Wow Friday again - Easter idea

Wow can't believe another week has sped by. Thanks to everyone that has left comments on my blog and or emailed me. It really is appreciated.

I will be having some lovely blog candy soon so keep watching.

Today's card uses an image from Stamping Bella - isn't she so cute. Now I know it's an Easter card and its rather early to be planning Easter Cards but she is just so cute couldn't resist posting her now.The background paper is a free download from Epson website.

I have used cream cardstock for the base . I then printed out the pink princess paper from the computer and went around the edges with pink color box ink pad and then attached to cardfront. I then took a strip of lime green cardstock and embossed it with the Cuttlebug Swirls folder using my Big Shot and attached as shown. I stamped the Chi Chi Fairy using black brilliance ink pad on cream cardstock and trimmed to size and coloured in with Tombow pens and glitter. I then went around the edges of image with pink color box ink pad and attached to cardfront. I stamped the Easter Greetings using Orchid Brilliance ink pad and then added the flowers with some bling rhinestones in the centres.

Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend.

Mother and Child

Well its almost time to start thinking of Christmas cards. One has to start early as overseas posting dates are always jolly early. I also generally join RSA Christmas swap and this year we must make 20 or 21 cards. Nothing nicer than having your mantelpiece filled with cards at Christmas.

Here's a Christmas design that I did a few years back and it remains one of my favourite's. Love the colours - Black/White and Silver.

The stamp of Mother and Child is by Toybox and the snowflake stamps and words are by Hero arts.

I started with a black base card. I then stamped snowflakes randomly on front of card stock and embossed with white embossing powder. I then added strip of black and silver scroll paper to card front. I then stamped my image of mother and child with Memories Black dye ink onto glossy cardstock and trimmed it leaving a white border so that it looks like a photo. I then mounted it onto black cardstock and went around the edges with a silver pen and then mounted it to cardfront after tucking skeleton leaves in two corners. I then stamped wording onto vellum using black brilliance ink pad and mounted it to cardfront using vellum tape and then added Silver music note and some silver butterflies.

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.

Exercise - not my favourite thing

I am one of those people that have over the years signed up for several gym contracts and then just never gone - sound familiar. One starts off with the best intentions and then I just never get there. Coach potatoe more my style of exercise. However I must say that fortunately I find shopping gives my arms a good workout - carrying all those heavy shopping bags and all walking in the malls keeps my leg and bum in shape. Well that's my story and I am sticking to it.

I have always wanted to give yoga a go though - looks so serene somehow.

Todays card uses an image from Stamping Bella. I have stamped it on white cardstock with black brilliance and then coloured with tombow pens and went around edges of it with red colour box ink pad. I then took black cardstock for card base, added some red scrapbook paper(went around the edges with a pricking tool so that it looks like I sewed it) to the cardfront and a strip of patterned scrapbook paper and then added my coloured image. Then I added word charm, flowers with rhinestone brad and some gold buttons.

Celebrating Woman's Day

Happy Woman's Day everyone. I should have said that yesterday and posted this but with today being a Public Holiday one tends to think today is Woman's Day as well.

This card uses an image from B Line. Again I get the stamps from my friend Niki at Paperchain in Johannesburg. They are definately one of my favourite companies and have some stunning images and best of all they are unmounted so easy to store.

I used white cardstock for the base card. I then stamped the Corset collage twice on white cardstock and embossed with silver embossing powder. I then cut out just the corset of the second image and coloured it in with silver pencil and then mounted it onto the first complete image using mounting foam tape. I then went around the edges of the image with silver pen and mounted it onto black cardstock and then attached a clippola with some white organza sparkle ribbon and attached it to the card front. I went over certain areas of the image with Stickles glitter glue to highlight areas. I then added strip of braid flowers - they are so pretty - I got them from Delta Trim in Cape Town - I hope they have some more next time I go as I have nearly run out. I then added just a couple of clear rhinestones to finish the card off.

Again my favourite colours - black/white/silver. I do hope that everyone enjoys and makes the most of the rest of this Public Holiday today.

Sunday's Girl

Hope everyone is enjoying their long weekend. Today I have used an image from Paperbag studios - isn't she just adorable, together with some flourish stamps and Cherish word stamp by Hero Arts.

I used black cardstock for my base card and then I took some striped scrapbook paper and stamped swirls using black brilliance ink pad and then stamped the word Cherish. I then wrapped Pink organza ribbon around and secured the piece to my cardfront. I then stamped the Paperbag studios girl image onto white cardstock using Brown brilliance ink pad and attached it to brown cardstock and then to cardfront. Then I added some buttons and a prima flower and it was done. Paperbag studios really have some gorgeous unmounted stamps and I buy them from my friend Niki at Paperchain in Johannesburg.

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday.

Card of the day - Dragonfly

I thought I would share this card with you today which was inspired by a Chunky book I did last year.

I used Stampers Anonymous Dragonfly stamp.The base card is Tan Confetti cardstock and then I stamped the Dragonfly once on cream cardstock using black brilliance ink pad and then again on gold cardstock. I trimmed the image on cream cardstock and then took Pritt and ran it around the edges of the image quite thickly and then poured on gold embossing powder and heat set. I then cut out just the wings and the circle from the image on gold cardstock and mounted those on top of the cream stamped image. I then mounted the image onto black and gold cardstock. I then repeatedly stamped the image onto the tan card and added the mounted image, a dragonfly charm and used by Dymo to do the word label. I love the rough effect you get when using Pritt to emboss. It really adds texture.