Here is the photo hopefully!

Well at last here is all of the views of the card. I spent over 3 very
frustrating hours last night, just to get the bottom shot loaded in
time for the closing of the Stamp With Us challenge and I just
made it! What is going on! Every time I try uploading a picture
to blogger to put on my blog the internet drops out. Anyway I
have just spent another couple of hours loading these 2 photo's
of the finished card on.
The first is the close up of the cake icing and shows how I embossed
the flowers from the Always heart onto the icing of the cake, and
added a pearl for a cherry on top!

The second is a side view to show the ribbon and the layering and how
the card which the cake is on and the cake itself is raised.

And the last photo is the one that finally loaded last night. Whew!
This is a front view of the card and all the details are in the post
below. The cake the SWUS girls used for the challenge looked so
rich and delicous, and so made me want to go and whip some up.
But alas it was a very busy week and I didn't have time. HA HA!
Seriously, doesn't it just make your mouth drawl..............
Any way I wanted to keep with the essence of the challenge,
by using the cake, using choc chip and by giving it a rich feel.
Even though this was last minute (that will teach me) I love how
the cake Whoops! I mean card has turned out.

TFL

luv,

Kristy

Stamp With Us Challenge No. 3

Wow I have had so much trouble loading this photo for the challenge,
I am trying two different ways at the moment so will probably
end up with it loaded twice after trying for an hour the normal way.
Well as you can see by my previous post this is for
Stamp With Us's latest challenge, taken from the picture below.
Now I am going to be short and sweet explaining this as I am
worried it is going to drop out.
Card used is Very Vanilla and Chocolate Chip, DP is
SU Prints Close to Cocoa.
The stamps used are bold birthday, baroque motifs and Always.
The only place where it is not obvious is probably the flowers
from the Always heart that I embossed on the cupcake. The Choc
Chip card was run through the corrugator
to give the cup case base effect. Pearls were added for decoration.
I will try and add more detail tomorrow if it lets me, but for now
I am just trying to make the time for the Challenge.
Well this looks like the best I can get tonight, I tried adding
photo's of other angles of the card but no go. This is better
than none. Hope you like the card girls.
I'll try completing the post tomorrow.
Cheers,
Kristy

Stamp With Us Challenge #3

I am having so much trouble loading my photo's. Blogger let
me load this photo of Stamp With Us's Challenge picture, but
I have been unable to load the photo's of the card as the
internet keeps dropping out.
All I can think of is posting a second time and see if that will
let me load the card.

Stamp With Us Challenge #2

Stamp With Us DT next Challenge was to create a birthday card.

The colour hasn't come out very well in these photo's

as we had big heavy fog and I was having trouble getting

decent light, cause IRL this card is bright, bright, bright.

Here is vision of the card side on. Which shows

you the grass and all the different layers.

The card was made using all SU products.
Stamp Sets: Bugs and Kisses & SAB '07 - '08 Lot's of Thought
DP: East Coast Prep
Card: Real Red, Tempting Turquoise, Pumpkin Pie,
Glorious Green, Whisper White.
Ink Used: Basic Black, Glorious Green, Pumpkin
Pie, Tempting Turquoise, coloured using SU
Markers in the same colours.
Accessories: SU Squarish button, SU Striped Ribbon
Staples and majic Mount, Cuttlebug.

Well girls I hope you like my card, cause in the
busy work week, I have had this week it was
so nice to sit down and relax and create.

TFL

luv,

Kristy

Stamp With Us

Woo Hoo! How exciting! I made Stamp With Us's first
Fave Five for this card.
I'm so excited.
Their next challenge in their challenges for a design
team member is to make a birthday card. So watch
this space.

Thanks Girls.

A Golfing Birthday Card

Well this card is for my FIL who's birthday was on the 24th March. He
used to play a lot of golf, but not so much anymore I think. I stamped this
fellow a few years back off a friend and thought I'd put him together in a
card. He is an Art Impressions stamp and knowing art impressions there
is probably some little saying that goes with it, which I didn't have so I used
my Stamp World Happy Birthday stamp. All the paper is from SU and is
the retired DP East Coast Prep, it really appealed as the plaid looked
very golfy.
The SU card used was real red, black, whisper white and Tempting
Turquoise. I coloured the image using my Tombow pens and a water pen.

Here is the Happy Birthday. Hard to tell but I bent it up in waves, then
raised it with Majic Mount to look like it was flying in the wind.
Hope you enjoy looking, I am off to do some cooking to put in the freezer
as I have heaps of work visitors turning up for the next 2 weeks.

luv,
Kristy

xo

I know it's another Easter one.

I know it's another Easter one, I promise it's the last one. I did have some
Easter goodies to show you that I made for family, but I couldn't believe it
today when I went to load them on the computer, I DIDN'T HAVE MY CARD
IN THE CAMERA WHEN I TOOK THE PHOTOS! DUH!
This card is using the Penny Black chickens again. I actually coloured and
backed it last year but didn't end up using it, so I thought I would get it on
a card for this year. The paper is from the Die Cuts wit a View Glitter
collection and is really pretty in real life. As you can see I stitched again.
The wording I did on the computer and the flowers are made using SU
punches.

Thanks for looking and if I don't get back over the weekend (I should I've got
heaps more to show) everyone have a great Easter Weekend.

luv,

Kristy

Hopping Along to Easter

Well as promised here is another Easter card. This one is using a Penny
Black image that I stamped off a friend many years ago.
This card is using the same card and DP that I used in the previous chicken
one.
See my little fluffy tails.... they were done using Liquid Applique, aren't they
cute. Then to finish the card off I punched a little flower out to put at the
bottom.

Well I'm off to work, hope everyone has a great day.

luv,

Kristy

Chirp Chirp....

Well as promised here is an Easter card I made for a friend.
I used the SU DP Spring Fling which has just retired. The chicken
is from the SU set A Good Egg and the flowers at the bottom are
Hero Arts, I stamped the flower with Certainly Celery and then
cut flowers out with the SU punches and stuck them on top.
You can't see it in this photo but the oval that the chicken is on is
raised.

There you go, this one shows it. Hope you like! Check back tommorrow
for another Easter Card.
I'm off to bed.

Ciao,

Kristy

Stamp with us challenge.

Well the girls over at Stamp With Us
Monica, Natalie and Zoe have issued
everyone with a challenge to use the
image on the left to make a card.
Entrants in the challenge get to get
a chance to be chosen on the Stamp
With Us design team.
Now that has always been a dream
of mine to be on someone's DT.
So I thought what the hell I'll give it
a go. I wanted to make a couple of
cards for it but I have just run out of time. So here is my challenge
card.

This is the SU Garden Whimsy set, and it was one of those sets that
when I first saw it in the American catalogue, that when it hit the
Australian I just had to have it! So when it came out it was one of
the first sets I bought and I do love it, it's a really pretty set, but
I have only used it once before at a card day and it was to make a
copy of the one in last years catalogue, so I've been itching to have
another go with it. I used the new in colour card and ink Kiwi Kiss,
Baja Blue and Pink Pirouette and old olive ribbon which i folded and
stitched down.
I used the weathered stamp on the background. Each layer was stitched
down.
I kindy glitzed the butterly, flower and lady beetle to give it a bit of bling.
Well girls thanks for the challenge and I look forward to the next one.

Thanks for looking, hope you all have a great night.

luv,

Kristy

Kristina Werner Colour Challenge #48

Don't you just love the colours in
Kristina Werner's latest challenge.
Choc Chip, Kiwi Kiss, Baja Blue
and Whisper White.


And here's my creation.


In this card I got to accomplish 3 things I've been dying to try.
1. Use the new SU in colours
2. Try these great flowers I have been seeing everywhere
3. Try the folded ribbon technique

Here is my flower, these are fun
to make and are so simple.

The DSP I used is from Die Cut
with a view. The ribbon is Choc
Chip from SU as is the brad in
the centre of the flower, the for
you stamp is from the new SU
set Fresh Cuts.

I really enjoyed making this card, it was such a change to make a
card with out stamping (not much anyway)!

Thanks again for the challenge Kristina.

Makeesha's Inspiration Challenge #6

Makeesha's Challenge




Well when I first saw the challenge I thought well that's not my cup
of tea. LOL
Just joking. I went through my stamps looking for a cup one, but
couldn't find any, then I came across Maude, and I thought that's
it, that's just so how I feel this week.

Actually the first thought when I saw the picture on
Makeesha's blog was friends.
Isn't it funny how people interpret things. Anyway there is
nothing better than sharing a cuppa with a friend.

I so feel like Maude this week. My husband and son
went up to Dundee beach for a camping/fishing trip,
I thought yay the house to myself, I can stamp all weekend,
eat what I feel like, sleep when I like, clean when I like, etc, etc.
I have been soooo crook. I just have the worst headache,
sore eyes, sore throat, sore chest and now have been
vomiting all afternoon. Sniff, Sniff. Yesterday
I forgot to fill the generator and after it ran
out of fuel and I refilled it, it wouldn't start.
Lucky I knew how to start the backup generator,
these are BIG generators girls and are pretty
scary when your on your lonesome.
So then I had to get a mechanic
out to fix the main one and even he had trouble,
but it's going now thank god.

So Maude!

Anyway back to the card, I felt so much like Maude,
right down to the wrinkles, and what about Fannie,
don't you just love those stretch pants, (I know all
about that as well) (sitting here laughing)..........

Well of course I had to pick these stamps.

There's that cup. This set is from Art Impressions and always brings a smile to my face.

Then I was putting my new stamp sets away and look at what I found!
A little cup from the new SU set It's a loop thing.
This was made on a little gift card using the pumpkin Pie DSP from the old
catalogue. If anyone needs anymore info on any of the cards, flick me an
email, cause I'm about to hit the couch!
Check back tomorrow, I have some easter things I've been making.

April Fools!

Well here is the crew ready to head out mustering, this is the first on and
we will start another 5 after Easter.

I gotta tell you about April Fools day, it was so funny. John told all of the
fellas that Adelaide office had organised a busload of female Uni students
to drop in and camp the night and see how an aboriginal station is run.

Well you should have seen them. First thing they asked was how old would
they be? I said that they'd probably mostly be under 30. So off they went
talking and laughing and giggling between each other.
Next thing we look around and they are washing down the verandahs and
wiping tables and mowing lawns and all getting their best clothes on.
It was so funny....
John let them go all day until about 5 pm before he told them all it was
an April Fools joke. I think in some ways they were relieved as they
were all worrying about what they were going to tell their wives and
girlfriends. LOL!

Makeesha Byl's Colour Challenge #6

I wanted to
get a card
made for
Makeesha's
latest colour
challenge.

I feel like I have really lost my mojo at the moment. I found
it really hard to think of what to do for this card, so settled
on using some stamps from the saleabration set. It's not
too bad, but I must say I found myself just wanting to put
a little bit of green somewhere, but I resisted.

I used the SU DP Prints Pumpkin Pie, that I got in the
mail on Tuesday, (but my catalogue is still not here, sniff!)
applied this to a whisper white base, then I stamped the flower
image onto the Purely Pomegranate with PP ink. The stamp
is from the SU Saleabration set Polka Dot Punches.
The flower was cut out and stuck to some Whisper White card
that was adhered to some Regal Rose, I also stamped the centre
of the flowers with the PP ink, then stuck them to the centre
of the flowers, I filled the centre of the flowers with Glossy Accents
to raise them up and make them shine. A white ribbon was added
then the card with the flowers on. To finish off I stamped the for
you sentiment from the one of a Kind set in Pumpkin Pie in and
cut it out with the small oval punch, I then cut some of the DP
with the larger punch and backed it. Then voila, not too bad
for an 11 0çlock at night and I can't sleep card! Thanks again for the challenge Keesh.