Monday, February 9, 2015

Just A Few Cards

Good morning everyone, It's Monday down here on my side of the pond and I am back to share my Mad About Scrappin Project Share with you all.  I don't know about you but these Mondays seem to rockin around faster and faster these days.  Today, I just wanted share a few cards with you that I have created using those wonderful Graphic 45 Papers - A Time to Celebrate, and some embellishments from the Mad About Scrappin Store.  

I started with some card bases that I received in this months kit....


together with some paper flowers and fancy cardstock frames from previous kits.
There's not much to really tell about these, so once again I will let the pics do most of the talking for me....


 I loved using the ornate lacey frames.  Here I have cut the frame in half and placed either side of the diecut base.
 To create these flowers I have punched them out of some co-ordinating cardstock from my stash and added some tiny seed beads to the centres using Glossy Accents.





Just love these cute little paper flowers.  To co-ordinate them just a little more with the papers, I dry brushed some Tim Holtz Tattered Rose distress ink to the centres.
As you can see these cards go perfectly with my project from last week.    As always thanks for stopping by, I hope you have enjoyed my mini as much as I did creating it.  Please be sure to check out the links below to see what my other creative team mates have been up to...

....remember to live your bliss......
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 PS:...Please come back next week as I show you how I took these card bases and created two little mini albums....



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Friday, February 6, 2015

Creative Inspiration - Week 6 2015


Hello again.

So starts another month. With the start of a new month comes some new products to play with. As normal Leanne from Mad About Scrappin 
has surprised me with some amazing goodies to showcase. 

I was lucky this month to have this kit sent to me to play with...

Now for something just a little different I decided to start using this kit off with a bang. To explain a little .... recently my youngest daughter had her sixth birthday. Now as part of the party preparation I bought some paper party bags from Coles. 

As most of you know I just cant leave a party bag the way they come... I just HAD to personalise them. So I set to work collect all the bits and pieces I would need. I made little flags using some of the red and white striped paper in the kit. Then cut some tags from the kraft coloured paper. Once again I have played around with some digital stamps to create the 6 - celebrate cards. I printed these onto some graph 4x6 cards in my stash and jazzed them up with some matching washi tape. 

So here's the finished bags once I had assembled them all.

I had some old bingo cards in my stash that I decided to use as the base for all my decorations. I sanded the edges to tone them down just a little. I also finished the flags off with a gold glittered star to add that little bit of sparkle. Quite enjoyed jazzing these plain bags up and the kids just loved them.

Now.. as it was Miss Ts birthday I decided once I had finished the bags, that I would carry the theme over to her card. I cut up the base of the party bag to use as the background for this card.

To add a bit more dimension to the card I used a journal calendar spot from Mad About Scrappin. I finished off the spot using some mini alphas to add in the month and year of her 6th birthday.

Now to finish off the who card I wanted to add some sparkle. This was easily done with a bit of help from these super cute teenie sequins Leanne sent me. I just randomly applied adhesive the sprinkled the sequins and some iridescent glitter. Super easy and fun to make such a mess creating.


Had had a great time creating with this paper range. 

Cannot wait to share some other bits I have created over the next month.

Till then.... TFL, Michelle xxx

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Monday, February 2, 2015

A Time to Celebrate Cardholder

Hey all, welcome back.  Well it is Monday down here in my neck of the woods and you know what that means?  It is time to share my Mad About Scrappin project.  Last week I received my design team kit and I couldn't  wait to dive in and get creating.


So I busted open the A Time to Celebrate 8x8 pad from Graphic 45 and two of the off white cardstock.  I wanted to create a storage solution for some of my handmade cards and I thought the theme of these papers was just right for it.

I have used two pieces of off white cardstock to create the "box" shape. I have trimmed to measure 7"x12"  and 7"x 6.5".

 I have scored these at 3"; 4.5" and again at 9.5".  I trimmed off the excess.  With my second sheet of cardstock I scored it an 1.5" 
and then adhered the two pieces together 
Once this was done I began matting both sides.


 Once I had both sides covered, it was time to work on the concertina-d sides and add the dividers. I trimmed the two strips of cardstock I had leftover to 4".

 Which I then scored every at 1 inch intervals.
 adhered double sided tape to alternate sides and attached my dividers.
I then glued this to the "inside".
 Then the fun began with embellishing, fussy cutting and punching flowers.  
I have tucked the top flap in behind a button I have created using an old wooden button, some glossy accents and paper punches

 Here is my finished card holder....










Join me next week as I create some co-ordinating cards to go inside.   Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out all the Mad About Scrappin links below.



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