Hi to my followers - this blog is showing off three cards I made both the same but just using different colours.  I saw a card on Pinterest  with butterflies down one side - the card was by Late Night Stamping Blogspot and was great inspiration for me.

As you can see I have used the same pattern of butterflies but have used different papers of different colours for each card and have changed the sentiment on each card.

The base cards I use are the American Crafts - Cards and Envelopes Size A7.  

These cards are made using a plain white card stock as the background and have been backed in the paper which highlights the butterflies.  The butterflies are dye cut rom I used double sided paper which enabled me the opportunity to   

Marriage Survival Kit

The other week one of the lovely ladies at work was leaving for a few weeks as she was getting married.  Therefore we decided to put on a little Bridal Show for her at work and to help celebrate I made the following Marriage Survival Kit.  The Marriage Survival Kit is a little novelty box filled with little items each with a special meaning - look at the bottom of the blog to find out what each of the items means.  

I made the Marriage Survival Kit by finding a small box - in actual fact my husband gave me the box - when he buys his golf balls this is the box they come in - I have a number of these boxes now stacked under my desk.   I covered the box in a beautiful silver paper with black flowers and leaves drawn on it.  I put a black mat under the top piece.  I then decorated it with black and red flowers and die cut some swirls to sit under the flowers.  It was topped off with a black ribbon and a silver and red rose.  

This is a fun idea for those of you who are not quite sure what to take to a bridal shower. 

Marriage Survival Kit

A crayon – to colour all the days of your marriage bright and sunny

A rubber band – to remind you to always be flexible

A candle – to help the glow of romance always be part of your love for each other

A paper clip – to help you hold it all together

A highlighter – to highlight all of the wonderful moments you will have together

A glue stick – to help you ‘stick it out’ during the rough patches

A battery – to keep you going and going

A button – to remind you that sometimes you need to ‘button your lip’

A safety pin – to help you pin-point your problems and solve them

A band-aid – to help patch things up

 A toothpick – to remind you to pick your battles

A match – to keep the fire alive

A cotton bud - to cushion the rough days you may encounter

An eraser – to remind you that love doesn’t keep record of wrongs

A rock – to remind you marriage must be built on a solid foundation. 

Magnolia - Boy in a Boat

While I am trying to get my Blog up and running again I thought I would show you some cards I have done over the past couple of years.  This one was towards the end of my stamping time.  Although I still do stamping I haven't done anything for quite a while but that does not mean I wont go back to it soon.  

This card is one that I did for my Father-In-Law and it was an adventure in itself.

Although I had seen something similar to this I did not have a pattern but I did enjoy putting the boat together and then adding the stamped pieces and decorating the boat.

It was something different and reminded me how much I like Off-The-Page Scrapbooking.  Watch out for further examples in the coming weeks.

Why I have been away

Hi Everyone

It has been a long long time since I was last on my blog and I have really missed telling everyone about my cards.

Although I have not been on my blog I have been very busy.

It started a long time ago when my lovely daughter decided to do the typical Aussie thing and go and work in the UK for two years. The thing is while working so hard in London and travelling around Europe she met the love of her life. So of course she bought him home to Australia.

Then 20 months later he proposed and to make it really easy the happy couple decided to get married in his home town of Rye in southern England. I think she decided that solely to make sure Mum and Dad finally went to England and travel around both England and Europe - which of course is what we did.

Also leading up to the wedding I helped with all the decorations, cards, invitations and not to mention her flowers, so over the past 18 months we have been busy but serious work had to be done to pull off a successful wedding from across the world.  All the work that went into is a story for another time.

Needless to say I have actually missed making my cards and learning all the new techniques and exploring the supplies that are now available.