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

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