Simply Some Tine

Evening everyone!

I hope you've enjoyed your weekend and are savouring the last moments before Monday blues. Yikes! If you're not leaping with joy at the prospect of waking up to whatever it is you don't like about Mondays ... then hold hands ... you're not alone.

I have been working on some cards using iris folding and wanted to share the following:



This card was made as a Birthday greeting card at Christmas time from HER to HIM. It reads Happy Birthday at the bottom and a mini heart peg holds the name.

This close-up shot shows the layered effect of iris-folding.

I just love iris folding! I'll be posting some more this week. Thanks for popping by and come again! xxx

Good evening dear readers,

I hope you had an awesome Christmas and New Year. I'd like to wrap up this festive season by posting various cards I made in the rush up to Christmas.





For this Felt Snowman card I used:

A4 Royal Blue Cardstock
Felt in Black and White
Anita's Ribbon
Candlelight Shimmerz
Silver Snowflake Confetti
Clear Stamps for the merry christmas sentiment and parcel
Ring stickers


When I made this next card, I was playing around with my new chalks and was enjoying blending in the colours on this cute stamped image from Suzanne Woolcott's Gorjuss Girls.







The next two cards are a traditional and elegant pair. Although the picture is not big enough to show detail, they have embossed borders which I decided to colour in to enhance the dimension.




Next is a card which I made upon request from a close friend of mine. I used Retro chipboard lettering from Dovecraft and the Sparkly Sweet paper from K&Company.




I made this next card for my best friend Maria. I used 'Tis the Season paper from Dovecraft and Stickles glitter for the snowmen's bodies.


This A5 card reads To Mum and Dad Merry Christmas.

This is one of my favourite creations. I made a paper pocket and stuffed it with tags and toppers. You might wonder why on earth this Christmas card is addressed to a mouse ... people love their pets it seems :)


Finally is this elegant card with a rich topper with gold cord and glittered green card stock.

If you got this far, thanks for enduring this rather long post. Now that I have caught up with the seasonal cards, I would like to thank my sister hugely for the pictures taken with great precision and creative eye. Do visit Bitsylot's gallery here.

Hugs xx

It's been forever since I posted anything. I have been battling with stressful times and card making has had little space to feature. Now that these tiresome times are over, I am fishing out my paper crafting materials.

Here are a few cards I made ...


For this pair of cards I used Clear Magic Christmas pudding stamp, Sparkles glitter for the icing and some gems and bows.



The next card was made using an old Christmas card.


It sure is hard breaking away from family maxims which grow with you like a big school uniform you can never outgrow. In my family, we save cards dating back to my parents' first Valentine's. Every year we cut out old cards to make gift tags and the best part of this is that the rummaging always includes telling family stories. Besides, it saves trees :)

It's late and I'm dozing off but I wanted to show you these two cards.

Last Sunday I got creeped out as the fish display at a restaurant had some awfully ugly fish with huge pouted lips and sad faces.

As they lay lifeless staring at me on a cold metal plate looking far from fresh, I felt compelled to rebuild their crushed ego. So here I'm posting two cards to rectify their hideous representation.



This card reads 'To the Best Dad, Happy Birthday'.


Next is this personalised card. I stamped the card with faded gold bubbles and then complemented this with the gold gems.




The thick air was not kind to me today, it gave me an unbearable headache. Napped for an hour and a half and felt revived. Made a couple of cards which were very urgent and by the end, my cumbersome headache returned with revenge.

Good night good dreams, Night night, Sleep tight :)

Morning!!

Quick peek at what I created:



A5 Get Well Soon card using Papermania Secret Garden paper strips, button, natural twine and ribbon.



Next is this neutral card which I made for my father's birthday. It can however be used for any occasion with an alteration of colours and sentiment.



I love using this design on a number of cards. The little bird with button eyes, heart-shaped wings, a perky beak and long stick legs using natural twine.


I will soon post some other cards using this design with a different colour combination.

Good day!

Have you ever found yourself hoarding scraps of paper, chocolate wrappers, pencil sharpenings, random pieces of ribbon, odd buttons and the like? I have been doing it since I can remember. I also found a Tesco cornflakes cut out last week while I was rummaging through some photos. A keepsake which deserved to be archived in an album! Think of that! :P Well, I've decided to create some cards using entirely scrap pieces and left over paper that I've been wanting to get rid of. If you can't stop shopping for craft supplies, just because they're pretty and will come in handy, AND if your budget is screaaaaming STOP at the top of its lungs (even if it's not); then try fixing yourself a target. I decided that before I use up 50% of my stacked up pieces of crumpled and folded paper, I shall not enter my Visa account number into another craft supply website. Of course that includes not purchasing off the counter :)

These are some of the cards I came up with using only scraps:

This card reads 'Happy Belated Birthday' and it uses a Sugar Nellie stamp. I love these stamps!


This card reminds me of The Secret Garden and it also uses a Sugar Nellie stamp. This is fast becoming my favourite stamp so far.