orange project life

project life rocks

it makes my scrapbooking so easy

i have to admit that i was reluctant at first but 

now i have had a few plays i am getting more and more into it

 here i used the everyday adventures set from stmapin up

i mixed a few things up, added some washi tape to the outside and made sure i did the obligatory journalling lol

another challenge for the creative crew for their august mega round

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geometric orange

orange is my favourite colour

just in case you hadn't gotten the hint 

mwahahahahaha

so i have been playing with 

loads of orange lately 

as part of the august mega round for the creative crew at split coast stampers

 here is my play on a sunburst pattern

with punched out circles and pearls and using a variety of su oranges

 the circles are done by punching the smallest circle first and then punching the bigger one around it

just make sure you punch fast otherwise it may not like it very much

then i just added a sentiment

-any would do-

but this is for a thank you card for a friend

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orange poppies

i have seen a few building block cards 

around and thought i 

would have a play with them myself 

as they seemed really cool....

and they are!

 i made mine for my orange challenge 

over at splitcoast stampers for their 

mega august challenges and as a thank you

for a friend and family who looked after us like royalty when we visited them recently

 i used the poppy parade stamp

and coloured it with my blendies

 most of the building block cards i ahve seen

have got the tops covered but then they

wont fold down into an envelope so mine is bare for that reason-i needed to post it

 here it is flat with the sentiment 

and some extra buterflies to add some pop!

 the back of the card is left relatively plain

hope my recipients like it

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giving and recieving

i love recieving gifts and getting gifts

come on now-who doesn't???

so i was VERY pleased to be part of the INKLINGS secret santa this year.

i have to fess up and say that my secret santa Belinda was landed 

with the vague idea of 'anything orange' and boy did she do a great job!

amongst the chocolates, ribbon, material and other goodies she made this amazing card.

 it is called a multifold card designed by the talented odette kermode

it works well as a card and as a scrapbooking layout too

 i loved it so much i had to case it so i did!!

i used razzleberry, pumpkin pie and vanilla on mine.

i embossed the razzleberry with an embossing folder that i then rubbed over with white ink with touches of pumpkin and suede.

 the vanilla i rolled vintage lace in white. then i quick dried it and stamped images from the established elegance set in pumpkin.

then i went over all of that with some friendly words in vintage sepia versamark ink. after that i sprinkled clear embossing powder over it all and heated it to give it a shine. to top it off i sponged the edges and a bit in the middle just to make it more vintagey

 the belly band had a pin on it with some beads attached to a heart and some orange ribbon tied to it.

 in the middle i added some ribbon, a square brad and an element from the friendly words roller. i wrote my message on a tag attached with dimensionals.

i also rolled suede over the back of the card to really finish it off.

i hope my recipient liked it :>

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ps thanks to all of you for your lovely jubbley comments and emails. it is so nice to hear from you all from all around the world :>
here is a link to the instructions because my email box can't quite keep up with you and i suspect i may have lost some of you :< so sorry

orange bag

this weekend saw a lot of stampin up demos at convention in melbourne

sadly i was not one of those demos

so i stayed home and did a few challenges from the 

unconventional cybercrop over at the inklings forum

one of the challenges was to make our own convention bag 

highlighting a colour used by this years convention goers....orange!

template and inspiration comes from here

 

some close ups of the flowers and the handle

just got to make something to go inside now!

what do you think should go inside?

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