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 :)

Last minute Mother's Day cards

Sometimes when looking for ideas for new cards, I get so overwhelmed by the variety of them all that I get stuck and just sit not doing much! But I usually find one that looks easy and pretty and these are what I picked. I got the design of this one from Split Coast Stampers gallery. It's very Stampin Up, and very simple.

This next one I got from Australian Simply Cards which is one of my favorite card mags! They always have free things which make buying a magazine every now an then a must! This one came with this emossing folder that I have used on this card, it's very pretty.

I am going to make more cardstoday and totally ignore my study as I am very dissapointed in a low mark I just got :(

But I guess I can't be a HD student all the time!  Still...crafting will cheer me up...especially with cheesecake and icecream :)

Wait...that's not a card!

 I know!

I have had a little break from card making and have done a tiny bit of scrapbooking! I know, shocking! But I want to do family history and I want it to be worth looking at or else it just gets packed away. So these two pages are quite simple but I still like them :) They are of my Mum. They are 8" x 8" and I have used paper from Big W called Vintage Romance.

I did make one card,I felt like using my copics (it's been a while!), the girl is a Miss Anya from the Greeting Farm.

and also another box for a friend...hope she likes it!

 

And take a look at Stampin' Up! specials! Let me know if you would like a party.......  you can get $60 more free products!

A long overdue project....

I got this shadow box from Twiddlybitz  at last years scrapbooking and papercraft expo. So seeing as the next one is only 2 months away I thought I'd better do something with it or how can I justify spending money on more???

This is a close up of the inside. Not sure if I actually like it! But at least I finished it!

Don't look Mum!

I made this Mum card and liked it so much that special Mums will get it for mother's day! I cased the design from a British card making magazine which came with these gorgeous twenty's stamps. It is an easel card so when you pop it up you see the word Mum.

And I made this birthday card too, which is OK, not a favorite! It took me ages though! I used heat embossing on the Happy Birthday with white emboss powder, and used some perfect pearl powder for the flowers.
Now I have to study, which I have been putting off in pursuit of my favorite hobby!! I so would love to make more cards today, maybe tomorrow....

Butterflies are pretty....pretty!

 So there might be a bit of a theme in some of these cards! I have been playing with my 'Pappillion Potpourri' butterfly stamps from Stampin Up. The best part is using the matching punches so I never have to cut! Occasional cutting is OK but too much means less time for making! But right now I am having difficulty not putting a butterfly on a creation!
I have also decorated three more boxes, with my favorite being the bird and butterflies. The picture doesn't capture how gorgeous it is!!

 

 And I'm having rouble with placing these pics so forgive the crazy layout!

Boxes

Well I didn't win Queen of Copic :( 

But I tried!!

This week I took some boxes I had laying around like this one...

and turned them into these.

 

I had a ball. I just stamped the boxes and topped them like a card. Which is your favorite?

Craftermath!

It is 7.20am and I am not even dressed and Sarah is laying about but I have priorities!

 

 I saw this on facebook

 and knew it was a regular event at my crafting space! This is what it looks like in the middle of a project :)

And here some cards I've made this week. I have had a bit more time as I start a new unit of study, it has not really got going yet. It is so humid and soggy here I am surprised my cards hav not turned to pulp!

And this pic was posted on facebook for the Queen of Copic competion...you can see two of my entries! The mermaid and the lady in red. Wishing I was going to the papercraft expo in Melbourne!

Just one more entry...

I was not planning to do another Copic Queen entry but I couldn't help myself! What do you think?

I made it like a screen/partition with the ladies on the front and the flowers on the back. I had lots of fun making it and it is something I really like :) I wish I could go to the papaercraft expo in Melbourne...still 5 months to wait for ours in Brissy.

I might not have much time to make cards this week, I have to sit my first exam ever on Monday and I am a bit freaked out by the idea so I am studying hard! But then I get to start studying about crime and I am looking forward to that :) At least that means my next exam is 13 weeks away!