Christmas Bauble

I've always wanted to try one of these . . . and I had some Fabscraps left overs from my Christmas zigzag book so a perfect opportunity. But having finished one (the smaller one) I decided it needed a larger one, so had to break out more paper . . . lucky I still had some one hand.

Thought beads were a sparkly alternative to bows.

Polka Dots - week 38

Simply less is more is having a polka dot week. Got to love it!


I spotted my May Arts ribbon sitting on the shelf begging to be used for this! And as I'd been playing with my Stampin' Up butterflies, I knew one was dotty.

and a close-up

Clean&Simple FTL163 - Take 4

On a roll with the sketch at clean and simple stamping:

While I was playing with my Distress Stains, I saw that you could make a real big splatter!

Such fun . . . playing with abandon! Some of my favourite distress colours : tumbled glass, crushed olive and faded jeans. I printed the sentiment as I didn't have the stamp.

Clean&Simple FTL163 - Take 3

Just loved this sketch at clean and simple stamping, so just kept playing:

A simplier version of the buttefly . . . counting the 2 gems as the other 2 items.

Clean&Simple FTL163 - Take 2

Just loved this sketch at clean and simple stamping, I had to keep playing:

I turned it on it's side, and got :

Clean&Simple FTL163 - Take 1

Just loved this sketch at clean and simple stamping:

I had been playing around with my new Distress Stains and my new Hero Arts Flower Dot Pattern stamp, so I had sheets of it around. Punched out the butterflies (Stampin' Up) and stamped the sentiment (Stampin' Up).

OLW69 - Stripes

Love stripes and so took up the OLW (One Layer Wednesday) challenge from Julie at Styles Ink. I knew which stamp I wanted to use . . . but the mojo had different ideas and I came up with this instead. 

It is a single candle stamp (so old I can't even remember where it's from - a cling with no details) and the sentiment from 2 different Hero Arts stamps.

MAGENTA Blog Candy

Magenta is giving some blog candy . . . click here to be in with a chance!

Magenta Sketch

I have been eyeing the Magenta Sketch for awhile.

Here's my take on it (using 2 of Magenta papers . . . cutting the scrolls). Punched out circles from the actual name place settings and menus in addition to lots of blues and greens.

As I like double page spreads, I did a vertical take on the same layout moving it off-centre.

Getting Triangular!

My submission for the OLW68 : Get triangular challenge on Susan's Simplicity Blog. This card didn't start out for this challenge. Just stamped the Merry Christmas (à la Susan), coloured it and gave it a shadow but then spotted the bird and added 2 of those! Both are Inkadinkadoo stamps.


So 3 stamped images, 3 blings, and a skewed triangle.