Sorry this wasn’t done and posted on Friday….it has taken me a little while to get up the nerve and make this video. i have made a few now but I’m always concerned about getting it all right and this one I managed to do in one take….Woo Hooo!
This Video is on the card I post earlier in the week, so here is a reminder of what it looks like.
And here is the video
Enjoy!
This week I thought I would take up the challenge from INKspirations and enter a card using their colour palette.
I love the colours that INKspiration give us in their challenges, as they are colours I may never have thought of using together.
The Cherry Cobbler, Dapper Denim and Pool Party are so rich and almost soulful together.
With my card I have tried to keep the richness and depth but also adding some light and playfulness.
The back ground was so much fun to do. It took a couple of tries to get the effect I want, but once I did I was really pleased with it.
I will try to make a Video of this and post in the coming weeks, as I’m sure its something you could do and have fun with it also.
Hope you have enjoyed my card.
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You are visiting Michele in Moss Vale, Australia.
I am showcasing the cards I have given received as part of the Random Act of Kindness Card Group on Facebook.
Each month, we each select a few people from the Group to send a RAK card to, to brighten their day.
Please feel free to join the Group if you would like to participate in the RAK cards movement (blogging is not mandatory).
#imbringingRAKcardsback
Here are some of the cards I have received for the months of April and May
I hope the projects you’ve seen here on my blog today have inspired you & brightened your day. You are currently visiting Michele. Please see the list below & hop around all of the people on the list to see all our projects. You don’t want to miss any!
This is something that at the moment is very relevant and something that had me in tears for a few hours last night.
And this is something that I have spoken about before, but…..
Where are your photos……are they stored on your phone, on a thumb drive, disc, external hard drive, storage cloud.
There are many places to store your photo’s….
How safe are they?
Safe from damage, being lost, destroyed…
Last week I picked my son up from school and we drove to McDonald’s…he needed to get changed from School uniform to casual clothes to go away with friends on a Church Youth activity and we had no time to go home.
Easy…….went in with his phone came out minus his phone….we didn’t relies this for 20 minutes. In that time someone has found the phone and kept it.
What was on the phone….all his photos of a school trip to Cambodia in January.
Forward to yesterday….
I have for the past 3 years been carefully storing photos on an external Hard Drive…..So they are all in one place and safe….
Until yesterday….
I lent my Hard Drive to another person and a simple mistake has corrupted the hard drive and now my photo’s may be lost.
No one is at fault or to blame.
Now with most of us owning Smart Phones its so easy now to take great photo’s. but we loose phones or they stop working for different reasons. We keep them on our computers but these can crash. We put them on storage devices….or in Cloud Storage and there are many to choose from… It seems that Cloud is good as you can access from different computers/ devices.
But are these always safe.
I don’t think there is an easy answer. But the one answer I have discovered is have more than one way of backing up those photos.
All of the storage devices are good, work what works for you best but have more than one.
It will take a little work but it will be worth it to keep those memories safe.
From now on I will be storing in a “Cloud” and computer or external Hard Drive…more than one place.
Most of all is I am going to get my best photos printed and into my albums.
This way I have something to share easily with family and friends.
It can be as simple as place photos into pockets or designing a whole page around the photo/photos. Get your family involved, let them help you plain and journal what the photos are about.
Stampin’ Up! have been passionate about Memory Keeping for the past few years and this will be continuing with there NEW catalogue. With the chose of pocket pages or traditional scrapbook pages there is something for all.
Please contact me if you are interested in learning more about our products and seeing the new catalogue.
Please, have a look at how you are storing your photos, think about storing in more than one device and
most of all PRINT THEM AND SHARE THEM.
Re-live the enjoyment you had in taking the photos by sharing them through your albums.
Hi! I hope you are all well and had a great week…..my week just never seems to end!
At the moment my second son is home from ADFA …. and he turns 21 next week….so it all continues..
Anyway…..Did you check out the Winners from last weeks Global Design Project…
If you didn’t then click on the link below to have a look, there were some awesome cards made
Its time again for
and this week it is a Sketch Challenge.
This is a great little sketch and I love the layers under the front panel.
I have decided it use one of the new incoming Designer Series Papers and co-ordinating Stamp Sets ….so this is a sneak peak at whats to come.
Isn’t this sweet!
I love the softness of these papers and the stamp set goes so well with it.
The images I have stamped are in Calypso Coral and here’s a little HINT for you.
When I stamped the Flowers I stamped of before stamping the darker one and then stamped again for the lighter flower,
otherwise the Calypso Coral can be too strong.
Hope you enjoyed seeing this weeks card.
Sorry I have been missing in action this week……life has gotten the better of me and have not been well.
But here I am back again with another challenge from Global Design Project.
But before I get into that I want to say thanks to everyone for liking the card I did last week for Global Design Project.
Here it is again..
and it was one of the three winners….
So congratulations to the others and thanks Global Design Project.
And we can only use 3 of these 2015-2017 In-Colours…..
I have been trying to get my head around this afternoon!
Started off with one idea but the family said “NO!, try again”
OK, what now!
So here is what I can up with. Its a sneak peak of a NEW stamp set and some old favorites, which will be staying around.
So the 3 colours I choose are…Tip-Top Taupe, Watermelon Wonder and Delightful Dijon.
I love this Pocket Stamp set and the sentiments that go with it. It will be great with any age group and Boys or Girls.
The sentiments are so 70’s and Tip-Top Taupe reminds me so much of my favorite jeans from way back then….
Yep….the 70’s!
And the 70’s was about “flares- jeans or Bell Bottoms” and “Flower Power”….
Well for me anyway!
So I hope you like my trip into the past and this card.
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This week on the Global Design Project we are Casing Michelle Last…..
WOW!
Michelle is a very talented lady and this card like all her cards is so beautiful..
I really love this card and it really excites me…
The Layout of this card has inspired me and I hope you will enjoy my card as much as I enjoyed making it.
This card is full of texture but has a simple look with the white background and the “Pop” of colour in one corner. It gives it such a feel of elegance.
I’m also giving you a “Sneak Peak” of a new Stamp set and Thinlit Dyes…..
Colorful Seasons and Seasonal Layers Thinlits.
I LOVE this set……and this is only a small part of it.
As this is the first card I have done using it..you will have to wait to see what else I do with it.
As I have said I have Cased the “Layout”….instead of using a square frame I have used a circle and raised it from the card to add an extra dimension.
To do this I used the Foam Adhesive Strips and to go around the curve I nicked long the strip, giving it the ability to go around the curves nicely.
A dye cut branch floats across the frame with beautiful Spring Blooms.
The inside of the card I stamped a matching image
I hope you have enjoyed my card…
The Colorful Seasons and Seasonal Layers Thinlits will be available come the 1st June.
Now usually you have to wait until Friday to see a Video on my Blog, but I have something special to share with you….
Included in these bundles are FREE product*
*The new free items (Very Vanilla Note Cards & Envelopes and Very Vanilla Thick Cardstock) are only available with the purchase of a bundle.
Bundles are exclusive to the early release and will no longer be available after 31 May 2017.
These Items can be ordered as of the 1 May 2017…Click on the link below and go directly to my Shop.
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I hope your day has been as beautiful as ours is here in the Southern Highlands.
Autumn is such a beautiful season here and the trees are starting to look beautiful.
This photo was taken by my husband as he left work the other days…just love the colours.
Global Design Project Challenge for this week is a Theme Challenge and the theme is….
Now I don’t use a lot of “Bling or Sparkle” on my cards, so this was a bit of fun!
The “Bling” I used is the Glimmer Paper – Dazzling Diamonds and if its Diamonds then it had to be a Wedding Card.
I used the Glimmer Paper for the Matt, leaves and flower centers. The Glimmer Paper Matt I cut as a boarder and used the center piece to cut the leaves and Flower pieces from. Once the Blushing Bride and Whisper White matt’s are layered together with the Glimmer Paper, then no one will know except you and me!
I layered the 3 matts on top of each other, adhering together with Multi Purpose Glue and mounted to the card front with Dimensionals.
I used Thick Whisper White Cardstock for the card base as this card will be fairly heavy and it will support all the layers.
The Flowers and leaves were cut from the Framelit sets “Botanical Builder” and unfortunately this is one set that will be leaving us at the end of May.
So if you are interested in purchasing this then GO to my SHOP and purchase it now, before its sold out.
The colours used for the flowers are Blushing Bride and So Saffron.
The sentiment and frame boarder comes from the Rose Wonder Stamp Set was stamped using the Blushing Bride Stampin’ Pad and Basic Grey Archival Stampin’ Pad. The matching die cuts are from the Rose Garden Thinlits Dies.
Pearls finishes of the card as centers of the beautiful flowers.
I hope you have enjoyed my card if you want to know anything more just contact me and I will get back to you as soon as I can.
Have a lovely Day!
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I hope you all had a wonderful and Blessed Easter.
And not too many Easter Eggs!
Here in Australia we also have school holidays at the moment and over Easter my boys and I (my husband had to stay home because of work), traveled to Mudgee to visit my parents. My father turned 80 last February and we hadn’t had a chance as yet to celebrate.
It was a lovely day, lunch at a beautiful Winery with family and friends to help celebrate.
The Video I want to share with you today is another by Stampin’ Up! highlighting one of their many Kits. This one is from the Occasions Catalogue on page 13..Its a fun little kit making up into 12 cards, 4 each of 3 designs and 12 Gift Tags.
Now this Kit does not include the stamp set required, Birthday Bright, nor the ink pads and adhesives.
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