We won a case of Corona for the company!
Friday 30 October 2009
Our pumpkin...
We have a pumpkin competition at the building we work in and this is our entry for it:
Monday 26 October 2009
Reindeer Candy Cane
I got this idea when I was looking for homemade ways to decorate my Christmas Tree. I found it here: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf22401235.tip.html
This is my version. Isn't he cute?
Sunday 25 October 2009
Christmas 2009
Got round to making quite a few Christmas cards this weekend. I didn't do all of these, I've been working on these for a few weeks.
The following 6 were made using a Christmas card making mag that came with LOADS of die cuts, embellishments and card: I copied all the designs from that magazine and another magazine.
The top one is my own idea - ha ha it shows doesn't it? Dead simple. The bottom one I borrowed the window style design from a blog somewhere. Used my SeeD's stamps that I got 2 Christmases ago.
This next bunch, I've made about 12 of, I really like it. I already did one in 2007 and decided to do more but in different colours. The stamps were from my SeeDs collection. The bottom 2 were kindly stamped by a friend.
These cards I didn't copy! But I did use some typical ideas that most people do...like the 3 stars thing. The backing papers and embellishments were from the Christmas magazine. The stamps were from a friend.
The following 6 were made using a Christmas card making mag that came with LOADS of die cuts, embellishments and card: I copied all the designs from that magazine and another magazine.
The top one is my own idea - ha ha it shows doesn't it? Dead simple. The bottom one I borrowed the window style design from a blog somewhere. Used my SeeD's stamps that I got 2 Christmases ago.
This next bunch, I've made about 12 of, I really like it. I already did one in 2007 and decided to do more but in different colours. The stamps were from my SeeDs collection. The bottom 2 were kindly stamped by a friend.
These cards I didn't copy! But I did use some typical ideas that most people do...like the 3 stars thing. The backing papers and embellishments were from the Christmas magazine. The stamps were from a friend.
Tuesday 20 October 2009
Experimenting....
Here I got a little brave and made a shaker card. I'm not that pleased with it design wise. But I was quite rushed, and as you'll get to know, I'm not very good at coming up with ideas of my own.
This is a great idea to use up any odds and ends embellishments. I've done similar cards with flowers too. You can't see to well, but I drew the string for the balloons, a better idea would have been to stick on some string I think.
I copied the basis of this idea from a magazine. I had been to a craft show and got my first Sakura quickie glue pen and it's now my favourite craft item. I used outline peels offs on acetate (idea was from the demo of the glue pen at the craft show), used the glue pen to fill in the gaps with extra fine (it's gorgeous) glitter I got from the craft show. The photo doesn't do it justice. It's really pretty and I made 2 for Mother's Day.
This is a great idea to use up any odds and ends embellishments. I've done similar cards with flowers too. You can't see to well, but I drew the string for the balloons, a better idea would have been to stick on some string I think.
I copied the basis of this idea from a magazine. I had been to a craft show and got my first Sakura quickie glue pen and it's now my favourite craft item. I used outline peels offs on acetate (idea was from the demo of the glue pen at the craft show), used the glue pen to fill in the gaps with extra fine (it's gorgeous) glitter I got from the craft show. The photo doesn't do it justice. It's really pretty and I made 2 for Mother's Day.
Christmas 2007
Christmas 2007 I made cards for everyone.
This top one was a nice simple yet effective design which I love. I did lots of these using stamps and embossing them and colouring in with glitter pens, or glitter glue. Or I used outline peel offs and coloured them in.
I got the idea for this one from browsing docrafts.
This one was my own idea, quite a manly card I think.
This one I used a tree stamp to stamp and emboss multiple overlaying images. I think the effect worked quite well.
Really like this one, used foam snowflakes, I really love dead simple cards as I'm sure you can tell already!
This top one was a nice simple yet effective design which I love. I did lots of these using stamps and embossing them and colouring in with glitter pens, or glitter glue. Or I used outline peel offs and coloured them in.
I got the idea for this one from browsing docrafts.
This one was my own idea, quite a manly card I think.
This one I used a tree stamp to stamp and emboss multiple overlaying images. I think the effect worked quite well.
Really like this one, used foam snowflakes, I really love dead simple cards as I'm sure you can tell already!
Getting hooked...
About 8 months on, one birthday full of craft goodies and a huge shoe box full of craft bits from someone I knew who had a sort out of all her bits, I like to think my cards improved a little...
Another stripey card. I like these, I think they make good cards for men.
An idea to use some random stickers. Think I copied the design from someones card on docrafts.
Another stripey card. I like these, I think they make good cards for men.
An idea to use some random stickers. Think I copied the design from someones card on docrafts.
Slight Improvements
A few more sheets of peel offs, more card, stamps, ink and some inspiration from the internet I came up with the following:
I copied the stripes idea from a magazine:
This was for a lover of Bassat Allsorts:
My first attempt at Iris Folding (Sadly I used card instead of paper as I didn't have any red paper!)
I copied the stripes idea from a magazine:
This was for a lover of Bassat Allsorts:
My first attempt at Iris Folding (Sadly I used card instead of paper as I didn't have any red paper!)
First Cards
These were some of my first ever cards. All I had was some glitter, a few sheets of text peel offs, 1 set of alphabet stamps, a silver stamp, a snowflake punch and some scrap card I had laying about.
Was very proud of them back then :)
Was very proud of them back then :)
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