another card!

Here's another card I made today using that same gorgeous cardstock I used for the flower below. Everything here was cut out on gazza including the sentiment that was a print and cut. Too easy!!

Cheers,

shell xoxo

a whole day of crafting!!!

Well I have managed to get a whole lot of crafting done today, kid is back at school and I don't start back at work until tomorrow so I made the most of my time!

Here's a card I did for the monthly challenge I'm currently involved in. The theme was "spring" so I decided to do a spring card :) I am thrilled at how it turned it. I can just imagine this as a card for a granny, something about the colours. Anyways, everything was cut out on gazza, except the bling in the middle of the flower and the butterfly. The word bloom was cut from gold vinyl. The flower was cut using some paper I bought from Dean last year. You can't see it in the picture but it has a lovely lustre to it, almost metallic. It's gorgeous!!

Have a fab day!

shell xoxo

waterfall card

Here's the zoo themed card I made for this months card challenge.

I got the pattern from splitcoaststampers and made up the file using funtime. The images are all print and cuts using gazza. I also learnt how to use the x y axis function to put in my score lines on the pull down part of the card. SOOOOO easy when you know how!

Looking at the card now I probably should have said Just for ZOO instead of you :)

I love waterfall cards. They are really easy to make and very effective with the right images.

Enjoy,

shell xoxo

All things Girlie!

I'm currently involved in a card swap with some ladies from the gazelle/pazzles owners yahoo group and this months theme was "All things Girlie". This is the card I came up with. The stamp is a free digital stamp from Broken Box Stamps. I rearranged the sentiment and using the funtime software I made the word fabulous curve around the oval and then got gazza to cut the whole lot out. Pretty cool huh?!? I colored this g\fabulous lady with my water color pencils and crystal glazed her dress and shoes. The flower is a prisma flower.

I'm usually running late with these swaps but I've even managed to finish next months card!! Over the weekend I'm moving my craft room back to where it should be so everything will be all organized again and I can really get stuck into some card making. I can't wait!! I think I might even find some blog candy to give away! So keep an eye out:)

Cheers and thanks for looking,

Shell xoxo

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all the fabulous Mum's out there!!

Here's my Mother's Day card for my MIL. I am really impressed at how this card turned out. It is one of the most basic cards I've ever made but I think it looks amazing (if I say so myself!)

Everything except the flower and bow was cut out using my gazelle, including the word MUM which was cut from gold vinyl. Inside the card is layered gold then white with gold vinyl saying Happy Mother's Day. I did take a pic of the inside of the card but my computer has go slow Sundays happening and won't let me publish it. I'll try again later.

I hope everyone has a fabulous day celebrating being a mum :)

Cheers,

shell xoxo

Exploding box

Here's an exploding box I did at the request of a friend as a going away gift for a friend of hers. My apologies about the upside down pictures but I'm just learning about my new iPad and it's glitches, like upside down photo's!! Hopefully you'll get the idea!!!

Cheers,

shell xoxo

Female Ingenuity at it's best?

I was surfing the net the other night and visited one of my all time favorite blogs, Becca's Amazing Paper Grace (if you haven't checked out her site you just HAVE to, she is an amazing lady with an amazing talent), anyways, she had made her own peg board bow maker which makes tying professional looking bows a breeze!! Apparently I'm a little behind with this knowledge, but once I saw Becca use her bow maker I just had to have one NOW!!

Mind you this was at about 10 o'clock last night, and with Bunnings closed I had to use my female ingenuity, and I came up with this.

Very rudimentary but it works!! Ok, so the pencils wobble around a little bit and transfer tape isn't overly sticky to keep the pencils straight but it did the job :)

Hubby now has the measurements needed to make me my own peg board bow maker.

I'll post an update when he's finished it.

Cheers for now,

shell xoxo