Hi all,

OK, so my New Years resolution to blog at least weekly has gone a little astray....just a little!

Anyways, here's a card I made for the card swap I'm currently involved in. The theme was Autumn and I sooooo wasn't in a brown and gold and yellow mood so I googled flowers that bloom in Autumn and up came a gerbera. Gerberas are one of my favorite flowers, always so bright and cheery. They always seem like such a happy flower to me.

The card base is a design from the fabulous Monica Bjork. The flower I designed myself and the sentiment is a SU! stamp embossed with glitter sliver embossing powder.

Everything was, of course, cut out using my Gazelle.

This was a really quick and easy card. The longest part is waiting for the glue to dry!

I'm now off to watch the series return of Secret Diary of a call girl, love that show!

Have a great week,

Shell xoxo

Red, Black & White

Here's a card I did for our recent red, b;ack & white challenge. The only thing not done on my Gazelle is the flowers and the embossing that was done on the cuttlebug. The with love was a print and cut inspired by a SU! stamp. This was a really quick and easy card that I think looks lnice and clean and elegant. I hope the recpient likes it :)

I haven't addded anything to the inside of this card but I think I'm going to start adding some layers. Mainly because I think it makes the card feel a little more luxurious and complete.

Keep an eye out for an update tomorrow!

Shell x

Monochrome Card

woooooohooooo!!!! Happy New Year!!!!!! Ok....one of my NY's resolutions is going great....I've blogged for the first week of 2012!!! LOL

Ok...here is a monochrome card I made for a card swap I'm involved in. It's a little late as it's the November swap, but I'm on a mission to catch up by tomorrow and even be ahead by getting January's card done!

I absolutely love the way this card turned out. To me it looks so elegant and blingy. Can you believe all I used was some ribbon, 3 roses my foil master, a gold leaf pen, some glitter and white card stock?? The gold edging you can see is just the edges of some white card colored in with the gold leaf pen.

The framed "S" was simply printed on my mono laser and then I ran it through my foil master with gold spectre foil. A pretty gold bow and some gold glitter and it was done.

I love, love, love this card and think it will be recycled for birthdays by simply changing the colour scheme and the monogram.

Did I mention that I also LOVE my Foil Master!?!?!?!?!? LOL

Enjoy!

shell xoxo

Here's a video of my new toy. LOVE IT!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THVtKt-Bh74&feature=player_embedded

Shell xoxo

Merry Christmas!!

I know I'm a bit late with the festive greetings but I did want to share an awesome and very basic print and cut I did on my cougar. I used these as my Christmas name tags this year. They came up beautifully!! Easily mass produced and delightfully quick and easy to make.

I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas and that you enjoyed good food, good friends and lots of laughs!

Stay tuned for news of my new toy....it is AMAZING!!!!!!

Shell xoxo

Hello everyone,

It seems like FOREVER since I've posted on my little piece of cyber real estate. I have so much to share it's hard to know where to begin!! I'll start with a card.

I made this butterfly card for our little card swap group. For the splatter coloured card stock I used a spritz tool and just some cheapo markers and spritzed away. I love this effect and will be doing it again very soon! My butterfly is a print and cut using my new toy. Keep an eye out for coming posts about him :) See how close I got to his outline, and all with no fudge line either!! Awesome and dead easy compared to a regular gazelle print and cut. The sentiment was cut from vinyl. It's a little hard to tell from the picture but it is almost hair thin in some places. AMAZING detail! My butterfly was coloured in with my Spica pens. All shiny and shimmery. A bead of crystal effects for his body and your done.

Stayed tuned over the next couple of days to see what new goodies I have to play with and to see some more card creations as well!

Cheers,

shell xoxo

white card stock challenge

Hey everyone,

here's a card I did for a challenge where you were only allowed to used white card stock and 1 other medium only. My other medium was H2O's.

Everything you see here was cut out using my Gazelle difital die cutter. including the rose and the paper lace ribbon. Pretty cool huh?

The rose and leaves were coloured with H2O's.

The rose file is from My Time Made Easy and the lattice and ribbon are Monica Bjork files (she does some amazing work!!)

This card was so easy to make and only took about 30 minutes to make not including waiting for the H2O's to dry. Impressive hey?

Have a fabulous day!

shell xoxo