Dearie Dolls Laundry Day Snowman Christmas Card Set

Join us for our second challenge over at Card Crafters Circle.

Our theme this week is:

Create for CHRISTMAS!

Sponsored by Dearie Dolls.

Winner's Prize is their choice of 3 digis.

Here is the digital image I used and printed it in two sizes.

Dearie Dolls Laundry Day Snowman

 

 

 

I embossed the inside pockets of my cardholder for a touch of class and place 3 cards either side and held closed with a ribbon..

Inside view of the gift cards

In an effort to be frugal I always try to be as economical as possible with my projects as you can see.

As you can’t see…. as once it’s all glued down….. and otherwise it’s just such a waste!

I made this Christmas card set as a present for one of my sisters.

Challenges I would like to enter with this project:

• http://digitaltuesdaychallenge.blogspot.com/2011/12/challenge-141-winter-wonderland.html Winter Wonderland- Must use Digi
• http://blog.icopic.com/2011/12/icopic-weekly-challenge-61.html Last minute Christmas cards
• http://theresmagicintheair.blogspot.com/2011/12/magical-monday-bird-image.html Anything Goes, but must include a bird
• http://paperandsuchonline.blogspot.com/2011/12/time-for-another-challenge-here-at.html Last minute Christmas Card
• http://sassycherylschallenge.blogspot.com/2011/12/challenge-95-snowman-with-die-cut.html Snowman with Diecut
• http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/baby-its-cold-outside.html Winter/Cold Project
• http://craftyourdaysaway.blogspot.com/2011/12/cyda-challenge-35-snowmen.html Snowmen
• http://craftycalendarchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/12/cold-and-frosty.html Cold and Frosty

Merry Christmas

Trish Munro

Stampin Up Punch Art Santa

Lucky me, I received this adorable Santa with Chocolate!!!!! from my Stampin Up demonstrator  Jane Norrish. I’ll have to give this a try, it’s just so cute!!!

Ho Ho Ho

Yummy Christmas

Trish Munro

The Stamping Boutique: Monthly drawing for a free image!

The Stamping Boutique: Monthly drawing for a free image!

hAnglar stAnglar Christmas Card

My best friend Vicki Fraser gave me a paper lace doily to add to my stash and I decided to add it to this Christmas card and this is what I came up with. I desperately need more cards than I first though, and have a few more to make as this deadline is fast approaching! Of course I added some snowflakes as you all know I just love snowflakes!!! I added Bling in threes on the corners and I’m happy how that panned out and a bling on her Santa hat to add another sparkly element to go with the golden misted glimmer on the doily.


Challenges I am going to enter with this card:
http://addicted-to-stamps-challenge.blogspot.com/2011/12/challenge-19.html Snowflakes
http://pileitonchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/12/pile-it-on-49-december-month-long.html Bling it up
http://marksfinestpapers.blogspot.com/2011/12/speedy-cats-friends-challenge-week_17.html Make a Christmas Card
http://onestopcraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/12/week-162-christmas-sparkle.html Christmas Sparkle
http://annabellestamps.blogspot.com/2011/12/say-it-withchristmas-3-cards.html Christmas Card
http://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/2011/12/last-challenge-for-2011.html Santa Hat
http://blog.icopic.com/2011/12/icopic-weekly-challenge-61.html Last Minute Xmas cards

Merry Christmas

Trish Munro

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Christmas Treat Box

It’s such a cute little box and so quick to make,and  M & M’s are perfect to pop in or small mints…any chocolate really. It’s made using a 6x 6 inch designer paper double sided and scored like tic tac toe and then the extra score lines to fold and a flap to finish,easy peasy when you know how. When I get a chance I will do a YouTube tutorial for all you visual learners,…. like me. I really enjoy the challenge of construction and hate reading instructions but it’s so worth it when it’s finished!

 

Challenges I would like to enter:

• http://allwayssomethingcreative.blogspot.com/2011/12/challenge-20-frohe-weihnachten.html Merry Christmas
• http://blingitonchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/12/its-christmas.html Christmas
• http://joannasheenchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/12/its-beginning-to-look-lot-like.html Christmas
• http://mariannedesigndivas.blogspot.com/2011/12/challenge-6-its-christmas.html Christmas
• http://audsentimentschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/challenge-43-inspiration.html Winter Holiday Sentiment
• http://paper-craftingjourney.blogspot.com/2011/12/pcjchristmas-challenge.html Christmas Creations
• http://mymumscraftshopchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/12/challenge-36-cute-and-funky-christmas.html Cute and Funky Christmas

Merry Christmas

Trish Munro

Bugaboo Stamps Dino Heart 1

I do hope you will be able to join us for our very first challenge over at Card Crafters Circle. Our theme this week is CREATE FOR ANY CELEBRATION!

The challenge will run from Friday 16th December (Australian Time) for a week

This week we have Bugaboo Stamps sponsoring our challenge with the

winner’s prize - their choice of 7 images!

Here is my card

This is the very cute digital  image I used  and it’s available at Bugaboo Stamps Here
I borrowed my friend Vicki Fraser’s (who has Blog Candy at the moment) small polka dot embossing folder for the smaller heart,which I paper pieced. I also paper pieced his feet and embossed as well, and I think it just adds that something extra.


I cut a strip of cardstock and scored to create a zigzag strip to attach to his head so Dino could have a wobbly head! The other stamps (Nitwit Collections) I used on this card came as a free gift with Australian Simply Cards Magazine Issue 34. I used sandpaper on the embossed footprints and had a ball colouring in with my Copics. This is Basic Grey Ribbon , American Crafts Amplified Designer papers Saturday Night Fever and Boogie and matching American Crafts Elements Round Buttons in Leaf.

I would like to enter the following Challenges :

• http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/2011/12/make-it-monday-67-with-cupcake-cards.html
• http://www.cardcupids.org/blog/?p=1880 Cards with hearts
• http://corrosivechallengesbyjanet.blogspot.com/2011/12/challenge-139-anything-except-christmas.html Anything except Christmas
• http://squigglestamps.blogspot.com/2011/12/lets-celebrate.html Let’s Celebrate
• http://simplycreatetoo.blogspot.com/2011/12/challenge-2-embossing.html Embossing

Have a great weekend

Trish Munro

Magnolia Christmas Card

I made this for my girlfriend Tracey(my bridesmaid) and her family. I wanted to have a bit of fun with Tilda and decided if I was her I’d be swinging around too!As you can see there is lots of glitter..on the card, all over me and Honey my dog has a bit on her as well…everywhere I tell you. I challenged myself to make a Centre Step Card and I’m very pleased with the result and using not just….. non traditional colours, but my favorites!
Challenges I would like to enter:

• http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/2011/12/im-dreaming-of-your-fave-colour.html Christmas card or project in YOUR fave  colour theme
• http://thestampingboutiquechallengeblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/challenge-21no-traditional-christmas.html No traditional Christmas colours
• http://thestampingboutiquechallengeblog.blogspot.com/p/monthly-contest.html Happy Holidays
• http://bunnyzoescrafts.blogspot.com/2011/12/challenge-19-fancy-foldsshaped-cards.html Fancy folds shaped cards
• http://craftybootschallenges.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas.html Christmas
• http://cupcakecraftchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/12/cupcake-172-dont-look-at-light.html If it sparkles, shines, gleams, glints and/ or glitter
• http://heartsonginspirations.blogspot.com/2011/12/challenge-28-snowflakes-andor-doilies.html Snowflakes and or doilies
• http://blog.icopic.com/2011/12/icopic-weekly-challenge-60.html Holidays, must use Copics
• http://crazychallenge.blogspot.com/2011/12/cch-97-more-than-one-fold.html More than one fold

Merry Christmas to all my new friends

Trish Munro

Butterfly Birthday Cake

I wanted to make my daughter a Butterfly Birthday cake before she is too old for butterflies! She invited about 50 friends from school and her dance studio and the kids all had a ball.

Nanna Joan was here buttering the bread early in the day ready for the sausage sizzle on the BBQ and making up the lolly bags. My son mowed the lawn and blew up the balloons and he was the DJ with all the latest music for the party.  Vicki Fraser came over and helped me get ready and put up all the balloons and decorated the house, helped me bake, vacuum,mop and even cleaned the pool ready for Anita’s pool party disco!Even Vicki’s hubby came over and helped supervise the kids and helped  keep them all fed with plate after plate. It was a real team effort and my hubby home from work just in time to cook the BBQ. There is something about inviting people over that makes me clean the house like a mad woman.

I’m very proud of my cake and it turned out just like the pictures(attached) Anita and I drew when we were designing what we wanted. We started with a Garden with lots of grass (piped with corner cut out of zip lock bag and extra green food colouring added to original green icing) and flowers(Bought at Supermarket) and a bit of Bling (Silver Balls).If you are wondering were on earth I got the cake pan for the Garden layer it’s actually my oven roaster pan that I normally cook a baked Chicken in. The Butterfly top layer is essentially a cake baked in a circle pan and cut up. My oven cooks unevenly so one side of the circle cake was higher than the other and I used this to my advantage so that the top of the butterfly cake was higher and on one of the photos you can see that the butterfly is slightly over the edge, I did this so it looked like it was just about the fly away!

Here are the designs we drew prior to making the cake so we had a plan, and all the right decorations ready  for the cake once it was baked. I lightly sprayed a fine mist of water over the cake to remoisten the icing.

Thanks for coming over to see my Butterfly Birthday Cake

Trish Munro

Vicki at CardarTart has Blog Candy!!!

My best friend Vicki Fraser is having Blog Candy over at her blog CardarTart. Head on over and check it out she need 133 Followers asap.Sign up  HERE today for Vicki’s fantastic giveaway  for her one year blogaversary and while you are over there you can see her amazing creative cards too!

Tell her I sent you over!

Hugs

Trish Munro

Card Crafters Circle Design Team

Card Crafters Circle has just announced the New Design Team and I'm very excited to tell you that I am officially now a member at Card Crafters Circle Design Team. Wow, that was quick I made up my mind to apply for the Design Team and was offered the position, careful what you wish for as this dream came true in days!

Here’s my Bio which has been posted on Card Crafter Circle!

I have two kids, a wholesale roofing and tiling business which I operate from home, and at every opportunity I indulge in my crafting.

I have enjoyed art as long as I could remember and became interested in card making about 4 years ago at a craft fair. I went to see all about Scrapbooking and came home fascinated to learn all the paper crafting techniques instead. I began with stamping and took some private lessons, then joined a group of like-minded girls who all have amazing talents. We still meet up once a month and share our knowledge.

This year I made a promise to myself to become more savvy with technology. This led to my starting a Blog to have a record of all my artistic treasures (which I had previously held onto because I didn’t want to part with them – it was a huge box I can tell you!)

Blogging led me to find a whole new world of like minded crafters who are sharing their ideas, talents and friendship. I am having so much fun!

My blog TrishandTreasure is the perfect virtual record of my work and I have even been encouraged by my Son to start a You Tube Channel for Tutorials which is also called TrishandTreasure. So feel free to pop on over to either or both and check out my Treasures.

I am so excited and proud to be on Pauline’s Card Crafters Circle Design Team and look forward to sharing with you all.

Here is a list of all the other Card Crafter’s Circle Design Team Members:

• Anne-Marie
• Audrey
• Bonnie
• Jenee
• Jennifer
• Pauline

I will be looking forward to seeing your entries at our first challenge on the 16th December, and I have been given the cutest image to make my very first DT card.

Hugs

Trish Munro

I Won Challenge 17 at Let’s Ink It Up

I won Challenge 17 at Let’s Ink It Up with my Flower Bookmark. I am so excited ….Yes I’m doing the happy dance! I set myself a goal this year to win a challenge with something I created, and finally I won! I can now tick that off my bucket list! My next challenge to myself is to make it onto a Design Team.

Thanks for stopping by

Trish Munro

Noel Christmas Card

I made this Christmas card that folds out like like a banner which becomes not just a Christmas card but a decoration too. I looked up the dictionary  meaning for Noel : Noël [nəʊˈɛl] 1. (esp in carols) another word for Christmas 2. (Music, other) (often not capital) Rare a Christmas carol . I kept the colour palette simply sticking with red, green and gold for a touch of class. I stamped the background using Versamark Ink and Gold Mica Powder. To get the letters I used a scrapbooking letters sheet like a template and traced out the letters in pencil (remember to pencil on the reverse side by flipping the stencil over) hand cut the letters in red and green and have saved the scrapbooking designer paper letters for when I finally get to do some scrapbooking. I edged all the letters with my Gold Krylon pen and finished by attaching all the circles with some sheer red  ribbon I found with with gold stars on it to match perfectly. There is plenty of room on the back of the card for the whole family to write their own personal message.



Challenges this card qualifies for:

• http://lollipopcrafts.blogspot.com/2011/11/challenge-58-anything-goes.html Anything Goes
• http://papersundaes.blogspot.com/2011/11/paper-sundaes-challenge-96-beautiful.html Beautiful Bows
• http://thecraftypad.blogspot.com/2011/11/challenge-148-festive-cheer-news-and.html Red,Green and Gold or Silver
• http://littleclairesdesigns.blogspot.com/2011/11/little-claire-monthly-challenge-15.html Shaped card
• http://artimpressionsstamps.blogspot.com/2011/11/challenge-number-41redgreen-and.html Red, Green & Metallic
• http://digidoodleshopsbest.blogspot.com/2011/11/challenge-83-colour-combo-of-red-green.html Colour combo of Red & Green
• http://littlemissmuffetchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/11/arabella-barbara-cleota-leah-ann-peggy.html Simplicity

Have a great day
Trish Munro

Christmas Tree Gift Card

Here is a super simple card to make and the snow is 11 am snow. Early morning snow is hard and icy and very blue and the after lunch snow can start to melt and sometimes gets slushy (like the drink), but this is perfect snow…. 11am snow…not too hard and not too soft and glistens with the sun, it shimmers like a layer of glitter! To make your very own 11am glimmering snow firstly perfectly cut a rectangle of white cardstock at approximately two thirds the height of the base card now rip at an angle, at proportions one third & two thirds. Now layer the highest one at the base of your card and the smaller second piece over the top and liberally apply glitter glue for perfect 11 am snow!

Challenges this card qualifies for:

• http://2sisterschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/challenge-66-let-it-sparkle.html Let it Sparkle
• http://phindysplacechallenge.blogspot.com/2011/11/challenge-82-christmas-cards.html Christmas
• http://wagsnwhiskersrubberstamps.blogspot.com/2011/11/challenge-67-christmas-themed_11.html Christmas
• http://digidoodleshopsbest.blogspot.com/2011/11/challenge-83-colour-combo-of-red-green.html Red & Green Colour Combination
• http://shellysimagesblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/terrifically-thrilling-thursday.html Anything Goes
• http://pictureandscrap.blogspot.com/2011/11/utfordring-20.html Traditional Christmas Colours

My Golden Retriever Honey came home from hospital on Thursday night and she is heading for a speedy recovery, this time last week we thought the worst at the words spinal injury but every day her ability to do more and more is amazing and every step towards recovery is very positive. We got her back swimming and she is so happy as she normally swims up to 4 times a day and I think she is actually smiling. I am very relieved to have her home! Thank you, I really appreciate all your well wishes for Honey. All of a sudden that song “All I want for Christmas is YOU" is so true!

Hope you have all had a great weekend.

Trish Munro

hAnglar stAnglar Christmas Card with Snow

My perfect holiday involves snow and I really enjoyed making this card with snow. My daughter recently commented on my stamp collection and said  “if I really want to enjoy my colouring in, I‘ve got to get some images I really want to colour in”, so I have recently added some new stuff to my collection that visually appeals to me and I got myself some Copics so I can really enjoy myself.The Copics are really my Christmas present early so I will have to wrap them up and put them under the tree on Christmas Eve. I added a railing behind as her background to set the scene and coloured with Copics and added a thick layer of snow(Ice Stickles) because that’s just how it sits on the fence, when it really snows. I love this embossing folder because it looks like swirling snow , yet still pretty and feminine like the soft subtle curves of fresh flowers, and I slightly distressed the edges to add some interest like the way the snow plough clears a slightly uneven path. I used my new Martha Stewart Snowflake Border Punch which was a wonderful find at the recent craft fair. I added the white stars and snowflakes to finish off the card, and to add a (Ice Stickles Glitter Glue)shimmer of blue and coldness to the card to help set the scene. I love these pastel non traditional colours I used in this card with some inspiration from the Shabby Tearoom.

Challenges this card qualifies for:

• http://craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/11/challenge-84-sponsored-by-phooka.html Let it Snow
• http://kennykkraftygirlzchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/11/challenge-69-emboss-away.html Emboss
• http://heartsonginspirations.blogspot.com/2011/11/challenge-25-gold-or-glitter.html Gold or Glitter ( I used glitter!)
• http://hookedoncraftchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/11/challenge-12.html Punch or Die cut (I did both)
• http://blog.icopic.com/2011/11/icopic-weekly-challenge-56.html Copic Background
• http://thepinkelephantchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/11/pink-elephant-tpe125.html Embossing
• http://theshabbytearoom.blogspot.com/2011/11/week-88-shabby-pastel-christmas.html

 

 

 

SHABBY TEA ROOM -create a card or project inspired by the above photo using these pretty PASTEL COLORS AND A HOLIDAY THEME!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On a personal note my Golden Retriever ‘Honey’ had a dog version of a stroke on Sunday afternoon and poor Honey is at the Veterinary Specialist Centre with hope for rehabilitation, only time will tell. Here is the technical stuff off the internet. In Honey’s case it’s one rear leg. I’m spending as much time as I can at the hospital with her as possible, and went twice yesterday. It’s such a shock to see her so unwell, she is only 7.5yrs old and the words spinal injury are never words you want to hear. She was just playing on the grass when it happened casually sniffing around and then yelped about 20 times, just like that… fine one minute and her life changed the next.

Fibrocartilaginous Embolism. In this condition, a small amount of disc material ruptures and gets into one of the blood vessels leading to the spinal cord. As the vessel narrows, the disc material obstructs it, depriving a certain segment of the spinal cord of its blood supply. Without proper blood supply, that segment of the spinal cord dies, resulting in paralysis. Surgery will not help these dogs because there is no pressure on the spinal cord. Often, paralysis involves only one rear leg, or one rear leg is more severely affected than the other. Complete recovery may occur in a few days to weeks, or there may be permanent damage to a portion of the spinal cord. Diagnosis of fibrocartilaginous embolism is based on the correct clinical signs and a normal myelogram. Definitive diagnosis can only be made after death by performing a spinal cord biopsy.

Keeping positive is essential!

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

Magnolia Birthday Card

As you can see I got carried away and embossed two layers on this card and then used my sponging block with some chalk ink to highlight the embossing. I adore this cute Magnolia stamp she is so versatile and had a ball colouring her with my new Copics. I saw the balloons inside the card idea on Valita’s Fresh Folds ages ago and finally tried it out and it adds a real cuteness to the Happy Birthday card!

Challenges this card qualifies for:

• http://trimmiescraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/11/craft-challenge-128-cute.html Cute
• http://charismacardz.blogspot.com/2011/11/challenge-44-cutesy-2-week-challenge.html Cutesy
• http://mymumscraftshopchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/11/challenge-31-sugar-and-spice.html Sugar and Spice
• http://craftybootschallenges.blogspot.com/2011/10/young-at-heart.html Young at heart

Have a great weekend

Trish Munro

Martha Stewart Scoring Board Gift Box

I made this box with my Martha Stewart Scoring Board and I wanted to be a bit tricky and made it slightly angled as you can see by my last photo. This necklace is a gift for my sisters birthday and I wanted to present it in something I had made myself rather than a pre purchased gift bag, just to challenge myself and see what I could do.

 

Challenges this project qualifies for:

• http://craftyribbonschallenge.blogspot.com/2011/11/challenge-6.html Anything but a card
• http://mariannedesigndivas.blogspot.com/2011/10/dying-to-diecut.html Dying to Diecut
• http://dutchdare-cardchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/11/ddcc-138-punch-time-patties-creations.html use your punches and dies
• http://creativecraftchallenges2.blogspot.com/2011/11/were-going-minimalistic-and-our-winners.html Minimalistic
• http://littlemissmuffetchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/11/arabella-barbara-cleota-leah-ann-peggy.html Simplicity
• http://bowsnberries-bosenberries.blogspot.com/2011/10/challenge-13-clean-and-simple.html Clean and Simple
• http://crazychallenge.blogspot.com/2011/11/cch-92-something-with-wings.html Something with Wings

Thanks for stopping by

Trish Munro

Toblerone Swirl Cheesecake

I made this Toblerone Cheesecake for my son’s 16th birthday and naturally it didn’t last long. I used Malteasers to decorate and I had heaps of fun getting the swirl effect.
It was so yummy!!!
Trish Munro

Flower Birthday Card

I’m a huge fan of lime green and pink together and by having the lime green underneath as my base card it really popped the pretty pink flower off the card . I wanted to create some interest in the flower and add another pink layer so I punched a plain white flower and then stamped baby butterflies on it and then edged it with pink ink so that the flower has lots of layer but kept it’s pinkness. I feel  in this creation I have achieved - less is more!

• http://createmepink.blogspot.com/2011/11/cmp-3-flower-challenge.html Flower
• http://creativecraftchallenges2.blogspot.com/2011/11/were-going-minimalistic-and-our-winners.html Minimalistic
• http://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.com/2011/11/tuesday-throwdown-74.html My favourite colour combination
• http://creativeinspirationspaint.blogspot.com/2011/11/ci-paints-inspired-by-anything-goes.html Anything Goes
• http://thesquirrelandthefox.blogspot.com/2011/10/challenge-4-hats-or-flowers.html Hats and/or flowers

Keep smiling

Trish Munro

Flower Bookmark

I made this extra wide bookmark for my sister as part of her birthday present because she loves to read and loves art. I wanted to create a bookmark in relaxing colours ,but not too busy to distract you from reading your book. I used my Colorbox Chalk inks with my Stamp It Sponging Blocks to create an arty background, a technique I have been trying to perfect for a while and I am so pleased with my morning mist look for my background .The stamp is from Stamp It called Grevillea (an Australian Flower). I added the silky smooth ribbon to contrast with the embossed  texture band I placed at the bottom of the bookmark, so it not only looks good but feels good too!

Challenges this qualifies for:

• http://heartsonginspirations.blogspot.com/2011/11/challenge-23-anything-goes.html Anything Goes
• http://bowsnberries-bosenberries.blogspot.com/2011/10/challenge-13-clean-and-simple.html Clean and Simple
• http://letsinkitup.blogspot.com/2011/11/challenge-17.html Show us your favourite stamping technique
• http://just-add-ink.blogspot.com/2011/11/jai-92-just-add-tag-or-bookmark.html Tag or Bookmark
• http://cookingitupwithkatie.blogspot.com/2011/11/cooking-it-up-82-anything-but-card.html Anything but a card

Thanks for visiting my blog

Trish Munro