NZSU Blogs Challenge and First Day of School!

This is for the NZSU Sites Blog Colour Challenge this month (http://nzsublog.blogspot.com/) - the colours for the challenge were Certainly Celery, Rose Red, Regal Rose and Whisper White. I was trying to go with the minimalistic look with more white showing, I'm really not sure I captured it well - it looks too top heavy and unbalanced to me. For those following from my newsletter - this is my example of paper piecing!


Card Stock and Inks: Certainly Celery, Whisper White, Black and Rose Red
Stamp Sets: Scribble This, Short and Sweet
Other: DSP (from 6x6 promo earlier on in the year and scrap from Simply Scrapping Kit).

... and yesterday, ALL the kids were finally back at school (I think it was middle of November that the oldest finished school so its been a long time since they've all been out of the house!), so here is the annual "back to school" photo :) Hard to believe that my oldest is in his last year of High School, he is planning on leaving home next year, wow!

Have a nice day!

Inkspirations - Colour Challenge # 3 and Sketch # 3

I combined these two (too late to be linked, again ;)) - It's certainly a card that took longer to put together than my usual rushed creations, and I'm not sure I really like it ... but it is what it is :) Funny enough the kids seemed to like it and they're usually pretty honest! I've used the Punch set from the Sale-a-Bration catalogue and Ginger Blossom DSP from the Summer Catalogue plus a few other bits and pieces. It's certainly a lot busier than I prefer my cards to look!

Kwernerdesign Colour Inspiration #39

Yep! Very late!



This was another one of those really quick cards ... I really wanted to try these colours and wasn't really sure what to do with them ... this isn't really what I had pictured but it kind of fell together, so I went with it. It's another small 4x4" card, I've used Petal Prints (once again, because it was out from doing a previous challenge), I went with the Green Galore and Black for the main colours and just added flowers with the other two colours. Pretty small and easy card, really!

Mojo Monday Week 71

Love this sketch, I can see me using this again! I actually did this card pretty quickly, I had the stamp set out from using it for the pots the other day, and realised I had a couple of cut and coloured images so decided to take the quick road and use one of those. I'm a very a**l centred kind of gal, so I'm not sure I like that the small square makes my image look non-centred, but I think that might just be me!

I've used the lovely Afternoon Tea paper - love love this set of papers. The blues didn't exactly match what I used to colour the flowers in, but that's okay. Once again, I think most of it self explanatory - the card used is Blue Bayou, Soft Sky and Confetti White.





I'm just about to try and set up the other two cards I've made for a couple of other challenges (way to late for them to be offically linked to their appropriate challenges!) to publish over the next couple of days - about the only way I'll have any hope of keeping my blog reasonably updated!

Inkspirations Inspiration Challenge #3

Yep, still enjoying those challenges. I did another couple of Makeesha's yesterday, but I will take photos and post those tomorrow - they have both missed the deadline, as I have with the Kwerner Challenge this week, but I plan to give that a go too - it's been a busy week, including being away at Waiterere Beach for a few days which was lovely, lots of sunshine and lots of relaxing!

Anyway, on to the challenge - I had a look at this in the morning, then went off on my bike to do my deliveries for a few hours so had some time to think about it! This is pretty much what I envisioned, which is always a bonus. The brown is supposed to look like a window with the flowers sitting on the window sill, I'm not sure I totally captured that idea.

The flowerpots are the pot of the Bloomin' Beautiful stampset, I used my black marker to colour the part of the stamp I wanted, and then used the journaling end to draw in the top of the pots ... I've never claimed to be a great drawer, so don't look too close ;) I then used old faithful Petal Prints for the flowers, I stamped them with Stazon on to Confetti White card and then watercoloured them in Real Red, Blue Bayou and Sage Shadow, trying to capture the colours from the Inspiration picture. I backed the window with Summer Sun card which hopefully captured the little bit of brightness peeking through at the back of the Inspiration picture.

I'm pretty pleased with this one - it took a couple of hours, so not one I'd want to make multiples of or use for my Stamp a Stack classes! But lots of fun :)

Check back tomorrow for the card I made using both Makeesha's colour challenge and sketch challenge!

Oh, and you can find Makeesha's blog here - it is one of my favourites, I love her Make it Monday, and the way she comes up with a few versions of each idea.

A lovely creating Saturday

First up - one of the challenges I printed out sometime during the week, I'm going to try and keep up with a few of these this year, they make me leave my comfort zone and also keep my blog moving and updated more regularly! Having said that, reality has hit a bit this week, back to work, back to planning workshops and events, back to my biking delivery job ... and back to not a lot of spare time!

First up, Mojo Monday, a first time for me with one of these sketches!

The Time Flies stamp set from the Summer Catalogue caught my eye straight away, I'm on my bike quite a bit and just had to have it! Of course, this is the first time I've actually inked it, although it has been sitting on my craft table pleading with me to use it for quite a while ;) In restrospect looking at the card as a photo, I probably should have used black around the bike image and the wheels - too late now, I had to hand cut the big circles, so they're probably not as exact as I'd like! Also used up some of the red/cream papers from the Dashing series, this was always the sheet I had left at the end of the pack (and believe me I used quite a few packs of this paper before Christmas!). Rest is pretty much self explanatory, I watercoloured the bike using my Stampin' Write markers and aqua pen.


Next up - a thank you to Keryn first, I hadn't really taken any notice of this template/idea on the demo website until I saw hers made up, this afternoon I gave it a go - wow! What a lovely easy way to package a wee gift - I used my Boho Backgrounds set, and based the colours on the Berry Bliss papers. Also realised I only have a few sheets of this left *gasp* I'm going to have to stock up before it probably retires at the end of March!

As usual, thanks for looking ... I'm hoping this updating carries on beyond the school holidays (two weeks to go, they're going by wayyyyy too fast!).

~Lisa

Kwernerdesign Colour Inspiration #38

This was a very quick one - I know I'm busy tomorrow, and had about half an hour before I needed to get ready for work this morning, so I did a very quick card using my faithful Scribble This stampset - still one of my favourites!

All the white has been embossed and I finally used one of the felt flowers, I think for last two challenges I've pulled them out wanting to use them, but they just haven't been right - this time!

I think everything else is pretty self-explanatory :)

Now, the next photo probably should go into a separate post, but I uploaded both quickly before I left for work - and now I'm at work and I'm not sure I can pull it out and put it on to a separate post without losing it, probably - but it all seems too hard!

This is Miss Charlotte - I walk into the family room (aka my craft area which is slowly taking over more and more space ...).

Me: What are you doing?

Charlotte: Watching TV

Me: Why don't you sit on the couch (something I say often, believe me)

Charlotte: It's comfortable like this!

Sheesh if I sat like that I probably wouldn't be able to walk for a week! LOL

I thought it would make quite a good scrapbook page ... so keep checking back ...