Love Life

Having some fun with colouring using Distress Markers. Haven't made a simple card for a while so love how it turned out.

40 & Fabulous!

My lovely SIL celebrated her milestone 40th birthday recently in style with a surprise roller disco party! Was so much fun and I only fell over 3 times & didn't break anything which is always good! I made her this special pop-up box card and had fun creating the background brick paper with multiple stencils and distress inks. The image was coloured in Distress inks too and the scene came together so well.

   

More Box Cards

Still playing around with pop-up box cards. Still having fun.

  

Stamps: Magazine Freebie A Good Sport, Kaiser Craft Technologic Robot

  

Stamps: Paper Smooches Smarty Pants + The Paper Shelter Ready for School, 

Magazine Freebie Apple Blossom Sprinkled with Love

Hope

Someone very close to me has recently found out they had cancer. I didn't know what else to do other than to make them a card for hope.

Card Ingredients include:

Stamp: Karleigh Sue We Keep the Hope

Coloured in Copics

Papers: Kaiser Craft Miss Empire paper pack

Box Cards

I think I've found my favourite card style; pop-up box cards! They are super fun to make and make use of all of those freebie magazine stamps and left over papers to make super cute scenes.

Here's some I've been working on recently.

 

Magazine Freebie Stamps: Gingerbread Village, Boho Chic

 

Stamps: Paper Smooches Smarty Pants + Dearie Dolls, Yampuff Alyce and Lila

 

Stamps: Paper Smooches Smarty Pants + Saturated Canary Grow, CC Design Little Bug Emma + Apple Blossom Cardmaking Collection #2

Loads of Love

And here is a cute baby welcome card for a new bundle of joy.

Card Ingredients Include:

Stamps: Apple Blossom Bright and Breezy

Coloured in Copics

Babushka Dolls

My wonderful mother celebrated another birthday this week and as I'm still having such fun making these pop-up box cards, I just had to make one for her too!

Stamps: Magazine Freebie - Family Ties Nesting Dolls

Coloured in Copics

Papers: Crafters Choice Garden

Dies: Memory Box Fairyland Butterflies, Impression Obsession Floral Hearts Strip, Poppy Stamps Tea Cup Stacks, Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Border

One

I had a first birthday over the weekend so I made this cute little pop-up box card for the birthday girl.

Work of Heart

My father-in-law celebrated his birthday this week and I wanted to do something fun for him. I'm loving pop-up box cards at the moment so I played around and came up with this using the Hunkydory Collection 'A Gardener's World'.

Card Ingredients Include:

Stamps: Hunkydory Collection 'A Gardener's World'

Coloured in Prismacolor pencils

Papers: Kraft, collection papers

Die: Lawn Fawn Grassy Border

Look Who's 40

This week we celebrated darling husband's 40th birthday. He didn't want to do anything or have any fuss made so that's exactly what we did, nothing but spend the day together as a family which was lovely. But I still wanted to do something fancy for his card. I'd admired this card style for a while but I'd never tried it, so this was the perfect time to have a go at making one of those box cards. He is a massive Star Wars fan and this was a new set of stamps I'd just bought. I created the galaxy background paper with Distress Inks too. It was a lot easier to create than I thought, and am now addicted to this card type, especially after giving it to DH  who was very impressed and even said that it was the best card I've done! 

Card Ingredients Include:

Stamps: Troll Wars by Craftin Desert Divas & Out of This World by Lawn Fawn

Copics: Yoda: YG03  YG25  G24  G28,  E71  E74  E77  E79,  E09  E18

             Luke Skywalker: E000  E00  E11  E13, E71  E74  E77  E79, 

                                          Y12  E53  E43  E57  E59,  B12  B04

             Leia: E000  E00  E11  E13,  E39  E59  E49,  0  C1  C3  C5

             Chewy: E07  E09  E18  E49

             Ewok: E39  E59  E49,  YR18  E09  E18

             Darth Vader: R17  R29  R59,  W3  W5  W7  W9  100

Distress Ink: Faded Jeans, Seedless Preserve, Peacock Feathers, Fossilised Amber, Black Soot

Zen-Sational!

I have loved this image Zen-sational from The Paper Shelter for ages but had been scared to colour it up as I never thought that I could do it any justice. But recently Kit & Clowder had a freebie class for dragons which gave me the confidence to try, plus I combined it with a modified background from the August 2017 monthly marker class. I absolutely love how it turned out!!!

Copics:

Skin: E000  E00  E21  E11  E04

Hair: YR14  YR18  E08  E18

Clothes: V000  V14  V15  V17

Wings: V000  V01  BG000  B04  B16  B39

Dragon: Y00, V000  V01  V04  V06, BG000  B00  B12  B14  B16, G000  G00  BG32  BG72

Grass: YG11  YG13  YG63   G21  G94  G99

Clouds: BV000  BV00  BV02  BV20

Sky: BV000  BV00  BV13  BV25  BV29  B00  BG15, white gel pen.

Kit & Clowder Monthly Classes

I've been busy over the last few months playing along with various Kit & Clowder classes, throwing my own little twist to some of them with different colour combinations or different dress patterns.

  

 

    

Kangaroo Baby Shower

I was asked to prepare a baby shower card and had very little time to put something together. This is what I came up with in the short time (less than 2 hours)!

Card Ingredients include:

Stamp: Lawn Fawn Critters Down Under

Copics: R20  W3  W5  W7  W9

Distress Oxide Ink: Seedless Preserve, Fossilized Amber, Peacock Feathers

Other: Twine, Glow-in-the-dark embossing powder, sequins.

Badger

A dear friend had to say goodbye to his best friend of 15 years, so this was the little card I gave him to help say sorry for his loss. I tried to represent the rainbow bridge using Distress Ink in the clouds.

Card Ingredients include:

Stamp: Some Odd Girl Tobie & his Puppy

Copics: Skin: E000  E00  E21  E11  E04

             Hair: E23  E25  E27  E29

             Top: G12  G14  G17, R29  R59  R89

             Jeans: W3  B91  B95  B97

             Puppy: C00  C1  C3, W5  W7  W9  100

Distress Ink: Barn Door, Carved Pumpkin, Mustard Seed, Mowed Lawn, Stormy Sky & Dusty Concord

Other: Impression Obsession Clouds dies, Nuvo Crystal Drops Ivory Seashells.

Kit & Clowder 2018 Retreat

Its that time of year again when the annual Kit & Clowder Australian retreat was held in Queensland. This year I brought along my daughter to join in with the creativity. As always, the weekend went past in a flash or colour, fun and laughter but we went away with yet some more marvellous keepsakes; the small block was coloured in Copics by others to represent ourselves and the masterpiece was the clock which was coloured in pencils (which I completed at home after the event).