Sarah Kay.

Another card and it's not a Magnolia stamp!!!!

I was over at Elena's shop, Scrapbook Paradise the other day and to cheer me up my wonderful best friend bought me this stamp as well as a Magnolia one, ( spoilt eh), anyway I've always loved Sarah Kay stamps but never seen them available here so this is a real treat.

I haven't made cards in so long, this one has taken me all day but I love the results and seriously enjoyed getting into the crafty stuff again.

I have coloured this one with Distress Inks, and used a white pen to colour the spots on the little pink dress.

I have layered a white card base with a piece of blue card and then a layer of pink paper. I edged these with my favourite lace punch.

I then layered another piece of blue card with pink check paper before cutting a Nestabilities shape around my stamped image.

I finished it with a little stamped saying "Cherished Friend".

I then dotted Perfect Pearls over this layer, added a little die-cut flourish and layered some flowers.

Very happy with the result, and am hoping I can keep going now that I've done this one.

I'm very tempted to go and ink up my other new stamp which is a Tilda stamp, and then it would be ready to make up tomorrow, I have tomorrow off and I'd love to have another play day so I'm off to ink up my new stamp.

Baking Tilda

I love this little stamp, "Tilda with Heart cookies, I tried to go with the brown and pink because these colours for me always suggest baking, I don't know why, but I see these colours and I see cake lol!
Lots of Nesties, and Cuttlebug dies on this one. I coloured Tilda with water-colour pencils and of course I used Stickles and added a little gauze here and there.
I'm really tired tonight but I want to go and make another before bed, so ciao!

Another Card Challenge...

I just love searching the net looking at all the beautiful crafts people do, and of course since my addiction is paper I spend a lot of time looking at Scrapping and latterly card making, especially anything involving Magnolia stamps.  I have now discovered all the amazing challeges people take part in and found this is a fantastic way to make me actually get off my butt and MAKE stuff. I have made four cards over the weekend as well as working two days starting at 6.30am!!! So yes the motivation is high at the moment and I'm lovin' it.
So this morning I have a card that I made last night for the challenge over at Cute Card Thursday, it had to involve sparkle....and hey I love my bling so this is what I came up with.
Thanks for stopping by and I'd love to hear what you think.
Have a great Monday.

PS. I've used Sparkle paper, Nestabilities, Prima flowers, Magnolia die, paper doiley, and Stickles Diamond.
Tilda is coloured with water colour pencils, and sparkle paints.

A new Addiction....

and yes it's legal lol! I've become very keen to entering cards in challenges, I have decided it's a great way to make me think outside the square and out of my comfort zone. So with that said the latest one is a challenge over at The Official Magnolia Inspiration blog ,  and talk of out of my comfort zone, this challenge involved YELLOW!!!! I never work with yellow, but I decided to have a go and my wonderful friend came up with the idea of Autumn, which of course it is here in New Zealand, well it's really winter but the colours are still golden and brown, so with that inspiration in my head and her fab idea of Autumn leaves, this was the result. I'm really thrilled with it and am not having pink withdrawals at all, might be the start of a new phase. :)
Thanks for looking.

I used Nestabilities to cut the background for Tilda, the leaves are punched and inked, the flowers are punched, inked and molded with a ball tool and the net sprayed with Glimmer mist. I have coloured Tilda with Distress inks and water colour pencils.
Just a wee bit chuffed I must say.
PS This is the sketch I had to follow,

General Store

I had a ball doing this layout but I'm having a hard time photographing it for some reason.
Anyway it was pure indulgence, I just went nuts with inks, Glimmer Mist, Prima Distress Canvas Elements, Nestabilities, Prima Flowers and Perfect Pearls. Of course there are some paper Doiley's in there and Kaiser and Prima stamps, Scrapcake Papers....just a few of my favourite things.
I really just let my imagination go nuts and enjoyed the ride, I really think times like this are good for the soul and great stress relief.
The photo was taken in Oamaru in their Victorian Teashop where they also have a General store, just gorgeous.
I guess I'm just celebrating getting my Mojo back and getting ready for Scrap Camp, I'm so looking forward to that but then I think I said that in my last post...what does that tell you.
Anyway must go and check on Gussie, he's not a well wee boy at the moment, everything seems to be running through him and he's quite miserable. Think it's time to start feeding him Senior food and talking to the vet.... poor baby.
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I finally scrapped a page...

it's been so long since I've actually done any scrapping, I've been making cards, but I've made the decision to go to the annual Scrap Camp in April so I thought I better make sure I could still put a page together lol! And what a ball I had, nearly finished another one, not bad for two days in a row. This one celebrates the fact that my best friend has lost 56kgs at Weight Watchers. What a huge change to her life, she's a different person it's gorgeous to see and be part of her joy and success. I put this in a page frame for her so she can have it on her dressing table.
I've used Prima's Pixie Glen papers, Glimmer Mists and Masks and Prima stamps.

To be honest I'm blown away and so excited to be back.!.
And of course Nestabilites, and Cheryl Lynn dies.

A new Card...

I have been playing with this card since Friday, the little stamp was a freebie with Australian Simply Crafts Magazine, and I think she's rather cute.

I made the card for my niece. I'm kinda chuffed with it, it's a bit different for me as most of my cards have Magnolia stamps in them so I was a bit out of my comfort zone but had fun anyway. The papers are from a My Mind's Eye 6x6 pad called "Follow your Heart". I think the papers are really pretty.

Anyway that's me for today now off to work.

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Twisted Easel Card.

Very fond of easel cards when they stand nicely and thisbone does. Used one of my gorgeous Tilda stamps and of course Nestabilitie dies, love these dies, they make creating so easy.
Right off to finish the one on my table.

Starting to look like Christmas

Have been working on this for a couple of days and I've had fun and now I'm blown away!AmaZing what you can do when you are having fun!