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

Thanks for dropping 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 Reveiw - The Final Chapter

Hi again and thanks for coming back to the final post of my 2012 creations in review.  This post will cover September through to December.

January to April can be found here and May through to August can be seen here

September 2012 - First DT Post with iSpy Sketch Challenge

September was a hugely rewarding month for me.  I was invited to join not one but two design teams (iSpy sketch challenge and Aussie Scrap Source) this year and September saw my first post with iSpy as a DT member go up.  It has been an honour to say the least to be approached by the DT co-ordinators and invited onto the DT's - thank you so much!  This was the card I created.  The original post cam be found here

 

October 2012 - First Aussie Scrap Source DT post

My feelings of excitement, appreciation and joy continued into October with my first ASS DT post going up. I had the most amazing time playing with Prima for my first ASS post.  I love being part of this DT.  The team is filled with amazingly talented papercrafters who I have followed for years and now I was asked to join them - how truly lucky am I! You can see the original post on the ASS blog here 

 

November 2012 - Classes at Scrappy Hollow

My year has really been fun filled with not only having challenges to play along with, DT's to create for but I also had the most amazing time creating and teaching classes at Scrappy Hollow.  November saw the end of my classes for the year and we made a cute Christmas Tree together.  I am really looking forward to teaching again in 2013 and look forward to seeing all my regular class ladies and meeting some new card makers throughout 2013.

 

December 2012 - Creating for Christmas

One thing  that I absolutely look forward to is whenever I create something is the look that the recipient gives when they open one of my hand made gifts. I made a few Christmas Trees, washi tape baubles, decorated stars and hearts but I think the gift I had most fun creating was my jingling bauble.  Originally bright silver and very modern I took to it with crackle paint, distress ink, sand paper, embellishments and seam binding and this was what I created

 

You can see more of my gifts here

 

Well that's 2012 in a nutshell.  I am incredibly lucky to be working in an industry that I love, meet and get inspired by creative men and women around the world and share the things I do along the way with my blog visitors.  Thank you for your support in 2012 and I look forward to sharing more with you in 2013.  2013 is shaping up to be busy as I will continue to work and teach at Scrappy Hollow, create and play with the ASS on their DT using their amazing products and there will be a few guest DT spots for me too!!!!

 

I would also like to thank my lovely husband and daughter who are my most loyal supporters - from dealing with a neglected house, questionable meals through to  being asked to provide design feedback/opinions and creating photo booths the two of you are amazingly patient and understanding and I am so lucky to have you in my life - LOVE you both xxx xxx

 

Happy New Year!!!!