Clean Butterfly

So the cards I have to share with you this morning are a complete CASE from Mary Fish. Now if haven't seen any of Mary's work (which rock have you been hiding under!!) go and see her amazing creations - truly inspiring.

Any way, these are may take on this quick and easy card.

Seriously how easy and quick, yet beautiful are these?! I love them :) and I dont think too much explaining needs to go into them.

Thanks for looking

I Seem to do Things in 2...

... not really sure why, but pulling through some pics in my 'to blog' folder, I've noticed I would make cards in two's.

For this set of cards I used the ever elegant Pleasant Poppies:

I stamped the poppies in white ink onto certainly celery card stock (retired) and then heat embossed in white. The first card I ran a versa mark pen around the flowers - not sure if I like it or not. I used soft suede for the sentiments, so saffron dsp and a red button from my stash to add a bit of 'pop'.

These are really cute in real life and since looking at them in this post, I'm going to say that the second card is my favourite - what's yours? 

Thanks for stopping by :)

Same Sketch

Good morning!! Thought I'd quickly pop past and share these very simple cards - I'm still pulling a few pics from my 'to blog' folder - eeek!

I used the same sketch, just mixed it up a little. Both of these circle elements were pre stamped, just waiting for me to make them into a card (I throw away very little :) I also was able to use up some long retired dsp - always a bonus :)

Thanks for looking

Funky Four Birthday

Good morning and welcome back to my piece of blog land. Today I'm sharing a simple design for all those men in our lives. I love creating card for the guys, but lets be honest - they may not always appreciate them.

When I make this design (and I have repeated this one a lot) I tend to make two and keep my stash healthy. I have used chocolate chip for the base and some retired Greenhouse Gala dsp. The sentiment is from Best Dad Ever and the tree from Funky Four (both retired) and I used some large silver brads from my stash to finish them off.

Thanks for looking

Just Us Girls #157 - Sketch

Hi! This is the second week I've been able to join in with Just Us Girls, and I have to say thank you again for choosing my card last week :) So the challenge is to use the sketch:

Here's what I came up with:

This is a pack of paper which scares me! So I challenged myself  to use it with this great simple sketch. I loved how I could just use one strip of dsp as a focal point and just add a few layers to accentuate it :) I'm happy with how it turned out and will be great for one of the male birthdays I have coming up!

Thanks for looking :)

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!

JAI #132 - Sketch Challenge

Hi there! It's been a while since I joined in at Just Add Ink, but they had a great sketch, which was perfect for a male birthday card which I needed quick.

Here's the sketch:

 And here's my creation:

I loved the clean lines of the sketch and kept this one pretty simple. I used some dsp from my stash and the tree is from 'funky four', the sentiment is from 'best Dad ever', like I said a nice simple card which I love for guys.

If you have time, go past Just Add Ink and check out all the design teams fantastic creations!

Thanks for looking :)

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.