Triple time stamping

These cards are all around at the moment and as I was blog surfing this morning I found a great example of this kind of card that I cased completely because I loved the colours and he provided a great tutorial for it too, although I did have to slightly alter the size. The blog was www.stampwithbrian.com
The card on the left was from his blog and the other card was a last play with a retired set and colours, well possibly not a last play, I just might hang on to this set.

Congratulations....

I know I have been MIA for quite some time now, I kinda lost all my crafty - ness. I've been making the odd thing here and there, surfing the web and came across this cool idea for an Engagement card (will link it up when I find the original again.) I used a colour combo I've used before and really quite like.  My brother has not long got engaged so it heading his way.

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.

Hip to be Square...

This was a card I first saw done by Mary Fish, on her blog called 'stampinpretty.com' she has a fantastic blog. Her card was also done in green. I had a person in mind for this card when I also decided to do green, I used Old olive for the card base and pear pizzaz for the ink, its such a nice green. I then decided to have another go using Black and vanilla, and then changed the card a bit. I used lots of different stamps in these and a few pearls. I love how they both came out and am now keen to try some different colour combos.

Butterfly pansies

This idea has been around the internet for a long time and finally I have done my version. I have used the centre flowers from the Greenhouse Garden stamp set. I have chosen to do just white pansies with yellow centres but of course the Pansy colours are endless. I like how this came out.

Easter Treat Big Shot Box

This is my version of a Big Shot box with the scallop square. When I do Easter I usually always reach for My Elegant Eggplant because Cadbury(NZ Chocolate) is purple, lol. But I love how this came out. I didn't use any ones template it's easy enough to nut out your own, but I did use the cute as little bunny bums I saw on Paula Dobson's Blog not so long ago. Have also used the Easter egg wheel I bought just before it retired last year, I mainly got it because I do lots of craft with kids at school and its so easy for them to operate.

Punch Art

This is some more fantastic punch art from the fabulous blog of 'Ellen Kemper' ( sorry I don't no how to link). I used this idea in a class last weekend, its nice and simple and uses just one punch, The Bird punch. This card also got me using my colour pack of Melon Mambo' which I have had forever and barely used. Also the DSP is retired but it was the best match I had for the job.

A case of a case

Isn't this a nice clean and simple card. I like many that I see around, but something they just don't seem to work out right when I try those types of cards But I do love this.! This was a case of a case from an American Demonstrator who had cased the idea from someone else. They were both so cool. On the left heart I applied glue then sprinkle on Red Fine galaxy glitter, then the other heart was tone on tone with the Love wheel then clear embossed. Then Both hearts punched our with the full heart punch.