Second post of the day

Ok, so here I have used my new MSE stamps that I won. I distress inked the background with Tim Holtz broken china and then stamped with same ink the background stamp. Butterflies are stamped in black soot and coloured in with some copics. I am also using this card for Danni's dreams flutterby challenge #81. http://www.dannisdreamscrafts.blogspot.com Thanks for looking and happy weekend to all.

Stamp sets I won over at Adrienne's blog.

A quick
Christmas card and some stamp sets I won on Adrienne's blog. Thanks so much Adrienne! Adrienne is the art director at MSE. Every Wednesday she does watch me Wednesday video on cardmaking, Thrifty Thursday when she offers stamp sets for sale at discounted prices and freebie Friday when you can enter draw for free stuff. So pop over to check out her fab blog .http://adriennekennedy.typepad.com/

Creative Card Crew Challenge Snowflakes

Here is my card for the Creative Card Crew challenge. Theme this week is snowflakes. I love snowflakes. For this card I have used snowflake stamp & sentiments from MSE which have been brushed with Perfect Pearls. Stamp on ornament is from Hero Arts. I have also used some stickles on the ornament.

I put pop dots under bauble but it doesn't really show on pic.

Thanks for looking..

Another Christmas Card

Yet another Christmas card from me. Not so traditional in colours.. I have used stamps from MSE, Inkadinkado, Kaiserkraft and I can't remember where the background stamp is from. Background has been brushed with perfect pearls. Ornaments I cut out by hand and stamped/embossed with gold embossing powder.

A bit of purple

Card for the weekend. A wee bit of purple..

Basic Grey paper, stamp Cavallini, Quickutz swirl, MS butterfly with has been stamped with MSE stamp and glossy accents added to it. Image is off the net.

Another Tag

Another vintage style tag and some more pieces scrap paper being used up.
All paper is from Cosmo Crickets Earth Love collection, image from the net, punched out paper flowers, grungeboard heart painted with crackle paint and liquid pearls. And yes there's that butterfly again=)
Butterfly has been painted with glossy accents.
Thanks for looking.

Bizzy Becs Challenge #3

Here is my entry for Bizzy Becs challenge #3.
You are only allowed to use scraps and used sheets of DP for your project. I made a Christmas tag using Basic Grey scrap paper from Wassil range. Snowflakes are scrap gold paper cut with Cuttlebug. Stamp is Prima.

Creative Card Crew Challenge

Vintage style Christmas card.
This is my entry for Creative Card Crew challenge. Theme this week is scallops. I hope my border edge qualifies as scallop. I have used image from the net, stamps are Inkadinkado, Tim Holtz.
I also used cuttlebug snowflake dies which have been inked and distress stickled. Im not sure if I like the quickutz swirl on this card though, the colour and just overall look doesn't look as good in pic as real. I used a bit of perfect pearls on swirls.
Flowers are Prima and my border punch is Fiskars. Thanks for looking..

Vintage style tag

Hiya..
A little vintage style tag I made using Cosmo Cricket paper.
I have used again my MS butterfly punch. Going for overkill here =). I really love this punch..
I used glossy accents on the butterfly and I really like the way it looks. Image is a Vargas off the net. Flower is Kaiserkraft and a punched out paper flower with glossy accents.

A few holiday pics

Hi there..

I thought I'd post a few pics from a recent holiday to Cook Islands. We had a wedding to attend and decided to stay a couple of extra nights. The weather was not excatly warm. Quite windy infact and apperently it rains a bit in Rarotonga where we were based. But it was nice anyway. Made a trip to Aitutaki and a few smaller islands where Survivor was filmed. Aitutaki was nice and the water was stunning colour despite the somewhat cloudy weather. My husband went in for a snorkle in the cold water..Last pic is of the massive cocktail, the Island Girl..I'm sure there was about 1 & half litres of cocktail in that glass..=)

Christmas Card

Time for another christmas card. I have used some Basic Grey paper and a stamp from Kaiserkarft Christmas set. I have also used Fiskars border punch, Spellbinders nestabilities and a wee bit of stickles. Thanks for looking..

Vintage Card

A vintage style card again. I definetly don't fit in to a category of any particular style I think, except oddball maybe =). And I quite like it that way. For this card I used an image from the web, grungeboard, crackle paint, quickutz swirls and yes some more MS butterflies. Roses are from enthaily. And the beautiful corner stamp is from Stempelglede.

Love grows happiness

Hi all,

A wee bit of Whiff of Joy and Cosmo Cricket together. Paper is Cosmos Earth Love collection and stamps Whiff of Joy.

Thanks for looking

Blog Candy at Lucys

Hop on over to Lucys blog to check out her fab cards and enter her 30 000 hits blog candy. Drawn 26th Sept.. http://www.hedgehogsandladybirds.blogspot.com

Allsorts Challenge

Here is my entry for the Allsorts challenge which this week asks to use snowflakes. I cut out my snowflakes using cuttlebug and some foil from the inside of a chai tea tin. I wanted to try and make the whole card look kinda frosted over and therefore you couldn't see text or print very well, but it didn't quite turn out like what I had imagined in my head. I think the text could be a bit more visible.

Another Cosmo Cricket Card

Hiya..this weekends card. Another b-day card using Cosmo Cricket paper and MS butterfly punch. Done inside as well this time.

Dreaming of Paris

Hiya..
First Card for this week. Paper is Kaiserkraft I think, can't really remember. Butterflies are punched out with my new toy =). I love this Martha Stewart punch, I now have a ton of butterflies ready to use =). I wasn't really happy with the colour of the butteflies
initially and made a few but then settled for these. Stamp is from Stamp It.
Thanks for looking.

Another B-day card

Another card using Cosmo Cricket paper from the Earth Love mini deck.

Just a little Hi and my entry for card-a-licious #27

My entry for card-a-licious challenge 27 . I have used my new Cosmo Cricket mini deck paper. These decks of paper are so cool, I love the slightly retro feel to them.
This paper is from the Early Bird deck.
I also used some grungeboard and Kaiserkraft flowers that I inked with fired brick distress ink because the colour was not right. I punched out some mini flowers from a colourful paper bag and added a stick rhinestone to the middle of flower.
Thanks for looking

Stamp Something Challenge

Here is my card for the Stamp Something challenge. http://www.stampchallenges.blogspot.com In this weeks challenge you should use your favorite stamp and some die cuts. I have used my favorite script stamp which I have stamped onto air dry clay cut out with heart shaped cookie cutter and inked with distress ink and painted over with liquid pearls, I also used quickutz die swirl.
Few Enthaily roses, some pearl string and stickles.

Canvas creation

A little vintage style creation I stuck on canvas. I used graphic 45 paper, some images off the net, crackle paint that I painted around image of couple and on grungeboard. A bit of pearl string, roses and grungeboard embellishments.

Another lil creation..

Here I have used Stampin Up cardstock which I have sponged with distress inks and sprayed with water. Vintage image is from the net and I painted the edges with some crackle paint. I have also stamped and embossed a bit on pic and then added some flowers, stickles and Prima bling..

Simple little Christmas card

Hi there..
Here is a very simple xmas card I made using MME paper and Stamp from MSE. I have also added a Prima flower and stick on pearls.

Bookmarks

Couple of bookmarks I made using Tim Holtz stamp set. Basic Grey paper again, stamped images have been sprayed and brushed with perfect pearls. The pics are not showing the lovely sheen of perfect pearls very well.

Embossed Butterfly Card

Here is this weekends card. I have used a Stamp It butterfly stamp which I have embossed with sparkly gold embossing powder. Main background is stamped and brushed with perfect pearls, I have also used distress inks in the butterfly image background. Some grungeboard, a few stick on pearls and ribbon.
Thanks for looking.

Prima product picks

Pop over to Prima to check out their favorite product picks and be in to win some yummy stuff.
Lots great looking goodies there.

Birthday Card

I made this card for my nephew who is turning 16. I'm not sure if I should have put the 16 on the card or not. I have to admit I struggle to make cards for boys/men. I also wanted to leave all sentiments off the front and just have them on the inside of the card. I have used Basic Grey paper as always, some grungeboard stars which I have inked and added some perfect pearls to.

Another card

This weekends card

I have used Basic Grey paper, Stamp It stamp, Enthaily roses and a bit of grungeboard from the Tim Holtz grungeboard packaging. I still need to add a sentiment to it but I have omitted that til I know which part of the world I'm sending the card to and which language I need to use. The image has been embossed with sparkly gold embossing powder.

Another Whiff Of Joy card

Here is another Whiff Of Joy card. Really out doing myself this week with 3 cards. But I'm so excited about getting Copic markers that I had to do some colouring. I got 12, which were a belated b-day present. I'm not really sure these kind of images are me though..Now I know why people rave on about copic markers. They are fantastic!! I also used my tombow and Stampin Up ink to colour the image.
I used Basic Grey paper which I really love, stamps are Hero Arts, Stempelglede and Whiff Of Joy of course. Swirl is quickutz. I have also used perfect pearls and liquid pearls but the sheen is not coming thru very well in photo. Must learn to take better photos of my cards.

Whiff of Joy

Today I have my first follower.. Ida from idaskortblogg.blogspot.com.
Thank you so much Ida. You really have made my day. Pop over there to check out the gorgeous cards she makes.
Todays addition is a Whiff Of Joy card. Main stamp is of course from Whiff Of Joy, damask stamp is from Magnolia and butterfly stamp from Stamp It. And I've used Stampin Up cardstock.