Published!

Hi All! I finally received my Card Creations magazine last week and also bought a copy of Australian Simply Cards from the local Newsagent. I love my first ever Paper Crafts Special Issue Magazine - all the photos inside are beautifully taken and there are two photos per page. My card entitled 'Beautiful Birthday' can be found on page 32 of Card Creations. I feel so honoured to be published along side some great names in the industry! Here is my card (I had to check all the fine print whether or not it can be blogged, and I also wanted to wait until I got the magazine).

The other magazine is Australian Simply Cards, issue 53. Last year, I picked up a magazine from the Newsagent with the intention of finding out how I can submit cards for publication. Instead I submitted 3 cards (Embellishments, Tools and Templates and Stamping Categories) for a Cardmaker of the Year Competition and came Runner Up. I'm still waiting for my prize worth $300 to arrive.

Don't forget to leave a comment on my One Year Blogversary Blog for a chance to win some prizes, you have until Easter Sunday to comment. I will draw a random winner on Easter Monday!

Ingredients for 'Beautiful Birthday' published in Card Creations V11

Cardstock - Neenah Solar White

Paper - Basic Grey Paper Cottage 12x12

Dies - MFT DieNamics Layered Labels, Fishtail STAX, Curled Rose

Stamp - Hero Arts Florentine Message

Ink - Ranger Archival Jet Black

Others - Ribbon to match, a small pearl

Ingredients for ASC Card Competition published in Australian Simply Cards Issue 53

Cardstock - Neenah Solar White

Paper - Basic Grey Lucille 12x12

Dies - MFT DieNamics Fishtail Flags STAX, Spellbinders Lacy Circles, PTI Lovely Layers, Memory Box Woven Circle, MFT DieNamics Layered Labels

Stamps - Hero Arts Florentine Message, Antique Flowers and Butterflies

Inks - Hero Arts Cuo O'Joe, Wet Cement, Tim Holtz Victorian Velvet, Gathered Twigs, Ranger Archival Jet Black

Others - Hemp from Hemptique, Kasercraft Pearls,Panda Regal 4ply wool, Kaisercraft pearl brad, white gen pen, Ribbon

Lil's Birthday

After going to the Paperific Expo yesterday, I was dying to come home to make more cards. The creative juices are on overdrive and need to release them by making some cards! I have a male and a female birthday card to post. The male one will be posted after Monday just in case he snoops.... The female card first. I've recently purchased the MFT Die-Namics mini roses die. I had a few failed attempts at making them. The paper ones had too much of a gap in the middle but the felt ones turned out great. I attended a Paper Flower Frenzy class at Paperific yesterday and learned about spraying paper flowers and also making curled flowers. The secret is getting a flower making tool (quilling tool). I got home and tried the tool and every one I made turned out perfect, although it does not work on felt. So here is my card with my first successful curled mini rose! I've used the Mojo Monday sketch again with BG Paper Cottage, this sketch is perfect for the Asymmetry challenge on Moxie Fab World!

Challenges:
Basic Grey UK - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Moxie Fab World - Asymmetry Challenge
Mojo Monday - Sketch 256
Ingredients:
Cardstock - Via Vellum Kraft, Neenah Classic White
Paper - Basic Grey Paper Cottage
Stamp - Hero Arts CL530 Florentine Message
Ink - Ranger Archival Jet Black
Others - MFT Die-Namics Layered Labels, MFT Die-Namics Mini Roses, Washi tape

Baby Girl Card

Back with a quick and simple baby card. The tag was cut with a MFT Die-Namics tag label, the rest came together very easily! Thanks for dropping by!

Challenges:

Basic Grey - Anything Goes 

Hero arts August - CAS challenge

Moxie Fab World - Asymmetry Challenge

Ingredients:

Card -  Neenah Classic Solar White

Paper - Basic Grey Paper Cottage

Stamps - Hero Arts Four Flowers

Ink - Archival Jet Black

Others - MFT Die-Namics Tag, Kaisercraft Pearl, Twine from The Twinery

Daisies on Black

Wow, got two challenge cards done in one weekend. A bit of a juggle with the busy weekend of catching up with friends. This card is a CAS card for the Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger using typewriter letters on colourful daisies with a coating of glossy accent on the letters. A CAS card for Hero Arts August challenge and CAS-ual Friday's square card challenge. Here it is!

Challenges:

Moxie Fab World - Tuesday Trigger Type Hype

CAS-ual Friday - CFC65 Square Cards

Hero Arts - August CAS challenge

Ingredients:

Cardstock - Neenah Classic Solar White

Paper - Basic Grey Paper Cottage, Basic Grey Serendipity

Stamp - Hero Arts Typewriter letters CL492

Ink - Ranger Archival Jet Black

Die - MFT Upsy Daisy

Others - Glossy Accents

Basic Card Sketch 8.6.12

Back with another quick card using the Basic Grey sketch challenge. I've still got plenty of BG Paper Cottage collection - love it. There's still time to enter my fourth card to the A Blog Named Hero Freestyle Challenge! So here it is!

Challenge:

Basic Grey - Sketch Challenge

A Blog Named Hero - Challenge #9Freestyle

Ingredients:

Cardstock - Via Vellum Kraft, Neenah Classic Solar White

Paper - Basic Grey Paper Cottage

Stamp - Hero Arts Many Sentiments CL272

Ink - Ranger Archival Jet Black, TH Distress Tea Dye

Others - Washi tape, ribbon, Nestabilities Scallop die, Kaisercraft Blooms

A Special Day

Back again with another one quick card for a little girl's birthday this weekend. I was inspired to try Kristina Werner's colour palette (and her beautiful cat, Mannie) and also the current Retro sketch challenge before it closes in a few hours time! I wanted to keep the card black and white with some splashes of colour. I apologise for the photo - taken in the middle of the night. Thank you for dropping by - love all the comments left on my previous blogs!

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp - Inspiration Kitty

Retro Sketches - Sketch #22

Hero Arts - August CAS challenge

A Blog Named Hero - Freestyle

Ingredients:

Card - Neenah Solar White

Paper - Basic Grey Paper Cottage

Stamp - Hero Arts CL528

Ink - Ranger Archival Jet Black

Other - Twine from The Twinery, Kaisercraft Rhinestones, Balloon punch

It's a...

I'm on a roll. I've got so many ideas floating in my head on what I want to try. I've made two quick cards tonight after seeing the new Runway Inspired Challenge. The challenge is to make two Baby cards for a Boy and a Girl. I based my card on this week's Retro Sketch challenge. This card is so easy, it does not require stamping, just cutting out and sticking together using my favourite paper collection Basic Grey Paper Cottage which I won from a BG challenge. I also tried out my new MFT Dienamics dies and my new corner rounder punch. The two cards were done in no time!! I'm also submitting these cards into Simon Says Stamp challenge as their July kit contains the same BG collection! Thanks for dropping by!

Challenges:

Retro Sketches - RS#21

Runway Inspired Challenge - Baby Shower

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Ingredients:

Cardstock - Neenah Classic Natural White

Paper - Basic Grey Paper Cottage

Die - MFT DieNamics Layered Label, MFT DieNamics You're It, Spellbinders Scallop 

Others - American Crafts Jewel Brads

Retro Skteches SHOUTout!

Inspired by Shari Carroll

I'm so inspired by so many pretty cards posted over the last few weeks. One challenge caught my attention - CAS-ual Fridays' Black challenge. I've never tried making a black card before! I based my card on another Hero Arts idol - Shari Carroll. She posted a card a few months ago and I pinned it on my Pinterest Board. Her card is the inspiration for mine.

The ever so inspiring Shari is on the top right of the bottom photo.

This card will be submitted for the following challenges:

A Blog Named Hero Challenge 8 - Choose a Hero Artist

Hero Arts July Challenge - Paper flowers

CAS-ual Fridays - Back in Black 

Ingredients:

Cardstock - Black Bazzill

Paper - Basic Grey Paper Cottage

Stamp - Hero Arts Four Flowers CG290, Hero Arts Lattice Background 331065

Ink - Ranger Archival Jet Black, Versamark 

Others - Kaisercraft Blossom, Hero Arts Hues Dots, Cappuccino twine from The Twinery

Sebastian

I finally found some time since getting back from overseas to whip up a quick card. I've been dying to play with my Basic Grey Scraplift prize - the new Paper Cottage collection. I had a baby card to make for a couple who just had their first baby last weekend. I chose some pretty papers from the collection and made a card with no stamping and used the stickers in the collection for the name. It was a fun and quick card to make. I'm submitting this card for the current Play Date Cafe colour and CAS-ual Friday's Strip challenges. It feels so good to get back into it again, I really missed my craft room!

Challenges:
Play Date Cafe - Challenge #140
CAS-ual Friday - Strip Challenge
Ingredients:
Cardstock - Neenah Natural White
Paper - Basic Grey Paper Cottage collection
Others - Twine from the Twinery

I'm so happy to report that my guest book for my niece's 21st was very well received. There were over 100 people at her party last Friday and the whole book was filled up with signatures and well wishes! Here are some photos of the book:

A photo of my sister and I with Sarah taken at the party. It is very rare that a photo of me gets taken as I am always the unofficial photographers at most functions!