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

Baby Boy!

This is a quick card I made for a baby born last weekend. Quick because I had the image pre-stamped and cut earlier. I used some washi tapes to a strip of cardstock and adhered the strip and the Panda onto the card. The sentiment was diecut from glitter foam. The design is based on the current CAS(E) this sketch.

What I used to make this card:
Card - Neenah Solar White
Washi - MT Tapes
Dies and Stamps - Hero Arts Stamp and Cut Congrats, Mama Elephant Pandamonium

70th Birthday

I'm back with a really CAS masculine 70th birthday card. I was invited by Lyndal last weekend for a Crafty catch up at her place. There were 8 of us crowded around her dining room table and it was a fun day. One of the ladies brought along a book cover vinyl she had purchased from Kmart. A few of us had a go with die cutting the vinyl and I brought some leftovers home to make this card! I've got to go to Kmart to get some more. They will be great for Christmas cards!! I'm adding this card to Paper Smooches Guest Designer Challenge.

Materials used:
Neenah card, ME Happy Die, PS tag and digits stampset and dies, Kaisercraft glitter tape

Birthday Dragon

I have a cute birthday card for a 13th year old who loves dragons. I used the dragon from Mama Elephant's Lunar Animals for this card based on the current CAS(E) this Sketch. Thanks for dropping by!

Materials: Mama Elephant Happy Everything and Lunar Animals, Winnie and Walter Stencil, Hero Arts Card Stock, Glitter foam, Copic markers, MFT Dynamics Fishtail STAX and Wilted Willow Distress Ink.

Baby Lea

I have a baby card to share. This is for a baby born 3 days ago. As the baby was born in the Year of the Monkey, it was most appropriate to add the Mama Elephant monkey to the card. The Game Tiles are from Simon Says Stamp, the sentiment from Lawn Fawn and the stripes from PTI. The coloured inks are from Hero Arts. I'm adding this card to the current CAS(E) This Sketch and A Blog Named Hero challenges. Thanks for dropping by!

Muse Card 147

Back again with a fun card for Chinese New Year. I normally don't make cards for CNY but after seeing Mama Elephant's Lunar Animals release last year, I couldn't wait to ink up the stamp sets! I've based my card on the current Muse Card Challenge - Michele Ferguson, and decided to make two cards at the same time. I've stamped the chinese character for 'Fortune' upside down as this usually happens in households during CNY. The character upside down sounds like 'Fortune has arrived/is upside down in the house'. I love both the Lucky cat (although this is probably more Japanese than Chinese) and the cute monkey (Year of the Monkey this year). I'm also adding this card to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Something New (Chinese New Year).
Thanks for dropping by!

Muse Card 147 - Michele Ferguson

Something New - A Baby!

A very CAS card for a new born baby using ME Lunar Animals, SSS Game Tiles and LF Critters Down Under. In the Chinese Lunar calendar, it is still the year of the Sheep, hence the baby lamb on the card! I'm adding this card to the CASology - Simple and the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Something New challenges. Thanks for dropping by!

RIC Banana Republic

When I saw the current Runway Inspired Challenge photos, I knew exactly what I wanted to do! This card took a little while to do as I did it over two stages. I used the Altenew Painted Flowers (just perfect) and stamped the outline image on watercolour paper. The images were coloured with Distress inks - Picked Raspberry, Seedless Preserve and Mermaid Lagoon (I really needed Wilted Willow). I purposely left some areas uncoloured so that it is the same as the photo. When dried, I fussy cut the images and didn't get around to assembling them until the next day. The sentiment and die is from Mama Elephant. BTW I visited the Banana Republic store in Champs Elysee when I was in Paris last month. While I had everything out and spare flowers, I ended up making 3 cards!

Retro Sketch 166

I'm back after a short holiday overseas. I've had to make a card on the weekend I got back for a baby girl.  I decided to use the current Retro Sketch #166 and combined it with some lovely paper from Kaisercraft Procelain Rose. I'm also adding this to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes. The stamp sets are from Mama Elephant, Darkroom Door and Hero Arts.
Thanks for dropping by!

First Birthday Card

I'm getting ready for an overseas trip and got a last minute request to make a first birthday card. I decided on the sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch #123 and used some cute Mama Elephant stamps to make this card. It all came together very quickly with the help of some pretty papers from Basic Grey and my trusty Misti. I'm also adding this card to Mama Elephant's May Challenge - Oooh that's pretty!

Wedding Pandas

Everytime I have to make a wedding card, I always get my ME Pandamonium stampset out. I based the card on this week's Retro sketch and used distressed inks for the water coloured background. Using my MISTI tool a lot nowadays and I tend to make two cards at the same time, that way I always have a spare card. Thanks for dropping by!

The challenges for this card:

Retro Sketches #159

Adddicted to CAS: Cute

Blue for Autism Awareness

This is a very CAS card featuring the colour blue for Autism Awareness week. I've used the current Retro Sketch for inspiration with stamps from Hero Arts and Mama Elephant. I'm also adding this to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Birthday Challenge, Autism Awareness Blog Hop and Virginia View's Layers challenge.

Thank you for dropping by, I'll be back later with some Easter tags!

I'm back!

Finally, after a month off from blogland... I'm back!  I was very tied up with Chinese New Year activities and visitors from interstate and overseas over the past 4 weeks. I had a little bit of spare time today and sneaked into my craft room to produce this card. I have not had a lot of time to play with my new Kuretake Gansai Tambi water colours, so I made up for it today. I embossed the AlteNew Peonies with white EP and painted the colours on. I'd also added the pearl colour over the flowers, love the sheen on it!
I'm adding this card to the following challenges:
CAS(E) this Sketch #114
Virginia View's Challenge - #13 All Things Embossed
Fusion Card Challenge - Floral Fusion
Thanks for dropping by! Can't wait to make more cards very soon!!

Engagement Card

I managed to make just ONE card this weekend, right at the stroke of midnight on Sunday night (that's the only time I found all weekend). I based the card on the current Retro Sketch and used the last of my favourite Basic Grey Mint Julep paper and Mama Elephant stamps and die. The tag is from PTI, another favourite! This is an extra large card made for one of my staff at work. Thanks for dropping by!!

A little bit of metallic

Wow! It's been over 2 weeks since my last post. What have I been doing! I got caught up with doing some cards for PCS magazine submission only to find out last week that they will be shutting down! It will be a shame as I have been quite lucky getting some cards published in the past. There will be a massive blog hop on 3rd December, watch out for it! Here is a card I made recently for a friend's birthday using watercolour paper and gold embossing. I stamped the Penny Black image with Archival Coffee ink and then added Tim Holtz distress inks. The Mama Elephant sentiment was embossed with Ranger Platimum EP (my new favourite colour) and some gold sequins addd to finish off the card. I'm adding this to Virginia View's Challenge #9 - All things metallic.  Thanks for dropping by!

Panda Love

After making the last Mama Elephant Pandamonium card, I couldn't put the stampset away when I found out a friend at work got engaged on the weekend. The tag is thick watercolour cardstock and the background was made using stamping and distress inks with lots of water. I also love my new Winnie & Walter Big and Bold set, just perfect! I'm adding this card to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Use Kraft and Mama Elephant's Anything Goes challenge. Thanks for dropping by!

Catered Crop Quickfire

I've been MIA from blogland for a little while due to commitments with other important things in my life! So when I found out a few days ago that my card got picked as Top Three in Catered Crop with two other talented ladies, I had to squeeze some time to make a card for tomorrow night's Quickfire. I've also made this card with the current CAS(E) this Sketch #97 and also for Mama Elephant's October Challenge. I will have more cards to blog this week as I have a couple of rejects from a recent publication submission. See you later!

Catered Crop Touchdown

Masculine Birthday Cards

Back again with a couple of cards I made on our Crafting WCMD weekend using borrowed stamps from Lyndal and Jenny. The first one is made with Hero Arts stamps and the second with Mama Elephant sentiment stamp. This first card is for the Mixed Media Vintage Challenge.

This second card is for someone younger. A bit of stencilling with and embossing with my newest favourite EP from Ranger. This platinum colour was out of stock for a long time and I finally got a jar of it at last! Now I understand why Jennifer McGuire love it!! The sentiment is from Mama Elephant and I'm adding this card to ME's October Anything Goes challenge and Virginia's View Challenge - Clean and Simple.

Thanks for dropping by!

Another Panda card

I'm in love with these cute Mama Elephant Pandas! Here is another cute card for a little girl's birthday using the current CAS(e) this sketch and Tag You're It challenge #3. I'm also adding this to Mama Elephant and ME's Water Colouring and Birthday challenge and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge. It's a very cold weekend in Melbourne, nice to be indoors and crafting! Thanks for dropping by!