you made my day

final card using my "design feature" paper

 this is a gate fold card

i made the background with flowers and sequins

i used a heart punch cut in half to make the bikini and added some butchers twine to them

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dancing is dreaming with your feet

here's an easel card i made with my "design feature" paper

 a row of flowers drawn freehand with some bling.

        the girl was made using 
       the bow tie punch for the dress,
    bird punch for the arms, legs and hair.

the sentiment was made with the rotary stamp

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YOU ROCK!!!!

one of my favourite new stamp sets

from the new 14/15 stampin up catalogue

is the you rock stamp

this was my swap for my eb monthly card swap

each month we have a theme

this month was tiles and flowers

if you ever feel like joining us contact me for more details

we would love new members from anywhere in australia

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flowers in a box

i seem to have taken a huge fancy to the new card in a box trend

here's one with flowers made as a sympathy card

 i used a variety of autumn colours and added butterflies with pearls to the flowers

i punched the edges with a heart border punch and added some matching washi tape

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pocketful of posies

another card in a box

with some purple flowers with a retro feel to them

 i used the pansy 

and the blossom punches 

with a variety of the smaller circle punches

 side view

 back of the card where a message can be written on

hope the customer likes it

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orange rose of victoria

i have just gotten back from the south pacific convention 

and we were lucky enough to have a play

 with the new blendabilities coming from stampin up 

but also got a free stamp set and pens to play with

woohoo!

i love being a demo!!

so i decided to use my new goodies for a colour challenge 

at the creative crew 

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using our favourite colour

mine is orange so these pens are pretty close

we were also encouraged to use our favourite colour 

in a new colour combo 

so i used a colour i don't like 

(old olive) and soft suede

 i also made a box card using the tutorial from split coast stampers which was easy to follow

i made mine with naturals specialty card which made it quite chunky and hard to fold

....just so you know lolol

firstly i stamped the flower using versamark and black embossing powder 

(although there will be a momento black ink especially for this purpose very soon)

 i coloured in the new flower stamp from the 14/15 catalogue using the new blendabilities we got

i started using the lightest one first and then got darker and darker

around the edges i used normal pumpkin and caramel markers and then added some crystal effects

inside the box/card i used some watercolour wonder dsp and a stamp from a new stamp set

this was sent to a friend for her birthday 

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butterfly dancer

i seem to be on a theme this month with my butterflies

so here is another play with my butterfly punches.

this one was for the creative crew

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to celebrate your best friend on a scrapbook page or by making a gift for them. 

this is a gift for a friend going through a lot at the moment and she loves butterflies

and pink ones as well....

i was inspired by a picture i pinned on my pinterest boards and changed it a bit to suit what i wanted and the materials i was using

 her hair was made using caramel card stock and then drawing strands of hair using a variety of oranges, browns, white gel pen, gold and kindy glitz

 

i also layered the card to give it some extra dimension

 flowers were done using white embossing powder stamped using a tiny flower from a new set from the new 2014/15 catalogue

 skin was done using light pinks sponged on lightly.

dress was melon mambo sponged with mambo and white

 background was sponged using a variety of blue and green inks layered from light to dark on a soft sky 12x12" card stock

butterflies were stuck on with dimensionals with 1 wing up with kindy glitz to give more 3d effect.

the butterflies on the dress were quite hard to position and most are stuck down just using snail but some are stuck using glue dots.

here is my feline "helper" checking my stuff out while i am attempting to take a photo. she was rather bemused by the butterflies and tried to eat some of them before she was very unceremoniously shooed from the table...much to ehr disgust lololol

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washi and flowers

i love washi tape.

it is so useful and easy and cheap and forgiving

here's a book mark i made inspired by this crafter anneke who makes quite a lot of very cool stuff

 i stamped notable notions on and 

then glued filter paper over, 

then added soem washi tape and 

some punch art flowers with a sentiment to make a book mark

seem to have a thing for book marks lately.

keep in touch to see what else i make

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little yellow dinosaur

here's a cute little dinosaur i made for a birthday girl

 got to have eyelashes and a butterfly on your nose to make you cuter

 some pretty flowers

 i used love hearts on her back instead of spots

the whole picture was put onto a piece of chipboard so ti can hang on a door or wall

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using up your stash

stash

it is a nasty word

especially when you have a bit of it and need to use it up

i am trying to cut down on my random purchases this year and use what i have got first

HAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAAHA i hear you laughing because WHAT CRAFTER IN THEIR RIGHT MIND hasn't said that before riiiiight?!

anyways my friend sal gives us cardmakers these really cool swaps to do over at essential baby  and i try really hard to use stuff that i haven't touched at all or can't remember the last time i used it. our challenge was to do a centre step card and use stripes and people.

 a centre fold card is easy even for a non-measuring type of chick like me. for instructions go to splitcoast stampers  and they are very simple to follow. i used some retired su dsp for the stripes and an old fashioned stamp from my stash as the image.

 i wanted the image to look old so put it through the big shot with a broken window embossing folder and then put clear embossing over the top

i also added some embroidery string, flowers from a reverse garbage trip, punched out trim  and a row of small pearls.

i hope my swap girls like them

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paper rosettes

i saw some paper rosettes in a craft mag the other day and thought to myself how easy are they really?

so hunted the www and found one i liked

i had to tweak it for my use and this is what i came up with

 get some 12 x 12 paper (i used scrap paper) and score it every inch.

this is where a scoring tool is VERY useful:>

 then cut along the paper

i tried anything from 3cm to 7cm. 

most of mine were 5cm

just make sure you cut 2 the same width :>

 stick tape at each end

you could use glue but i foudn tape was waaaay easier

 stick the two strips together end to end

 then fold on the score lines.

if you are brave or infinitely tidier than me then feel free to do the folds free hand and do away with the whole scoring part. 

the trick is to give it a squeeze every ten folds or so to really squish it all together.

 stick the ends together to make a zig zaggy circle.

it doesn't matter what side is in the middle.

 then i punched out the bits to go in the middle from a variety of punches. i used a brad in the middle. i have also used buttons which work well (especially when i don't have the colour brad to match :>) and you just hot glue the button into place.

 now this can be the annoying part.

to get the zig zag like this all you do is push your circle into the middle and lay it flat. use all your powers of finger dexterity to stop it kapowing back out at you!!!

because it will....

..especially if some small child suddenly needs you right away to look at something very important like the poo they have done in the toilet (aahh toilet training-don't you just love it??!!)....

 to get it staying put grab your glue gun and squeeze a bit of glue in the hole in the middle and spread a little bit around the top.

put a small circle (i used a 1" circle) on top of the glue and hold it there for about 10 seconds....hopefully your fingers wont burn too much :>

fingers crossed it is stuck enough for you to quickly flip it over and glue the other side and stick a circle down there too.

then you should be ok to decorate it.

 add your middle bit with hot glue

 and ta-da!!!

it should look something like this.

you can then add it to a scrapbook page or a card or turn into a 3-d flower or on a pennant or a wreath...a thousand zillion uses

 for the flower grab a bamboo skewer 

and poke it into the middle of the back gently

and you should end up with something like this 

 now if you wanted to be a little bit fancy

you can make your ends prettier by punching them with border punches. do this before you go and do the foldy zigzag bit. as you can see different punches make different results.

you can also sponge the edges or distress them-whatever takes your fancy really. 

here's a selection of some i have made

hope this was easy for you to follow

and please leave a link to show yours off to me if you try to make some :>

pocket card mini album

another idea popped into my head whilst i was making my huge pocket card for a scrapbooking page

what if i made a few of them and used them in a mini album as pages?

et voila!

here we are!

 i used the cheerful treat dsp you can get with your hostess dollars

it is VERY pretty

 here are the pages stuck together with the tab punch and ribbon on the pull out pages

and pretty flower using the flower folds die

so how do i make this you ask-eeeaaasssyyy!

 

 take 4 pieces of 12x12 dsp, cut in half and fold in half.

cut off about 5cm from one end.

stick tape on sides and stick together

 use craopadile to punch holes along bottom

 add strip to top of shortest flap.

 add flowers to each page

make cover using a 30x17cm piece of paper.

cut in half and add to a 7cm strip of card which has been folded at 3cm and 4cm

decorate cover-i used flowers and lace ribbon border punch.

 

attach all the pages together with twine and stick to inside of cover with sticky strip

cut out an A4 piece of card into 4.

add a tab punch and ribbon to these and use these for your journalling and photos

clear as mud?

good :P

feel free to ask any questions given how awesome my intructions usually are rofl

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