s only 10 yrs. old and it was hair, make up and go go go(8 costume changes per show). She gave a professional performance next to some very well know TV and Theatre celebrities and had a fantastic learning opportunity to fine tune her craft and learn from the greats in the industry and after 20 performances we are both exhausted …..so life in our household has been so full on.

I’ve also just added the adorable kissing bear at the top of my blog please take as many kisses as you need!

Back into card making which I love and I used this Party Animal paper by Kaisercraft which is so much fun to use.I wanted to emboss the striped paper for added affect and I’m so happy with the result, it really ties the project together.

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Trish Munro

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Amanda Cordingley here to visit

Amanda Cordingley and Karen Harper, who are Independent Kaszazz Consultants, have come to visit, having cake and coffee, and talking about blogging. Todays lesson is how to set up a blog. Keep an eye out for some new blogs from Amanda and Karen that I will link to in the future.

pictured left to right, Karen, Amanda, Vicki Fraser and me.

Friday, June 24, 2011

Crimper Day with Jane Norrish

My friend Roz had a Stampin Up Party on Sunday and these are the cards we made with our wonderful Stampin Up demonstrator Jane Norrish using the Crimper, and we really were dying to try the cupcake punch and matching stamp set. We also tried for the first time the stamps on wheels. Jane showed us the builder wheels, I love trying new things. Now I have an even bigger wish list of stuff I REALLY NEED.

We crimped the bottom half of the envelope after we stamped with the Stampin Up builder wheels and the top then fitted nicely over the bottom crimped section. Jane said I really need to practise my bows , which I will get to and she said the secret is to trim the ribbon in the same direction and it does look so much better. Live and learn. This is the insert that goes inside. Isn't it a great design for a card.

This is the back view,I love these silky smooth Stampin Up envelopes they are so lovely to work with.

Happy blogging

Hugs

Trish Munro

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Grassy Head

This Grassy Head was a gift to my son from Linda, who is such a wonderful teacher at his school. She bought it at the local Art Markets because he is such a hard worker at school and always tries his hardest in all that he does.It sat in the gift bag until the end of the Xmas school holidays and the instructions said place in a glass of water and regularly keep topped up with water. This activated the grass seeds and voila, he had hair! He is such a cute character that lives on my kitchen sink catching a few rays of sun and I also snapped a few photos on the back verandah. Very arty,unique and unusual gift!

Keep smiling

Trish Munro

Monday, June 20, 2011

Penguin Party Time

I’ve been dying to try some new stuff out lately, and my purchase of this gorgeous string inspired me to try it out with some balloons. Ask my friend Vicki Fraser she will tell you how embarrassing I am at the shopping centre when it comes to balloons, I just love them! I couldn’t resist this handsome penguin gentleman who no doubt has happy feet and can trip the light fantastic. Yes, I’m ready to party. I have a thing for bright colours and know the young recipient of this card will love it as much as I do.

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Party on and have a good time!

Trish Munro

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Neddy the Nice Horse

Now that I’m an Aunty several times over (my family are like rabbits) this card is for my young nephew.Here’s a poem my Mum used to recite to me when I was a little tacker. I love this poem, sorry I do not know it’s origins.

Neddy is a nice horse

Neddy likes Hay

Don’t you like nuts Neddy

Nay Nay Nay!

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Have a great day

Trish Munro

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Splish Splash

I ran one the left side of my envelope thru the Big Shot and embossed the matching polka dots to have a great matching envelope so the excitement begins before you even open the card! This is a perfect card for my nephew’s birthday.

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Have a splashing good weekend

Trish Munro

Friday, June 17, 2011

Party Animal

I love this new paper design by Kaisercraft called Party Animals. It’s a different style of card making for me as I’d normally class myself as a stamper, but I'm here to try all new things and experiment and recreate a new style for myself. This year I’m challenging myself in as many new things as possible. He’s such a happy and cute bear, he’s adorable!

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Keep smiling
Trish Munro

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Cheeky Smiles For Your Birthday

I’d been dying to try to make a banner and incorporated that into this card using this gorgeous string. The string reminds me of my teenage year's where I perfected a few tricks with my yo-yo. I feel in love with this range of papers by Kaisercraft, so stay tuned. I’ve been cutting out the animals ready to make some more cards, using my waiting for my daughter at rehearsals time effectively.

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Have a great day

Trish Munro

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Stampin Up–Make and Take

On the weekend I went to the Australasian Scrapbook and Papercraft Expo in Brisbane,Australia with my friend’s Vicki and Roz. I did a make and take at the Stampin Up stand run by Chrissie Allen, Jenn Duncan, Sherri Freese, Sue Janke, Megan Kinsey and Susan Hurley-Luke. I really enjoyed this make and take and tried the Stampin Up scissors and they were surprisingly brilliant and so easy to work with, now I have some thing else to add to my wish list. I love the Strength & Hope stamp set they used. If you buy a set from one of the girls before 31st July they will donate $2 from the sale to The Breast Cancer research Foundation. The girls had the most amazing cards and scrapbooking pages on display, I wanted to make them all! Very inspiring!

Have a great day
Trish Munro

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

SURFERS PARADISE

To get the golden sun ray’s I used my Stampin Up Bird Punch. I got the inspiration for this card from where I live which is very close to Surfers Paradise a famous beach here on the Gold Coast,Australia. I got the sandy paper in the pet isle at the supermarket, apparently it’s for birds cages, and it was perfect for this project. I used the glitter to simulate the ocean spray of the glistening water.

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Blue sky's makes me happy!

Trish Munro

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Handbag Card

This gorgeous handbag card was made using a handbag template. I used dimensionals to lift the handbag which gives a nice effect with the embossed card underneath.(Tip: Place the dimensionals so that you can place a gift card or cash in the bag). The ribbon was from a $2 importer style shop and already has the beading attached and stuck under the coloured paper panel on the top of the bag gives a great trendy styling to the bag.

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Have a great weekend

Love Trish Munro xx

Friday, June 10, 2011

Happy Fathers Day Card

I enjoyed making this Tiger Card as it oozes masculinity, which really suits my hubby and will be the perfect Fathers Day Card for him.

I added the textured card at the bottom to accentuate the mirrored effect of the water in my stamped image, and it was nice to add some natural coloured texture to try to man this card up a bit! I added a purple highlight to offset the grey colouring, for the cool colours that are under the Tiger’s neck . I started colouring this last year at my daughter’s play rehearsal for the same theatre company as this year and finished it finally the other night, only one year later and another play later. It was a marathon to colour and took a lot longer than I thought. I don’t mind waiting for her at all and it gives me a bit more time to do my crafting, unfortunately there is only 2 more weeks of rehearsals for Jack & the Beanstalk a Pantomime ( she’s the back half of a cow, a villager, the hen that lays the golden egg, Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz(singing Were off to see the the Wizard solo) & a scary monster monster. That’s a lot of costume changes for one play.This is her 4th play for the year. Her 3rd Play this year has performances next week. She is small Alice in Alice in Wonderland a Disney play,so it’s go go go around here. Hair,Make up, Action!

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I’m so proud of myself , I have actually made this card in advance… rather than a last minute job. Wonders will never cease!

Trish Munro

Monday, June 6, 2011

Best Wishes

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Hope you all enjoyed your weekend.
Trish Munro

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Thinking of you

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I loved using these gorgeous flower bling.

Trish Munro

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Relax

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Trish Munro

Friday, May 27, 2011

Teddy Bear Card

I’m entering this sketch challenge, hope you like my big teddy bear!
http://annabellestamps.blogspot.com/2011/04/absc037.html

I'm also entering http://oldiebutagoodiechallenge.blogspot.com/2011/05/challenge-19.html

which is all about teddy bears!

I had so much fun colouring in this teddy, he is so darn cute! I popped up his nose and heart for some extra dimension.

Trish Munro

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Bold,Bright & Bring on the Bling Star Christmas Card

I decided to have a play around and try to clear emboss onto patterned paper which is something I’ve never tried before. I adore bright and bold colours because they make me happy just looking at them.so I chose this patterned paper sheet in my DCWV The Blossoms & Butterflies Stack to try out this new technique combined with this scalloped star stamp that I bought from a lovely lady clearing out all her old stamps. Well …she never made it out of the car park to try to sell them at our group day I bought them all, because they were so unusual and she gave me an absolute bargain and threw in some free stamps for my darling daughter. I knew the scallops on the star would soften the strong diamond pattern and make an unusual Christmas Card. So I clear embossed the star onto the patterned paper then used my Stamp It Sponging Block with Vicki Fraser’s Stampin Up Temping Turquoise Inkpad. I’m definitely getting that Temping Turquoise Inkpad I just love this colour.Anyway,I sponged it until I covered the square of patterned paper and then rubbed over with a tissue to remove he excess ink to reveal my clear embossing. I think it turned out great.Then to the job of mounting it.I went and bought some new cardstock so it all matched beautifully . I was passionate about doing some paper piercing and using my new Stampin Up photo corner punch and very pleased with the result of this card inside and out. Those who know me well, know I am currently addicted to glitter and bling. I’m sorry but I just can’t help myself there is glitter and bling everywhere on this card and the dog who forever sits underneath me, but really who doesn’t love glitter and bling!

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I really enjoyed making this card, I’m going to give it to my son’s Learning Support teacher for Christmas.I know she will love it.

Trish Munro

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

May ALL your DREAMS come TRUE

This is such a cute stamp from a set that I picked up years ago at a bargain shop. I’ve finally discovered if you colour your image in the same colours as your papers it all look so much better. I’m going to save up and buy some Sketch Copic markers because you can clearly see my image is furry because the markers I have seem to do this.It might take me five years to save up for Copic Sketch markers but there is no point only buying one.

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I love the the thought that my vice is to be colouring in!

Trish Munro