Aussie Scrap Source Inspiration with October Afternoon

This week some of my cards with the gorgeous October Afternoon Woodland Park range have featured over on the Weekend Inspiration post with Aussie Scrap Source.  I loved working with this range as it had so many different and yet complimentary patterns, colours and design options.

You can see the full post and additional pics on the Aussie DT post here

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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.

 

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ISSC 38 - Happy Birthday!

WOW has it been a busy week for me.  Lots of creating and planning for design team assignments and classes.  So now I am here with my latest iSpy creation to share with you all.

So here is the sketch we are using this week. It's by the lovely Rosemary D. (rosigrld at SCS) and is inspired by this card.

And here is the card I created:

Initially when I saw the fabulous iSpy sketch for this week I thought I would be making a Christmas card but as I started to play I ended up coming up with another birthday card. No doubt Christmas cards will quickly take over my creative time.

I wanted to give this card a few layers to really make the die cut borders, label and flowers stand out, so once again out came the foam mounting tape.  I also added some machine stitching, punched butterflies and pearls.

 

 

The sketch was so much fun to work with.  Thanks to Rosemary for her inspiration.  If you would like to play along with the iSpy challenge, head over to the blog here.

 

Materials Used:

 

Paper - October Afternoon, Cakewalk and Sidewalk collections.

Card stock - Kaisercard

Dies - MFT Mini Royal Rose, Sweet Stack Label and Dainty Lace Border.

Punches - Martha Stewart 3 in 1 butterfly and Punch Bunch medium leaves.

Other - flower buds by Green Tara, Pearls from Mollossi and sentiment sticker from Doodlebug

 

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