TSOT #247

Hi all! It's time again for another Try Stampin' - Or Not - On Tuesday. This weeks theme was to use non traditional colours for Christmas along with the sketch, for me, these colours arn't Christmas colours, so I went for it :)

I don't normally use a whole heap of patterned papers in my cards, so when I do, I generally like them to take center stage. I love how this card turned out and think I will be making a few more, as they are relatively quick to make.

It's always great to see what you create and hope you have time to join us this week.

Thanks for looking

TSOT #245

Hi All! It's time again for another challenge at Try Stampin' - or not - on Tuesday. This week is a super simple sketch with endless possibilities.
Also if you are like me and are starting to run out of time making Christmas cards, this is a perfect starting point for mass producing cards and you can even use up the scraps I know that you have in your stash :)

So here's what I created:

And here is the awesome sketch:

So now over to you, we hope you can join us.

Thanks for looking :)

Every Blessing - TSOT #243

Hello! Welcome back to another challenge at Try Stampin - Or Not - On Tuesday. Well I'm into the swing of making my Christmas cards (finally!)

The challenge (optional) was to also use ribbon - well I think twine counts as ribbon.
I'm not one to use much ribbon, so this is as close as I can get :)

Here's the sketch for you to use this week:

Now over to you - and don't forget you can join in on conversations on our Facebook page.

Thanks for looking

TSOT #241

Hi and welcome!
It's time again for this weeks Try Stampin' - Or Not - On Tuesday challenge.

I LOVED making this weeks card and knew what I wanted to do as soon as I saw the sketch.

How amazing is this stamp? I love it and couldn't wait to colour it. I embossed the dove it in gold onto water colour paper and coloured it with my blender pen using: Tip Top Taupe, Rich Razzleberry, Elegant Eggplant and Old Olive. I gold embossed the sentiment and used the softly falling embossing folder on the panel for added texture. I was so happy with this card, that I think it will be one I will probably duplicate for my cards this year.

So now it's your turn. Here's the sketch:

We look forward to seeing what you create.
thanks for looking.

Addicted to CAS #53

Hello, Hello!! Well I've been busy here today - I think I did a mini freak out and realised that I had NO Christmas cards and yep it's Dec 1st! So today I bunkered down and started creating.

This is a card I created for the challenge over at Addicted to CAS and the code word is 'Dots':

Now for those who know me, dotted embossing seems to be my go-to, so I thought this challenge was perfect for me :) I used whisper white, wild wasabi and crumb cake, with a touch of sparkle for my colour combo. My tree is from Festival of Trees and the sentiment is from Endless Wishes and the embossing folder is the Large Dots from Stampin' Up!

Thanks for stopping past and taking a look!

TSOT #195 - Soft Christmas

Hello! I'm so sorry for the late post - but things have been busy!

Ok onto my card for this weeks Try Stampin' On Tuesday sketch:

The theme for this week is 'snow is coming' and the main panel on the sketch was to be patterned paper or stamped, so I went looking for a piece of DSP to suit. I found this one from the nordic noel pack and I love how soft and pretty it is.

I then went super simple for the rest of the card and used my Festival of Trees stamped in wild wasabi. I then heat embossed using a new to me powder called white pearl, by WOW. Oh my goodness this powder is stunning! It gives a beautiful pearly finish (this photo doesn't do it justice!) and softens the stamped image. I layered the image onto a wild wasabi oval and the sentiment is also embossed with the white pearl and is from Good Greetings.

Here's the sketch:

I hope you like my card and are able to join in with us this week.

Thank for looking :)

Motley Monsters - Part 3

Hello, hello! I hope you are having a great weekend. It's quite busy here, but I'm here to day to share the third card in my Motley Monsters series. You can see part 1 and part 2 by clicking on the links.

So my third card was actually inspired by this card by Brian King.

Here's my really simplified version:

How awesome is this pattern for Christmas? Love it! I teamed it up with some real red for a bit of pop. It's not normally a colour combo I would use, but I think it works - what do you think?

If you have any questions about any of the cards, just contact me and I can let you know the deets :)

Thanks for looking :)

TSOT #187

Hi all! It's time for this weeks sketch over at Try Stampin' On Tuesday and this weeks theme is 'harvest time'. Now here in Australia, we are going into Spring and fall colours are not on my radar :) so I went with a Christmas theme.

As you can see, I slightly altered the position of the stars, to what was on the sketch. I really love this sentiment from bright and beautiful and I cant wait to ink up the stars from the set :)

Here's the sketch:

We hope you can join us this week and it's great seeing your creations
Thanks for looking

Punch Board Crackers

Good morning, thought I'd pop past real quick and share these little cuties.

I made them with the envelope punch board. I got the instructions from Connie Collins and they use the  Winter Frost DSP stack. I wanted to use silver bells, but couldn't find any, so gold it is. The sentiment is from the Jolly Jingles wheel, which I have cut out and mounted and I believe it's on sale now through the clearance rack.

Thanks for looking

Teachers Gifts

Good evening, or actually it's good early morning :) I've been up trying to get a few things done (been working on some bon-bons made with the envelope punch board - I'll share them later)

Anyway, I have a quick project to share with you. I made these for each of my DD's teachers this year and the teachers loved them!

They are little note holders. I made them using an IKEA frame, placed some retired dsp in the frame and finished it off with a clip - super easy and quick!

I went super clean and simple for the packaging - a white paper bag, some retired ribbon and tag and I was done. I was really happy with how these turned out and it's always a bonus when the recipients love them just as much. 

Thanks for looking

Secret Santa Gift

Hi! Wow, it's been a long time since I have posted anything other that design work! I am creating, but I have been naughty and forgotten to take photos to share and being in the thick of Christmas season, time seems to get away from me :)

Anyway, I'm apart of a fabulous group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators and this is the gifts I sent to my secret santa.

This box was a bought one, which I wrapped with a belly band to hold the lid on.

The flower was made with lots of layers of two scallop circles, which I have crunched for texture and the bag has some leftover circles from the box (which were stitched together) and I finished it off with the motif from  Happy Day stamp set.

And finally my card, this was a re-create from this one I did earlier in the year. I love this simple design. My colours were cherry cobbler, old olive and whisper white and the DSP is season of style - love this stuff :)

Thanks for looking

TSOT Holiday Tag

Hi, it's time again for another installment of Try Stampin' On Tuesday and this week we have something different for you. We have all created a tag and have a short tutorial for you, to give you a few ideas with the lead up to Christmas.

Here's my tag:

And my tutorial:

1. Die cut tag in old olive cardstock.

2. Layer a cherry cobbler piece 7.5 cm x 8 cm.

3. Layer whisper white card 7.3 cm x 8 cm.

4. Adhere a strip of cherry cobbler 3 cm x 8 cm along the bottom.

5. Adhere a strip of Seasons of Style DSP 2.6 cm, x 8 cm over cherry cobbler strip.

6. Using the bird punch, punch out a pile of the leaves. How many you punch put depends on how full
    you want your Christmas tree to look.

7. Starting with 4 leaves, start glueing them onto the right hand side of the tag. I like to use liquid glue
    for this job. Build up your tree until you are happy with it. Snip a small strip of soft suede and glue
    under leaves to create trunk. Glue on silver pearls to finish tree.

 8. Stamp sentiment onto whisper white and trim. Flag cut the ends and adhere to top of your tag as
     shown.

And the finished tag. I hope you like it and find the tutorial useful.

If you need more inspiration then head to here and see the other designers creations.

Thanks for looking.

TSOT #145

Hello! It's time again for another sketch at Try Stampin' On Tuesday.

I was going to create something completely different, but ended up going very clean and simple. I recently got the Happy Day stamp set. I fell in love with the medallion and wanted to pull it out for this sketch. I'm loving bermuda bay and whisper white as a Christmas combo this year. I'll show you a few more examples I have done with this combo at a later date - hopefully I'll get there!!

Now over to you, it's fantastic seeing all of your creations and I know you'll want to see the DT creation, so go here to check them out.

Thanks for looking

TSOT #143

Hi all,
Just a quick post, sharing my card for this weeks Try Stampin' On Tuesday.

Be sure to check out the other design teams creations here. 

Thanks for looking

TSOT #135

Hello! It's time again for another sketch at Try Stampin' On Tuesday, with the additional theme of using circles on your card.

I wanted to make another Christmas card - my stash is no where near where it needs to be! I heat embossed my image panel and sentiment in gold. The baubles are made from the retired stamp set pendant park and punched out with different size punches, I got the idea from Mary Fish.

Now over to you - it's great seeing what you come up with.

Just also wanted to welcome the new designers that have joined our team - they are fabulous! And if you want to see the design teams creations, go here.

Thanks for looking

TSOT #132

Hi, It's time again for another sketch at Try Stampin' On Tuesday. This is a rather simple and versatile sketch - gotta love that!!

I went with a Christmas card (you'll probably be seeing a few more, as Christmas is not that far away-eek!) The beauty about this card was that I had previously stamped the tree and the rest is made all from scraps - took about 10 mins to put together :)

Now over to you! It's great seeing what you create and if you want to see the other design teams creations go here.

Any questions just ask and thanks for looking.

TSOT #131

Hi! It's time again for another Try Stampin' On Tuesday sketch.

This one I really struggled with :)

To be honest, I thought this one was in the 'too hard' basket, but to give up would be to defeat the purpose of a challenge - am I right ?? Any way, as I started to pull items out and I came up with a rather clean and simple version of the sketch, but I think it still works.

Now over to you! Try this sketch out - elaborate or keep it clean - either way it's great seeing how you use the sketch. Go here to check out the other design teams creations. 

Thanks for looking

TSOT #119

Hi, we have a great sketch for you this week at Try Stampin' On Tuesday. I went for a Christmas card as I wanted to add to my stash. As per usual, I used retired jolly holiday dsp for this card, in the hopes that some time this year I will deplete my stash :)

I flipped the sketch and used my framelits labels to create the center. My greeting is from 'four the holidays' and my colours are cherry cobbler, old olive and very vanilla. This is a fairly clean card and could be easily mass produced.

Now I know you'll want to see the other design teams creations, so click here to check them out. And dont forget to share your creation, as it's great seeing what you come up with!

Thanks for looking :)

Merry Monday #58 - Guest Designer

Hi! Well I'm honored this week to be a Guest Designer over at Merry Monday!!!

Here's the sketch we have to play with:

And my contribution:

I have varied the sketch a little, by pulling circle up a bit, so that I could use it highlight Mary and baby Jesus. I stamped the image in staz on onto watercolour paper, then masked it and brayered the background using bashful blue, baja breeze and marina mist. I then coloured the image with my aqua pen and then punched out my circle and layered onto so saffron with dimensionals. I coloured, fussy cut and mounted with dimensionals the star and covered it with glossy accents. If you have any question, just ask :)

Now I know you will want to check out the other amazing creations the design team have created. Thank you Lesley and girls for letting me share my card on your fantastic challenge :)

Thanks for looking

Merry Monday #56

Hi! I had some time this morning, so thought I'd give the sketch over at Merry Monday a go.

I dont know why, but all I could see is trees and so I've taken a lot of creative license to create my card - hope thanks ok :)

I used my petite pennant punch to create the trees and used some jolly holiday dsp - I seriously think this paper has multiplied in my stash, as I never seem to get close to running out :)!

Go and check out the amazing creations and inspiration from the design team here - you wont be disappointed!

Thanks for looking :)