Age Awareness day

My brother is a dinosaur expert (I kid you not), so I often make him a dino-themed birthday card.

He is also fond of a laugh.  And he is older than I am. So this is what I came up with for his birthday this year:

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Merriest baubles

I made this card a week or so ago, and forgot to put it up on my blog. When I remembered, I realised that the first photo I took is a bit blurry - but I've already written on the card and sealed it in an envelope! Oh, well, the photo is not THAT blurry that you can't figure out what the card looks like!

I used the "Triangle patterned stencil" for the background, with some white embossing paste, and a dusting of glitter embossing powder over the top (which I heat set after the embossing paste was dry).  The sentiment is white embossed on black.  I used Hero Arts "Stamp & Cut Ornament" with some ombre inks, then covered in Wink of Stella.  I tied some twine into bows and attached it to the card and the ornaments with Multi Medium Matte.

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Christmas event at A Blog Named Hero

I have a special post for Christmas over at A Blog Named Hero today - here's a sneak peek!

Make sure you drop by A Blog Named Hero today, because I have a VERY special guest there today, and there's a video, too!

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Advent Calendar Extravaganza with Taheerah Atchia

Welcome to a very special event!

Advent Calendar Extravaganza is -the- festive event of the season! This ‘hop with a twist’ was dreamed up by Taheerah Atchia and features surprise destinations each day! Joining in the fun with Taheerah are over 60 special guests - each serving up some fantastic Christmas inspiration! Just like an Advent Calendar, you’ll never know where you’re going to be visiting next until you ‘open the door’!

And that’s not all! With 25 *amazing* sponsors taking part as well, your crafty wish list is bound to get a boost with a chance to win a prize EVERY SINGLE DAY!!

Join in the fun every day at taheerah-atchia.com to see what special surprises wait behind the door!

I decided to make two cards, with VERY different looks! They both use stamps from Winnie and Walter, as well as Hero Arts. 

For my first card, I stamped the sentiment in black from Winnie and Walter's "The Big, the Bold and the Merry", and added the apostrophe before the word 'twas. To stamp the mouse (from Hero Arts "Playful Animals" set), I needed to stamp the Santa hat from Lawn Fawn's "Toboggan Together" first, then mask it. (I was amazed and delighted at the perfect fit of this hat!) Once the stamping was done, I coloured the image with some Copic markers, then added some white gel pen dots to his eyes.  I finished with some patterned paper from Lawn Fawn's "Let's Bokeh In the Snow" 6x6 pad.

My second card is completely different!

I wanted some non-traditional colours. I stamped onto watercolour cardstock in Versamark and white embossed three baubles from Hero Arts "Stamp & Cut Ornament", and then stamped the sentiment from Winnie and Walter's "The Big, the Bold and the Merry" in Versamark, and embossed in Ranger Liquid Platinum embossing powder.  I coloured the images and the background using Distress Inks in Pistachio, Spun Sugar, Tumbled Glass and Scattered Straw, with heaps of water. I cut the panel down and adhered it to a hot pink card base from my stash. Some faux stitching lines in white gel pen, some Wink of Stella on the ornaments, and some sequins from Simon Says Stamp finished it off.

It’s not a party without a prize - and with prizes every day there are several chances to win! Today’s prize is generously supplied by Winnie and Walter, (a $30 gift certificate - YAY!) so you’ll definitely want to get your hands on it! Simply leave a comment on this post to enter - then head back to taheerah-atchia.com and leave a comment there too to double your chances! Don’t forget to grab the other surprise destinations from Taheerah’s blog and head over to them to leave comments there as well to improve your odds even more! You have until 7am EST on Thursday 31st December to leave all your comments! 

Don’t forget the Advent Calendar Extravaganza runs from 1st-25th December inclusive so make sure you visit taheerah-atchia.com every day for fabulous inspiration and amazing prizes every single time! Merry Christmas, and thanks for visiting :)

Silver congratulations

A friend of mine asked me on the weekend to make a congratulations card for an engagement. I asked if she wanted elegant, or modern, or cute - she said elegant.  This is what I made:

I used the Tim Holtz Lace layering stencil to add some Wendy Vecchi embossing paste that I had coloured with a silver Gelato from Faber Castell, and before it was dry, I sprinked on some Judikins Iridescent Sparkle embossing powder. I let the paste dry before heat-setting the embossing powder.  I stamped and silver embossed the sentiment from Hero Arts, and then added some more sparkle with a strip of silver glimmer paper from Stampin' Up.

This is one of those cards that the photo just does not do it justice - the lace has so much texture and sparkle! 

 I will be sharing this card over at Virginia's View Challenge - all about glitter!

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