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I have been playing with Papersmooches Blossoming Buds and thought I would link up to the current challenge here
Here is my first card Papersmooches Blossoming Buds teamed with PTI Penned Elegance. Coloured with alcohol markers.
And my second card is teamed with Jane’s Doodles Mother’s Day. Once again coloured with alcohol markers.
Both sentiment pieces are cut using SSS stitched circles & ME Sew Fancy dies.
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Cheers
Vicki
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I am sharing some cards I made recently for my Auntie. We caught up during the week (on my day off!) for me to give them to her. I think she was happy. I also had made some aprons which I shared a few weeks ago.
I think I have used this PTI penquin every year since I purchased it. I think he is so cute! I teamed this one with snow drifts and a sentiment from SU Holiday Home.
Another favourite is SU Dashing deer with sentiment from Uniko Pure Florals Poinsettia.
Another all time Christmas favourite is baubles. This was a quick and easy one with SU Holiday Framelits and PTI holiday cheer sentiment.
These are cards are made with some new SU to my stash of stamps and dies. Every year I say I don’t need any more Christmas stamps or dies however I always seem to add to my collection! I really love this santa and how could I go past cheeky elves. The tree is from Flourishes and the fireplace is from SU hearth and home.
Now some non-christmas cards
I used SU fable friends coloured with markers. I personalised the inside with a computer generated phrase. I have used Uniquely, ME and SSS stitched circle dies.
My aunt also has a few special birthdays coming up so I made the cards above. I needed to get some help from Ms S to write “moet” as my hand writting isn’t so great! Each one of these birthday cards was like a mini challenge trying to personalise with things in my stash.
On another note I started a new job this week. I had been trying to find work close to home however even if I got an interview I seemed to be getting overlooked. I saw a position recently both online and in the newspaper so thought why not! I applied on the Saturday, was called Monday for an interview on the Tuesday and by the end of the week they had offered me the position. My new position means I catch the train in and out of the city. The plus is I am getting some steps up walking to/from the station and to/from the workplace.
I am located between Melbourne Museum and Lygon street. Having an hour for lunch has been nice (can’t remember the last time that happened!). So far I have visited some shops in Lygon street and the Carlton Gardens. I can walk to Brunetti’s an iconic cake shop or Koko black a specialist chocolate shop in my lunch time. Now I have walked to these places but have not purchased anything other than a coffee – I am trying to not undo all the good from walking. I am considering looking at other ways of travelling perhaps parking at the Museum as it is around the block and will only cost me $3 more (+petrol) per day however it could possible save me an hour travel time. Handy when I have after school activities with Ms A. I have tried to use the travel time to check emails etc however I found my phone battery died really fast.
Enough of my waffle. I need to go dig over the veggie garden and start reading the new book by Margaret Attwood – The Testaments before it is due back at the library. Another good thing about train travel is I get to read on the train.
Thanks for stopping and listening to my waffle
Cheers
Vicki
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Today marks the first day everyone is back at school/work/uni for the year. I know it is March.
So what did I do? I played helped out in the art room for Ms A. We went outside for about an hour and sketched what we could see then returned to the art room to add tones and colours. Some of these kids can draw and clearly it isn’t for some of the others. I picked up a tip or two from the art teacher – you know there is a reason I like stamps, dies and punches! I really can’t draw.
Anyway I am back home now and thought I would share a few things I put together over the weekend.
I am linking up to the following challenges
NBUS #6 – Never before used schtuff here – today mine are SU No Bones about it, IBS Small Fancy Labels 1 (sentiment) and SU Flowering Fields
Seize the birthday here – most of the 3 x 3 cards I created are good for a birthday
All cards are 3 x 3. I plan to make them into little sets.
In this group I have used NBUS SU No Bones about it, sentiment from Jane’s Doodles Doodle Flowers II, PTI World’s Greatest plus SU word window & modern label punches.
In this group I have used PTI birthday tags and Tremendous treats stamp sets. I coloured the hot air balloon with alcohol markers and the balloons with intense pencils. I have also used circle punches.
In the final grouping I have used Mama Elephant Waterblooms and IBS NBUS Small Fancy labels 1 sentiment. The other stamps used are from PTI Tremendous treats, NBUS SU Flowering Fields and the “a little something for a little someone” is also SU but I don’t know where from! I again used circle punches, SU Itty bitty accents punch, ME Sew fancy dies and SU Tags & Labels framelits. The cake is coloured with alcohol markers and has a wink of stella on the candles. Whilst the Flowers were stamped by colouring the stamp with a marker and then adding colour from the ink pad with a water brush.
I also used some pattern paper by adding a layered sentiment. I must make up some normal size cards to use some of the pattern paper I have been holding on to.
Thanks for stopping
Cheers
Vicki
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I have found 10 minutes to link these up.
Mr 17 is studying for his exams which means trying to keep things quiet – not easy when he has 3 sisters! Little Ms 10 has been keeping me busy with her activities and the school art show. Some lovely work. It is coming to the busy time of the year. My second part time job is an enrolment officer for a local preschool so at this time of year there is lots to do and lots of anxious mums and dads.
Anyway enough waffle here are some cards I have been making
Firstly
Some NBUS I picked up at Paperific recently and Darnell has the perfect challenge.
You can find the NBUS challenge here
This card is off to a special “0” birthday of a friend of mine this weekend.
I used NBUS Art Impression Girlfriend stamp coloured with alcohol markers. The pattern paper is also NBUS SU Stacked with love.
Now I might just make the cut off for this challenge over at Crafting with Dragonflies here
I have made 2 cards.
I started by stamping images from MSS Ocean Fun onto watercolour paper and colouring with pencils.
This card I used some metalic paper I picked up somewhere. I made a porthole using dies from ME stitched sew fancy and Quickcutz circle dies.
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I used a stencil from SU Happy Patterns to create the background on my card front. I then added my image. The sentiment is from PTI Tiny Treats and the water grass is from My Cute Stamps fishy fun.
My last card today is one which I was inspired by Therese which can be found here
I used PTI tag dies and some pattern paper.
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Until next time
Cheers
Vicki
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Today’s card I am linking up to the current challenge at Inspired by Stamping here and the customer gallery.
I followed this sketch
Here is my card
I started by printing some IBS digital paper which was in the latest newsletter. I think one of the colours in my printer wasn’t right – my paper is more green than the newsletter sample. I am sorry Joanna if this isn’t how you intended the colours to look. Anyway I used the paper I printed. It seemed to co ordinate really well with SU Pool party cardstock and coastal cabana ribbon. I used Mama Elephant Sew Fancy stitched circle die and Lifestyle crafts nested circle dies for the die cut circles. I used SU Pool party, Bermuda bay, Night of Navy and Baked Brown sugar inks to stamp the images from Inspired by stamping Celebrating 2 years. I finished the card off with a little die cut from SU Balloon Framelits.
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Cheers
Vicki
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