Hanging out the bunting

Back at last. It's been a busy few days, as weekends always tend to be. I had a lovely group of ladies over on Saturday making Alien cards, a bit of shopping, babysitting for a friend, seeing my sister and parents and having a little creative time! Phew!!

This is what I made in the short amount of creative time I had. It's inspired by one by Kristina Werner and features a variety of scraps of patterned paper. I stamped the bunting using the stamp in Party This Way stamp set in Versamark to make cutting them out really straightforward. They were each put through my beloved crimper for some texture.

The base card is Bashful Blue and then I free-hand cut the clouds from Whisper White. The sentiment is from Party This Way and I coloured it using markers that complemented the patterned papers. This was then punched out with the window punch and then layered on a piece of Crumb Cake that was punched with the modern label punch.

I couldn't resist using the cute little birdie from the Bliss Sale-A-Bration set. So sweet!! He's been stamped in Soft Suede.

Hope you've had a bit of creative time to yourself this weekend. See you again soon!!

And the winner is...

For the second hand jumble sale the winner was: Fiona H

For the blog candy: Diane!

These winners were randomly picked by my dear hubby. So the lucky winners can look forward to these goodies winging their way to them soon.

Dear hubby got this honour as it was his birthday on Sunday! Above is a card that I CASE'd from SCS. It's featuring Party This Way stamp set - my new birthday favourite set. The base is made from Crumb Cake CS and then a layer of Wild Wasabi with a touch of Marina Mist, Daffodil Delight & Real Red. Yay!

Other than that I am in total Christmas mode. Above is a bow I made after lovely Amy taught me how last week. It's simply half a sheet of 12x12" DSP. She got the tutorial from Splitcoast Stampers (SCS). The above bow was made with Jolly Holiday DSP.

Hope you are having a good week. We've been hibernating from the cold here and Immy's room has never been tidier!!

Happy Birthday lil sis!

Tomorrow is my sister's birthday and I made this card for her. It's heavily influenced by one I saw on SCS, naturally. The balloons were stamped using the Party This Way balloon stamp in Marina Mist, Daffodil Delight & Real Red. Don't you just love the monkey?He's soooo cute. He comes from Fox & Friends and he's my new favourite little animal. Poor Bambi will feel neglected!!

I couldn't resist using my new markers to make the words have different coloured letters. Yay!

Just in case my sister does check this blog, here is a picture of Munchkin! I know how she likes to see her favourite neice as often as possible. Happy birthday little sister!!

Happy birthday lil bro!

Hello! It's a miserable Monday morning here but I thought I would share the card I made for my little brother, who's birthday it is today.

It's heavily influenced by one we made on Saturday at Convention. It uses the Party This Way stamp set (which I got for free as a delegate!) and feaures Real Red, Daffodil Delight, Pear Pizzazz and Tempting Turquoise. I stamped using the same colours of ink so it is tone on tone. The base is made from Crumb Cake and has a Chocolate Chip mat.

The really cool thing is that the arrow on this card spins! You simply stamp the arrow twice and cut them out. You pierce a hole through the centre of one arrow and the centre of the card and use a brad to attach them. Then you stick the second arrow on top using Dimensionals (foam pads). Easy peasy!

I hope my brother likes it. Munchkin contributed by decorating the envelope with some delightful squiggles!