The Watch Man

 I made this card for one of Dennis' mates birthday, I used Tim Holtz embossing folder "Bottle Caps" and also used the embossing diffuser to make the oval in the middle of the card, and stamped Tim's "the watch man" from "stampers anonymous" and coloured the edges of the card with Tim's Distress ink pad "Vintage Photo" and the man with Distress Stain "Walnut"  the shirt and waistcoat and hat band and face and hands were coloured with Faber-Castell water colour pencils, and the gold chain and centre of the watch was coloured with a gel pen,   The inside of the card was also embossed with "Bottle Caps" and I also used the diffuser for the oval, the stamp I used was Tim's Visual artistry "Life's Possibilities"  and used the same ink pad for the shading.   I hope he likes this card.

Happy Ever After

After a week thinking about this card, I used Karen Burniston's   Accordian Die,
www.karenburniston.typepad.com, I like this die and I made a card for a friend's wedding, I used some embellishments that I bought at "The Liquidators" and I cut several from Cuttlebug dies "The Key to my Heart" and "Convex Hearts" that I have had for a long time, I only used two of the hearts, I used Spellbinders "Butterflies" and used Gold Paper for all the embellishments that I cut out, I used various stamps that I have in my stash, and I used Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Ink and also His Ranger Gold Embossing Powder, all in all I think it turned out ok and my friend likes it. I used a Retro Swirl embossing folder to dry emboss the pages from MPress.

Spaceman Birthday

 Here are two spaceman accordion cards that I made for two grandsons, the first one is in black cardstock and the second on navy blue glittery card stock, for the images I used wrapping paper in the spaceman series, just cheap stuff - 50c per sheet, but it worked out beautifully and was just what I needed for these cards.   I used a punch for the yellow stars that I cut from yellow card stock and the Happy Birthday was cut from  Marianne Creatables Cutting die. I hope the boys will like these cards.  I really love this accordion die, the more you use it, the easier it becomes.

"Cool Dude"

I cut this card with the Sizzix Karen Burnistone die Accordian /Album 3D Bigz cutting die.

 This is a fun die to use, I used Tim Holtz embossing folder with Kitchen Aluminium Foil for the centre pieces, "Riveted Metal", and a new Tim Holtz stamp, I think he is called "Watch Man"  which I coloured him in with Faber-Castell water colour pencils, on the second page I used another new stamp "Gears", and I attached a silver chain between the first page and the second held in which brads and I hung a watch from my stash at the end of the chain on the second page, on the third page I cut out stamped pen nibs from Tim's stamps "curious possibility" as is the last page with the three Top Hatted Men
and I stamped "Cool Dude" with an alpha set
that I have had for a long time. and a Happy Birthday

from a Fiskars Die that I have also had for a long time, had fun with this but it did take me several hours to do it, I just hope the reciepent will like it. After looking at this card after I posted it, I got out my Tim Holtz distress ink and used "walnut" to colour the man and the gears, it gives a darker and better image.

boys photo canvas

These are 2012 school photos of my four grandsons, and I made these canvasses for them, I used all sorts of things from the shed, ie screws, nails, bolts, and a lot of other bits and bobs that were destined to the rubbish bin.   I used gesso on the canvas and all the bits that I had stuck on with the hot glue gun, over pieces of lace that I had attached with the gesso at the beginning of the exercise.
I do not have any blue stains, inks so I used food colouring and water colour paints to make my sprays, I used the lighter blue (food colouring) and mixed the water colours to make the medium and the dark colours.   For a first try I think it is not too bad.

accordian Mother's Day Cards

I recently was able to buy the Karen Burniston Accordion Die and looked on Karen's blogspot, for the tutorial for making this card/album.   It is fascinating to make, I wanted to make an album/card for my daughter and daughter in law for Mother's Day and made my first samples.   I used Bright Pink cardstock and also acrylic left over from a package that I had kept for "in case",   It made great inside pages for the butterflies that I cut from various dies, ie: spellbinders and Marianne creatables.   I think they turned out ok, will continue to practise with this die, I found with the acrylic that I had to use hot glue gun instead of the glue dots/double

sided tape.

Santa's Coat

I made this card today to enter into http://christmasstampin.blogspot.com.au challenge number 11 - Santa's Coat.   I used red card stock to designate santa's coat with a black belt and a fancy belt buckle cut from white card stock with a Memory Box cutting die "Marietta Buckle"   I have used this die quite a lot, and the buttons were cut from a Cuttlebug cutting die "Baby Face" Alphabet. a bit of fun and easy to make if you have to make a lot of cards.