Enjoy Autumn

While surfing around on the net I found a challenge blog called CAS - Colours and Sketches Blog and I just LOVE their colour combo for this week, so decided to play along.

The tangerine and saffron leaves really appealed and with it being Autumn here in Australia - my favourite time of year - it inspired the theme for my card. Here tis:

Materials used:

• stamps - Enjoy Every Moment (retired), Collage Curios
• card - midnight muse, tangerine tango, so saffron, whisper white
• inks - midnight muse, tangerine tango, so saffron
• other - leaves No. 2 die (retired), apothecary accents die, Big Shot, honeycomb E/F, dimensionals, sponge daubers, spider web E/F, leaf punch (non SU)

I ran the leaves through the spider web embossing folder to get that leaf vein look - an idea I saw on Pinterest - and also crumpled them up for extra authenticity. For the stamping inside the "o" of enjoy I punched a circle in a post it note with my 3/4" circle punch and created a mask around the "o", then stamped in so saffron using the writing stamp from Collage Curios.

Am still loving the vibrancy of these colours together, so must use them again. Thanks for the inspiration CAS!

And thanks to you for dropping by.

Cheers

Kez 

Sharing in Your Sorrow

The current challenge at Just Add Ink is a sympathy card and I unfortunately had need of one this week, as my boss's mother passed away. They are never an easy card to make. Here's my offering:

And on the inside:

Materials used:

• card - Baja Breeze, Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, watercolour paper
• inks - Baja Breeze, So Saffron, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Sahara Sand, Pear Pizzazz, Timber Brown StazOn
• stamps - Every Moment, Thoughts & Prayers
• other - Early Espresso satin ribbon, Vintage brad, Lots of Tags die, Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder, wide oval punch, dimensionals

Thanks for stopping 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

Fun, Fun, Fun

Today I'm at the Stampin' Up! regional training day having a whole heap of fun with my fellow demos, so just a quick post to show you the swaps I made. I used the lovely Bella Rose papers (again!) and Enjoy Every Moment stamp set. The small rosebud in the "O" is cut from the designer paper and the two flowers on the bottom are stamped and cut.

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

Hope your day is as great as mine!

Cheers

Kez

Enjoy the Little Things

This card began as something completely different in my head and just kept evolving, but I am very happy with the result. It got the "ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" reaction from both my girls, so that's a good sign, LOL! I've used some of the lovely new papers from the Spring mini.

Supplies used:

• stamps - Enjoy every moment
• card & paper - kiwi kiss, basic grey and whisper white cardstock; Walk in the Park DSP
• other - flowers and brad from stash, adhesive pearls from Kaiser, dimensionals, stamp-a-ma-jig

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

We have certainly enjoyed the little things today; we had a beautiful Sunday roast with my SIL then lay on the grass enjoying each others' company, the warm sunshine, Max the dog running around and the sound of happy children next door. I hope you have had the chance to enjoy the little things too...

Thanks for stopping by. Caio!

Kez

Swimming in testosterone!

Aaaaccckkkkkk! I think I have finally hit the wall with male cards! Losing mojo .... must ... have ... girly ... things.. ! So here are the last couple of male cards (see earlier entries for the story) plus a Tilda card I made a while back as a thank you for a RAK.

For the first one I had more fun with puff paint on the beer mug from Cheers To You and mixed it with an old favourite, Enjoy Every Moment. The papers are from Windsor Knot DSP, which I really like BTW, even tho they are mostly masculine looking! And the little chipboard star is from On Board Essentials.

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

The next one - the last one! - again uses stuff from the Simply Sent kit and matching stamp set, with the addition of a double-punched star. Could be a birthday card or congrats card, I guess - I don't know what I was thinking when I did it!!!

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

And lastly, to save my sanity, a beautiful little girly card! Yay! Just as well I have two girls and not two boys, I'm thinking! I just LURVE this brocade blue DSP from the Patterns II hostess set.

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

That's all folks! Hope you have a good day and thanks for calling in.

Cheers

Kez