Happy Fathers Day, Dad!

'Dearest Dad' as seen in Cardmaking Stamping & Papercraft Vol 17 No 6

I'm about to head out to the airport to meet Dad.  He's been in the big smoke this week to have an op.  He's recovering really well and is looking forward to being with the family today.  We're heading out to the farm to have lunch with my brother and his family.  I'm looking forward to catching up with my nephew too.  He's turning four in two weeks and wants a green birthday cake!



Here's a different stylised photo taken by CS&P team... I loved seeing this photo too.  In the end the first photo made the cut!

Published - Copper Poppies

As seen in Cardmaking Stamping & Papercraft Vol 14 No11

A number of years ago, I was able to go to an Artistic Journey Retreat with my friend Jhodi in Fremantle and it was there that I met and made a new wonderful friend, Debbi.  All three of us shared a hotel room together at the retreat and had a fabulous creative time with some great classes and amazing tutors.  Jhodi, Debbi and I are having a little retreat of our own this weekend and we're making it an extra long weekend.  I'm so excited to be able to spend time with these two very talented, encouraging and generous women.  I think we're in for a fantastic and fun-filled time!

  At the Artistic Journey retreat in Fremantle, I was able to participate in a jewellery making class taught by Nina Bagley.  She is a fabulous tutor from the US and if you're ever able to do one of her classes I would highly recommend her!  Nina taught us some fabulous techniques, including a number of ways to make use of 'copper mesh'.  In our enthusiam to want to play further with copper mesh, Jhodi, Debbi and I all bought more!  Well mine sat around for quite a while until one day I thought about stitching and stamping on it!  That's how this project started... I even made a little handbag for this project!  And I've used it on the odd occasion too! 

10 Quick Cards

' 10 Quick Cards' as seen in Stamping Cardmaking & Papercraft Vol 15 No 10

I'm having the loveliest of times catching up with wonderful 'old' friends at the moment, so at there isn't time to play in my 'studio'.  I've got a very creative long weekend coming up this weekend, with some very special artful friends, so hopefully there will be more current work to show you next week!

In the meantime, here's a set of cards I made using the Cricut and gorgeous Heather Bailey rub-ons.  Sweet and simple!

Published - Little Birds

'Little Birds' as seen in Cardmaking Stamping & Papercraft Vol 17 No 6

I really loved working with this gorgeous plate of stamps by Oxford Impressions...

along with some beautiful Kaisercraft papers.

Published - For The Grandparents

As seen in Cardmaking Stamping & Papercraft Vol 15 No 1.

This card was designed to give to Grandparents in celebration of the birth of a Granddaughter, but could easily be adapted for a Grandson.  I've used the Cricut machine to create this card.

Published - Beach Party

'Beach Party' as see in Cardmaking Stamping and Papercraft Vol 17 No 2.

These October Afternoon stamp images are adorable!  It was great fun preparing the tin and stamping on it.  I hadn't stamped on anything like that before!

Published - A Touch of Whimsy

'10 Quick Cards'

As seen in Cardmaking Stamping & Papercraft Vol 17 No 1.

These lovely whimsical images are available at Stampington & Co.  It was a great doodling challenge to create all the frames for these wonderful characters! 

Published - Fresh Eggs

'Fresh Eggs'

As seen in Cardmaking Stamping & Papercraft Vol 17 No 4.

Oxford Impressions have a wonderful plate of country themed stamps called 'Country Girl'.  I particularly love the old farm house image... what a wonderful home to live in!



Published - 'Tulips'

'Tulips'

As seen in Cardmaking Stamping & Papercraft Vol 17 No 5.

A gorgeous stamp image by Stampington & Co.

Published - Sweet Little Feet

'Sweet Little Feet' by Sue Smith



As seen in Cardmaking Stamping & Papercraft Vol 17 No 3.

Little Feet rubber stamp plate is available for purchase at Paperbag Studios.

Published - Fly Away

'Fly Away' as seen in Cardmaking Stamping & Papercraft Vol 17 No 3

I used some of my favourite Stampington stamps on this card :)

7 Swans

'seven swans a-swimming' as seen in

Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft Vol 16 No8

I was delighted to be a part of the '12 Days of Christmas' special feature in CSP and loved putting this piece together with this gorgeous Oxford Impressions swan.  I love the way CSP have stylised my work here!

Vintage Postcards

'Vintage Postcards'

As seen in Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft Vol 16 No7

Fanciful Things!

                   Cardmaking Stamping & Papercraft

Here's a couple of quirky ladies - created some time ago for CS&P for a feature called, 'Fanciful Things'.

It's holiday time for me and I'm hoping to make a few more 'fanciful things' over the next two weeks!

Wired!

Cardmaking Stamping & Papercraft Vol 16 No 1

I'm away from home, up in the 'big smoke', wishing I could be playing with paper and ink and gesso right now!  Instead I thought I'd post another CS&P stylised photo of a project I created using Paperbag Studios stamps, Basic Grey papers and WIRE!  I've twisted wire to create flowers, music notes and an '@' symbol. 

I'm heading home in an hour or so, with a four and a half hour journey ahead and I'm hoping for time to play with my new supplies when I get there!  There's new stamps and paper to play with - can't wait!



Guess Who's Turning 3 Tomorrow!

Sean Alexander

I scarce can believe it! 

These pieces were published in Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft Vol 15, No 4 a while back.  I used some gorgeous October Afternoon papers and stamps to make these.  I love the way CS&P stylised the photo!

Sean has two pet rabbits - Peter and Flopsy.  I think this is a pic of Peter?

More pics of the birthday boy tomorrow - I'm far away from the birthday boy this weekend, but am looking forward to seeing him again soon.

Packets of Joy

As seen in Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft magazine Vol.14 No.3

I can't believe it's been a month since I last posted, so much has happened... some of which I'll have to fill you in on at another time... promise!

Just like many of you, this time of the year is action packed. Last week I was frantically completing some pieces for a '12 Days of Christmas' art swap I'm participating in this year. It's been lovely to be involved in a swap with some wonderful and creative ladies around Australia. I received my parcel of goodies yesterday... so from the 13th of December I have 11 gifts to open, one each day until Christmas - and my piece too! It's so exciting to see them all lined up, and very tempting to take a peek, but I'll behave myself and enjoy them one at a time!

'Mr Movember 2008' - Photograph by Joel Campbell - Image by Oxford Impressions

Joel came down last weekend and it was his birthday on the Sunday. :) We had a lovely, relaxed weekend!

Frenchmans Bay - Photograph by Joel Campbell

On Saturday, we went out to see the wind farm and then drove further around the coast to Frenchmans Bay. We meandered along the beach and had lunch out there. We virtually had the beach to ourselves, which was pretty wonderful! It was a beautiful sunny day (a rarity in these parts lately), so sunny in fact, that we ended up getting a little sunburned.

The weekend before that it was my birthday... one which I had been dreading a few months back, but it ended up being amazing! I was completely spoiled and Joel made a surprise visit - gatecrashing a very girly weekend! I'll definitely write more about this later... I have some gorgeous handmade birthday cards to share with you too!

Faith Hope Love

As seen in Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft Vol 13 No 10.

This is one of my more current published projects (a favourite of mine), published last month. I *love* Daisy D's papers and the ARTchix images are so sweet!

Happy birthday, Trevlyn!

May your day be blessed with faith, hope and love!!!

Live and Laugh More!

'Twist of Lime'as seen in Stamping & Papercraft Vol 12 No 8.

Yay!!!! I've finished my reports and it's the holidays!!!!!!

So 'Live and Laugh More', I say!

The scrumptious stamp image is by Paperbag Studios.

Laugh Love Bloom

Stamping & Papercraft Vol 13 No 4

I'm busy writing school reports... no time for creating at present... but the holidays are coming!

Hope you get to 'Laugh, Love and Bloom' in some way today!

DON'T FORGET my 'Give Away' is being given away this evening. So leave a comment here for your chance to win!