2019 Mother's Day Card

The Mother's Day card for my mother (made another for my mother-in-law very similar).  I stamped the flowers from Dina Wakley Good Idea Stamp set with versamark ink and embossed with clear embossing powder.  I wet the flower petals and sprinkled over some Lindy's Magnolia Magenta gold magicals powder and then wet the leaves and sprinkled over some Kiwi Color Crush powder and then gave the whole thing a light mist of water to make everything bleed more.

Happy Birthday Card Little Girl

I just finished this card for my granddaughter's birthday.  She turns 7 this year.  This little sticker girl looks just like her too!  

I used the Grace Taylor "Flower Patch" scrapbook paper and sticker pack.  I just noticed that I put the ribbon on upside down - but already have something stuck to it - oh well, maybe she won't notice, LOL!!

Watercolor Birthday Card

I love the way this card turned out.  I made it for my husband's birthday in October.   It was done on watercolor paper and I added texture paste through a circuit board stencil and then wet the paper and added various colors of watercolor and let them blend together.  I added a banner that I stamped on watercolor paper that had been colored the same way as the card.  I tied it to the front with some yarn.

Pretty Paper Craft Cards and Scrapbook Pg with Leftovers

This was a class that I had taken at the Brisbane Scrapbooking and Papercraft Expo - I had told the teacher that I would never have chosen the paper but it made some beautiful cards.  I'll be more open when looking at paper now.   The first 3 cards were Jane Clark's (the instructor's) designs - the last two cards and the scrapbook page I designed with the leftover papers and die cuts.  Here is a link to the video with a little more information:    Pretty Paper craft cards and Layout

Happy Birthday Card for Gabby

I just wanted to share the Birthday card I designed for my Grand Daughter Gabby.  She is turning 3.  I made a pocket card out of Lilac Cardstock and then adhered a small white paper doily to the front.  I slid a vellum tag that had a lilac string attached onto a lilac ribbon with white polka dots and tied it around the pocket.  I wrote Happy Birthday on the vellum tag with a white gel pin.  The paper doll was a free svg download from www.quillingpatch.com - I used the fairy pattern.  They have some amazing paper doll downloads for various occasions.  I cut it using my Cricut personal die cutting machine.  When I put this doll together, I cut the bodice out of cardstock but taped a piece of irredescent wrapping paper to the bodice.  The two piece skirt pattern was cut out of two shades of plum/purple cardstock and I used the cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder to emboss them with dots.  I then gathered a piece of light gray tulle and used fabric glue to glue it to the top of the skirt and then glued the bodice on top.  I cut two "shoes" by just tracing the feet on cardstock and shaping them like shoes and covered them with purple organza.  I cut two of the hair sections and one of them I put glue tape on the back of and then cut rounded strips from it and glued it down to the base hair section to give it the appearance of real hair.  I then tied a narrow purple ribbon around the bun.  I had a Peachy Keen stamp set for doll faces but they were too big for this size paper doll so I just looked at the stamp and then free hand drew the face on the doll.  I colored the inside of the mouth and the cheeks with a atyou Spica marker"Twinkling like stars" in the color:  14 - Blossom.  I added gold glitter glue to the star at the tip of the wand.  I cut the wings out of clear acetate from recycled packaging and added clear glitter glue that had some irridescent glitter in it.  Thank you for looking.

My 2011 Xmas Card Design

Hi Everyone,
Just wanted to share my 2011 Xmas Card.  I used a stampin up stamp called Happy Christmas Mate from 2009-2010 collection.  I stamped it on watercolor paper and then used watercolor pencils to color the design and then I scanned it and duplicated it multiple times on a page and printed the images on watercolor paper so that I did not have to color each one.  I had so many cards to do I didn't have time to color each one.  I apologize but I do not know the name of the paper I used for the background or the paper I used to cut he flowers from.  It was something I picked up from my local scrapbook store and had what I interpreted as waves and hibiscus flowers which was appropriate for an Australian Xmas Card. I scanned in one of the flowers and imported it into word as a watermark and then Typed Happy Holidays mate over the water mark and I used a diecut to cut out the stamp.  I then used stickles for the lights and the centers of the flowers on his swim trunks, puff paint on his beard and then glossy accents for the splashes of water.  Thanks for looking!

2011 Xmas Card

Hi everyone, just thought I would share my Christmas Card that I created for 2011.  I stamped the image with stampin up stamp but I had so many  cards to make that I decided to water color the image, scan it and then print 30 of them on card stock so that I didn't have to stamp and color all of them!  I then used stickles and puff paint to embellish each one.  I loved the way it turned out and my family in the US should get a kick out of the Australian theme!