Quick Makes for some Lovely Ladies!

Today I wanted to share some friendship cards with you... I had a few letters to post back to good ol' Blighty and needed a few little cards made fairly quickly...

So I decided to see if I could just use some pretty papers and minimum stamping... Heres what I came up with... 

And this is just a variation on the theme...

I was inspired by these cute papers I earned for FREE thru Stampin' Up!,...( I think it was for ordering over $50 or something silly...)  Arent they cute... Its a 6X6" pack of papers which I just trimmed down and layered together to make a simple card....  The finished articles are 4X4"... The stamp is fromt he Pocket Silhouettes Stamp Set.. 

Enjoy!
C xx

Anyone up for a Challenge?

I seriously lost my mojo the last couple of weeks but managed to get it back by doing not just one challenge but 2 challenges in one card!  PHEW!  It was a struggle, the layout took 3 tries but Im (almost) happy with the end result... 

First here are the challenges...

http://colorthrowdown.blogspot.com/2010/03/color-throwdown-84.html

These are both oldies but I visit these (and a few others) regularly for inspiration and some of the completed cards are awesome.... take a look if you ever get stuck...

Heres my card...

And a close up on the detail for you...

Do you see how I stamped and cut out her dress from Designer Paper?  Pwetty!

Recipe

Stamp: "Little Miss Attitude" by Suzanne Woolcott

Ink:  Black Stazon and SU Markers

Cardstock: All SU! Taken with Teal, Pumpkin Pie

Papers:  SU! Bashful Blue DSP

Scallop and plain ovals from Nestabilities, ribbon from stash.  American Crafts white gel pen. 

Seriously reminds me of my daughter I can tell you!  Ive been asked by a few people when I was going to update the ol'bloggage... Its nice to know you are all still looking...  As always, COMMENTS are gratefully recieved... YOU tell ME what YOU want to see!

TTFN

C xx

Scrapping pages...

I wanted to share with you how much Im in love with digital scrapping....  I am a classic pro-crastinator... I have boxes and boxes of photos from teenage years till now, Im not even sure what is in them! Now these boxes have moved with me from house to house, country to country and have never been looked in.  Nowadays though I have a yummy digital camera and even though printing actual hold-in-your-hand photos is still a nightmare digi scrapping is easy peasy...

The point of scrapbooking (in my opinion) is to get your photos out of those mystery boxes, into something safe thats going to preserve them and your memories for generations to come...  Digi is doing it for me!  I can sit at my trusty laptop with my photos stored on it and get dozens of pages done in one go.  No longer do I find myself thinking "I wish that photo was bigger" or "I want to crop that one" or "I'll never find paper to match these colours"... Zip Zap Zop... Im done in a flash!  I think the fact that I can crop and resize photos on the go and colour match papers to the actual photo is what won me over.  No more taking photos to the craft shop and holding them in front of papers to match up (only to get them home and discover in real light they are nowhere close!)...  No more planning a page then having to wait for a week while an enlargement is being printed...  

GET IT PRINTED!  You can add embellishments and hand-write journalling afterwards...

thats what I do & Im a happy bunny!! 

My tip at the moment is to use 8x8" pages in your digi scrapping then you can print at home and maybe, just maybe get an album finished!  NOWAY!!! 

Its nothing fancy... There are some gaps for me & the kids to journal and Ive missed Poppys name from the last one as I have some glittered chipboard letter to use... But you know what... Ive done an album..  It took me about an hour from start to finish... Pretty good huh?

Enjoy, and give it a go!

TTFN

C xx

Bad blogger, BAD I SAY!

Ok, so Im officially a bad blogger!  I totally forgot to prepare some more posts to pop up automatically for you.  Im off to the craft cubby in the morning for a good sort out... who knows what creativity shall appear!

I apologise... we have been super~busy, unpacking, organising, cleaning 2 houses & having a social life!  Things are back to normal now so, I should be able to get the creative hat out of the cupboard and plonked squarely on my noggin! 

If you are interested I do have some Digital scrapping pages I could share...??

TTFN

C xx

Little Monkey!

Last week I made a card for a little monkey who turned 2!  I loved making this one, I smiled the whole time I was creating it.  I call him 'a little monkey' all the time so I thought this was appropriate!

And heres the inside...

A real combination of SU products here... A border from a Scrappin Kit, stamps from various sets, and the vines from a sizzlitz die for the big shot...

Fun Huh?

Recipe.

Stamps:  'Monkey' from Fox and Friends, Words from Wild About You and Vintage Labels.  Frame from Vintage Labels.

Cardstock: Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise and Old Olive. (SU)

Ink: SU! Close to Cocoa and Pumpkin Pie.

Border strip from Confetti Scrappin Kit, Sizzlits Small leaves (?) die.

Back soon,

TTFN

C xx

New Moon! YAY!

Well, today is a good day!...  Ive had one of those mornings that I will remember for a long time!  I went to a friends house for some scrapping and chat and one of the girles had been away during the week for her birthday.  Not one to be left out of a celebration I had secretly made a cake, and a card and got some pressies...  She is a Twilight nut like me  (although team Jacob... - but I can forgive her for that!) so what better card than a New Moon theme...  We are both going out tonight at midnight to get our copies when they are released too....  !!

So heres the card...

And a little close-up on Edward and Bella...

Can you see Edward sparkling!?

And this is the most precious thing I will remember... Karens reaction to the card when she yelled "And look - he sparkles!"  Priceless!

We luvs ya babe!!

TTFN

C xx

Purple Flowers

Really quick post today, as Im typing weeks worth of posts in advance and losing the will to live!

Card made with Fifth Avenue Floral stamp set (weeely pwetty!) and pale plum ink (from SU!) I stamped the background and lightly coloured with blender pens and ink pad. Stamped the main panel and coloured with more ink to give extra depth. The dots are just my doodling!

Cardstock is Pale Plum, Perfect Plum and Confetti White (?)from SU!

Off to clean/paint/unpack/organise/throw away/SUMMAT!

I hope to craft something soon!!!!

TTFN

C xx

Hybrid Card

WHAT???? I hear you, I hear you!!!

"Hybrid" is a scary word to alot of us. As is "Digital Scrapping". BUT!... Im a recent convert. I bought the My Digital Studio from SU! last year and mainly wanted to just get my photos organised, into something, and printed. However, Ive been having SOOOOOOOO much fun! Im putting together a whole 8X8" book that covers about 3-6 months from last year and will send it off to be printed professionally and everything! In the meantime Ive been just playing with cards... I havn't figured out the settings for my printer yet to print straight onto cardstock and theres the finished result but, I thought, how about just printing some background images?

I have the Extreme Guitar stamp in my stash but not the background set. I DO however now have it on MDS (I got brave and paid for some downloads~ super easy!) So now not only do I have the stamp set but I can print it in any colour I want and make it any size I want too!

So thats exactly what I did! HA!

The main image was stamped over the printout and then I just stamped again for the shadow effect without cleaning my stamp... Looks cool huh? (although Ive just realised he looks like hes levitating in mid-air... hmmm will have to fix that later!)

Again all products SU!

TTFN:

Not sure what I will be doing today! Typing this 2 weeks ago... I think the kids are on spring break so I might actually be realxing with a nice hot cuppa! We can only hope!

C xx

Joy Fold

I know alot of you will know this style of card.. Its called the Joy Fold. I think most of us first saw it after SU Convention when it was demod by someone (Maybe Shelli or Pam?). Much as I liked it ~ Im not one to jump on the bus just cuz(!) so its taken me till now to try it.

Again I used the Fab Speciality Papers from SU (Yes I have ordered some now!!) and all other products are SU! OOOO APART FROM! D'ya see the button? Ive been doing the old DIY button made from cardstock for a while but I saw this punch in my craft store and its amazing... Its from Martha Stewart and not only does it punch the button shape and the holes in the middle but it embossed around the edge so you get the raised look of a real button! SO this one I punched out several times and stacked on top of each other and just look at my chunky button! WOWZER! Would look even better with some crystal effects on top huh?

And the stamps - Pocket Silhouettes of course!

Probably off the clean and sweep the old house today.. (I dont really know as Im typing this last week... ha ha!)

TTFN

C xx

Pink and Friendly

Another quickie for you to enjoy!...

The layout for this one I got from (I believe) Splitcoaststampers (if you dont know it~you should) or maybe it was a layout challenge from somewhere... Anyways! My lovely SU demo & friend Karen, GAVE me (yes - for free! shes FAB!) some of these gorgeous Speciality Papers from the spring Mini catty and they are Lushious! all glittery and girlie... Yummo.
Again all products from SU!... If you look close enough on the main panel you will see some little glistening bits... I used some of the Champagne Mist painty stuff that was in the Christmas Mini (way back when...) and mixed with alcohol in a spray bottle its amazing! Just a quick spray and it makes everything sparkle...

Another box is calling my name... Back soon!

TTFN

C xx