Boo Boo Dragon

(Please excuse my night photography. Patience is NOT one of my strong points!!)

I have recently discovered an amazingly talented digital stamp designer by the name of Dustin Pike. You can check out some if his awesome work by visiting his website here and you can also purchase his images here for the extremely reasonable price of only $1USD. He also does some awesome stuff with modelling clay. On a recent post he made the cutest little dragon head while 'wasting a morning'!! Wish I could come up with some creations like he does will 'wasting' a morning!!

Once I saw this Boo Boo Dragon I just had to have him. Isn't he just gorgeous!! I did this card for an elderly client who comes to the salon regularly for a Flo wave. That's not a typo either!! Her name is Flo so she has a "flo" wave instead of a blow wave :) She had a fall recently and I thought this little guy might cheer her up.

Stay tuned for more of Dustins' images. I think I can feel another addiction coming on!!

Have a great week end,

shell xoxo

Look what I got!!!

Hi All,

Look what I got today!! I am sooooooooo excited!!! When my friend Leesa rang

me last night to say my Tilda stamps that she had ordered for me from the UK over 2 weeks ago had arrived I nearly scared the woman standing next to me in the fruit and veg section half to death!! Mental note to self...do NOT squeal in the fruit and veg section of Safeway!

I got 8 Magnolia stamps and 1 Penny Black stamp set. I also got my consultant bonus set from SU! as well!! It feels like Christmas!! I can't wait to stamp tonight... which one will I use first??

Ok...I'm off to clean my house and get dinner ready so I don't feel guilty about shutting my office door tonight :)

Cheers,

shell xoxo

Tri-Fold Shutter Card

Here's a card I made last night. I'm really pleased with how it turned out. It is cut entirely using my Gazelle. With the exception of the little butterflies. I figured out that by positioning what you want to cut where, you can make 4 cards using 4 sheets of card stock so it's a very economical and impressive card that needs very little in the way of embellishments. I think this would make a great going away card or a leaving card, lots of room for everyone to write their best wishes!

I used all SU! card stock and the Merci stamp is also SU! as is the little flower stamp you can just make out on the yellow card stock that I stamped with versamark.

If you'd like the file for this card complete with all layers of cut card stock, I've uploaded it over at the Yahoo group or you can email me directly for the file.

Enjoy,

shell xoxo

Here's something a little different for me. I 'tried' to move away from my bright colors, but I just had to have something bright on my card so I went for one little tiny piece of purple bling :)

I'm not entirely happy with this card, not sure why even, maybe because it just seems drab to me. Maybe Tilda should have been stamped on the oval instead of layering her on top of it....maybe it's the purple bling!! LOL

I have to say a huge thank you to Kellie Winnell for the technique I used to make the paper embellishment around the oval. Cool huh?? And it works just as well with different border punch patterns. You can find a link to Kellies' gorgeous blog in my links section.

Let me know what you think!

Cheers,

shell xoxo

We have a winner!!

Congratulations to KAREN!!

Karen was the 6th poster to my blog and her winning entry was drawn by random.org.

Karen, if you could please sends me your postal details (please send them to shellbelle70@gmail.com) I'll get you blog candy out to you asap.

Thanks to those who left a comment.

If there is anything in particular you would like to see on my blog please let me know!

Have a great day,

shell xoxo

My very first BLOG CANDY!!!

Want to win some blog candy??? Included in the candy bag will be a mounted SU! Sprinkles stamp set, a pack of Fiskars Christmas eyelets, a small glass jar of holographic silver glitter, a vellum flower kit from Cloud9 Design, a packet of Fiskars Keepsake Pockets, a foam 'memory' stamp, and last but not least, a Fiskars Easy Press Stamp Kit 'Celebrate".

All you need to do to win this candy is post a comment to my blog by midnight Friday night (the 14th ) I will draw the winner using random.org on Saturday morning!

This Blog Candy can be sent to Australian addresses only :)

Have a great week!!

Shell xoxo

Here's a really quick card I made using my cuttlebug and the embossing folder called Formal squares. I embossed one of the squares onto a note card from SU! I then chalked the raised design, added a punched butterfly from some scrap silver paper I had (I never throw scraps out, you just never know when you might need them!! LOL), added a pink grossgrain bow and there you have it. Really quick and easy, and I think an elegant looking gift card to add to a bunch of flowers or a present.

Cheers,

shell xoxo

Spring Mini Catalogue is here!!!

I know I'm a bit late with this announcement..BUT..the new Spring Mini Catalogue from SU! is here!!

Check out the gorgeous new stamp sets, DSP and some *new* individual stamps as well as a new scalloped oval punch.

Click this link for a PDF version.

If you'd like to purchase any thing from this catalogue please feel free to email me and I'll be in touch ASAP.

For the month of August ONLY, all orders, either from the New Spring mini or the 2009/10 Ideas Book and Catalogue will qualify for FREE P&H.

Cheers,

shell xoxo

Here's a really quick and easy card I put together for a birthday card. I used the Garden Whimsy set from SU! I randomly stamped the big butterfly with pixie pink and lovely lilac. The centre butterfly I versamarked, heat and sticked and then dazzlin' diamondized. The border punch is fiskars, and the flowers are just some I had laying around. I'm not totally happy with it. I think I might tinker and embellish a bit more :)

Cheers,

shell xoxo