Time to dust off the blog - Christmas creating

This must have been the craziest end of year, birthdays and back to school yet.  So these holidays while I had projects on the go, it was all I could do to keep up with them.  My holidays were well spent making memories and reading and relaxing.  Finally I am back to somewhat of a routine and am wanting to do so much more here.   First what have I been creating?  Christmas - yes I gave a sneak peak in this post and then didn't show the end result.  It all started with this card as inspiration.  With lots of great tags to use I mixed and matched the different elements and added some little details.

Colours: crumb cake, cherry cobbler, always artichoke, very vanilla, early espresso

Stamps:  vintage labels and postmarks (PTI), merry christmas (kaiser)

Finishing touches:  handmade holidays papers and tags (simple stories), rhinestones (SU)

Next there was the teachers gifts

 In our Stampin Up Christmas swap I received a beautiful set of Christmas cards.  The wise owl always works well with teacher gifts so I added some more using the sets that I have and I had my cards sorted.

Colours:  white, rich razzleberry, old olive

Stamps:  wise owl (PTI), all year fun (SU), dress up lily (PCS)

Finishing touches:  doily die (couture creations), dimensionals, dazzling diamonds glitter and rhinestones (SU)

 For the school teachers some stationery bits and pieces, clips, post its and magnets in fun colours.  And the kindy teachers, yummy apples with caramel dip.  

This one went down really well.  They all asked for the recipe.

And last on the Christmas front was my Stamp Club Christmas swap.  Sorry the photos aren't that great.  I realised in all the busyness that I hadn't taken any photos and my phone isn't that great.  I had pinned the ideas for recycling books and thought it would be great to fill with goodies to give as a gift.  Once I started making bits and pieces I was hooked.  As such I have lots that didn't go in so will have some fun creating my own cards.

Colours:  daffodil delight, baja breeze, not quite navy, certainly celery, garden green

Stamps:  just the ticket (PTI), punctuation (KP), ciao baby and a round array (SU)

Finishing touches: book, envelope, for the record papers (echo park), embosslits beautiful wings,  lots of tags die, round tab punch and chevron border punch,  7/8 scallop circle punch and petite curly label punch (SU), buttons, ribbons, just the ticket die , ric rac die (PTI)

As you can see I have been a busy girl.  Lots of fun when I get creating.

Grace Taylor - Vintage paper inspiration

I always keep an eye out for bargains.  While I keep saying I don't need any more papers this set was too good to pass by.  On special and I had a discount voucher.  Just love the colour.  It started out quite differently to how I had originally planned. Sometimes I end up with something I love even more.  Love getting back into using stitching on my cards and trying different ways to use my embossing folders. 

Colours: very vanilla, tempting turquoise, black
Stamps: stamp and scrap (elzybells)
Finishing touches:  patterened paper (grace taylor), DSP (SU), perfectly paisley embossing folder (cuttlebug), buttons, stitching, sheer ribbon, rhinestones

I see red

I just love the Everyday Enchantment papers that were in this years sale-a-bration set from Stampin Up.  This card started with the DSP and grew from there.

Colours: very vanilla, riding hood red, old olive
Stamps:  bird (rosies studio), sense of time (SU)
Finishing touches:  spellbinders long classic rectangles large (nestibilities), poppy parade stitched ribbon, rhinestones,(kaiser), stitching, buttons, everyday enchantment DSP (SU), buttons

It all came together

This one started with inspiration from a tag that I saw here on a layout. With this in mind I started pulling out bits and pieces from my stash. With a specific person in mind the sentiments came together. I am loving adding just a bit of detail to finish it off. I was surprised how quickly it came together.

Colour: sahara sand, chocolate chip, whisper white
Stamps: all about me, bubble wrap and remember this moment (kaiser), punctuation (kelly panacci), rough type (SU)
Finishing touches: tag stencil, eyelet labels, linen thread (SU), faux stitching, photo anchor (franchville)

Feeling better organised

With all my fab finds of late I have been feeling the need to do some more organising of my supplies. Being able to access what I have easily is such a benefit as I can focus on being creative rather than where I put that embellishment that I am wanting. I love checking out scrapping spaces on line and would love to have that room but there are ways around it when you have a small space.



So I started with my A4 cardstock. I am building up my stamp pads and therefore colours so I went for a sturdy file box. And I am loving it. I have sorted them into colours and each file has a bag for my scraps. The best thing is when I go out to scrap I can take the whole thing with me!


Now for my ribbons. Up till now I have been keeping my ribbons in click clack containers. As my stash has grown they started to overflow and were getting rather squished. I came across this idea in a magazine that I read to have them hanging on the wall. We were given the wall hanging and it worked really well. Now I have all my ribbons where I can see them.


And my best sort yet getting out my sewing machine on my desk. My awesome husband found this book - Sewing on Paper by Catherine Matthews-Scanlon at the library for me on stitching on your projects. If you look here you will see how much I love stitching but have been reduced to faux stitching due to the effort required to get the machine out and I just cant get the same effect with my little one. Looking forward to using it.