Happy Anniversary

My brother and his wife celebrated their FIRST wedding anniversary this past weekend.....

this is the card that I have made for them...

I tried something different this time

it is the first time I have made a step card

The flower file is  from Melinda Beltran

Blog Candy from Paper Ink Color

Chrissy over at paper ink color has the most amazing blog candy.....

can you imagine .... all of these magnolia stamps.... oh heaven

head on over and have a look at Chrissy's blog!

but hurry

ends at the end of September

OMG - can I live without them...?

I have just spent the day crafting with Penny, and she brought her copic markers with her for me to try out to see how I liked using them........
She was a very nice little girl and shared them with me without too much of a fuss...
I printed off an A4 page of various images and had a very relaxing and enjoyable day colouring in!

The only problem now, is that I have to have them!

This is one of the images I coloured... was actually the first and the most simple... will have to get around to making up cards for the others soon.

I am not to sure about my version of these flowers though.... I am certain the ones in the file example looked much different to mine. Oh well, they will do the job

Quick and simple for work

I had a go at playing with colouring a digital image in DSA2 this week,

I needed to print off multiple images to use in bulk lots of cards.

It wasn't that easy to control the brush, I am sure there is a better way of doing this than how I did it, but that is a lesson for another day!

The first 2 cards are done in DSA2, the last (the sunflower) I colured by hand, some with prisma pencils and some with Penny's precious copic markers!

A quick bit of show and tell...

Time has been my enemy lately.... so has this stupid cold, if I have managed some time out I seem to fall asleep!

Here is a quick update of cards I have managed to get done..... most just in the nick of time to post out...

lets start with the most recent...

card for my dad today for fathers day...

Last week was one of the girlfriends dads 50th

21sts.... think I am getting tooooo old for these now, however 21party we did.

the young girl from work had the honour of becoming a growed up....

My baby turned 11 last week

and requested a cupcake cake.......

found a plain white disposable cardboard cake holder at spotlight and then attacked it with stamps and inks

covered it in contact and presto a reusable disposable cake tree...

I discovered that I really enjoyed decorating the cupcakes, so my macho tuff boy is also getting them for his cake in a couple of weeks... decided that the pretty girly ones are the most fun... so you lucked out tough boy!

I went away to craft camp last month for a weekend.... and man was that a great weekend.  I actually achieved quiet a bit.

I went with the plan of working on my wedding album, so really had no intention of making cards at all, however I did need to make a couple for that coming week, and just for the fun of it I went along with the little challenges set for the weekend and entered the 2 that I made...

this one for the youngest ones little girlfriend

and this one for my sister-in-laws birthday.

What amazed me the most is that I won second prize for both of them......

and lastly my brothers birthday card...

When I get them photographed I will put up the pages I got finished for my wedding album.

Card Patterns Sketch

Browsing through the web this morning looking for my mo-jo (it seems to be missing in action), I came across the Card Patterns Weekly Sketch, and as I needed to make a birthday card for one of the ladies I work with I set about to do both!

I am attributing the length of time it took to make to the missing mo-jo, but I'm happy with the end result.

Birthday Card for Brooke....

Oh Boy! Not sure if I am ready for my boys to have girlfriends.... but girlfriends they have.... all 3 of them....
and all of them seem to have birthdays at roughly the same time, so off to the plaza I went the other night with 2 reluctant teenagers and one excited pre-teen.... all 3 came home with a bracelet for their girl....
then I started on the cards..... well, one card started and finished the others on the "to do" list.