Mad Week!!

So this week has just been plain crazy.  It started last Sunday, I got a call from Sammy's husband asking if I could make a card for him to give her for her Birthday on Wednesday.  My design brief was something classic, not frilly and purple....




So I sat down Monday night after work with the best of intentions, and came up with absolutely nothing.  My creativity was out the window and absolutely nothing would work for me.  I decided to give up and try again Tuesday night.




Tuesday night was it, I had to come up with something for Damian, and in the end I was pretty happy with the results.  Using a mixture of the KaiserCraft Lilac Avenue and Utopia Collections I finally had things coming together.  I had been wanting to use my Utopia clear stamps for awhile and this seemed the perfect opportunity.  The flower and leaves in the top left corner of the picture below is stamped onto watercolour paper with Jet Black Staz-On and coloured with distress inks.  It matched the paper collection colours perfectly as you can see by the flower in the bottom right hand corner that has been cut from the Utopia Idyllic Paper.




So let's have a look -

So my card for Sammy was actually the one i ended up making at her place two weeks ago.  I was feeling bad that morning as I was heading over to give it to her because she had already seen it, and at one point was helping me put it together as I got stuck.  However, this is the first card I made using my Magnolia Secret Tilda stamp, and I really wanted Sammy to have it.

It was funny, when I gave Sammy her card she said "oh, I was hoping you were going to give me this card"  Beauty, I had nothing to worry about!! :o)




Saturday the 16th July was my youngest Nephews 3rd Birthday, so for Will's birthday card I decided to try and make a frog.  To get my image that I traced around I did a Google image search to find a picture.  I cut out the entire image and traced around it to use as the base...

I then cut it out using my craft knife..

Then using my original picture I Googled, I chose the areas I wanted to raise up, and cut out these pieces to attach with foam mount later...

Then I have traced around the edge of the pictures using a Black Gel Pen, and used Distress Ink Forrest Moss with a sponge to add some shading...

I also added some shading to the legs, and then started to put all together using foam mounting squares..

My little froggy is starting to come together.  Finally I added some eyes and we have a finished frog ready to attach to a card...

A little cute I think, but hey I made him ;o)  Finally the finished product....

Then finally I had to make a card for my Brother.  I decided to use a stamp from the KaiserCraft Seaside Collection stamps and colour it with Distress Inks.  It took quite awhile to ink in the selected areas but I really was happy with the finished product.

OK, so I think that finishes up this week.  I haven't listed all my products used, but please if there is something you are interested in feel free to leave a comment and I will most certainly respond.




Thanks for looking and have a great night!!




xx Milszy