A Friend's Birthday Card

Hi there

Sadly our long weekend draws to an end, hope you all got lots done, not me :( I have had a very lazy weekend all my plans went out the window for some reason!!!!

Today I have for you a card I made out at our Raincliff Scrap Camp back in August for Bo (who actually had a helping hand in its making as I was sitting beside her, so Bo was my sounding board for my ideas, at least I knew she was going to like it :) )

This is my first real attempt at using my Spectrum Noir pens and I was very slow at the colouring, but on the whole pretty happy with the result! The stamped image is from Lily of the Valley called Best Friends sooo cute (but then they all are!!!)

A few close ups, I think I followed a layout of one of my favourite card makers Bev Rochester

The Spectrum Noir pens are new on the market and are available at Crafters Companion from the UK, they had an awesome special release price which came to only $NZ2.00 each so I had to get the whole set for that price, in comparision the Copic Sketch pens cost approx $NZ8-10.00 each you can see why it was a no brainer :)

The inside of the card....

The papers are from Magnolia which I also love such pretty delicate patterns.

Close-ups of the insides......

The dragonfly and swirl above and the border die below are Magnolia Doo-Hickey Dies

and the back.......

The circle die is from Cheery Lyn and is the French Pastry Die and my personalised stamp fits perfectly in the middle.

I hope you have injoyed looking at this card, thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Joanne

Glentui & Steph Devlin

Hi there

A few weeks ago Dianne & I ventured up to Glentui to Scrappin' Patch's Retreat where we were spoilt rotten with lots of goodies and had the very talented Steph Devlin teaching us two classes Steph also made us a self paced kit along with another one we could purchase if we wanted. I must admit I hadn't seen any of Steph's work before I went to this retreat but I loved it all, she does lovely girlie girlie stuff which is soooo me!!! :)

The first class on Friday night was an off the page canvas sponsored by Websters' Pages and Imaginarium Designs Chipboard which was very cool, there was also lots and lots of left over goodies for us to use at home!!!

Here is my canvas, note there is supposed to be a photo in the middle but I didn't like the ones I had with me so am still deciding what photo to put in!!! Arrrrgh the decisions!!!!

The Eiffel Tower and frame are very delicate and look much better in real life!!! They are painted with gesso which was very thick, sooo lots of blowing the gesso out of the tiny holes!!!!

Some close ups.....

Short and sweet this blog post, will show the others at a later stage.

Thanks for stopping by, love reading your comments so please leave one even if it just says "Hello"

Cheers

Joanne

Cute Cupcakes

Hi there

Hope you haven't given up on me, I see it has been 3 months since I last made a post, very naughty of me and I do have lots to share, so will try to be more pro-active in blogging.

This weekend as South Canterbury's anniversary weekend, so no work tomorrow yippee!!! :)

Yesterday at about midday Rach phoned to say she was all ready to do the cupcake course we purchased from the UK, which was all good except I hadn't made my cupcakes at that stage YIKES!!!!

So after a mad panic rush to get my 2dzn cupcakes made, an hour and half later I was at Rach's all ready to go, here are how they turned out.....

Not bad don't you think????  Well I think they are really cool as I haven't played with fondant icing before, not sure how they will taste, but as long as they look good eh.

Some close ups....

The flowers were all handmade and a few improvisions had to be made as we didn't quite have all the right tools. But scrapbooking does come in handy, if you look closely at the middle cupcake in bottom row above you can see it is embossed, Rachels cuttlebug folders worked a treat!!!

So that was how we spent yestderday afternoon!!! I soon got sick of the taste of icing, I guess you shouldn't lick your fingers clean, but I was getting tired of getting up to the sink all the time!!!

Well hopefully I will get some more pic's of my other creations on here for you soon.

Take care everyone!!!

Cheers

Joanne

2 More Non Fussy Cards!!!

Hi there
Since my previous card was soooo easy and quick to make I thought I would make another two up as I had the images already coloured waiting to go.

So here are my next two versions of my non fussy card.......

This card is using Bo Bunny's Midnight Frost paper, the solid blue squares have twinklets around the outside edges as does the picture and the dusty attic snowflake.

This card is made using the Kaiser Lilac Avenue Collection papers, Wild Orchid Flowers and Hat Pins.

Some close ups.......

The gorgeous Dusty Attic Snowflake painted then covered in twinklets.

 Close up of the Wild Orchid Flowers.

The insides.......

and close ups of the insides.......

The large snowflake is made from using a Spellbinder snowflake die and covering it with twinklets.  The twinklets sparkle soooo much in the sun or under lights they are way cool!!!

It is hard to tell from this photo but this paper comes with the damask patterned already glittered up, sooo cool!

And the backs.......

I never used to cover the backs, but since I got my stamp to go on the back's of the cards I feel it sort of needs it,  I added a few extra snowflake emblishments to the above (there were already snowflakes on the paper so I was just enhancing them lol).

This one has one of the gorgeous Cherry Lyn Doily dies framing my stamp.

I am amazed at how just changing the papers has made all three cards so very very different.  I love the simplicity of this card style.

I hope you have all had a great weekend and enjoyed the lovely sunny day today.

Cheers

Joanne

Non Fussy Card Challenge!!!

Hi there

The other weekend Rachel bet me that I couldn't make a "Non Fussy Card" so I took her up on that to prove I could, and here is what I achieved.......

This is based on a card I spotted on someone's blog (sorry cannot remember who's), which  I thought looked simple and straight forward enough for me to do quickly (just took a few hours which is really fast for me) and I thought was non fussy but apparently Rachel's and my definition of non fussy are quite different!!! :)  

Some closeups......

The image is from Lily of the Valley Stamps and she is a delight to colour, I stickled her wings, tiera, and the flower centres.

The paper comes out of a Nic Howard Kit I never completed, they were a bit bright for me!!!  But I do like how the card came out in the end.  Lots of distressing the paper edges!!!! This is were all my time went!

The insides.......

and close ups......

The flowers are a  combination of Prima and Wild Orchid Crafts, I love it when different company's flowers match perfectly!

View of the back......

Sooooo, what do you think of my super fast non fussy card? You can leave me a comment and let me know if you think Rachel is right or me! In Rachel's words "what part of this card is non fussy?" my reply "the whole lot" rofl.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Joanne

Rach's 40th Birthday Card

Hi there

I am finally making time to show you all the card I made for Rachel's 40th, Dianne kindly e-mailed these to me at the beginning of the week (thanks Dianne :) ).

So here it is.....

It is hard to see but I have used a rub-on on acetate which I cut with my new Magnolia Dream Tag die (love this one) because I didn't want to cover up the lovely design paper which is my all time favourite Bo Bunny Gabrielle.  The vine is part of a Prima one, I just cut a branch off as it would have been way too big.  The gorgeous metal butterflies are part of the Gabrielle range and I have added some Kaiser pearls to the middle of them.  The orangegy trim & string of pearls are from the Gabrielle range also and the brown velvet ribbon from my stash the flowers are all Wild Orchid Crafts.

A close up of the acetate......

I have lots of pictures - as with the handbag cards there is soooo much more to show so here goes.......

The inside......

Close ups.......

I have used the gorgeous Magnolia "Tilda with Hawaian Flower" stamp and coloured her with distress inks.  I cut some strips with the Magnolia Doo Hickey "Tilda Lace Die" and then mitered the corners for the frame.  The little white frame around the 40 is a Chiswick Frame also from Magnolia.

The butterfly is from Dusty Attic and has been painted and then stickled heaps!!!

I wrote my message to Rach on the back on the tags. 

The brown sticker and green background chipboard are from the Grabrielle range, I thought the saying was sooo cute and perfect for the occasion.

The back didn't need much doing to it as the paper is soooo nice on its own, so I just added my stamp framed in a spellbinder die.

I think Rachel enjoyed her birthday, she did get spoilt!!!  A group of us got together and took her to lunch at the Old Bank, and then later Rachel's Mum had organized a small surprise pot luck tea for her, which was really cool and YUMMY!!!!

So Rach  - Welcome to the Naughty Forties!!!!

Thanks to you all for stopping by and I hope you will give the hand bag cards a go they are soooo much fun to make.

Cheers

Joanne