A couple for the Male folk…

August 22, 2014August 21, 2014 ~ frommycraftroom ~ 2 Comments

I made these a couple of weeks ago but had forgotten to share – Hubby had needed a card for the next day and of course I had nothing in my card stash suitable.

He chose this first one

I used various strips of patterned paper. I stamped the “happy” from PTI Birthday bash sentiments with versafine onyx black and clear heat embossed. I cut the “birthday” from PTI Birthday trio die – I used the cut out in the card below whilst I inlaid with green cardstock.

This one is left for another time

I used The Craft’s Meow Good times stamped in SU old olive ink along with PTI Polka Dot Parade #5 stamped with versafine onyx black and PTI Birthday die from the first card.

This morning I am off to the school book parade. Ms A (9) is dressed as the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland – a dance costume I made for her a few years ago.

Have a great weekend

Thanks for stopping and leaving all your lovely comments.

Cheers

Vicki

Time out with Uniko and PTI…

August 20, 2014August 20, 2014 ~ frommycraftroom ~ 11 Comments

Hi There – Happy Wednesday

Time Out Challenge – Casing Anita

and

Uniko Challenge #13 Special Occassion

Here is my take on the challenges

I stamped Uniko Background Builders Flower Power down one side of a piece of SU Whisper White CS using various shades of SU markers. I stamped “happy” from PTI Polka Dot Parade #5 before adding the die cut birthday. I cut this multiple times and layered with the top cut in SU Island Indigo CS. I attached the card front to a SU note card.

Every birthday is an occassion right?

I hear rumblings in the background. Mr M (16) has his girlfriend over for dinner and Miss A (9) is making 3 a crowd!

Thanks for stopping

Cheers

Vicki

Uniko Studio Challenge #9…

May 7, 2014May 8, 2014 ~ frommycraftroom ~ 6 Comments

Hello

This is the current challenge at Uniko.

I am linking up this card

I started by stamping the leaves and stem outline from Uniko flower power #3 in SU wild wasabi I then stamped the image from Uniko flower power #4 in SU Certainly Celery onto SU Whisper White CS. The flower is from Flower Power #3 – Outline stamped in SU Crushed curry and solid image in SU So Saffron. I then die cut 5 PTI birthday words in SU whisper white and once in SU So saffron cs and layered to form the dimensional word “birthday”. I have seen this done a few times and thought I would get really sticky (one of the reasons I hadn’t given it go!) I was pleasantly surprised that I wasn’t any sticker than normal cardmaking and it all came together rather quickly excluding drying time. Not sure if that means I am overly messy or this technique isn’t as messy as I thought it would be. I stamped the word Happy in SU So Saffron from PTI Polka Dot Parage #5. I mounted my card front with borders of SU So Saffron, SU Smoky slate and a small piece of Uniko Studio Digital paper. All this was then added to a Kaisercraft card base and a Kaisercraft pearl added to the top of the “i” in birthday.

Here is another pic

I was busy last weekend putting together my very first digital album. I used SU MDS software and digital papers to put together an album for my Gran. She is now in a home and she can’t have her digital photo frame with all her pics. So I put a few picsI have of her parents/siblings, when Gran was young, her children when they were young and my children together. I used various layouts and didn’t embellish the pages much as the layouts I chose were pretty pic heavy.

Here are a couple of pics

The cover of the album has a photo insert which you can attach so I made up a print which has my Gran’s name (so the album doesn’t get lost!) and added this butterfly. I used a Martha Stewart silicone mold and SU clay coloured when dry with markers attached with glossy accents.

This page shows my mum and her siblings as they were growing up. As I said very simple layouts.

I am still reading Drums of Autumn – I am ploughing on. 800 pages is a lot. This is part of the Outlander series and I have more books to go.

Now must go see how my friend’s dog is – we had a little run in with another friend’s dog on our walk this morning. Friend 1 had to take her dog to the vet.

Happy reading and crafting 🙂

Cheers

Vicki

Just a little update.

My friend’s dog had to have a couple of staples and is home with his human mum.

Birthday week…

December 4, 2013 ~ frommycraftroom ~ 3 Comments

Hello

Sorry been a bit absent I am in the middle of birthday week here.

It has been something like this. Saturday 25 9 year old girls for a dress up party in the afternoon. They partied away doing things like the limbo, pass the parcel and musical bingo.

Here is a pic of the birthday cake.

I used Papersmooches Hullabaloo and Inpired by Stamping Fancy Circles stamp sets to make the sign – there is a Christmas tree on the top of this stand.

Saturday night I had 10 14 year old girls for a sleep over. I use the word sleep very loosely – I don’t believe any of them slept I toddled off to bed in the wee hours of Sunday morning after the nearly 18 year old got home from a party. Hubby got up to them at 4 am when they were making a human pyramid in the lounge room amongst other activities I wont mention. Cooked them brekky at 8 am of pancakes.

Miss S’s Birthday cake

This is made from one big cupcake mould with cream filling and piped butter cream icing.

Later Sunday Miss A went to a party where they paint canvases. Haven’t got a pic of that yet.

Sunday night feeling the call to put up the Christmas Tree. I have one tree decorated and several boxes of decorations to yet open up.

Monday – Miss S is now 14

This is her card

I used PTI Polka Dot Parade #5 and Birthday Bash Sentiments stamped repeatedly with Hero Art fluro ink.

Tuesday – Miss A is now 9

This is her card

I used the die from PTI Polka Dot parade #5 to die cut the bird from felt and added the music notes and legs with black ink. I added a black rhinestone for her eye. The blue spot paper is from Stampin UP! and the greeting is from Inspired by Stamping Big Wishes.

Plans for the rest of the week?

I am preparing for a stall at a local market on Sunday