Sunday 31 December 2017

Sketchy boards challenge January


As you may remember I was lucky enough to be chosen as a DT member over at Sketchy Boards challenge
This is the first challenge for the year and here is my example page.
You can find the challenge here Sketchy Boards challenge
Please go on over and have a look and perhaps have a go yourself.

Saturday 30 December 2017

Paradise

Had so much fun with this one. I had to follow a sketch for my scrapbooking challenge. I used texture paste that I coloured green, stamps, ink, paint, stickers etc. Just went for it and love the effect and colours

Friday 29 December 2017

Cards for swaps

 This card challenge was to make a card using the Rubber band technique- (Rubber Band technique) as a background. I did this embossing the rubberband image in gold and then shading with various inks. I then cut the paper into strips to use as my background. I thought the background looked a bit bambooey so decided to go for a Japanese sort of theme.
 This is a Criss Cross card (Criss cross card). I loved making this one. I added shells and twine for a beaching feel

Thursday 21 December 2017

This happened the other day

This happened the other day :D. Terrible picture but like many of you Im always behind the camera and never get a good one of myself. Im super excited to be on the team :D

Saturday 16 December 2017

Christmas selfie

Heres our family selfie from last year lol. Yes Spiderman does live in our house . The large star is a shaker.

Saturday 9 December 2017

Best Pals Always

This was done for a sketch challenge over at Annas Craft cupboard. I had so much fun following the sketch and using paint and stencils.

More twisted easel cards



Heres a few more Ive just made for a swap. The photos arent great. - sorry

Saturday 2 December 2017

Believe

Made this one for a challenge-`Perfect Purple` - do you think Ive inlcuded enough purple ??? lol It was so much fun, with paint, bubblewrap priniting stencils ink and glitter.

Saturday 18 November 2017

Cards for swapping



Heres some cards for swaps. I loved making them, even though there isnt alot of work in them.

Saturday 11 November 2017

Hero

My eldest son is a HUGE fan of Batman and particularly The Joker and particularly this Joker. He was thrilled to see him at Madame Tussauds in Sydney. I made this page for a paint challenge.

Saturday 4 November 2017

Happiness is Guiness

Heres another one. This time of my hubby, he loves Guiness!! We found an Irish pub while in The Rocks in Sydney and he was in heaven. I made this page for a challenge- there was a sketch to follow.

Saturday 21 October 2017

Kites

I am taking part in Annas Craft cupboard Fright Night cyber crop and this is the blind crop result. I quite like it although it didnt turn out at all how I envisaged it. 

Friday 20 October 2017

Mates

I have made this for a challenge. There was a sketch  and I just happen to have these photos that worked so well for the challenge. 

Saturday 7 October 2017

Fancy Flap card







Heres another funky kind of card. I had to complete it using a beachy feel and include orange. Most of them covered that. It was quite fun making them, but I ran out of supplies and had to improvise. I would have used more embellishments if I had had them

Thursday 5 October 2017

Stencil page

Here another page I have made for a challenge. It was a sketch page. I wanted to try stencilling as I havent really had a good go at it. I love this stencil. It was using texture page too- will be having more goes at this :D

Sunday 1 October 2017

Titanic

Heres my Titanic page. There is a themed restaurant quite near where I live and group of friends went there. Of course we had to dress for the occasion. I found a fab dress, hair piece gloves and shawl- it was so much fun.

Saturday 30 September 2017

Herringbone tags

Can you tell Im getting ready for Christmas? and trying to use up all my scraps lol- yes its the herringbone background again, this time on tags! I love these and can see so many things that were in my stash that are now used- yay!! Im going to make loads more I think

Thursday 28 September 2017

Christmas shaker cards

Made some shaker cards today. Not sure if Im happy with them or not. The look very pretty though

Saturday 23 September 2017

More cards for swaps- with herringbone background

 Heres another Christmas one- so simple but very effective I feel.
This one is made with the background again hand inked images from a kit I had. I love the doggies- so cute

Saturday 9 September 2017

Christmas herringbone card


You may recall a few posts ago I made some herringbone backgrounds with scraps. Heres a card I made for a black, red and white challenge card.

Xmas tags

Yep started on the Xmas countdown. Heres some tags made from scraps for a swap. Very easy to do and quite effective

Friday 1 September 2017

Give us a Kiss

Heres another page with pics taken from a friends masquerade party. She had one of those photo booths and I decided to use the pics for a challenge page. I had to use 3 doilies and 3 embellishments  and a sketch. Not sure about this one, but its growing on me

Saturday 26 August 2017

Origami Christmas tree cards




Yes I have begun making Christmas cards. I like to start now as I dont want to miss the great weather we have around that time here in Oz. These cards are sooo cute and so easy to make- there are numerous videos online you can find to make them. I, of course love them because I get to use up more of my stash of paper scraps lol.

Saturday 19 August 2017

Remember the Magic

Heres a page Ive wanted to do for a long time. I have a few similar photos I want to scrap too. This was a friends 40th Masquerade party. It was so much fun. This pic was taken in one of those photos booths you hire. This was one of the more decent photos lol. I made this page for 2 challenges. I was running out of time so I incorporated the elements from both, washi tape background, flowers, doily and woodgrain- its there near the washi tape believe me. 

Diagonal fold card


These are so fun to make- diagonal fold cards. I made these for my card swap. It had to be blue and purple, have a die cut and patterned paper and be a wintery theme - check! 

Friday 11 August 2017

Steve and Me

Heres a special page. My son loves Steve Urwin. He got to meet him in Sydney at Madame Tussauds. It was such a lovely momment. It felt like he had really met him in person. This page was created for a sketch challenge.

Saturday 5 August 2017

Cards for the troops

I made a few simple cards for the troops this weekend. I usually make more but instead this time, Im donating some of my crafting things to help. The lovely ladies up in Queensland get together every other month and make cards for the troops but they need supplies so I thought Id add my bits to them this year.

Saturday 29 July 2017

Uncle Phil - Fave

Love this page. I made for the Blind Crop thats going on over at Annas Craft Cupboard this weekend. I used paint alot, something that I dont do much of, but loving the lines made with an old rewards card. 

Friday 28 July 2017

Both at High school

This is a page from the Creative kit club. I liked the page and so incorporated my boys into it. I love the colours and contrast. It isnt exactly the same as the original but not far off it

Friday 21 July 2017

Gatefold Latch cards





More cards! Gee Im on a roll ! These are called Gatefold Latch cards. I have used my beloved Flamingo stamps from stampin up- LOVE them. These 2 colours I have used are my favourites together and will be the colours used in my up and coming new craft room :D