My Husband's Birthday

Last month I had so many birthday's that I forgot to post a picture of the card that I made for my DH. He is into go karting in a big way. This is great, as it is more expensive than anything I do!!(big laugh here) but we both are guilty of spending on our hobby.

          Anyway, when I got my Silhouette for Christmas I was browsing the store and found a go kart driver. This was amongst my first purchases as I knew I would find it very handy. This is my creation using all the dies I purchased for my Silhouette. His gokart colours are Orange and Blue which I used for the balloons. Go Babe! and I hope you like your card.

         Hope you are having a creative Day........

                                                                    xx   Liz

Happy Birthday to my Best Friend

My oldest and dearest friend is celebrating her birthday today. Wishing you the happiest of birthdays, Gail.

 Because we live in different states, I don't get to be there today, but tomorrow we are meeting up in Melbourne for a fun weekend together. Here is my card that I am giving her for the occasion.

 Her favourite colour is green so of course her dress had to be green. The stamp is from Stamping Bella   -  Uptown Girls Pattie and Dottie Friends Forever. The image is coloured in with copics. Pearls and lace just add the touch of glamour!

I hope you are having a creative day,

                   xx  Liz

IBSIC #76

One of the colour challenges for this month at Inspired by Stamping caught my eye. I am soooo in love with purple at the moment and just had to play along. If you want to join in, here is the link

http://joannamunster.com/2014/02/11/ibsic-76-77-78/

This is going to be my entry:

I hope you like it. 

I have used the lovely stamps from IBS: Garden Seed Packets and Vintage Tickets, both which have been embossed in Gold on cream cardstock. I have coloured the flowers with copics and added some purple cord and a flower. The background paper is from the Violet Crush paper pad by Kaisercraft.

I hope you are having a creative day.....

 xx   Liz 

February's Post

2014 started with me running...... let me explain it like this.

 I had all the best intentions of maintaining my blog like I finished last year off;.... writing posts at least every week. Has that happened?? NO

Here it is nearly at the end of February and I have only had 3 entries. I am going to try to make amends in the next few weeks.

Today, I am in my craft room after 3 very busy weeks getting lots of music stuff organized for my church for the coming year.  You know the photos I posted late last year onto here of my NEW church, well ...... that lovely new building is to be officially opened this Saturday and I have trying to get the band together and choosing music etc. Hence limited time to get crafty and blog..

SO SORRY.

Today I am showing a few cards that I sent to help a friend. She supplies cards to the oncology ward at her hospital where she has treatment and I thought this was an opportunity to donate some surplus cards that I have in my stash.                                                              

 I hope you are having a Creative Day,        
                                                     xx Liz

WHM #126 Creating Custom Background paper

Today, I am entering my first challenge of the year over at Inspired by Stamping. It is hard getting back into the swing after the holidays and all the Christmas cards I had to make. But if you want to play along have a look here:
http://joannamunster.com/2014/01/15/whw-126-creating-custom-pattern-paper/

              What fun getting my water colour paper out again from the depths of my cupboard and having a go. This is my creation using all IBS stamps.

 The stamps used were from the following sets:

Delicate Doilies II, Spring Lilacs, Fancy labels 18 and the sentiment is from A lovely Birthday.

Staedtler Aquarell pencils spritzed with water and painted over with an aqua brush formed the basis of the background. I used Memento Inks in Toffee Crunch and Morroco to stamp the images and the butterfly was embossed with Ranger 'Seaform' embossing ink so that it wasn't brilliant white.  

I am off to do another card,

                                  Hope you are having a creative day,

                                                                             xx Liz

Creative Backgrounds

On Thursday I spent the day getting into my paints and ink along with Gesso to make beautiful backgrounds for my cards. I have been watching a lot of you-tube videos and felt very inspired to have a go.

               Yesterday it was a day of using what I had created on Thursday. Here's the results:

 

                         

                                   I hope you are having a creative day too.

                                                                                   xx Liz

Happy New Year 2014

My goodness! Where did 2013 go and now I want to wish everyone a very Happy 2014. May you all live life to the fullest this year and not waste a moment.

 December just flew past last year and although I was busy in my craft room I didn't get to post anything on here. I made lots of cards and presents for family and friends. I didn't have time to enter any challenges and today I am cleaning out my craft room so hopefully I get to be more productive in the next few weeks.

Here are some pictures from my Christmas and some of the presents that I made.

My wonderful husband and his 2 daughters.

Cupcake Apron

A lunch bag for my lovely stepdaughter. It is covered in plastic so that the fabric doesn't get dirty travelling on the train and I used insulated wadding to keep things cool or hot depending on what she puts into it.

It is back to craft room now to clean up and get ready for a creative year ahead.