Inkurable Birthday Challenges

Challenge No.3
The base card stock is soft suede from Stampin up. The next layer is 7 Gypsies and lastly very vanilla. I stamped the bird in soft suede x 2 and used the 7 gypsies paper to back the oval. I used the stamp resist method and stamped the scroll in versamark and clear embossed it. I used the blending tool to blend the Tumbled Glass and Antique Linen Distress inks over the very vanilla cardstock. Finally I added a ribbon and a sentiment from Darkroom Door.
Challenge No.2
The 2x4 inch cardstock is a pale brown colour. I added a darker piece of cardstock and then another piece of cardstock in a tan colour. The tan piece was stamped with a scroll stamp and smudged around the edges with Distress Walnut Stain. I added the picture with was from Studio 45 and attached it with sanded back orange brads. I added a scrap piece of handmade paper and stamped over it with a scroll stamp and walnut ink. The star is grunge board painted with moonglow and heated.

Challenge No.1

ATC base card is purple cardstock. The next layer is water colour paper which has been stamped with Basic Grey scroll stamps and versamark. Embossed with clear embossing powder. I then sprayed over with various colours of Moon glow sprays and wiped over to reveal the scrolls. With the left over paper I stamped Darkroom Door ATC Stamps in Stazon Black and versamark and embossed in clear embossing powder. I cut out the little pictures and popped with a backing of the purple cardstock. Finally I added a gorgeous butterfly charm.

I thinks its time to share what we did after we went to Sarah's Inkurable Birthday party! We had a fantastic time with great people, conversation, party games, party food and drink, although the last two were supplied by me! It was excellent to be able to talk to all the girls who regularly submit to the blog and we even had several overseas visitors drop by. Thanks Gio and els. Some great prizes were won playing bingo and crazy captions and a trivia game, at which I was pathetic at. Thanks for all your organization Sarah!

Got some new toys.

Yep went out and bought myself some new toys. I had to. After religously leaving a comment every day for fifteen days on DD's blog did I win nooooo....but congrats to those who did. So it left me no choice, thats right, no choice but to go and buy them. Don't know what happened but several Distress inks found their way into the parcel too. Here's the results. Be mindful that these little puppies are only gift card size. Hoping to post some larger cards soon.

Happy Birthday Michelle!!

Here's a quick post just to wish my bestie Michelle Happy Birthday and share a picture of the card I made for her. Why do you have to be so hard to buy for Shell! LOL!!

Hope the Easter Bunny stopped by.

It feels quite weird not having anything pressing to do. Chilling out over Easter is just what I needed. I am grateful to have the time to play around a little and create some new cards for my friend Trin's shop. Happy Easter everyone, I hope the Easter Bunny stopped by!

Best Birthday EVER!

I have just had the bestest birthday ever! It started out with hubby and I travelling down to Sydney to meet up with my darling daughter. A short taxi ride saw us excitedly embarking on what I called my pilgrimage to Mecca. Woollara is a foodie's heaven. It's the home of Simon Johnson, Donna Hay and the most incredable butcher shop I have ever seen. Next it was onto High Tea at the Victoria Rooms in Darlinghurst, just daughter and I, which was a special treat from Jess for my birthday. A short walk through Hyde Park to check out Jess's office and then back to Newtown to indulge in a cocktail made by my beautiful boy. Finally finishing with dinner with hubby and back to the hotel exhausted after a big day. Breakfast with the kids and then home. Lastly I had drinks with three of my besties and a take away thai for dinner. Fantastic! Thankyou to all who were instrumental in making this one brilliant birthday.

Helloooooo from beyond

Hello my friends, if you are seeing any spelling mistakes we must blame the fact that I'm sporting a recent injury. Being a super chef isn't so hot when you cut little chunks out of the middle of your finger nail. Not nice at all! No sympathy from my fellow class mates. Yes and I was very brave and didn't DARE pass out, which I have been known to do on previous occasions. Its all going very well, now. I was very daunted at first. All the theory was a little scarewee but now I know whats expected I'm settling down a bit. The cooking part isn't so bad but you know when you have cooked the most basic thing for the whole of your life and can even knock it up in your sleep and it turns out perfect every time, well that doesn't happen in class. I failed crumbed chicken!!! The teacher even said that if he had been given it at a restaurant, he would send it back!!! Gasp! And as for quiche, failed that as well, but I can knock up a mean Cabernet jus. Thank you all for your enquiries on how things are going. Yes I can finally say that I am enjoying the course. My class mates are an eclectic mix. The young ones are soooo funny.

Here are some little cards, nothing earth moving but I am working on some ATC's at the moment, my first ones so I'll be asking for your opinions on these. As soon as I can I'll post some pictures. Meanwhile............

Metallics

In between cooking and studying and doing exams I managed to fit in a challenge. This months Inkurables challenge is Metallics so here's my entry, now if only I can remember how I did the background...........

Wooden Tag was base coated in an olive green paint and sanded back. I then sprayed over the whole piece with green Matisse ink and gave it a blast with the heat gun. Next came a generous spray of Matisse copper ink and made it quite wet then blasted it quite closely with the heat gun which caused some parts to crack. Gave it another sand then stamped over it with Inkadinkadoo (I think) Rockstar. The frame is grunge board treated the same way as the base. The mask and other emphemera is from an old brooch which broke (I was devastated!).