Last day!!!!

Today is the last day of the

summer mini catalogue

AND 

Saleabration,

so if there is anything you liked get in really quick, I will be placing last minute orders up until 6PM tonight Adelaide time. Contact me HERE to place your order.  I will be back tomorrow with our brand new catalogue, You are really going to love it.

Pink Bliss

I have to say that when I created the focal point to this card, it wasn't for this actual card, and the idea went horribly wrong (yes even happens to us!) anyway, I salvaged the focal image and popped it onto a new card.

A pearl adorns the centre of the flourish.

Super shiny isnt it? I embossed the whole focal image 3 times to make it
look like glass. It goes perfectly with the sweet and sour DSP 

Details:

Stamp Sets: Bliss (sale a bration)
Ink Pads: early espresso, rose red
Cardstock: Whisper white, basic black
DSP:  Sweet and sour
Tools: Big shot machine
Other: Nestie, sponge, basic pearl.

A flower for you...

I really struggled with this card for whatever reason, but when it was finished, I sat back and was okay with it.  I used the petals a plenty embossing folder in the background, and sponged it over lightly with old olive ink.  The flowers are from the summer mini HOSTESS ONLY set. 

Edges were inked in so saffron (on saffron c/s), KISS technique used on
flowers with the stamp set enfrancais.

Details:

Stamp Sets:  Punched posies (hostess only), enfrancais
Ink Pads: Early espresso, So saffron, old olive
Cardstock: Old olive, so saffron, whisper white
Punches: petal flower punch
Tools: Big shot machine
Other: Petals a plenty embossing folder, sponges, Old olive satin ribbon, dimensionals, glue dots.

Happy easter card and a box

A couple of weeks ago I did a big shot workshop and I demoed the card below and all the guests got to make this cute little Easter box:

Details:

Stamp Sets: Easter blossoms
Ink Markers and Pads:  Pretty in pink marker and pad, certainly celery marker
Cardstock:Crumb cake, Whisper white, pretty in pink
Punches:scallop oval punch
Tools: Big shot machine, sticky strip, bone folder
Other:  Petals a plenty embossing folder, acrylic block

Happy Birthday take 2

I have another birthday card for you this week using once again the celebrations DSP, this paper is perfect for birthdays, and there are a lot at the moment, especially with Harry now at kindy, so I thought I would get ahead by one or two.

Here is this weeks submission to the CASE study challenge,

  The inspiration photo:

and my entry

cupcake was embossed with dazzling diamonds. I used the curly label
punch for the fancy shaped happy birthday sign

The crimper was used on the cake base, along with twine,
crystal effects are added to the cherry

and it also fits with the SU only challenge this fortnight of birthdays, and Shellis challenge of cupcakes.

 
"Yes, the happy birthday stamp AND the cupcake punch are BOTH SNEAK PEAKS!"

Details:

Stamp Sets:  Bring on the cake (coming soon)
Ink Pads: Marina Mist, Real red, Pacific point
Cardstock: Whisper white,
DSP:  Celebrations
Punches: Curly Label punch, fancy flower punch,  cupcake punch (Coming soon)
Tools: Heat gun, Paper crimper, Paper piercer (for rolling the DSP at the top)
Other:Dazzling diamonds, heat n stick powder, twine, Whisper white satin ribbon

Happy Birthday Dad

Today is my dads birthday, and I made his card and popped it on here a couple of weeks ago, but I will show you again:

 The D is for the initial of his name.

I hope you have a very happy birthday today dad,

Love Melissa, Andrew and Harry xx

A sneak peek and a thank you

Okay so I have  for you - another card similar to the one last week  - the stamp set is a sneak peak of a new stamp set coming in just  a weeks time, how exciting, and I teemed that up very loosely with LAST WEEKS sketch  over at Just Add Ink  and here it is:

Happy Birthday

Happy birthday to my mother in law, hope you have a lovely day.  You would have this by now, but its a hand stamped candle with a card.

Bliss stamp used on top half of card as a background stamp, butterflies from bliss set also.

Stamp set used is "Bliss"

Happy birthday to you

Yay, I had time to sit down and do another CASE study challenge this week, it doesn't happen very often, but I love to do it when I can squeeze in the time.  Here is the card we had to CASE this week from the wonderful muse of the month Julee Tilman.

and here is my card:

 I used the party hats as a party banner!

The photo below is to show you the cupcakes, I used a glaze pen on them to give them some more interest.  The  cherries also have crystal effects added for the cherry glaze.

Details:

Stamp Sets: Crazy for cupcakes,  Birthday bakery
Ink Pads: Real red, Pacific Point, bashful blue, Old olive
Cardstock: Whisper white, Old olive
DSP:  Celebrations DSP
Punches: Small tag punch, Large tag punch, corner ticket punch
Tools: Cropadile, eyelet
Other: White grosgrain ribbon, whisper white tafetta, crystal effects, sakura glaze pen

A lovely blog award

Its always nice to wake on a Sunday morning to some happy "emails", and this morning is one of those happy mornings, In my inbox was a lovely message from Patrice letting me know she has given me a blog award.

Thanks so much Patrice, Hugs Mel x

I have posted the 8 things about myself  HERE - so you can pop over and read them if you wish.  But I will pass this award onto some other gorgeous bloggers whom I haven't given this award to previously (and in no particular order).

1.  Deborah
2.  Deb
3.  Trish
4.  Liam
5.  Dee
6. Bronwyn

Ok, thats all for now, I will be back tomorrow with my entry into the CASE study challenge from Thursday.
  

For You

I am loving these two new sets that will be coming in the new mini, they are beautiful, so here is another card for you today and its also for the Just Add ink challenge this week.  The colours we had to use were:

The flowers were stamped first then again on another piece of white cardstock
then cut out and raised on dimensionals to give a 3D look. It took a VEREEE
long time lol,  but I think it was worth it.

The inside of the card

Details:  All Stampin' Up!

Stamp Sets:sneak peak - coming soon
Ink Pads: Rich razzleberry, Crumb cake, Old Olive
Cardstock:  Crumb cake, Whisper white, Old Olive
Punches:  Modern Label
Tools:  Cropadile, eyelets
Other: Twine, Dimensionals

A shadow effect

I don't usually pull out colours like these, so was a little out of my comfort zone, but boy did I love the final effect.  I used the cajun craze with the black and white, and its a fantastic colour combination, i think.  Ok here is my card:

Details:

Stamp Sets: Just Believe
Ink Pads: Basic black, Cajun craze
Cardstock: Basic black, Cajun craze, whisper white
DSP: Regals DSP stacks
Tools:  Big shot, nesties
Other: Black grosgrain ribbon

A ribbon flower?

I popped into Stuck on you sketches as they have a weekly tutorial now and found this gorgeous flower, so I pulled out my Whisper White organza ribbon from Stampin' up! and gave it a whirl.

 

Popped in a vintage brad from Stampin' Up! and then used the little strips of pearls from the basic pearl line we carry, adhered them onto some very thin cardstock and used as a decorative feature from the centre brad. I love the result now hope SU brings out more organza ribbon in different shades ??

Details:All Stampin Up!

 Basic Pearls, Whisper white organza ribbon, vintage brad and slivers of whisper white cardstock for behind the pearls.

French Foliage

This is the second attempt at this card, I will show you the other one in a few days - its been programmed.  But for now here is my entry into Just Add Ink this week.  OHHHHH and a little sneak peak of an upcoming stamp set in the new mini catalogue due on the 1st April. Gorgeous isn't it??

 

The flower is made from certainly celery satin ribbon

Details: All Stampin' up! unless stated.

Stamp Sets:  French Foliage
Ink Pads:  Crumb cake, Certainly celery
Cardstock:  Whisper white, Crumb cake,
Tools: Cotton and needle for the stitching of the flower.
Other: Twine, vintage brad

Happy Birthday to my husband!

Well today is my husbands birthday, I can't believe he is that old lol, I met him back when he was 19, and we have been together now for nearly 18 years! Wow, where does the time go?  Anyway here is his card I made him:

I used a distressed look embossing folder on the foil, I wanted it irregular
as a background.

Happy Birthday to my darling husband, I hope you have a wonderful day,

Lots of love

Mel

xx

Inking an embossing folder.

I am just back from another weekend of camping (yep trying to do it each month lol) and so I have a quick but effective card to show you, actually I have made two cards to show you today, and they are almost identical, the only real major difference is one card has the embossing inked differently to the other, but I love both ways for different reasons.

With this card, I inked up the top of the embossing folder where the sizzix
name is, and it achieved a more vintagey look

With this card I inked up the bottom part of the embossing folder and it turned
out to be more of a regal look to the card.

The inside of the two cards.

Hmm, which one do you prefer?  I can't decide, I like them both.!

Details:

Stamp Sets: Curly cute, Artistic etchings
Ink Pads: Basic black, Crumb cake
Cardstock: Crumb cake, very vanilla, basic black
Punches: 1 3/8" square punch, 1 1/4" square punch
Tools:  Big shot machine,
Other: embossing folder (I used vintage wallpaper)