A Bicycle Built for Two!

February 12th 2013
A card made with one of the new Valentine designs from Angie Delarie Scrapbooking - if you haven't seen Angie's designs be sure to pop over and check them out - Angie is an Aussie designer and has some great quirky little designs!!

This card has several reasons for it's existence LOL!! This is one of my DT Creations for Angie for February so please check out Angie's Blog & Store.

I am also a reminding everyone that you still have a week left to enter our "You have my Heart" Challenge at The Cheerful Stamp Pad. And I am also entering the current "Love is in the Air" Challenge at the Daring Cardmakers Challenge Blog and the Artistic Inspirations "Anything Goes" Challenge! nd I am entering this at the Songbird Challenge Blog in their "Hopelessly Devoted to You (Valentine)" Challenge!

My How Time Flies!

May 30th 2011

I've just discovered some new digis which I couldn't resist "nabbing"!!! Here's the link to Lily's Etsy Store.
This image is named "Steampunk Violet" and she appears to be trying to gather more hours in the day LOL!!
I've made this card for the new challenge at the Take a Word Blog "Wings" hence my "theme" of Time Flies when you are having fun??????

I added the cut out wings to the image. Violet has been coloured using earthy tone Copic markers. I sponged the back ground card in strips and used some unmounted stamps alternately in the strips. I printed out the wording and used a Spellbinder die cut to cut a tag and attached some fibre and I couldn't resist adding some little scissor charms to "match" the wording! I'm really happy with this cute little card!

I'm also going to enter Violet at the new Daring Cardmakers Challenge Blog as they have a new challenge entitled "Passion for Fashion" and I think Violet's visit to the hairdresser has certainly made her a fashion statement LOL!

Show me a Garden....

May 21st 2011

My second post for today but I couldn't resist making a card for the new challenge at The Daring Cardmakers Challenge Blog as they have a great new (and different!) challenge this week. The theme for their new challenge is to make a card based on the song "Chasing Cars" by Snow Patrol! What a great idea and one to make you think!

As you can see I've taken the lyrics "Show me a Garden that's bursting into life" and used this gorgeous new Flower Goddess image from Michelle Perkett Studio - you can purchase designs at her Etsy Store.

I have printed the design on linen look card which looks great coloured with copics and I've cut around the image and also added some stickles to the flowers for a bit of sparkle! I've printed the wording onto the patterned paper and have used a floral stamp top stamp a couple of pink images on the patterned paper and to fionish off have added some punched flowers in complimentary colours and a pink stickle centre.

This is such a beautiful image which would suit so many different occasions! I love the abundance of flowers on the image - fun to colour! And I didn't try to overdo the card with too many embellishments - I wanted to just stick to the simple flower punchies and let it speak for itself!

The Darling "Bugs" of May!

May 19th 2011

What a great theme for the new challenge at The Daring Cardmakers Challenge Blog this week! Obviously the requirement was to incorporate some sort of a 'bug' LOL! I've chosen to use butterflies and I've made it into an Easel Card.

The little butterfly baby is from a collage sheet from Lisa's Altered Art - isn't it a gorgeous image? I've used patterned and plain papers to compliment the colours of the image and little butterflies. I've used a couple of leaf and flower punches to add some dimension as well. I found the butterfly quote at the Quote Garden site - a great resource for quotes on a huge range of 'subjects' and printed it directly onto the patterned paper and then arranged all the elements around it.

I've used Spellbinder Die Cuts to cut the 'label' shapes from black card and cream textured paper. The black card has been embossed with a Couture Creations Embossing Folder.

Daring Cardmakers - "Flowers for May"

May 7th 2011
I've made this card for the new challenge at the Daring Cardmakers Challenge Blog.

I've used a lovely bride image from Dezinaworld. I added a 'touch of pink' with a copic marker to the flowers on the bride for a bit of colour. The background is embossed thick vellum using a Tim Holtz embossing folder. The strip of paper down the left hand side I made myself with paints and stamps. I've added several other embellishments and the chandelier stamp is from Kaszazz!

By Royal Appointment!!??!!

April 29th 2011
Pussy cat, pussy cat where have you been? I've been to London to visit the Queen!
This is my card for the new Daring Cardmakers Challenge - "By Royal Appointment"!!
I've had a fairly 'quirky' card making week this week so I thought I would finish the week as I began LOL!

Here is my take on 'By Royal Appointment':

I've used a 'queen' looking image from June at Dezinaworld and printed it out in grayscale so it's more like a ghosted image in the background and I have over typed the image with the Pussy Cat Nursery Rhyme. I've added a 'royal' cat, from Lisa's Altered Art, with it's crown and added some jewels around pussy's neck!

The little mouse is from the Microsoft Clipart range which I printed in red and then I have rubber stamped some little red paw prints to show the mouse being chased under the Queen's chair!!! And see the little inky paws on pussy??

I hope you have enjoyed my quirky week - perhaps I'd better get serious next week!! Or perhaps not LOL!

Stick 'Em Up!

April 27th 2011

This new card has been made with a relatively new image from the Bugaboo range of digis! This 'sassy' policewoman is out on the 'beat'!!!

I've made this card for the latest challenge at the Daring Cardmakers Challenge Blog - theme "Speaking Professionally" - so a card which showcases a profession. I wanted to make it a bit "arty" so I've actually used a vintage image of an old car and used earthy type papers from BasicGrey. Everything has been sewn onto the card and I've added my own 'sentiment' for a bit of fun and a little handcuff key!! And I'm happy with how it has turned out!

I have some relatives that I will be able to 'share' this card with!!!