Birthday Petals

I was in the mood for classics when I made today's card, as evidenced in my colour and pattern combinations. A little fussy cutting and some crystal effects make the flowers stand out nicely on this cheerful birthday card.

Materials used:

• stamps - Label Love, Painted Petals, Circle of Friendship
• card - real red, night of navy, whisper white, Birthday Bash DSP
• inks - real red, night of navy, garden green
• punches - 1" circle, artisan label
• other - real red 1/8" taffeta ribbon, Dimensionals, rhinestones, Crystal Effects

How can you not love navy and red together? Classic!

Thanks for dropping by.

Cheers

Kez

Yay Lana

Here are the items we made in class today - but a warning! Rampant use of BOLD BRIGHTS! LOL!

I've long wanted to do an Ipod card so I was looking forward to this one and I even checked with DD17 which colour is the most popular. I have to say I am not really very happy with this card though; it's lacking Zing in my opinion, but the girls say it's great and I had no time to change it anyway ... the ladies used red or yellow instead of green and it looked better, I think.

Another cup card, which are great fun to do, this time with limes and a strawberry. The layout was inspired in part by a card by Carrie Rhoades. I nearly had to abandon this one as I was having ONE OF THOSE DAYS yesterday when I was preparing. You know what it's like: ideas don't pan out, nothing goes right, things are crooked, you can't find your Dazzling Diamonds! Grrrrrrrrrrr! Still, finally it all came together and I love the card, so all's well! LOL!

And last but not least a darling little watering can. When I showed the first one I made (see post here) everyone said they thought it was really big, but it's only 9 cm (less than 3 1/2 inches) high! Sooooo cute! This time I stamped with my Forever Flowers wheel and used flowers from Together Forever to decorate. I was feeling girly, so added lace, ribbon and pearls to pretty it up (excuse the messy desk tho, LOL!).

Created by Kez. Stamped images ©1990-2010 Stampin' Up! ®

And to make the day even better - not only a day spent crafting with my besties, but DD17 passed her P plates! Yay! Hope you've had a great day too.

Cheers!

Kez

Me and My Big Mouth

Being the sweet, generous, kind and thoughtful person that I am (YILM!) I said to DD17 the other night to let me know if she wanted me to make any Thank You cards. I was thinking there might be one or two teachers that she would like to give one to when she graduates (less than 2 weeks now!)

She asked for 10!

Me and my big mouth! So I began working on Thank You cards, which have to of course be all different to each other! This is my first batch:

Back again in a day or two with the next batch!

Cheers

Kez

Sailing the Ocean Breeze

It's DH's birthday today and as he built his own boat (in days long gone by!) I've been playing with Uncharted Territory, a new set from the Spring mini. First off I CASEd a card by Andrea Buckland:

Stamped images ©1990-2009 Stampin' Up! ®

The next card was inspired by a lovely card by Claire Daly and uses some of my new FAV papers (again from the Spring mini):

Stamped images ©1990-2009 Stampin' Up! ®

But DH believes blokes cards should be in bright, bold colours, so I turned to Pacific Point. It is not a colour I use much of, but I do like it in this combo:

Created by Kez. Stamped images ©1990-2009 Stampin' Up! ®

Hope it's bright enough for him! Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kez