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).

Reach for the Skies!

This is the card I made this week for my brother-in-laws birthday.

Card ingredients include:

Stamps: Craftin Desert Divas Western Bandit
Copics: Crocodile: YG91  YG95  YG99
             Hat: W3  W5  W7
             Top: E41  E43  E44
             Scarf: R22  R24  R29
             Pants: B91  B93  B97
Dies: Annelies Karduks Crea-Nest-Lies XXL Stitch Rectangles
Distress Ink: Mustard Seed, Antique Linen, Mowed Lawn
Other: Spring Green Nuvo Embellishment Mousse, Ruby Red Liquid Pearls, stencil

Take it Easy

I had a quick play with another Lawn Fawn stamp sets and some Distress Inks and stencils to create this fun card.

Card ingredients include:

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Hang in There stamps & dies

Copics: Sloth: E50  E51  E53 R11, E55  E57  E59

             Tree: E23  E25  E29  E79, YG03  YG17

Distress Inks: Lucky Clover, Mowed Lawn, Bundled Sage

Other: Nuvo Embellishment Mousse Mother of Pearl, stencil, washi tape.

Eleven!

So today is my daughters eleventh birthday. She is slightly obsessed with watermelons so I had fun adding the wings to this sweetie.

Card ingredients include:

Stamp: Saturated Canary (Krista Smith) Star the Fairy

Copics: Skin: E000  E00  E21  E11  E04  R20

             Hair: B32  C7  C9  100

             Suit: BG90  G12  G14

             Wings/Melons: R11  R32  R35, G12  G14  G19  G28,  W00  W1  W3

             Clouds: G000  G00  B0000  B000  B00  B12  B14

Papers: Kaszazz papers

You are Jawsome!

I had a quick play with one of my favourite Lawn Fawn stamp sets and some Distress Inks and stencils to create this fun card.

Card Ingredients include:

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Duh-Nuh stamps & dies

Distress Inks: Salty Ocean & Cracked Pistachio

Other: Nuvo Embellishment Mousse Aquamarine, stencil, washi tape.

Chill Out for your Birthday

My nephew has his birthday this week. Its the middle of winter so I thought a winter themed card would be fun.

Card ingredients include:

Stamps: Winter Wonderland magazine freebie

Copics: Penguin: W1  Y15  YR14  C5  C7  C9  100

             Seal: R20  BV31  BV20  BV23

             Polar Bear: W00  W1  W3  R11  R12  E95

             Sled: Y15  YR14  B000  B00

Other: Salty Ocean Distress Ink, Pure Platinum Nuvo Embellishment Mousse

Remember Moments

This is another husband request for a funeral he attended recently.

Card ingredients include:
Stamp: Lili of the Valley Tea Time
Copics: Skin: E000  E00  E11  E13  R20
             Hair Red: E13  E15  E18
             Hair Brown: E74  E77  E79
             Light Aqua: G000  BG32  BG72
             Dark Aqua: BG57  BG78  BG99
             Blue: B93  B97  B99
             Steps: W1  W3  W5  E11
             Tea Set: E50  E51  E53
Papers: Kaiser Craft Blue Boy
Other: Lace, twine, flowers, doily, Time for Tea Magazine Freebie die

Aged to Perfection

I've been waiting for this magazine freebie to arrive so was excited to have my first play with it to create this fun card.

Card ingredients include:

Magazine Freebie: Kinetic Creation & Finest Vintage

Other: Tim Holtz stencil, Mother of Pearl Nuvo Embellishment Mousse

Cricket Silhouette

A close family lost their patriarch last week who was a lover of cricket, so I created this simple silhouette themed card for them.

Card ingredients include:

Stamps: Magazine Freebie A Good Sport

Distress Ink: Lucky Clover, Mowed Lawn, Bundled Sage

Warm Wishes

I'm an addict when it comes to collecting magazine freebies, so when this coffee & tea set came out I jumped to add it to my collection. This is my take on one of the featured cards.

Card ingredients include:

Magazine Freebie: Coffee Break stamp, die & stencil set

Distress Ink: Cracked Pistachio, Faded Jeans, Seedless Preserve

Other: Twine, Cosmic Brown Nuvo Embellishment Mousse