Crafting with Tia - Sketch Challenge #1

Crafting with Ti@ is a new website with a brand new Card Sketch Challenge, there will be weekly challenges and monthly prize draws (love that idea!), so you gotta be in to win, so join in too and have a go.

Here is my very first submission, I have used the same colour combo as the previous Mojo challenge cos' I have a few masculine cards to make. What do you think??

Don't forget to check out the other submissions from other fantastic stampers, and join in the fun at Crafting with Ti@.

Mojo Monday 118

Hi All, hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and ate heaps and heaps. Well now that all the festivities are out of the way I thought I'd sneak in a Mojo Monday sketch card challenge. I have a few male birthdays coming up - do you think this could pass as a masculine card???

Gift Box and Cards - UStamp Project

Here is another fabulous UStamp project - a box for a gift with a drawer full of mini cards. This project was created by the very talented Becky Roberts of Inking Idaho.


This is my re-creation:

Baby Bundle - Christmas Gift

Geez ... time is moving along isn't it. Well I finally got to finish my little Christmas bundle for the newest member of our family - Miss Lara Doherty - 3 months old. I really enjoyed making this little creation , so very girly and very very pink!!!

Anyway, the card I created using Makeesha's shetch challenge 17 - the final one of the year, the gift box is a UStamp project by Kirsty Brown and the banner is another UStamp project by Jacque Craig.

I am really looking forward to the Christmas break - means more time to stamp ... lol!!!

Have a great evening and happy stampin!!!

Inkspirations Colour Challenge - 17

Ohhh .... Makeesha's final sketch challenge for the year - and since it is the final one of the year I thought that I would participate in this challenge. I actually enjoyed this challenge as I decided that it would be for my brand new baby niece, the newest member of our family -so of course it is done in all the pretty baby pink colours. I have created a banner and a baby gift box for her as well, and now the card is the final piece to the jigsaw - the banner and gift box I will post tomorrow as I have still to add a few final pieces.

Anyway, here is the card for the challenge:

Card Recipe:

Cardstock: Kraft, Whisper White, Pretty in Pink
Ink: Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose
Stamp Set: Snow Swirled, Best Yet
Accessories: Pearls, SU Brad, SU Eyelet Punch, SU Circle Punches, SU Scallop Punch, Ribbon, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Swiss Dots Embossing Folder

UStamp Project - 2

This is the project designed by the talented Tracey Old for this round of UStamp with Dawn and Friends - it is a Desk Calendar, such a great little gift, especially at this time of the year. You could also add a photo or even a post-it note pad next to the calendar - very handy indeed!!!

Christmas Cards

Well I got around to making up a few Christmas Cards - I have used the Snow Swirled stamp set, this has got to be my all time favourite stamp set by far. I have also managed to borrow my friend Tia's cuttlebug - oh check out her blog here, she is a fabulous crafter - so I have used the cuttlebug to create a few different cards for Christmas as well.

Christmas Gift

I received an email from a friend of mine - who happens to be a Massage Therapist, she was offering her Christmas gifts in the way of a massage ..... so I thought that my Christmas gift to her would be in the way of handmade papercrafts, so this is what I came up with:

A Christmas card, handstamped candle, and a box of mini notecards



Oh, by the way - the card and the box, including the mini rosette I CASE'd from the fabulously, talented Paula from Stampinantics - check out her blog here. Her work is absolutely stunning and she has a talent that is out of this world!!!

UStamp Project

The final round of UStamp has started (1st December) as this is the last and final round for the year it will be running for 31 days!!! Yay .... that's 31 days of fun, exciting and terrific projects to create - you still have time to sign up and enjoy the benefits of being a member of the UStamp projects.

This is my first project that I have created, I have a few in progress but now quite finished yet. Anyway, this is an origami Christmas stocking, really easy to create and great to hang little treats in on the Christmas tree.

PPA19 - Inspiration Challenge

Well, I found a new challenge site and it is Pals Paper Arts they have weekly challenges that really gets the imagination firing, so I thought that I would have a go at this weeks challenge. The challenge this week is to use the image here to draw inspiration from - and this is what I came up with: Cardstock: Choc Chip, Whisper White, Real Red, Old Olive
Ink: Old Olive
Stampset: Snow Swirled
Accessories: Red/Gold Ribbon (non SU), Swiss Dots Embossing folder, Rhinestones

Why not check out what the design team have come up with and also some of the other entries. Give this a go, I'm sure you'll enjoy the challenges and I'll look forward to seeing some of your entries.

Happy 1st December

Just thought that I'd share with you a few projects that I completed but never posted.

This is the Staff Christmas Invite that I created for work - unfortunately I had forgotten to take a pic before I gave them out, so I created one for myself to upload. These are very quick to make and easy to mass produce - I created different colours for staff and consultants, and they were all pretty impressed!

These cards I created for a swap (that unfortunately I had to pull out of), but the theme was Spring Mini - I used the Soft Summer set, which was and still is one of my favourites.

Oh well that's about it for now .... UStamp with Dawn has started another round TODAY, so keep watching they have some fabulous projects, might head over there right now.

Have a happy week!