Mojo Monday 140

I have been wanting to participate in Mojo Monday for quite a while now and finally I sat down and created my husbands birthday card using the sketch.

I put it on it's side though as the bike image worked better that way.

I am really into distressing and inking my papers at the moment and I think it works well for the more masculine card.

Isn't it funny how we go through stages of using certain techniques etc.

Or maybe that's just me, LOL.

Have a fabulous Thursday.

Thanks for looking,

Mel xxx

The lovely Tanya who has the gorgeous Sweet About Me Blog

is having a Blog giveaway and the prize is the new

Kaisercraft Hey Birdie Collection (photo below).

It is the sweetest collection and perfect for little girl cards and scrapbooking pages.

Have a look at her blog here, follow her directions for the competition

and be in the running to win.

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Have an awesome weekend.

Love Mel xxx

Dahlia with Bling

I made this sweet card for my wonderful friend who I visited in Karratha to say thank you.

We had the best time together and it was so nice to have a good break away from Perth and the little ones. I missed them heaps though and my DH too.

This is The Greeting Farm image: Dahlia (Wild Sprouts).

I love the colours and the Kaisercraft bling. These are the best rhinestones I have ever used. So easy to apply and use. But I am sure you all ready know that.

The patterned paper is also from Kaisercraft: Esmerelda from their Gypsy sisters collection. Such beautiful rich colours.

Have a fabulous day and thanks heaps for looking.

Mel xxx

Surfing into 18

My nephew turned 18 on Sunday and we celebrated with the family over brunch. Yum!!

I made this card for him and chose to use this surfer image from SU as he loves surfing and got a surfboard for his birthday too.

I have had the metal letter embellishments for ages, so it is good to finally be using them.

I quite like the way this card turned out. Lots of distressing and inking edges of paper.

Thanks for looking.

Mel xxx

Bright and Cheerful

I made this card for my sister's birthday.

I love the simplicity of this card and the bright colours.

The paper has been in my stash for a couple of years now and I think it is Basic grey Phoebe.

The greeting Farm stamp is Birthday Anya and coloured her in a mix of Copics and SU markers. Still building up my range of Copic colours. Could take a while. LOL.

The buttons, sentiment and ribbon are all SU.

I pleated the ribbon to add more interest and detail.

Have a great day and thanks for looking.

Mel xxx

Four generations of Mothers and Daughters

I completed my first ever scrapbook page for my mum and framed it in a white shadow box.

She absolutely loved it. The photos represent four generations of women in our family: my nana, mum, me and my daughter Renee.

Sorry the photo is not the best. It's a bit dark so you can't really see all the detail on the page. I cut out extra flowers and vines from the paper and added them down the left side. I also punched out butterflies from a Martha Stewart punch and glittered them to add even more bling and prettiness.

I chose to use purples and pinks for the colour scheme as these are mums favourite colours.

Loving this printed paper from Basic grey: Green at Heart Kelly.

Lots of prima flowers, pretty rub-ons and bling.

Thanks for taking a look.

Have a wonderful day.

Mel xxx

Mother's Day card and gift.

We celebrated Mother's Day a week late with my mum as she was away in Broome holidaying with my sister. A tough life I tell you. LOL.

So on Sunday we had lunch at mum and dad's. Seriously though it was good to get an extra week to finish mum's gift which I will share next post.

Here is the card I made for mum. She loves pinks and purples so I chose to use mainly purples and white on this one. The image is Sarah Kay: Precious Moments.

The paper is some old SU that I had in my stash and the sentiment is from SU too.

Thanks for looking

Mel xxx

Sweet One

I made this card just for fun which is very rare for me. I just about always have a reason to make a card whether for someone's birthday or wedding and so on.

But I bought this image not long ago and just had to ink her up. Isn't she sweet!

She is Hope and Grace Snuggle from The Greeting Farm.

The paper is Flutter from Making memories. I cut out the butterflies and added glossy accent to follow the theme of the printed paper and the gorgeous flowers are from Prima.

This will be perfect for a little girls first or second birthday and I have a few of those coming up.

Thanks for looking.

Take care

Mel xxx

Busy, busy, cough, cough.

It's been a while since my last post and as I type away on my trusty laptop I am coughing my little lungs out. I am so over this cold.

It has been a very busy few weeks here. I spent 10 days up North visiting a friend, which was incredible. My DH took time off work to take care of our two beautiful kids so I could go up, visit my friend and have some much needed rest and feel human again. This last week I have been house bound with a cold that has affected me terribly and now I have that awful sounding hacking cough. Can't wait till I feel back to normal again.

I have been busy creating so I will post these over the next couple of days.

Take care

Mel xxx

Non-traditional Wedding Card

A friend of my DH asked me to make a card for their neighbours who are getting married on Saturday. They live on a farm so that was to be the theme and as you can see from the card specific items to be added to make it special and personalised for this couple.

These are the ring top, golf buggy and plane.

I made the card into an easel so that they could stand the card easily and when it is closed they are not able to see the plane and other bits till they open the card. Thus being a surprise.

I added kindy glitz to the lettering and pearls for the flower centres and ribbon to make it more into the wedding type card it is meant to be and pretty it up.

I love how the red heart came out. It was a chipboard one that I coloured with SU markers and then glossy accented. I also glossied the golf buggy but you can't tell from the photo.

Thanks for looking

Mel xx