Hi there,

Well this time I have a very good excuse for neglecting my blog, three months ago I became quite unwell with a fever and a temperature of 40.5. I was admitted into hospital through the emergency department and ended up spending a week in hospital with an infection in my leg. After coming out of hospital to recover, I spent 8 weeks unable to walk and the infection got worse.

Finally the worst of it is over and now I am able to walk again but there is still infection in my leg, which obviously is going to take me some time to get over completely.

It is so amazing how something like this can just happen and knock you down completely. I am so glad that I have such an amazing husband that not only helped take care of me, but held our family together as well.

Well enough about me, obviously I haven’t been able to craft alot while I was unwell, but recently as I felt able and we have had so many birthdays lately I got inspired to create some cards and gifts. 

This first card is one I made for my brother-inlaws birthday which was back in october, he is in to boating and fishing so I thought this cute stamp from la la land “fisherman Luka” would suit his card well.

I used copic markers to colour luka and the pattern paper is from Kaiser Craft, the punch, brads and birthday stamp are all from Stampin’ Up!.

This next card is for my friend, her birthday was when I was in hospital so she didn’t mind receiving her gift very belated.

For this card I have used Strawberry Tilda, this gorgeous die from die-namics Decorative Oval Doily and this cute strawberry paper which I found in my stash (sorry can’t remember were I got it from). The cardstock and stamp are from Stampin’ Up!.

I also wrapped her gift  with some chocolate’s in the strawberry theme, here is  photo:

I also made a card for my friends husband, I’m not really happy the way this photo turned out but I will show it anyway.

This set Up Up & Away from Stampin’ Up! is such a great versitle stamp which is great for male cards as I don’t have a lot of stamps that I can use for male cards.

I have themed his gift of chocolates to match the card:

Anyway I think thats all I have for today sorry for such a long winded post, maybe 2012 will be a better year for sharing my creativity.

Untill next time!

Cindy

Hello,

Still on the boy theme, the cards I’m sharing today are for my nephew.

He turned two yesterday and his party was last weekend, but unfortunately due to some sickness and other commitments we weren’t able to go. 

This first card I made was just with some scrap pattern paper and cardstock. I sent this card in the mail to rsvp.

His party was themed on trucks and diggers, so I thought this was good opportunity to pull out the “ by land ” stamp set from Stampin’ Up! This stamp set goes back a few years, but it’s such a great stamp set for making boy cards and layouts.

Unfortunately we still didn’t get to see our nephew on his birthday as our family is still down with sickness, but I’m sure he liked his present and card.

Card supplies: Stamp Sets: Stampin’ Up! ”By Land” (retired) and “On Your Birthday”. Cardstock – Stampin’ Up!: Real Red, Marina Mist, Pear Pizazz and Whisper White. Ink: Basic Black. Markers – Satmpin’ Up!: Pumpkin Pie, Real Red and Basic Black. Pattern Paper: Fancy Pants – Too the Moon Collection. Dies – Die-namics Simply Scallops Large and Spellbinders-Sprightly Sprockets.

Thanks for looking!

Cindy

Hi There,

I thought I would join in and make a card for the Inkspirations colour challenge this week. I realised its been over a year since I participated in a card challenge so here goes:

I recently bought “ the birthday Boy” stamp from Stamping Bella, which I thought would look great in these bright vibrant colours.

Here are the colours:

and here is my card:

Card Supplies: Stamp: Stamping Bella “the birthday boy”, Stampin’ Up! Retired Polka Dot. Cardstock & Inks – Marina Mist, Real Red, Whisper White and Old Olive. DSP: Celebrations. Punch – scallop border. Aqua Painter and Gems.

Thanks for looking!

Cindy

Hi again,

Well I guess you didn’t think I would be back so soon lol…….

Today I thought I would share the card I made for my father-inlaw for Fathers Day, which I have cased from one of my very talented good friends.

It was my friend Cheryl that inspired me to actually purchase the Tim Holtz- Umbrella Man die and I have really fallen in love with it.

So here is the card I made:

To make the card first I used distress ink – tumbled glass using the distressing tool I competely covered my white cardstock with it, then cut out my umbrella man die setting a side the die cut and using the left over cut out, to use as a mask and then in broken china randomly added the umbrella man by inking the mask over the card covered in tumble glass. Then I took this piece of cardstock using Tim Holtz embossing folder – Patchwork,  ran it through the big shot.

Using broken china distress ink I went over the tumbled glass ink and around the edges of the embossed cardstock and then added  basic grey ink over the top and edges again. I then took my cut out umbrella man and inked in the same process as I had done with the background card and then ran it through the bigshot with the same embossing folder and reapeated the inking. 

Then I just inked up the word stamp dad in basic grey stamped it on white cardstock and matted it to some navy cardstock. I adhered the umbrella man with dimensionals to make him pop out. I really hope that all made sense.

I was really exctited about making this card as I really love the effect that it has and I was so happy with the way it turned out.

Thanks for looking!

Cindy

Hello,

Well what can I say. I can make up all the excuses in the world at why I have neglected my blog, but I don’t really think you would all want to read it. So how about I just show some of the things I have been up to.

In my crafting world for the last  few months I haven’t really been creating a lot, but I do have some cards I would like to share.

First up I was at “Stamp It” one of the stamping crafting stores I like to shop at and they were participating in a great cause “Cards for Soldiers” so they asked me if I could do some cards up for the cause.

So here is what I came up with:

I kept the layout of the cards simple as I they didn’t want the cards to be bulky. I also just made multiples of the same card as this was just easier to get them made quickly.

I also made a christmas card.

and here is a photo of how I packaged them to send.

I normal just make cards for friends and family but I really enjoyed making these cards knowing they are going to put a smile and some joy into a soldiers loved one.

Thanks for looking!

Cindy

 Hi again,

Well it has been a long time between posts. I think if  I was going to go into why its been so long, one blog post wouldn’t be enough lol!!!

Anyway what can I say sometimes lifes ups and downs just get in the way and before you know it months have past by.

I haven’t stopped creating but just haven’t got my act together to share any of my crafting.

I recently purchased some Magnolia stamps, I know I am behind with the times but it actually took me a long time to actually fall in love with them, but now I think I’m hooked.

This first card is of  Traveling Tilda and I have sat her on the Spring Fence. I have coloured Tilda with Copic Markers ( I’m still learning how to colour with copics). But I am happy with the way my colouring turned out, I just added some pattern paper with a dolie placed on top and a punched border to finish the card off.

This second card is of Tilda wants a hug, this time I have placed Tilda in front of the fence.

I do have some more cards to share with you that I have done I just have to get around to photographing them, so hopefully I will get them posted soon.

Thanks for looking!!!

Cindy

Hi again,

The New Year began with sadness for our family, as my husbands dear Gran passed away on the 2nd. We farewelled her on Monday with a beautiful memorial service at the church she regularly attended. My sister-inlaw had asked me to help her put together a collage of photo’s of Gran’s life to display at the entrance of the church for her funeral.

We spent two days putting together this collage as we wanted to preserve the original photo’s I had to scan them all and change alot of them to black & white, get them printed and ready to assemble.

Here is the collage:

We are going to miss our sweet little Gran dearly, as she was such a kind, loving and generous lady who never complained about anything and was always so encourging.

Now after spending the time on the collage, it has given me some inspiration to get into some papercrafting again, just need to find some time now to fits some in.

Till next time

Cindy xx

Hi there,

Just popped in to share what has been happening in my world. Sorry this is bit of a long post. Well it has been a couple of months now since I have been able to think of looking at my blog or at anyone else’s for a matter of fact, I have had to take on part time work, which has really limited me spending time on stamping and scrapbooking and taking on the responsibility of getting puppies when we already have 5 cats and 7 rabbits, has taken alot more of my time and to add to it we took on another puppy from the same litter which we named Henry. 

Here are George, Henry and Rosie:

Henry is in the middle!

Christmas is very quiet for us, my family came in the afternoon for a visit and we don’t see Mark’s family at Christmas as they spend it away. We ended up spending most of the day in the pool as it was so hot. We also went to visit Mark’s sweet little Granny who has been layed up in hospital with a broken hip and is recoverying from surgery.

Here is a photo of her just about to have her lunch, this photo was taken on Marks mobile phone, stupid me didn’t take my camera.

Christmas night we were woken by gale force winds, I have never seen winds that strong here before and there was alot of loud noise’s outside. In the morning we woke to find our Hardy Fence had fallin over.

My eldest son Matthew graduated from Yr 7 Primary and is moving on to Yr 8  High School in 2011, so this is a big challenge for him as my husband Mark and I had to make the decision to send him to a school that we thought would be best suited for him and on the down side with that is none of his friends are attending this school and he is going in knowing nobody, a little stress for me but I am sure he will make some new friends there soon.

Here is a photo of Matthew at his Graduation assembly once he was presented with his certificate. In this photo is his teacher Miss Kongrass and Principal Mr Stephen Green:

Then we had the Graduation dinner which was held at Valley View Restaurant, all the Yr 7 were picked up from the school in a white hummer which was a real treat for them.

Here are some photo’s from the night:

Here we are ready to go to the dinner.

This is the Hummer they got to ride in.

This is Matt with his friend waiting for the Hummer to arrive.

Here are the boys getting in.

This is Matt and his friend Corey inside the hummer.

Matt with his dinner.

and finally at the end of the night a photo with his teacher Miss k. It was a great fun night with lots of memories to treasure.

Well on that note I think I have blabbed on enough, I would like to wish everyone many blessing for 2011!

Happy New Year!!!!

Cindy xxx

Hi there,

Well I haven’t been up to much papercrafting as late as I have had my hands full with two new additions to our family, gorgeous little  Beagle x Shih-tzu Maltese puppies. They are 5 weeks old, one girl and a boy and very sadly there mummy was hit by a car and died. So now we are there adopted parents, they are so cute we named them Rosie and George.

Here are some photo’s of them:

This photo’s is both of them sitting on there potting training mat, its taking a while for them to get the idea but with some persitance I’m sure it will get easier.

This is Rosie the little girl, she is quite small and very quiet but a real little cutie.

And here is George our little boy.

George is the crazy one full of life and likes to play, he is a lot bigger than Rosie and wants to bite everything including her. The kids are having a ball with him he’s quite hilarious.

Well hopefully I will be back next time to show you some creations unless I get too distracted with these cute little puppies.

Cindy

Hi again,

For this weeks Inkspirations Sketch I decided not to stamp this time but to go with this great butterfly embossing folder from craft concepts, I found in my local craft shop the other day.

Here is the sketch:

Here is my card:

Card supplies:

Embossing Folder Butterflys – Craft Concepts. Ink: Archival – Moonlight White and Memento Tuxedo Black. Cardstock: Stampin’ Up! – Melon Mambo, Certainly Celery and Whisper White. Stamp Set: Words from Spring Song. Pattern Paper: Grace Taylors Collection – Heidi’s Garden. Other: Punch- Martha Stewart – Butterfly.

Thanks for looking!!!!

Cindy