Happy Bird-day

Two very fun cards.

Cased with modifications from Mary Marsh

Stamps: Pun Fun

Paper: Garden Green, Pacific Point, Tangerine Tango, White Whisper

Inks: Basic Black, Garden Green, More Mustard, Pacific Point, Pink Pirouette, Tangerine Tango

Accessories: Blender Pens, Snail, Stampin' Pastels, Stampin' Dimensionals, Stamp-a-ma-jig

                   

Love this card!  Cased from the Canadian 2009-2010 Catalogue, Page 80.  I picked up this set the last time I was over home.   Some minor variations due to not having the accent stamps used in the original.

Stamps: Extreme Surfer, Circle Circus, Basic Phrases

Paper: Old Olive, Pacific Point, Crumb Cake, White Whisper

Inks: Baja Blue, Chocolate Chip, Certainly Celery, Pacific Point, Wild Wasabi, Versamark

Accessories: Embossing Buddy, Heat Tool, Snail, Clear Embossing powder, Cutter Kit, Stampin'

                    Dimensionals, Stamping Sponges, Powder Pal, Stamp-a-ma-jig

Girl's Night In with Andrea

My prizes from the Girl's Night In on Friday.

These are the sweet little cards we made for the stamp a stack. Don’t you love the sparkly edge on the pink ribbon? There was a yellow daffodil set too, which I only briefly looked at, I was too dazzled by the sparkles!

There was yummy food, I didn't try everything by any means. There were these beautifully presented little cupcakes, with white icing and a single raspberry sitting right in the middle. raspberries are a total weak spot for me. You don't want to know how much 1/4 punnet of them costs here. Let's just say that it would be a good investment. Oh they were scrumptious. There were more raspberries inside and white chocolate chips too.... swoon

The games were fun ones, even for me and I'm not much of a party games person. Missed out on dead or alive though with Faye Dunaway, I confused her with Farrah Fawcett, but to be honest I was astonished that I lasted as long as I did, I was winging it until then, I don't follow the celbs much either!

A little bit of everything

Lots of things on today.

Started out by going to the Lifeline Big Book Fair. Picked up some great old books for a song and some beautifully illustrated childrens books as well.

After that I signed myself up for Aunt Pitty Pat's Christmas Block Exchange. I chose to do Christmas Trees, just waiting to hear if wild colours and embellished stuff will fit in, or if I need to tone it down a little. I have this vision of a portion of the tree, in lime green, with hot pink ornaments, two or three of the tips of the star and a rick rack garland, a bit more Australian I 'd say!! If it doesn't suit that's no problem, now that I have the vision I might do my own with that in mind.

We've discovered a number of these sweet little birds called Silvereyes in our yard too late recently, I'm pretty sure they've been hitting the wall of glass. I found another one today, but got lucky, once I'd gotten a shoe box & blanket he'd flown off. They flit around and are a delight to watch, so it's been quite disappointing to lose so many, and to feel so directly responsible for it.

I have my shoebox ready now in case there are more, and will be checking the yard a bit more frequently too.

Lastly, I had a very fun night out at A Girls Night In, making some really pretty cards and playing some fun games. Saw some old faces and met a couple of new ones. Got lucky, won four prizes, one because I read fairly quickly, two by auction and one from a coin toss, so now I have lots of paper, some extra embellishments a store of old stamps and only a few stamp pads, guess what I need to stock up on!

I will have some more photos tomorrow of the cards, prizes, books and the batik backing before washing.

more old work - cards

I have some more that have no photos yet. Tomorrow night I'm off to create more at a Girl's Night in, http://vanessawebb.net/blog/?p=1058 should be fun!