Cardabilities

Welcome to my very first Cardabilities reveal....

I was so excited to start working on the gorgeous sketches created by Karan...

Here is this month's first sketch..

and my card...

I decided to use my Martha Stewart butterfly punch that I got from Philippa at Lime Tart to create the ribbon effect under the circle in the centre.  I just pinched and folded the strip of punched butterflies and adhered it around the circle as I went.  I love the effect it gave.

I also added lots of dimentsion and texture to the flowers, by folding and adhering with foam tape.

Be sure to pop over the the Cardabilities to see the other gorgeous cards, the dt girls have created.

Thanks for stopping by.

Lime Tart Gallery Reveal

I can finally share my Lime Tart layouts and card with you.....

The gallery has been revealed today on the Zest blog and is full of the most gorgeous creations.  The girls have made such beautiful layouts and cards.

This month I received October's full Tart, which consisted of gorgeous Prima paper and lots of lovely embellishments.  Here are my layouts in full....

Layout 1 - Cheeky Fairy

There were so many gorgeous embellishments with this kit....

lots of trims, buttons, flowers and paper clips....

I used my WOJ - Citrus Tree Stamp to create my little butterfly tree...

Layout 2..... sweet, beautiful, crazy you!

I love the design of this piece of patterned paper.  The minute I saw it, I thought it looked like it would be fun to colour in...so I cut our the flowers from underneath the matted photo section and used my Copic markers to create my own flowers.  I love how they turned out :)  How cute is that Jenni Bowlin butterfly?

Layout 3 ...she adores you

My children are very lucky to be the youngest of all the children in Stef's family, which means many older cousins to dote and fuss over them.  And do they what!!!!

And who could go past the gorgeous Cuttlebug quilling plates.  As I've mentioned, I also purchased the other 2 designs.....carnation and the chrysanthemum and am itching to find the time to use them.

All of the gorgeous bits and pieces can be found at Lime tart.

Tomorrow is reveal day for some more card creations.  Be sure to pop back and have a stickie :)

 

Cuttlebug Quilling Giveaway

Remember last week when I showed the sneaky peak of this...



Well....guess what.....

Philippa, over at Lime Tart  has very generously given me a set of these gorgeous

Daisy Quilling plates to giveaway.....

WOOOOHOOOO!!!!!

Here's what they look like.....


These plates are values at $38.00 retail...
how fantastic is that!!!!!
How do you win, I hear you ask...
Well.....you get one entry for doing EACH / ANY of the following steps...
* become a follower of my blog.....
* post this giveaway on your blog.....
and leave a comment to let me know you have.
Pretty simple hey!
I'll be drawing the winner in about a weeks time.
Good luck everyone :)

Warning........

This post comes with it's own little warning...

** read on at your own scrapping risk**

If you're like me, and you love making your own paper flowers..... then I have something for you :)

I justified this little purchase to myself as something I REALLY NEEDED....as it would help me save scrapping time...lol...had nothing to do with want.... what-so-ever...

Cuttlebug have released these gorgeous new quilling plates to make these scrumptious flowers...

I've used the daisy quilling plate...

but there's also the carnation

 and the chrysanthemum

The very lovely Philippa Barr has kindly let me share her gorgeous card with some chrysanthemum flowers....this is simple stunning! In actual fact...I should blame her for my new found addiction...It came hot on the heels of seeing this beautiful card....

At Lime Tart , Philipa has just restocked the three flower types and the cuttlebug base plates.  The set comes with the cutting plates, a leaf plate, some florists wire and a quilling tool.  I used the quilling tool to create the little swirly flowers, which made that job so much easier, as I used to roll these by hand :)

Here is a link to a demonstration.....you'll be amazed when you see how easy these flowers are...
Cuttlebug Challenge site
Now please don't hold me responsible for any new flower making habits that may be formed.....I'm just doing my bit as a responsible scrapper...lol....AND as I said earlier...I really did NEED this in order to save  more time....hehehehe..maybe you do too....

ANYWAY..

that's my story and I'm sticking to it

enjoy xxx

Sneaky peak.....

Happy Monday everyone :)

I thought I'd start the week with some little sneak peaks of my creations for Philippa over at Lime Tart...

This layout is created with October's Full Tart...

This gorgeous pack is full of lots of beautiful embellishments...

how gorgeous is that Prima flower????

I also decide to have a play with one of the new Wiff of Joy  stamps....this one is called Citrus tree, but I decided to use some little butterflies to create a butterfly tree embellishment.



I love creating my own embelli's for a layout....It was really easy to make as I just stamped the different sections onto the patterned paper I wanted, cut out each section and pieced it all together!

Stay tuned for some more little sneaky peaks of my other layouts and cards too :)