Pretty things

 So today was another crafting day, well this afternoon anyway. This morning we went to a friends house and my 3 kids along with NINE other kids iced cupcakes. Fun and messy!


I made this card with Graphic 45 Secret Garden.

 Have I said how gorgeous Graphic 45 papers are before? They really are beautiful! The hardest part is picking which side to use as the papers are all double sided. Sometimes it really hurts to use it!!! This is what was on the other side of the calander peice. 
 


So cute! At least there are two sheets in the stack :)
I also needed some craft retail therapy and I bought a Spellbinders nestability set, these are gorgeous frames. 

 But what no one tells you is that you have to pop out each little hole with a pointy thing like a pin. It's quite time consuming! Look how tiny they are!

 

 And here are some more cards for your veiwing pleasure :) This one I made a few weeks ago while crafting with a friend.

 

This one I just made, with a new stamp from the Prima Fairy Ryme collection. I can't resist fairies!!  Especially ones I get to colour.

And this card I made ages ago. I was going to enter it into a competition but didn't. It also uses Graphic 45, Sugar Plum Fairy.  

I am on a pretty crafty roll right now so you can look forward to seeing some more cards soon! 

Sweet Holiday Time....

Well the first day of holidays always is! But right now I am a little tired after taking the girls out for shopping and lunch. Maybe I went a tiny bit over budget but don't worry, we are all happy!

In the midst of the holidays and studying I managed to make some cards yesterday. These first ones are triple stamping, where you stamp over three different sizes of card. 

 This one is a go at a bit fancy vintage. I used Prima Engraver paper and the image is from Crafty Secrets. I really like how it turned out. You just never know if it will be good or not at the beginning.

So have a great weekend and I will post again soon :)

Not enough time...

Well, I think I mean that I should be doing other things with my time and not crafting! It seems the days go by so fast! 

At the craft fair I bought 15 more copic markers and have been using them a bit (now I need to get quite a few refilled!) This top image is a new stamp I bought at the fair which begs for colouring! It was hard to put her on a card and I'm not sure I like this card, but oh well!

This next card I bought from Arnold's as a kit which had detailed instructions on colouring the image and all the card bits. So it looks great! 

Also, I have been having lots of fun on Pinterest.
Do you pin? I thought it was a useless thing at first but now I love it! You can find me by clicking the link. Have a nice weekend. Tomorrow is the last day of term two so I will either be too busy to craft or ignoring everything and crafting more!!

Do I have to wait another year....

This last long weekend the Papercraft and Scrapbook expo was on and my friend Leana and I had a great time :) 

So many lovely things!

 I could not resist the paper stack from Graphic 45 called Secret Garden, and I got a shadow frame and this is what I made.

It was alot of fun to work with such pretty paper. There were so many beautiful displays of peoples work, very inspiring.

I also entered the Copic Card Challenge, with Copic making a $5 donation to Koala Kids for every card entered, which was such a great idea, I didn't mind not winning! And my cards all go to the foundation too. Here are a few I made ( I'm pretty sure I entered 5!)

You also may have noticed that I have no Stampin' Up! links on my blog anymore, that's because I am taking a break from demonstrating for a little while. I can still take your order up until the end of July so if you want anything just let me know.  A new catalogue will be out next month so head over to SU to have a look. Bye for now :)