Old Gum Tree

Today brings a change of scenery. I was rummaging around the stamping drawers and found one of the very first stamps I ever bought and decided to condition it with these results.

The image is a Print Blocks one and is stamped in StazOn black. It has been coloured using Tombows. (Who still has Tombows??). The gum leaves stamped in the background are from the now defunct Stamp World and the wording is from SU.

I love the barbed wire ribbon and have been itching to use it on a card. What better way than with a tumbled down fence image!

Flowers by Six

Good afternoon all,

Just a simple card for today. I have used a SU stamp as the feature stamp and stamped it multiple times using a variety of Brilliance inks....They are so pretty IRL with that gorgeous sheen to them. I have added pearls to the centre of each flower and also stamped the wording in Brilliance. The maroon card REALLY is that dark!

I am busy trying to finalise details for my new kitchen so I can give the go ahead to the people who are building it for me. It is actually quite traumatising to go through all this..... So many little details...I just want it done already! We are going to pull the old kitchen out this weekend, I hope...as we have to paint the walls, tile the floor and see if anything is rotten and needs replacing...all that boring stuff....Read: Michelle doesn't like these details...she just wants to see a pretty kitchen appear!

Anyways, I will try and keep up with the flow here. See ya around.

The Feel of Winter

And we come to July's theme which is "The Feel of Winter". Well, July is the middle of winter for Australians and I would so much love to experience a full winter with snowwwww! We didn't even get cold days last year!

I put a piece of blue card thought the Cuttlebug using the snowflakes embossing folder and then swiped white ink over the top to highlight the embossed bits. I then stamped and embossed SU snowmen, coloured with Prisma pencils and smoothed out with odourless mineral solvent. The very old PSX stamp I had was really too big for the ATC, so I stamped it on white Shrink Plastic, cut it carefully in half, shrank it and it was then small enough, in two pieces, for me to use.

I brightened the whole thing up with Kindy Glitz and a little bit of grosgrain. What do you think?

Brayered and Sponged Moonlight Sky

And for June we have the theme "Sky".

Here is my interpretation. I have brayered and sponged a la Michelle Zindorf style to get the background. Then, overstamped using a SU leaf, gel penned parts of the leaf to imitate the moonlight and stamped part of an Amazing Creation sentiment in the corner and added a dragonfly just coz.

I remember my friend Cheryll and I sitting down one day to have a go at this style of stamping.....It takes some practice but worth it in the end I think....I think the background came from one of pieces back then and from memory we were trying to follow a tutorial closely!

I like this one the best of all the ATCs done so far!

Another Easel Card Variation

Open and on the Easel

Laid Entirely Flat

Good morning everyone,

I have been playing with the Easel card form, some more. I varied the dimensions to suit the stamped image.

I had this set of flowers already stamped up from a little while ago and decided to see if I could incorporate them into this format. The main image stamps are from Stamps By Judith. The little wording on the main panel is by SU and the main wording at the bottom of the easel is by Hero Arts. I like to spread my manufacturers around....NOTHING like variety! Stamping was done using Adirondack Denim and Kaleidacolour Spectrum inks.

The sun is shining so brightly today, it actually hurts your eyes to be out in it. Very hot and humid, the tennis is on the telly and the dungeon (aka, Shell's Art Room) beckons. Have a great day, all!

On a Roll With Xmas

Good morning everyone on this fine, hot Saturday!

Here is another little Xmas card. I am edging closer to Xmas colours, I see. It IS very simple but actually looks quite OK IRL. I have brushed off the paper distresser and used it on each of the Bazzill red layers and raised the centre piece with pop dots.

I made the background with repeat stamping and have added Kindy Glitz to all the little dots. I couldn't find a red star in amongst my VERY vast supply of brads, so inked another one with StazOn. I have used SU Festive Favourites as the stamps of choice.

Ok...off to tackle some farm accounts...sigh...got to pay the piper! Me...I would like to string the piper over a very large ant nest!!!!!! Whoever invented all this paperwork??.Bet your bottom dollar it wasn't a woman!

Grid ATC

Hi there,

I have been making ATCs this afternoon and this one is for a future swap for grids. As I brought my Scor-pal with me, I felt the need to make a little grid using it. I have used SU stamps which Grace owns and a combination of Colourbox and StazOn inks with a little bling at the bottom to give it lift.

It has been so much fun catching up with lots of other stampers. We have different visitors each day and feel very lucky we know so many talented and lovely ladies.

Tomorrow we are off to the Canberra Stitches and Craft Show where we have sussed out a number of papercrafting places we would like to visit. We are also after a few textile type things, so hopefully we will get that list we have been merrily making ticked off.