Baby card for Keatia.....

Here is a baby card I made for my nieces first baby - a gorgeous little girl called Keatia...

I am happy to share the craftroom file - needs CTMH artiste

Now its off to create some more.....

Embossed card - wet and dry embossing techniques

This is something I was playing with as I had not used embossing glue in the cuttlebug before.
There are a number of you tubes videos on this and other similar techniques - thank you to the authors of these - such a fabulous resource!
It is a fun technique which will be quite useful, especially for simple but effective cards

Step by step

• choose a suitable embossing folder - I like this cuttlebug folder
• open folder out and wipe embossing glue onto the inside of the front cover - this will enable the glue and thus embossing powder to adhere to the background thus highlighting the bird and reeds in white.
• Place card stock into folder and pass through cuttlebug as normal
• Separate from folder
• Sprinkle cardstock with choice of embossing powder
• Gently shake off excess (note one part of my reeds on lower left corner did not get covered - first practice!!)
• Heat emboss
• I use a fine paint brush to remove excess or spots of embossing powder if required prior to heating
• I then embossed a simple message and after layering the card and rounding the corners I placed this on mounted tape onto the card.
• Very simple to make and lots of options in amongst ones collection of embossing folders!!

Enjoy

Baby Steps cricut card -

Simple baby card  with cricut - from Baby Steps cartridge

Great use of some older paper in my stash!

 

 

Simple cricut birthday card -

Birthday card from "Love you a latte" cricut cartridge

Nice and simple

No calories - Enjoy!!

 

Love you a latte card.....

Something a little different for my lovely mother in law on her birthday....

The card is from elegant edges

latte from love you a latte and the doily is from Sophie 

 

 

Strut Your Cuts...Scrappygolucky.com.au challenge card 2

http://blog.scrappy-go-lucky.com.au/strut-your-cuts-and-win-the-new-quilted-christmas-cartridge/
Here is my second card for this challenge....has been fun making it....lol lots of various comments from the family!
I apologise for the quality of the photo...

The carts I used were Rock princess, plantin school book (ricrac), celebrations (stars) and art philosophy (writing).
Gypsy used to rock and roll the writing.
There is embossing on the boots, guitar, writing, stars and the hair is painted with gold paint.
The banner corners are punched (Marthat Stewart).
Buttons on boots and jacket are Folk Art dimensional paint.
Enjoy,
Robyn

Improving my photos...

Here is a better photo of the cupcake card. I am having trouble with my basic photography skills...perhaps that is the next course I need to do!

I also had a lot of trouble finding greenery in the garden. It is so dry.