Y’know when you are in a pickle and you don’t have a solution, then you think ‘oh i know, i’ll call so-and-so’. And then as if by magic, they fix EVERYTHING? If you have someone who fits into this category, then you are very lucky to have your own Jillian.

Jillian works in our accounts dept at work. I don’t think i have ever met her in person, but she is totally one of the team. She is AmAZinG! We love her to bits. And when you love someone to bits, its nice to send them a surprise every now and again.

When i made the banner for M&H i had some scraps left over, so i used these on the wedding scrapbook page. But i still had some pieces of pink and purple toned paper left over. I punched hearts from the paper and they were lying on my table scattered out in almost a line. I thought it looked cool, so i took this as a point of inspiration.

I love the way the kraft cardstock looks when embossed with the woodgrain. Its preeety!

The little flower I made using card candy  – check out this video tutorial for a How To if you haven’t already seen it.

I decided to add a little personalisation. The circle is a stamp and then the letter is from Making Memories shimmer alpha.

Thanks for being awesome Jillian! You rule!

Bonjour tout le monde! Hey, guess what!? Summer has arrived!!! Yeaaaay!

Oh boy, i’ve been busy. So much to do these days, but its all bags full o’ fun. Speaking of bags…look at this cutie that i picked up last weekend!!

Isn’t it the cutest!? I think its a foxy. Craig thinks its an owl. Who knows what critter it is supposed to be, at least i know its cute! I hope all my junk will fit into it as its much smaller than my current bag.

Today is Monday. That means its time for MAN-day Monday, and here’s our masculine themed card for today!

This card was a bit of an experiment. I first thought of my daddy when i saw this bike. He was a bit of a bicycle geek, collecting and restoring old bikes until his habit got a little  out of control. I find it hard not to associate all black bikes with him. This line of thinking then gave me some inspiration to make a masculine card using this bicycle stamp.

This card is all about the masking! I stamped the black bike first, then masked it with some copy paper and some repositionable glue. It was a little fiddly, but worth it. Once the mask was in place, i stamped the grey bikes with pumice stone distress ink. I dithered over whether to use another colour, but i wanted to maintain a boyish look (so happy i stuck with grey 🙂 x ).

To make sure the background bikes were straight, i used my stampamajig to position them perfectly.

Once all the bikes were stamped, i trimmed the card and distressed the edges with the pumice stone ink and a blending tool, just before removing the mask.  I coloured the balloons with colouring pencils and added glossy accents to give an enamel look. This added dimension to the balloons and also they look really cool when the light shines off them. Its hard to see in the piccys tho.

To finish, the greeting was embossed in white embossing powder and then i smeared the card with black ink, before cutting into shape and adding to the card.

Oh, i forgot to say, the stamp is from one of the Unity Stamps kit of the month packs. x