Baby Raelene

I received very happy news this morning of my friends having a baby girl overnight! Followers of my blog would know that I was in Jakarta for a wedding last year ... nine months later... a bundle of joy! Here is my card for Moxie Fab World Card Creations Challenge - Emphasizing the Negative and Simon Says Stamp's Anything Goes challenge. Thanks for dropping by!

Ingredients:

Cardstock - Neenah Solar White

Paper - Basic Grey Kissing Booth

Stamp - Hero Arts Luscious Flowers

Ink - Hero Arts Bubble Gum

Dies - MFT DieNamics Tall Alphabets and Fishtail STAX

Others - ribbon and Kaisercraft Sparklets

Washi Goodness

I have a slight addiction to washi tape, just can't get enough of it! Last month, I submitted these two cards to the Paperpoint MT Washi tape contest and guess what? I won $100 worth of washi tape! 

I would like to share a card I made for a magazine submission that was rejected. The good news is that the other card got accepted! Yay! The flowers in this card was made with decorative tape from MME - I love the effect of diecuts on washi tape! I'm submitting this card to Simon Says Stamp's What's Your Favourite challenge - Washi Tapes and Dies of course! 

Please visit A Blog Named Hero - Christmastravaganza as I am making a guest appearance on 17th December, there are prize giveaways everyday until 24th December!

Ingredients:
Cardstock - Neenah Solar White
Paper - My Mind's Eye Indie Chic Saffron
Die - MFT DieNamics Layered Labels, Fishtail flags STAX, Upsy Daisy
Stamp - Hero Arts CL530
Ink - HA Soft Granite
Others - MME Decorative Tape, Hemp. Kaisercraft brads

Sweet Christmas Sketch

My 99th blog post and 16th Christmas card - nearly there! I'm reserving my 100th post for the Hero Arts 24 hour scramble this weekend. Come and join in the fun - a 90 minute scramble every 2 hours for 24 hours! I will be hosting one at 7:30pm AEST (2:30am CST) this Saturday. Anyway onto my card. I haven't done a Sweet Sunday sketch for quite a while now and I quite liked this one, so I decided to submit a card. The stamp was part part of a freebie when ordering stamps or dies from MFT last month, I've had fun with some of these sentiments. I've stamped the sentiment on red paper with Versamark and clear embossed it before coating the paper with Viva Precious Metal. I'd also used this technique on another card done recently. The Snowflake was die cut from silver card and plain card with JAC paper on top. The crystal glitter was then sprinkled on top and burnished onto the snowflakes - I love this technique and have done all my snowflakes and edges this way! The background paper was embellished with stickles, silver gel pen and red rhinestones. Here's my card with the sketch below it:

Ingredients:

Cardstock - Neenah Solar White, Silver metallic

Paper - Basic Grey Aspen Frost

Stamp - MFT Christmas Sentiments

Ink - Versamark

EP - Clear and Clear Crystals

Die - MFT DieNamics Fishtail STAX, MFT Snowflakes

Others - Viva Precious Metal, Stickles, Silver Gel pen, Kaisercraft rhinestones, Rhinestone brad

Today Will Be...

... The Best Day Ever! A great sentiment for a wedding card! I've made this card for an Chinese/Aussie couple and did not want to use my Chinese Doll as the bride is not Chinese. I used the current MFT Wednesday sketch and Basic Grey's Konnichiwa papers to make this quick and easy card.

Ingredients:

Cardstock - Via Vellum Kraft, Neenah Solar White

Paper - Basic Grey Konnichiwa 6x6

Stamp - My Favourite Things My Favourite Sentiments

Ink - Hero Arts Pool

Die - MFT Fishtail STAX, Upsy Daisy

Others - Studio Calico MME Enamel dots, white gel pen

Baby Oscar

A quick post with a baby boy card for a work colleague. This card is A5 in size and will be submitted to CAS-ual Fridays' Snips, Snails and Puppy Dog Tails challenge.

Ingredients:

Cardstock - Via Vellum Kraft

Paper - My Minds Eyes Away We Go

Stamps - Hero Arts CL544, CL606

Ink - Hero Arts Stone Wash

Dies - MFT Fishtail and High Rise Alphabets

Others - white gel pen

MFT Guest DT Sketch

I've been gradually acquiring stamps and dies from My Favourite Things. I've been dying to try out the Christmas Ornaments dies and the current MFT Guest DT Sketch 112 is perfect for them! The great incentive is the $200 prize from MFT and also Guest DT. I wanted to keep this card CAS and use some of the techniques I learnt from the Online Holiday Card Workshop. The snowflakes were done with a technique shown by Julie Erbersole in Day 2 and the ornaments were inked with two distress inks with a spray of perfect pearls. I've entered my cards to the MFT DT sketch challenge before, the talent pool is so great that I am always in awe of some of the work represented. It would be great to win this challenge one day - think of all the MFT dies on my wishlist that I can purchase! It would also be an honour and privilege to be a DT for MFT! Thank you for dropping by!

Ingredients:

Cardstock - Via Vellum Kraft, Neenah Solar White, Curious Silver

Stamps - MFT Seasonal Sentiments

Ink - Tim Holtz Broken China and Peacock Feathers

Dies - MFT Christmas Ornaments, Let it snowflake, Fishtail Flag STAX

Others - Sizzix Damask embossing folder, Perfect Pearls mist, Glitter EP, Crystal glitter, Kaisercraft Sparklets and rhinestones

MFT Wednesday Sketch

I haven't entered into a MFT challenge for a little while now. The MFTWSC96 sketch really grabbed my attention. Since I recently won a set of DieNamics Fishtail banners, I wanted to put them to good use and turned the sketch into a Christmas card. This is my 14th Christmas card, I'm aiming to do at least 25 different cards so that I can post one on each day of December on my FB account! I'm also submitting this card to the Artfull Crafts's Christmas Countdown. Thanks for dropping by!

Ingredients:

Cardstock - Via Vellum Kraft

Paper - Kaisercraft December 25th 6x6

Stamp - MFT Christmas Sentiments

Dies - MFT Fishtail banners STAX, MFT Ornaments

Ink - Hero Arts Red Royal, Tim Holtz Gathered Twigs

Others - Hemptique twine, Kaisercraft rhinestones, White gel pen