A Year In Review 2012

Hi! I'm posting this again as it didn't seem to work last time. I just wanted to do a quick 2012 year in review. Here are my top cards for the year:

January 

February 

March

April 

May

 I did two cards for June

August

 September

October 

November

December

 My latest Try stampin' On Tuesday creation :)

Well that it from me - my top 12 cards. I really appreciate your continued encouragement and support and thank you to every one who takes the time to leave a comment.

I hope you can join me next year and see what I create :)

Thanks for looking and happy new year 

Father's Day

Hi! Well tomorrow is Father's day here in Australia, and this is a card which I CASE'd from Dawn Olchefske. I loved how simple it is - a few good elements with clean lines - my kind of 'guy' card :)

I made two of these - one for my Dad and my Father-in-law and it took about a half hour for both! The colours I used are not quite navy, crumb cake and whisper white. I used the ties and sentiment from 'Best Dad ever' - such a great guy stamp set :) 

My kids are going to give Hubby this card for Father's day. It's one of my Festive Friday design submissions. 

Thanks for looking and hope all the Dad's have a great day tomorrow!

Festive Friday # 31 - Inspiration Photo

Once again it's Festive Friday time! For this week it's time to be inspired by this photo and make a Father's day card:

I must admit I struggled a little with this one. When I  first saw this photo I  thought "cars and vintage", but I have no car stamps and I'm not the greatest at vintage style. So I pulled my inspiration from the colours, I used cherry cobbler, basic black, soft suede, very vanilla and crumb cake and the I used "Best Dad ever" stamp set. 

I started by sponging all over the very vanilla panel with crumb cake and the same with the image panel. I then took my scissors to the edges of both pieces and 'roughed' them up a little. The image panel was then stamped with the ties in soft suede and cherry cobbler and layered onto basic black. I then stamped the background panel with the ties in crumb cake, but I stamped off the ties to get a softer look. "Dad" was cut out using my alphabet die cuts and I'm not sure if you can see behind each letter is a whisper white shadow, just like on the sign in the photo. I would say this is an attempt of vintage and I'm pretty happy with the end result.

So how does the picture inspire you? Link up your creation to Nicole's blog, we love seeing what you come up with :)

Thanks for looking.

Fathers Day

Good morning! Yesterday was Father's day here in Oz and this is the card I made for my kids to give to their Daddy.

I have wanted to create the textured background for ages and finally got round to giving it a shot. The wings on the owl were created using Stampin Ups scallop oval and just cutting them down to how I wanted them. I must admit this was a card that turn out exactly how I wanted it and I'm pretty happy with the result.

Thanks for looking!