Happy New Year!

Hi all! It's been a little while since I've posted... again...

I've seen lots of people do posts of their favourite cards for 2011 so I thought I'd do the same. I haven't posted much this year (42 as opposed to 134 in 2010!)

Here they are in no particular order (click on the image to see the original entry):












I really enjoyed going through my posts and selecting these, and I hope you enjoyed looking at them too!

I don't know about anyone else, but I am looking forward to seeing what 2012 holds. It's going to be awesome, I can feel it! :)

Season's Greetings (tags)

I hope everyone's Christmas preparations are going well! Only a few days to go until Christmas Day... doesn't the time fly?

Every year my husband and I bake yummy things to give to our work colleagues and family members for Christmas. I must admit that I don't really do much of the baking - I get to do the extremely important taste-test of course, but my main task is putting together the packaging of said baked goods. These were for our colleagues:




It's a bit of a mixed bag this year (literally!) last year we just had the pebber nodder biscuits in the bags but this year I went a bit crazy with the chocolates and filled up the bags with those as well. I could have put more biscuits in and less chocolates but this way there's more biscuits for us right?? :) Here's the link to the recipe for the biscuits I shared last year, though we roll ours flat and cut shapes out rather than rolling into a log and pinching off small amounts.




The tags were made using the snowflake and sentiment from the Round for Christmas stamp set by AnnaBelle Stamps stamped in Versacolor 'Silver' and Brilliance 'Pearl Lavender' ink. The sentiment from the set was stamped in Versafine Black Onyx ink. I also used the snowflake strip from the 'Merriest Wishes' set from Hero Arts stamped in Versacolor 'Cement' ink for the background.

That's it from me this evening! Take care and thanks for looking!

Season's Greetings

Sorry I've been away for so long! I have been keeping away from the computer at home lately, just to let my hands recover. I'm now going to physio which is making such an improvement! I'm still taking things slow though...

Oh - before I forget - thanks to everyone who requested a Christmas card and wanted to send me one as well! I've received two so far (Betty and Maria!) and can't wait for the rest to arrive!

We're getting a bit festive over here... The Christmas cards are on display, we put our Christmas tree and lights up this weekend, including some solar ones out on the fence, and we've been baking every weekend for Christmas gifts for work colleagues and family. Fun!

I managed to fit in some crafty time today though, amongst it all. Here are three versions of the same idea using the Round for Christmas set from AnnaBelle Stamps... I'm not sure which I like best:















I think I like the sentiment in the middle best - but of course some inks just won't allow this because of the clash factor (don't ask how I know this).

Inks used are Versacolor 'Petal Pink', Kaiser 'Antique Blue' and 'Splice' as well as Versacolor Onyx Black for the sentiment of course.

That's it from me, thanks for looking, and have a wonderful day!

With Love

Boy oh boy is it heating up! This has to be the most unpleasant time of year in the 'Great' South East... it's 30 degrees celsius up here in my craft room and it's only 11am. Yuck!

I'm sharing a card I created earlier this week for AnnaBelle Stamps' latest challenge - Say it in Lime, Black and White. It's such a fantastic colour combo (though I don't think I did it proud) I just had to play along...





As a standalone stamp, this background chevron style pattern from Backgrounds by Design 3 rocks! I'm going to use this one similarly again, I'm sure of it. I stamped it using Kaiser pigment ink in 'Splice'.




The buttons are cheap white ones I found at a bargain shop, coated with Versamark to make them sticky, then covered with the Splice ink, dipped in clear embossing powder and finally heat set to seal. I left the bigger button overnight after coating it with the pigment ink and rubbed off the excess in the morning to make it a lighter shade. I got the idea when the pigment ink stained my clear stamp a lovely shade of green. ;)

I used some embroidery floss to finish off the buttons and adhered them to the front of the card using mini and micro glue dots.

The sentiment is from the Squared Mother's Day set from Annabelle stamps using Versafine Onyx Black ink.

Don't forget to email me your address so that I can send you a Christmas card! I'll be taking names and addresses until the 5th of December.

That's all for now. I'm going to go downstairs now and cool off under the fan :)

Christmas cards

Hello there! I hope everyone had an awesome weekend - it was quite hot here in Sunny Queensland as we are unfortunately heading into Summer...

I don't have a card to share today, but I just wanted to drop in and ask if any of my readers would like to receive a Christmas card from me this year. Handmade by me of course!

If so, please send an email with your name and address. If you want to return the favour let me know in the email and I'll send you my address.

It takes a while for things to get from here to America etc, so I'll take names and addresses until the 5th of December just to be on the safe side :)

Hope to hear from you soon, and have a great day!

Wishing You the Peace and Joy of Christmas

Good evening! Just checking in to say that I'm still alive and well, though it's frustrating to say the least that I can't craft or get out in the garden the way that I want to right now. I just have to keep telling myself that a bit of rest now means I will heal and be able to do the things I want to later. But I'm impatient so that hasn't been a whole lot of consolation unfortunately.

I've been watching lots of movies lately. Bad '80s ones. Does anyone have any suggestions as to occupations which will keep me busy without using my hands?

I can sort of craft - as long as there isn't much wrist work involved, and if I'm careful. I have created the following card for AnnaBelle Stamps' Say it with Sentiments challenge, and CAS-ual Fridays want us to go over the edge, so I did!


Sorry this isn't going to be too descriptive. I'll just leave you with a list of supplies:

Background by Design 3 - Annabelle Stamps
Christmas Wish - Annabelle Stamps
Kraft cardstock, ribbon, Helmar glue runner twine.



Thanks for looking, and have a fantastic day!

Guest Designer post at Lilypad Cards!

I'm still resting these troublesome hands of mine - my left hand wanted to get in on the action too so I'm trying to use the computer as little as possible as moving the mouse seems to be the real culprit!

I just had to share this though - I was selected to be a guest designer for Lilypad Cards! You can read my post here.

Hopefully I'll be back up and running (well, typing really) very soon. Thanks to everyone who left comments on my last post. You guys are wonderful :)

Have an awesome day!