Gerbera Card

I made this card for a member of a card club I belong to. I don't think she'll be checking out my blog any time soon so here it is!! If you are a member of my card club and see this please DON'T tell her it's here!!!

I'd love to see your comments on this card. I'm really pleased with how it turned out. You can't really tell in the photo but the paper I made the flowers from has a type of glimmer mist sprayed on it and it looks all glimmery...glimmer mists are my new addiction!!! Everything on the card has been designed and cut out on my Gazelle, even the word "Friends" is done in Jac Paper and then had the glitter treament! I sooooooo love my Gazza!!!

Have a wonderful week,

Shell xoxo

FREE

Hi everyone,

I know I know, I've been a bad blogger!! But here I am back again. Don't get too excited, the next few weeks are busy for me but I promise I'll try to blog once a week from now till Christmas.

I just wanted to share a type of blog candy that Dustin Pike is giving away that everyone can win!! Yep, EVERYONE CAN WIN!!!

If you pop on to Dustin's blog and look at his post for Sunday October 4th you can read all about how you can win 30-40 FREE downloads of Dustins awesome work and also be in the draw to win an absolutley AMAZING hand-sculpted Dragon!!!!

Check out Dustin's Website here.

Well that's all from me for now. Keep your eyes peeled to this spot for an awesome Christmas project I'm doing!!

Cheers,

shell xoxo

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