Nuetrals Challenge

I'm Back! I've had blogging withdrawls. Gosh darn don't you hate when your computer crashes. A valuable lesson learnt however. I procrastinate a lot, I'm always saying i will back that up I will. Well as you can guess i didn't back it up. I lost lots. I have only just managed to put almost everything back on, some stuff is gone for good. You get that I guess when you don't back things up. I'm going to try to make a concience decision to back up on a regular basis. Anyway enough of that now.

Today we had our monthly M&M (michelle's mob) meeting. Our challenge was to use neutrals card stock. The first card is the one I submitted. I wasn't sure where I was going to start with this challenge but am pleased with the outcome.

Stamps: baroque motifs, carte postale, polka dot (bg) its your birthday.

These are from the very talented ladies that attended our meeting.( I hope you don't mind ladies that I've posted these, I just love them and wanted to share your awesome job with everyone).

This is the really cool Make and Take Trudi came up with for us.

I Had so much fun this morning it was really great (wish all meetings could be like the ones we have). Thanks ladies. Looking forward to next months challenge to use bold brights card stock.

Bye for now.

Wallet Card/boys cards

First off I just want to say sorry for the poor quality with the photos. I'm not sure why they've turned out the way they have but I think I'm going to have to start taking photo's of the cards during daytime hours. The first is totally cased from Michelle Force's blog (http://www.michelleforce.blogspot.com/) If you haven't been to her blog before you should totally check it out she does some really fab stuff. It is intended for my nephew who turns 11 on tuesday. So hard to buy for as they get older, so have turned to giving money and as soon as I saw this wallet card I knew i had to case it. Check out the nice space on the right hand side inside the card for writing all the sorts of things 11 year olds really wanna read I'm sure.



Receipe: Card: close to cocoa, chocolate chip, very vanilla. Ink: chocolate chip. Stamp:It's your birthday, wanted. Accessories: sponges, black marker for stitching, acetate

The next two cards are maybe for a workshop I'm doing this Wednesday. I asked my hostess if there was anything in particular she would like to make and she said a boys card. Out came my ever faithful wanted. I have used this set so much it is definitely one of my favs, right up there with scribble this and baroque motifs (gotta love those swirls) . I think I'm leaning towards the first card more than the second as it has too much soft sky in it I think. Still, there's three more days however to make some more. Leave me a comment on your thoughts. Maybe you can help me decide if either of these would be any good.

I'm going to cheat a bit now as I'm finally feeling like I need some sleep, so..... if you'd like the receipe for either of these two cards email me and I'll happily send it to you (but not tonight lol). Gosh I've just looked around me, I'm gonna definitely have to clean some stuff up before I go to bed I can't even get out the door. I must have just about everything out of my cupboards and draws. Imagine my kids, they'd have a ball in the morning with all this stuff left out. Now there's a scary thought. Right..... off to clean up.

Night Out

What an awesome night. I got together with some lovely ladies from inglewood tonight. We all took our stampin supplies to one place and got to share everyone's really cool gear. We stamped a bit and talked lots. It was great. This was my effort for the night, i must have done the lion's share of talking I think. Hope you all have a great weekend.


Receipe: Card: taken with teal, lavendar lace, whisper white. Stamps: Scribble this, So swirly, baroque motifs. Ink: taken with teal, rose red,elegant eggplant,pretty in pink. Accessories: brayer,word window punch, large oval, sponges, non SU brads.

Lovely as a tree

This ones for you Shirlz. Something new for you to look at sorry its been so long since I blogged. I had a really awesome day today. I went to my monthly stamp club this morning hosted by the very talented michelle (http://www.o2bstampin/ ). Boy did she have some cool stuff for us to make today. And yes she has already posted them on her blog so whip over and have a peek they're really neat.
My intentions were good tonight I was meant to make a birthday card for my nephew who turns 11 next week (was trying to be organised lol) never quite made it. This is what I came up with instead. More manly I think than boyish. It was based on a card I had spied on at Michelle's. She really does do some awesome stuff. As for my nephews card guess I'll just have to play another night. Well I'm off to bed now. See you tomorrow night Shirlz. Night All.

Receipe: Card: More mustard, old olive, bravo burgundy, whisper white. Stamp: Lovely as a tree. Ink: Lots involved for sponging. Accessories: black embossing powder, non SU eyelets.

Palette O' Prints

Morning Everyone. Well I just didn't go straight to bed after yesterdays blog, I had to try that delicious colour combo one more time, however this time I added one more coordinating colour (always artichoke). I have also played with the new Palette o' Prints paper available only for the month of May with any $40 purchase for only $14.95. For those of you who don't know about this promotion through Stampin' Up! It's a fabulous pack of 6"x6" designer series paper available in four awesome colours (certainly celery, almost amethyst, rose red,so saffron). There are 48 double sided sheets( twelve sheets of each colour, two sheets of each pattern in each colour). Two of the colours (almost amethyst and So saffron) are not available in the normal Prints Designer Series papers. For more information you can visit http://www3.stampinup.com/nz/enz/

Scribble This

My 2nd and final mother's day card. I definitely prefer this one over the other. There's just something about these colours, and who could go wrong with the fabulous colour coach as there guide. I must confess when I first looked up what would go with almost amethyst i said to my husband there's no way these will work (just goes to show what I know aye). I think I'll be using this combination quite a bit more. I am also really liking the Scribble this Stamp Set. Isn't it funny how some days your cards can just flow together quite quickly and others (oh my gosh.....). I wish I had purchased the occasional greetings stamp set - happy mother's day - would have been great to use, guess i'll just have to add it to my wish list (which grows bigger everyday).
Well Mum's hope your not peeking, if you have shame on you (just kidding happy mother's day for Sunday).

Night All.



Receipe: Card: Almost amethyst, rose red, so saffron. Ink: rose red, so saffron. Stamps: scribble this, curvy verses. Accessories: watercolour paper, blender pen, word window punch, sponges, rose red marker.

Fabulous Flowers

Well I found time to create today. I broke in my brand new fabulous flowers Stamp set. I thought it might just do the trick for my mothers day cards i had yet to make. I had all these ideas running around inside my head tonight but none of them seemed to turn out right. So this is what I finally ended up with. One down one to go.



Receipe: Card: very vanilla, green galore. Ink: certainly celery, pretty in pink, stazon. Stamps: fabulous flowers, heartfelt thanks, bodacious bouquet. Accessories: DSP pallete o prints, acetate, 13/8" & 11/4" square punch, regal rose marker.

New Stuff

Don't you just love the sound of a delivery van at 7.30am in the morning? I'm like a little kid in a candy shop when I get my boxes of stampin up product. Ooooh....what to play with first. I've got the day off from work today. It was supposed to be catch up on the housework day but now I'm not quite sure that'll happen as well as what was intended. Can't just leave all this lovely product to feel neglected now can I (lol).

Carte Postale

I just started my new hours in my new job today and I must say i'm liking it very much. Usually i would be at work at night (freezing i might add at this time of year) until 11 or 12. Tonight i find myself at home cozy as, fire blazing, stamping and sipping wine. So this is what I did on my very first night at home. I hauled my stampin gear out to the lounge in front of the fire and created this. The colours don't look quite as good in the photo much better in real life. I have used the faux tile technique on this card. I love the tile look and it is so simple.


Receipe: Card: soft sky, tempting turquoise, pixie pink. Ink: night of navy, bashful blue. Stamps: leaves a la carte, carte postale. Accessories: Versamark, clear ep, brayer, white gel pen(for highlights in Leaves), paper piercer, mat pack, crop-a-dile, non SU eyelet,dimensional, 13/8" square punch, 11/4" circle, 1/2" circle.

Sorry was supposed to put Images Copyright Stampin' Up! 2008/2009 on bottom of photo not sure how to do it now so hope this is good enough.

Storage

Sorry folks no cards today. My brothers A Gem. After visiting Michelle Forces blog http://micheleforce.blogspot.com and seeing her awesome stamp room and Storage ideas I very sweetly emailed my brother a pic of her stamp pad cabinet and pleaded for him to make me one. Not even a week later and he arrived on my door step to make it for me. Five Hours later with some help from my hubby and this is the finished project. My goal now- to fill mine so it looks as cool as Michelle's. Thanks guys your legends.

Gatefold

My play for the day. Thought i'd try the new gate fold on splitcoast and combine it with the NZSU site challenge for May. This challenge was to use some of the new designer series paper (DSP). I was a bit limited in my choices seeing as I have only got the Outlaw one at this stage, so of course I Had to use Wanted stamp set. It was such a hardship too (lol).



Receipe: Stamps: Wanted, circle of friendship,canvas. Ink: close to cocoa, pumpkin pie. Card: chocolate chip, close to cocoa, very vanilla. Accessories: Scallop punch, 11/4" circle punch,1/2" circle, sponges, dimensionals.

Faux Linen

Hi everyone. I was going to post all the really awesome baby girl swaps i got at the M&M's meeting yesterday for you to look at (they're so cool, what very talented ladies) but i noticed that Michelle had already done so on her blog so I'm going to cheat (thanks Michelle) and just give you her blog address http://www.o2bstampin.blogspot.com/. So if you'd like a look just go visit.

Here's yet another card i've made using the Wanted stamp set. I so love this set. Thought I'd have a go at the faux linen look. Don't know that it turned out exactly how it was supposed to but I think it looks o.k. Okay I'm off to enjoy the last two days of the school holidays with the kids. Time has certainly flown this lot of holidays. Enjoy your day.

Receipe: Stamp: wanted. Card: Close to cocoa, Chocolate Chip, pumpkin pie, very vanilla, and glossy white. Ink: Close to cocoa, pumpkin pie, chocolate chip, white craft. Accessories: Scallop punch, 11/4" circle, 1/2" circle, Sponges, brads dimensionals.