Birthday Wishes

Hello and welcome back. The welcome back is more for myself than you! I am sorry for the long absence in posting on my blog. I had a nice visit back home with my family. Upon returning I have found it difficult to find the time or inspiration to create anything.

Sometimes I think it is nice to take a break from our day to day life. I am hoping that I can return to my crafting with some fresh ideas. So let's take a look at my first card in a very long time......

I love the colour combination and think this will bring a smile to a special birthday girl I know!

Thanks for stopping by today and please come again soon as I have a lot of new and exciting projects planned for the upcoming months. Have a wonderful week.

Etcetera Double Shutter mini album

Hello Hello Hello! Woke up to a somewhat sunny day here today. Just enough light to make me eager to head to the studio and get busy on my latest project. If you've visited me often you know how much I love mini albums. I'm not into the super blinged up or overly embellished ones though. My style is a little more clean and simple. 

When I started this project is was to create a double or tri shutter card. I headed off to YouTube for instruction. What I ended up finding was this little tutorial here.  

I highly recommend watching the video all the way through first ( something I rarely do!). So with my paper cutter handy I eagerly started and honestly it takes minutes to make this album. 

 The time consuming bit was all the measuring and cutting of DSP. The tutorial did not include that. All in all this can be made in an hour and half . Not bad for the end result! 

Well there to have it.....your weekend project. I hope you have enjoyed it. I'd love to hear from you so please leave your comments and come again.

Oh Hello..........Again!

Happy Friday Everyone! We made it to the weekend woot!!!! What will you spend your weekend doing? I will be cooking, packing and perhaps crafting?:-))

Each day this week I have cleaned and closed down my studio in preparation for my upcoming flight to sunshine. And without fail I have come back in and messed it all up again. I simply cannot stay away. What will I do for five weeks with no stamps, glue or inks? I guess we'll soon find out. Until then have a look at what I've been up to today.

I freely admit I have been in a crafting slump this week. Seems everything I attempted to make ended up in the bin! But today I feel I have pulled out of it. Yes I am pretty pleased with this little card. The colours have cheered me up and given me hope to carry on with this madness. 

Thank you for checking my blog out. I hope you have enjoyed it enough to come again. Until then ......

Recycle & Upcycle...

Happy Thursday Stampers & Crafters. Beautiful day here today. Not often I get good natural light for crafting so I am taking advantage of it....work will have to wait!

The other night I was making a friend a card and found something by accident. You know all those brown boxes we get from the man in brown? I had an idea for using the boxes for extra dimension on projects and thought "how would it be to emboss?" I ran it through the bigshot with no problems an OMG I love the outcome. Take a look.......

I really get a kick out of finding new and fun uses for everyday items, especially stuff that would normally end up in the bin. You are sure to see much more of this in my future projects. The embossing is so much more detailed on the cardboard....love love love!

I hope you will have a try and let me know what you think. Have a good day.Cya!

Unusual Outcome

Hello Stampers. Today has been odd in the sense that I started creating with a vintage feminine card in mind when I headed into my studio. What I ended up with was far from it!  Often this can be frustrating but today I just thought I'm not fighting it.

 Could I have gotten any further from vintage?! Lol. I can't begin to explain how this happened but hey-ho I like it! First time I have used this stamp set but it won't be the last.

 Drop in tomorrow and see if I get around to that shabby chic card. Have a good day.

Secret Garden

Hello Stampers. At long last I have found the time to do some embossing on vellum paper. It's been ages since I have done this technique. I do love the look of the cards I've recently seen coming across Pinterest . It was time to get my heat gun out and get to it!

 The flower image is from the Secret Garden. I made three of them, fancy cut out and added lots of dimensional dots. The designer paper is Eastern Elegance, love love love! 

 Thank you for coming by and do come again. Cya!

Heart to Heart

Happy Blue Monday. I didn't realise that today is supposed to be the bluest day of the year for people. So to avoid feeling down I have been busy!

I love all of the cards I have been seeing using the wood background stamps. I haven't purchased the latest one out by Stampin Up yet. Instead I have been trying the woodgrain backgound stamp. It doesn't have as much detail but take a look and see what you think.

I think this will be the card I give my husband this year since he loves to work with wood. Thank you for stopping in and please leave your comments. Have a great week and come again soon.