Pretty Gift Bag

Here's my second entry over at Just Add Ink using the soon to be available Sale A Bration set Fresh Vintage. I coloured the stamps using markers and then popped through the Big Shot using the Embossing frames.

Isn't it pretty?

Colour Combo: Whisper White, Old Olive and Wisteria Wonder.
Punches and Dies: (All SU) Fancy Favour, Jewelery tag, Decorative Label, Postage Stamp Beautiful Wings.
Stamps: All SU, Fresh Vintage, Tiny Tags.
Extras: vanilla Shimmer Smooch, Basic Jewels.

Happy Christmas to you all.

Black and White

Over at Crafters Anonymous tonight our guest teacher Sharna Russell has taught us how to make this cool pop up card. I've decorated mine in black and white with the hostess set Simply Soft. I love this set :)

Red and green Christmas

I've been making good inroads into my Christmas card making today, this one, i thought I'd also enter into the Paper players challenge. This week they are challenging us to use red and Green on our Christmas cards and keep it simple, this is about as simple as I get :-)
Check out the DT's pretty work Here

Dee's Class at CA

Last night Dee showed us how to make a pretty flower. I didn't quite have all the right kit- but think the flower's turned out real pretty anyway.
I popped mine onto a notepad, a prety little stocking filler for someone ;-)

Father's day Cards

These cute little cards and box were made by my kids for their dad- he loved them :-) and we had a lovely family day with another family.
My kids love this new Circus stamp set Big Top in the new catalogue.

Big Day Out Swap

Well I'll be having a great time by the time you read this post :-) at a Stampin' Up! fun day.
The first photo is my swap card, I hope they like it! and I can't wait to see what swaps I get back, so excited to be meeting everyone in real life rather than just online x

The second 2 photos are a specail vintage set I've made my lovely upline Paula Dobson because she's driven me up to Auckland and her folks are putting me up and she's lovely- waving at you Paula xx

No doubt over the next week I'll be sharing some of the cool stuff we got up too.

Masking Challenge

Wow- your White on White entries last week were all so pretty.
Our next Craft Room Challenge is here and Esther has chosen a technique challenge-Masking- I use this technique a lot, but for this card, I've just done simple masking to create the hills, and to mask the hills when I used a big Pine tree Stamp to create the little pine trees on the hill.
I have to confess that after our polar Antartica weather last week- with snow in our neighbourhood like that not seen for 70 years- I've been inspired to start my snowy christmas cards :-)

Here's some photos of the snow at our house last week, soooo pretty.

You can just see the roof of my studio- looking all snowy.


And I love how the trees look covered in snow- here's a corner of the garden.