school holidays scrapbooking

for those playing at home and living in the northern hemisphere

it is summer here in the southern one 

well new zealand summers aren't "real" summers

but we make do lolol

here are some summer holiday shots

 new year's eve sunset over palmerston north

 zealandia wildlife sanctuary in wellington-a place where you can see tuataras in the wild about a metre away from you

 a scrapbook page of my eldest girl with photos from our trip to hot water beach in the coromandel

inspired by the scrap our stash challenge #34 and dr seuss colours

another page

i know 2 in one week!!

i MUST be on holidays right?!!!

this one is from the same road trip but photos are from paeroa (world famous in new zealand!!!)

enjoy

cheers ears

stars wars cards

so 2016 and the start of a new crafting year

maybe i will actually get more done this year as 2015 was a sad sad case of affairs due to the cow getting a full time paid teaching job

which was "YAY!!!" for me but

"MEH" for my craft mojo and it went on a holiday

now it is school holidays and i get some time to get my craft on

i also have been getting my geek on with the latest star wars movie

so what better than to combine the 2

RIIIIIGHT??!!!

my first card was inspired by a sketch from retro sketches and the cool dsp stack going places and the stamp set grateful bunch

 i used one piece of dsp as my death star and another for space. the sentiment is from the grateful bunch stamp set (quite a flowery set-not normally associated with stars wars lmao)

 inside i used my rotary stamp to finish off my sentiment and punched and glued a pile of confetti stars

so my next stars wars inspired card was based on a CASE challenge over at the global design project blog #GDP016

 bibi cameron had a shaker card design to CASE which i turned around and used

 once again i used the sentiments from the grateful bunch set and just rearranged a la yoda :)

enjoy your holidays and wishing you many crafty thoughts in 2016

cheers ears

autumn card

i am loving the colour challenge over at just add ink this week 

soooo not my colours but i love a challenge :)

 

with all those autumnly colours i thought why not a autumn card 

using a leaf die i have had sitting around for just such an occasion

i placed them in a card in a box to get a 3d effect

 i sponged the outside using a stencil from the sheet of card that i cut the leaves from 

to make the coloured card i inked up a glass mat with the challenge colours,

spritzed it with water to smoosh it all together

and then laid the paper on top of it.

i dried it quickly with a heat gun

and then die cut what i needed out of the sheets

cheers ears

bliss

i don't generally do clean and simple

i am more of a crazy and colourful kinda chick

so when i saw the challenge at casology this week

involving the TROPICAL theme

i had to do a picture that has been 

playing around in my head for awhile

so here is my idea-still not quite right but this can be a work in progress-a beginning of an idea

i have been playing around with the smooshing technique

-basically put i splodged ink all over my glass cutting mat, 

spritzed with water,

 jiggled with the ink to make them all run nicely together

and then plonked a piece of paper on top of it.

simple really and a very cool random technique

my girl's dress was made using the bow tie punch

hat with an oval

hair and arms with the bird punch

waves were just randomly torn out of dsp

sentiment done with the rotary stamp

cheers ears

luscious lady

here is my luscious lady for this weeks challenge over at just add ink

the challenge this week was all about colour

and for the challenge at simon says

who wanted a special lady

my lady was made using a couple of large circles for the dress, arms, face and hair.

her sunnies were double punched from smaller circles

lips from a label punch with a circle

the pattern on the dress is from 

the printed petals stamp set

the dress is what we call a "design feature"

aka a stuff-up lol

i was trying to do some water colouring-spritzing the water colur paper and then stamping the image on to get a watercolour effect...well...it was working just fine until a small child bumped into me and made me drop the stamp wrongly...lololol...so rather than bin it i decided to use it for other things...keep watching over the next few days to see what else i made with my "design features" and the real thing...

cheers ears

a pretty little tree

i bought myself a new die this week

a pretty little tree

so i just HAD to make a card with it asap

luckily the ladies at colour me gave me some colour inspiration for my new toy lol

daffodil delight

tempting turquoise

calypso coral

melon mambo

to get the background the way it is i just sponged some tempting turquoise on whisper white

another card for a special birthday frind this month

cheers ears

a pretty lady

over at colourQ this week is a colour challenge 

using wisteria wonder, peach parfait, cool caribbean, and certain celery.

when i saw those colours i knew i had to make this lady

that had been rummaging around in my crafty brain lol

 she was made with the following

xl oval-arms, hat

11/4" circle-face, stomach, hat

bow builder-bow

itty bitty flower-flowers

owl-eyes

heart-bust

scalloped oval-hair

tasteful trim-dress trim

now you peeps with the sharp eyes will probably go
oh my..she hasn't used the right colours!!!
and you would be right :)
i didn't have all those colours so used as close as i had

and here is the inside.

this is going to an inky friend of mine who is celebrating her birthday this month

cheers ears

a frozen olaf

if you are a mother of little girls 

then you are like me 

and know all the words to "let it go" 

my kids (yes even the man-cub) 

have enjoyed frozen 

and love watching snippets of it on you tube

especially olaf

he is the best :)

 here is my ode to olaf.

i have done a shaker card 

with seed beads, snow flakes 

and sequins in the middle

 olaf is made using a variety of circles and ovals 

with the bird punch for his arms

 around the edges i have 

used some snowflake chain i had 

plus some buttons from my stash.

 the top i used some white ribbon with a heart charm and bakers twine 

and used an itty bitty banner framelit 

with a hand written sentiment 

(because i didn't have one small enough to fit in it that i liked lol)

 i embossed the window sheet 

with a snow flake design 

and used the leftovers as embellishments 

for the corners 

and added some pearls and diamantes to them

here's the shaker element of the card 

with an embossed cover and seed beads, 

sequins and snowflakes inside 

and in a large scallop circle shape

the idea for a shaker card was inspired by the challenge set by the just add ink girls 

and i figured it was quite a cool element 

to add to my olaf card

cheers ears

wonder woman

let's face it

as little girls growing up in the seventies and eighties

we all wanted to look like linda carter, 

wear a wonder woman outfit and tie the bad guys up with gold lassoes

or maybe it was just me lolol

i was attempting to punch art a wonder woman tonight

and made one

not quite happy with the design but she is a work in progress i think

 i made her and then wondered...well what do i do with you know?

she really needed to go on a card

so i visited a few challenge pages and found a nice sketch over at retro sketches that suited the style of card for wonder woman

most of her costume was made from a butterfly punch

rest of body sued an oval punch for head, modern label for legs, owl for those spunky red boots and hair

arms and neck was an oval punch cut out with a word window for the arms and a 3/4" circle for the neck

cheers ears

a wonky card

i made a card this week for a just add ink challenge because i really didn't like the colours they choose so figured i should really do it to get out of my comfy little craft space lol

here is my card.

 i used the world map stamp and the love you more stamps.

 added some buttons and made a frame using some stamps for a card swap i am doing

i also added some rub-ons (card swap challenge) rom my stash of stuff

now...trick question...what is wrong with the stamping on my card?

gold star to the person who gets it right lmao

cheers ears

you are my sunshine....my only sunshine

it is raining where i live today

and my son is STILL home with the chicken pox

so i had to come and play in my craft room today

oh dear, how sad

the girls at just add ink had 

the.perfect.challenge. 

for me today in the form of sunbursts

 the card is a window card and i have cut the sun bursts out so you can see the clouds behind

i inked it up with a variety of yellow inks plus some pumpkin pie and poppy

 inside i made the clouds using a scallop circle punch as a stencil and added a bit of feel good sentiment to the card

the circles are cut using the tiny circle punch and the cropadile

hope the recipient likes it when i send it to her

cheers ears

you mean the world to me

we have the pox at our house at the moment

apart from the itchy oozey gross spots 

and the lock down proceedures 

and the sudden lack of visitors

it has been a good thing cause it has 

meant i have been stuck at home and get to make some stuff

in between rubbing cream all over chicken pox spots

ah the joy of motherhood aye?

 i was inspired by the challenge over at retro sketches

 to make a multi layered card

i had also pinned this card by michele kovack 

as i have been wanting to case it for a while

 i used the cork bits from a 2014 sab kit to add some neat texture

as well as the cool cloud embossing folder and the natural specialty paper for the tree trunks

 inside i have made another tree and the apples are candy dots

stamp is from apothecary art-a stamp set i love but never use lmao and that was my challenge to myself-use a stamp that i have never used...

do you have a stamp you have never used? 

dare you to use it today and show me :>

cheers ears

a mouse tail

i quite like mice

-not in my kitchen you understand

but on cards they are just adorable lolol

although this one may have eaten all the cake already given its belly

 here's a birthday mouse 

using colours i wouldn't normally use 

thanks to the girls over at just add ink 

and their colour challenge for this week

pistachio, crumb cake and gold

i have also included a decorated an envelope to match

 missy mouse is doen in crumb cake

balloon done in pistachio

and the string is done with gold

i have also sponged all around the mouse in gold too

 balloon was made using the owl punch with the sketched birthday stamp for the sentiment

inside i have used washi tape to make it pretty and matchy matchy

hopefully this mouse doesn't scare its recipient lol

cheers ears

tardis card whee oooo wheeeee

we are slightly obsessed by doctor who at our house

which is not a bad thing

really

truely

it's all relative on the timey wimey 

wibbley wobbley 

geeky spectrum anyways

 so here is my doctor who card for this week 

based on the tardis

idea for the layout came from a 

sketch challenge over at just add ink

bet the girls never saw that one coming lol

 the stripes down the side were made 

using the gorgeous grunge set 

in loads of different blues 

and then sponging the edge 

and then cutting it with my fringe scissors 

to make it all wibbley wobbley 

and then making it all spacey wacey 

with the glitter

now to find me a time lord to give it to

cheers ears

supreme dalek birthday

daleks do not take orders

but i do

especially when it involves a 10 year old boy 

who is slightly obsessed by doctor who

this is an updated version of a dalek compared to the old one i did a while back.

this one is bigger and has more details

 i must admit to hardly using any punches-mainly the little circles for it's domes, circle die for it's head and the mosaic punch for it's arm.

the rest is strips of card

 circle upon circle for the domey womey knobbley wobbley bits 

(that's time lord lingo fwiw)

 i also used a bit of silver ink daubered around the edges of stuff to give it a bit of a lift and some depth.

 here's the very simple card front

inspired by the folks at retro sketches

stamp is from lots of bots-now sadly retired

 the inside is inspired by a building block card tutorial from split coast stampers

card from the top

the inside with the dalek saying ce-le-brate, ce-le-brate instead of exterminate

far nicer for the birthday child methinks lol

so that is the card done

now to make the gift

stay tuned :>

cheers ears

scrapbooking

i have a pile of photos on my craft desk

waiting ever so patiently for me to scrap them

when i saw the challenges over at 

less is more

and the paper players

i was like

AWESOME

i know exactly what photos will go with those challenges

and here we go......

the less is more challenge wanted one layer and a frame-check!

i used presto patterned paper inked up and coloured.

i am not sure if adding a photo counts as a layer but i am interpreting it as a no :>

the paper players had a colour challenge which totally matched the colours of my photos

wasabi, daffodil and mango

which were the colours i inked onto the presto patterned paper

i also stamped joy from welcome christmas and the key from artistic etchings both in wasabi

i used markers to highlight some areas as well.

i am resisting the urge to put in brads and chipboard...must.resist....

cheers ears