Simply sparkly

These two very cute cards were part of the line up at my last $3 card monthly workshop that is held at my home, it was an idea  i found someone else had done(sorry can't remember who now). I loved how simple it was, we stepped it up a bit and used heat and stick powder and glitter to make it all sparkly. The sparkly bits 'call out' to so many people, it doesn't actually show up in the photo but they were just lovely. It can be adapted to any colour. These two were Melon mambo and Pacific point.
Contact me if you would like to come join in with my $3 cards and I will send you the details.

Masculine Birthday card

This was the birthday card I made for my oldest boy for his birthday. Its a great design I cased from Kristine McNickle from a while back, I loved what she did on her card and I have made a lot of this style for boys cards just changing the colour combo. The skater dude has had the rock'n'roll technique done on him using the same two colours of my card, Lucky Limeade and Elegant Eggplant.This card uses a stampin up stamp that was never available here, such a shame! It's borrowed from a friend. My son is into his scooter in a big way so this was close.

Your Invited....

My oldest Boy had his birthday last week and these were the invites I made. The Dsp on the front is retired but I only had a little bit left, just perfect for the four invites I had to make, pretty simple design  and there was a piece of string looping round the  flowers to keep it shut. I even ran the flower thing past him first and he was ok with that too. 

My Princess Castle card

A week or so ago Tracey Old featured on her blog a fantastic castle card that she had made from a tutorial found in blog land, Well, I have a wee princess who is about to turn 5 and I just had to go hunt it down to make my own card so the tutorial is Here, featured on a blog by Lisa Young. My wee girl loves pink and purple so I used the DSP that is from the hostess section this catalogue called Cheerful Treat. Her birthday is still a few weeks away so I am trying to keep the card a secret.

Side Step Album

This is a fabulous new mini album that I have made from Stampin' - ups Simply scrapin kits. This kit is called Tickets and tags. I have started to look at them in a different light since I started scrap booking. I love all the co-ordinating stickers and strips that come in the kit.

Because there are two of everything you back to back the stickers for the tags. I didn't have any matching ribbon to tie it all together, so I dyed my own using a teaspoon and an ink pad. It turns white ribbon into any colour you want, love this trick. This was one of the easiest mini scrapbooks I have ever put together. The instructions for this free tutorial have been fantastically put together by Flowerbugs Inkspot, Go check out her blog, its awesome!

The Open sea, for the blokes

I finally have got the have a play with some new goodies. I am so glad we got this set in New Zealand, I also have the DSP that goes with this open sea stamp set and I have so many sea side photos to scrap with it. Anyways, these two cards are for two family members birthdays commin' up. The card on the left has been cased from Deb Ferns, an Australian Demo. Its a nice clean looking card. And then the one to the right I just let loose and played. I also used the new to me smooch spritz. Here I have used the 'Gold Glow' one that kind of gives the card an aged look as well as the sparkle that you can't see here. This stuff is so cool and I have to hold back from putting it on all my cards lol.

The birds are back.

Aren't these cards cute, I still love this set. This was based on a card I found in blogland that had a bird cage on it but from someother company, There are bits and pieces from there although I can't remember where I found it now. The blue one is my fav but just because I'm not a pink person. The birds on the pink card are a happy mistake and I think it corrected quite well.

Remembering summer

This is another card very similar to This card I made a while back using the spotlighting technique and the new in colours. I used the stamp-a-ma-jig to line it all up because I didn't trust myself. Very simple but effective card. Watch this space, I have more stamps I want to do this too yet. lol

Orange Again

This was another of my layouts from the beginning and using that orange colour that i dislike so much but  it keeps popping up over and over again. I picked my two colours from the balloons and couldn't really change that. This was one of those family pages to go into our Family Album. I struggle with  the journalling side of scrapbooking, this is one of those pages that still needs details. The memory tag in the page above came from a set at spotlight, Not Stampin' up but fantastic for scrapbooking!