Birdie Friends!

This week's Cuttlebug Challenge - Be Inspired #42 is :- Your challenge is to make a gatefold card, with your favorite cuttlebug folder, for National Friendship Week! This week's Challenge Card Winner will receive free Mlamarre Designs Digital Images, and will post our Winner's Blinkie!!!

I used a sweet birds on a branch stamp from a Christina Re unmounted set, the little cherry blossom flowers on the background piece are also from the same stamp set.

I stamped the birds image on watercolour paper and just gave the background a light wash with Bashful Blue Twinkling H2O's. All cardstock is from last year's Stampin' Up 'In Colours' range. The Cranberry Crisp pieces are embossed with my favourite Cuttlebug folder, the Swiss Dots!

I'd love to hear what you think of my card, thanks for visiting!

Cuttlebug Challenge - Be Inspired #41

Well, finally I've finished Cuttlebug Challenge Be Inspired #41! I've fiddled around with the flower placement long enough, so Ta Da.......here it is!



This was the challenge:-
We challenge you our fantastic readers to create altered projects from items in your recycle bin, containers to books the sky is the limit.
Your bonus folder for this week is the textile folder from Provo Craft.


I am such a hoarder I never throw anything away, and I'm constantly fossicking around flea markets to find bits and pieces that can be used in my art.

These are my recycled/re-purposed items:
The green paper and raffia twine are both from a bunch of flowers (I layered the paper onto some heavier cardstock before stamping and cutting with a Nesties Label 1 die.)
The music paper is from some old sheet music scavenged from a flea market.
Mauve tissue paper from some old gift wrapping.
Mauve organza ribbon saved from gift packaging.
Lastly, the buttons are from my Mother's old button tin.

I used the bonus Textile folder as my background piece with some mauve cardstock.

Stamp credits:Bird on a branch by Prima, Scalloped border stamp by Kelly Panaci, Greeting and flower rhinestones by Hero Arts.

Tip: For punching through thin paper or tissue, sandwich it between 2 pieces of scrap copy paper first.

Thanks so much for continuing to stop by my blog and for all the lovely comments....I love to read them all!

Cuttlebug Challenge - Be Inspired #40

The Cuttlebug Challenge - Be Inspired #40 was a sketch challenge this week, and the bonus folder to use was the Textile one. I thought an elegant card was just the thing for the Textile embossing folder, so I've made a wedding card!

I've used red and black cardstock, white shimmery paper (all by Pedigree Paper)and a soft grey flowery DP by EK Success - it looks a bit paler in the photo than it is in real life. Also used Labels 4 and Curved Rectangles Nestabilities dies, red organza ribbon (recycled from some gift packaging, Martha Stewart rhinestones (from a Cuttlebug Challenge Blog prize!) and Kaiser pearls - the pearls are all white, even though the one's on the left look red from the organza ribbon over them! The greeting is from a Christina Re clear stamp set.

I like how this card turned out, hope you do too! Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Cuttlebug Challenge - Be Inspired #39

This week's Cuttlebug Challenge is to create a woodsy outdoor project, using woodsy animals (except for snakes) using twigs, pebbles anything from nature.. and a fun colour palette!

My stamps are both from a Hero Arts clear set, I added a couple of twigs tied with twine as my 'something' from nature. I coloured the owl with Tim Holtz Distress Inks and added some Antique Linen Distress Stickles to the owl's tummy!

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today!

Cuttlebug Challenge - Be Inspired #38

The Cuttlebug Challenge was to use the colours Red, White and Blue, buttons and the bonus folder Swiss Dots. I made my own DP using a Tech from the June/July TJ Newsletter, called 'Depth of Field'. My stamps are from an Inque Boutique stamp set, the large greeting is from a sentiments stamp set by Stamp-It.

I used the Swiss Dots folder on the red Nestabilities label 4 die-cut and the red strip under the buttons.

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today!

Cuttlebug Spa Weekend

The Cuttlebug Challenges Blog is having a Spa Weekend this coming weekend with lots of wonderful prizes, blog hops and a heap of other great things to see and do. See the flyer for the details and this post over at Cuttlebug Challenges.

Cuttlebug Challenge

This is a card I've done for Cuttlebug Challenges Fab Friday, which was a sketch challenge. I used a Stamp-It stamp called 'Flock background', stamped it with Versamark, used SU's Heat and Stick powder, then added blue glitter. The greeting stamp is also by Stamp-It.

I've also used Cuttlebug Textile embossing folder and Christina Re paper.

Hope you are having a nice weekend........Winter seems to have hit us here in Melbourne, it's very cold and chilly today!

Three card challenges in one!

I needed to make a quick birthday card for my daughter's boyfriend whose birthday is today! I managed to knock over 3 challenges in one for the card!

I used this week's Cuttlebug Challenge of sand the embossing - I used Black Magic Core'dinations and sanded it back to reveal the turquoise core.

The 2nd challenge is using the CPS sketch #98

The 3rd challenge is the Papertake Weekly one, Seeing Spots - use spots, dots or circles on your card. I used the Cuttlebug Spots and Dots embossing folder, spotted Designer Paper, put some dots around the oval layer with a white Signo gel pen, used some round brads and pricked some dots around the aqua layer.....and used a red Kaiser gem for the bird's eye!

The Happy Birthday stamp is by Penny Black, the arrow stamp is by October Afternoon. The black glitter bird sticker is from The Sticker Cafe. Ink is Impress Teal dye ink, I inked up the stamp with Versamark, then the Impress Teal so I could clear emboss it. The ovals are cut with Nestabilities dies.

...hope it doesn't look too girly for him!