Latest Christmas Card

With a bit of careful masking I created the snowy hillside, overstamped trees at the top & the Christmas Tree with star at the side, with Kaleidacolor blues. Glued the star and memory box die deer (plain white card stock, covered with glue and glitter added), Crystal stickles used on the Christmas tree for sparkle effect with stick on sentiment in the corner.

Window Frame Christmas Card

Well this is a bit different, a mainly white card. The back is embossed with snowflake folder, lightly covered with versa mark and embossed with holographic embossing powder. The Spellbinders shape is mounted, then the frame with window and distressed card and Acetate to give a glass effect. The flower spray is from a memory box die with the flowers coloured with gold and little gems in the centre. Lastly added the snowflake, held with a gold brad.

Card using Tim Holtz Stamps

Yesterday's make, a birthday card for my brother-in-law Bruce - I used distress inks on white card stock and coloured the little squares with a stencil, the stamps are all Tim Holtz, the two background ones embossed, the hand and the plane just stamped. Happy Birthday Bruce.

Christmas Ball

This was a lot of fun and gave my dies a work out, love the finished look. Start with a polistyrene ball, I painted mine to hide any gaps, pin in the two layers of flowers, one in glitter, one in scrapbooking paper, once positioned, I removed one at a time, glued them with my glue gun and added centres so I knew where I was up to, finished off with a pretty bow.

Cass's Birthday Card

So here is version 2, my second granddaughter turned 17 so this is a take on her older sister's. I so like using a 5" palette, centre is embossed, frame is stamped over the distress inks with a Tim Holtz Stamp, skirt is made with part of a serviette gathered, glitter top free hand cut, shrink plastic cogs and letters cut out with my alphabet die.

Birthday Card

This birthday card I made for my granddaughter Vittoria, 5 " square with mounted frame on top, coloured with distress inks and stamped with dots and distress embossed. The cogs are coloured shrink plastic (I have found that oven shrinking retains shape better than heat gunned). The top I free hand drew, covered with jac paper and orange glitter, then put dimensional glue all over to keep in place. The skirt is made from the top layer of a serviette, peel off the other two layers before pleating. Flowers were white and I coloured with copic pens and centred with glitter, I loved the finished effect.

Shrink Plastic Cogs Birthday Card

After buying some shinky dink for my granddaughter Katie, I was inspired to search out my shrink plastic and create again. I used Tim Holtz Cogs and embossed with gold embossing powder, the card is made with Tim Holtz stamps and the background coloured with distress inks, the gold corner is some mesh I found searching for the shrink plastic, ideal birthday card for Murray's brother Howard.

Just One June

Every month I send a card through Just One (Technique Junkies) to another member participating. This technique is Distress Stain Dip (Oct/Nov 2012). I used my diffusers on the corners and added the die cut ovals, the sentiment is embossed and cut out carefully. I glued old music sheets to a piece of cardstock and used my Tattered Poinsettia die by Tim Holtz to cut out the flower and used distress inks to colour, the edges have gold leafing pen added. Really pleased with the finished result and it is winging it's way to Canada today.

May Vintage Fat Book Page

I found this month's theme a little challenging but with a little help from google images I gained my inspiration, love the image of the contortionist and made it vintage by colouring by giving it sepia tones, the back speaks for itself.

Bereavement Card

I wanted a simple but classic card to give as a Bereavement Card, the rose came to mind and I folded it with 3" in front and 4" at back, embossed spare areas and die cut lace and threaded gold ribbon through. Mounted gold embossed rose and glued to top, put sentiment down side.

Never ending card

This card was a little fiddly to make but the hardest part was the decorating. The paper I chose was two sided so that was easy, it was making it look good for little Miss 10 year old.

Mixed Media Book

Struggled a bit with this book, especially as I was making it for friend's daughter on request, but finally finished and hopefully it is just what she wanted.

April Fat Book page

My fat book page for April, Front & Back, theme birds, so happy with the way it turned out.

Just One for April

BG is done with Distress Inks and Sprayed with Glimmer Mist, embossed to give a brick effect. Flowers stamped with print and cut from Sissix die, sentiment stamped and placed between. Off to America as Just One for April through Techniques Junkies.

Baby Card for Esther

The Image is stamped with stazon black and coloured with water coloured crayons. I added glitter, left to dry and then added dimensional glue to give a lift. The BG is scrapbooking paper and then I used my fleur-de-lis die and cut it in half crosswise and downward and lined up at corners. The flowers are punched from a slightly darker scapbook paper. Sentiment added last.

Vintage Page March

My Vintage Pages for March, front and back. This swap is make three, keep one and send the other two off.

80th to USA

I am a member of Technique Junkies and another member posted a request for 80th birthday cards for her Mum, I love doing requests like this because of the thrill they must get receiving a card from NZ. I used distress inks of various colours, my cuttlebug on the BG, cut the poinsettia with my Spellbinder's die, an easy card to make

Canvas Inspired by Finnabair

My first ever canvas, inspired by my class with Finnabair, pushed into it by my husband Murray, but love the effect, lots of work

Grungy Journal with Finnabair

So love my Grungy Journal made with Finnabir at Kapiti, NZ - what a great class, thoroughly recommend her if she comes your way

Similar Cards

Two birthday cards along similar theme, BG with distress inks using Tim Holtz clock die to add watermark, stamps all by Tim Holtz except for the sentiment and Happy Birthday.