Another Year of Adventures - Avenue 613 #194

Welcome back to my blog! So I was scouring the Internet for something to create last night and came across the 613 Avenue Create challenge blog, I instantly loved the challenge behind sticking to 3 different criteria, CAS (Clean and Simple), something I struggle with as I tend to not know when to stop adding. Make the Sentiment the Focus, another thing I struggle with for similar reasons to my CAS issue, and use blue, a colour I often forget to reach for.

So I got excited at the prospect of a challenge and after much thinking, and a few mind changes, (I kept trying to over-complicate my idea) I finally decided on my game plan which actually would be CAS.

          

So I hope you like the card I came up with, I wanted to try and make it a little more masculine then my normal cards, because why not challenge myself to the extreme! Plus it is always helpful to have more masculine card options out there.

Click on the products below to purchase them and make your own masterpieces.

Balloon Adventures Photopolymer Stamp Set [142823] $45.00

Gorgeous Grunge Clear Stamp Set [130517] $34.00

Layering Ovals Framelits Dies [141706] $58.00

That's all from me for today I hope your day is amazing and you are able to make time for the things that relax you.

Another Thankyou Card

Omg, yesterdays blog hop was so much fun! If you missed I highly recommend going to check it out, there are so many amazing projects to see. If you have seen the projects then maybe you will remember Petra Tailor's balloon slider card. I have been following her slider projects for a few days and just had to try to make my own! If you want to know how to make these effective cards then you should definitely go and check Petra's blog post here.

Now onto my card, I made this for my mum and she loves Purple, just like I do, so that was my choice for this card. I decided to try this style of card out using the Butterfly thinlits, I hope you like my take on this style of card, I will definitely have to play with it more in the future.

     

     

This card was so much fun to make I can't wait to play with this some more and really refine my designs.

Click on the products below to purchase them and make your own masterpieces.

Butterflies Thinlits Dies [137360] $41.00	Avant Garden Photopolymer Stamp Set [143272] $0.00
Butterfly Basics Clear Bundle [139323] $88.25	Bitty Butterfly Punch [129406] $28.00

That's all from me today, hope you have an amazing Monday and that work doesn't get you down too much.

Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with special guest Shannon Lane

Welcome to the Crazy Crafters Blog Hop! This is my first one since resigning with Stampin' Up! and I am so excited to be a part of it! Today we are hopping with the very talented Shannon Lane, and the theme of the hop today is to CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) one of her amazing cards. If you haven't seen her cards before be sure to check her out, you won't be disappointed.

I hope you have enjoyed the blog hop so far, make sure you haven't missed any of the projects by following the links at the bottom of this post, you won't be disappointed!

For this hop I came across the above card by Shannon, and although I thought I wouldn't have time to join in this hop I was instantly inspired by it and hope you like my masculine take on the amazing and effective layout she used. I just loved the simplicity of the card and how she made it pop by layering textures behind the main image and I had to give it a go.

     

     

This card came together so quickly and easily with the help of Shannon's beautiful card to lead the way and I am so thrilled with the different textures and elements of it.

Click on the products below to purchase them and make your own masterpieces.

Guy Greetings Clear Stamp Set [138828] $61.00

Gorgeous Grunge Clear Stamp Set [130517] $34.00

That's it from me for now, make sure you get around and check out everyone's amazing creations from the below list, and I hope to see you again for the next Crazy Crafter's blog hop!

Rocket's 1st Birthday

Well Rocket's 1st Birthday went well, we had so much fun watching the puppies play and just have fun with friends. I won't do too much talking this post just wanted to share some of the cute pictures today of Rocket playing with his friends.

Charlie the Golden Retriever and Deep the Terrier x

Birthday Boy Rocket

Charlie, Rocket and Ruby the Red Heeler x

Ruby and Charlie

Charlie, Rocket, Ruby and Luna

Charlie putting soooo much effort into tug of war with Ruby

Time for a quick break for Rocket and Luna

Luna and Charlie having a quick siesta

Rocket and Charlie Wrestling

Too tired to play anymore!

They all had a great time and were all exhausted from playtime at the end of it, as for us humans I couldn't think of a better stress reliever after a horrible few days.

Hopefully have some more crafts up for you soon have a fabulous day.

Thank you card and puppies

Well I had every intention of putting up a blog earlier then this unfortunately I wasn't able to access my craft room due to a robbery leaving it in disarray and having to wait for forensics to clean. Good news is they didn't take any of my beautiful craft things, they did take our camera but with some awesome work from the police we got that back the very next day.

We were also broken into back in December and had been saving to get extra security measures in place as soon as we could, unfortunately we couldn't get it done soon enough. However thanks to our amazing family we are able to get our house secure so hopefully no one else will be able to violate our privacy like this again.

So once I cleaned up the house and got my craft room sorted I decided I should make some thank you cards for those in our family who have helped us make securing our home possible. So far I have only made one, I have found it very hard to turn my brain from stressing to crafting but will hopefully put a few more together over the next few days even if they are the same.

     

I hope you enjoy this simple card, the hardest part was lining up the delicate details stamp set to make it stretch the whole 6" of the card, but with a few simple steps I found it rather simple. Can you spot the seams?

To achieve this I used the Stampin' Up! grid paper to help keep my lines straight and after stamping and embossing the first image I placed a piece of clear plastic cut from a sandwich bag over the stamped image leaving the smallest bit of gold sticking out. From here I lined the stamp up overlapping the previously stamped image and stamped down before applying the embossing powder. 

By protecting the already stamped image you don't risk making the pattern look muddy if you don't stamp it exactly right, allowing for a margin of error without making the error totally noticeable.

Feel free to ask me any questions if needed, if my above instructions don't seem clear I apologise it's been a stressful few days but I am more then happy to help in any way I can if anyone wants help extending their lace patterns.

Click on the products below to purchase them and make your own masterpieces.

Delicate Details Photopolymer Stamp Set [143314] $0.00

So Very Much Clear-Mount Stamp Set [143343] $0.00

Layering Circle Framelits Dies [141705] $58.00

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend no matter what you do, I for one will be celebrating my baby boy Rocket's 1st Birthday tomorrow by having all my friends and their dogs over for a play. I will be sure to take some pictures with our recovered computer and share it with you. :)

Which reminds me I haven't introduced you all to my babies yet so here they are my babes, Rocket and his baby sister Luna. They also have 2 feline brothers who might feature in another blog.