Owly wishes

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

More Heroarts love today! All stamps used are from beloved HA except for the little speech bubble with the heart in it (from My Cute Stamps). Gonna make it short & sweet today, thanks for coming by ;)

{heart}

Sunday, March 28, 2010

These My Cute Stamps are just what they are...CUTE!! i couldn't resist making a card with the adorable dino & the speech bubble with the heart. Kinda looks like the little guy's letting his love known with a *burp* lol. Images are coloured in with Copic Markers.. The background is embossed with the Cuttlebug 'Tiny Bubbles' embossing folder & the patterned paper is from My mind's eye 'be loved' collection. Love that collection too!

Some cool stuff I came across the Web world lately:
- Am seriously contemplating joining Ali Edward's Week in the Life project!
-Check out this fabulous 'back to basics: stamping' tutorial by Kim Hughes. Some cool stuff there i might want to try.
- So in love with Susan Weinroth's scrapbooking style! Check these layouts>

Thanks for coming by, have a good week! :)

Prima love..

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Prima flowers take my breath away...i must point out honestly that i'm not a 'flower' person, meaning i like fresh flowers on my table but put fake flower embellishments in front of me & i wouldn't know nuts what to do with them. Totally envious of peeps who can execute layouts & cards with tons of flowers beautifully...:) So what i'm not good at i do least of. Just a really simple card with ONE gorgeous prima layered flower as the focal point. I masked off the sides of the card with some printer paper & stamped a distressed grid (from Unity stamp co.) using Papertreyink's 'Snow fresh' ink. Really good white pigment ink that one. Some white stitching with my fave white uniball pen , stick on some basic grey 'white' microchip alphas + a small sentiment and done. Feels good when u do something simple & clean. I think the key is to know when you have to stop adding things to your project; which is seriously tough!

It's my birthday tomorrow & i'm in self denial of turning another year older. Like 'i just want to switch my phone off & hole myself up alone at home' kind of denial. Not much success to that so far....

Anyways I thought it was really sweet that friends sent me birthday wishes on facebook & i find it only polite to acknowledge them all by posting a thank you reply note (via facebook again of course). Looking forward to a day of doing nothing tomorrow with my guy (utter bliss!) & my tea party on saturday :)

Thanks for stopping by, have a good weekend!

Life

Friday, June 12, 2009

Hi all! Sorry I haven't been posting as much as I should, been a tad busy with work & drama serials *lol* PLUS the weather has been so hot & humid lately that I can't seem to create anything much! So for now I'm pretty much sharing cards that I made awhile ago and have not shared :) I simple adore the colours on this card. I started out playing around creating the patterned paper with white cardstock & the PTI's 'guidelines 2' stamp set and built the card up from there. The colours used on the patterned paper are 'melon berry, spring rain, raspberry fizz & summer sunrise' I also had the opportunity to try out my then 'new' label four dies from Nestabilities & really love how it turned out :)

The ribbon looks complicated but it's really easy to do; You can find my video tutorial showing you how I tied the ribbon here.

Some shares today:

• I totally adore mary's use of these colours on her layout here.
• Been thinking of making this cute card purse lately.
• love the colour inspiration from this site.

Thanks for stopping by today, come back tomorrow for the weekly Card Patterns share :)

card supplies:

cardstock: papertreyink

ribbon: misc

stamps: papertreyink's 'life' & guidelines 2

others:labels 4 nestabilities, cuttlebug

Butterflies

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Here's a card I made at felicia's a week or so ago, and I got to play with some of her MANY stamps hehe! I love that gorgeous distressed heart background from Unity Stamp as well as the gorgeous Maya road butterfly stamps. Actually one of the prettier butterfly stamp sets I've seen :) I used a techique I learnt from Jennifer Mcguire, where you mix the pearl ex and water and then apply it over an image to give it a shimmery look. You could also use liquid dimensional pearls in the same way :) You can see the soft effect it gives from the photo below:
The inside is also stamped with another cute Maya road butterfly image and coloured in with Copics. I used Y11, Y38, YR04 and YR21 to colour in both the images on the front of the card and the one inside.

Oh, and I got a new job!! Yeay!!!

Thanks for stopping by today, have a good one :)

Card Supplies:

cardstock: papertreyink

stamps: unity stamp co, maya road, 'life' by papertreyink

others: copic markers, pearl ex, black marker

Celebrate life with Guidelines 2 !

Thursday, May 28, 2009

I love making my own patterned paper! And the PapertreyInk 'Guidelines 1 & 2' allows me to do just that. It's fun to make something that's uniquely your own, and you can pretty much use any stamps you want. Here's a card that I made using Papertreyink's 'Guidelines 2' & 'Life'. The small flowers were from another PTI set called 'Boxes, bags & tags'. Here's what the paper looked like right before I used it for the card.
Thanks for stopping by today! I'm off to play over at the Stampin' Out Alzheimers site :)
Have a great one.

cupcakey congrats

Monday, May 11, 2009

Honestly, I don't play with my stamps enough. There're endlesss projects to make with, and just not enough time! For e.g I got the PapertreyInk Anniversary set (not avail for sale, it's a free set that only comes when you purchase a certain amount of PTI stamps in a year ) quite some time back and I only managed to make ONE card. So here it is ;) The card base is Aqua Mist & the yellow patterned paper is the lemon tart bitty dots basic. The other PP are scraps from the Making memories 'flower patch' line. I adhered a red button on the top of the cupcake as the cherry, cute ya? All stamps are from the anniversary set :)

The images in the set are THE cutest ever. Check out the set I'm talking about here. And I love how the designers come up with their creations and share them on the PTI gallery too!

Anyhoos, still on the topic of Papertreyink they're doing their releases for this month as we speak. Head on over to Nichole Heady's blog. A MUST see. I saw this cute bird house template that she shared on yesterday's post & I seriously cannot wait to try it out! Got a few friends who're having housewarming parties soon so that would be oh-so-perfect haha.

And yes, I'm drooling over their releases esp the bird ones & the text style ones. I'm sorta digging the star one sneaked today too, OH MY! & i started off this post saying I don't play with my stamps enough. now i see why. OH WELL.

Have a great day y'all! :)

Card Patterns #12

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Hello hello! It's Fiona here reporting in for the usual saturday take of the new sketch from Card Patterns this week! Signing in from the land of rock (T's brother's place= which is where the GUITAR HEROES set is *LOL*) So I'm officially taking a break from the finger breaking guitar playing to share and write about this week's sketch AND the wonderful sponsor this week!! It's sketch #12 today and can I tell you i ABSOLUTELY love it!! I knew I was going to use my 'wishing you' stamp set from PapertreyiNK when i saw it. Ahhh the smell of new stamps....! Soooo here's moi's take :)

I can officially tell you EVERY SINGLE THING on that card is from papertreyink. Although if my mind was working properly when I was making it, I would have thought to use my Unity Co. stamps because our sponsor this week is Unity Stamp CO.!! Yeay!!! they're so generous to give away this set:

So goodey luckey !!!! And remember to post up your take over at Card Patterns with dear ol' Mr Linky OK!!! 1 take = 2 chances as always. Isn't CP da best ;)

Have a wonderful weekend girls and boys, I know I am!

Back to the living room, I believe I hear Axle Rose screaming my name
Toodles~~~

Hello Monday, hang in there!

Sunday, March 29, 2009

aarrrgh a start to another new week already? Totally suffering from Monday blues here...who invented work? sigh. Just a quick card share for all you peeps out there who's feeling the same haha

This card was for last week's HeroArts blog challenge (incorporate a window). By the way did anyone participate in earth hour the day before? I did! switched off all electrical appliances , except the fridge. NOT sacrificing my midnight ice cream snack here ; then headed off to the local mall *lol*

Susie Bee Studios is having a Earth day layout contest, check her out. i previously won a card contest over at susie bee & she's everything if not the sweetest lady out there :)

Have a good one.

The right shoes with CPS #98

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Ok girls, 2 posts today. Scroll down further to check out the new Heroarts catalogue!
SO Finally !I found time to play with CPS's sketch this week.

I've gotten so much inspiration from that site but have never been able to play along, so I'm glad I got the chance to sit down and get my fingers inky :) They have a group of very talented designers PLUS they have a giveaway this week , so go check them out!

For this card, I played with my 'greenthumb' set from PTI for the main image. I couldn't find a spot to put my sentiment so I just placed it right across my image using a transparency {stamped with black StazOn & adhereing with glossy accents, love that stuff} I love how you can stamp separate parts of the boots in different colours, PTI's so versatile :) I hope you likey my card, Here's the sketch #98 I used:

'right shoes' supplies:
cs: papertreyink,bazzill basics & DCVW glitter stack
pp: basic grey 'urban prairie'
stamps: greenthumb- pti, background -stampington & co
button: basic grey
glitter: prisma
pearl accents & twine tie: misc.
pen: zig millenium

A little something..

Friday, December 12, 2008

...to cheer a friend up! Here's a door hanger treat pouch i made to put some chocolates in; Going to hang this on her door before she gets home.

If you love this idea, go visit andrea at this link for her 3D templates & tutes. I love how you don't need to print the template out on paper first, i just kept the window with the instructions on my monitor & cut away! :) I didn't want to cut a slit on the hanger itself like on andrea's template so i just cut out the circle to fit the door knob. Just make sure you do this BEFORE you stick everything together! I cut out my circle with my Colluzzle. Here's a closer look:

I also made a card to place on her desk, i used Stazon White ink & stamped the images on a dark brown CS. Then i coloured it in with white & shades of purple colour pencils. I really like how the images pop!

I knotted 2 buttons atop of each other with a silver cord & added prisma glitter to the body of the main butterfly image to make it pop more. Thanks for stopping by today. Here's a closer look of the card:


Door hanger pouch supplies:
PP- MME
CS- Bazzill
Stamps- PTI ambassodor monogram & B&C monogram ed.
Lace trim- Daiso

Love ain't easy Card supplies:
CS- Bazzill
Stamps- Unity Stamps monthly kit & PTI polka dot basics
others- stazon white, colour pencils