Highlighting Penny

I just love this card that I got from my friend Penny in Knysna. She is such a talented cardmaker.

I love her color combination of the Olive/Yellow/Brown/Orange. The stamp is so cute as well. Think its really clever how she did button centre for one flower and eyelet for the other - gives such a nice contrast.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Floral button book

This is a little book that I made a while back with lots of buttons and flowers. I stamped the word ME on the front using Making Memories alphabet stamps with Acryllic paint. I also stamped onto the fabric flower using brilliance. Its such a cute little book and I keep meaning to fill it with photos - one day.

Lavender in my garden

Wow now this is a card I did yonks ago. It uses a Lavender stamp from Charmaine's Magic Ribbon and Cards. The background stamp on the purple card (watermark) is an old Stampendous one.

I was reminded of this card by the lavender that is growing in my garden. It started out as a baby bush about 2 years ago and is now about 1 metre wide by 2 metres tall and in full flower at the moment. I always find it amazing that when I water the garden with the hose and spray the lavender, I can smell it wherever I am standing.

Materials: Purple cardstock, green cardstock, white cardstock, Charmaine's lavender stamp, ribbon, black brilliance ink pad, tombow pens, Real dried lavender, Stampendous stamp, Watermark Versamark ink pad, Alphabet tiles, Pearls, Stickles glitter glue.

Method: Fold purple cardstock in half. Use versamark ink pad to stamp tiny flowers all over the front of the card using Stampendous stamp. Take Charmaine's stamp and use black brilliance ink pad to stamp it onto white cardstock. Color in using tombow pens and highlight areas with stickles glitter glue. Go around edges with color box chalk ink pad and then attach to purple and then green cardstock and then to cardfront. Attach alphabet letter tiles to spell out the word lavender and then add pearls, sprig of real lavender and bow.

Adorable me

Now this is one of my favourite photo stamps - She is just so adorable and she is from the Stamping Ground. Sorry but she doesn't seem to have photographed so well.

Materials: White cardstock, silver cardstock, Black cardstock, Glossy white cardstock, Purple organza ribbon, rhinestones, Archival black ink pad, Photo stamp by The Stamping Ground, Word stamp by Hero arts, Silver Encore ink pad

Method: Stamp photo image onto glossy white cardstock using archival dye ink pad and trim leaving white edge around photo. Mount onto black and then silver cardstock. Take Encore ink pad and stamp Hero arts words down a panel repeatedly and attach to centre of cardfront as shown. Secure ribbon behind photo and mount to card. Add rhinestones.

Enjoy your week - only 24 days till Christmas.

Highlighting Angella

Now I mainly started this blog to share my creations with others. Whilst looking last week though for some cards to photograph for the blog, I came across a whole box of treasured cards that I had received from fellow RSA Group members and other friends and I thought they really are too gorgeous to keep just for me to look at so I will be sharing 1 or 2 a week with you.

This is a collage card received from Angella in Durban. Love the colours she has used on the card. She said she was inspired by a card in the Australian Stamping and Papercraft magazine.

Five minute card

Today's card is truly a five minute card. The stamp I think is a PSX one.

Materials: white cardstock, Red Brilliance ink Pad, Black Brilliance ink Pad, Heart Stamp by PSX, Red cardstock, Red heart gem, Love word stamp by Hero Arts

Method: Fold white cardstock to make a top fold 15 x 15 square card. Use black brilliance ink pad to stamp 4 hearts onto red cardstock and cut out and attach to cardfront. Attach gem and then use red ink pad to stamp Love word.

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday

How I spend my Saturday's

Thought I would share some photos of how I normally spend my Saturday mornings - Card class time. In the photo on the left is

Debbie in the red jersey, Sharon, Lynne, Ronita, Joyce and Helen. This is one of a regular group that come for lessons once a month. We have great fun and normally manage to make about 6 cards in a morning using various techniques.

Of course the best part of the morning is tea time or when one of the group has a birthday and its pressie time.

The girls hard at work on another Saturday morning

The photo below was taken at another open Saturday morning which I have once a month. For a small fee you can come and use my stamps and Big Shot machine. This was us relaxing at tea time after a hard morning stamping up a storm.