I am in the bath - Do not disturb

A real cute image today from The Angel Company.

Materials: Black cardstock, lime green bazzil cardstock, mauve cardstock,white cardstock, foam pop up dots, stamps by The Angel Company, tombow pens, Rhinestones, Glitter, Black Brilliance ink pad

Method: Fold black cardstock to create base card. Stamp woman in bath image onto white cardstock and also words and flower background using black brilliance ink pad. Trim images to size. Mount words onto black and Mauve cardstock and attach to cardfront as shown. Color in lady in bath image and go around edges with color box ink pad and then attach to mauve cardstock. Color in floral background image and then attach to mauve and then lime cardstock and then to cardfront. Attach bath image using foam dots as shown and then attach rhinestones.

Oh my gosh

A real model pose. Today's image is a card I made a few years back for a "Using Office Supplies" class that I taught at Stamp Camp.

It's always amazing just what you can find at a Stationary store for use in your cardmaking.

Materials: Black cardstock, white cardstock, silver pen, black brilliance ink pad, Girl image by The Angel Company, Letter B alphabet sticker, Dymo machine word spelling out Beauty, rhinestones, silver scroll cardstock, stapler, pink legal tape sold by stationary shops, vellum

Method: Fold black cardstock to create DL card. Add strip of silver scroll cardstock to cardfront as shown. Use Black Brilliance inkpad to stamp image of girl onto white cardstock and then go around edge with silver pen and wrap vellum around bottom half of image and attach to black and then silver cardstock and then to Cardfront as shown. Use Dymo machine to make the word Beauty and add to cardfront. Cut pieces of pink legal tape and staple onto card as shown. Add rhinestones and Letter B alphabet sticker.

Note You also get yellow and red tape and it works out very reasonably priced and it's probably cheaper than ribbon to use.

On the Catwalk

Good grief it's Friday again and less than a month till Christmas.

You will be happy to know that I dug out a load of cards this week and photographed them all so that I have enough stuff to load till about Easter next year. Now its just to find the time to load it. Always interesting I find to look at cards you have made in the past as maybe like me your styles change. I seem to go through stages with my cardmaking although looking back the one constant thing is the Rhinestones.

Today's card uses a stamp from "The Angel Company" that looks like she has stepped straight off the catwalk. The words on the card are a stamp by Impression Obsession .

Materials: Black cardstock, white cardstock, red cardstock, pattern red scrapbook paper, woman stamp by TAC, Word stamp by Impression Obsession, Clear embossing ink pad, red embossing powder, black brilliance ink pad, radiant pearls, black fibers, handbag charm and a couple of red rhinestones of course.

Method: Fold A4 black cardstock to make top fold card. Take clear embossing ink pad and stamp words on rhs of card as shown and emboss with red embossing powder. Attach strip of red scrapbook paper to lhs of cardfront. Stamp woman image using black brilliance ink pad onto white cardstock and color in using radiant pearls. Attach to black and then red cardstock and then wind black wool around the image as shown and attach to cardfront. Attach rhinestones and handbag.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Shop till you Drop

This card just screams Shop till you drop - my favourite pastime. I must say though I am a very focused shopper - I never wander aimlessly around a mall. I have plan in my head of which shops I want to go to and go in and shop and come out. My mother reckons I have special shopping vision, which means that I can walk past a shop and scan it and tell you exactly whats inside without even going in.

For today's card I have used an image from The Angel Company. They operate in a similar way to Stampin Up in the USA - ie party plan basis.

I stamped the image onto cream cardstock and then coloured it with tombow and copic pens. I then went around the edges with a color box ink pad. I used cream cardstock for my base card and then took piece of Pink bazzil cardstock and ran it through my Big Shot using Cuttlebug dots embossing folder and then took a piece of Mauve bazzil cardstock and ran that through using a floral Cuttlebug embossing folder. I then went around edges with mauve colour box ink pad and attached both to cardfront as shown. I then added strip of green bazzil cardstock. I then mounted my stamped image and added word charm and rhinestones. I then used a square punch to punch out 3 small squares from scrapbook paper and added them in top left hand corner and finally added my prima flowers.

Shop till u drop - its really excellent therapy.