Dancing Girls!

The lovely dancing girls are now in print in Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft Vol 17 No 1 which is on sale at the moment. They look like they are having a whole lot of fun hey!

This gorgeous babe is Suzette:
And the lovely Babette:
And Vivienne!

Farmer Clemmm had a farm....

I just realised I completely forgot to show a piccie of the farm yard cards that were published recently! It was in Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft and the issue was Vol. 16 No. 3.

The three cards were using Party Cow, Party Pig and Farmer Clem!

Here are my pics so you can see them more closely.

Dragons!

The latest issue of Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft (Vol. 15 No. 07 ) will be out really soon (already if you are lucky enough to be a subscriber) and it is full of fantastic tutorials, hints, tips and techniques! I was asked to do a watercolouring/shading tutorial and I am so stunned at how well it turned out. I love it! Here is a pic of the cards I made to go along with it!

I used Lenny's Love Me Nots, First Ride and Ace. Unfortunately they have already sold out at Stampin' Stuff but there is a pre-order on at the moment that ends on Saturday 14 November if you would like me to get them in for you!

Santa Galore!

If you have seen this month's Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft (Vol 15 No 5), you may have seen Woodland Santa on the cover! There is also a three page spread of the happy little Santa's inside. As you can imaging I was pretty pleased to see Santa made it to the cover. I didn't receive a contributors copy so I hadn't seen the issue and my friend emailed me to say he was famous!

If you are after these Santas, they are back in stock at Stampin' Stuff!

These are my photos of the cards close up:

Oh, I just can't wait to be king!

I almost forgot to post my pic of this months issue of Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft! This is Leo Lion and he is the star of the card! For this challenge we were asked to use song lyrics as the sentiment for a card. There were some great cards made for this! I did "I just can't wait to be king". My sister and I had a brainstorm; I had picked a few stamps and I was trying to match them to lyrics... I was thinking "in the jungle" which is rather boring and she came up with the genius idea of The Lion King! Every time I look at the card I get the song stuck in my head!

I'm gonna be a mighty king, so enemies beware!
I've never seen a king of beasts
With quite so little hair
I'm gonna be the mane event
Like no king was before
I'm brushing up on looking down
I'm working on my roar
Thus far a rather uninspiring thing
Oh, I just can't wait to be king!

Medicine Man in Print

I am a bit late posting this because Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft Vol 15 No 2 has been on sale for a little while now but I thought I would let you know anyway. Medicine Man is in it! I made these cards about this time last year and they were the second set of cards that I ever had accepted for publication! I think they just took a while choosing an issue to put them in!

These are my three cards:

Oops Ellie and Seymore's Sick Day

Remember this post? I gave a tiny sneak peek a while back of a couple cards I was working on. Well, now they have been published! They are in the Collectors Issue - Vol. 15 No.01 of Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft.

This time I was asked to make an 'I forgot' card and a sick teen without actually using the words 'Get Well Soon'... these stamps were perfect and I when I was reading the email I immediately knew which stamps I wanted to use. I used Oops Ellie and Seymore's Sick Day.

Princess & Albert

Sitting Princess and Albert are in print! Although I have absolutley loved every stylised photo of my cards, this would have to be my fave photo yet. I LOVE the green and the rope stuff goes so well with a little pinkish background... it looks really cute! My photo is a bit dodgy but trust me, it looks better in person!!

You can see my photos here and here.

The issue my cards are in this month is Vol 14 No 11 of Australian Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft and I also got a big surprise. I am the featured stamper! I answered the 20 questions ages ago but didn't know which issue it would be in. I got heaps of emails telling me I was in there before my mag even arrived (Grr... everything takes ages to get here... apparently Cairns is remote!). MAN was it exciting seeing my profile... yeah... horrifically scary having my photo in a magazine but still exciting! It still seems a bit weird to me that someone wanted to use up two pages of their excellent magazine on me!

Whitby Whale is Famous...

I went to the newsagency last night with Matt. We usually go so he can look at computer magazines... occasionally I look in the craft section. This time I was so stunned to see my Whitby Whale card on the front cover!! I grabbed the mag and started jumping around calling across the room "My card's on the front, Matt" I think he tried to hide behind his mag when people started looking!

The issue is Vol 14 No 10 !

These are my posts of the cards...

Best Fishes
Relax... It's Your Day
Tons of Love

Have a GREAT Easter!!

Look What I Found!

It is typical me to stop reading the magazine after I see my own cards in it. I get so excited and run off to take a picture before looking at the rest of the magazine. In this case, as usual, it's exactly what I did but for some reason I took a lot longer to come back and read the rest... my laziness resulted in a pleasant and exciting surpise... my sealife card was the preview photo for next month's magazine! I was flipping away looking at the pictures while I was talking to Matt and didn't expect in a million years that I would see my card in the back of the magazine too!

Spot's Bots!

They are published! YAY... I have kept this one a secret for ages... I have been dying to post my piccies of my little robots. I made these months and months ago for Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft... man was I excited too. This was my first commission project and it is for the Stampers Challenge that they feature every month. They pick some stampers, send a stamp set that we got to keep and we had to make two projects... I almost fell over when I got the email asking me to take part... it was such a privilege!

Here is Robot and Dog:



And here is Robot and Cat:

Juliet and Elmer in Print

How exciting! This is my first set of High Hopes cards officially in print! They are published in Australian Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft Vol 14 No 6 and it went on sale on Boxing Day 2008. I am so proud to see my cards over three pages I emailed this to my family and friends just to show everyone! So, it has been a long wait to see these babies in print but here they are... you can click on the pictures to see them better!

Sweets & Treats are Published!

I made these chef cards at the beginning of the year and they have finally been published! I have three High Hopes cards in the next issue and I am so excited to see those! I can't wait!

Happy Birthday

Hello! My posts have slowed down a bit lately haven't they? Well I have been crafting, I have been working a few Christmas OTP projects... I have been having fun too!

This card is using the ever lovely, Sitting Princess and I stamped her first, masked her then stamped the Rock Wall. There are all sorts of things she can sit on... its rather handy! I love the cute little froggie jumping up from the side! These stamps are just adorable aren't they? If you said yes, you should join the High Hopes Hop... we are giving away rubbery goodness everywhere!

Well.. thats me for today, off to take the cat to the vet and then to the one place that manages to get in the way of crafting five days a week... work! Have a fantastic day!!

Here's my card!

I have been meaning to post a photo of my card in this months Stamping & Papercraft magazine but I just keep forgetting... I remembered this morning so here it is!

Voila

I made these three a couple weeks back for something to do. These are the only In Colours I have at the moment which is why they are all in the same colour!

Stamps: Voila, Canvas & Wonderful Words

Cardstock: Purely Pomegranate, Blue Bayou, River Rock & Watercolour Paper

Ink: Purely Pomegranate, Blue Bayou, River Rock, So Saffron, Certainly Celery & Stazon

Accessories: Scallop Punch, 1 3/8" Circle Punch and Stampin' Dimensionals