Card lovin'

Some more cards that I whipped up at the end of last year, that I loved but never got the chance to blog about!

 This one was Felicity's birthday card. I used my Hexagon punch from Stampin Up to punch out different coloured scraps of aqua Patterned Paper and I love it!! The sweet little owl juuuuuusssstttt fit inside the hexagon, so he had to be included too!

 Next I broke out my hexagon embossing folder (also from SU) and thought I'd mix it up a bit by cutting along the embossed line to make an interesting edge. I'm so happy with it! I had this really sweet red patterned paper with a very baroque image on it, and I had no idea how to use it so you could still see the image. Well, when I mounted it behind the hexagon panel, it was perfect! I added the sentiment, some ribbon and a paper flower and voila!

 And cos it was so good, I made another one, just slightly different {wink!}

 I Love Hot Air Balloons! Do you? I'm loving this set from SU, and it goes so perfectly with the tiny Memory Box cloud dies I bought! Don't they cut such cute little clouds?! I embossed a piece of grey card with my chevron embossing folder and this card has to be one of my faves!

 Here's one that I threw together using all the scraps left over on my desk. I love when these cards practically make themselves! Cos I pick up all the bits, throw them down and just tweak the placement a little and I love it! The colour combo on these 2 cards- grey, aqua & yellow is gorgeous too, you can't go wrong!

 And for a totally different colour scheme I went with pale pink and aqua for these next 2 cards. I embossed 3/4 of the pink card so the top of the card would be patterned but the bottom 1/4 would be plain so you can see the pattern on the paper. Me muchos likey! It's quite interesting!

 And I made another one, similar. Hehe.

 Here's another fave card (have I said that about all the cards today?? {giggles}. The background paper is sooooo cool! Its from a pad of 12x12 paper, maybe even an Aldi one. Love it! I used some hexagon embossed aqua card, silver glitter washi tape and a punched shape for the sentiment. I love the colours and the patterns and the texture on this card!

So again, I made another one. {smiles}. This colour scheme is perfect for a modern wedding card, but for birthdays, babies, thanks, anything!
Have you been making cards lately?
Thanks for dropping by!
:) C

Cards!

Its been a little while since I posted some cards, so here they are! A little selection of some of my fave cards from the latter part of this year :)

This was Alicia's Birthday card, I love the hexagon stamp set and punch from Stampin Up! And it was fun to include some sequins on there too!

I am also loving Hot Air Balloons and I have this gorgeous set from Stampin Up. I think doilies on cards are so pretty too, so you'll see them quite a bit on my cards at the moment!

There was something about this patterned paper that I really loved, and there are those hexagons that I love again! This time in Embossing folder form, I have fallen in love with my Cuttlebug again recently and have been embossing and cutting out heaps with it! I love it! I also pulled out my old Circle Circus set and stamped them for some added interesting patterns. Loved this card!

 This card was super quick to make cos I used all buts and pieces off my desk! I love when a card comes together so easily!

 More embossing! More hexagons! This one was inspired by one I saw on Pinterest. Man I love Pinterest!

And so I made the same card in different, more muted colours cos I loved it! There is a different embossing folder. I think I've used my embossing folders more in the past 4 months than I have in 4 years! I love actually using the products I have, and not hoarding them! {tongue in cheek!} YOu know I'm a hoarder but I'm breaking the habit!!
Hope you like my cards!
:) C

Wedding Cards..

Hello!
So I had fun the other day at the Craft Expo and the very next day after buying new stuff I was sitting at my desk making cards with the new purchases! That never happens! Alicia was inspiring to me, while I was shopping, cos she has a very different eye for things. E.g. she is so totally up with fashions and popular culture that she encouraged me to buy things I may have thought twice about. Well I did love this particular Chandelier stamp but Alicia really encouraged me to get it cos she thought it was awesome. Then she suggested that I make Black and White Wedding Cards and I went off on a tangent after that. I bought some paint on white shimmer paint, Hero Arts wedding stamps and I used my newly purchase doily dies to make some Wedding Cards that are totally different to other Wedding Cards I have made in the past. And I love them!I shimmered the Bride's dress and the black background paper on this one. It looks really pretty IRL! I dug out this vellum BG paper which I have had for probably like 6 or 7 years! I was so happy to be getting to use it! I also love the font of the sentiments in this set, so pretty!
And of course Stampin Up's "Well Scripted" set has the most beautiful "Congratulations" stamp and I couldn't resist using it! Here I've used the doily edge die cuts too, so sweet!
And lastly I used the doily die to cut the vellum circles and stamped the SU Congratulations over the top, finished off with some "Mr & Mrs" ribbon and jewels and voila! Beautiful!
Hope you like them!
:) C

Cards from Fliss's :)

Hi Y'all!
I woke up and it's raining! I thought it was supposed to be a real hot weekend, I didn't know it was going to rain! I do love waking up the the sound of the soft droplets on the tin roof next door, it's quite soothing. At least the only plans we had for today is to go to Balmain for breakfast with our work friends. YAY! I love breakfasts out at a cafe, so much fun! I wonder what I'll have..... probably pancakes! {drool!}
Here are the cards I made during my cardmaking day with Felicity on Thursday :) {hugs Fliss} it was a fun day! I looked through my card box and decided that I needed more wedding/engagement/anniversary cards, especially beautiful, elegant ones. So that's what I set about doing. How do you like them? I do love light blue and brown for elegant wedding colours and on this first card I combined Baja Breeze and Soft Suede and used the medallion from Artistic Etchings to add a bit of interest. I love that set! The ribbon on this one is one of my fave's too, it's very elegant with it's 2 colours of satin ribbon with organza between.
The next card uses the beautiful Congratulations sentiment from {} set. The font they have used for these stamps is just soooo pretty! I embellished with some ribbon and sweet little Kaiser pearls. The small flourish is also from Artistic Etchings. This is a very simple card, but I really like it as a wedding or engagement card, especially cos the SEI paper is very chic too.
And while I was at it I made a second similar card! I also love this cream embossed BG paper that Yvette gave me. I love it a lot, but I'm finding it a bit easier to use up papers I like, instead of hoarding them! I know I have a lot of gorgeous papers and there are always nice ones to buy! It was the last of that brown and pink spotty ribbon too, hooray {cheering} cos I hardly ever use up ribbons! I have hundreds in my collection and I really need to start using up more of the older ones too. {Sigh}, I'm going to need to do crafting 36hrs a day (yes, a day, not a week! I need 1.5 days in one!) to put a dent in it all!
And just one more card.... I made a "man" anniversary card! I figured most of my customers are women and they probably need to get anniversary cards for their husbands so I made a man coloured card! I hope you like it!
:) C

Wedding Cards

Hi Y'all. I'm throwing off the sick blankets today and Will is taking me into the city for the Aroma Coffee festival that is on today at the Rocks :) I imagine we will be 2 of tens of thousands of people so I hope my sick little body is strong enough to cope!!

Remember I made a whole bunch of pink and brown wedding cards a few weeks ago, well I broke out of the pink wedding card mold to make some Blue and Brown Wedding cards using up almost a whole sheet of leftover 3D stickers from my massive stash {punching air}!! For this first card I also used the SU set Blooming With Happiness and the Hampton Art clear set Forever Wedding with Groovy Guava and Creamy Caramel. I love the bride and groom words and I managed to perfectly position them where I wanted them in relation to the double heart stamp. Success!!

Another one of my fave SU sets for wedding cards is the retired Happiness Always set. I had this rectangular 3D tag which is already dry embossed with leaves on it. "What on earth am I going to do with that?" I thought! Well I fiddled with some bits and pieces on my desk, finally adhering it to a scalloped rectangle I had cut with my Cuttlebug and Nestabilites dies and then embellished it with Prima flowers and some bling in the centres. I was so happy with how it turned out!! The ribbon is actually blue with brown and cream stripes so it goes a bit better IRL than here in the pic (trust me {wink!})

Then of course the Wordsworth stick people had to make an appearance cos i love this wedding set! I stamped the striped BG paper with my Autumn Leaves Flourish stamp, then embellished some of the ends of the swirls with tiny bling jewels. So cute!! The frame with the butterflies is off the same 3D sticker sheet as the other 3D embellishments on the other 2 cards, so happy to have used up that whole sheet!!

I hope you all have a great Sunday also, hoping we can get a car park in the city ok and I don't get too worn out!

:) C

Do brown cards reflect my Melancholy mood?

Hi Y'all!

For some reason yesterday and today I have been quite melancholy. I'm not sure why. Monday I felt I couldn't even snap out of it! Luckily I have great friends at work who make my days fun :) so the feeling almost went away. Then today it was sneaking back in the edges again. What is this all about? If you know me, you know I am a happy person! I dunno... I've been working too hard at work lately and I have found it not a fun place to be (apart from break times with my friends) and now that I work day shift I miss the sunlight and being able to go shopping in the day time like when I worked nights. Hmm... hope I do snap out of it, it's really annoying to be sad! So anywho, the 4 cards I've made lately have incorporated brown... so I'm thinking that's a reflection of my mood! Willy did pick me up quite a bit by buying me Ribs and Pancakes for dinner Monday night. The path to my happiness is paved with food, so it would seem {sigh}.

This paper has been in the front of my stash for ages and I don't like it, but I thought it would actually look good as House warming cards! I think it turned out pretty good actually. I paired my See D's Home Sweet Home stamps with my new Trendy Trees stamps from Stampin Up which I just love. How cute are those little trees?!

Then I made some wedding cards using some of my 3D stickers. You know me by now right? Well, you know that I have a box full of the 3D stickers from my obsession with them in the past (thankfully it has petered off in the past 2 years, cos otherwise I could open my own shop with the number I have right now! In fact, I don't think I have bought any at all this year! Woo Hoo!) Well I don't have many wedding stamps so I thought it would be cool to use up some of the 3D stickers and get some more wedding cards in my box. How do you like these? I used SU designer series Berry Bliss paper from last year's catalogue paired with some little scraps from my stash to make these 2 cards. There is a bit of glitz you can't see so well in the pics but a card isn't complete without ribbon and glitz!

:) C

Saturday is for Fun and Relaxation.. Woo Hoo!

So... come here often? Lol. It's Saturday which means NO WORK and ALL PLAY!! YAY!! Whenever I am home on the weekend I love to put on a movie, and especially Musical movies! I love singing along and crazy dancing when the mood takes me... I've already watched Dreamgirls and now I'm watching Xanadu. Yep, Xanadu! We had the soundtrack on Vinyl when I was growing up and we always played it while doing our housework. As soon as I put it on just now I got a big smile.. it so takes me back!!

Last night while doing OT at work, Will got a text from his sister asking if I had any Wedding cards cos it's her Best Friend's wedding today. Talk about leaving it for the last minute! I came home and checked out my box and decided I had to make a couple more to give her a bigger choice. I love this set of wedding stamps by wordsworth, the "better than hollywood" sentiment is so cool! I love the leg back on the girl as he dips to kiss her.. so sweet! And this SEI paper is one of my faves at the moment too, I think I only have a little bit of it left {sigh}, yes I know there will always be nice papers!

And I made a more traditional card too, using this giant chipboard sentiment I found amongst my 3D stickers. I have no idea what style of card Will's sis would want so I thought I'd better include a few different ones. I blinged up this card with some paper flowers with Kaiser pearls as centres. And I used my Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder on the BG paper and inked over the edges and some of the dots with gold brilliance. I think it turned out quite nice! So, these 2 cards are not a bad effort after 10hrs of work!

K, it's time to get away from the computer and back to my creating cos it's Saturday and Saturday is for Fun and Relaxation!!

:) C