Stitching Cards

Once I started sewing on cards, it was a little hard to stop :)

Garlands

I came across these photos on The drifter and the gypsy. So beautiful.

Garlands are gorgous way to pretty up a dull area.

These lovely paper garlands are from PaperKlip.

Butterfly Card

I made this card following the sketch over at 2 Sketches 4 You.

I'm really enjoying making cards from their sketches - I've really have to think outside what I normally do, which is great. I had noticed that alot of my cards seemed to be replicas of each other - it's nice to have a new starting point to create something unique.

I only recently discovered how much I love the look of stamping with white ink on black paper - now I add it on all my latest creations :). Oh and I just adore the Home Accents cartridge for my cricut (that's where the butterfly is from) - it's defiantly my favourite cartridge so far.

Thanks for looking!

2S4U - Happy Anniversary

When I first say the sketch on 2 sketches for you this week I had no idea what to do. But I needed a card for my friends first wedding anniversary (It's hard to believe it is a whole year since I was her bridesmaid), so I played around and decided to turn the strip into a line of hearts - and I quite like the effect.

And since they also supplied a bonus sketch I made a card for Dad because it's Fathers Day this Sunday in Australia.

2S4U - Pink and Orange Flower

I found 2 Sketches 4 You on the cricut message board - and I love it! Every week a new sketch is put up and anyone can create a card using the sketch. Here is this weeks sketch;

And this is my interpretation of it. It's no where near the standard of many other people on the blog - some of the cards are amazing!

Seeing as how my cricut is still so new and shiny I had to use it; all the cuts are from the George and Basic Shapes cartridge, The patterned paper is from 'one heart . . . one mind'. The other pieces are just different bits from my scraps :).

I really love the look of pink and orange together - it's so fresh and young. I think this would be a perfect card for a teen girl.

My new toy

I am so excited to tell you of my latest acquisition; a cricut!

It has been a few years since I first saw this demonstrated at a craft show. I never seriously considered getting one, but a new cricut was just realised meaning that the original cricut dropped in price. A bit of poking around on ebay and I found a good deal and bit the bullet.

I've only played around with a few bits and pieces, here is my first attempt at a cricut card. Not so much a fan of the blue and yellow one, but I do quite like the flowers. Stay tuned!

Paisley Card Collection

I recently bought the Plenty of Paisley stamps from The Paper Studio.

I love paisley - it's so girly and pretty. And this set has a range of sizes and styles of paisley. I had a fun night playing with these stamps and experimenting with using them in different ways. These are four of my favourites.

These stamps are really nice to use. They are unmounted, but already cut so I just pop them onto my acrylic blocks and am creating in no time. The ridges are nice and high so there isn't any extra ink marks where there shouldn't be. And the slightly stickiness of the stamps mean that the ink goes onto the paper and the stamp peels off making it very hard to smudge your stamp.

All in all I'm very happy with this collection of stamps. The quality of the stamps mean that I'll defiantly be looking out for stamps from The Paper Studio again.