Happy Anniversary & Valentines Day

It is that time of year again!   

 

42 years ago, on 13th February 1982, we got married.

14th February is Valentines Day

I had a bit of fun this year with my card.

 

I purchased some lovely digital graphics from ETSY recently and had a play around on the computer designing a card.

 

As an added touch, I used Dimensional Magic on the balloon heart.

 

 

Linking with the following challenges:

Addicted to CAS: #251 - Heart

Creative Inspirations - February Challenge - Someone you Love 

Critter Crazy Challenge - #83 - Anything Goes with a Critter

 

 

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Family Birthday Time!

It's time for the usual family get together for all the September/October birthday people :)  We are doing it a little bit earlier this year, as the Sister-in-law Sharon is going overseas to work for a while.

 

Great-nephew Archie turned 7 and I chose a LOTV Number Bears '7' digistamp, sized to print on an A6 cardfront, with computer generated text.  

 

Image was hand coloured with copics and the number '7' highlighted with Dimensional Magic.  

 

Cardfront was trimmed to size, a blue border added, then layered onto 300gsm cardbase with foam squares.

 

Great-nephew Lucas will turn 9 and I chose a LOTV Candles digistamp, sized to print on an A6 cardfront, with computer generated text.  

 

The candles were hand coloured with copics, then highlighted with Dimensional Magic which seems to bring out the primary colours so beautifully (see Shopping our Stash Challenge - colour me beautiful!)

 

Cardfront was trimmed to size, a blue border added, then layered onto 300gsm cardbase with foam squares. 

 

 

Linking With the following challenges:

Inkspirational Challenge #299 Clean & Simple

Shopping our Stash SOS506 - Color me beautiful

 

 

 

The niece Lauren has a birthday on 6th October and I gave her a card I had in my stash.  You can see how I made the card HERE  You may remember I entered this card into a challenge in May and it was chosen as a Princess of Clean for Freshly Made Sketches :)  

 

 

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Happy New Year!

It's really hot here in Adelaide today, so I am inside playing in the Craft Room.

 

I made a Happy New Year card ........  something fun and light-hearted to lift the spirits!

 

I started with a freebie digital image from Gerda Steiner and played around with colouring it, then I added some Dimensional Magic to the stars, some Kindy Glitz to the hats & scarves.  I printed 'Happy New Year' with the laser printer, then foiled it in Gold (it doesn't show up very well in this photo, but it is really shiny!)

Cardfront was then mounted onto black 250gsm card .... simples!  No layers, no flowers, clean lines.

 

Inspired By challenge is 'happy new year' and it has gold bits in the photo

 

Also, sharing my card with the artist, Gerda Steiner :)  This image was great to work with, I will have to have another look at what else is available :)

 

This card is also a card for Creative Crafters Challenge on Facebook :)

 

Linking With the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge Blog - Week 708/9 - CAS

Inspired By Challenge  - photo

Items Used

Cardstock:  white & black cardstock

Stamps:  Digital Stamp Gerda Steiner Designs

Tools:

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Naughty or Nice?

Working on my Christmas Card stash .....

I was quite taken with a card by Karen McKibbin I saw on the Paper Rose Blog - so I thought I would try a 'new to me' technique with Acetate.

I stamped and coloured in a Christmas Tree, then cut out two trees with the matching dies and layered the two trees together.

I stamped some 'pine branches' on spare cardstock and used them for the top and bottom.

I attached some Go Press Foil on the top & bottom edges using double sided tape, then attached them to the acetate.  For the inside of the card, I embossed some white cardstock with 'Swiss Dots' embossing folder, the very first embossing folder I bought way back when I got my Cuttlebug.

I highlighted the tree with some kindy glitz and Dimensional Magic, then added the sentiments using 3d foam.

It was quite a challenge making up this card, and I would like to make another one, but this time take a bit more care with my measurements LOL

Linking with:

ABC Christmas Challenge "S or T" - T for Tree

Time Out Challenges #223 Photo Inspiration 'Christmas Tree'

Winter Wonderland Christmas Animals

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Naughty or Nice?

Time for a Christmas Card - I am slowly building up my stash ready for November.

A new stamp set for me ..... loved the cat in the tree and I have several friends who have cats, so it will be perfect for them!

Stamped in StazOn and hand coloured with Copics, highlighted with Plaid Dimensional Magic.  I think I referred to it as 'French Dimensions' in a previous post, but that was incorrect.  French Dimensions was a technique in my ceramics .... LOL  An early senior's moment sneaking in there!

The background was watercoloured onto some lovely leathergrain cardstock that has been in my stash for ages.  It is lovely and thick and has such a lovely texture, I like to use it on special cards.

Linking with:

Happy Little Stampers August - Christmas Challenge

CAS Christmas Card Challenge - Pine

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.
Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Happy Birthday, Happy Anniversary, Happy Birthday

It's time to visit Mr Fixit's brother & his wife for their birthday and anniversary celebrations.

There will be cake and bubbly, and all sorts of goodies to eat - what a wonderful way to spend the afternoon.








Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.
Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

The Big 5 Birthday

My Great Niece is 5 Years Old - ready to go to the Big School

I personalised this Clown Card for her - I hope she (well, her mum at least) likes it

It is a CUP card (see link on sidebar), printed, cut out and layered with 3D foam dots.  Highlighted with Kindy Glitz & Dimensional magic.  Personalised using the CraftROBO with a number 5 and her name, also layered with 3D foam dots and highlighted with Kindy Glitz on her name and Dimensional Magic on the number, strategically placed under the layers of the hands.

EDITED:  This card can be purchased from my ETSY shop.

I also made this little bag.

We are off to deliver it in person later this afternoon.

Fun with CraftsUprint!

I have known about the http://www.craftsuprint.com/ site for a while now, but until recently, have not done anything with their products.  That all changed this last two weeks.

I was taken with some of the clown files they had on offer - so here are some of my creations.

The response was very quick as soon as payment was confirmed via Paypal, the files were ready.  Downloading went without a hitch. 

All the elements required to layer the card are included.   In both of these cards, they were printed on white textured cardstock and highlighted with Kindy Glitz and Dimensional Magic.

The clown cards can be found HERE 

This card is a 'wobble' card - you just give it a little push and it wobbles!  ;-) 

I will get a better photo of this card when the sun comes out and stays out  LOL