The Beauty of White Pencil!

Here is a FIVE minute card!

Yes! FIVE minutes!!!!. Just stamp the gorgeous flower in StaZon black on to Kraft card and colour parts of the flower in white Prisma pencil. Add some bling. Attach the ribbon and wording (by SU).

Voilà! You are done.

Ethereal Fairy

Well then! It has been a lonnng time since I have posted anything. Indeed, it has been quite a while between stamping sessions also. Life has intruded but let's see how long I can stay on track!

This card was made using a gorgeous stamp created and produced by a friend of mine, Jeanette Trappett. You will find her and all her goodies here http://www.thestamptrap.com.au/ .

This image was coloured using Prisma, Gamsol and paper stumps. The Cuttlebug folder Swiss Dots was used on the white background piece and Spellbinders dies for the main image layering with Stampin' Up oval punches for the wording which is a Hero Arts stamp. (I like to share it around between companies!)

House Mouse Tailors

Hello there,

Still on autopost!

Today, I would like to share a House Mouse card. I have made this ahead of time for a Secret Sister commitment I have with a Yahoo group I belong to.

I WAS going to use my new Janome Sew Mini....but by the time I got to that stage, it just wouldn't work, so I bailed and did faux stitching instead.

I think I just may be over the colouring in stage for now!

Oh So Happy

Hello everybody,

Today, I would like to share a Penny Black image...so cute. The technique for the day is Prisma Colouring with Odourless Mineral Solvent. It is a bit time consuming, but good to fill in the time when need be.

I love to work with the solvent as it smoothes the pencil out so you don't see any rough lines....very cool.

I have managed to get outside between the rain spurts in order to try for better light. The forecasts are not favourable for us very mouldy lot. Normally, I love the rain! This time around, however, it seems to be never ending. If I could just get a day or two in the middle of it, all would be so much better!

Hedgies in a Row

Hello everyone!

I am bright and early with this one today. I am about to head off to Mackay to get my windscreen replaced and do a tonne of stuff!

I made this last Hedgie card late last night whilst listening/watching NCIS. My Cuttlebug ruled supreme with this creation...Lots of Nesties shapes and embossing with one of the new folders, more colouring with Prisma pencils with, lastly, the little wording..... being SU (along with the scallop frame it is sitting on!)

I have enjoyed giving this little stamp a workout but will be putting him away now for a while....Phew, say you all! ROFL!

Yet another PB Hedgie

Good morning everyone,

Here is yet another Penny Black Hedgie card. I used the same materials as yesterday except for the Hero Arts wording, which was stamped in StazOn black, the Hero Arts Swirl stamp, which was stamped in Adirondack Beachball Yellow and the paper piercing add-on.

In using the same materials, I am trying to cut down on all the scraps I end up with....the storage of scrap is becoming an issue of magnificent proportions!

I am going to see if I can make headway on my calendar pages today, since the entire day is my own! Have an idea....Now to see if it will work!

Challenge 1 for Ladies INK A 3D Project

Good Morning everyone,

I have not been very active this week stamping wise. It is tax time in these parts and I had two businesses to get ready for that, cook three weeks worth of main meals for my DH, run to town a few times, pack a load of goodies to send ahead of myself and actually get that in the post, a major bad hair day visit to the hairdressers and to top it off, my puppy has been ill. One of THOSE weeks.

Today, I have put aside to doing some of my commitments stamping wise, and like a nit, have decided to work backwards! (Actually working with an idea which came to me last night...and you DO have to go where the mojo takes you, right?)

Here is my Ladies INK inaugural challenge set by Christyne. It had to be a 3D project and mine is a recipe stand. I have taken a few piccies so you get the idea a bit better with it. I am extremely pleased with how it turned out and could easily do a few of these because it was a lot of fun!

Stamps: Wordsworth Alphabet, Alota Bees Cardstock: Chipboard, Kaiser DS Paper, Bazzill Inks: StazOn Black Other: Prisma Pencils, Odourless Mineral Solvent, Blending Stumps, Rings, Recipes Holders, Grosgrain Ribbon, Liquid Appliqué, Crystal Kindy Glitz, Magnet Strips

House Mouse Happy Birthday

Afternoon all,

Today, I have a House Mouse Birthday card to share with you. I have coloured the image with Prisma pencils and blended them with Odourless Mineral Solvent.

The really yummy background you can see is made with alcohol inks and glossy cardstock....very more-ish! The little sentiment was the thing which gave me grief with this card, as I had trouble deciding on one which was the right size for the card AND which also would fit in the word window punch by SU.

And you can see I have located my distressing tool...which meant I HAD to use it. I have now taken to hanging it from my work chair. I will just see how long it takes me to misplace it!

Previously Uninked Rubber

I was about to say good morning but glancing down at the time stamp on the computer says it is 12.11 on Sunday afternoon! Now where did THAT time go?

Ok, I had a little mission to use some uninked rubber for Sassy Stampers. I should not have opened that particular Pandora's box! I have so much rubber I need to make friends with soonest!

Anyway, here is a cheerful, summery card. It still feels like summer here, though we began autumn on the 1st of March. The days are still very hot. I have my air con on. I can only imagine how hot the ladies were back when they had to wear all those layers and they had no air con. My hubby says we don't breed them tough anymore. I say...Thanks very much, I prefer now!

Materials
Stamps: Wording from Impression Obsession Summer Fun Plate, Image from Pink Cat Studio Beach 1 Plate
Inks: StazOn Black
Card: Bazzill
Other: Prismas 917,1033, 929, 927, 913, 1016, 1040, 994, 1009, Odourless Mineral Solvent, Cuttlebug and Embossing Folder, Nestabilities Dies, Unknown Ribbon.

Flowers anyone?

Evening everyone!

Simple and sweet. This is a very OLD PB stamp....I have had it for quite a while now. I do not get it out much as it is fairly intensive in work. It takes a jolly long time to colour in!

I have used Prisma pencils with Odourless Solvent to colour and added some Kindy Glitz to the centre of the opened flowers to add a bit of zing.

Hope you like it!

A Very Appropriate Card!

Good morning all....

Here is another acetate card. This one almost found itself chucked. It is now a top opening card. I messed it up by scoring the side crooked. Then I tried to cover that mistake up by tucking it into a strip of card and weaving ribbon up the side. Yuck! Total waste of time! So, then I cut the whole scored bit off and nearly had the underarm action towards the bin in motion when it hit me that I could try a top opener. AND here we are.

The image is a Whipper Snapper (MW592 Umbrella and Slicker)....I wasn't aware a raincoat was a slicker...You learn something every day! I coloured the image in Prisma Pencils and odourless Solvent and added Dimensional Magic to the raindrops, parts of the brolly and the ground puddle. Add a bit of ribbon top and bottom (the bottom one is threaded through the two little holes punch by SU, and add a line of pearls (by Kaiser) and it is all done!

I added exactly the same layout as the nesties on the front to the inside...now there is a challenge for you...Keeping everything perfectly lined up while you are taping the two parts of the card together!!! Inside has the wonderful verse from PB that reads...A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Prisma Pencils

Materials

Stamps: Hero Arts Clear Stamps CLO158 Cupcakes

Inks: StazOn Black

Cardstock: Bazzill

Other: Big Bite, Big Brad, Ribbon, Tiny Tag, Kindy Glitz, Prisma Pencils :- PC937 Tuscan Red,PC930 Magenta, PC 946 Dark Brown, PC1023 Cloud Blue, Odourless Solvent and Blending Stumps

Hi people!

I have had my SIL visit all day, so am behind in putting stuff up. Luckily, I made this when I made the previous card, so I still have something to show! No technique here other than colouring with Prisma pencils and smoothing out with odourless solvent...Gamsol is one brand I hear bandied about, but here, in Australia, it is just odourless solvent, found at any good art shop. I got to play with the big bite again.....just to see if it was a fluke the first time...Nuhhh...It WAS still easy to use!

Love the pencils...You can control pencils much more easily than markers, in my opinion. ( Though, I love my markers too.....I still have the old Marvy and Tombow markers. I have 2 Copics but wonder if I need to fork out a whole pile more money whilst the Marvy's and Tombows still have ink in them!) Know hubby would say an unequivocal NO!

Cuttlebugging

Materials:

Stamps: Stamp It These Boots 2818E Elizabeth, Leave Memories MM Divas 250604

Inks: Encore Ultimate Metallic Pink, StaZon Black

Cardstock: Puce Metallic Unknown Origin

Other: Prisma Pencils - PC996, PC929, Scrapbitz Bling, Bazzill Brads, Cuttlebug and Embossing Folder, Stampin Up Oval Punches

Afternoon all,
Well a discovery of sorts when playing around with the metallic inks! If you swipe Metallic Pink on pink card it comes out quite "pucey"...No, Cheryll...I did not say "pukey!"

I love this Stamp It stamp of the boots. It seems to be the perfect size a lot of the time and I have used it heaps since I acquired it. It has been coloured with mainly a Black Grape Prisma pencil (just a touch of Pink) and accessorised with little bling.

I didn't get to do much today as I had to go into Sarina for parts for hubby, so did the groceries as well. I am not going to the Melbourne Cup this year, so perhaps tomorrow will be THE day!