Scrapbooking - Nick and I Sydney Trip

Hi guys! I have another scrap page to share, before hopefully sharing a card tomorrow (if I get a chance to photograph it!)

Here is the layout

For this layout, I started with a black card stock base, and painted up a background using shiny gold paint, and a mask. I then grabbed one of my 3 ink sprays and sprayed some gold around. I added some circles using some white paint on a little plastic lid. I added 4 different patterned papers, from Kaisercraft, and Echo Park, a journalling card from October Afternoon, some washi tape, a flair, paper clip and some twine. The tittle is "Happy" which I coloured using my spectrum noir markers and added some gold paint dots. I added a Kaisercraft chipboard window, which I painted and some flowers from D-Lish Scraps.

Here is the close up collage - 

D-Lish Scraps 5th Birthday Bonanza Challenge 5

The Greeting Farm - Digital Stamp Birthday Card

Hi ya! I'm back to share another little guys birthday card!

This one is in my store as well, as I seem to go through boys cards way quicker than any others!

The other week, I printed off a bunch of digital stamps, ready to colour up. This one, is from The Greeting Farm, I coloured him, using my Spectrum Noir Markers, and then cut it out, using a circle die in the Big Shot. I used patterned paper from October Afternoon (a really old collection), and some Baja Breeze, Limeade and Basic Gray card stock, from Stampin' Up! I embossed the blue, and green pieces and doodled around the edges of all of them... The sentiment is from Kraftin' Kimmie and I've added a paper clip and enamel dot.

Here's the close up

Mojo Monday - Sketch #321

Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes #108

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

The Greeting Farm - Masculine Birthday Card

Last night, I got a burst of creative energy, at about midnight, so, instead of ignoring it, I crafted!

Here is the card I made - 

I didn't particularly want to sit an colour, so I raided my coloured images that had never made it onto a card, and found this little Greeting Farm dude, I looked at him, then went through my stash of patterned papers (mostly offcuts) and came up with the dark brown back ground paper, the green plain paper and a small piece of yellow paper. I believe these are all from Echo Park. I keep all offcut pieces of patterned paper, especially if they are half a normal card size, or more... 

I layered everything up, did some doodling and then attached my little dude using dimensional adhesive. I added a paper clip, some washi tap, a button and a trio of enamel dots. 

Here is the close up -

Splendid Stamping - Farm Fresh Friday - For the Boys

Retro Sketches - #85

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Kraftin' Kimmie - Happy Birthday Card

Hi guys! I hope you all had a fabulous weekend, it was a long weekend here, in New South Wales. I spent Saturday getting dressed up, and going for dinner on the harbour with some lovely friends, to watch the fireworks, before hitting the town... This is me, all dressed up, and ready to go.... 

Anyway, I had an amazing time, and would do it all over again, in an instant! On to my card for today...

This is one of my all time favourite Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps, I believe her name is Lucy... I stamped and coloured her up, using my spectrum noir markers, then selected my patterned paper, in this case, it's Amy Tangerine, and doodled around the border before mounting it on some black card, and then onto the white card base. For the main image panel, I wanted it to look like she was sitting on a blackboard. So, I grabbed some black card, my lightest grey pencil, and sketched where the shadows would fall with her sitting. I then grabbed my anti-static pillow (for embossing) and dropped it a few times, to give the look of chalk dust. I doodled around the edges with a white gel pen, before attaching it to a piece of brown sugar card. The sentiment is from Kraftin' Kimmie, and was stamped, then freehand cut to make a pennant shaped banner. I added some rose embellishments as well as a speech bubble paper clip, to finish off this card.

Here is the close up - 

Kraftin' Kimmie - Birthday Challenge + DT Call

From The Heart Challenge - Sketch #37

Simon Says Stamp - We're Going Dotty

Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes

Scrapbooking my house mates cat - Ollie...

Hi guys, 

I had a craft play date yesterday, which means, I was prepared, and put together a mini scrapbook kit, of things I might want to play with...  I grabbed patterned papers, a baggy of embellishments, and a couple of photos... Anyway, this is what I came up with

I used white card stock as my base, and layered it up with some older Echo Park patterned paper, and some Ruby Rock it patterned paper (the yellow one), as well as card stock in white and turquoise (keep an eye out, you will see these colours again soon) I cut the card stocks into banner shapes, and doodled around the edges (of course) I then went through the embellishments, I used a flair button, some resin roses, a couple of stickers, a paper leaf, a doily (behind the photo) and an arrow paper clip- 

In the opposing corner, I added a crochet doily, some washi tapes (onto white card stock) some buttons, resin roses and a paper rose, along with another leaf, flair button and a swirly paper clip. 

D-Lish Scraps - Inspiration Board

Simon Says Stamp - Animal Antics

Kraftin' Kimmie - Gamer Girl Birthday Card

Hi again!

I made this card the other evening, but am only just getting around to posting it... 

 

I started off by stamping the sentiment (I think it's Hero Arts) and masking it off before stamping the Kraftin' Kimmie - Gamer Girl. I then coloured her up, using my Spectrum Noir markers, she was then cut out using some dies, and set aside... I used background papers from Amy Tangerine, and American Crafts, and layered them up on some grey card before doodling around the edges (surprised?!?) I then laid down some yellow ribbon (which I trimmed into a banner shape) and then went through my resin rose grab bags from  D-Lish Scraps, and grabbed matching roses in two sizes, glued them down with my hot glue gun, and added some adhesive rhinestones. I finished off the card, by attaching a speech bubble paper clip!

Here is the close up -

I've been busy, updating my Madeit store, so pop on over to take a look!

Kraftin' Kimmie- #194 Embellish it!

Mojo Monday - Sketch #309

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Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Anything Goes

Father's Day Card - MFT stamps & The Alley Way Stamps - Clean and Simple

Hi guys! I've been busy contemplating my uni assignments, and not much else, so I haven't had a lot of time to craft... I did get to make my dad a Father's Day card though... 

My dad is quite difficult to make for, as he's not a 'sports fan' or, anything remotely similar to what people think of for father's day cards! So, I went with something quite simple - 

I used patterned papers, from Echo Park, and stamps from both My Favourite Things, and The Alley Way stamps, I used the "chalkboard" technique on these, and doodled around the papers, using a white gel pen (on the dark paper) and a black felt tip pen on the patterned papers. I added twine, some metal swirl paper clips, and a few rhinestones...  

Deconstructing Jen - Sketch 116

Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge 86

My Favourite Things - Father's Day card

Hi ya! I'm on a bit of a Father's Day kick at the moment, trying to get a few bits into my card store, in time to have them in the mail for September 1! 

Here is one I made up yesterday -

I used the MFT Graphi Tee Stamp set, to stamp the "World's Greatest", the Dad was cut out using my bigshot and alphabet dies, in Artichoke card stock, and glued down. I used patterned papers from Echo Park (I think!) The yellow is the reverse side of the main background paper. I then added a speech bubble paper clip, a wooden flourish moustache (coloured with a brown spectrum noir marker) and added some buttons stack on top of each other, with a twine bow -

MFT Stamp & Win - MFTWSC136

Cards for Men - Metal

Masculine Birthday Card - No Colouring!

Hi guys! I made another card the other night, for a friends birthday.... 

I wanted to make a card that wasn't overly "cutesy" as it was for a male friend, and didn't want it to be too over the top either... 

Here is the outcome -

I started out, going through my stash of 6x6 patterned papers, and selecting a few that went ok together... Starting from the top, we've got Sn@p, 24/Seven, then Authentique, then the orange-y one is by Kaisercraft, and is the Homemade collection. I used a piece of white, confetti cardstock in the middle, before repeating the papers down the page again. I looped some black grosgrain ribbon around the side, before attaching a bow, with a button, and a twine bow tied through the holes. I then stamped my sentiment, which is made up using The Alley Way Stamps, Jibber Jabber set. I stamped it using the rock and roll technique, using two shades of orange ink.
The rock and roll technique is simple, dab your stamp in the lighter colour first, than either rock the edge (or roll, depending on how you want it to blend) into the second ink. I just rocked the bottom edge slightly into my darker ink. I then pressed it down on to a piece of Confetti card, and die cut a circle. 

I added a trio of sequins to the bottom right corner of the card, and added an arrow paper clip, from Freckled Fawn to the sentiment circle, to finish the card off... 

Here is the close up (hopefully you can see the colour variation better)

Deconstructing Jen - Sketch 109

The Alley Way Stamps - Be Inspired #32