Inspired by Joceyln Olson

When I saw Taheera's interview on the Gossip Column with Joceyln Olson, I knew I had to case one of her cards. I decided to base my card on one of the cards featured with my own twist to it. I used a lovely paper collection from Kaisercraft called Miss Match (no longer available, but I like to hoard the nice collections) and the Winnie and Walter stamp set 'The Big, The Bold and The Extras'. I stamped the flower and leaves on patterned paper and fussy cut them out. I also white embossed on vellum as well as Jocelyn did this in some of her cards. Here is my interpretation of a Jocelyn Olson card. Thanks for dropping by!

Vintage 50th Birthday Card

This is a card I made for someone at work and I wanted to make a vintage style card just to break away from all the modern CAS cards I have been making. This is an extra large card A5 21x14cm (8x5.5") made with papers from Kaisercraft with a little bit of stamping using the current Retro sketch #89. Thanks for dropping by!

Ingredients:
Canson Colorline card, Neenah Desert Storm, Kaisercraft Curiosity 12x12, Collectables Miss Match, Lace tape and blossom, MFT Dienamics Numbers, Cherry Lynn Designs Doily die, Hero Arts CL574, Darkroom Door French Script, Hero Arts Cup O'Joe, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Gathered Twigs, Ranger Archival Jet Black and chevron twill ribbon.

Curiosity?

The Kaisercraft Curiosity collection is finally out! A few months ago, I submitted some cards to Kaisercraft for the 2013-2014 DT call and I got into the second round (Top 20)... I think I might have been #20. Anyway we were given some 12x12 papers from two new collections and had to make a card and a layout out of each collection. I'm showing my submissions for the Curiosity collection below. The photo I used in the layout was one that I took of all the cousins from my side of the family, taken at a wedding last year. My son is the only male, the girls are my sister's and brother's children.It's a rare shot of them all as one of my nieces live in Sydney and the rest are here in Melbourne.  I'm also linking this to Simon Says Stamp's Anything Goes Challenge and Moxie Fab World's It's Completely Collagical challenge.

The projects that got through were fantastic, so I'm not surprised mine wasn't in the running. I was encouraged to try again.
As I had left over papers, I made a 'Sympathy' card for someone from work. As a lot of people had to sign it, I made it A4 size using heavy duty Canson Colorline cardstock as the base It's a struggle to make big sized cards as a lot of the smaller stamps will not work. I went for my biggest flower stamp, the PTI Year of the Flowers Rose stamp and this seems to fill up the card quite nicely. Banners always work well for these big cards as well.

MFW Tuesday Trigger - It's Completely Collagical!

Ingredients:
Kaisercraft Curiosity 12x12 used in all projects
DT Card
Neenah Desert Storm, Fiskars lacey punch, MS Butterfly punch, Kaisercraft rhinestones, Tim Holtz Distress Gathered Twigs
DT Layout
MT Tape, MS Butterfly punch, Tim Holtz Tattered Flowers, MFT Dienamics Scallop Die, Hemp from Hemptique, Kaisercraft pearls and pearl brads, Tim Holz Distress Gathered Twigs
Sympathy Card
Canson Colorline card, Kaisercraft Miss Match 12x12, Kaisercraft Recollectables These Days, Hero Arts CL508 and CG509, PTI Year of the Flowers Roses stamp, HA Cup O'Joe, Tim Holtz Distress Gathered Twigs