Blingy Birthday

The girls have a birthday party to go to tomorrow, and lucky for the birthday girl loves purple and things that sparkle. Needless to say, I had lots of fun making this card! I used Orchid Opulence, Almost Amethyst, Lavender Lace and Lovely Lilac to stamp the Beg Deal alphabet stamps, first inking each on with VersaMark. I decided to stamp, emboss with Heat & Stick powder and apply Dazzling Diamonds glitter to each letter separately so I wasn't placing the Stamp-a-ma-jig or the imaging sheet over the sticky letters. I then stamped the body and head of the little girl (from All in The Family), coloured her face with an aquapainter picking up ink from the Blush Blossom inkpad and coloured the rest of her with markers. I used some Crystal gem stickers and sparkly non-SU! ribbon to finish off the bling. The card base has been stamped with the Scribble wheel.

Don't forget that the Spring Mini catalogue (featuring the Scribble wheel) is about to end! You only have till the end of November to order products from it. The All In The Family set (which you can read more about here) will also only be available till the end of November for the special price of $65 including postage. If you wish to purchase these, or any other Stampin' Up! product, please contact me. Remember, orders are shipped straight from the warehouse, so it doesn't matter where in Australia you live!

ETA: The card design was based on a Di Hickman sketch! I can't believe I stayed up late last night tracking down a link to the sketch and then forgot to post it...

Sassy Scribble

The Elite Stampers, downlines of Angela Sargeant, had a cyberstamp on Wednesday night and this is my card for challenge #2 - to use Elegant Eggplant, Not Quite Navy and Garden Green. I have been using these colours separately lately, but the thought of putting them all together on one card was a little daunting! However, this finally came through (notice the dominance of Elegant Eggplant? Mmmm). I stamped the Sassy Stems flower on watercolour paper with StazOn black and coloured with an aquapainter and inks and distressed the edges with the cutter kit. It is then layered on Elegant Eggplant, vellum paper, Garden Green and Not quite Navy. The sentiment, from Happy Everything, is stamped in Whisper White. The eggplant card base has been stamped with the Scribble wheel in VersaMark ink.

I wear my sunglasses at night

so I can look at this card!
With all the colour combinations I have been playing with lately I still haven't been using the Bold Brights very much, so I thought I'd make a card using three of those colours that I very rarely use: Pink Passion, Yoyo Yellow and Only Orange. In the end Only Orange was reduced just to spots on the card (there's a dash of orange on the ribbon too) and I tossed in some Green Galore. And I even resorted to making this a 10.5cm square card to cut down on the amount of Bright! Card base is Pink Passion with the Scribble This swirl stamped in VersaMark. The Scribble This flower has been stamped on watercolour paper using StazOn black and watercoloured with an aquapainter and watercolour crayons. It was then layered on Yoyo Yellow and a slot punch in it to thread some Finishing Touch Ideas ribbon through. The Green Galore piece has been wheeled with the Scribble jumbo wheel with Green Galore ink. All Year Cheer I sentiment is stamped on Whisper White using StazOn black and edged with the Pink Passion marker, then attached to the Green Galore piece using two brads from Art Stamps Australia. The layout for the card was taken from Beate's sketch challenge.

It's a Scribble Fest!

You have been warned! These were actually the first cards I made with the Scribble This set, and I went for a seriously unusual colour combination (for me at least) of Not Quite Navy, Sage Shadow, Bordering Blue and Sahara Sand.For this card I have stamped the Scribble wheel on the base card with Not Quite Navy ink, the Sage Shadow layer has the swirly scroll stamped in VersaMark, the flowers are stamped in Very Vanilla, and the sentiment (borrowed from the hostess set Blooming with Happiness) in stamped with Not Quite Navy. The stitched ribbon is from the Prep School Ribbon Originals collection,
This one is a little 10.5x10.5cm card. See Australian Paper Crafts issue 73 for more details.
See Australian Paper Crafts issue 73 for details

Spring has Sprung!

The Spring Mini is finally here! If you haven't got a copy, you can view it here, or contact me and I can send out a hard copy to you.

For this post I though I would show you a card using my favourite stamps from the mini: Scribble This and the Scribble Jumbo wheel. I have to tell you, my jaw seriously dropped when I saw this gorgeous wheel!The flower has been stamped with StazOn on watercolour paper and coloured with an Aquapainter and watercolour crayons. The wheel was inked in Vintage Violet and stamped on Vintage Violet, trimmed, layered on a piece of Taken With Teal and mounted on the Brocade Blue cardbase. The cardbase has been stamped with one of the swirly stamps from Scribble This twice using Brocade Blue ink. The flower is mounted on top with a Brocade Blue button for the centre. The colours were inspired by some clothes I have... in fact I am wearing the Vintage Violet jacket, Rose Red shirt and Brocade Blue jeans as I type!

Amazing Scribble

I recently had to make a card for a little girl turning 5. I wanted to break out my brand spanking new "Scribble Alphabet", and decided to take my inspiration from the present (yes! The present, NOT the wrapping! Colours look a bit too bright in that link).

The card base is Regal Rose, across which I wheeled the Scribble jumbo wheel with Orchid Opulence ink. I coloured some of the flowers with the Regal Rose marker, some with a VersaMarker and some with the white gel pen. I then went over the white gel pen with the Regal Rose marker to tone it down a bit. I then dotted 2-way glue on flowers and spots and gave it a dose of Dazzling Diamonds. The alphabet was stamped with StazOn on Whisper White cardstock and coloured with water colour crayons and an Aquapainter. I then cut them out, mounted them alternately on Cameo Coral and Apricot Appeal cardstock, and cut them out again. They were then mounted on layers of Blush Blossom, Orchid Oppulence and Whisper White.


My weekend has been filled with shopping, but we finally have a washing machine and dryer (though both still in their boxes, so no washing for me tomorrow) and a lounge on it's way. The lounge can't come soon enough as the water damaged one was collected on Thursday! Next on the agenda is a new rug for the lounge floor, new dishwasher and hopefully the wardrobe will be ripped out soon so things can be put back in their rightful spots and THEN I can start sorting something out for my new craft set up.