Sunday, February 21, 2010

cuttlebug for sale

it is with no regrets i am off laoding my cuttlebug and buying a brand new big shot coutesy of stampin up so my lovely little second hand bug is up for grabs. I need $150 for it folks. The $150 includes... SPACER A BOARD CUTTING PAD B X2 (have cut marks on them) THIN DIE ADAPTER (totally unused and still in wrapper!) Celebration Stamps Die Cut and Embossing set (4 embossing plates and 1 die cut) Friend Words Embossing folder Our baby Embossing folder Shell cottage embossing folder Happy birthday embossing folders x4 (brand new) oh and, of course, a cuttlebug lol postage will be somewhere between $10 and $20 i am guessing
if you live in sydney and we can probably organise a drop off/pick up place

Monday, February 15, 2010

several things on the go

i am creatively busy at the moment trying to try new things and play with the stash that i have. thankfully i have homes for most of them which helps hey? anyways here is a selection enjoy! this is my entry for the essential baby card swap. the theme was love so i got out all my heart stamps and went a bit berko on the card and then punched images out with a 1 1/4" circle punch here i had some fun with my one of a kind stamp set and used my cuttlebug to add some swirls more cuttlebug here but stuck to a scallop note card. the stamp is from a sale-a-bration set called happy moments some punk rock emo chick stickers (lol) stuck to card stock with ribbon and such stuff. sssssssshhhhh but i used some hero arts stamps. aren't these little christmas girls just the cutest? some thank you cards for a customer using nature's nest stamp set a thinking of you card using trendy trees.... man oh man my stamp-a-ma-jig got a workout!!!! three little words stamp set. a set i find a bit tricky to use but have copied an idea from the ib&c and quite like it okies time for bed cheers ears!

Friday, February 12, 2010

cards for men

lets face it
masculine / male/ men cards are a complete arse to do, i find. little boy cards are easy peasy but when they grow up they start to become harder to please.
being the girl that i am i always end up making them look a bit too 'gay' thankfully i have my hubby who has his gaydar on and happily lets me know if my masculine cards aren't manly enough lol so here are some i made recently. see if you can spot the one that made hubby's gaydar go off lol
put your guess in the comments section and if it is the right one then i'll send some masculine themed card/scrapbooking embellishments your way. cheers ears

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

masking 101

at our sale-a-bration spectacular everyone was given the opportunity to try masking with my make and take. i gave a simple easy peasy instructions for people to follow. and here it is! Stamp the image you want where you want with the colours you want. position any extra bits and peices with a Stamp-a-ma-jig. Cut (or punch in this case! gotta love that butterfly punch!!) an exact image out and stick over top using repositionable glue i.e. dotto. A post it note which works just as well. Stamp over the covered up image (or roll in this case) as evenly as possible. Peel off the mask to reveal your coloured image underneath. hey presto! el-coolo image-o!!! hope that ehlps you cheers ears!

ballerina tutorial

woohoo here we go punch out 2 scallop circles from card stock vellum. cut along the dips in the scallops into the middle but NOT right through (or her tutu will fall apart and she will be left standing in her undies lol) glue together (after you have fluffed them up a bit) to the lavendar lace scallop circle card.get 2 word window legs and the squat heart. cut the heart down the middle glue onto the legs attach to back of tutu and arrange your legs how you want your ballerina to pose get bits for head use circle punch to cut out fringe from butterfly image stick blush blossom circle to bottom of choc chip circle. add fringe.add crescent and tiny heart to make tiara. add small choc chip circle to make bun at back of head get the rest of the word windows and long heart stick arms onto heart first then neck. then stick head down. then add dimensionals it should look like this. if you want your ballerina to have some more cleavage then move the ends of the word windows closer in and you will get a bit of boobie cleavage happening lol it should look like this when all stuck together if you are not making the mutant kind hahahaha finally get out some pens and draw in a face and some ballet strings so her shoes don't fall off phew! there we go easy peasy i now expect to see ballerinas all over the place now. if you make one please send us a link or a photo of your attempt so i can go "oh wow that is awesome" okies cheers ears

i have been punching some ballerinas

well not real ones just the paper kind of course..... back to the topic at hand and it is all about ballerinas. I made some a while ago and have had a bit more of a play since then. I got everyone to make some at our Sale-a-bration charity fundraiser last weekend. Hi if you are checking me out from that-please say hi!! Here is the punch sheet from that showing what bits of each punch you needed in each colour. I hope that made it easy for everyone...well no one had mutant looking ballerinas so it must have been ok hahahahaha I have used Lavendar lace, blush blossom, Chocolate chip and vellum card stock. and just so you know the love hearts are wrong wrong wrong. i cut out the wrong one-you need to cut out the squat one for the shoes and the longer one for the body I will get around to changing it i promise and here are the punches you needed (which you can, of course, buy them all from me because you know you totally NEED them all right now) please say hi and let me know how your ballerinas went cheers ears