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

shaken ballerinas

another swap challenge

this time it had to be a shaker card and for a kids birthday

 i used framelits labels to make the frame

and the ballerina is from talented trio 

i also added some white sequins to the outside to add some sparkle.

if you hold the card and shake it then all these beautiful sequins and stars come out all over the ballerina

here is the same card minus the shaker card part and some bling.

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