Happiness Always

Today I am sharing a card I have made for my brother's partner for her birthday.  She loves dragons and is a little goth and dark so I tried a black themed monotone with a touch of red.  The image I've used is a Tiddlyinks digi stamp and I have coloured the image with copic markers.

Copic colours used: W0, W1, W3, W4, W6, W7, W9, 0

R22, R29, R46, R59

Spiral Flower

At the start of May was my friend's birthday and I had just done a class with some ladies on making paper flowers.  This introduced me to a tool I'd never used better, a hot glue gun.  After googling paper flowers and then the Spiral Flower originals die, I got inspired to created a bouquet of roses.
I choose the colours in the card I had made for my friend and had a bowl the right size in one of the card colours so that left me with 3 colours for the flowers - green, white and black.  After cutting out many spiral flowers and rolling them and hot gluing them together.  I hot glued each rose to a foam sphere that sat in the bowl nicely.  I was thrilled with the end product and so was my friend.  I nearly kept it for myself.  Hope you like.

The Avengers

My son celebrated his 13th birthday at the beginning of May and wanted to invite his friends for lunch and the movies.  So lunch was at Hogs Breath and the movie was The Avengers: Age of Ultron. Therefore I made these four symbols for his birthday invites to represent the 4 main characters.  Used Stampin' Up! punches with a bit of scissor cutting free hand.  He was pleased with my handy work and his birthday.

Mr & Mrs

Today is the 23rd April, which is my Mum & Dad's wedding anniversary.  This year makes it 42 years together.  Wow!  The image I decided to copic is a Tiddlyinks digi stamp.  I coloured it with corresponding hair colours and based around their favourite colours.

Copic colours used:  Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R11, R20

Hair/Shoes/Shirt - W3, W5, W7, W9

Hair - E30, YR31, E33, E35

Vest/Trousers - B91, B93, B95, B97, B99

Dress - R24, R29, R46, R59

Fur/Grounding - W0, W2, W4

Barb & Dave

Yesterday was my Mum's birthday so I made her this card.  She told my boys the story of how she always wanted a pet pig as a little girl and she was going to name him 'Dave'.  Using a Saturated Canary digi image I made my Mum's card with her and Dave the pig.  She absolutely loved it.

Copic colours used:  Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R11

Hair - W3, W5, W7, W9

Blue - B32, B34, B37, B39

Green - G21, G94, G99

Apple - R22, R29, R46, R59

Pig - R00, RV10, RV63, RV34

Lead - E42, E44, E47

Sorry about the poor quality of the photograph, I am not the best photographer

Happy Easter 2015

I have been busy making Easter Cards for my family, my parents, brother and sister.  I have really enjoyed making these cards and slowly getting back into my copic colouring, just hope I manage to keep it going again.

Card 1#

Copic colours used:  Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R11

Hair - E11, E13, E15, E18

Clothing - R20, R32, R35, R37

R11, R32

Y00, Y04, Y08, E15

Bunny - W0, W1, W3

Insert #

Card 2#

Copic colours used:  Skin - W0, W1, W3

Black - W3, W5, W7, W9

White - B60, BV31, BV20, BV23, B63

Card 3#

Copic colours used:  Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R11

Clothes - BV20, BV23, BV25, BV29

RV91, RV93, RV95, RV99

Black - W0, W1, W3, W5, W7, W9

Insert

Hope you all have a Happy Easter!

Happy Birthday Lil' Sis'

Wanted to share two cards I have made for my sisters birthday.  Why two?  Well I make a card for myself and one for my mum.

The card I have made from myself to my sister, is using a digi stamp from Saturated Canary and is called "Dancer".  I choose this image as my sister was once a dancer herself and wanted her to remember that time.  I did dance as a subject in high school and now as an adult don't get the chance to dance.

Copic colours used:  Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R11, R20

Hair - B91, B93, B95, B97, B99

Clothing - W3, W5, W7, W9

BV20, BV23, BV25

The card I created for my mum to give was using a Make it Crafty digi image.  My Sister has long black hair and her next favourite colour to black is pink.

Copic colours used:  Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R11

Hair - W3, W5, W7, W9

Dress - R81, R83, R85, R89

Fur - BV20, BV25

Eyes - B91, B95, B97

There is always something

This card I'm sharing today was for my Aunty's birthday back on the 12th March.  I have had the photo and I have not posted it as yet.  Yes, I have been very slack with any posts this year.  My two excuses are extra hours at work which has lead to very limited crafting time.  But enough with excuses and to sharing my card.

The image is a digi image from Sweet Pea Stamps. My Aunty loves tigers and the colour red so I was able to incorporate both with this card.  I haven't done much copic colouring for about 6 months.

Copic colours used:  Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R11

YR02, YR04, YR07, E18

Hair - R32, R35, R37, R39, R59, C-5

Tiger - E35, E38, YR02, YR04, YR07,E18

Bamboo - G21, G94, G99, E42

White Molotow 

Rock n Roll

My Mum has requested a rock n roll card for a family friend.  So in the middle of Christmas card frenzies I had to change gear and create a male themed card.  I do hope the recipient likes the card.
I used the November range of Kaiser craft "Off the Wall".

Christmas cards for my family

Yes I finally got around to making my families Christmas cards.  I have been very slack with my copic colouring these past 6 months but finally got motivated and got 3 cards made.  I must say not my best colouring but after being missing in action the last 6 months I guess they are going to have to do as my time is running out.

Firstly my parents card which always has to have a Santa on it for my Mum.

Secondly is my brother's card as he is a dark kind of character so I coloured this Tiddlyinks image mainly black and used some green and black bat paper from Graphic 45.

Third is my sister's card, which was another Tiddlyinks image and reminded me of two sisters together at Christmas time.  One with blonde hair to represent me and the other with black hair for my sister.

I do hope all my family members like their cards.

3D Christmas Cards

Last Monday night I held a card class for my ladies and I thought I would challenge them in some 3D card techniques.  We made three cards in total, all with a christmas theme.

# Step card

# Tri-fold card

# Cascading card

Here are all 3 cards together.  Two of these cards I had never made before myself but felt like I did alright.

November Card Class

Last night I had a class with my two ladies to create a few more Christmas related projects.  Firstly we did a shaker card which I haven't done one of these for years and was inspired by Stampin' Up! demonstrators with the Bright & Beautiful stamp set from Stampin' Up!

The second project is another inspiration from Stampin' Up! demonstrator.  I created one of these last year for a secret Santa gift and decided to show my ladies how to make a Holiday Gift Tags & Gift Box.

Shaker Card

Holiday Gift Tags & Gift Box

November Card Club

Today is Card Club at Scrapbook Fantasies so I thought I would share with you my demo and card swaps.  One of the ladies who attend card club requested an exploding box demo with a Christmas theme.  

 

Then our swap this month is Christmas.  I did have something else planned but ran out of time so following inspiration from a Stampin' Up! demonstrator this is what I created.

Love My Choo Choo Train

Yes it's November and time for another Copic Challenge at Scrapbook Fantasies.  The theme for this month is Child.  So I chose a Sweet Pea Stamp "Love My Choo Choo Train".  I have had this stamp for quite sometime but have not had the opportunity to use it and thought this as the perfect chance.  And I am very happy with end result.

Copic colours used:  Skin - E50, E51, E53

Hair/Yellow - Y35, Y38, E15, E18

Overalls - B93, B95, B97, B99

Shirt/Background - W0, W1, W3, W5, 0

Black - W5, W7, W9

Red - R22, R24, R29, R59, C-5

World Teacher's Day

Today is World Teacher's Day being celebrated at my sons' primary school.  I found this desk idea when I googled teachers gift ideas.  Then using Tanya Bell's matchbox gift box idea, I created a desk for each of my boys to give to their teachers.

Here is Brandon's teacher desk -

Here is Benjamin's teacher desk - 

I used Stampin' Up! DSP Flashback as the first desk, the pattern paper reminded me of paperclips and the second of maths grid paper.  I filled the top drawers with staples, paperclips and sticky notes. The other drawers with lollies and chocolates.  The teacher's thought they were great.

October Card and Page Competition

Here today to share 2 cards I have created with card and page competition kits from my local scrapbooking store, Scrapbook Fantasies.  Firstly the card competition, I have created a card with a stamp from Sweet Pea Stamps.  I haven't done much copic colouring lately so trying to get back into the swing of it.

Card Kit

Copic colours used:  Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R20

Hair - R22, R29, R59, C-5

Butterflies - G21, G17, G28, G29

Y11, Y15, Y19, E15, E18

Eyes - G21, G17, G28, G29, W9

The card I have created with the page kit is using a Gorjuss Girls stamp.  I absolutely love the Gorjuss Girls images.

Page Kit

Copic colours used: Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R20

Hair/Socks - W5, W7, W9

Dress - YG03, YG63, YG67, G99

Book/Socks - W0, 0w1, W3, W5

Blue - B00, B32, B34, B37

Red - R22, R24, R29, R59

Santa Staching

Sharing with you some Christmas cards I have made for my Mum to give her siblings.  There are 10 children in my Mum's family with my Mum being the eldest.  I have used a stamp set from Stampin' Up! called Santa Stache.  I didn't order this set when first saw the Stampin' Up! holiday catalogue but I love nutcrackers so therefore I eventually bought the set with matching mustache framelits.  Then after purchasing the set I realised that I could use the Santa stamp for my Mum's cards as she only gives cards with Santa Claus on them.  So every year I have to find a new way to invent a Santa card.

I used some of my retired Stampin' Up! stache (hehe) of designers series paper and ribbon and teamed it with the new white glimmer paper.

Don't look too close at my photography as they are a little blurry.

Bats about you

Today I am sharing with you my card club swaps for October with the them of 'Card in a Box".  I have made a few of these now, so I decided to go with a new theme and being October, I chose Halloween.  I created a ghost and an owl using punch art.  Also using spider web embossing folder to create a different look on the outside of the box.

Happy Birthday Aunty

Today I am sharing with you a card my Mum asked me to make for her sister who likes owls.  Yes I coloured the same image recently for one of Mum's other sisters but they both like owls and this is the only stamp I have with owls.  This Aunty's favourite colour is blue so I changed it up a little from the previous one who liked purple.  Hope you like.

Copic colours used:  Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R20

Hair - E50, E53, E43, E57

Owls - BV20, BV23, BV25, BV29

E13, E15, E17

Blue - B000, BG13, BG49, BG78

Skeleton Bones

It's October!  And what does that mean?  Halloween!  That's right, for the month of October, the Scrapbook Fantasies Copic Challenge is Halloween.  I love the colours of green, orange and purple.  I have chosen a Sweet Pea Stamp image "Halloween Trio".  I haven't copiced very much over the last few months so I think with that in mind, I was pleasantly surprised with then end result.

Copic colours used:  Skin - E50, E51, E53, V95, R11

Hair - Yr21, YR14, YR07, E08

Cloak/Skeleton - BV20, BV23, BV25, BV29, 0

Dress/Eyes - YG11, YG03, G94, G99

Grass - YG91, YG93, YG95, YG99

Cross - W0, W1, W3, W5

Sky - YR20, YR21, YR61