Birthday Card....

Hi all - Here is a card I made early February...... It was for a friend's daughter's 12th birthday. It was for a sketch challenge (I remember that much LOL) but I don't remember which one (and it may have been an old sketch also) Too much happening and time flying by too quickly.......

I really liked the bright colours of this DSP and am always so disappointed each year when they retire or they are nly in a mini for such a short time :(

April Workshops......

Well............Hello out there in blog land!!! Month and a half later and here I am!! And only one entry in March (naughty me!!!) I have been making cards (occasionally) but other things seem to happen and I never get around to blogging these days. We went away for the Easter holidays and I stayed up till three in the morning before-hand getting four cards made (two belated) before we went. That is the extent of my card making these days LOL Trying to squeeze them in when I need to make them as I flatly REFUSE to buy a card!!!

And I did do up cards and kits for March's workshop but then a cyclone came near and I had to cancel that workshop....... I will show those cards at a later date as there is no rush for them now LOL

So here we are with April's workshop creations..... Mother's Day was our theme. Here I have used the B-E-A-utiful Cottage Wall DSP out of the new SU mini. Plus one of the new In-Colour's, Rich Razzleberry. Absolutely GORGEOUS!!! And I have used the new 'Cottage Garden' stamp set (new favourite) also.... plus the 'Wonderful Favourites' stamp set.

For this one I have used the Rich Razzleberry again and also my new, wonderful, so versatile, Big Shot with the Manhatten Flowers embossing folder. Just what I was needing - something to make beautiful cards super fast YES!!! Wording from the 'Occasionally' set.
And last of all we made this cute little note book gift box. Yes I have used Rich Razzleberry again (getting the hint that I just LOVE this colour!) And some more of that beautiful DSP.
Card #1 and box are both adaptations of project ideas from the Scor-pal website.

10th Birthday.....

Hi all - yes it is another one of those number cards..... But aren't they just great!!! LOL - I made this card somewhere mid February for a 10 year old (DUH!) boy. My younger son got invited to a birthday party and we went shopping on the day of the party (don't we all??... or is that just me LOL) and I said to him that we will just buy (NO! YES LOL) a card as I didn't really have time and he said no he would rather me make one.... (so nice of him {groan} LOL) So I had to make something that would be quick. These are so easy and just so effective and I think just perfect for youngerish boys or teens. I was very pleased with it and also secretly glad that my DS wanted me to do it.

All My Friends are Turning 40!.....

Well, some of my friends are LOL....

Hi all - here is the card that I made for my good friend Jacqui's 40th birthday (beginning of Feb) - She is such a fun person that I wanted something pretty (loves purple and butterflies) but also want something with humour. I was really pleased with how this card turned out (wasn't looking so good half way through LOL)

Workshops Once Again.....

Hi all - Well this weekend saw us starting our monthly workshops again for the year. And I had a FANTASTIC turnout!!!! WOW! Thanks you girls for wanting to come along and see what I have to show you. And then the wonderful emails of thanks that I get after the classes..... well... {blushing} I feel honoured to have such wonderful friends. :)

Anyway - back on track :) My latest fascination is the Easel Card - How super easy is it!!! And what a WOW! So our first card for the year was this easel card. I have used the new 'Butterfly Prints' and matching punch out of the current mini catalogue. Who doesn't love a matching punch LOL - The girls were teasing me over my excitement of the matching punch! But my sister understands LOL. She believes that all stamp sets should have a matching punch :)
Ps: I have also used one of the new S-A-B stamp sets, 'Whimsical Words' inside this card but forgot to take a photo of that :{

The next two items I have cased out of past issues of the 'Impressions' flyers that we demonstrators receive each month from SU. I feel with me working full time now, that to do workshops also, I will be utilizing a lot more the ideas that SU readily gives out to us :)
I have used an old favourite, 'Priceless' plus another S-A-B set, 'Vintage labels'. And YES it uses all punches also!!! YES YES YES!!! - even the words are perfect for the square punches. In heaven here LOL!

Brother's Birthdays...

Hi all - How are you all going? It is so HOT and STEAMY here at the moment!!! What I am more suprised about is that I am sitting in the hottest room of our house and without the aircon on????.... What the?......... Not like me at all {LOL} I am all for comfort!

Anyway back to the reason I am here..... The top card is the card I made for one of our nephews - this time I was smart {no comments on that please} and made a little pull-out section so that the choccies could come out! Anyway, I made that card using the choccies for inspiration for the colours but then saw that I didn't actually make the colours in question show in the front - the green and yellow ones were in there also - the things one learns.........

Then a couple of weeks later, it was his little brother's birthday so I made him a matching card. Just changing the colours around a bit. And remembering to make all the colours show.....

When making the second card one would think it would be easy peasy as I had already made it to know what to do.... right???? WRONG!!! Or it is just me...

It seemed at the time that I did everything backwards and the amount of times that I had to start over 'cause I had done a step wrong.... let me tell you if it wasn't for the fact that we were going to the party that same day.... well you can guess where that card may have ended up!!! {minus the choccies of course!! LOL)

Valentine Cup Cakes....

Hi all - Hope you all had a lovely Valentine's Day with lots and lots of love..... My DH and I have been together now for 21 and a half years and we still acknowledge Valentine's Day. We don't usually go to a lot of expense or anything (mind you, this year I did get a voucher so am feeling rather spoilt!) My DH has bought me at least a card every year (even if at times I forgot until the day LOL) But we have always done nice things for each other like cook a special brekky or dinner etc.

Anyway on Saturday I was thinking that yet again I hadn't thought about it in time to got to the shops and there on the counter was a pamphlet for our local cheesecake shop advertising Valentine's cakes for one's loved ones. So I decided I would whip him up a Valentine treat.

I have looked at all the cup cake holders on the web for a while now and wondering when one could use them and thought this would be a great time. So in the middle of colouring my hair (LOL) I started making the above gift box as well as baking the little choccie cakes. Now amongst all this DH came home and did wonder what was going on as I said I was making the cakes for the kids lunches and he has taken on that job since before Chrissy (and we are usually making them on Sunday nights after we have just realised we need them for the next day.... and we already had some other types of cakes still in the freezer from his last bout of cooking...). So it did seem a bit strange to him..... LOL

So he woke up Sunday morning to find this little package waiting for him.... propped up on disposable shot glasses in the middle of a tray of water as we have a serious ant problem at the moment (should have taken a photo of that!!! LOL)

And this is the box before the cakes went in. I got the instructions from here but have included this photo as I have added a tray to hold the cakes like others have done....