Hi all, Miss Me?

Card is closed up here.

Card is fully opened here.

This is the back of the card.

Regular followers of this blog must be wondering if I have fallen of the face of the planet???

No, but I have not had a functioning arting area for quite some time and the hubby and I have been renovating. Enough said!

I found this partially completed card when I was moving all my junk....aka...stamping stuff, to its new abode, and finished it off this afternoon.

MFT stamps are the focus but the flourishes belong to Kaiser, I think. I have used Kaiser papers throughout (with the paper piecing as well!). I tackled the back feature with all different sizes paper punches and added Kindy Glitz to the flourishes. A little grosgrain ribbon and it is complete. I love to make cards which have different orientations and this one has turned out quite well, I am thinking.

Tomorrow and Saturday morning my kitchen is being put in. The old air con has to be removed from my new art studio and bricks replaced...coz it was a box air con, and then my new (split system)....very quiet, air con has yet to be installed. Basically, most of the stuff is in the room, but there is no rhyme nor reason to it. And as those who know me well can attest to...I am finding that quite the trial! I will have time from the weekend on to set things straight and to get back into serious stamping. Shell is not much fun when her beloved stamps and stuff are beyond her reach!!!!!

MFT Frenzy

Hi there,

Am still working on Xmas cards and have to say I have been the very busy little bee in that area.

Here are four cards from a kit I bought from Michelle www.michellescardsandstamps.com.au a little while ago. Sometimes, it is lovely not to think at all and just do, so I was happy to throw these together using all her instructions. Pretty nifty, eh? I love MFT stamps, so it was a pleasure playing with them!

I am on a second design for Xmas now, so hope to share that with you soon.

Windshield Wiper Card

Good morning ladies,

Here is a windshield wiper card I made yesterday. Cheryll thinks it isn't good enough...there should be a video showing me opening and shutting it with great glee watching the wipers do their thing! I agree with her that it misses something just as a flat photo....but no way am I putting a video of my mug up here!

For those who do not know what a windshield wiper does....when you open and shut the card, the two little wipers (flaps here with the Cheers Chick and Red Wine Glass) work just like wipers on a car. Really cool to see actually.

It isn't QUITE finished....I have to go snaffle a scallop punch from someone to layer under the wording "Aged perfectly".

All colouring was done with Prisma Pencils and Derwent Watercolours with Odourless Mineral Solvent. I also paper pieced the roof with Kaiser Paper scraps.

What do you think?