Acetate Pyramid

Okay, I know that this is not how the Egyptians did it….but here is my pyramid box out of acetate! I loved Kylie’s so much that I wanted to try it myself and and really is as simple as printing out the template onto the acetate, cutting it out, scoring four lines and punching four holes!! All right, so I did add some Jersey Shore DSP to the sides and used eyelets in the holes (had to use my cropadile again! yay!) but it is very quick and easy - stop laughing now Kylie!! She knows that I printed it and left it sitting on my printer for 2 days before actually getting organised enough to make it!! :P 

If you would like more details on how to make the box and a link to the template please see this post.

I have used my wonderful punches, jumbo eyelets, pumpkin pie grosgrain and cropadile to create the tag along with the Circle of Friendship stamp set and pumpkin pie ink.

I’d love to see any pyramids you make using the template, feel free to email me a picture!!! K

A new colour for July!

I know, I know, I have been a little remiss in announcing my colour of the month for July - it is Wild Wasabi! I have been busy making a few items with it and will be sharing them over the rets of the month. Here is the first one…..

 

I have combined Wild Wasabi with Whisper White and Purely Pomegranate here. I have to say, I really love this combination. It seems so fresh and crisp together. I stamped the floral Boho Backgrounds stamp on the whisper White in Black Stazon, then used my inkpads and aquapainter to colour the flowers and leaves, befoe mounting this onto some Purely Pomegranate card. To make the scalloped edge on the Whisper White card I used my Slit Punch (wow,  I am getting good use out of that lately!) and then I stamped the same floral background stamp on the piece of Wild Wasabi card using my versamark mark to create a watermark finish. Now this is all finishe doff with some double stitched Purely Pomegranate ribbon and a flower and half pearl from the Pretties Kit. I coloured the flower using my Purely Pomegranate ink and my aquapainter (that aquapainter is very handy!!).

Hope you like it!! Thanks for visiting!

2 for 1 challenge card!

Well, I was a little stuck on what to make or rather just where to start, so I did a little blog tour and came up with a colour challenge and a sketch challenge to test me out! The Splitcoast Stampers CC173 was Groovy Guava, Barely Banana and Chocolate Chip. This combination really appealed to me for some reason - perhaps it was because of the title ‘Groovy Banana Chips’!!! The sketch challenge (TECC24) from Taylor was a new source for me. I have seen other blogs displaying her challenges, but thought I’d give it a whirl this week!

 

The stamp set I’ve used is Polka Dots and Paisley and I have kept it very simple, using only Chocolate Chip ink and keeping the other colours to the cardstock. The ribbon is the beautiful wide Chocolate Chip Grosgrain. My 1 3/8″ and 1 1/4″ circle and scallop circle punches came out to play again and then I stuck it all together. So, what do you think?

More thankyous!

Firstly, I just want to say thankyou to my friends over the past few days, not only have you listened to me or read my crazed emails, but you have responded with such lovely words that you really helped me through it all.  *mwah*

In explanation, after we survived Aidan’s trip to hospital we heard that my brother had to have surgery yesterday, it doesn’t sound like much, but he has been through an awful lot with his health and he had just flown back to Tasmania and was put in hospital down there for surgery, whilst his family are all in SA. He made it through and is recovering well, he sounded quite bright on the phone today. but it was a worry not knowing what would be done in the surgery and all the other ‘what ifs’ until we heard he was out again. So big thankyou to all of you, I managed to do a little bit of stamping this afternoon, so this card is for my friends. *hugs*

You may notice it looks similar to my colour challenge card here, and that’s because it is!! I had this little piece of watercoloured paper all ready to be stuck on something (not just be stuck in my scrap drawer!) and so I decided to make this card. The only challenge colour I have omitted is the Ballet Blue - strangely enough, it was the Ballet Blue that threw me in the combo, I think others were stuck on the pink or really rust, but for me it was the brightish blue! The greeting is one from a 2007-2008 Simply Sent Kit, I know it is retired, but it said just what I wanted it too! For another take on the pyramid box, please visit Lin Mei to see her ‘really’ swirly creation!

I also want to share this lovely card from a little girl, Olivia, who was a guest at a workshop I did last Sunday. She is just lovely and this was one of the cards they got to do as a ‘Make and Take’, yet she wrote in it and chose to give it to me! *blush* She had lots of fun and enjoyed the watercolouring, so thank you too, Olivia ,for such a lovely card!

Thanks for visiting! K

More challenge pics and a thankyou!

Hi! This is a short post tonight as I NEED to get some sleep. I wanted to share a couple of other challenge cards from other Inklings and also a beautiful card that I received in the mail from Kylie yesterday (It is even prettier IRL!)! It was perfect timing as we had just got home from hospital with Aidan! I think he will turn me grey before he turns 10, that child! He managed to fall at childcare and knock himself out either from the knock to the head or because he forgot to breathe as he was crying so it resulted in an ambulance ride to the hospital and a few hours observation in emergency! He is fine now though but we are thinking of investing in an American football style helmet with a mouthguard to prevent further incidents!

On to the challenge pictures…. here is Kylies cute Scrapbook page, Jayne’s gorgeous colour challenge, all 3 works of art from the lovely Dani and Karen’s gorgeous watercoloured card and pyramid. this is the best bit about participating in challenges - the ‘after’ shots! It is amazing to see how different all our projects can turn out despite all meeting the same basics - especially with the colour challenges!!! Sorry guys, I did pick a doozy, but you all did so well!!!

Off to bed with me now! Happy stampin’ everyone! K

3 for 3!

Well, I was very impressed with myself on Saturday night, I managed to complete all 3 challenges! Here is the third one, which was actually the first one on the night…..

 

I picked the pyramid box because there is a pyramid box on page 3 of the new Mini Catalogue (Yes I have my preview copy and I’m trying hard not to put everything in it on my wishlist!!). I found a template here and all you need to do is print it on a piece of A4 card, cut it out, punch a hole in each triangle and decorate it! How easy!

If you’d like to see some of the other beautiful work by some Inklings team members from our challenge night, you can visit Carol to see her beautiful colour challenged butterfly, Kylie to see her amazing acetate pyramid, Alana to see her stunning pyramid explosion album and Beth to see her gorgeous sketch challenge layout! I’ll let you know if any other photos are posted so you can see some more variations on the challenges!

K

More watercolouring

I know, I know, will I ever get bored of this?! If you had asked me 12 months ago there is no way I would have ever thought I’d be colouring in stamped images, let alone watercolouring them! I won’t claim to be the greatest at this technique or at the many various ways to watercolour, but it is such a fun way to add colour to images and to combine colours too. It is now somehting I will do quite often, even if it’s only to add a little extra colour!

Speaking of combining colours….. my colour challenge from Saturday night! These are SU! colours: Ballet Blue, Soft Sky, Not Quite Navy, Pink Passion and Really Rust and you can check a sample of the colours out here.

And here is my effort….

watercolouring, petal prints

The base card is Soft Sky and I stamped the Petal Prints leaves on it using Ballet Blue - this created a darker blue than I expected, but it looked better than I thought it could! I have used the Petal Prints solid daisy and coloured on the rubber with the watercolour wonder crayons in Pink Passion and Really rust, then spritzed the stamp with water before stamping it on the watercolour paper. I stamped it a couple of times before re-colouring to get variations in the depth of colour. Once I was done stamping the flowers on, I let the paper dry before carefully watercolouring with dilute Soft Sky ink in between the flowers (I should have taken a picture at this stage but I didnt’ think of it!) After the paper dried again, I inked up the outine stamp with Not Quite Navy and stamped the outline all over the piece - reinking after every couple of impressions. I then trimmed and punched the corners and mounted this onto some Not Quite Navy cardstock before tying a piece of Soft Sky double stitched ribbon on and mounting it onto the base card using stampin’ dimensionals.

Thanks for visiting! K

Sketch challenge

I am going to go a little backwards in showing you the cyberchallenge pics! Today’s image is the sketch challenge and we could make a square card or a scrapbook layout using it. The sketch is from Lauren Meader’s blog and her story about her sample made from this sketch is just lovely (keep the tissues handy, though)

sketch challenge, pumpkin pie, wild wasabi, crew kids boy

I have used another photo of my boy for this 6×6 page and I haven’t done any stamping!! Shock horror! What I have done is use my pc to print out the text in a dark grey colour and trimmed/punched it to match the sketch. I layered the circle onto a circle of Wild Wasabi cardstock and used my Crop-a-dile to add 2 Bordering Blue eyelets. The photo is matted on some Pumpkin Pie card and the DSP is from the Crew Kids Boy Simply Scrappin Kit. As soon as I picked the photo I knew I had to use that kit - lucky I had it sitting there waiting for me It’s all mounted with sticky strip and the circle is popped up on a couple of dimensionals.

Hope you like it! K

Cyberchallenge again!

Yay! It’s cyberchallenge night again at the Inklings forum and guess who’s setting the challenges tonight?! Me! Yikes! I think I’ve stumped some of them on the colour challenge! Oops! It’s always a fun night with a bit of chatter and some stamping - but we are all in our own homes wearing our daggy trackies and slippers - or is that just me?!

Anyway, be sure to check back over the next few days and I’ll share some of tonight’s efforts with you! Cheerio! K

A forgotten card…

Hi! Happy Friday!!

I just realise that I haven’t posted a couple of my watercolour class cards still. I picked this one to share tonight. It is very Christmassy and I know some of you are probably thinking I’m crazy, but it is already halfway through the year and so I thought this was a cute card to get me started thinking about Christmas!

It’s a Gel Card and I have stamped in Balck Stazon before watercolouring the image, then layered a little plastic bag that contains hair gel and glitter over the image before covering it with more card layers (I punched the holes using various SU! punches). You do have to use Eyelets or brads to hold the front all together as the gel bag does weigh a bit on the front of the card, however it looks lovely and sparkly IRL - just right for Christmas!

Have a great weekend! K