Mini Album

This was a class I held a while ago - a mini album using a piece of designer paper.  I've used  the Kaleidescope DSP and For Everything stamp set which are both retired. I love how easy this was and have made quite a few over the last couple of months. My daughters love making them too and are a perfect gift for their friends, embellished with some journaling and photo's. 

And here's a look on the inside - little pockets with inserts that are ideal for journaling.  Too easy!!  If you would like to learn how to make this album, email me and we'll arrange a day to get together.  

Aquarians galore!!

I've got another big spate of birthdays coming up!  Have had a few this past week and have more to come in the next few weeks.  They are mostly friends but it was my sister's special day on the 25th Jan (hi Tania). Here's one of the cards I made using the Happy Moments stamp set from SAB with all the flowers drenched in dazzling diamonds glitter..  This set is certainly getting a work out! 

Once again, I've used the kaleidescope designer series paper with pink passion and tempting turquoise cardstock and the coordinating 1/4" turquoise grosgrain ribbon. Bright and vibrant colours.

Happy Birthday to me...

It was my birthday yesterday and I had a really lovely day!!  Thanks to my family and friends I was very spoilt and I also received lots of lovely messages from people all over New Zealand and the world (what would we do without facebook or the internet??  Oooh, doesn't bear thinking about, does it!).
 

I received an adorable card from my fabulous upline Karen and just had to share it with you. She's used the 'On Your Birthday' greetings set, which I haven't got, but the more I see it ~ the more I want it.  I love the way she's inked the words in different colours. Karen also bought me a lotto ticket so we're sharing the winnings of that... It wasn't the big one, but $78 is nothing to be scoffed at ~ and it'll go towards some more goodies..

Stamp-a-Stack with Fun & Fast notes...

I had a lovely Stamp-a-Stack class yesterday making up a set of 5 cards using the Fun & Fast notes stamp set.  The hedgehog card (which was one of the favourites) was inspired by the very talented Paula a while ago - the only difference being that I used the Baja Breeze designer series paper.    

 

Here's another from the stack using the little bird and the delicious Kaleidescope designer series paper. Because I've double mounted my stamps there was a choice of greetings to use. For my card, I only wanted to use part of the greeting so only inked up the "thanks" bit with a Stampin' marker. 
 

I hope you've all had a great weekend and to those of you from the Auckland area ~ yay, we've got another day off tomorrow :)  Enjoy!!

Kaleidoscope Card

Have I mentioned that I love this kaleidoscope paper?  (probably only about 20 times....lol). I've been playing over the last couple of days and thought I'd give the faux zig zag sewing a go.  I'm really pleased with the result and love these colours together. Very bright and vibrant!  I dyed the flowers from the pretties kit to coordinate with the card, and if you want to know how to do this, contact me and I'll show you how.
 

Upsy Daisy Birthday Card

This is a card I made for my sister's birthday. It took me longer than usual, because I'd started tidying out my craft room (as mentioned in my earlier post) and everything was in a state of disarray. It was quite a mission and I'd left it to the last minute, and so was pleased to finish it.  Fortunately she received it on her special day so that was good...

I've used my fave Kaleidoscope designer paper and have stamped the Upsy Daisy stamp in Tempting Turquoise. The picture doesn't show it very well, but I've glittered the tops of the daisies to add some sparkles. The ribbon was one of the ones in the bundle that we could earn a few months back.

My daughter's 16th birthday card

My daughter Nicole celebrated her 16th birthday on Thursday and this is the card that I made for her..

I love all the beautiful colours in this Kaleidoscope designer series pack. They remind me of sherbert and ice cream and it makes me feel happy.  It took me ages to decide which papers to use, hence it was another late night.  Nicole had commented once before that she really liked the style of this card, so I knew that was what I was going to do.  I wanted something big on the front so chose the butterfly from the Garden Whimsy set.