Stressed Out Sister

2012 christmas cards

2011-12-19T19:59:00.000+11:00

Yes I know, its been an age since I posted here. But I have been creative over the past couple of weeks so I'm going to show you my creations, starting with my Magnolia Christmas cards.

I've used copics on all my cards, and the papers have come from My Minds Eye Glitter Paper Packs, Penny Land and Love Nest. Just gorgeous for this time of year.

All the Tilda's skin and hair are the same, Skin E000, E00, E21 and R20. Hair E50, E51, E55, and E57. One of my Tilda's is a blondie, as I thought it would go with her blue dress better.

Because of the dark colouring of the card, I used some gold thread to decorate my tree. This tree is Flowering christmas Tree from Memory Box Inc. I embossed it for extra punch.

Back to Tilda, her dress is E77 and R37 as I didn't have a copic to match this colour. Her pinny and socks are R0000. Here is a close up.

Sorry about the shadow. I used Kindy Glitz on the tinsel for extra bling.

This is my next card.

This dress is BG0000, BG000, BG01 and BG53. The pinni and socks are BG0000. And the close up:

Tilda number 3.

Yes she is wearing RED! I was soo worried doing this little girl, red is one of the hardest colours for me to do. Her dress is R27, R29 and R37. Her pinny and socks are highlighted with B000. The close up shot:

I really like the red on this dress.

And for number 4:

My little blondie, her dress is B91, B93 and B95. Her pinny and socks are again B000.

For the blokes I came up with this card. It is a Stampin Up Stamp, I'm not sure what set its from as I broke all my sets up to put like with like. I'm finding people aren't getting the joke until I tell them. Do you get it?

Happy Birthday

2011-04-18T18:28:00.000+10:00

To my little sister. I got to crafting over the weekend after being inspired by someone elses blog, sorry I cant remember where I found this idea, but it is fun to make and looks good to boot.

Tada!

Yes, I know, brilliant. You cant see them but there are even candles on the cake. And No I didn't make the flower on the lid. I cut it out of a bouquet I have sitting on my desk getting dusty. Pretty though isn't it.

Something a little bit little

2011-02-01T17:43:00.001+11:00

Make it Colourful is having another challenge. Seeing as its still school holidays here, I thought I'd join in.
This challenge is Colour on Anything BUT white card stock!

I saw in Magnolia Ink a couple of issues ago (ps I'm still waiting on my Christmas issue, I'll be ordering online in the future) where they used Maggies on Shrink Plastic. I've been wanting to do it for ages, and had the shrink plastic already from Stamp Camp last year. I even remembered to dust the plastic with my embossing buddy before shrinking it so it didn't stick together.

I've christened two new maggies that arrived in the post today. We have Tilda with Big Balloon and Tilda with Big Bow. I have turned them into key rings / zipper pulls. I've coloured them with ordinary pencils, as I dont have any fancy ones.

As you can see they shrink down pretty small. I think I'll give one to my darling daughter for a zipper pull on her new school bag.

Colouring in Monochrome

2011-01-27T21:47:00.000+11:00

Make it Colourful are having a challenge this week colouring in Monochrome.

I chose a lovely stamp by Sweet Pea Stamps. It is called Lily Dream. I used my Copics of course, C1, C3 and C5. Oh and I highlighted with a tiny bit of pink. I also used Stampin Up's Baroque Motifs, grey card stock and silver embossing powder; Coredinations pink card stock, a cuttle bug embossing folder, some generic bling and Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels One.

I really like the way she has turned out. I have to remember to use my embossing buddy thingo before embossing. I never remember, doh! Let me know what you think.

More new cards

2011-01-14T14:13:00.003+11:00

I have two lovely cards to present today. One is a new Tilda (Magnolia) I got for Christmas. She is so gorgeous. I had a lot of fun colouring her. I also used a colour combo I hadn't gone with before. So here she is, a birthday card for my Mother. (I've got more of these flowers coming in the post, I cant wait to get them).

This next card I have made for my sisters baby shower. She has gone a bit jungle like in the baby's bedroom so I thought this card would be fitting. All the products in this are from Stampin Up.

Sorry its a bit blurry.

The paper used for the birthday card is from Kaiser Craft. It is a new release from December 2010 called English Rose. I love it and am tempted to buy some more of it.

Copics, copics, copics

2011-01-12T12:53:00.001+11:00

I love colouring with copics. The blending ability of them has dramatically changed my card making style. I enjoy it so much. And the range of colours is incredible. Copic Oz is having a competition at the moment giving away a pack of the 36 copic ciao colours. How exciting is that? Go here to find out how to enter the competition.

Aren't they beautiful?

Fabric Tattered Florals

2011-01-06T11:44:00.001+11:00

I am in a flower frenzie at the moment. I even bought a floral decorative feature at Kmart yesterday because the pink roses were just the right size for my cards, and it came with a container of "silk" petals underneat that I will put to good use.

These flowers are made with Tim Holtz' Tattered Florals and fabric. I think they turned out really well. The brads are Stampin Up's Build-a-brad and the small ones are from Making Memories from many many years ago.

I'm looking forward to putting these on a card.

I'm thinking of getting some spray starch to see if I can make some with petals that stand up.

A couple more new cards

2010-11-20T20:18:00.001+11:00

I had decided last night that I'd make some cards today as we had been told that we wouldn't have an electricity today. That never eventuated, but I did make some cards. I'm in love with what I've done with this first one, and am reluctant to let anyone else have it. It is an invitation to go out to our families for dd's 9th birthday in December.

Card stock and patterened papers are Stampin up. I've coloured Butterfly Tilda with copics. I've always wanted to try making an easel card, and now I've made 3 of this card, its not hard to do at all. The rose I found instructions for in the Magnolia magazine.

This next card was whipped up for dh's brother who is going into hospital on Tuesday to have his tonsils out. I used some scraps from the other cards to make it.

The stamp is from House of Mouse. Coloured with copics again.

A work in progress

2010-11-13T13:34:00.001+11:00

I'm working on a card at the moment and need some input from my favourite internet friends. Tell me: Do you think its balanced? Is it too much, not enough? etc etc.

A new project

2010-11-06T15:58:00.001+11:00

I decided I'd make something pretty for dd for her birthday next month. She is turning 9 and is getting past the age of toys, making it harder to find things for her. So after seeing a project on the Lime Tart blog, I decided to do something similar. Using Tilda stamps I made a set of 4 co-ordinating pictures all nicely framed.

The paper and cardstock is all from Stampin Up, and the punch is Martha Stewart. Some of the ribbon is Stampin Up, the ribbon in the first picture was wrapped around an order from Lime Tart. :) The images are all coloured in with copics (my favourite colouring medium).

Something a little fancy

2010-10-19T10:18:00.001+11:00

It took several days, but I've made another card. I really like this one.

As you can see, she is sitting on a bridge made from a sizzix embossing folder and coloured with SU ink pads. The leaves in the bottom right corner are also SU, as are the flowers, which I coloured using copics. The flower centers are from SU as well.

The birds and Tilda are all coloured with copics. The birds are a stamp from Whiff of Joy which I purchased at Lime Tart.

The background stamps are Stampscapes from The Stamp Trap. They are just so versitile.

Most of the inking on this card has been done by sponging SU inks.

Introducing Eli

2010-10-11T07:46:00.002+11:00

Isn't he beautiful? I think so anyway.

Some recent cards

2010-10-07T10:27:00.000+11:00

Here are a couple of recent cards. The first one is dh's fathers day card. It took hours and hours to do, but thankfully I had a great tutorial and plans to watch because of this girl Valita.

This is another card I've made just this week. I wanted to make a just because card, so made one suited to my mother who loves everything France. I will update wtih all the card details soon.

I found another great new challenge blog

2010-08-23T15:47:00.000+10:00

The Fuzzy Wuzzy Challenges blog

On September 3, this great new blog is going to give away some fantastic Candy and run their first challenge!!!! Who doesn't like candy? I love Candy and challenges, they get my creative side going. Visit the link above and take a look at the great gifts they are giving away, and find out how you too can win it.

Up for grabs is:
*$30 (AUD) gift voucher from Tickled Pink Stamps
*Two digital stamps of your choice and an unmounted Hansel rubber stamp from The Stamping Bazaar
*$15 (AUD) digi stamp gift voucher from Make It Crafty
*One Popcorn Bear set - Golfing Popcorn
*One TGF Marlene Stamp

Isn't this so exciting? I cant wait for their first challenge, how about you?

Pixi card

2010-07-27T08:56:00.001+10:00

I've been crafting again this weekend. I decided to work on a challenge on Mad for Markers. I made this card using a new stamp I purchased on Friday from Lime Tart. Isn't she gorgeous? I think I used nearly every marker I have in the copic range.

I am very happy with how she turned out actually. One of my favourites.

A new card for a new baby

2010-07-21T12:25:00.000+10:00

A very good friend of mine is having a baby. So for her Shower I have made a cute card. Its using the Animal Stories set from Stampin Up. I've made a similar card before, but I changed it up a bit.

Yes those are my copics behind it. Hehe.

To make this card I used my SU ink pads, my score pal and my sidekick for the lettering.

Copics

2010-07-11T19:35:00.003+10:00

Copics, my new favourite hobby associated with my card making, colouring in with markers that blend together beautifully to create beautiful artwork. Any way, check out their new shop.

Lime Tart has a beginners club for those interested in copics. This is where my dh bought my first set and I have just bought my add on kit. What great instructions to go with that lovely stamp. Phillipa is a pleasure to deal with.

Make it Crafty has launched its own online store, and boy do they have great stuff.

Made for Markers is fabulous, also a fine provider of copics, notice a common thread?

Another great store is Scrapbook Boutique. A favourite of mine, I have been a customer since it was a little ebay store. It has loads of fabulous products, take a look.

All of these are my current favourite stores.

New toys

2010-07-09T15:01:00.000+10:00

Its my Birthday, Happy Birthday to me! So I'm playing with some new toys, and here are the results. If you want more information on what was used check here.

And for Kyles Birthday I made this:

So, what do you think?

Yet another Fathers Day Card

2009-09-03T20:25:00.004+10:00

Ok, this is the last Fathers Day Card. This one is for my Dad from me (well and my family I spose). I really enjoyed making this, it took nearly an hour to do. The idea is that its a photo of Fathers Day this Sunday.

I've put a card on the back so it will stand alone, but I can also write a special message inside. He'll have the choice of hanging it, or standing it on a shelf.

The characters are our family. From left to right: my sisters hubby Robbie, my sister Pammy Peaches, and their dog Chiccy, my bubby girl Kyra, my mum, their dog Tessie, my dad, my step daughter Hannah, my step son Kyle (with the red shirt), me, my darling hubby Shane and mum and dads dog Sally (she's a pug, cant you tell). I have to tell you, the resemblence is uncanny. Actually none of us look like this apart from the dogs.. roflmao.

I'm very proud of this one. My darling is sick of me showing it to him, hehe.

Another fathers day card

2009-09-03T13:57:00.002+10:00

I've made this card for my mum to give to my dad. Inside is the information about a concert she is taking him to.

More new cards

2009-09-02T14:03:00.004+10:00

Ok, as promised, I have been cardmaking. I finally got around to taking photos of them yesterday, and now I'm taking the opportunity of being home alone to take some photos.

The first 2 are for my dh for Fathers Day. DD saw the first one and announced that she needed one to give to him too. Ok so the second one is a bit feminin, but I like it.

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The next card is a step card and inspired from 2 sources.

The idea for the step card was found at Creating Cards with Andrea . The colouring of the roses was found at Michell Zindorfs blog It took me forever to find the colours that she asks for but the ARE in the set of complete pens from Stampin Up.

Now I just have to make a card for my Dad.

More Candy

2009-08-13T20:13:00.000+10:00

This one is a lovely set of stamps from Fluttabyz Craft Haven. These girls are the cutest. Such lovely girls out there giving gifts all over the world.

Blog candy

2009-08-13T20:06:00.002+10:00

There is so much candy to have out there in blog land. Especially for crafters. Mmmm there is some glorious stuff. So one site is The Crafty Den. Go have a look see. So much wonderful stuff. Drool. I'm thinking I'm going to have to start jumping all over blog land after that candy. :)

A little gripe

2009-08-09T21:05:00.003+10:00

You know there are a lot of fantastic blogs out there with all sorts of stamping and scrapbooking ideas. Some even have ideas for sale. I bought into one of these sites because I thought it was a great price, even if its just for a month. But when you go to download the templates and instructions, you cant copy them, you cant print them or anything because they are in this special adobe file sharing site. I'm sorry, but if I want to pay for interesting ideas and instructions, I want to be able to print them out and work on them after my one month membership has expired. I dont think I'll be signing up again at the end of the month. They are also a week behind already with getting ideas up online. Nothing since Monday.

I'll keep looking at the ones on Splitcoast Stampers I think. Save my money.

Notable Inspirations

2009-07-20T19:26:00.002+10:00

I am the first to admit that I'm not always overly creative. Sometimes, ok often, I go searching the net for inspiration. One of the greatest I've found for inspiration, and a site that I often find myself branching off to other fantastic blogs is priscillastyles. Not only do they have great sketches to work from, but great blog candy and prizes too. You have to go have a look. It's well worth it. There are so many beautiful cards on that blog. I've made more than one card after visiting there.

More creating.

2009-07-13T15:03:00.006+10:00

As promised, I've been creating, and have finally taken photos of some of the cards I've been making over the past week. I've been using a paper pack from Stampin Up for the most part. The sweet nothings pack.

Here are 2 made with items only from the pack.

This next one is from the same pack, but with a stamp from Fifth Avenue (Stampin Up)stamped on Shimmer Paper and water coloured.

This last one was inspired from the sketch on Priscilla Styles with their Midnight Madness Challenges. I've done one of these challenges before, but I really liked this sketch and wanted to enter. I like to do challenges, and look forward to doing more. Anyway, this card is made from the same pack with the following Stampin Up stamps: Ebrace Life, Say it with Scallops, and live your dream. I used Chocolate Chip in and my pens from Stampin up. The brads are from Making Memories.

Its the holidays

2009-07-06T11:30:00.005+10:00

Its a freezing day here in old cold Canberra. Its 11.30 and 2 degrees. Blah!

Its the first day of the school holidays, dd is still in her jammies even though I've asked her several times to get dressed. I think we have the same problem as we did last year in that she grew out of all her winter clothes some months ago, and she cant find anything to wear.

I know I haven't been posting lately, (Ooh look its exactly a month since my last post) but last night I did sit down and created a card from one of my new stamp sets. I'm planning on making at least one card with every stamp set this holidays. I've hurt my back so there will be no spring cleaning this time round. Yay! No really, sitting in my chair leaning against a heat pillow works wonders.

So here is last nights card. Its basic, but I like it. I have to start buying some Stampin Up ribbons to match my cardstock, patterned paper and inks now. Sigh.

New creation

2009-06-06T17:07:00.004+10:00

Hi all,

I know I've been missing in action as of late, but I've been very busy at the school with getting the canteen up and running, fundraising, organising discos and running the shop.

But, I went to Stamp Club the other night and did some creating. Here it is.

And here it is open.

I did have a little trouble with inking up the words enough, but I will make this again. I just have to get the circle punch and that long word punch and the little sticky raised thingies and and and ........ It never ends hey.

Challenge time

2009-05-21T12:00:00.004+10:00

Ok, instead of cleaning I've been crafting. But I'm enjoying it much more than I would cleaning...lol. This card was made for a challenge at

http://priscillastyles.blogspot.com

(I did it, I did it, thanks for the help girls)

I haven't done many challenges, and I had left over cardstock from the card I made the other day, and thought whay not put it to use. Actually I used scraps for the entire card. Not bad for someone who has only done one other challenge and that was only 2 days ago.

All the card stock and dsp are from Making Memories. Not quite the same as the original sketch, but thats called creative licence.

When Inspriation Strikes

2009-05-19T21:48:00.004+10:00

Go with the flow.

I was inspired by a lead on Splitcoast Stampers that led me to this blog

http://craftiblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/2009-04-23-quad-fold-card-sample-tutorial/

(Sorry once again I'm having a problem with my links)

I was so inspired that I went ahead and made 2 cards in one evening. Here they are.

I stamped the blue card and the pink card. I've used Making Memories patterned papers and Creative Memories Card stock (I knew I'd use it one day). Of course I'm using my wonderful pens for inks. I likie likie.

Mothers day stash and another card

2009-05-12T14:34:00.004+10:00

As promised, here is the present that my wonderful husband bought me for Mothers Day.

Isn't he just the best. I nominate him for best husband in the universe.

I sat down this afternoon and put some stamps together, and had a wonderful idea for a card, but on trying it it didn't work. But I didn't let that preturb me, I plugged on and came up with this:

Although its a lot simpler than a lot of cards I see out there, I think its lovely. Lilacs are my favourite flower, the smell of them is glorious, the colour and the way they hang off their branches.

I used some old Creative Memories card stock, (I knew it would come in handy one day), white Bazzil, and Petal Prints stamp. Of course I used my new pens, Lovely Lilac, Chocolate Chip, Handsom Hunter and Elegant Eggplant.

I like it, I like it. I was going to give it to a friend, but now I'm having second thoughts. I think I might have to start making doubles.

Monday Monday

2009-05-11T09:56:00.002+10:00

Hello World!

I'm in a bit of a nutty mood today, so bear with me.

Thanks to the loverly people who commented on my card I made. I love it so much, I've made an identical one.

My dh who is so wonderful gave me lots of Stampin Up supplies for Mothers Day, including the full collection of pens. Drool worthy right? I had a little play with them last night, but nothing I was happy with. 3 sets of stamps as well, including my favourite Fifth Avenue Floral. I cant wait to play with those. I'll have to have a friend over to play this week I think.

No photos today, but I will take a photo of my stash of stuff I got for mothers day, later on.

Off to read other peoples blogs and see what they do with the stamps I got.

Mothers day card

2009-05-09T20:31:00.003+10:00

Ok here is The card. What do you think?

So Saturday

2009-05-09T19:22:00.007+10:00

It didn't start too good. What with the girls waking me up early, giggling and thumping on the wall. I felt like thumping them, but I didn't. I finished my card today, but I'm waiting on the battery on the camera to charge so I cant take a photo yet either. But I will. In the mean time, take a look at this blog

http://fionajcardsandmore.blogspot.com

while you are waiting. Isn't it gorjuss? Isn't she clever. Love those stamps.

Hmmm

2009-05-05T16:28:00.001+10:00

Life is so stressful at the moment.

Today was a busy one as per usual, and hopefully the worst for the week. Tomorrow will be a better day.

Day 1 Term 2

2009-04-29T08:01:00.003+10:00

Oh my goodness. It was so cold yesterday, and the poor kids had to do cross country. Not only was there a cold wind, but it was also sprinkling. Poor Kyra didn't have a choice but to sit in the cold with the teachers as her foot is still healing. She was wishing she'd brought her jacket with her thats for sure.

But when I asked her how her day was she informed me that it was Fantastic. Never heard that one before. I think she's happy to be out of the wheel chair and able to play on the equipment again.

My boxes didn't arrive yet for the shop, so I had a lot of unhappy customers, but thats not my fault. I think they have very high expectations of me that I just can't keep up with. So I asked the school to put in the newsletter that preordered uniforms will be available next week. Give me a couple of days to get all that work done.

I was in bed at 7pm last night, so no crafting got done, but here is one I did earlier.

Happy Birthday Card

2009-04-27T20:00:00.003+10:00

I made this card tonight for my Step Daughters birthday this week. She's turning 9, but is still a bit of a pink princess. Thats why I've used this stamp, which is from Stampin Up and is called Pretty Princess. Very appropriate for our girls. I've used Bazzil card stock, as I had some scraps of it, Kaiser Craft Rhinestones, SU Basic Black ink and Sugar Loaf pens (simply because I dont have any SU ones yet, but my fingers are crossed for Mothers Day.

I'll have to start thinking about Mothers Day cards now, and cards I'm going to use as gifts for my grandfather and my sister this Christmas.

Album pages for bush fire families

2009-02-18T07:46:00.001+11:00

I got this email today and already knew about it, but thought I'd post it here too. I'm going to do some pages myself.

Good afternoon Everyone..

I would like to take some time out to ask for your help. Many of you may or may not be aware of an appeal that has been launched out of NSW by Sara Gladman (a very prominant scrapbooker and artist). Sara is trying to put together one almost completed scrapbook album for every family of the bush fire tragedy in Victoria (over 1000 homes) .

Most have lost everything however their memories will not be taken away from them and many when faced with the onset of danger just managed to grab the family photos. Some may feel that if they lost everything including photos, then this appeal would be just adding ‘salt to wound’ so to speak however in time…at the right time..I am sure photos can be given from friends and relatives so these people can treasure their precious memories, after all this is the main reason we scrapbook!

We are asking you to partially complete pages/layouts so that a picutre can be inserted by the receving family. These can be across a variety of themes such as baby, birthday, Christtmas, play time etc. Then arrange a time with me by phone or email to deliver your pages to Treasures for Angels in Kaleen. Once collated I will send these to Sara for insertion into each album.

Many people have gotten behind Sara including TV segments on Sunrise, ABC Melbourne and offers from the army to help deliver the albums in Melbourne. Many scrpabooking wholesalers have donated albums. This appeal is logistically huge! but so worth all our efforts.

Please send this email out to your friends / colleagues / bulletin boards / online forums etc so we can get the message out to Canberrans and the surrounding region. This is such an important component to the recovery of those affected and many locals will remember only so well what it was like in Canberra when it was burning only a short time ago.

If you are wanting more information please go to Saras blog http://sares1911.wordpress.com/ and read about the "Memory Gifts". I have also attached a A4 simple flyer that you can print to put into your workplace, playgroups and other public noticeboards.

I will be sending out reminder emails every 3-4 days as I know that everyone is very busy. At this stage I believe that our pages will be due to Sara by the 15 March 2009.

If you need any help whatsoever please let me know. All pages will be cherished.

I have also just set up a blog where you can go to keep updated on our progress, events and pics of layouts being produced. http://marsi09.wordpress.com/

Let the preparation and counting of laytous begin.......

Maria Cofinas

Treasures for Angels

9 Bokhara Circuit

Kaleen ACT

6161 4792

admin@treasuresforangels.com.au

http://marsi09.wordpress.com/