Male Card #2

As you can see I've been a bit busy the last day or two with make Male themed cards. I have an influx of male birthday's over the next month or two, and thought I should probably start making them now, rather than being late as I usually am. 

This card was inspired by one of the many that I saw doing a google search. I probably should have clicked on it to find out who made the card originally but once again with my 4 year old in the room it was a little difficult. 

I'm still quite proud of the way it turned out, even if I did end up using 1 retired coloured card stock. 

Tune in tomorrow for a gorgeous little 3D project that fits in well with the male cards!

Male Card.

Male birthday cards are the one card that I have trouble with constantly. I don't know if it's because I only have 2 sets of "male" stamps but I can never come up with anything remotely "nice" on my own.

So yesterday afternoon while I had some spare time, I went in search of male designs on the net. I came across this blog Teneale Williams and found a gorgeous male card, using the tool set that I have.

While I have copied the design almost exactly, I did leave off the ribbon/bow, as I know the male that this is going to, won't appreciate that what so ever, and I left off the brads, as I completely forgot to put them on. (I was trying to work while entertaining my 4 year old)

I'm quite impressed with how this has turned out, so thank you to Teneale for the inspiration!!

New layout.

Ok so the pink layout that I had, wasn't quite what I was after, but now I've found this template I think I'm happy with it.. For now at least. It's a little more "crafty" which is what I want it to show.

I've been fairly busy today, and have made 2 cards and a gorgeous little 3D project, but they will come up over the next few days! Trying to space each and every post. So you will have to tune in tomorrow to check the first one out.

Card Organizer

Hopefully by the time this post goes live, my beautiful friend Leah will have received her birthday present. So I can now safely say what it is and show photos.

I found a project for a Card Organizer HERE  and thought what a brilliant idea that would be. It started off being only for me, but the more I made this organizer the more I decided that it would be a wonderful idea for a birthday present. Something that can be used day after day, year after year. So I decided that Leah would be the first recipient of this awesome organizer. 

As you may remember I posted a sneak peak the other day, and lucky for me her favourite colour is pink, so that was a major relief for me. I sent it off on Tuesday, and am hoping she got it yesterday (wednesday)

These are just a few photos of the organizer. 

Robot Card

I'm not quite sure I'm happy with this card, but still it's nice. I think if I use it, I'll make a few changes, but for now it's ok. My boys both love it, I'd say because it has Robot's on it. Master 5 has asked if he can have it for his birthday card this year. so we will see...

New Craft Room

As I said in an earlier post, just before Christmas last year, Hubby and I did a huge rearrange in the house. And due to that I now have my own craft room. *yippp-pppie* I'm soooo happy to actually have a room in the house where I can come and create, and then NOT have to worry about tidying up straight away if I haven't finished. It's small and cozy, but it has everything in here that I need. I only want to put 1 more cupboard in here, and that will be to display what ever it is that I make up and don't send away. But that will have to wait to come in here, because of having one of my 2 best friends coming to visit me in 19 days time. So I'll have to pack away part of my craft room for her and her partner to sleep. Oh well.. Plenty of time between now and then to get crafting. 

Butterfly card.

Here is a card that I made up while playing around. I'd received the Butterly die for the Big Shot quite a while ago, but forgot that I had it. You know how it goes, way too much stuff not enough time to play around with what you have. So when I was cleaning up and moving everything into my new craft room (another post) I found this little die, and was determined to have a play around with it. This is what I came up with.. A gorgeous female birthday card.

School Christmas Presents.

I know Christmas is over and done with, but due to my lack of blogging lately, I completely forgot to put these up.

I made 31 of these little milk cartons, 1 for each child in Master 5's school class, and a few left over.

I also made a little Christmas Card to go with them. 2 of the boxes weren't done in Christmas colours, due to 2 of the girls in Master 5's class not celebrating Christmas. So I did 2 little pink boxes, and made them a flower card, instead of christmas card. Which of course I forgot to take photos of. 

I'm quite proud of the way they turned out, and inside I filled them with smarties, and little love heart candies. The kids absolutely loved them. 

Sneak Peak birthday present....

Here I am again.

Sorry it's taken soo long to get back into blogging.. I seem to go through phases where I will and won't blog, so while I'm in a "blogging phase" here's a little sneak peak at a present I'm making for a really good friend.

Over the past few years, (12 months especially) Skip has been there for me through thick and thin. Lets me just completely rattle off ANY problems that I have without asking for anything in return. So as a little guesture to say thank you, I've made a birthday present for her, all-be-it a little late. There are just a few more things that I need to complete this present, and hopfully they will be done next week when I get paid again. So fingers crossed by this time next week I should be able to reveal the entire project as she will have received it by then. 

Cupcake girls card.

This card I made tonight while hubby was watching a movie, and not one that I was interested in. So I thought I'd get crafting.

Mum has asked me to make up a box of cards, for her best friends birthday, and so I need to come up with a few different ideas. This card is one that I've had in my mind for a long long long time, but just haven't gotten around to doing. I saw it a while ago on a web site, but for the life of me can't remember, so I'm sorry if I've CASED it without proper acknowledgement.

 

Cottage Garden

This card is probably one of my favourites. I just love the colour combination on it. And the "Cottage Garden" Stamp set and papers are my all time favourite. This is one that I've had made up for a while, but just haven't gotten around to showing, so thought I would while I'm in the Blogging phase.

 

Robot's.

This is another of the cards that I've made while my step daughters have been here. This one is more a little boys birthday card though, I realised that I'd had this stamp set for quite a while and was yet to use it. So I took steps to rectify that. I'm quite impressed with how this one turned out, and I do have another "robot" one to show you in a few days time. But for now this is the one that I'm showing today.

Cupcake card.

Sorry for not having posted for a while. My gorgeous step daughters are here for 2 weeks and I've been busy entertaining them. Now that they're just about to go home I thought I'd start posting a few different cards that I've made.

 DSD10 and I have been busy making cards most nights, I can't show her's, as I was extremely silly and forgot to take photo's of her.. OOppppss. Next time.

This however is one that I managed to get made up the first night that they were here. I love the way it came together, and think I might have a go at doing it again but in brighter colours this time round.

An up close pic of the card.. Excuse my watercolouring skills, I'm still to master those.

  

And the finished product.

July

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May.

April

March

February..

Well here it is.. February's page.

As with January not much to say just photos.

Christmas Challenge - I forget what we are up to

January!!!

Well here I am.. I'm about 1/2 way through my calendar template that I'm making, so thought that I would show you each month - month by month over the next few days!!!
Today is January - not really much else to say about it. I had put this one up in the past, but wasn't 100% happy with it, so re did it. This time round I'm much happier..
 

Christmas Tags!!!

This post is really just an update on the tags that I was making earlier. As you can see I've made a few extra designs, and might even make 1 more up, if I can think of something else to do.

 Snow Man/Penguin Christmas Tags

Joy/Flower Christmas Tags

And the Christmas Tree Tags again. 

All 3 are going to be a part of a Christmas Set that I am going to be giving out as presents.

Christmas Present!!!

This is a Christmas present that I am sending O/S so have to get in quick and get it made up and sent before Sea Mail closes on at the end of the month. AArrgghh I guess that means that I'd better get on with the Calendars as 3 of them are being sent O/S. But back to this present, I've made little gift tags, I made 4 each of 4 different designs. I used the Cute and Curly bundle, Punch and Stamps for this one. I LOVE the way the tags turned out, and might even use the same design again here for a few presents, as they're not just Christmas tags.
I've got a Merry Christmas one, a Thankyou tag, a Best Wishes, and a just for you tag. So hopefully they go down well. And then I've just made a nice little box to put them all in.

The box with the 4 tags stuck on top

The Thank you tags

The Best Wishes tags

The Merry Christmas Tags

And finally the Just for you tags.

And just to finish off a pic of the box all wrapped up and ready to go.

Happy Fathers Day!!!

Happy Fathers Day to my wonderful Husband. The lucky duck is having 2 Father's Day's as per usual. Today and then again in 2 weeks time when his daughter's arrive from Brissie. So today we are just doing something very small and non eventful really. We did the whole breaky in bed, and presents, but his MAJOR pressie he won't get until the girls are here.

I made his Father's Day card, and this is how it turned out. Wasn't quite what I wanted, as I wanted to put pictures of the kids on the inside flaps, but I didn't make them quite big enough, so ended up cutting out the first letter of each of the kids names, sponging them in the colours and then sticking them on. I'm still happy with the way they turned out.

and the inside

Christmas Challenge Week 5.

Looks like I just managed to make it in, in time for this weeks entry.

Up until about 2 hours ago, I had NOTHING to show. What I do have though isn't exactly for Christmas as such. I've decided to make up a card box for my step daughters so that they have their own cards to give out to their friends at School, instead of asking their Mum to buy cards, or even worse spending their own money. lmao. I know that was the worst part when I was younger, and still is now. haha.


So while on Web cam for the first half, and then MSN for the last half, I set about making cards, all while talking to Miss K (13year old step daughter) everytime I finished a card I would show her. The 1st one kinda got a response, but the 2nd one she loved. As you can see it's very bright and colourful (all thanks to my new Big Shot!!!! - I'm in love with that machine) and the 3rd one she hasn't seen yet as she had to head off. So what do you think of them, I'm really happy with the way they turned out....

Card 1 - Crazy for Cupcakes Card with Rich Razelberry cardstock and ink.

Card 2 - Wish Big funky card. Insert for this one is the same as the one above, except in white and tangerine Tango.

Card 3 - Christmas Card using Real Red and Top note Die.

I think the last one is one that I'm also going to use for my Christmas card collection for this year. I quite like it. Well thats about it for now, hopefully I can get some crafting time in over the weekend and might have a few more projects to show off.

Christmas Challenge Week 4.

Ooooopppsss I’m a little slack this week. And I even have a few things to show off as well. I’ve been busy creating my calendars, and finally have something to show for my work.

At the moment I’ve done Jan,March and June, Calendar and Photo sides, and I think they look awesome. I’m waiting on my Big Shot from Stampin Up and a few other things to arrive, and then I can REALLY get stuck into creating.

Anyway enough rambling from me, here are the designs that I’ve done so far.