First Tennis Lessons!

Trying to teach an 8 year old how to play tennis is a lesson in patience. I must admit the service action leads me to think there may be some money in this.. Nice style when Rattana connects with the ball! Cedar Lake Country Resort in the Gold Coast hinterland is a lovely relaxing place to spend a week!

All in a tray waiting to be packaged. So cute and great on cards.

I am having such fun making these flowers!

Have been so busy over the school holidays with relatives visiting from North and South and then Rattana commenced a new school this term.  She loves it and is very proud of her new school uniform.  Next big step is for her to catch the school bus from home, which is a two bus trip including a change at the Interchange in town. May not let her for a few weeks yet as there are so many kids changing buses there that I think it would be easy for an 8 yo to get a bit intimidated.  

I am just trying to finish off a few cards I have had mostly completed on the work table.  Did these this afternoon after collecting Rattana from school...

Using a white crayon resist method plus distress inks and yet another butterfly!

 Lovely piece of paper and with the addition of some further colour and butterflies, it looks great.

 I am sure you all know this little owl embossing folder.  Never do orange, but thought this combination looked so cute.  The tag was a mixture of a carl corner punch, pearls, distress inks and Stampin Up words.

 Love making hand made flowers with my scalloped circle punches.  Add a little glitz and it puts the WOW on
the card.  Of course the Martha Stewart monarch butterfly (big and small for dimension) looks great and some lovely pink roses for good measure.

 Again the crayon resist method.  So easy to get a good looking card very quickly.  The ribbon tied it all together!

 Well, it's not Christmas but this little Christmas bear was having all sorts of trouble with the Christmas lights.  A little curse was added with the words and then I thought I would use some of those many many quilled flowers that I make when watching TV at night!  Have to keep the hands busy!

 Crayon resist again with butterflies. Very pretty.

Whimsy Stamps - Issue One of new Magazine

 http://issuu.com/whimsystamps/docs/issue1

Whimsy Stamps have issued a new online magazine for customers.  There are some great articles and information for those of you who love the Whimsy collection as much as I do.  Please follow the link and read the magazine or you can download it to print.

If you would like to order any of the stamps you see highlighted in the magazine, please send me an email.

Cheers,  Chris

Have some lovely vintgae stamps in the drawer. A bit of colouring, some layering and ribbon and you have a great card that you can use for anything! Might send it to a girlfriend who loves to spend, spend, spend!

Some simple layering for a lovely vintage stamp I have in the drawer. Add a Friskars edge punch to the side, some pearls, lace (from my daughter's wedding veil), lace flowers and there you have it.

Another Whimsy Stamp that is simply too cute for words. I have coloured her using twinkling H2O's. She is Kitty Katastrophe and I have fooled around with a scroll edging on the mat, pearl strips, a bit of lace and some matching paper.

Just love Martha Stewart punches! I have used the large Monarch Butterfly and some glitzy paper for the butterflies and also the deep edge punch for the loops across the card. Added an EK Success butterfly plus a small Martha butterfly at the lower RH corner. Used the EK Success scallop for the 'cutouts' in the mat and a lovely verse that I printed from the computer, swiped the edges with matching lilac ink and then used clear Utee for a bit of gloss. Added a lovely Green Tara flower to finish off. Sweet.

Keeping busy!

Rubber Stamp company flower pots and flowers. Plus a few quilled flowers for good measure.

Whimsy stamps again - looking for a way to make cards quicker! This one was very quick!

Busy in front of the television last night - managed to colour using H2O's, two new Whimsy stamps just received. Now need to cut out the masks, do some background stamping and mount them. Will see what I come up with!