Quick card

Quick card this morning using free swan die from DieCutting Essentials magazine - partially coloured with watercolour paints (practising) and paper pieced. Oops just noticed hadn’t finished - needs pearl for eye

Enjoy your day
Judy

Male card

Another male card today. These are always more difficult to make than a feminine one.

Darkroom Door stamp, coloured lightly with distress oxide inks

Enjoy your day

Judy

Children’s Easter Craft

I help out st our local Op Shop during the school holidays with craft lessons
Next Tuesday I have 5-10 year olds and we will be making these cute cotton ball cards.
Aren’t they adorable

The idea for these cards came from Pinterest.

Hope the children have fun making them 

Enjoy your day

Judy

Kaisercraft Whisper Cards

I started off the base of these cards using instructions from Alicia McNamara from Papercraft Secrets, link here,  however I ended up adding my own spin to a lot of the cards.  Here are two of the cards I made, and I did make the total of ten cards.  Love the neutral colours in this collection

 

 



I will show the remaining cards in the next few days, they still need to have the inserts finished.

Hope you are having a crafty week

 

Enjoy your day

 

Judy



Weekend papercraft retreat

I had a lovely weekend at a papercraft retreat.  I made a lot of cards, well I think it was only 12 but that is still a good start.  I also played with my inks and watercolours which I will show you over the next few days.

I have made two 70th birthday cards, both for the same guy...so I had to made them with different themes.

I am happy with how they turned out.

 

The card on the left is a quick easel card, using Kaisercraft Barber Shoppe papers and the one on the right was stamped using Darkroom Door Golfer stamp and them lightly inked with Distress Oxide Inks.

 

 

Enjoy your day

Judy

Lady with Poodle card

This card was made for a friend who was celebrating her 60th birthday.  She has a miniature black poodle, so I thought it was appropriate.

 

I have a papercraft workshop this weekend, so I hope to be able to share a lot of my makes.  It is always such fun to catch up with friends, with lots of laughter, food and creative ideas being shared.

 

 

Enjoy your day

Judy

Elegant lady cards

The first of the die cuts have been made into two cards.  I love this lady. It makes a beautiful special occasion card.

 

Enjoy your day

Judy

Elegant ladies die cuts

These ladies have been die cut in readiness to put on cards.  So elegant.

Enjoy your day
Judy

Guess who is back?

It is nearly two years since my last post, and boy has a lot happened in that time.  I have retired, yippee..closed my online store and business, battled a couple of health problems, but now am ready to come back to my blog and continue my crafts.

Card making is still my passion at the moment, but I was gifted a lot of half finished quilts, so I will be looking forward to getting back to the sewing machine and finishing those off.

My pup Cindy is now three years old, and is still the love of my life. 

 

 

I have just gifted a paper craft cup & saucer filled with chocolates to a elderly friend for her birthday, she just turned 87.  The instructions for both the tea cup and the gift box was from Mixed Up Crafts.

 

 

 

Tea cup instructions

https://mixedupcraft.com/2019/03/08/pretty-tea-cup-saucer/

 

Display box instructions

https://mixedupcraft.com/2019/03/15/easy-display-gift-box/

 

 

I hope to continue to update the blog more frequently now... be prepared to see a lot of my cards.

 

 

Enjoy your day

Judy

Centre Step Cards

I was experimenting with a centre step card last week and was extremely happy with the result.  I followed a tutorial on YouTube but unfortunately I cannot find the link (I will update the post if I can find it to give credit where it is due)

UPDATE:  This is the link to make the step card -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAyFwBQh8-g

The instructions were to use a pre-folded card base and Kaisercraft collectibles pack, and boy was it easy.

This was my first card, pretty pinks

The second card was in blues and gave a different effect altogether

Both these cards are being donated to the Pink Ribbon Breast Cancer fund raising.  The group of ladies that I craft with usually make about 50 cards for the committee to sell.  It is a great opportunity to help a good cause and try many new card ideas.

I can imagine Christmas cards, birthday cards etc using this technique.

Happy crafting

Judy

Simple Card

Just a simple little Christmas card today, using Washi tape.  I have a lot of washi tape in my supplies and want to find ways to use it.

Look closely at the next photo, can you see a little head snuggled in the blanket.  My pup Cindy will not wear a dog coat, however loves to snuggle up in her blanket.

This was taken in the early hours of the morning when the temperature was very cold.  She does sleep inside but it still gets quite chilly..

Looking forward to spring days

Judy

Stamped cards

I love playing with stamps when making my cards. 

 

The top two cards use stamps by Darkroom Door, an Australian company.  The detail in the dream catcher and motor bike are wonderful.

 

The bottom card was a trial using a tab cutout for the opening.  I should have taken a photo of the inside, however, I didn't :)

 

More to add to my card supply.  I will definitely be making more cards using these stamps

 

Judy

Lovely weekend

I had a lovely weekend away with my sisters.  Just a girls weekend, lots of love and laughter.
We stayed at a beautiful apartment on Lake Mulwala, this was the scene from our door.  Stunning

At dusk the lake was magical and this black swan made the perfect backdrop to the ripples in the water.

Alas, back to reality today, and back to work.  But great memories and fun times.

Judy

Birthday card

This birthday card was CAS from Pinterest.  It uses Couture Creations Sea Breeze collection lighthouse, Dress It Up Buttons (seagull & boat).  Great texture on this card.

I am having so much fun making cards - another three already in the planning stage.  I think I have forgotten how to use my sewing machine, ha ha

Judy

Masculine cards

I quite often hear and read about people having trouble making cards for males.  I do not have the same trouble as I have a lot of stamps that I can use.

The following two cards were created using Darkroom Door Classic Motorcycle stamp set and Kaisercraft Checker Plate embossing folder.

I love the way they turned out. What do you think|?

Judy

Another two Christmas cards

I have made another two Christmas cards using the Kaisercraft Christmas Jewels paper and collectibles.  I love this mauve colour.

Very simple cards, using a Memory Box Open Studio collage die for the accents.

Till next time.

Judy

No craft - but cute puppy

Unfortunately I have not been crafting the last couple of weeks.  Lots of new products needed to be added to the online store.  However a couple of photos to show off my pup, Cindy.  She is nearly 18 months old now and is growing quite big.

Gorgeous eyes

Can you see the little wound on her side?  She had a run in with the corner of the screen door, lucky it was only a surface wound and has since cleared up, but really showed up on her light coat

We are continuing to socialise with other dogs, and this next photo is on a walk with 3 other bigger dogs.  Two huskys and a boxer ... her little legs go twice as fast as the others, but she keeps up the pace really well.  

I hope to get a couple of more Christmas cards made this week.  With the days flying past so quickly, Christmas will be here before we know it.

Have a good week

Judy

Sympathy Cards

It is an unfortunate fact of life that we all require these cards at some time.
I bought a new embossing folder from Darice and wanted to try it out.  Very simple cards, but different results.

The final card uses a Quote stamp with a little ink shading.  I think it looks better in "real life", the photo does not depict the subtle shading 

Until next time

Judy

Kaisercraft - August Collections - Part 2

As promised yesterday, here are the cards we made using the Factory 42 pre-release papers from Kaisercraft.

Aren't they great, they could be used for any occasion. Cannot wait to get my hands on the new dies that are part of this collection.  

Until next time, 

Judy

Kaisercraft - August Collections

I was lucky enough to be able to play with the pre-release Kaisercraft August Papers for their upcoming two new collections.

1. Christmas Jewels - beautiful mauve & silver tones for Christmas
2. Factory 42 - Cogs, Gears - very manly

My sister Sue, a friend Desley, and myself decided to make two cards from each of the collections. Each totally different, but all great as the papers are truly beautiful and make it very easy to create stunning cards.

I will show the results from the Christmas Jewels papers today and then tomorrow the Factory 42 ones.  Warning - lots of photos ...

What a great start to our Christmas cards

Until tomorrow

Judy