Craft Camp - #2

Morning all.

Today's cards show the wonderful simplicity that is gained from just using one or 2 colours.

I sort inspiration from this card I saw on SCS. It appealed to me as it could be pretty much used for any occasion - birthday, sympathy, thinking of you and the list goes on. Here are my 2 versions of the card......

The difference is as simple as changing the direction that the stem goes in. One card has clear rhinestones and the other has clear blue rhinestones.

The image was coloured with an aqua pen then the card was sassed up a bit with one of the beautiful Adorning Accents Edgelit Dies that I am really loving.

The 2 cards together.......

Thanks for popping by and I will be back with the 3rd card from craft camp real soon.

Stuff used:

CS: (SU) Baja Breeze, Whisper White, Urban Garden DSP (ret) and Eraldo Watercolour paper

Inks: (SU) Baja Breeze, Soft Suede

Stamps: (SU) Simply Soft

Other Bits: SU Adorning Accents Edgelit Dies and Adorning Accents Embossing Folders, Clear and Blue rhinestones fm stash.

Lynda xx

Mother's Day - Part 1

Morning all.

For all of you in Australia, I hope you are enjoying the long weekend. It is cold, wet and miserable in Sydney, so the blanket on the couch is getting a good work out!!!

I thought I had better share with you my Mother's day project for my MIL....before the occasion slips into the ether. I am blessed to have one of the best MIL's in the world. She does so much for us, so I wanted something very special to say thanks. I decided to bolster her card supply with a wee set and box. The card that was for HER for Mother's day will be part 2.

For the cards inside the box, I was inspired by a couple of cards I saw here and here on SCS. I an really having a lot of fun with the Bordering on Romance SU set...as everyone needs to work on their colouring....right??

I decided to do 4 co-ordinated cards in Island Indigo, Poppy Parade, Concord Crush and Calypso Coral. Now I am sorry that the pics for these are a bit dark, but as I said, the weather for a while now in Sydney has been nothing sort of shocking. So here they are.....

Calypso Coral

Concord Crush

Island Indigo

and Poppy Parade

....and the set together.....

 

The box to case them was based on this tutorial that I found on Mary Fish's blog. The only change I made was in the width and made is 6 1/2" (from memory) as our cards and envelopes are slightly bigger.

I stamped the outlined water coloured image all over the WW CS before I stamped the sentiment.

Now there are a LOT of elements here and I will endeavour to list them all, but also please feel free to ask any questions you have with regards to the project.

Stay tuned for Part 2 in a couple of day's time...the card...which is SOOOOOOOOO not my usual style!!!

Thanks for popping by.

Stuff used:

CS: (SU) Box - Pink Pirouette, Crumb Cake, Whisper White

               Cards - Whisper White, Island Indigo, Concord Crush, Poppy Parade, Calypso Coral

               Also Eraldo watercolour paper

Ink: (SU) Box - Pink Pirouette, Regal Rose, Flourish - PIP, Regal Rose, Daffodil Delight, Lucky Limeade and Pear Pizzaz

               Cards - All leaves/Centres Limeade, Pear and Daffodil Delight. Flowers - Pool Party, Island Indigo, Blush Bride, Calypso Coral, Poppy Parade, Concord Crush, Wisteria Wonder.

Stamp Sets: (SU) Bordering on Romance, Wonderful Favourites, Curly Cute

Other Bits: SU Adorning Accents Edgelit Dies, Dimensionals, Simply Scored, Generic white organza ribbon

Lynda xx

Pretty as a Princess

My bestie's daughter turns 8 very soon. I wanted to make her something very special as this will be the last thing she receives from me before she leaves to Singapore on the 15th Jan. Now being nearly 8...and a girly-girl...she LOVES pink, purple and princesses. Hmmmmmmmmm (clunk, clunk, CLUNK!!!!)

I have not utilised Princess Anya for a long time, so I worked around that...whist also trying to maintain my crafting resolutions!!! So....with the brief I had, here is my card....

I did such a happy dance when I put the last touch on the card!! I busted out mu much neglected Nesties for this card (Fancy Tags and Ovals) which also hepled carry the oval/spiral theme through from the Cuttlebug Embossing Folder. I paper pierced her dress with the Tea Party DP and firstly painted her star and crown with bright yellow watercolour crayon and then blinged it with Kindyglitz.



I cut Princess Anya out and mounted her on a white Nesties Oval. That and the Fancy Tag scroll sat up on dimensionals.

I finished off the embellishments with some small paper roses. I think they were the perfect touch. Debbie P uses them all the time in her cards and i have admired them for so very long...so thanks Debbie for that creative kick in the keester!!

I have kept Creative Resolutions towards pink, and using things in my stash (flowers, Nesties and Princess Anya)...so I am still ontrack...Woo Hoo!!!! I am also gunna enter this card in a challenge that Bizzy Becs has put forward to utilise Spellbinders Nestabilities (aka Nesties). She has some great specials on them till the end of the month.

Stuff Used:

CS: (SU) Almost Amethyst (ret), Pretty In Pink, Whisper White, Tea Party DSP (ret), Watercolour Paper

Ink: Black Stazon

Stamps: TGF - Princess Anya

Other Bits: Cuttlebug Embossing Folder - Scrollwork, Spellbinders Nestabilities - Fancy Tags and Petite Ovals Large, SU Small and Large Oval Punches, Faber-Castell Watercolour Pencils and Lyra Watercolour Crayons, Kindyglitz Crystalline Glitter, Roses fm stash, Upkit Gold Numbers and Accents, Dimensionals.

Lynda xx

A Bevvy of Boxes - #3

"With a little help from my Friends" is a FAB song and is pertinent for this post. Kerry Bunting as I previously mentioned is a magical friend and I was blessed to receive this a short time back. (Sorry Kez that I have not posted it here yet!!) It is beautiful and takes pride of place on my table.

The birthday bonanza of Sept continued with niece...Miss 15 (the day before my son's b'day). Oh the agony of it all!!! A quick call to her Mum and all she wanted was bangles....EASY!! With such a basic gift it needed spectacular packaging. Now I am NEVER one to bite off more than I can chew (yeah right) and had images of co-ordinated cards and boxes, but sadly time ran out. I looked up and saw my little draw from Kez,...and a MASSIVE lightbulb came on.....a combo effort. Card and box in ONE!!! An e mail later and some information and I was on my way. Kez based her easel draw box on a template from Liam Pucher. Liam is SUPER talented in 3D paper projects. Take a look round her blog if you have not before. It is amazing.

(Sorry to keep rambling) I wanted to use the devine Miss Anya Collection stamps that have sadly sat neglected and unused since I purchased them (a long time ago!!) These 3 savvy young gals are perfect for tweens and teens. Rather than colouring the whole image I paper pierced some of it. This was the result..

and this is how she looked completed.....

I bundled her up with some Grosgrain Ribbon as wrapping....

      




Then.......when she took the ribbon off.......

I was sooooooooooooooooo happy with the result that a (somewhat sad but enthusiastic) happy dance was undertaken. It looked so pretty with the bangles in it!!

The card was a very narrow panel at the back of the easel which cannot be seen when opened, but is there as a special reminder. Here it is from the side and close ups of the delightful draw handle and the sentiment. Given that the inside of the draw gleamed...Happy Birthday did not seem right. "Sparkle" fitted the bill perfectly.

Thanks so very much for enduring this post to the end. The crafting community is such a wonderful and caring group, makes you feel good just to be a part of it.

Stuff used:

CS: (SU) Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive, Orchid Opulence, Whisper White, Watercolour Paper, Cottage Wall DSP.

Ink: (SU) Rich Razzleberry, Black Stazon

Stamps: (SU) Warm Words, Miss Anya Collection (The Greeting Farm)

Punches: (SU) Scallop Oval and Large Oval punch

Other bits: Nestabilities Oval and Scallop Ovals, Faber-Castell Watercolour Pencils, Lyra Watercolour Crayons, SU Dimensionals, handle fm Kez's local craft haunt, Kaiser Clear Rhinestones

Lynda xx





Bold, Bright and Funky

Sometime back the devine Debbie P and I swapped some images. I have been slowly been working my way through them. Debbie also very generously helped me through a very tough choice about what Nestabilities would be best for me and what I do.

Recently one of my niece's turned 10...so for such a special occasion...I turned to one of these images. I wanted to do a slightly less traditional colour combination, so I chose purple, fluro orange and fluro green. Here is the resulting card...

I got to get out my new Nestabilities for the "10" tag. I love it. here are the obligatory close ups..

I coloured her with a mix of my watercoloured Faber-Castell pencils and my Lyra Aqua crayons. I love this colour combo for tweens as it isn't classically PINK. ;)

This was teamed with a cute to boot gift that'll be shown next post.

Thanks for stopping by.

Stuff used:
CS: Textured Bazzil Deep Purple, Optix Lime and Orange, SU Whisper White and Watercolour paper
Ink: Versa Colour "Violet" (VS-17), Lyra Aqua Crayons, Faber-Castell Watercolour Pencils
Stamps: Miss Anya "Sun, Rain, Shine", Numbers fm unknown clear stamps fm stash.
Punches: (SU) Large and Small ovals
Nestabilities: Fancy Tags (S4-235), Petite Scalloped Ovals Large (S4-139), Petite Ovals Large (S4 138)

Lynda xx

Floral Punchy Zeros!!!

Thought I'd share a couple from the vault to show you where I have come form. before I started stamping, I used punches and paper to put together cards that showed people how much I care. Here are two cards for those who had "zero birthdays"

The flowers on this card are done with a punch called Primative Heart, add a small oval for the centre a flower pot and some leaves....easy!!

This one is a little more intricate in that there are trimmed ovals and sprials for the kettle spout. The handle is 2 Boomerangs and the large green leaves are larger versions of the small red flowers with a bit of hand detailing.

Also didn't realise I had such a gingham thing going back then...LOL!!!

The final one is the pansy. Now there are a lot of them around blog land at present, done with a butterfly punch, some water and some reinker. These are just plain old hears of different sizes, some watercolour crayons and some hand detailing. i love this look though.

I hope you enjoyed this trip back in time as much as I did. there are MANY different punches used in these cards...too many to list, so if you have any questions in particular, let me know in the comments and I will help in any way I can. Thanks for stopping by.

Lynda xx

Gotta love the sharing thing!!!

This (is hopefully) one of the last refrences I will make to the crafter's retreat...cause I am sure you are all sick and tired of me rabbiting on about it!!! One of the fantastic things is that you get to see and use equipment/sets/inks/mediums that you may not have had access to in the past or at all.

Like most, I find male cards more than a wee challenging, so when I saw this image I jumped at the chance to stamp a couple off and use for later. Unforunately, I do not know the name of this stamp or who makes it...so if anyone out there knows...please let me know.

I stamped the image in Stazon Black and coloured it with my watercolour pencils and crayons. I then mounted it on More Mustard and Not Quite Navy. I also distressed the edges. Here's what I came up with..

Let me know what you think. Thanks for dropping by again.

Stuff used:

Card: (SU) Not Quite Navy, More Mustard, Watercolour Paper

Ink: Black Stazon, SU Not Quite Navy

Stamp: Boat image - unknown, Vintage Labels

Other bits: SU Cutter Kit, Faber-Castell Water Pencils, Lyra Aquacrayons.

Lynda xx