Mr & Mrs Card!

Hello everyone! I found some pictures of a wedding card I made last year so I thought I would share them on my blog. The bride's favorite colour is purple so I made that the colour theme for my card. I used my Cricut to cut out most of the elements of the card. The 'Mr & Mrs', 'I do', and 'forever' are from 'tie the knot' cartridge and the background layered shapes are from 'elegant edges'. I love Cricut! I had a Cricut Expression (in my favourite colour; pink!) for many years and it is now well used. I now have a Cricut Explore and I love that even more! My flowers and leaves are all coloured with Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays (love them so much!).

Thanks for stopping by!

Front of card:

 Inside of card:

Hello Kitty Rainbow Bookmark!

We are now onto another challenge at The Craft Garden, and our theme this month is 'rainbows'! Now I love rainbows and I also love Hello Kitty so I thought I would make a cute little Hello Kitty bookmark. For this bookmark I used my Cricut and my 'Hello Kitty' cartridge. I used some Hello Kitty paper I got off eBay and embossed the edges with silver embossing powder.
 Please join us over at The Craft Garden for our 'rainbow' challenge! Looking forward to seeing everyone's rainbow projects!

 

Jungle Jewels!

Hello everyone, today we have another challenge at The Craft Garden! For this months challenge we are taking inspiration from jungle jewel tones and a gorgeous photo of elephants. For my card I have used a cute elephant which I cut out using my cricut and some lovely embelishments given to me by the lovely Kerry from The Craft Garden.

Please join us for our jungle jewel tones challenge!

Splash In A Fish Bowl!

Congratulations to the winners of our last challenge at Whimsy Stamps Inspirations! We are now onto our next challenge and this week the challenge is 'anything but square'. I have made a fish bowl card and I have used some of the cute fish images designed by Crissy Armstrong for Whimsy Stamps; Gertie and Gunther. I coloured my fishies with copics then covered them with glitter. My fish bowl and other elements were cut out using my Cricut.

Please join us at Whimsy Stamps Inspirations for our 'anything but square' challenge!

Easter Tags!

I hope everyone is having a very happy Easter break! I was feeling creative so I decided to make some Easter tags for some friends. I used my Cricut for this project. The bunny, flower, carrot and "friends" are from 'create a critter' cartridge and the Easter basket with easter eggs is cut out using 'doodlecharms' cartridge. The tag itself is cut out using 'tags, bags, boxes and more' cartridge. I embossed the tag using my cuttlebug and then lightly sanded back the embossed dots. My cute little bows are from Hooked On Craft. I finished my tags off with a bunch of different ribbons at the top.

I am entering my Easter tags into the following challenges:
- Fantabulous Cricut. Challenge #105; egg-ceptional Easter
- Cooking With Cricut. Challenge #80; Easter
- Creative Cutter Room. Easter or a bunny
- Dilly Beans. Easter
- Penny's Paper Crafty Blog. Challenge #76; Easter

Happy 96th Birthday Pop!

This friday will be my Grandfather's 96th birthday; happy birthday Pop! I have made a card for him using my Cricut (my pink Cricut of course!). My numbers were cut out using 'Hello Kitty font' cartridge and my background shape was made using 'elegant edges' cartridge. My circle shapes were all cut out with Spellbinders dies and the light blue circle shape was embossed with my Cuttlebug. My birthday sentiment is a free sentiment from Bizzy Becs Store Blog.

I am entering my card into the following challenges:
- Sweet Stamps. Challenge #47; celebrate
- Tip Top Challenge. Challenge #66; anything goes
- Anything Goes Challenge Blog. Challenge #57; the color blue and one other color

Santa Scroll Tags!

I just love Christmas, it is such a great time to get creative and I love giving friends hand made gifts! Here I have made some Christmas tags to go with some Christmas cookies. I used my Cricut (love my pink Cricut!) and cut out cute Santa and his scroll using my 'Christmas cheer' cartridge and added some glitter to his hat and beard and put a little bling on the end of his hat. I inked the edges of the scrolls with distress ink and stamped individual initials onto the scrolls (I used the first letter of people's names who I am giving the tags too). Then I used my 'winter frolic' cartridge to cut out the tag itself. I stuck my tags to little containers filled with home-made cookies to give away as gifts to friends.

Hope you like my tags!


I am entering my tags into the following challenges:
- Cricut Cardz. Challenge #98; Christmas-tag your it!
- Fantabulous Cricut. Challenge #91; Trimming with a tag
- Anything Goes. Challenge #56; Anything but a card (optional tags for Christmas)
- Top Tip Tuesday. Challenge #65; Anything Christmas. I have a top tip!; at Christmas time it is hard to come up with multiple designs for Christmas cards to send to friends, so I just make one design and repeat it for all the cards I need to make. I usually vary the stamps and colours that I use but the design layout is the same for all my Christmas cards making the process of hand making all your Christmas cards a lot easier and much less stressful!

My home-made cookie filled containers with the tags on them:

Baby Shower!

My friend Karen is about to have twin babies so I wanted to make her a baby card. I don't get to make many baby cards so I had fun doing this one! I wanted to make a card with a washing line with baby clothes on it. My friend is having a boy and a girl so I made little girl clothes and little boy clothes! I cut my clothes out on my Cricut using 'everday paper dolls' and 'paper doll dress up' Cricut cartridges and then I inked the edges with 'tea dye' distress ink. I found a stash of tiny little buttons which I purchased ages ago from a craft show so I glued them onto the clothes; how cute are they? I also found a cute little picket fence and tiny little pegs that I had not used yet either so I finally got to use them on this card. It's amazing the goodies you find when you clean up your craft room! My flowers and tiny leaves are from Hooked On Craft and are glittered with stickles.
Hope you like my card!


I am entering my card into the following competitions:


- Simon Says Stamp Challenge. Anything goes
- Pile It On. Challenge #43; Be happy!
- The Squirrel and The Fox  Challenge # 3; One for the girls
- CES Challenges. Challenge #59; New beginnings

Trick Or Treat!

Halloween is coming and I am so excited! I love all the fun spooky things and all the delicious lollies and chocolates! I also love playing with my Halloween stamps. Here is a Halloween side-step card I have made featuring the very cute 'skeleton Luka' from La-La Land Crafts. I have coloured him with copics and added some glossy accents to his treat bag and hat. My halloween haunted house was cut out on my Cricut using my 'mini monsters' cartridge. My spooky lamp post and grave were also cut out on my Cricut and I distressed the edges with Tim Holtz distress ink in 'walnut stain'.

Please let me know what you think!

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

- La-La Land Crafts. October customer gallery

- Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog. Halloween / Goth

- 7 Kids College Fund Challenge Blog. Challege #32; Happy Halloween

- Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenges. Fall or Halloween

- Creative Card Crew. Spooky fun

- Stamping Scrapping Challenge Central. Halloween

- Cupcake Inspirations. Challenge #131 (I picked the Halloween cake!)

 Side view of my side-step card:

Halloween Is Coming!

Halloween is just around the corner so I have made a spooky (but cute) Halloween card! I had so much fun making this, I got to use my Cricut, Hooked on Craft stamps, Cuttlebug, and loads of glitter! The card is a round easel-style card. For the spooky tree background of my card and the spiderweb base I used my Cricut and my 'Pumpkin Carving' cartridge. I cut out jac paper and then glittered it.

I am entering this card into the following awesome competitions:
- Kaboodle Doodles Challenge; 'Let's Go Batty!'. What a great theme for a Halloween challenge! I love spooky bats!
- The One Stop Craft Challenge Blog; 'Halloween'. Check out the design teams cards, they are awesome!
- The Cuttlebug Spot; 'Totally Frightful'. I love my Cuttlebug and this is a great challenge blog. Everyone should get out their cuttlebug's and enter some challenges!
- Cupcake Inspirations; 'Challenge 81'. I love this blog; crafty inspirations from yummy cupcake pictures!
- Crafts and Me Challenges; 'Halloween'. I just recently found this blog and it has awesome cards.

Side view of my easel-style card:

This gorgeous little bear is so cute and so is his friend the scarecrow!  He is from Hooked on Craft and you can purchase him here. I have coloured them in with my copic markers:

This cute little pumpkin is also from Hooked on Craft. He is actually part of a larger stamp, but I just cut out the cute the little pumpkin to use on my card. The whole stamp can be purchased here:

How cool is this moon? This moon and the bats are from 'October 31st' Cricut cartridge. I cut them out with jac paper and then used glitter to make them sparkly:

This is a cute little witch that I cut out using my Cricut and 'Happy Hauntings' cartridge. I used stickles on her hat and broomstick:

Here is the base of the card which I cut out using 'Pumpkin Carving' Cricut cartridge. The 'Happy Halloween' sign is from the 'Halloween Sign' Cuttlebug embossing and die set. I used a bit of sandpaper on it for added effect. The cute little spiders are from 'Doodlecharms' Cricut cartridge and they crawled all over my card and made themselves at home on my glittery web! Eeeeeekkkkkkk!:

Happy Halloween!



Haunted House with Hooked on Craft Stamps and Copics!

Hello everyone!
I spent last weekend playing with my cricut and my new cartridge; 'Happy Hauntings'! Here in Australia we don't really celebrate Halloween, but I love all cool and cute Halloween stuff. I decided to make a 3D Haunted House using 'Happy Hauntings'. I also used 'October 31st' and 'Mini Monsters' cricut cartridges for some added detail. As always I wanted to add some cuteness so I decorated the house with Hooked on Craft stamps which I coloured with my copics (as always!). Hooked on Craft has awesome Halloween stamps! I put a little tealight candle inside the house to make the orange windows glow spookily! The whole thing took ages to make but I think it was worth it. I had a lot of fun (....and a little bit of frustration!) in putting this together. I really hope you enjoy this post and please let me know what you think!

I am entering this into the following awesome challenges:

- Copic Oz "All together spooky". Copic Oz is an awesome blog site to get more information on copic techniques. 
- iCopic Lover "Black Orange and Purple". icopic Lover is another cool copic blog!
- Copic Creations. "Orange". This is another great site that I found. The design team's copic colourings are great.
- Stamp Something "Something Punchy". Another cool blog! I love my Martha Stewart puches so I have used the awesome "Iron Fence" punch.

Here is the haunted house from the front:

Here are some close ups of the stamps which are coloured with copic markers.

This stamp is Bat Bear (H-0007 Halloween Bears Small) and he is perched on the roof on his glittery web; ready to fly down and scare at a moments notice!:

This is Bear Dracular (H-0008 Halloween Bears Small) who wants to suck your blood!:

This is cute little Bear with a couldron, cooking up a spooky poisonous potion for you! (H-0011 Halloween Bears Small):

This is a cute little Ghost coming out of the chimney (H-0005 Ghosts). I found him the most challenging to colour with my copics because he is mostly white, so I used blue and grey tones to give him a bit of dimension:

Close up of the spooky grave with a mysterious hand! Who's creepy hand could it be?! I hope it is not coming out of the grave!! Eeeekkkk!:

Here are some more pictures of around the house from different angles:

Enjoy!