Diamonds are a girls best friend

Well I have struggled with finding my mojo of late but I have found enough just to get some necessary cards made.

This one is quite simple but effective.

I have used Five kids and a dog laser cut heart and embossed it with silver.

The card is from Kaisercrafts After Five Collection

Added some bling, and I found the metal lettering in my stash (its amazing what you find when you have to move your whole craft room)

I'm entering this one in One Stop Craft Challenge

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The First Card for 2011

Can you believe it has taken me this long to get started for 2011.

Well I have been a little pre-occupied of late.

And this is why.....

This is me at 18.5weeks.

Anyway enough excuses as to why my mojo went missing, I have finally made my first card for the year.

I had to wait to upload this one as it was a surprise for some wonderful friends.

I can't take all the credit for the card either I used components of a design I saw in the Kaszazz project book which was created by Kathleen Rothery.

I have made this a tri fold card (we needed the extra space for writing)

I have added some jute around the edge of the white for that rustic look

I have finally used my Twiddleybitz gum leaves and coloured them up with Olive chalk ink.

The flowers are punched out flowers and then you fringe the petals and crush them to get the desired look.

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Sorry

Just thought I would put a quick note up to say I'm sorry to those that are checking out my blog.
I have been snowed under at work and completely exhausted at the end of the day.
Not to mention having lost my scrapping/cardmaking mojo at the moment.
I'm sure it will come back:-)
I am busy on a project at the moment making invitations, lots of invitations.
I am also in the process of moving my craft room into another room as we now need the room that is my craft room back, this is taking forever and once complete which includes a bit of a cleanup at the same time, I will be back in the swing of things.
This should not take too long now, I hope not anyway my stockpile of cards has just about run out.

Cute & Sweet

Bizzy Becs Store is having a cute and sweet challenge this month.

This time I wanted to make something for myself to keep track of all the challenges I do

I found a book with blank pages and I have decorated it using Kaisercraft papers

I loved the letters but I ran out of blue e's so I improvised and pulled out the stickles and made a black one blue. I know it's not exactly the same colour but I still like how it has turned out

I have coloured up my fairy dust tilda who is sitting on some pennants

I have added Magnolia Dragon flies and swirls

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MMSC#78

Below is this weeks sketch

I have gone with some very fall colours
I have used another new stamp the cottage and teamed it up with my tickled pink 20s Evie

I have added flower soft to the tree and the garden around the cottage.

The Image has been coloured with Distress inks

I'm not sure if I'm completely happy with how this has turned out, it is also the first time I have tried masking

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Male Card

More male birthdays coming up, I recently purchased the silhouette stamp, its very outback australia and will suit the recipient perfectly.
I have teamed it up with my Kaszazz gum tree

Both have been stamped with Colorbox chalk dark brown
I used the tutorial from make it crafty on distressing to get the background on the silhouette

I'm pretty happy with how this one has turned out

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:
Papertake Weekly - Penny for the guy
Cards for Men - Anything goes

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LOTV Challenge #71

Using the sketch from this weeks LOTV Challenge this is what I've come up with

Ted Balancing a gift would have to be one of my favs at the moment although I do have a few others in there as well
I have used my Basic Grey Jovial papers for this one and distressed the edges with Fired Brick

Ted has been coloured using Tim Holtz distress Inks
I think I'm slowly getting better

The flowers I found in my stash

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