Happy Birthday Dave! GoPro card

I want to wish my husband a happy 46th Birthday xx  seen as he is enjoying his GoPro so much what else was there to make but a GoPro card. We love you loads and hope you have a great day and year xoxoxoox.  
To make this I used a card base of  5 and 1/2 x 4 and 1/2" or 14 x 11 cm folded. GoPro screen 1and 1/2 x 2" or 4 x 5 cm. The circles I used measured.... 3 and 1/4", 2 and 1/2", 1 and 3/4", 1 and 1/4" and a 1/2".
This is the GoPro without the outer case on which was a little easier to replicate. If you don't like the hand writing look do all your pieces on the printer, I was going for the home made look here so my hand writing was ok for what I needed. Its not the most perfect thing but I hope this might inspire you to make some of your own cards that suit the hobbies the guys in your life love. Thanks to those who have checked out Dave's YouTube Channel.... if you haven't and would like to go to this link or press on the pic.... please subscribe Dave would love that!  :-) PS sorry for the bad camera angles etc... I still don't have it all set up yet in my new craft space.
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbnfm79RS3AIg8Jy6MfFMgQ?annotation_id=annotation_212319201&feature=iv&src_vid=jCQUMhH0GSA

thanks and enjoy xxx Happy Christmas to all

Blessings to you

and a last thought

And whatever you do, in word or deed, 

do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus,

 giving thanks to God the Father through him.  

Colossians 3:17

BMW card and suprise birthday

Hi all, we got the girls back to Uni and enjoyed a lovely weekend with family and friends for Ben's surprise 21st party. We are so proud of everything he has achieved and has planned for his life!
We recently helped him buy another old school BMW which he loves and that was my inspiration for his card and cake!

 A few pics for you :)

I was sick with the flu last week when i made the video and accidentally deleted it from the camera so Im sorry its not a step by step tutorial for you all. enjoy anyway :)
 Blessings to you

and a last thought

 Don’t let anyone think less of you because you are young. 

Be an example to all believers in what you say, 

in the way you live, in your love, 

your faith, and your purity.

1 Timothy 4:12 

 

Rainbow card

Enjoying our eldest daughters birthday has been great! being able to spend some time together while she is doing her teaching prac has been super busy but a blessing to us all. So today's card is a rainbow to suit her cake. I don't own a rainbow die so you know me I will find another way to make one ;)  made with circle dies and a 3/4" punch for the center. The clouds were made with circles......... 1 and 1/4, 1", 3/4" & 1/2" I did some background sponging with two different scallops glued together and finished it with some mini hearts and a little glitter on the clouds. The cake was fun to make and messy too, but I love colour mess! you can find the details for the cake here. Rainbow Pinata cake

I hope you enjoy! sit back now and watch the video :)

Blessings to you

and a last thought

 I will put my rainbow in the clouds to be

 a sign of my promise to the earth.

Gen 9:13

Doodle punch art Birthday and a Happy Mothers day

Hi all, Ive been having some fun with what I'm calling Doodle punch art.... a combination of flat punch art using designer papers and free hand doodle drawing. I usually have everyone freaking out wondering how to post my huge 3 dimensional cards that stick out to billio but this one is totally flat ... LOL. I made this card for our youngest daughters 18th Birthday..... I know it looks like a boys card but who cares that's what she wanted ;)
  For these doodle cards I love to use a natural coloured background. For the punched pieces I chose scraps of designer papers in the colours I needed. Punches/dies used were a 3 and 1/2" circle from one of my nestebility dies for the large moon, two different size star punches, the small tag punch with a little trimming for the rocket body, 3 large hearts from the heart to heart punch for the rocket fins (two cut in half), a 1/2" circle for the port hole and the second largest petal from the blossom petals punch for the rocket flames (trimmed). Punches used were mostly from stampin up.Then I use a fine tip sharpie marker and go to town with your own doodling..... basically edging your punched pieces and then adding in a few little hand doodled stars, dots, moon craters and a little message. This is what will personalize your card. I also did some bunting doodling on the inside to tie it all in using the points of a star punch as the flags.

 I found for me this was really fun to do. We also had fun making some buntings and other decorations for her star grazing party. It rained all that morning but praise God the heavens opened up the stars came out just in time to put up the decorations and get the party started! We were overwhelmed at the love and care of Madaleine's friends especially her new friends from our new church, such a breath of fresh air to be around loving caring and encouraging people, just what we need ! It was a great night and weekend together enjoying Mothers day at the same time!

  I hope you enjoy this technique and give it a go!
Blessings to you

and a last thought

 You are my lamp, O LORD; 

the LORD turns my darkness into light.

 2 Samuel 22:29

A star grazing party

Hi all, the youngest of our children ( Madaleine) is turning 18  in a couple of weeks ! ...... where dose time go. Raising our children has been a great journey for us and we couldn't be more prouder parents!
we wanted to do some quick simple invites to her star grazing party.... it had to have stars glitter and a bit of fun..... I thinks we covered all three requirements ;)
I used A4 sheets of card stock and cut them into 4 to make small size cards. rolled a star background, punched a heap of label punch outs inked the edges and stamped my message. More punch outs with stars attached to the label with a foam dot and lots of glitter, To make this an efficient proses when doing anything in bulk do each step on everything then move to the next step, believe me it is quicker! so Ive covered the stars, glitter and now for the fun bit. Each star label is on a home made action wobble....

I used some wire form the cheap shops, not sure what the gauge is and two 3/4" circle punch outs. Wrap a length of wire around a pencil giving yourself at least 3-4 full turns to create a spring. Hot glue each end to two circle punch outs and that's all there is to it.... I then added it to the back of each of the labels then onto the card front. Keep in mind the thinner the gauge wire the more it will wobble.... mine was a little stiff. While you've got all the gear out make a heap and stash then away for quick creating on the next project.

Our cheeky young lady! LOL ..... I hope you have enjoyed this, sit back and watch the video.
Blessings to you

and a last thought

And those who are wise -the people of God-shall 

shine as brightly as the suns brilliance, 

and those who turn many to 

right doing will glitter like stars forever. 

Daniel 12:3

Angry Birds King pig and Helmet pig! fun birthday cards

Hi all, so happy to let you all know Beth is home! :) wow what an amazing time she has had in India it took us a while to look at all her photos and videos but so worth it they are great! she has told us so many amazing stories too! her first week back home was spent sick in bed though but she is starting to feel better. I love this pic of her at the Taj Mahal and wanted to share it with you

we are so proud of her courage to experience teaching in this way and we know the children and people she met will always stay in her heart. So the cards I have made for this post were inspired from Beth's stopover in Malaysia. She bought some plush toys from the Angry Birds computer game, I also found these cute angry birds boxes you can make.

I made the King pig for Ben's Birthday.He has just turned 19 and is about 3 days into his first Uni prac for high school wood tech teaching and seems to be enjoying it! Beth will be home for another few weeks so it will be so good having all our family home for a while. Anyhow i have the patterns below and you can watch the video on how i made the King pig, same things apply for the Helmet pig..... enjoy!
Blessings to you

and a last thought

You're blessed when you're content with
just who you are - no more no less. That's
the moment you find yourself proud owners
of everything that can't be bought.
Matthew 5:5 (the message version)



Angry Birds King Pig and Helmet Pig Patterns

13th Birthday

Hi everyone, yesterday was our babies 13th birthday. Can't believe we dont have any little kids in the house now ...all teenagers! i spent most of friday fluffing around with making a card, cake and getting pressies wraped and cooking extra food. I used my spellbinder nestability set of dies to make the scalloped circle and cut the shape of a rat then ran it through the cuttlebug. The little mouse is a cuttlebug die...Our daughter has mice and rats as pets and this card is Lelia her rat and Jerry her mouse. It was a fun card to make and she loved it. I said to all the kids i was going to make then a speacial cake for their birthdays this year and Mad's birthday is first off the rank. She wanted a rat cake ....well do you know how hard that was to picture!....i eventually did a google search and found a cute clipart pic and then turned it into a cake. heres what i came up with.

Cute hey! ...I thought so, i just couldnt bring myself to make some weird rat cake. Anyway i had it all finished and Dave said it has to have a peice of cheese...even though they dont eat cheese, so i made a wedge of cheese and placed plenty of choc poos in the appropriate place LOL.

Madaleine loved it and it was so yummy too! It was a great day as being sabbath makes it even better. We always have Daves mum over to celebrate our birthdays ..heres a pic


Later we went out for dinner and on to the ice skating rink which we hadnt done for years. It was such a fun night.well i hope you've enjoyed a little peek into a happy day.....Valita

and a last thought

And may you be able to feel and understand,
as all God's children should, how long,
how wide, how deep, and how high His love really is.
Ephesians 3:19

Happy Birthday to Me!

Well today was my Birthday along with my twin sister. 39...........bring on 40.
Half my day was spent in casualty at the hospital but thats a whole story in its self ...eveything seem ok now.
Our youngest daughter made me a nice chocolate cake with maltesers on top and we went out for dinner finishing with a cold rock icecream mmmm. Ive just started doing laps at the pool again now im off my exercise retrictions after the tummy tuck which all tied in with why i was at casualty...anyway i got a nice quicksilver towel for the pool some scrapbook magazines, prefume and 9 new cuttlebug emboss folders that are on there way...can't wait to try them. Anyone else out their with the 5th of Jan for there birthday i wish you also a great day.

I love this pic of Dave helping me!

and a thought i love
He has removed our sins as far away from us
as the east is from the west. He is like a father
to us, tender and sympathetic to those who reverence Him.
For He knows we are but dust, and that our days are few
and brief, like gress, like flowers,
blown by the wind and gone forever.
But the lovingkindness of the Lord is from
everlasting to everlasting, to those who reverence Him;
His salvation is to childrens children of those who are faithful
to His covenant and remember to obey Him.
Psalms 103:12-18