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

complete case

i completely and utterly cased a scrap page from the summer mini on page 11 this week

during an inklings cyber crop organised by jayne mercer.

 for the challenge we had to get the mini and open it at any page and use the card/page as a sketch for our own creation.

i love the page so much that i just had to copy it although i don't have the very cool flowers so had to use circles instead!

i used the awesomely cool presto patterns paper and spritz some soft suede, old olive and gold glow onto it

 the flower were made using a variety of circle punches all scrunched up to give it some vintagey feel.

you can see here how the spritz all gels into each other to form a lovely jubbly colour effect

i am offering this scrapbook page as a class in the next couple of months if you are interested. just contact me for more details

cheers ears!

post convention creative streak happening

i love going to convention and being enthused by all the wonderful ideas and creations then i come home and reality bites and there aree not enough hours in the day to make all those things you want especially with 4 kids wanting "help" you and watch every move you make although having the cheer squad is quite nice for the ego lol here is a go at an easel card. totally cased from zindorf but iam in a swap atm that needs to be an easel card with a grid technique and masculine if possible -a big ask and quite an intriguing one i am finding ben has a 6 year old birthdya party to attend this weekend so here is the card. the party boy is getting 3 canvas pictures based on space-just got to get it done lol its funny the people you meet at convention. i sat and chattted to katrina over lunch who is the president of the australian sumo federation. she was really fascinating and very passionate about her sport. she told me what she did and i told her what i did. then i offered to make her a card so here is the punch art sumo i amde. inside the card i used the phrase from inspired by nature as she is so passionate about her sport next i ahd a play with 3d flowers this was made from the small oval punch the bad part is that it is waaaay too heavy for the box i originally made it for lol finally a case from a card we were shown at convention using the circle scissors this is thank you card for my friends who lent me some stamp sets to finish my swaps. don't forget to say hi 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