Happy Bird-day

Evening everyone,
Summer days have been pretty good without getting to unbearable...
Here's a card I've made for the challenge over at http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/challenge-me-monday-98.html  

Cricut - Birthday Bash
Spellbinders Shapeabilities - Blossom Tags and Accents
Copic pens, Liquid Pearls
My Minds Eye - Summer Song
Bling

Karate

It's Monday evening, the chooks cooking, salad's made and I have time to do a few more challenges...  I thought I'd get ahead of myself this year and make birthday cards for all the birthdays coming up.
I'm entering this one over at http://waltzingmousesketchchallenge.blogspot.com.au/   for their sketch challenge 84.  I find just cutting out the shapes in a dark colour very effective when using light backgrounds and so much easier.

Cricut - Sports Mania, Birthday Bash
SU - cardstock, hemp twine
brads, and embossed paper from the stash

DragonFly

A multi purpose card to be used for any occassion...
I'm entering this into the challenge at http://diecuttindivas.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/challenge-51-its-sketch.html  

Cricut - Art Nouveau
Spellbinders shapeabilities - Blossom tags and accents
Spellbinders edgeabilities - Classic postage stamp
SU - cardstock, ds paper, ribbon
Copic pens
fine glitter, dimensional tape

I Love U

Hi everyone,
Can you believe it's already February.  Yikesss it's scary how time is flying by these days...  Gotta stop and smell the roses.  Here's a card I've made that fits a few challenges
http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/challenge-me-monday-97.html
http://www.whimsical-designs.com/
http://craftspotbykimberly.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/monday-challenge-43-valentines-day.html

Cricut - George, Quarter Note
SU - cardstock
Cuttlebug - embossing folder
Copic pens, glitter, dimensional tape

Rock Chick

Woohoo, another card made for another challenge over at http://birthdaysundaes.blogspot.com.au/  #42 Birthday card with sentiment. 

Cricut - Rock Princess, Birthday Bash
Spellbinders Shapeabilities - Fleur de Lis Accents
SU - cardstock, ds paper
Bazzill - cardstock
EK - corner punch
Fine glitter

mojo #226

Hi everyone,
What another beautiful day we have here.  A hot summer day without melting...

Here's a circle card I made for challenge #226 over at http://mojomonday.blogspot.com.au/
using the circle sketch.

Spellbinders nestabilties  - Circle
SU - cardstock, ribbon, embossing folder
embellishment from the stash

Love

Hi everyone,

I can't believe it's already Thursday and we're into the month of February...  Here's a little cute card I made for the challenge over at http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/challenge-me-monday-96.html  using a 3" x 3" card (Valentine's)

Cricut -  Nursery cartridge
SU - ds paper, punch, cardstock
Bazzill paper

Amity

Hi everyone,

Here's a photo album/mantle ornament I made for a friend of mine for her birthday.  Proud grandma for the first time, I thought she'd like to show pics of her granddaughter to  one and all.  All she has to do is add her pics

So I'm entering this in the challenge over at http://diecuttindivas.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/challenge-50-anything-goes.html ,   http://craftspotbykimberly.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/monday-challenge-anything-goes.html
http://www.whimsical-designs.com/
Cricut - Kate's ABC, Splish Splash
Copic Pens
DCWV - Nursery Baby Girl card pack

Nuts about U

Hi everyone,
Trying to get back into all these wonderful challenges.  Here's a card I made that fits into   woohoo.  Challenge # 95 (Label it) http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/search/label/Challenge%20Me%20Monday 

Cricut - Create a Critter
Spellbinders Shapeabilities - Fleur de Lis Accents
SU - ribbon, cardstock, pen
Cuttlebug - embossing folder
Jelly brad

Dude

Hi everyone,
Looks like we're getting rain again and with school starting for the year.  I suppose we can be grateful that it's not sweltering heat that the kids go back to in their heavy school uniforms.


Here's a very basic no fuss  Male card I made for challenge #42 http://craftspotbykimberly.blogspot.com  
#47 http://celebratetheoccasion.blogspot.com/

Cricut - Dude, George
SU - cardstock, stamp, versa mark , ds paper (retired)
white embossing powder

Bag Cake

Hello ppls
It's another glorious SUMMER day here, hitting the low 30's I think...  Perfect for the day down at the beach or by the pool side.

Here's a card I made with for the girl that loves Handbags.  Who says a cake has to be the ole fashion round one with fresh cream and fruit, (even though I think their the best ones  :D).  So I created a Designer cake card...  :D  I'm entering this into the challenge over at http://craftspotbykimberly.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/monday-challenge-40-its-delicious.html


Cricut - Katie's ABC, Picturesque
SU - stamp, ink, border punch, cardstock,
Liquid pearls, bling,
old b/gd word stamp

Rooster

Hello beautiful ppl,
SUMMER has finally arrived in the Land Downunder and it's a scorcher....

Here's a card I made for the sketch over at http://waltzingmousesketchchallenge.blogspot.com/  for challenge #79.  Nothing too fancy for me, since the hot days has sapped my mojo...

SU - cardstock, ds paper (retired), stamp and ink
Spellbinders Edgeabilities - Classic Postage Stamp
Spellbinders Nestabilities - circle and scallop edge
Copic pens
free stamp from mag

Believe

Good arvo ppls
I've made this card for challenge #221 http://mojomonday.blogspot.com/ .

Cricut - Art Nouveau cartridge
SU - cardstock, punch, stamp, ink, dazzling diamonds
Cuttlebug - embossing folder
Rubon from the stash

Ur a star

Christmas is gone for another year...  Hope everyone enjoyed the day celebrating with loved ones and catching up with friends and family.

For the challenge #78 over at http://waltzingmousesketchchallenge.blogspot.com/  I decided to make a card using  the Quater Note and George and Basic shapes cartridges, very old Hampton Arts music stamp, even older star punch, K-ology stickers TO GO, left over scrap from the My mind's Eye - Summer Song stack, Memento black ink and SU cardstock, dazzling diamonds, ds paper.  I used dimensional tape to give the sax player a bit of a lift too.

Have a gr8 day ppl

Commissioned Portrait

Hi everyone,

Thought I'd share commissioned painting that I finally finished just in time for their Chrissy present.  It's taken me 6 months from start to finish to complete this.  Lol it took me a cpl of months before I started with the first coat of paint.  The fear of that first brush stroke is quite daunting really, especially when you know the ppl.  Luckily they love the style of painting I do.  With a dozen or more coats of paint and millions of changes I had to decide when to stop otherwise your forever seeing things that you can work on....

The size of the painting is 1.5m high x 1.2m wide.  I was happy to finally see it go .  It was just huge and took up the whole room....

Hope everyone spent the day celebrating with family and friends.  Peace and good will to one and all.