HB2U with Mojo Monday and Simon Says Stamp

What better way is there to start the New Year's card making than by getting some inspiration from my favourite sketch blog - Mojo Monday???

How about also combining it with a new challenge blog that is featuring MFT products in one of their challenge- Simon Says Stamp!! Wahooo!!!!  So much fun!!!

Now no one has to twist my arm to get our my MFT die-namics but this challenge also got me rummaging through my MFT stamps and button collection as well. 

So here are the inspiration challenges I used:

Mojo 326

Simon Says Stamp

This week the challenge is SOMETHING NEW ,,, New Year, New Job, New Baby, New Crafty Stash, New Home, Wedding ( new life) Retirement ( new life) ,, etc ,,,, 

We are showcasing My Favorite Things Products this week. You don’t have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see them used :-)

And here is the card I created:

I loved the sketch that Julee came up with - I am a round card addict thanks to this talented ladies monthly "round or square" sketch challenges and I love this NEW one.  I have however, replaced the fishtail banner section with a bow.

My something NEW for this card comprised of three things, MFT buttons, MFT stamps and a paper pad from my stash that I have never used before. 

The papers are from Echo Parks Times and Season's 2 collection and the colour palette is a NEW challenge for me as I often opt for the soft pastel florally pinks.  This collection got me playing with stronger colours such as deep red and navy.

Whilst the MFT Dainty Bows die is not all that new to my collection on this card I decided to layer up the two different sized bows in the set and this was something NEW for me to try - and I love the effect!

The buttons on the bottom of the tag were from my NEWly acquired MFT button packs - just love them as you get so many different styles of buttons in each set.

The other MFT dies on the card were some of my favs as well - mini doily and a butterfly which I layered up.

MFT products used:

Button colours are Kraft and Nightshift blue

Thank so much for stopping by!  Please leave a comment if you have time - I'd love to hear from you!

Mojo Monday 321 - Round or Square?

Just wanted to share a card I created for the latest Mojo Monday Challenge - no 321.  It's always round or square week the last week of the month with the Mojo Team and of course I had no difficulty in choosing to go round.  Just love making round cards as I think I may have said a few times already.

So here is the sketch from the inspirational Julee Tilman

 

 

And here is the card I created

 

 

 

The base of the card was created with a Spellbinders Grand Nestablity Scallop Circle die and I used some cream Bazzil cardstock.

 

The rest of the card was created using one of my favourite Christmas 6x6 paper pads - MME Be Merry.

 

 

 

 

For the central strips I decided to use fishtail banners and then I toped this off with a wreath to add the circular element.

 

The wreath was created using MFT stamps Winter Wreath Die-namics die which I cut twice out of two shades of taupe cardstock.  I then topped it with a bow, buttons and leaves.  The leaves were made by dissecting a punched Marth Stewart Glacial Snowflake.  The tips of the snowflake were the perfect size to team up with the miniature buttons.

 

The greeting was cut using the MFT Stamps Notched Tag die-namics die (one of my favs) and the Merry Christmas greeting was a sticker.

 

All the pieces were inked using Tim Holtz Tea Die distress ink - my all time go to fav product to tie project pieces together.

 





I had so much fun playing along with the sketch challenge.  Thanks to the Mojo DT for their inspirations and to all the other cardies who play along too.  Thanks also to you for stopping by!

New Year Mojo with MOJO274

Hello and welcome to my first post for the year!  Happy New Year to you all and may 2013 bring you all good health and happiness.

To kick off the new year I decided to play along with my absolute favourite sketch challenge blog - Mojo Monday.  I just love the sketches they inspire us with and MOJO 274 just happened to be round or square.  So here is the sketch:

And this is my card:

One of the privileges of being part of the Aussie Scrap Source DT is that I get to select and play with some absolutely divine papers and embellishments.  The Basic Grey Lucille Collection is one range I have been designing with and loving.  I have produced a Retailer Class with this collection and just had to use up some of the remaining papers for this card.

This birds eye view shows the hand pieced border of the card which I created with an MFT die.  I attached them to the back of the card front and then covered that with another circle on the back to keep everything secure and looking neat.

This card is for an 80th Birthday so I added an extra tag to the seam binding bow. I have added some hand stitching using vintage thread around the main circular piece of the card.

The flowers and butterflies were made with the co-ordinating papers from the collection.  I love the colour palette - so different from what I usually fall in love with.

Materials:

Paper - Basic Grey Lucille

Dies - MFT Rounded Banner, Dog Tag, Royal Rose and Mini Royal Roses and Spellbinders Lacey Circles

Punches - Martha Stewart branch and frond

Other - Prima button, Pebble Inc Rub On, seam binding, Kaisercraft pearls,  vintage sewing thread.

So thanks for stopping by!

2012 - Year in Review continued ...............

Continuing on with my year in review ................... this post will cover my faves from May through to August.

May 2012 - Mojo 239 Round Card

One of my favourite monthly challenges is the round or square sketch posted in the first week of the month over at the Mojo Monday Blog.  I always choose to go round - love making these cards.  Here is my favourite this month:

You can see the original post here

June 2012 - The Shabby Team Room Terrific Top Three Winner/Terrific Top 2 at iSpy

This was both a sad and happy month in my life.  Sad because my dear father passed away.  He was the rock of our family, my guiding light and I miss him terribly.  Happy because I was made a Top # winner over at The Shabby Tea Room and I made the Terrific Top 2 at iSpy.  Here is the card

You can see the original post here

July 2012 - ISSC and Shabby Tea Room

 

This card was so much fun to make.  MFT die-namics released their mini doilies and this card showcased all of them!

 

You can see the original post here

 

August 2012 - Happy Birthday Bec

 

The gorgeous Bec from Scrappy Hollow turned 21!  Here is the card I made for her

 

 

You can see the original post here

 

Thanks again for dropping by - I'll be back tomorrow with the last review post.

 

 

 

 

 

2012 A Year in Review!

With 2012 rapidly coming to a close I thought I would post some of the creations/cards I have made this year.  For this first post I have some to share from January through to April.

January 2012 - MOJO 224

I loved this MOJO sketch (but then again I love them all!!!) and working with the Martha Stewart papers.

 

February 2012 - MOJO 227

 

Feb was a hugely exciting month for me as I was made a MOJO Sketch Champion for the first time!!!

 

Here is the announcement post here

 

And this is the card I created

 

I framed this card and have it on the shelf in my craft studio.  I was so honoured and proud to have been given this award.

 

March 2012 - Cards at Scrappy Hollow

I absolutely LOVE teaching cards classes at Scrappy Hollow.  Sharing my passion and papercrafting discoveries is what it's all about for me.  Seeing the ladies in class finish a card of which they are both happy with and proud of makes my heart sing!

In March the demand for my classes was overwhelming, waiting lists, bookings for the whole year etc etc.  I am so honoured and very grateful to the ladies who supported me by coming to class.  I have made some lovely friends through the classes which I treasure as well.

Here is my March Class cards:

 

April 2012 - CR84FN Colour Challenges

 

Sketch challenges are so much fun and this month I also discovered how much fun colour challenges can be as well.  The talented Mona Pendleton - whom I admire GREATLY- runs this challenge and I played along.  Here is the card I made and you can see the original post here

 

 

 

So there you have it - the first 4 months of 2012 in review.  Stay tuned as I will post more reviews in the next few days and also give you an insight into my plans for 2013.

 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

 



 





Gettin My Mojo Happening With MOJO273!

WOW what an amazing Christmas I have had.  I am so lucky to have been able to celebrate and spend the day with my family and special friends.  Boxing Day in our house is always a relaxing day, so after a little bit of Boxing Day shopping I have sat down to spend some time playing in the craft studio.

I absolutely love designing for the DT's I am part of and for my classes at Scrappy Hollow but with all my assignments done I found today was a day I could just "play" with whatever I wanted.

Having not played along with many challenges of late I immediately headed over to Mojo Monday and found their latest sketch challenge to play along with.

One of my all time favourite card makers - Teresa Kline from the Mojo DT designed this sketch:

And here is the card I created:

I love Simple Stories papers and the Summer Fresh collection is a fave.  I like the country feel and I teams it up with some MME and October Afternoon patterned papers as well.

 

 

The doily was cut with a denim paper from the MME On The Bright Side collection and the blue worked well with the floral paper from the SS collection.  Of course I had to include a butterfly and rolled flower.  The MFT Royal Rose would have to be my favourite find of 2012.

 

 

Materials Used:

 

Papers:

MME On The Bright Side 6x6 paper pad

Simple Stories Summer Fresh 6x6 paper pad

October Afternoon Ring Around the Rosie 12x12 sheet

 

Dies & Punches:

My Favorite Things Die-namics Royal Rolled Rose, Dainty Doily Med

EK Large Punch - Butterfly

MS punch Med Branch

 

Grosgrain ribbon by Birch, TH Distress ink (Tea Dye), edge distressor, button and twine from my stash, Twiddleybits Itty Bitty Alphabet and 2 1/2  inch circle punch.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

 



 



Mojo 256 & TSTR #129 - Happy 21st Birthday

I was so excited to find some time to play along with a challenge or two this week.  It is such a busy week with the Paperific Show starting in Melbourne on Friday and I didn't think I would get to play along with many challenges.

I knew it was round or square week over at Mojo Monday and so I was all set to make a round card - the sketch was so cool and perfect for the card I wanted to make!

So here is the sketch from the talented Julee Tilman:

I also visited one of my favourite colour challenge blogs - The Shabby Tea Room and found some colour inspiration:

This week Starr is the creative host and she has chosen the theme of 'Summer Cottage' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration the challenge was to create a card or project inspired by the COLORS from the photo and INCLUDE DISTRESSING/SHABBY ELEMENTS plus a TITLE/SENTIMENT!

 

 

I immediately picked up on the lovely hues of pink and cream and the complimentary green in the cushion on the couch.  So here is the card I created:



 

 

It's the lovely Bec at Scrappy Hollow's 21st Birthday this week so I immediately knew what my sentiment had to be.  I die cut the 21st and used rub-ons for the rest of the sentiment.  I cut the word Birthday into pieces so I could get it to sit on the curved edge of the oval and tuck up around the 21st.

 

 

The shabby elements on the card include edge distressing, inking and stitching which I snipped into to make it look well worn and shabby.  I also added some pale pink pearl flourishes.

 

 

I added my favourite rolled roses, a hemp twine bow and some metal butterflies.  All the elements were mounted on the card with foam tape to give some further dimension to the design.

 

 

The 21st and edges of the ovals had some glitter pen applied to give the card a bit of shabby sparkle.

 

So a big Happy Birthday to Bec - hope you like my card!

 

Materials Used:

 

Paper - MME Miss Caroline

Dies - MFT die-namics Mini Rolled Rose, Oval Stax and Quickcutz alphabet.

Other - ZVA creative pearls, Darice Hemp Twine, Punch Bunch leaf punch, metal butterfly trinkets, Yours Truly scalloped edge note card, BBP rub on and gel roll glitter pen



 

Thanks for dropping by!

 

 

 

Mojo Monday 253 & The Shabby Tea Room 126 - Enjoy Your Day

Wow another busy week this week for me getting ready for my next cards class at Scrappy Hollow.  I did however, have time to get my mojo happening and be inspired the sketch at Mojo Monday and the colour challenge at The Shabby Tea Room.

Here is the cool sketch by Julee at Mojo Monday and the colour challenge inspiration photo at The Shabby Tea Room:

Now for the card I made:

I took inspiration from The Shabby Tea Room photo and decided to incorporate a damask print paper to reflect the cushions, added some lace and pleated ribbon which was inspired by the bedroom and finished with some flowers and butterflies.

I changed the stacking of the layers on the card so I didn't cover up too much of the ribbon embellishments.

Materials used:

Paper - MME Lost and Found Two

Dies - MFT Mini Rolled Roses, Fishtail Banner stax and Sweet Stack Label

Punches - MS Glassene Butterfly and Punch Bunch Medium Leaves

Ink - TH Tea Dye and Versa Magic Sahara Sand

Stamps - MFT Sentiments set

Other - Bling - Prima Say it With Crystals,  button, hemp twine, Maya Arts ribbon and lace from my collection.

Thanks for dropping by!

 





CR84FN59 and Mojo 252 - 4 u Happy Birthday

I am taking the opportunity to have a day at home and get some challenges completed.  Absolutely love playing along with the challenges!!!!

For this card I combined a colour challenge (CR84FN59) and sketch challenge (Mojo Monday 252).

Firstly to the colour challenge - I love the challenges they set over at CR84FN - this time round it's using coral, brown and tan.  The design team have come up with some amazing creations.  I took inspiration from the the challenge photo from the flowers to recreate mine out of patterned paper and fabric and add seam binding.  I also took inspiration from the cake and made my card a birthday card. Then I picked up on the chairs in the garden in the background and added some butterflies, leaves and flourishes.

And now the sketch - it's my favourite week of the month at Mojo - round or square so as usual out came my round card bases for this challenge.

So here is the card I created and some detail shots:

Materials used:

Patterned Paper - Basic Grey, What's Up - up and away, The Girls Paperie, MME Nostalgia,

Cardstock - Bazzil and Kaisercraft

MFT Dies - Royal leaves, bread tie tag set, mini doily circles, fancy flourish, mini royal rose, by the number, by the letter

Other - kaisercraft pearls, tea dye distress ink, cream seam biding, button, vintage twine, cotton fabric

Thanks for stopping by to take a look!