You Gotta Have Friends

"Oh, you gotta have frie----iends!" Oops! was I singing out loud?! My bad!

My sweet friend Lynda very kindly sent me a link last night to a US blog. While browsing she came across a gorgeous flower made using the Ornament punch, and knowing I have the punch she thought I might be interested (thanks so much darl!). When I took a look I just about fell off my chair! The flower was AMAZING and I just had to try to make one straight away! It is not too bad for a first attempt (especially late Friday night!) and I'm sure I'll get better with practice!

It is rather a large flower so I created a good size box (measures 13.5 x 13.5 cm) to display it on and used the lovely Haiku papers which haven't had an airing in a while. I added a sentiment and now it is perfect to fill with goodies and give away!

Here tis, hope you like it:

The flower was originally designed by Rhea Anderson and was adapted by Kay Sha and it's her tutorial I followed here.

Thanks for dropping in today. Hope your Saturday is a great one!

Cheers
Kez

Off With Her Head!

DD11 has a birthday party to attend at the weekend and she asked me to make a card. My brief was that the BG likes pink and purple and the theme for the party is Alice in Wonderland. Hmmmm ............. wasn't the cheshire cat purple and pink ? Not really 12 yo girl material I 'spose! Alice wore blue and white, so that didn't help and anyway I don't have any stamps that suit Alice ....

So, I was browsing my stamp collection (no, it didn't really take that long!) and the only thing to inspire me was butterflies. Every 12 yo girl likes butterflies, doesn't she? And in the book the caterpillar turns into a butterfly ... so although a tenuous connection at best, butterflies it is! And as I was given carte blanche for pink and purple, I used the two new colours.

Created by Kez. Stamped images copyright Stampin' Up!

Hope the birthday girl likes it.

Materials used:

• stamps - butterfly prints, oval all
• card - rich razzleberry, melon mambo, whisper white
• inks - rich razzleberry, melon mambo
• ribbon - melon mambo polka dot grosgrain
• punch es - butterfly, large oval, scallop oval
• other - dimensionals
• non SU - adhesive pearls, embossing folder

I have been very busy on other projects too, but can't show you those just yet. Some are for my class next week which is a surprise for my ladies and some are for the Stampers Anonymous Autumn/Winter Mini Blog Hop (what a mouthful!!!!!) so all will be revealed in due course ...! I hope you will be able to join myself and my team mates for the Blog Hop on March 31st at 9.00 pm (see the blinkie top right of my blog) when we will have so many gorgeous and inspirational projects to show you that your head will spin (and that will make the Queen of Hearts very happy!)

Thanks for stopping by today.

Cheers

Kez

Creatalicious Challenge

The challenge this month at Creatalicious is to use pink or plum with burgundy and green, and also to incorporate some lace, ribbon or fibre. To me, these colours are very pretty and feminine, so I've tried to create a card that reflects that. I've used a real mixture of stamps, papers etc on this one:

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

Materials used:

• stamps - Oval All, Fifth Avenue Floral (SU); Sweetheart Tilda (Magnolia); Nature (Grant)
• card and paper - bravo burgundy, sage shadow, very vanilla cardstock, watercolour paper (SU); paper by daisyd's
• inks (all SU) - pink pirouette, pretty in pink, regal rose, sage shadow, blush blossom, creamy caramel, purely pomegranate, bravo burgundy
• other - lace from stash, dimensionals, large oval and scallop oval punches (SU), white gel pen, vintage architecture (Melissa Francis)

Hope you like it. Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kez