Flo's-a-Scrapin

How many shoes is too many?

2012-02-03T15:05:00.000+13:00

Soo cute and they just fit a chocky bar.

Shoe Fetish

2012-02-01T10:38:00.000+13:00

wow I found this shoe on the Cricut Princess Party cartridge, I stamped the lower one with Rich Razzelberry and a stamp from the StampinUp Charming set.

Shoes

2012-01-31T01:59:00.000+13:00

For the person with the ultimate shoe fetish - Paper shoes. After making the baby shoes I decided to make some grown up ones and put these together.

Box office

2012-01-31T01:55:00.000+13:00

here is the beginings of a box of pictures. The first one was a disaster so I tried again. Have put some little quilling flowers on it but will decorate it a bit more soon.

Baby Shoes

2012-01-29T11:11:00.000+13:00

These are soooo cute. I have made them with pink cardstock and a template I accessed from a google search on paper baby shoes. I cut them out, stamped the cardstock with SU Pretty in Pink ink and this gives almost a watermark effect on the card. Them together inked all the edges and added the ribbon and the brads. Now don't ya just love those bows! I amde them on the Crafters Companion with their little bow making sticks which go into the outside of the case. So cute and the ribbon tails always come out to the back with the right side facing the front. Love it. Oh and of course who buys shoes not in a shoebox. Used the rafters companion to do the shoe box as well.

Lilly pond with roses

2012-01-27T20:53:00.000+13:00

finished lilly pond had extra kisses in as well. The birthday girl loved it

Octagonal Box

2012-01-27T19:41:00.000+13:00

This cute little octagonal box is so easy to make. Using the nestabilities dies I cut a scalloped octagon and a regular octagon. There are a few little secrets on how to put it all together but I thought it turned out well. I spritz'd the butterflys and that made them shimmer. With Jenny'd name I used a versamark marker and interference red russet. I cut the thankyou letters from the Cricut E2 cartridge that is in the machine and I inked the edges with pink ink. The paper is from a Rosies stach that I bought some time ago at the warehouse. This little box held 2 mini crunchie bars and when I gave it to Jenny she nearly cried she thought it was lovely. I got a hug for my payment and that was great. The best thing was I made someone feel good today.

Flower power

2012-01-23T15:27:00.000+13:00

Well now for what is in the box!
My sister has inspired me to do even more with my cricut and I haven't been feeling the best so my crafting mojo is suffering. Well I got out the Flower Shoppe cartridge well I accessed it on my gypsy (everything is on Gypsy2 lets face it except for the inbuilt carts on the E2) anyway I digress- the flowers have many different ways of putting them together and I will do a vodeo of them eventually so I can have it on file, but in the meantime there are the little flowers that cut out like a decreasing circle and you roll them up like quilling. they were cut at 2 inches and their finished size is about 1/2 inch. The bigger ones were the flowers down the botton of the overlay and I used a scoring tool to break the fibre of the paper on a circular motion which them makes the flower parts curl upwards. there are holes in them so I just added a brad. Now the outside box well that is a treat I found out how to do this at my upline in StampinUp. She is an absolute wizz and making new things up and how to do this 3d frame was her invention so until I have her permission to sy how it is done I will loeave you in suspense unless you come to a StampinUp workshop.

How to make a Light Box

2012-01-23T15:26:00.000+13:00

I have been investigating light boxes and how to make your own, and although I usually have boxes all over the place my DH decided to do a clean out and threw them all away. Well now to wait for a box that I could do something with. NOW a light went off or maybe on when I saw some plastic storage boxes, the large ones 55 litre that have lids and are on wheels that I store all my stuff in that I don't need for a while (or longer) and I did have 2 lights that are so old they are from the ark but they work! and so I got the lights out they are on little stands that bend and put them either side of the plastic white box put a sheet of white paper in the back of the box and along the bottom and voila I have a light box. It's not perfect yet as it does need some modification with where the lights are but it does make a difference to the colours. Certainly still much better than without the box. Check out the colour of the background both these pick taken at the same time same camera one that has the yellow orange background didnt have the lights on. An amazing difference for colour.

Inspiration

2012-01-16T20:43:00.000+13:00

Now I have been trying to use papers from my stash and I made a card from the lilac paper but I was not happy with it as paper. I felt it needed to be card so I cut the cardstock from SU Rich Razzleberry and then layered the card I had done onto it with a little tweaking. I stamped the image from the SU Because I care Hostess set from the 2010 catalogue. I stampe it in versamark and used heat and stick and added the SU liliac glitter. Then I added the stem and the leaves and used a versamark pen to add more heat and stick and added certainly celery glitter to part of the leaves. The frame is from a cricut cartridge Fancy Frames and the punch I have used on the inside and on the front is the SU Border scallop trim and the corner punch that matches. The butterfly is a Fiskers punch. The sentiment on the front comes from a mini cuttlebug embossing folder that after I embossed I put through the cricut to cut it out as I didn't have a punch big enough. On the inside I saw this sentiment on a picture of a church noticeboard and this sentiment appealed to me. I would like to think I aspire to inspire. You may like to do the same. It is often the small things that make the difference. A thoughtful word a hug or just letting someone know you care. Say thankyou to someone who has done something for someone else to show you noticed. Appreciate your family and friends, let them know you care.

Card making on a budget

2012-01-15T23:27:00.000+13:00

My blog is for the things I do so I can look back over them. But I received this card from my sister, she has a lot of talent but not a lot of money at the moment and so I gave her a baby bug to play with. As she is in that dreaded learning phase and not wanting to ruin good papers and cardstock she used magazines to cut and form this card she sent to me. She has done stamping and cricut cuts and has added sparklie paper and part of a doily.
I see many people who think they can not make cards as they don't have the money to get the 'fancy papers' but this just shows the love, time and effort that has gone into this card makes it a very special gift. Receiving this card makes me realise that I am a very lucky person. Sis I love you heaps you always make me feel better when I am down and make me realise how grateful I am to have a sis like you.

2012-01-10T20:05:00.001+13:00

I love the milk carton die from StampinUp as it fits one or two small chocy bars in the box. Here I have used some A4 coloured paper I had in my stash and cut it in half so each sheet made 2 milk cartons. Then I decided to make a carrier for them. The spotted box is a 6x6 pack of stampinUp paper and worked out really well and the other box is a pearlescent 6x6 pack I picked up some time ago when I was cruisin around the Warehouse. The little owl is from the Owl punch from StampinUp using the heart shape as his beak and playing round with different papers for his eyes. the leaves are from the bird punch. The bird punch is one I use a lot for all the bits on it as I do the owl punch. These punches are very versatile. I made these to cheer up my work colleagues.

Milk cartons in a box

2012-01-09T21:27:00.000+13:00

Wee milk cartons from the SU milk carton die in little box covered with butterflys.

Kanga comes to visit

2012-01-05T11:51:00.000+13:00

I love the Pooh bear characters and Kanga (at 4inches)got made today as a friend wanted a kangaroo so I thought I would make kanga to see if this is what she wants. The tree (cut at 11.5inches on a 24x12 mat) is Pooh's house with all the layers and the top of the tree is stamped with the tree stamp from Lovely as a tree from StampinUpthe grass cuts are on many cartridges and I have inked the edges with SU old olive ink.

Froglets

2012-01-01T18:42:00.000+13:00

These are thefrogs from the Cricut Create a Critter cartridge. I did not cut the layer 1 but just the main layer for the body so it didn't cut out the eyes and mouth so instead of wasting it I just used my faithful StampinUp owl punch and punched out eyes and hearts to use instead. The mouth are drawn on currently might put little tongues on yet.

more pencil toppers

2011-12-31T03:09:00.000+13:00

Cute little dino is cut at 2 inches this time and I have glue lines holding the elastic to itself and the cut outs. Just waiting to see if it holds together for a few days.

Pencil Toppers

2011-12-30T14:14:00.000+13:00

Now aren't these the cutest little dino's you ever saw. I cut them at 2.5 inches from Cricut Create a Crtiier cart and put them round a pencil.

Cone

2011-12-28T17:29:00.000+13:00

I have not blogged for a bit as I have been unwell and ended up in hospital again having IV antibiotics. That is my third time in hospital in four months so I hope that when they say things happen in threes I have had my 3. Well enough -Look at this cute little cone I cut from Cricut Cartridge "Cake Everyday Sampler" As this is a compliation cartridge this cut is also on "Tie the Knot" as well.

On this cart there is a 1/4 circle that is scalloped and when I cut it, it makes a cone shape. Oh wow that is fantastic as I was looking for something just like this. Well I cut it at 4 inches and glued the side to make the cone. Then it has 2 little holes that just beconed to have ribbon threaded through them and this could be used to hang the cone but I thought it would look cute with a lid so out came an SU punch the scallop circle 2 3/8 and yep it was just right to make a lid so I put 2 little holes in it and tied the lid to the cone with ribbon.

Now as we all know you have to have a tag or 2 so I decided to make "thanks so much" as a tag from Cricut "Tear Drop" Well this cut out the words in the tag so I cut a background but then of course I had the words that had been cut out as well so not wanting to be wasteful I made a 2nd tag with the cut out words. Now I cut this at about 2 inches high so the actual letter stroke width is about 1-1.5mm. now I can usually chage my measurements to inches but 1.5mm is about 1/16th inch so it is very thin. But I managed to glue it with the trusty zig 2 way and then fill the cone with Hershey's kisses.

A nice way of saying Thank you without a card.

WOW fridge magnets

2011-12-15T22:09:00.000+13:00

My daughter asked me if I could make a fridge magnet. Well I had some magnetic paper that goes through the computer so I thought ok I will give it a go. Well I printed the magnetic paper on my Cricut Imagine and added a small piece to the side as it has a 12x12 mat and I was only doing A4 size but that worked out well and I now have a piece of paper that is double sided. Then I put the magnetic paper through the ordinary HP printer and had a document in word with the pictures and words on. Now I had it all printed and was wondering what to do to make it look a bit more than a square cutout. Well out jumped a puch from SU and I used the 2 3/8 inch scallop punch for Eeyore then I got out the big shot and the dies from SU and used the round scallop duo the scallop square and the top note die. the square scallop with the round scallop photo frame is where I cut Eeyore out and then put it through the square scallop again. Although Tigger looks oval the piece wasn't big enough for the round scallop so I put it through twice lining up the scallops and it looks oval. These are sooo cute I love them and it took me about an hour to do the lot and I know Tyler my DGD will love playing with the fridge magnets of pooh and friends. I hope my DD likes her fridge magnet that she wants for one of her colleagues. Just as well it is a secret santa friend.
Hope you enjoy these.

Circular Callendar

2011-11-29T19:09:00.000+13:00

this is a circular callendar for 2012 we did on craftersanonymous last night. I decorated it with the always Elegant stamp set in rich razzelberry. It will make a cute present for christmas in stockings.

A house for Buddy

2011-11-26T18:29:00.000+13:00

A friend of mine had a wee dog called Buddy. Buddy was a ripe old age and had diabetes and alought he was blind he knew his way round the house and Rachel faithfully gave him his insulin every day. Well time ran out for Buddy this week and he no longer wanted to eat and so Buddy is now in Doggie Heaven and hopefully he can see and run around like he would want too. My friend had him creamated so I made her this wee house for him. It comes from the Cricut cartridge Sweet tooth Boxes and was made at 5.5inches which made a house about 1.5 inches wide and 3.5 inches long.

Doc MacD

2011-11-23T00:52:00.000+13:00

These are for the surgeon who did my op on my knees. I figured that as he is an orthopaedic surgeon he must have a toolbox and I am sure he would know all the bits that are in the toolbox.

Table and chairs

2011-11-22T00:40:00.000+13:00

Over at Crafters anonymous tonight Julia had us doing a table for a cupcake. Now I have taken some poetic licence here as my cupcakes are only about 1cm across the table is about 3 inches high and I have added the table decoration of cuttlery and the chairs. The cutlery is cut from a cuttlebug die and the chairs from the cricut cartridge Summer in Paris at 4 inches. the cupcake wrappers on the table I cheated and cut from cricut cartridge Lifes a party at about 3/4 inch. the edge of the tablecloth is from another cuttlebug scalloped edge die. Leave me a message to let me know what you think.

DGD Star Book

2011-11-16T00:04:00.000+13:00

On Crafters Anonymous we do a challenge every week on Mondays. This week we made a Star book. It is a lovely way to showcase many things and I have been wanting to scrap my DGD's birth photos. I have used the cricut for titles making the shadow as well, I have used StampinUp Punches and spellbinders nestabilities and I have used Mariposa stickers. My granddaughter is very special and I am pleased with the way this has turned out.

Christmas stocking card

2011-11-14T19:28:00.001+13:00

The card I made with the Stocking Tag punch which was available to people who had a $500 workshop last month along with the stamp set Stitched stockings. The stockings are stamped and punched out and hung over the mantle which is made to go above the fire. The hearth is made from the jewelry tag punch and the flames from Blossom petal Builder punch. The bricks are 1/4 inch and hand placed to resemble an old fire place. the stockings are hung round the mantle of the fire place but when I took the pic one had jumped behind the flame. I did wonder if this was fate telling me I should burn the card or maybe just my christmas stockings.

Rachels workshop

2011-11-14T19:25:00.001+13:00

As some of you will know I am an independent StampinUp demonstrator and i hold workshops sometimes at home but this day at Rachels who kindly invited family and friends to make these delightful decorations for Christmas. Rachel had an awesome workshop where the ladies made the christmas cracker and the star. The christmas cracker is made from whisper white cardstock, the embossed it with the bigshot and an embossing folder and then we sponged it with shimmer paint Frost white(116854). Can you see the shimmer on the petals of the flower? It does look so pretty. We added a flower from the 5-petal flower punch (119880)and the boho blossoms punch (119858)and added the sentiment Merry Christmas from the contempo Christmas (121498) as it fit so well in the Decorative label punch (120907).
The star is made of DSP and cut so you can curl each of the layers to the opposite side. It is very pretty hanging but my photos are of it on the worktop. The DSP being double sided gives an amazing look to this star.

Chip Carton at CA

2011-11-08T06:04:00.000+13:00

At Crafters Anonymous tonight we made a chip box but I decided I'm not allowed chips so I made it into a vase for my flowers. I embossed the box then lightly brayered the embossing. I used the scallop edge punch to scallop the top

Sesame Street Characters & the Claus's

2011-11-08T06:01:00.001+13:00

Punch art done with StampinUp punches. I got hooked on punch art when I saw it done by Anne Brignal on Crafters Anonymous some time ago and then when I spent some time with Julia and her family last week she had done these characters from Sesame Street so I had to copy them. Santa is similar to my punchart Santa I have done before and Mrs Claus is from a punch art I saw that was a lady and I just gave her white hair and red clothes

Punch art Santa

2011-11-08T06:00:00.000+13:00

This is a swap I did for training. It is a punch art Santa made from StampinUp punches

Hidden Garden

2011-10-24T21:04:00.000+13:00

Hi over at Crafters Anonymous we do challenges each week. this week was a card and we had to decorate it. I chose to do a Hidden Garden. the ribbon punch lace from the SU punch is so versatile. The base of the pot I made so I could put the flowers in behind it.

Holiday Lineup and another Santa box

2011-10-24T15:33:00.000+13:00

This is what I made at the workshop I had. Using the same stampset 'Holiday Lineup but using a different stamp in the set. I used the
122362 Lace Ribbon Border punch to make the lace round the 2 edges. The Santa box we embossed with the square lattice (119976) folder and I used the new christmas stocking punch to make the boots for Santa. I love the way this little treat box goes together so quickly. Remember anyone wanting these StampinUp products can email me with an order. Remember you can brouse the catalogue on my blog at http://ohsomanycrafts.blogspot.com as well. Happy crafting.

Holiday Lineup

2011-10-24T15:30:00.002+13:00

This is the card I am going to teach my ladies tomorrow. I used the 'Holiday lineup' set and stamped it on whisper white cardstock. Then I cut a mask to go over it. I then sponged the background with 2 shades of blue and green with the mask in place and left the mask in place while I stamped the stamp from Lovely as a tree over the mask to put it in the background but on top of the sponging. I used Pacific point card stock for the card and then mounted the stamped image onto confetti cream. I then used the Dotted scallopped ribon border to do the ribbon at the bottom with more pacific point. I coloured the image with StampinUp markers and have left room at the top for a sentiment.

Santa treat box

2011-10-21T08:13:00.001+13:00

Oh such fun with Christmas a comin. I saw this little treatbox well actually its not so little it measures 5.5x4.5 and is triangle shaped, but it holds quite a lot. It would be a great gift box for those smallish items for christmas or change the santa and do it for anytime. Santa is punch art with StampinUp punches. The scalloped circle, the 1.25 circle the stocking punch for the mustach, the owl punch for the eyes, nose, cheeks, mouth and pompom and the word window punch. Santa's belt is the Dotted scalloped ribbon border punch.

Embossed Bags and mini milk ctn

2011-10-18T13:03:00.000+13:00

making bags and using embossing folders. Well one is a mini milk carton and it is hard to see the embossed stars on the glossy black paper.

Step card

2011-10-18T11:35:00.000+13:00

This stamp set is from StampinUp and is called 'Lovely as a Tree'. I coloured the stamps with markers and the top and bottom pieces I stamped together then put at the top and bottom. I made the flower very simply with the 5 petal punch and boho blossoms and a brad for the centre. The sentiment reads 'Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees" a place I have been at times lately, but this card makes it seem a pretty place to be.

A Super gift from a friend

2011-10-13T09:26:00.000+13:00

A very special friend gave me the little nurse mounted onto the white/brown swirl background and then onto the crimped white background. Then came up with the sentiment "Stop I have a rectal thermometer and I know where to shove it" I have been in hospital lately first to have both knee joints replaced then because I had an infection. The little gift my friend devised made me laugh as I am a nurse. I wanted to keep this as it is so special to me. I had a window box but it didn't quite fit so I made a blackmatand put gold interference on itto match the swirl paper she had used behind the nurse. Then on the window box I decided it would look better darker so I used walnut distress in and coloured the outside of the box and Disress ink pad Pine needles to add some colour to the inside of the box. Then I wondered if the interference would stick to the outside of the box and yep. It did so I used a SU stamp set Priceless to get the swirl pattern and used the gold interference and this is what it came out like. I love it and will find a place where I can display it.

My Slippers

2011-10-03T08:18:00.002+13:00

Well after ending up in hospital with an infection in both my knee wounds I have been on IV antibotics and they are getting better and I am hoping to go home later today. Now I have these slippers that I bought some years ago and thought that where I was going on holiday the people would love them but they didn't like them and gave me the impression they thought I was stupid so I had put them away. Well my darling GD found them and pulled them out just a couple of days before I came to hospital so when I need DH to bring up some slippers I knew just where these ones were. DGD loves them and surprizingly they have been a great hit opening conversaton on the ward with other patients and the staff where I work thought they were sooo cute. No one has made me feel stupid for wearing them and they have started many a conversation. One of my work colleagues wanted a pic but didn't have her phone so tonight as I sit here I thought I would take a pic with my phone.

out of action again

2011-10-01T12:53:00.002+13:00

Well Hi again and I'm not craftin I am in hospital again with an infection. Please talk to all the powers you know and asked them to take it away. I have been praying a lot lately. We have a stamp in our Stampinup range that says some things have to be believed to be seen somehow this seems very appropriate at the moment.

More little bags

2011-09-22T21:40:00.000+12:00

Some more bags to add to the collection for the nurses at Grace

Punch Art Owl

2011-09-19T21:23:00.000+12:00

Another on Line class this time from Deb Spiers. Soo cute

Little bags

2011-09-17T20:55:00.000+12:00

These little bags will be some of the gifts for the people who looked after me when I was in hospital recently for a double knee joint replacement.

Ok so I'm sort of out of action

2011-08-30T12:43:00.004+12:00

Last Thursday I had replacement joints in both my knees. This has certainly been very difficult and I thought that I would be able to do lots of things as I would be able to sit down. Well I can sit and I can stand but the transision is what is the more difficult part. But Hey if I can get home then I can craft and that will be much better
The day goes very slow but time is on hold as the brain is a bit fuzzy at times but it will all improve.

Iris Folding Vase

2011-08-23T20:35:00.002+12:00

Last night on Crafters Anonymous we did Iris folding. This is a very easy technique when you know how, having said that untill you actually see someone do it the concept can elude you. There are some great videos on youtube some of which actually tell you what the concept of the iris folding is all about. Now having woffled in the 2 cards above the vase has the iris folding and of course being a vase I had to put flowers into them. The card on the left is a flower cut from the net that came with a boquet of flowers I got when I got my new car a couple of months ago and the flowers in the second card were just a strip of paper that I cut into and rolled up like a quilling flower and spread out. I have taken some close up of the flowers on the second card as these were done with little strips of paper and a pair of sissors in about 5 minutes. The leaves were cut from a folded piece of cardstock which I then folded to create the veins in the leaves.

Little Spider with web

2011-08-22T11:53:00.001+12:00

I quite like this red back spider he does sort of remind me of the katipo we have here in NZ. Made from the Happy Hauntings cart

Spider

2011-08-22T00:30:00.001+12:00

I thought I was makiing a coffin but I think this is a spider. I may have to add googly eyes to him yet.

yep googley eyes and a couple of red spots on the back and she looks cute for a spider.

Stamping on Candles

2011-08-21T20:35:00.001+12:00

Today I had a StampinUp craft workshop where we made a box and stamped on candles. The box was made and the hole cut in the top and perspect was placed in the top so you could see through it. The sides of the box were embossed with SU 'Heat and Stick' and we added glitter. The candles were stamped and added to the box. This has made an awesome gift box for anyone and the ladies had a great time.

Witch Card

2011-08-20T16:38:00.001+12:00

Well Ema here is my witch card. I have always loved this saying and it just seemed right for this card. The witch and the tree are cut from Cricut Happy Hauntings and the sentiment well don't you think it goes well. I was just going to put the tree and entangled witch on the card front but it faded into the background as it was so dark. I stitch outlined the tree to make the witch show up more.

2011-08-17T20:33:00.000+12:00

2 more bags from Cricut Foreve Young Cartridge. Soo cute. Love the shiny pink embossed with paisley, and the above one is again Mariposa paper cut so I could get the best from the picture on the paper.

Purse from Forever Young

2011-08-17T17:42:00.000+12:00

A purse from Cricut Forever Young. I was trying out the embossing on the front and back and added punch butterflys. I took it to work as I was going to give it to someone and then found out it was one of the patients birthdays. When I found this I thought I would give her the bag so had a little card and wrote Happy Birthday and gave her the bag. It is bad enough being in hospital but worse if its your birthday and you are in hospital. I hope I cheered her up.

Wee bag

2011-08-16T08:31:00.000+12:00

This weeks online class at Crafters Anonymous we made a little bag. It is so cute. This one I made with one of the papers from the Mariposa stack of foil and glitter Butterflys. I have made the handle with the same paper and there are 2 eyelets in the top which are gold to thread the handle through. I used a brad to form the closure for the lid of the bag. I embossed it with a cuttlebug folder Flourished Frame that has a plain square in the centre so I didn't damage the butterfly and surrounded it in flowers.

another Brayered Sunset card

2011-08-16T08:22:00.000+12:00

With brayering technique you use a brayer load it with ink and on a white or light cardstock you roll the brayer quickly back and forward across the cardstock running it down till it runs out of ink. You do this till you have achieved the colour you want then do another colour. With this card the base is whisper white and I have used Tangerine Tango, Peach parfait and daffodil delight I did the brayering from the top down and a tiny bit at the bottom where i put the ribbon. I then used the stamp in a dark green to give a silhouette effect. I really liked how this brayering matched the card base I had and put a half mat under it for a different effect. I tied another ribbon which is greeen with a gold thread round the green ribbon and tied a button to it. Love the way it turned out.

Basket of Flowers

2011-08-14T21:00:00.001+12:00

Well as my other basket has 'issues' I had to make another one. I have discovered that there is no flower on the Easter cart that is actually supposed to go on the top so that was a relief as I did think I was going crazy. (OK well maybe I am crazy already) BUT I do love my flowers and I think they look quite cute in this we basket. I can see a heap of uses for this basket especially at christmas and birthday times.

Cricut Easter 1020 3d basket

2011-08-14T12:29:00.001+12:00

I made lots of flowers and wanted a basket to put them in. This is the 3d basket from the Cricut Easter 2010. I love the basket, I cut it at 8.5 inches and the create a crittwers at 2 inches. The basket has a handle which looks like it should have a flower and leaves on it but there are none on the cart that match. Also when I put it together I found that the bottom was too wide and I had to cut it and put a fold it it. This worked well as I had made it quite big but a smaller one may not work if this is a problem with the cut although I have not noted that anyone else has noted this. I will cut some more and report back if this is a once only. You could of course put any flower on the top but I am surprized that it has not got one on the cart itself. Still it is cute!.

Flowers

2011-08-13T21:40:00.000+12:00

Today I needed to rest so I decided to make some flowers. the red and purple ones are of cardstock embossed and sponged. The yellow ones are sweat shirting material and the pink ones are from the net that was in a boquet of flowers I received. I love the way they turned out especially the yellow ones. in the bottom pics I have made a basket from the Easter 2010 cricut cartridge.

Box with Draws

2011-08-12T23:21:00.000+12:00

In our on line class on Crafters Anonymous tonight we made this awesome wee box with draws inside. I have just got a die that is a knife fork and spoon with a plate and cloth and having had discussion with a friens about kitchen units lately I thought I would make it into a kitchen Island. Love the way the little box pulls apart to hold so many things in the draws. What a neat idea from Bek out instructor tonight. Click on the link above to visit us on CA and come and have a ball with us. we are a great crown and do stuff every week.

Brayered Sunset

2011-08-04T21:48:00.002+12:00

This is a brayer card I did tonight on CA. Brayering does make lovely sky or sea. The snowman is a cricut cut from the Gingerbread cartridge. The trees and butterflys are small punches

Burchart Butterfly Garden's British Columbia Canada

2011-07-23T00:25:00.006+12:00

I bought a Mariposa stack of papers and a photograph album. The album has butterflys on it and the paper has a theme of butterflys so I thought it about time I printed and scrapbooked my photos from our visit to the Burchart Butterfly Gardens in Victoria British Columbia when we visited in 2006.

This is the cover of my album I havent named it yet but I wanted to upload a pic. What is not clear is the pic is of a butterfly on the flower. The front of the cover has a place to put a pic.

Butterflys feeding in the dishes at the Butterfly Gardens. I matted the pics onto this page and cut the page and slid the pics behind some of the things on the page.

More Butterflys. I cut this page as well sliding the pics in behind the cut out parts. there is a part page matted onto the plain background.

I did a cutout at the bottom of this page and put a journaling block on the page I used the butterfly embossing folder to emboss the journaling block.

The Fountain at the start of the Garden. Again I have cut the paper and slid the pics in behind.

The Japanese garden. This page is so pretty I have just matted the pics.

Flowers. Added some embellishments to this page.

Animal like from vegetable matter. these are creepers grown over a frame to look like animals and people.
Added some rubons to this page and 2 that jumped on when they weren't suppose to.

another page this is a moth but I have surrounded it with butterflys.

Owl punch Rose

2011-07-21T22:40:00.004+12:00

A simple rose made from the StampinUp owl punch. I made the card using embossing folders and the orage embossed area has a smooth area in the middle surrounded by a scored rectangle. The sentiment comes from Peachy kean stamps that I was sent by a friend in Key West (thanks Ema)

Tylers 1st Birthday

2011-07-17T23:06:00.004+12:00

Our little cherub in her birthday dress.

Tyler my little granddaughter turned 1. We had her party and my daughter made her cake. She made a one which she cut from a square cake and a balloon which she made by shapeing a round cake. It was a Pooh Bear theme so I cut winnie the Pooh out of fondant on the Cricut Cake machine and cut out small WTP, Eyore, Piglet and Tigger and Judy placed these on the side if the One.

Spinner Card

2011-06-27T22:00:00.003+12:00

Spinner cards from our online class at Crafters Anonymous

Magic ink

2011-06-23T21:46:00.002+12:00

a new technique from CA using reinkers. I used riding hood red and pacific point and then for the window used certainly celery and mellow moss.

Practicing flowers

2011-06-21T10:33:00.002+12:00

I love how this flower turns out. It is made with the Owl Punch from StampinUp and the scalloped circle punch.

Double easel card

2011-06-21T10:25:00.002+12:00

This is a double easel carl using cricut cart Straight from the Nest I did the owl and the sentiment on the Imagine. The double easel card was yet another Monday night project from CraftersAnonymous.

2011-06-19T12:07:00.002+12:00

More quilling flowers this time daisies.

Birthday Card for Judy

2011-06-19T11:59:00.002+12:00

My very special and beautiful daughter had her birthday on the 17th and I made a small wee card for my chicken. Well she is a big chicken now as she is in her later 20's but she is very special to me. I used the topnote type die by spellbinders to cut the card from Provocraft paper which was double sided and then a smaller nestability to cut the other piece. Then of course I used the chicken from Create a Critter to put on the top. Very simple but oh so cute.

Box and Bow

2011-06-19T11:40:00.003+12:00

At CA this week We learnt how to make a cute wee box to keep cards in it would also fit pictures 6x4 so would be a lovely gift box for a friend. We also made a bow but I had a great deal of difficulty with this but finally found a similar one on youtube and then figured out how to do them. Once I worked out how to do them I found it really neat and did a heap. I used the quilling flowers to add to the box that I made as well.

Tigger again Boing

2011-06-14T18:25:00.002+12:00

Can Tigger get any bigger Boing Boing Boing. Yep he is 23inches high and hasn't got the boing's added yet. But isn't he just so cute. I am looking forward to making the background for a hight chart for my DGD.

Box and Star CA Monday

2011-06-14T17:58:00.002+12:00

This is a neat little box that holds 6x4's wether that be photos or cards would be up to the maker but it is a cut way of cataloguing photos. The tutorial on CA was an altered froebel star. The Froebel star is really quite something and the instructions can be difficult to follow even when watching them. Along with this is the quilling flowers I have been making from the cuttlebug dies that are new out. they are very pretty but again take a little bit of thought.

Tigger

2011-06-08T22:38:00.003+12:00

Boing Boing but now he is asleep there is no character more like my DGD than Tigger who she adores. She is always bouncing and happy. Tigger is cut from the Poh Bear and Friends Cartridge at 11.5 inches high which makes him 23.5 inches long.

The Bees and Bee Hive

2011-06-08T22:36:00.003+12:00

I love Pooh Bear and so does my DGD So I have started to cut things from the Pooh Bear and Friends Cart. Here is the Beehive cut at 11.5 inches and the bees cut at 3inches.

CA Monday Night Domino Book

2011-06-08T22:33:00.003+12:00

This is a great way to say many things but I took the oportunity to say congratulations to a friend at work who is changing departments.

CA Australias Biggest Morning Tea

2011-05-30T14:44:00.005+12:00

Wow I have never crafted so long and I was exhausted at the end of the day but here is what I did. Firstly thanks must go to Tia from Crafters Anonymous for all the work she put into this event and the money they raised for Cancer research. And a Big thanks to all the ladies who were teachers on the day.

First of course we made a cup of tea! This cute little cup sits upright (so the tea doesn't spill) and I used a lovely little stamp to decorate the paper so my cup has a pretty design. The little chick comes from one of my cricut cartridges Create a Critter. The happiness stamp is from SU but the sentiment the chick is saying is hand written.

Next we made a folder that you could put tea, coffee or sugar bags in and give as a gift. I decided I had just bought some fairy stickers so made mine with the fairy theme. As you can see I coloured the stamp on the outside and didn't quite have enough time to finish colouring the inside.

This is the cracked glass effect and I would have had a better effect if I had used white cardstock and a dark ink on my stamp. I think I probably needed more embossing as well but I can see a great use for this on my haunted house.

Our next challence was to make a daffodil. (Supporting Cancer of course) and we made the daffodil above. Our next thing was a colour challenge so I made 2 more daffs and added them to a pot and made an easel card. The colours for the challenge were yellow blue and white. The white on the card has a yellow look but I'm not sure if this was from the reflection of the daffs or the lighting in the room as the other colours are pretty true.

Lastly there was the sketch challenge and this is the first time I have ever done a sketch never mind a sketch challenge so here is what I came up with.

I did have a great day and it was well worth while for a good cause.

Craft Tools Workshop

2011-05-30T13:04:00.004+12:00

Sanzi the NZ importers of many of the craft machines put on a tools workshop in Auckland where people could book and spend 2 days playing with these carfting tools.
The had the Cricut expression and the gypsy and we made the lovely thank you banner and the cup card and the pillow box in the 2 hours we spent at the cricut table.

We then went to the table with the Spellbinders Grand caliber and used the Grand Calibur machine and the grand dies and at this table we made the lovely scrap book page with the grad label die and the flowers. I did fall in love with the flowers and came home with several of the dies for flowers.

Next we spent some time on the Cricut Imagine and the yudu card maker which was again very interesting. We came home with a decorated box and a bird screen printed on material but currently I cannot find what I have done with these so when I find them will put up the pics. I already have an Imagine so it was not new to me but I did learn some new tips and came home with the yudu card screen printer.

The 2nd day we went to the big shot and Tim Holtz Vagabond table and did more pillow boxes but although the Tim Holtz Vagabond is an awesome machine it is a lot of money when I already have both the Big Shot and the Cuttlebug, so I stuck with buying dies rather than another machine.

The last table was the cuttlebug table and here I did learn a new technique. The tag is made by putting leaves through the cuttlebug with material and then inking the material with distress inks and stamping the bird image again with distress inks. We also mage the tag that I put on the bag I put in an earlier post from one of the new cuttlebug folders which embosses and cuts and we inked this folder as well.

More decorated bags

2011-05-30T12:39:00.003+12:00

This was yet again another Monday night class from Crafters Anonymous to make the bags, 2 diffeent bags here. Again I decorated with flowers and butterflys. The top bag is a tag made from one of the new cuttlebug cut and emboss folders at a tool workshop I went to. The bottlecap is squashed and used with a little flower made by winding the paper similar to quilling.

Decorated Pizza Box

2011-05-30T12:34:00.003+12:00

This is a small Pizza Boz which I decorated with flowers and butterflys. The butterflys are dies cuts from one of my many dies, as are the flowers. I think the flowers are from the Tim Holtz die tattered flowers which I have put together and scrunched.

Autumn ATC swaps + 2 extra for Summer

2011-05-30T12:13:00.003+12:00

New techniques are always great to learn and I loved this one when I came across it again. I inked the embossing folders and with the Butterfly one (for the 2 extra summer ones that were wanted, inked the folder with the marker pens from StampinUp. With the Autumn ATC I wonder if it looks more like winter but when I looked at our trees they were so bare. I used the whole stamp pad on the folder and then used the mini stamp pads to colour the tree.

Cupcake Clamshell box

2011-05-30T12:07:00.003+12:00

This was the cupcake clam shell box I taught at the Tauranga Extravaganza. I was neat and the double cupcakes back to back on a toothpick held the box together. I also gave everyone a cupcake to go into their boxes. This box used the cupcake roll-a-wheel and used heat and stick to glue on the glitter on the top. It also used the sweet treat cup on the side.

Birthday card

2011-05-30T12:01:00.002+12:00

Going back over things I have made. I think was a challenge one from CA.

Star box and Star card

2011-05-02T18:10:00.005+12:00

I had a group of people come and we made star boxes. To go with the box I designed a card in the shape of a star as well. I love the way these turn out and they are such a great gift.

Easter mini pillow boxes

2011-04-24T12:01:00.002+12:00

I made these mini pillow boxes from the SU big shot pillowbox die, by running them through twice and then using the 3/4 inch punch for the hole to place the mini eggs in. I made them for my work colleagues and they thought they were cute. Really easy to make especially when four sheets of paper can go through the die at any one time. The paper was from my stash at home.

New Grandson

2011-04-24T11:57:00.003+12:00

This is a card I made for my new grandson Lachlan

Pillow Bag

2011-04-19T10:48:00.002+12:00

CA last night we made a pillow bag. Thanks to Julia

Clam shell suitcase of tools

2011-04-15T17:39:00.005+12:00

I wanted to do a mans clamshell box to see what I came up with. I used the clam shell box design and have used Always Artichoke and More Mustard papers with the totally tools stamp set from StampinUp. I spritzed it with silver spritz to make it look old. Added faux stitching to the corners and handles and brads in Always artichoke. The stamps are stamped on very vanilla cardstock and hand cut and coloured with blender pens and ink pads adding basic grey and not quite navy to the colours above.

Elongated pillow box

2011-04-13T11:11:00.004+12:00

Julia from Julias Cards is my upline in SU. She is a wonderful designer and is always coming up with intriguing ideas. This is the pressie she gave me at Regionals it is an elongated pillowbox. It was filled with pineapple lumps but as the label says" so much chocolate so little time".

Cupcake cards and box

2011-04-13T10:52:00.004+12:00

A box of cards. These cards are only 2 inches square and they are soo cute. We made them art Regionals last weekend along with the box to put them in.

Partial embossing

2011-04-12T20:48:00.003+12:00

Partial embossing with the embossing folders is quite fun. this is my secone play at this. Need to work some things out but its fun.

Clam shell box

2011-04-12T20:34:00.003+12:00

A clam shell box with a belly band. a sweet treat cup on the side with a cupcake in. Its in the mmm what can I do with this stage.

Liebster blog award

2011-04-12T10:08:00.005+12:00

I have been awarded The Liebster blog award.

Thank you so much. Kris over at ShE's CrAfTy nominated me for the above award. Pop on over and check out her blog. She has some really awesome projects.
About the Liebster Award:

This award was created for bloggers who have fewer than 300 followers, but put a lot of love and heart into their work. It is given to bring light to new blogs and its a great way to share blogs that might not otherwise be seen or ones you want to share with others.

As a recipient you must share the love and pay it forward by.

1- Creating a post where you blog about the Liebster award and reveal your 3 to 5 blog picks.
2- Let them know you have chosen them by leaving a comment on their blog about the award.
3- Copy and paste the award on your blog.
4- Have the faith that your followers will rally and show their crafty love back out to those you award this to.
5- Have fun!!!

It's that easy. I follow a lot of blogs and most of these I have met through challenges, YouTube, other crafters or just by chance.

So here are my 5 choices in no particular order.
1. http://deesdayze.blogspot.com/ Dee's Dayze
2. http://craftyhelen.blogspot.com/ Crafty Helen
3. http://rainescrafts.blogspot.com/ Raine Walton
4. http://juliascards.blogspot.com/ Julia Leece
5. http://lulus-creations.blogspot.com/ Oh Scrappy Daze

Cupcake wrapper & flower

2011-04-12T10:00:00.004+12:00

Another Monday Class at Crafters Anonymous. This time we made a cupcake wrapper and decorated it with the ribbon flower in my case I used lace. Many thanks to Dee who took the class.

A Miniture Tool Chest for my DH

2011-04-01T20:06:00.007+13:00

I decided to see if spritzing would make this little tool chest look 'old' and here are the pics with it spritzed with SU silver spritz Inspired by the draws I set forth and made my DH a tool chest complete with tiny tools. The top lifts up and the 2 draws open and the bottom has a cupboard. The bottom has little feet to keep it up off the ground and all the tools were cut from the Cricut Handiman Lite cartridge at 1.5 inches on the Cricut Imagine.

Top Note Draws

2011-03-30T08:58:00.005+13:00

Over at Crafters anonymous we have a Monday night online course wher we make something we havent seen with instructions given to us via the chat. This has some interesting results and makes one realise how important communication is. I have often quoted

“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”

I think of this so often when I am doing the online class and it makes me realise when teaching it is so important to be able to communicate so people underwstand what it is they need to do.

This Monday we made a top note die set of draws. I didn't quite get them how they were supposed to be but I loved the way they turned out and the person I gave them to will enjoy them as in each draw I put 3 jokes to make her laugh. I hope you enjoy looking at my little set of draws.

New Signature

2011-03-24T22:39:00.001+13:00

Annes Little Folded Bag

2011-03-23T09:09:00.004+13:00

Well Anne brignal from Crafters Anonymous was our tutor again this week and we made this fabulous little bag. It is made of one single sheet of paper and it is the way it is folded that gives you the bag without having to cut into the paper. Anne had a lovely rose on hers and recently I had search to find how to make paper flowers so I thought I would put one of these flowers on the front of the bag.
From my stash of paper I found a pretty blue and coral tartan which I have always likes and then found a coral cardstock that was an excellent match. The rose is made from the StampinUp 2 step Owl Punch using the owl body and the StampinUp scalloped circle punch. The square and scalloped square are spellbinders nestabilities and the embossed background on the coral background is Divine Swirls Cuttlebug folder. I have inked the inside of the coral square with Bashful Blue ink and have inked the edge of the coral rose petals with Early Expresso and the centres with Daffodil Delight. The leaves come from the StampinUp 2 step bird punch and again I have inked the leaves with Bashful Blue to give a little depth. I used a bottle of glitter I have which I bought some years ago to add some sparkle.
I like to put my ribbon through holes and I love eyelets so I used sun and butterfly eyelets in deep blue for the ribbon to go through to make my handle.
Hope you enjoy looking at what I'm doing as much as I enjoy making things leave me a comment to let me know you've been.

60th Birthday

2011-03-21T13:15:00.006+13:00

My Brother in law is turning 60 soon and I wanted to make 'something different' he's a real kiwi bloke so I knew it had to be very masculin oriented. Having made the star box on Crafters Anonymous I thought I would put a similar concept into being and cut out a 6 and a 0 and see if I could make a box out of the 60. Well this is what I came up with. Using the Disney Mickey Font I cut 2 6's in DSP and 2 6's in plain card stock, I did the same with the 0's. Then I decided the lid would be 1.5 iches and the bottom would be 5 cm I do swap between measurements (sorry). Then I just put them together. Well I used hide contour for the bottom pieces so they didn't cut the holes in the middle. and on the top holes I used plastic to have a see through top on the boxes. I used the Cricut Handyman Lite cartridge to cut the tools on the top, some ribbon I had in my stash and some Happy birthday stickers from a day I went to some 2 years ago.

Star Box

2011-03-16T20:54:00.005+13:00

The star box we made on Crafters Anonymous. Check out the link on my side bar. This tutorial was from Rebekah Kaberry and is amazing. Thank you Rebekah for all your effort This would make a lovely box filled with chocies.

Friends Card

2011-03-16T20:44:00.004+13:00

This is a card I did with the Imagine. usingthe cupcake from best friends and wording from the cricut carts and colouring it on the imagine.

Decorate a clipboard challenge

2011-03-13T19:36:00.004+13:00

Another challenge from crafters anonymous. This time to make a clipboard or decorate one. Well i had a piece of board at home looking very -- "board". so I decided to bling it up with some sellotape I had left over from a few christmases ago. then I thought it would be good if I had something to hold some note paper so I have used 2 floppy disk pockets (now you know how old they sre). then the clips looked sort of sad so I used the sellotape agsin. the bird and cage (my humour) the bird has flown! they are Mariposa rubons I got on special. The owl is a cricut cutout I have had for some time and he just seemed to want to jump onto the page.

Gypsy and Imagine talk to each other

2011-03-13T01:47:00.002+13:00

This is a video on the Imagine linking with the gypsy and printing in colour

A Mini Album with envelopes

2011-03-10T22:08:00.004+13:00

Over at Crafters Anonymous we have Monday night classes on line learning all sorts of things. Last Monday we made a mini album with Julia Leece and here are my pics of what I made. This little Album will be entitled Me and Grandpa and I will be giving it to my DH for his birthday. Hop on over to my SU blog to find how I decorated this album.

An Easter Page

2011-03-06T17:25:00.007+13:00

Well not quite but couldn't resist the pic I took of my DGD and the layout that I had done. After doing my rabbit which I cased from Threasa Rafter's on (Crafters Anonymous) entry to monday nights class I decided to do another one in Blue to give her a friend. Then I set a challenge to download and weld a word in Cricut design studio so I thought I better do the post with what I did. I loved the bunnies so I thought I would do an Easter page. Having given the challenge for people to weld a word I thought this was a good opportunity to do just that and use it so I welded a 2.5 inch Easter but then changed my mind when I saw on the page how big it was and scaled it down to 2 inches. I also welded the 2011 which I made smaller still. Now I just have to add somewhere 'Not quite'