Masculine card

Just sharing a quick card today using Kaisercraft paper and Mama Elephant stamps. I’ve been making so many floral cards lately and get stumped when I have to make a masculine card! I decided to use my collection of Kaisecraft patterned paper. I haven’t used these cute pandas from Mama Elephant for a quite a while now, just perfect for a masculine card! Hope everyone is safe and well!

Challenge:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes with Mama Elephant

Materials:
Kaisercraft cards
Mama Elephant Pandamonium and Happy Everything

Challenge me a Christmas Card with Michelle Lupton and friends

My Crafty friend Michelle Lupton has asked me to join her again this year with Challenge me a Christmas Card with Michelle Lupton and Friends. The challenge I set for her was to create a ‘Baubles’ card. She sent me a gorgeous bauble card last year.

Here is my card using a bauble die and patterned paper. It was a really quick and simple card to make. Pop over to Michelle’s blog to check out her creation! I can't wait to create more cards with the new Kaisercraft collection! Thanks for popping by!

Ingredients:

Die - Lil Inkers Stitched Squares and Jingle Bells

Paper - Kaisercraft Peppermint Kisses and Neenah Dessert Storm 

Others - Sizzix EF 

Happy Father's Day

I have a quick CAS card to share for Father's Day using patterned paper fom Kaisercraft and a sketch from CAS(E) this sketch. I'm also adding this to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge. Happy Father's Day to all the Dads today!!

Masculine 60th Birthday Card

This is the other card I made for a work colleague using Kaisercraft patterned papers and various dies. I'm adding this to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - Use Patterned the Paper. I tend to hoard a lot of PP and making this card which is A5 size, a good chance to use up some of my stash!

Materials:

Paper - Neenah Desert Storm, Kaisercraft Pack Your Bags 6x6 PP and glitter card

Dies - Tim Holtz Scribbles and Splat, Lil Inkers Stitched Circles, MFT Large Numbers and BluePrint, Winnie and Walter Happy

Inks - Distress Ink Gathered Twigs

Masculine card for Fusion Card Challenge

I have a really quick masculine card for the recent Fusion Card challenge. I must make some more along these lines as I don't tend to have many masculine cards in my stash! I love the navy stripes in this new Kaisercraft range. I've had a busy weekend making some cards, so I'll have more to share later. Thanks for dropping by!

Materials
Paper - Kaisercraft High Tide
Dies - MFT Blueprints 3
Stamp - Hero Arts
Ink - Hero Arts Navy

Musical Butterfly

I had to make a card for the current Fusion Card Challenge. I just love the inspirational photo and sketch. Both elements were combined in this card. I'm also adding this to the current A Blog Named Hero's Watercoloring Challenge. Thanks for dropping by!

Materials:
PP - Kaisercraft
Stamps - Hero Arts and Altenew
Inks - Distress Inks

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Baby Girl!

I have a card to share made for a new Baby Girl arrival. I decided to go for a vintage look. I've based the card on the current CAS(E) this sketch challenge. Thanks for dropping by!

Materials used:
Stamps - Hero  Arts and Lawn Fawn
Ink - Ranger Archival Coffee
Patterned Paper - Kaisercraft Peek-a-boo
Dies - MFT Fishtail STAX, Lil Inkers Stitched squares

A wedding card

I have a wedding card to share for a wedding I attended yesterday. I used the Altenew Vintage Roses with Hero Arts mid-tone inks to ink up the flowers and leaves. The background pattern paper is from Kaisercraft. Some sequins and a clear Wink of Stella was added to the flowers. I'm adding this to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Anything Goes challenge. Thanks for dropping by!

7 Days Til Christmas

I'm feeling a little more organised now, due to two late nights to get everything done! I finished off 40 place cards for a Christmas work function with a nautical theme last night as well us finished off all the Christmas wrappings and cards for workmates. They all got handmade cards or tags! What an effort to get them all done! Here is a card I made a while ago, this is already on its way with Australia Post to one of my friends! Thanks for dropping by! I still have more Christmas wrapping to finish off by the weekend, maybe I will relax for a couple of days before Christmas! I've got Monday and Tuesday off!

Ingredients

Neenah Natural white and red card stock, Kaisercraft December 25th 6x6 patterned paper, bauble and rhinestones.

Baby Cards

I have a a couple of baby cards to share. I just love making baby cards with the baby's names on them. These were both very quick one to make. The plain patterned papers were backed with cardboard before I diecut the alphabets for the first card. The card for Chole was made based on this week's Retro Sketch.  I'm submitting the card for Samuel into this week's Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes challenge. Thanks for dropping by!

Ingredients for Samuel:
Cardstock - Neenah Solar White
Paper - Fancy Pants Park Bench 6x6
Stamp - Kaisercraft Sentiment
Ink - Ranger Archival Jet Black
Die - MFT DieNamics tall alphabets
Others - Fancy Pants Park Bench chipboard buttons, Twine from The Twinery, My Minds Eyes Enamel Dots

Ingredients for Chole:
Cardstock - Neenah Solar White, Desert Storm
Paper - Basic Grey True Love 12x12 with Alphabet Stickers
Stamp - Kaisercraft Sentiment
Ink - Hero Arts Red Royal
Others - Basic Grey True Love Chipboard stickers, My Minds Eyes Enamel dots, Ranger Stickles

A Masculine 21st Album

A bit of exciting news! One of my submissions for PC Supply Savvy was accepted for publication! Yay! This will be my second card in Paper Crafts magazine!
Some of my blog followers will remember that I did a 21st album for signing for my niece last year - blogged here. Well her boyfriend had just turned 21 this month and I was asked to do another album. As it was a surprise birthday party, I could not blog it until afterwards... just in case. I decided to use the Kaisercraft 21st album and combined it with papers from Kaisercraft. It took me a few days to get the cover finished as I was playing with techniques and media I don't use often. The cover was painted with two coats of Kaisercraft Mud Puddle paint followed by Tim Holtz Distress crackle in Antique Linen. This cracked very well showing up the brown underneath. I thought this looked too pale (this was the only colour crackle paint I had). I then dabbed Viva Special Metal bronze and silver paints over the top to achieve a final result that I was happy with. I'm submitting this project to Die-Cut Divas' Washi and Birthday challenge. Thanks for dropping by!

Here are some photos from Nick's party with my niece and one with my Mum and all the Grandkids.

Ingredients
Cardstock - Neenah Solar White, Tim Holtz Core-Dinations Distress collection
Paper - Kaisercraft Vintage Timeless
Die - MFT tall alphabets
Paints - Kaisercraft Mud Puddle and Umber, Viva Decor Bronze and Silver, Tim Holtz Crackle Antique Linen, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Gathered Twigs
Others - leather, Tim Holtz Ideology Key,

Mother's Day Card 2

I have three Mother's Day cards to make, so here is the second one. I decided to participate in the CardPatterns Sketch 160 as my first winning card was made with one of their sketches. My problem with this sketch (I almost was not going to participate) is that I do not have any oval dies. I ended up using a rectangular frame, rounded on the corners.

The colour scheme was determined by the colours of the Washi tape (Yes, I have to thank my sister again), the rest was pretty easy until I decided to paint with distress re-inkers (my first try at this). The colours did not turn out that nice on kraft card stock. I kept it and stamped on MME A Happy Heart patterned paper and fussy cut the flowers. The leaves were coloured with Peeled Paint and the cardstock I used were from the Tim Holtz Distress collection. The flowers are from Hero Arts and the sentiment from Kaisercraft. I now have one more Mother's Day card to make. Why three? I send one to my Ex-Mother-In-Law as well :) 

Mother's Day Card

As Mother's Day is not far away now and I have three cards to make, I thought I better get cracking. I decided to use the MFTWSC66 sketch and Marcy's colour palette challenge (How Green is your Spring) from Our Creative Corner. Any excuse to use the new stamp from Kaisercraft I purchased at the Melbourne Paperific Expo!

I really love my MFT Die-namics butterflies and wanted to try layering all three on top of each other. I also used the Kaisercraft Bonjour paper, edged with TH Distress ink Tattered Rose. I am also submitting this card for the Simon Says Stamp (Your Favourite Tool - Big Shot).

Another card I would like to share was made at the recent Paperfic Expo I attended. I attended a class conducted by Stamp-It Australia using Stamp-It Dragonfly stamp set and TH distress inks and Ranger Colour Wash to colour a flower from the TH Tattered Florals Die (which I already have). The original card was made by Shasta and Ursula Pope and here is my version of it. The brad and dragonflies were painted with Perfect Pearls and the edges inked with Vintage Photo. The flower was washed with Wild Plum - love the colour! Happy Easter to everyone!