Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone, I hope you had a great weekend with your family! We had a great 5 days at home doing not much at all really!  It was so nice to not have to worry about being here, there and everywhere at a certain time. The kids have had fun playing, we did a little bit of clearing up outside and enjoyed a bit of shopping:-)  

While I had loads of free time this weekend I only made one card.  I found myself enjoying my other hobby/day job - web work.  My dear friend (and super talented stamper) Bron let me fiddle with her blog and give it a bit of a makeover.  I've been bugging her for ages to let me play...not that there was anything wrong with her old blog,  she's just a thoughtful, kind person that's always there when you need her, so I wanted to make it one of a kind... just for her :-)  

I managed to finish it off yesterday so I decided to do a challenge.  Given that Bron is now on the DT for Magnolia Down Under, it was an easy choice. Here's what I came up with...

A little out of my comfort zone with all those greens, but I think I really like it!

Supplies
Papers: Kaisercraft Chapter One DSP, SU Basic Black cardstock
Stamps: Papermania Born to Shop sentiment, Magnolia 
Copics: Skin - E11,000,00, R20 Hair - E25,49, 53, 59, Jeans - B97, 95, 91 
Shoes & Handbag C9, 7, 5, 3, 1 Top - G02, G00, G000, Shopping Bags E55, E43, 41 40
Pendant - YR28, spica
Embellishment - flock flower ribbon, SU Tag punch, black satin ribbon, flowers handmade with SU boho flower punch, glimmer mist and DSP,  SU bling brads, kaisercraft black rhinestones.
 
Unfortunately it's back to school for the kids and work for me tomorrow, so time to curl up with my book for a little while. Hope you have a great week

thanks for stopping by,
Kirst
 

Soooo out of my comfort zone

In more ways than one this week! Lucky me went back to work this week after 6 weeks long service leave, what a shock to the system that has been! Throw in a bit of upheaval at work and it's been quite a roller coaster.

Since going back to work I've had zippo energy. I'm a night owl, up till all hours, but this week I've been in bed at 9.30pm which is unheard of for me (haven't even watched my trash TV....gasp!). As a result this poor little Tilda has been sitting coloured on my desk since the challenge was announced last Sunday and I've only now just finished putting it together.

When I first picked my stamp I decided to go out of my comfort zone and colour something bright.  Now colour and I just don't get along. I love black, grey and all shades in between. If you're lucky you might catch me in a bit of pink or purple but defiantly nothing too bright. So for this card I decided to go all out and picked ORANGE (shock horror!)

So what does one do with a little Tilda in a little orange dress when you're totally colour challenged? It's only taken me about 4 hours and 10 different papers to figure it out hehe, but we got there in the end and this is what I came up with...

Hope your all enjoying your weekend, till next time
Kirsty

Magnolia Down Under Challenge

I'd like to say I've been really busy and use that as the excuse for not posting anything lately but I can't...I've just been lazy (when it comes to cards anyway)!  I'm on holidays with Dan and the kids and I'm really enjoying doing not much at all!  We had a great week away with friends after christmas but since then we've just been floating around doing whatever we feel like.  It's kinda nice....I could get very used to this:-)

It's wet and rainy here in Melbourne so I sat down and finished my card.  I started it days ago but just couldn't finish it...didn't like the colours, didn't like the papers yada yada but I did love the sketch (from Magnolia Down Under) so after a few changes here it is:

Supplies
Stamps: Tilda and fence from Magnolia, sentiment from Papertrey Ink
Papers: Kaiser (Tea at Elsie's)
Copics:  Y21, E97, E99 (hair), E40, YR00, YR02 (clothes), C7, C5, C3 (shoes), E29, E29, E53, E35 (fence), E00, E000, R20 (skin), G85, G94, YR21 YR23 (flowers)
Accessories: EK success swirl border punch, flowers, locket charm and tag from Picture2Page.

I've bought a few new stamps lately, so if this weather keeps up no doubt you'll see a few more cards soon.   It seems we're getting the tail end of the weather that has been so devastating in Queensland. My thoughts are with all those affected, I can't begin to imagine what they are going through.

Thanks for stopping by,
Kirst

One down....too many to go!

Hi everyone,

Hope  you're all enjoying your weekend.  It's wet and miserable here on Mt D so Kira and I have been busy making cards. It's been fun and Kira had a great time rumaging through my stash of goodies but it's become clear to me that I need to simply things just a little.

See we started earlier this afternoon and Kira managed to make two christmas cards and two birthday cards (all coloured with copics too btw) before dinner.  I, on the other hand managed to finish this...

10 minutes ago (at 10.45pm)! So by my calculations I should be ready to send out my christmas cards in December 2012!

If you don't receive one this year...it's nothing personal, I just haven't finished it yet.  Or if I'm going to be honest, I've probably made it, written it but forgotten to post it....it's probably sitting here on my desk. In which case, I'm really just super organised for next year :-)

have a great Sunday
Kirst


Supplies
Paper: Garden Green & White  (SU), American Crafts Rouge, Rasberry DSP
Stamps: Christmas Edwin (Magnolia), Park Bench (CC Designs)
Copics: Clothes - R39, 37, 35, C9, 7, 5, 3, 1 Skin - E000, E00  Hair -  E59, 25 Bench - E59, 25, 99, 33
Clear spica
Accessories: White puff paint, cream satin ribbon coloured with R39 & 37, Bling coloured with YG67, Martha Stewart punch.

 

Lovely Tilda

Just a quick post this afternoon with a card that's been a long time in the making!  I started this about a week ago...I think it may even have a been a mojo sketch and just haven't had the chance to finish it.

Tilda is coloured with copics and papers are from Picture2Page (sorry can't remember the brand name).  Ribbon and cardstock are SU.

Hopefully I get a chance to play with all my new stamps soon...if only there were more hours in the day:)

Magnolia Down Under

It's been a nice quiet weekend here in the Thomas household.  The kids are spending the weekend with my parents at the beach. Now it may not be the weather for swimming yet but I hear they're having a ball making sandcastles on the beach anyway:)  Daniel and I went to see Tomorrow When the War Began last night and we both enjoyed it.  Not quite as good as the book (they never are really are they??), but on the whole it was a good film. Great to see some of our awesome special effects teams working on some Australian films!

Because of all the spare time I also got the chance to have a go at the Magnolia Down Under challenge.  I was a bit slow to finish it so I missed out on entering it in the challenge but it was a great sketch so fun none the less:)

I used some adorable papers that I picked up at Picture2Page this week.  It's the Jack n Jill collection from Prima.  They were too cute, so I had to have them all!

Supplies
Papers: Jack n Jill by Prima, SU Certainly Celery 
Stamps: Magnolia Tilda with Kitten, PTI sentiment
Copics: Clothes B91, G20, R83, 0 Cat E13, E35 0 Hair YR31 Y21 E25 Skin E00, E11, R20 Bench E35, E25, E50
Accessories: SU Certainly celery grosgrain, flowers from Picture2Page, butterfly from Theo's crafts

Thanks for stopping by,
hugs Kirsty

Tickled Pink Get Sparkly!

Hey there everyone
It's been a great weekend here in the Thomas household...lots of fun with friends and plenty of time to make cards:)

I decided to have a go at the Tickled Pink sketch challenge and lets just say I got a bit glitter happy! If you haven't seen the sketch, you can check it out here.  It seemed to take ages to put this together and I'm not really sure how I feel about it....maybe it will grow on me.

I started by cutting up my DSP into small squares and faux stitching them to some white card stock. I distressed the edges then just went for it!  Glitter, flowers, hearts, the whole nine yards:) I think what I'm not sure about is the butterfly in the DSP, it's a little distracting but it was the only blue DSP I had, so what's a girl to do??

I also made use of my Cricut today for the first time in ages. I connected it to my computer and I'm loving it! So much easier than trying to guess the right size/shape from the cartridge.

I'm really not looking forward to going back to work tomorrow.  I'm on the countdown to Christmas and my long service leave.  Six whole weeks of no school drop offs and no work, I can't wait! Until then however it's all about websites and rewriting content (and a little bit of card making in between)
have a good week
hugs Kirsty

Another Tilda

One more post before the weekends out. This is a variation on this weeks Mojo Monday.  I kept this really simple.  Every time I tried to add more bling or even a sentiment it just looked unbalanced and a bit busy.  So plain and simple it is!

Stamps: Tilda with Tulips
Papers: Kaiser DSP, SU Soft Sky
Copics: Scarf, shoes & flowers - R85, R83, R81, Dress - BG13, BG11, BG10, Skin - E000, E00, R20 Hair -  E55, E57, YR20, Socks E40, E000 Flower stems YG11, G21
Accessories: SU Soft Sky ribbon, Prima flowers

Thanks for stopping by,
hugs Kirsty