You Are My Bestie - My Bestie Aussie Challenge

 Hi all,

I adore this image from My Besties, she is sooooo cute and I loved making this card.. I used watercolour paper and Distress Inks to colour her in with little bits of Kindy Glitz on the mushroom and Dimensional Magic on the hearts.

I was going to colour the basket blue but my hubby was talking to me so it became greenish brown lol. So I coloured her hair blue instead. 

Don't forget to check out My Besties Aussie Challenge Here

to see all the wonderful cards the Design Team of My Besties are creating..
You can purchase her HERE

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I hope I have inspired you

to create glorious things..

Hugs

Donna xxx

Materials:  

Scallop die

Heart Stack Die - Paper Roses

Jack & Jill Paper Stack - Prima Marketing

Banner Die - La La Land

Doohickey dies

Sentiment - SO Extra White - Paper Roses

Victorian Velvet , Vintage Photo, Aged Mahogany, Tumbled Glass Distress Inks

Dimension Magic 

Kindy Glitz

Tombow Glue

Little Miss Cutie Pie ATC

 Hi all,

I have a tutorial to show you on our little Miss Cutie Pie so I do hope you check it out... 

She is gorgeous!! 

Tutorial on Miss Cutie Pie

I hope I have inspired you

to create glorious things..

Hugs

Donna xxx

Mystery ATC Challenge - PPCC

 Hi all,

Whew!! Made it, here is my ATC for the August mystery challenge over on the 

Paper Possibilities Crazy Crafters facebook group. 

If you would like to join in the fun, meet great people and learn new things then pop over and join.. 

I stamped this little darlin AALL & Create #297 on watercolour paper using Prize Ribbon and Speckled Egg as the main colours.. All & Create stencil #105 and Dylusions Stencil it Too - DYS68778 was used on the base card with Black Soot distress around the edges..

 I hope I have Inspired you

to create glorious things.

Hugs 

Donna xx

You Go Girl Book - Couture Creations

 Hi all, 

I hope this winter is keeping you well

I created a book for you using the new collection from Couture Creations 

YOU GO GIRL COLLECTION

and of course I had to use a little of the Clear Casting Resin..

It's wonderful, I hope you like it.. 

Paint the book with Gesso and using the gorgeous Alcohol Inks dab a mix onto the book. 

Pretty isn't it. 

I made two hearts from the delightful Clear Casting Resin and painted it with alcohol inks.

Did you notice the quote? from the Blooming Friendship collection. 

Fussy cut flowers and leaves.

Another resin piece, this time a tiny flower.

I placed fussy cut feathers and a brad in her hair. Princess is beautiful.. 

 I hope I have inspired you

to create glorious things

Hugs

Donna xx

For Stockists click the link below:

https://couturecreations.com.au/pages/store-locator

  https://couturecreations.com.au/
My Blog: http://funtobehadhere.blogspot.com/

Materials: 

You Go Girl Collection 

CO728360 You Go Girl Collection Ephemera Set

CO728364 My Princess Portrait Stamp set

CO728373 Open Daisy Mini Die

 Alcohol Inks

CO 727337 Blending Solution

CO 727365 Orchid Pearl

CO727323 Caribbean

CO727377 Butter pearl

CO727860 - Glass Mat

CO727339 - Synthetic Paper

CO727859 - Alcohol Ink Blower

H00043 - Quick Drying Adhesive

CO723899 Adhesive - 3D Foam - White - Strips (3mm Wide)

CO728096 Clear Casting Resin

 CS11215   Dimensional Magic

CO724644 Premium Adhesive Pearls- Glamorous Gold

Three Card Swap - AVSC - March

Hi all,

Join us over at Aunty Vera's Scrap and Craft  AVSC for our March Challenge which is Create Three Cards with different techniques with the themes: Friendship, Birthday and Open.. These are mine for the challenge..

Card 1.  Friendship - I love the medium of Encaustic Art which is a wax.. I just love that there are never the two the same and each piece is unique.. I added a mat behind the art piece to highlight it, I added three black pearls and a Tim Holtz Gold sticker 'Quotations'.

 A close up of the gold in the wax. just gorgeous in real life..

Card 2.  Birthday.. I die cut the small Tattered Floral dies by Tim Holtz several times and adhered it to the watercolour card mat.  Using the blending tools I blended Fossilized Amber, Crushed Olive, Mermaid Lagoon, Dusty Concord, Pickled Raspberry Distress Inks over the front of the card and blended it together with a little water on a brush.. I then splashed some white paint over and let it dry..  

Using a black pen I doodles around some of the flowers and leaves and drew tiny circles in some of the flower centres.. Stamping the bird and crown from Shabby French by Tim Holtz on to watercolour paper using the same inks as the background. I then fussy cut both items and added gold pearls to the crown.. The quote is from the Crazy Talk Collection - Tim Holtz and embossed with Hero Arts Satin Pearl embossing powder on black cardstock..  

I created another card for a video tutorial and run into so many problems, all I could do was laugh out loud.. This is that card, same as above but more vibrant in colours.. I used a chalk marker to make little dots around the quote.. 

Card 3 Open.. I love this technique of using Distress Oxide Inks on photo paper, Again it is a medium that is unique in every piece.. I stamped the quote from 'How About Never' from Dyan Reaveley - Ranger; rearranged the quotes, placed the on 3D foam tape and laced them on the front after inking around the edge in black.. I then added three silver pearls to finish the card.. 

I Inked around the quote in black after embossing it in black embossing powder. A little blue and pink on the front of the words brings it all together.. 

All the products except the Encaustic Art waxes are available from Aunty Vera Store.. AVSC

I hope I have inspired you

to create glorious things

Hugs

Donna xx

Christmas Toilet Roll Book - CRDU

Hi all,

My final swap for the year with Craft Room Down Under and it's a beauty.. A five page toilet roll book to do with Christmas.. I had so much fun with all of this and I hope my
swap partner Sharon enjoys it..

I combined old school Christmas images and recipes and I love the paper I used for
this little book  - Kaisercraft  -Yule Collection. 

Warning: photo heavy post !!

Now I'm not sure how you make yours but mine is simple as lol..
I roll my toiler rolls (empty hehe) through my Cuttlebug and then sit them under something heavy for a couple of days..  I then paint the edges of all toilet rolls, in this case white, then measure the paper for each side and make a template for the holes that the rings go in.. (see simple)

note: I like to make each page a different paper so I don't wrap my paper around the toilet roll; but saying that you can certainly do so if you like..

I inked around my pages before adhering them on to the rolls..

I made these using the 1/4 inch and the 1/2 inch punch. It reinforces the holes so they don't tear.. 

Punch the 1/4 inch first.

Line up the 1/2 inch over the 1/4 inch hole and punch Voila !!  To make it easy just turn the punch up side down to see where to punch..

I wanted covers for my little book so I cut 2 pieces of scrap cardboard a bit bigger than the pages, 

 I then cut  pieces of paper 1/2 inch bigger than that. I cut my corners as shown. 

Hint: Use a stylus to go around the edges of the cardboard so the paper folds easier..

I cut a piece of paper to cover the insides.

I used the template to match up the holes and placed eyelets in the holes to hold the rings..

I fussy cut a holly with berries from the paper and inked around the edges with distress ink.. I had a scrap of paper left over so I used that to give the cover some contrast colour. Using 3D foam tape I adhered the holly, the heart and the sign on the front as shown.  Lots of ribbon and the book is finished..

Through out the book I used glitter and dimensional magic to give sparkle and shine..

I placed recipes on the front of the tags and added a tab to pull them out..

On the back of the tags I placed old style Christmas images and thought they look brilliant..

The book is quite chunky so I added a belly-band to keep it closed..

The First page..

A brad holds three little pictures of the season..

The second and third pages...

I fussy cut this holly and berries like it is because it was on the edge of the paper and I thought I can add something behind that lol.. The words are from Tim Holtz Sticker Clippings - Christmas..

A grass diecut holds a flower infused handmade paper with a recipe printed on it.. By the way I don't use cocoa powder now since the kids prefer milo lol..

The fourth and fifth page: 

I used twine to hold recipes in a concertina style. 

A corner and a little deco and its all done..

The sixth and seventh page..

I love this tea pot and cup border and thought it looked perfect in a recipe book..

This one is interesting as it is merry christmas folded in a mixed concertina style and pops up when the ribbon is opened..

The eighth and ninth page..

I adore the picture so I added some glitter for the snow and some golden corners.

I added a pocked and snowflake to hold a little saying..

The tenth page and back cover..

I wanted this page to be simple but effective.. and I love that christmas tree die..

The back cover which I would like to say Merry Christmas everyone and may there be peace on earth in the future..

I hope I have inspired you
to create glorious things.
Hugs
Donna xx