Hello fellow crafters, Just adding a few pictures of some cards that I made recently. I love the green/brown colour combination of this first card.

 Bright and happy card.

 Simple card...could be for a male or female.

 Happy purple card.

Happy Crafting to all.
Gayle

Layered stamping

As promised, the card that I gave to a dear friend last month. While looking through a stamping magazine a found this technique where you have the 3 pieces of paper that you are stamping on layered on top of each other then you stamp your image/s. Once you have finished stamping you add your mounts (brown cards). I love the finished effect.

 



Happy Crafting
Gayle

Hello 2014

I would like to wish you all a Very Happy 2014. 

 2014 has started with a big bang...yes a big birthday for me!

 2014 has also started off really well in the card making scene.

 

 

 

I would also love to say that it has rained here and things are looking great but I can't....that one will have to wait another day....but I do love this sunset.

Happy crafting in 2014 to all.

Gayle

 

Orange...Missing in action

As Brooke can tell you....I love orange....(I also think that green could be my next favourite colour) so since I haven't made anything orange for soooo long. I reached into my scrap box, pulled a few orange pieces of scrap paper, selected the dotty background paper in a 6x6 paper pad and whipped up this ORANGE card....

 This one could pass off as orange too....

 I love how the layering of the butterfly makes the wings look like they are moving.

 This is a recent sunrise through the fog.

 Happy Crafting
Gayle

Very sorry about the long pause to my blogging....again.... Life gets in the way.

My apologies.

Occasionaly I will be given something and I think that I will use it to make something crafty and the item will sit and sit for ages and I will not use it. Then one cool winter day I get creating and use it. Today I pulled out the white plastic sticker sheet that was given to me and ran it through the Big Shot and made the "tweet and bird" below. It was great....no need for any adhesive on the fiddly "tweet" wording....I love quick cards.



 

 Brooke made this tag at the markets on the weekend. I couldn't resist adding it to my card below.

 Love these papers....prima almanac collection

Happy Crafting
Gayle

Mother's Day is coming soon.

Just a little reminder that Mother's Day is just around the corner and you should get your crafting gear out and make your Mum a very special card. Here's a few ideas to get you started.

 

 I asked my hubby which one he liked best.

Can you guess?

Leave me a comment.

Hope to here from you!

 

 

 

 Could not resist snapping this sunset yesterday.

Have fun making your Mother's Day card.
Happy Crafting
Gayle

Creating In the Pink Zone!

Hi...I must have been in my pink zone for these cards.

 

I cracked open a new set of embossing folders. See dots and sentiment's below. Cranked up the handle on the Big Shot and got creating some pink cards.

 

These could be my favourite colours for this month.....maybe??

 

 

I may have to make my Mum a Mother's Day Card in these colours this year.

 

 

Have you made anything pink lately? 

 

Gayle

The Ugly Paper Challenge results...

Hi and welcome to our Blog,

Today I am posting the results from our "Ugly Paper Challenge". It was not a competition, just a bit of fun to use up some of our more "challenging" papers. You can now see the results (ie. cards, scrapbook pages) from using our "ugly papers" below. Go here and here to see some before pictures of these papers.

May I also add here a big thank you to all who have taken part in our challenge, I hope that you have had some fun in doing so. Now scroll down and check out these creations....

 

 

Michelle's iris eye folded card....I took this close up photo so you can see all the hard work that has gone into making this card.

 My partner in crime...What's this.....she is making her card at the markets....nothing like a deadline.

 Michelle's Card

 Brooke's card.

 Zoe's card

 Tanya's card. ( Tanya and Zoe let me know if I have these names around the wrong way)

Now our youngest challenge taker..... Meg's scrapbook page..

 Random photo....YUM YUM....My girls made this for desert the other night.

 My card.

That's all for now.

Happy Crafting to you...I am off to do some fencing.

Gayle

Quilty cards

Hi, I hope that you are all enjoying the rain. I find that I am most productive when it is rainy weather. Today is NOT the case. I have been ??? not sure actually where today went.

These cards are cards that I made some time ago and have recently photographed. When I looked at them to title this blog post I thought they reminded me of quilts...I hope you like them too.

These last two cards do not remind me of quilts but thought I would add them in aswell as I do love the colours.

Happy Crafting
Gayle

Serenade by Bo Bunny

Hi there again,

I want to share with you some cards that I have made from the Bo Bunny Serenade Collection of 6x6" papers. I love the colours in this pack and think that they look elegant. The papers are a mix of green, red, black, tan and a creamy yellow. Enjoy!!

Thanks for stopping by.
Gayle

Male cards...

People always ask me for ideas for male cards. So here are three very easy cards for that boy or man about the house. We have a new 6"x6" paper pad that has sporty papers in it. I used a soccer paper out of this pad and cut out the soccer balls to make the top 2 card. The background papers on these cards are also in the paper pad. I hope that these very simple ideas will help you next time you go to make a special card for the man in your life (or if you are very lucky....the men in your life).
Until next time
Happy Crafting
Gayle