M & M Fun

Morning all.

I realise Christmas was about 6 weeks ago now (where DOES the time go??) I had some major fun with some Punch Art. There are many variations on these characters around. I did over 30 of these for the kids….and some grown ups for Christmas. The most tedious thing was filling all the tubes with alternating M & M’s!!!!

Their faces are so cute!!!
Santa has Dazzling Diamonds on his “fur” of his hat and Rudolph has (der) a sparkling nose. On the back was a stamp from the “Tags Til Christmas” set.
They were a hit all round. Have even a couple left over for this year and perhaps to put on some cards!!!
I will try to list the punches used for each character.
Santa: Wide Oval- Hat (red and White), Small Oval Punch (face), Bird Punch (whiskers), 1/4″ circle (eyes, nose and mouth), Carla Craft CP2 Cosmos Punch.
Rudolph: Wide Oval (head), 1 3/4″ circle (muzzle), Owl Punch (eyes), 1″ circle (nose), Carla Craft Verdue Punch (antlers), Bird Punch (ears)
Stuff Used:
CS: (SU) Real Red, Whisper White, Blushing Bride, Chocolate Chip, Basic Black, Generic Shimmer White, Generic Red Glitter CS
Ink: (SU) Real Red
Stamps: (SU) Tags ‘Til Christmas
Punches: (see above), Scallop Square Punch
Other Bits: SU Dazzling Diamonds, Dimensionals
Lynda xx

An Overdue Update…..

Morning all!!

I am sorry it has taken me so long to show you all this picture. As I mentioned in this post here I made this class with a group of very enthusiastic year one children. We had so much fun and the children were very happy with their creations. Below is a picture of me with the class showing off their finished cards. There is something truely magical about a child’s face when it lights up, isn’t there??

Thanks for popping by and thanks again to Leonie Schroder for the inspiration for the card. Supplies used are the same as the ones in the hilighted post.
Lynda xx

Small Comfort

Morning all.

It has been hard to know when to actually post this card. A girlfriend of mine (who I believe also reads this blog) sadly lost her husband towards the end of last year. We were all deeply saddened and felt such loss. Her strength, resolve and amazing faith was a rod for both her and her twin daughters. I wanted the card I did for them to reflect his wonderful life. I made the same card for another friend here but stepped it up a little. This is the card I made…..

As you can see, I stamped the edge of the card with the flourish after I ran it through the embossing folder. I think it gives just enough without being over the top.

I was very happy with the way this turned out. Sympathy cards are never easy, but I do like this design.

Thanks for popping by.

Stuff used:
CS: (SU) Night of Navy, Whisper White
Ink: SU Night of Navy, Tim Holtz Distress ink – Broken China
Stamps: (SU) Teeny Tiny Sentiments, Vintage Vogue
Punches: (SU) Scallop Trim Border and Corner punch, Word Window Punch, Nesatbilities Fancy Tags
Other Bits: SU Square Lattice Embossing Folder, Dimensionals, Mini 1/2 pearls fm stash

Lynda xx

Bevvy of Butterflies

Morning all.
Bestie asked me to make a Fantasy Box for her daughter at some stage. You may recall, for Christmas 2010….I kinda went mad making them and have not made one since. The links for making them can be found through here. Now Miss “turning 9” has very discerning tastes. She scrapbooks with her Mum and also makes the occasional card….so the pressure was on. I also knew she had a thing for butterflies, so I chose this as my main theme.

I went to Alice In Paperland and fell TOTALLY in love with some Cristina Re paper. I am not sure of the brand of the butterfly paper, it may be her as well, but I know both the white/ivory papers are Cristena Re. You know that feeling when you see a paper and you KNOW that is it the PERFECT one for what you have in mind….this was one such finding.

This is Miss 9’s Fantasy box…

(Warning….from this point on…lots of pics!!!)
Top                                                                                                                             one side
Centre Front                                                                                                                   Other Side
Open front                                                                                        Open Inside
Sneaky butterflies on the inside                                                      and lining the drawers

Now I had a little paper left over, so I used them to make the card…….

The butterfly is on dimensionals, and the close up gives you an idea of the amazing texture and sheen of the papers.

…and of course…the two together…..

Miss 7 (after her triumph of making grand-dad’s card) Made Miss 6 a card too, and here is hers…

Thanks so very much for tolerating all the pictures. This was definitely a project that had a lot of heart and soul in it and I was so very happy with the final result. As you can appreciate there were a lot of things used and I will try to list them all.

Stuff used:
CS: Thin Chipboard, SU Pale Plum (ret), Cristena Re papers both textured and lustred
Ink: SU Almost Amethyst (ret)
Stamps: Clear ‘Happy Birthday’ sentiment from stash, SU candle fm Big Bold Birthday
Punches: (SU) Word Window Punch, Modern Label Punch, Beautiful Wings Embosslit Die, Bigz Butterfly Die, Large Star Punch (ret), EK Parisian Border Punch
Other Bits: Dimensionals, (lots of) Double sided tape, 4mm purple 1/2 pearls fm stash, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder

Lynda xx

Totally Out of my Comfort Zone

A bonus post for you all!! (scroll down for the other post today)

The folks at Our Creative Corner have set another great challenge for this week. You can read up on it here. Now there is a back story to this card. I have shown you some cards in the past for my cousin’s daughter here and a couple of other places. She is 16 tomorrow and I still am amazed by her. She was born at 28 weeks and was not really expected to survive 2 days…..yet here she is 16 years on and still going strong. Sh has many special needs and I so admire the strength and resilience of my Cousin and family and the way she has raised her. Her cards have always had colour and texture as her eyesight is not fantastic. With all this in mind, I went with butterflies. This is the picture that OCC set for the challenge….

This is the card I made…..
As you can see, I drew inspiration from the colours, the flowers on the DP  are similar to the ones on the table and the texture of all the lollies, icings and food on the table. Now because I am also very literal with my cards sometimes too (surprising right!) there are 16 butterflies used in the construction of this card.

I added dimensionals under a couple of the butterflies so she could feel them ‘flying’ on the card.

Notice the other thing about this card…..NO STAMPING!!!!! Now the things that took me way out of what I felt comfortable with were 1 – the colour palate….I don’t do corals/oranges hardly at all….let alone combine it with blues!!! and 2 – the fact that I did not use stamps. Felt really odd.
Thanks for popping by. Why don’t you go over to Our Creative Corner and challenge yourself.
Stuff used:
CS: (SU) Baja Breeze, Groovy Guava (ret) and Foof-a-La Paper (Savannah – Ambrosia # 47090)
Ink: NONE
Stamps: NONE
Other bits: SU Beautiful Wings Embosslit die, PortaCraft Ice Blue Rhinestones, Cuttlebug Olivia Alphabet, Dimensionals
Lynda xx

More Blossom Fun

Morning all.

I want to share some more fun I have had with the Build-a-Blossom stamp and punch. This is seriously so easy to use and the cards go up so quickly. I sourced this card on SCS, but decided to change the colours up as the person it was going to loved blues. Here is the blue version……

I curled the edges of the flower over my bone folder to give it a slightly 3D-ish look.
Now…as I had not done a Flower bookmark for a while, this is what went in as the present.
And here are the 2 together…….
Thanks for popping by. I have been through all my pictures and found at least another 2 weeks of things I have not shared with you. So…..you may have to buckle in and brace yourselves!!
Stuff used:
CS (SU): Pink Pirouette, Very Vanilla, Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy
Ink (SU): Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy
Stamps: (SU) Build A Blossom, So Happy For You (SAB ’11)
Other Bits: SU Very Vanilla 5/8″ Grosgrain Ribbon, SU Sherbert Designer Buttons, 3mm Cream Satin ribbon, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder
Lynda xx

Botanical Fun

Morning all.
I decided that I needed some quick and easy cards. So as usual, I went to SCS for inspiration. Now I thought I had noted the name of the creator of this card, but sadly I cannot. So I just wish to say a big thank you to the original creator. This is a direct CASE of her card.
I love it when you can add a little extra embellishment to cover up the occasional inky oops….don’t you??
The other wonderful thing is that you only use half a flower.
Just a quick one today as a couple of my last posts have been a tad long winded.
Thanks for popping by.
Stuff used:
CS: (SU) Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Old Olive, Springtime Vintage DSP
Ink: (SU) Blushing Bride, Regal Rose, Old Olive
Stamps: Build-A-Blossom, Sincere Salutations
Punches: (SU) Blossom Builder Punch, Eyelet Border Punch, Carla Craft CP2 3/4″ circle punch
Other bits: SU Beautful Wings Embosslit die, Dimensionals
Lynda xx


More Post Christmas Birthdays

Morning all.

Like most, I struggle with masculine cards, so when I come across a good one, i make a couple of them and put them away for a rainy day. My darling Dad turned 71 in the 1st week of January, so I needed one for him. my FIL also had both knees replaced in the same week, so I needed a Get Well Soon card for him. I found the inspiration here.

I tend to go to Lovely as A Tree as my “male” set. These are the 4 versions of the card I found.

Now on the original card, i believe it was stamped onto Frostwood Lodge DSP. We do not have that here, so I made my own by using the retired Rough Texture Wheel. I inked it up in Crumb Cake and then randomly drew Early Espresso lines across it, stamped it off and then onto the Very Vanilla CS. I loved the result.

 They also looks kinda cool all together……

Now Miss 7 also wanted to make a card for her Grand-dad’s birthday. She sat and designed the card all by herself and I helped her punch out the shapes. She stuck them down and assembled it and then I helped line up the stamps.
Thanks for dropping by again. I do so very my appreciate you all taking the time to comment.
Stuff Used:
CS: (SU) Certainly Celery, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla
Ink: (SU) Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Old Olive, Early Espresso SWM, Versa Colour – Pinecone 171
Stamps: (SU) lovely As A Tree, Sincere Salutations, Rough Texture Wheel (ret), Generic clear b’day sentiment stamps
Other Bits: Mini Pewter Brads, Cuttlebug Branches Embossing Folder, SU Bouquet Blossom Triple Layer Punch, Carla Craft CP2 Heart, Clear Rhinestones fm stash. Optix Apple Green and Sky Blue CS
Lynda xx

What I Made for Christmas – #4

Morning all.

Last Christmas make for a couple of posts…I promise. This last one was also a challenge. Amongst all the kids….is 1 nephew (Master 8)…not incl my son of course. His Mum happened to let it slip that he has been engrossed in “Diary of a Wimpy Kid”. So,I made him his own diary that he can jot his thoughts and feelings down in. He is the brother of Miss 16 and 14! His diary was also a lot larger than the others (A4), it took 2 pieces of DP to cover it.

For the label, I stamped off the stars in So saffron from the Just Jawing set. Worked well I think!!??
The top was looking a little bare with just the planets and there was a rocket ship on the off cut. I trimmed around it and put it amongst the planets.
I think he was pretty happy with it.
To accompany all the notebooks for the girls, I made tiny desk caddies to hold their bits and pieces. I got the idea from Rubber Redneck (Holly Krautkremer) here. The go up very quickly and hold lots! Perfect for the age group.
Miss 16 and Miss 14
Miss 11 and Miss 14
I am going to make me a couple more of these and keep them in reserve as they are a fun and unusual gift.
Thanks for dropping by.
Stuff Used:
CS: (SU) Pretty In Pink, Certainly Celery, Kiwi Kiss, Regal Rose, Basic Black, Rich Razzleberry, Pink Pirouette, Almost Amethyst (ret),Tea Party DSP (ret), Only Orange (ret) and Optix Turquoise 
DP’s: My Memories S’book Paper #141791, My Memories “Once Upon a Dream” S’book paper # 142827, Silver Hollographic A4 CS, K & Co DI Rough and Tumble Outer Space Flat Paper.
Ink: (SU) So Saffron
Stamp: (SU) Just Jawing
Other bits: SU Decorative Label Punch, Cuttlebug Olivia Alphabet
Lynda xx

What I Made for Christmas – #3

Morning all.
Still wading through all the projects I made (sorry). today’s one…I definitely went out of my comfort zone. Our delightful Miss Pippa celebrated her first Christmas with us. At Christmas she was 7 months. Please excuse a massive Aunty moment, but I have to share this picture of her in her dress…..too cute.
Now only being 7 months old, and Aunty Lynda wanting to still MAKE her something special for Christmas….my thinking cap went on….and sadly nearly fried….LOL!!! I got some inspiration from Nicole Derendorf. She works with fabric a fair bit and has used her dies to cut material. So with all that on board…..I came up with these……
…..and the 2 of them together…..
I must say I was delighted as to how they turned out and must thank Nicole for her counsel and guidance. Now of course Miss Pippa’s Mum loved them too and she modelled one of them straight away…..
Thanks for dropping by. More Christmas ideas in the way. Perhaps you may be inspired for something for 2012??
Stuff used:
Fabric and Buttons from Hobbysew
Headbands purchased fm store
Dies: SU Fun Flowers Bigz L Die and Bigz Butterfly Die
Lynda xx

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