Happy New Year.

This year I decided to send a few New Years cards, something a bit different. Pinterest, thanks for the inspiration.

A Beautiful day to celebrate

Mothers. This is a quite gift I put together for my mum because we are heading over to spend the day with her shortly. The kraft boxes and spiral flower die make such quick presents. Have a lovely Day to all the mums out there.

Happy Mother's Day ......

Confused! Mother's Day in NZ is not until May , but in England they celebrate it earlier than us. My English friend can never find a card to send to her mum, So these were created just for her. A great reason to be making your own cards! You can always find the right sentiment.

Happy Easter

Today is my baby's last day of Kindy. Next term its off to school. She is so excited about it all. This is the wee Easter treat I have made up to give all her Kindy teachers. These boxes are so wee there is just enough room for small marshmallow Easter egg. I have used retired DSP just to give a wee bit of colour. These boxes are so fast to whip up once you get the hang of the twisty ends. Happy Easter everyone.

Colour Coach pays off again

This was a card I cased from blog land some where. The coloured panel is the same and i just loved the colours, then I happened to find it on my colour coach. Great colours together, but I changed the rest of the card, I thought the original had to much white. These stamps are from the hostess set Silhouette Sentiments. The stamps are small but I'm loving this set

Punchart

These are the other 2 beachy theme cards I made for someone last week. The punchart is inspired by the punch art Queen Ellen Kemper. I need to get me for beachy type stamps...

Artistic etchings

My friend came over for a stamping visit last week and because she knows I like this set she always brings it with her. This is not my first play with it, I feel in love with it the very 1st time I played, ooh I think I'm just gonna have to order my own set. This was again using 'embossing resist' and just being totally random. I love my Big Shot lots and lots but am trying for a change to do a few cards with out it. - and its very hard work !

Well Autumn is most definitely here...

Autumn inspired cards that is. I have finally inked up my French Foliage set that was my first pick from the Autumn - Winter mini that stampin'-up has out at the moment. I don't no why it has taken me so long. This is such a fantastic set to get creative with. Two of these cards were done with the "embossing resist" technique and the 3rd card was a case from off the web. I love how these came out. The card at the top has a layout of another card I found in blog land but I have changed the colours and the stamp set used. Also I didn't have and matching ribbon so dyed my ribbon using a teaspoon and an ink pad. And maybe I should have done the same in the card to the left. oh well to late now.

Thanks for looking.

Black and White

This is one of those ideas I have seen many of and have had this on my 'to do' list for a long time. A card with so many possibilities with all the different embossing folders available. Black and white is a fantastic colour combo for a special occasion.

Going Green

This is a colour I have not used and is maybe a bit odd for a Sympathy card but I needed a dark- ish colour. This is a case from blog land that I really liked. It uses the embossing resist technique and also a 'new to me' technique of apply ink over an embossed image, I like this! Think I will be doing this some more. This now retired Bliss set make such nice sympathy cards

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I have conquered the Impossible

........The 'impossible box' that is. This is from a great tutorial I found on Paula Dobson's blog. I found it a while ago and decided it looked to hard but in the weekend I decided I needed a challenge. It was a very clear and easy to follow tutorial and quite an easy box to make as it turned out. My box came out 2 1/2" square, just the right size to add a few chocolates to lift someones day.