15 Already? How Can That Be? (NSU)

It's my younger daughter's birthday today and as you can tell from my header, she is now 15. OMG just doesn't sum up how amazed I am at how many years have gone by so quickly. I can still recall quite clearly the day I went off to the doctor's to get a pregnancy test.

She has certainly turned out to be a wonderful young person. I just love her zany sense of humour, her compassion for others - well, pretty much everything about her really! I am a completely lucky mum in that my two daughters are my best friends and we love to spend time together, so I know I have to make the most of the next two years before DD15 finishes high school and is leaving home to go to uni .... anyone worked out how to make time stand still yet? Call me!

Well, naturally, I had to make a special card and the colour green was a given. The choice of stamps was a toss up - she loves tea but I've done that before, she loves Dr Who but I've done that too. Finally I settled on other "nerdy" past-times she enjoys - reading and her Apple laptop. Here is her card:

The front

the middle section

the last section

Materials used:

• card - lucky limeade, afternoon tea dsp, whisper white, so saffron
• other - chevron E/F, Big Shot, dimensionals, markers
• non SU - TSG Smarty Pants stamps, doily dies, circle dies

Later on today she'll be stomping around in her green Doc Martens! Sigh! Maybe Doctor Who can help me go back in time?

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kez

The best laid plans ...

One of the projects I had originally planned to do here in Christchurch is a cupcake or muffin recipe book. For various reasons that project was scrapped, but as I had the papers already, I decided to use those for the tri shutter card which was requested by my hostess.

Here's the recipe book:

And here is the tri shutter card:

The cupcake on the last section was paper pieced and I added glossy accents to the cherry.

Supplies used:

• cupcake album - Kaiser woodcraft
• papers - Kaisercraft
• cardstock - Core'dinations and SU
• stamps - Tilda with cowberry muffin (Magnolia); Birthday Cupcake (Inkadinkado); Cupcakes (Maya Road)
• other - nestabilities, Big Shot, Cuttlebug embossing folder (Swiss Dots), SU inks and watercolour crayons, dimensionals

Well, tomorrow I'll be winging my way back across "the ditch"! Thanks for stopping by today.

Cheers

Kez

Inspiration

The SU logo says "Inspire. Create. Share." I personally think it should be Create. Share. Inspire. cos that's what we demos (and bloggers) do - we create something, share it with you, and hope that it inspires you to try something new or look at something in a different way.

Today's card was such a one - a good cyberfriend of mine was inspired by my Tri Shutter card (see mine here) to create her own for her niece's birthday. I think she did a FANTASTIC job and as she doesn't have a blog of her own, I asked if I could show it to you here. Hopefully it will inspire you too - these cards are very easy and are at least a 9 on the WOW impact scale!

Card by Lynda S.

Lynda used Bella Rose DSP from SU, flowers from Kaiser and Hibiscus, brads from Renoir and Paper Fasteners, gold stickers from Upkit and Tilda stamp from Magnolia. She's thinking of doing a pirate one for another birthday; can't wait to see that one!

So, hopefully we have inspired you to have a go at a tri shutter card - or any adaptation that your creative imagination comes up with!

Thanks for stopping by. See ya!

Cheers
Kez